Re: [side thread] security implcations of multiple kernel threads?

2007-10-10 Thread Florin Andrei
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why is this? Is there a security reason why the kernel is single-thread; is it OBSD resource limitations (no developer time, no hardware, etc); is it not enough interest yet? With interface speeds and bus bandwidth going up, how many interfaces is it possible to handle

Call for Papers AsiaBSDCon 2008

2007-10-10 Thread Siju George
Hi, http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/ Could somebody publish this in Undeadly too please? Thank you so much Kind Regards Siju

Re: Call for Papers AsiaBSDCon 2008

2007-10-10 Thread Mike Erdely
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:04:05PM +0530, Siju George wrote: http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/ Could somebody publish this in Undeadly too please? Siju: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=submit -ME

Re: Call for Papers AsiaBSDCon 2008

2007-10-10 Thread Siju George
On 10/10/07, Mike Erdely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:04:05PM +0530, Siju George wrote: http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/ Could somebody publish this in Undeadly too please? Siju: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=submit Thanks Mike Done :-) --Siju

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-10 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Dag Richards wrote: Blasphemy Seems to me that the simplest and most flexible way to do this is to install Linux or Windows as your host OS and use VMware. I do that on my MacBook Pro running OS X, and run OBSD, Linux, and Solaris as guest OSes. Works great, and I can have all of them

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Henning Brauer
* Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-09 22:54]: Henning Brauer wrote: * Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-09 19:34]: then, an i386 kernel should perform considerably better than amd64 for firewalling/routing/... That is surprising. What is the reason? we dunno really. it hasn't

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread Luca Corti
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:29 -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/9/07, Sean Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does OpenBSD = UNIX? Or, does OpenBSD = Unix? (or unix or unix-like or etc.)? does it matter? It does! UNIX *is* case sensitive! ;) ciao Luca

Re: Thank you developers... 4.2 arrived in the mail today

2007-10-10 Thread Edd Barrett
On 09/10/2007, Pierre Riteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't all European orders sent by UPS? Apparently so. CD set arrived yesterday! A pleasant surprise. Thanks to all involved. Another superb quality release of OpenBSD. -- Best Regards Edd

OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Anton Karpov
It's a kind of useless and funny XSS... in OpenBSD ;) http://www.toxahost.ru/images/funny/obsd_xss.JPG

Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread RW
I have seen plenty of QA about multibooting OpenBSD and Windows/Linux/whatever and although I did a lot of that stuff way back, I generally don't need it in the days of almost zero cost PC that are plenty good enough to run OpenBSD. So why this question? Well I was blessed by a client who had

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread michael hamerski
On 10/9/07, Sean Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does OpenBSD = UNIX? Or, does OpenBSD = Unix? (or unix or unix-like or etc.)? my mother recently called it that Unisex thing you like, though am not sure of the capitalization :) mike

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:37:55PM +1000, RW wrote: | Is it at all possible? If so what is the trick? I did flag the new | MBR entry as active and I can't see anything in the docs that | contemplates this kind of set-up. | | If there is an answer at Mother Google's I cannot construct a smart |

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Siju George
On 10/9/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-09 19:34]: then, an i386 kernel should perform considerably better than amd64 for firewalling/routing/... That is surprising. What is the reason? we dunno really. it hasn't been benched in

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Henning Brauer
* Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-10 15:10]: On 10/9/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-09 19:34]: then, an i386 kernel should perform considerably better than amd64 for firewalling/routing/... That is surprising. What is the

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey Rod, Anybody successful at this task? Somewhat OT, but I used a different approach, as I had enough IDE disks lying around. I got myself an external USB enclosure with swappable HDD brackets. Then, of course, the POS device broke, but that's not the point I am trying to get across... :-)

OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Marcos Laufer
The OpenBSD project is loosing sales. I am trying to buy some tshirts and the 4.2 prerelease but nobody answers my emails at the Calgary shop. Please i need someone at the Cshop reply to my emails ASAP. I am trying to buy the OpenBSD CD for over six months now. Noone answered my emails when 4.1

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? horizontal or vertical motion? assuming a perfectly spherical truck? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Marcos Laufer wrote: The OpenBSD project is loosing sales. I am trying to buy some tshirts and the 4.2 prerelease but nobody answers my emails at the Calgary shop. If you had placed an order instead of complaining about it, you would have your gear already, like the rest

Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread Cédric THIBAULT
Hello everybody, I work on BSD 4.1, with i386 hardware. I'm searching a way to enable a transparent firewall (without ip adress), probably in bridge mode.., with a capability of NAT. I know the interest is not evident to nat some computers on the same IP lan, but it's for a client, so! It

