Re: install questions

2012-03-21 Thread Olivier Cherrier
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 03:01:46PM +0800, romaby...@gmail.com wrote: > > No idea how well OpenBSD does in xen. > > Last time I tried OpenBSd in Xen ~2 years it worked like crap. > Couldn't get networking > to work at all and it was slow as a dog. I am running OpenBSD on Xen and it works very well

Re: install questions

2012-03-21 Thread Lars Hansson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > No idea how well OpenBSD does in xen. Last time I tried OpenBSd in Xen ~2 years it worked like crap. Couldn't get networking to work at all and it was slow as a dog. Cheers, Lars

Re: install questions

2012-03-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:11 PM, fullmoon wrote: > I've downloaded the /install50.iso (x86) and verified the sha-256. > > Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox "4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric" from > the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the install > process and learn how

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:50:15 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > I think I tried vmware player at one point and had absolutely dreadful > i/o performance, no idea if that is still the case. I've done a lot of testing on one machine using vmware player and I haven't noticed the reduced HDD I/O a

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:31:39 -0500 Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Yep, atrocious i/o performance in VMWare Player as of 4.0.2. This was > before rthreads though, I don't think it would alter much after > rthreads. Hmm, glad this came up. I'm on 3 and was recently thinking of getting the latest version.

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:11:12AM -0600, fullmoon wrote: > Before burning a USB stick and attempting a live install, I'd like > to do whatever is possible to avoid wiping my entire hard-drive. I > have an extended partition available but will have to do some > shifting if a primary partition is r

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> I think I tried vmware player at one point and had absolutely dreadful > i/o performance, no idea if that is still the case. Virtualbox, see above ;) > No idea how well OpenBSD does in xen. Yep, atrocious i/o performance in VMWare Player as of 4.0.2. This was before rthreads though, I don't thi

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-03-18, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:11:12 -0600 > fullmoon wrote: > >> I suspect a bug in the latest virtualbox update, has anyone else been >> able to run this ISO under this latest version of virtualbox? > > Theo ended up wasting time on a bug report that turned out to

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:11:12 -0600 fullmoon wrote: > I suspect a bug in the latest virtualbox update, has anyone else been > able to run this ISO under this latest version of virtualbox? Theo ended up wasting time on a bug report that turned out to be virtualbox handling memory badly I think. V

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox "4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric" from > the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the install > process and learn how not to shoot myself in the foot. But virtualbox > reports it as having "aborted". > > I suspect a bug in the latest virt

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/18/12 10:10, fullmoon wrote: > I've downloaded the /install50.iso (x86) and verified the sha-256. > > Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox "4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric" > from the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the > install process and learn how not to shoot

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Fish Kungfu
> I'd like to do whatever is possible to avoid wiping my entire hard-drive. Then you should backup your current hard drive, or at least the files that are important to you, before you attempt an install. Then you won't have to worry at all if you toast your hd. CheersFish 18.03.2012, 0

install questions

2012-03-18 Thread fullmoon
I've downloaded the /install50.iso (x86) and verified the sha-256. Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox "4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric" from the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the install process and learn how not to shoot myself in the foot. But virtualbox report