On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 05:29:37PM -0600, Eric Brown wrote:
> I heartily recommend "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition."
>
> The answers to (almost) all of your questions, and others that are bound
> to come up, can be found there. It's written at a nice intermediate
> level.
>
> Also, is it necessa
On 02/09/14 18:30, d...@genunix.com wrote:
>> > question two is honestly : I don't know. Yet. :-\
>>
>> One of the Frequently Asked Questions, apparently. :-)
>
> ah .. there I NOW see : Other platforms do not need or use fdisk(8).
>
right.
Little trick in life: use phrases like "I didn't se
I second the book recommendation. I am reading that book right now. Very good
book.
On Feb 9, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Eric Brown wrote:
> I heartily recommend "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition."
>
> The answers to (almost) all of your questions, and others that are bound
> to come up, can be found th
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, d...@genunix.com wrote:
Actually, I didn't. The "install" process did. I didn't see any other
options presented and from the install log :
What platform is it on actually? Do you need to care about MBR and
fdisk(8) at all?
question one is easy :
# uname -r
5.4
# uname
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, d...@genunix.com wrote:
:: David Vasek said ::
You do not have any MBR partitions on your drive, you used whole raw drive
sd0c.
Actually, I didn't. The "install" process did. I didn't see any other
options presented and from the install log :
What platform is it on ac
On February 9, 2014 at 6:45 PM Eric Brown wrote:
> Philip Guenther writes:
> >
> >> Certainly I will need to create a mount point for a /opt filesystem <...>
> >
> > I'm not sure why you would want a /opt filesystem. In OpenBSD, ports
> > and packages install under /usr/local/
> > I suggest tryi
On February 9, 2014 at 6:36 PM Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, d...@genunix.com wrote:
> > First thing I see is that it was so very easy to install. I was almost
> > expecting to need to curse and recurse but the install was trivial. I
> > kept a log of the whole process
Philip Guenther writes:
>
>> Certainly I will need to create a mount point for a /opt filesystem <...>
>
> I'm not sure why you would want a /opt filesystem. In OpenBSD, ports
> and packages install under /usr/local/
> I suggest trying those and, in general, getting used to how OpenBSD
> lays stu
On February 9, 2014 at 6:29 PM Eric Brown wrote:
> I heartily recommend "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition."
http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-OpenBSD-Practical-Paranoid-published/dp/B00E6T8TYA/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391988785&sr=1-3&keywords=Absolute+OpenBSD%2C+2nd+Edition.
looks like an easy
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, d...@genunix.com wrote:
> First thing I see is that it was so very easy to install. I was almost
> expecting to need to curse and recurse but the install was trivial. I
> kept a log of the whole process in case something went wrong but nope,
> it is just a nice simp
On 9 February 2014 16:58, d...@genunix.com wrote:
> warning: really long post with some questions and thinking.
>
> Hello dear OpenBSD types.
>
> I have been using UNIX in various forms and flavours for a long time now
> and could even go so far as to say a "very" long time. Therefore it just
> se
I heartily recommend "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition."
The answers to (almost) all of your questions, and others that are bound
to come up, can be found there. It's written at a nice intermediate
level.
Also, is it necessary to partition your disk into smaller pieces? I
mean, I can understand why
> > question two is honestly : I don't know. Yet. :-\
>
> One of the Frequently Asked Questions, apparently. :-)
ah .. there I NOW see : Other platforms do not need or use fdisk(8).
> > question two is honestly : I don't know. Yet. :-\
>
> One of the Frequently Asked Questions, apparently. :-)
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#fdisk
>
> The rest of the FAQ will help you too.
been there .. it didn't help explain this :
# fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0 geometry: 7508/19/248
> > Actually, I didn't. The "install" process did. I didn't see any other
> > options presented and from the install log :
>
> What platform is it on actually? Do you need to care about MBR and
> fdisk(8) at all?
question one is easy :
# uname -r
5.4
# uname -m
sparc64
question two is honestly
:: David Vasek said ::
> You do not have any MBR partitions on your drive, you used whole raw drive
> sd0c.
Actually, I didn't. The "install" process did. I didn't see any other
options presented and from the install log :
.
.
.
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' f
warning: really long post with some questions and thinking.
Hello dear OpenBSD types.
I have been using UNIX in various forms and flavours for a long time now
and could even go so far as to say a "very" long time. Therefore it just
seems so very familiar to me and yet, a bit new.
First thing I s
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