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Robert C Wittig
Siju George wrote: I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the other is just 32 bit :-( 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have the ability to address more RAM than

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:24:25AM -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: | Siju George wrote: | | I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than | an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the | other is just 32 bit :-( | | | 64 bit processors (combined with 64

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Jon Radel
Robert C Wittig wrote: 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have the ability to address more RAM than 32 bit processors because 64^2 is a much larger number than 32^2... lots more RAM addresses). The increase from 2^32 to 2^64 is even more impressive. ;-) --Jon

Re: Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Cidric THIBAULT wrote: I'm searching a way to enable a transparent firewall (without ip adress), probably in bridge mode.., with a capability of NAT. I know the interest is Hum... bridge and NAT aren't working at the same level. I think you'd need to set an @ip address and

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Marcos Laufer
I want to place an order but i need to pay with paypal. In order to pay with paypal i need to get in touch with someone at the Cshop . This are sales OpenBSD is missing, i know a few other people who also would buy cd's and t-shirts if they could pay with their paypal accounts - Original

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Abernethy
Robert C Wittig wrote: Siju George wrote: I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the other is just 32 bit :-( 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Siju George
On 10/10/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-10 15:10]: On 10/9/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-09 19:34]: then, an i386 kernel should perform considerably better than amd64 for

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Gerald Thornberry
Not entirely true. I've been checking the USPS Track Confirm website each day since October 2 when I got my tracking confirmation via email. Until today the USPS had no record of my shipment. Finally I have a response: Your item was accepted at 4:31 PM on October 9, 2007 in SWEET GRASS, MT

Re: Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread stuart van Zee
From: Cedric THIBAULT Hello everybody, I work on BSD 4.1, with i386 hardware. I'm searching a way to enable a transparent firewall (without ip adress), probably in bridge mode.., with a capability of NAT. I know the interest is not evident to nat some computers on the same IP lan,

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Scott Wells
And is it in a vacuum? Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? horizontal or vertical motion? assuming a perfectly spherical truck?

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread Sean Darby
Is OpenBSD UNIX, Unix, unix, unix-like, or ham sandwich on rye? ECHO Echo echo (echo-like)... In response to that, one person answered the question with a question. Does it matter? If answering a question with a question, it'd help to provide a thought-provoking (worthwhile) question in

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread Sean Darby
Does OpenBSD = UNIX? Or, does OpenBSD = Unix? (or unix or unix-like or etc.)? my mother recently called it that Unisex thing you like, though am not sure of the capitalization :) mike I like that explanation best. :) -- Public Key: http://mpec.net/gsd.asc

Re: Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread Cédric THIBAULT
2007/10/10, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Hello everybody, I work on BSD 4.1, with i386 hardware. I'm searching a way to enable a transparent firewall (without ip adress), probably in bridge mode.., with a capability of NAT. I know the interest is not evident to nat

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Abernethy
Siju George wrote: snip so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? O.K I get it :-) So when does changing from 32 bit to a 64-bit processor actually help? Quoting Paul de Weerd, In short: There is no short answer. It depends on what you're doing. ( Not to mention how you

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread yakov . zaytsev
Nice to hide your local network IP ;) Do not show it anyone! On 10/10/07, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a kind of useless and funny XSS... in OpenBSD ;) http://www.toxahost.ru/images/funny/obsd_xss.JPG

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread David Given
michael hamerski wrote: On 10/9/07, Sean Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does OpenBSD = UNIX? Or, does OpenBSD = Unix? (or unix or unix-like or etc.)? my mother recently called it that Unisex thing you like, though am not sure of the capitalization :) From _Wizard's Bane_, Rick Cook, a very

Re: Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread Marcus Andree
You _may_ be able to apply the following setup (borrowing from someone else's design :-) : inside box (1) firewall/bridge doing nat (2)- default gateway internet if1 if2 Let's just suppose that if2 has the ip address IP2

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/10 20:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to hide your local network IP ;) Do not show it anyone! On 10/10/07, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a kind of useless and funny XSS... in OpenBSD ;) Well, it's fixed in -current. There are better ways to report a bug than

Re: The Name: UNIX

2007-10-10 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:48 AM, David Given wrote: michael hamerski wrote: The closest I ever came to magic was working with Unix wizards, said Wiz. Eunuchs wizards? Did they do that to themselves to gain power? PHB - My boss says we need some eunuch programmers. Dilbert - I think he

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:30PM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: Somewhat OT, but I used a different approach, as I had enough IDE disks lying around. I got myself an external USB enclosure with swappable HDD brackets. Then, of course, the POS device broke, but that's not the point I am

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Anton Karpov
2007/10/10, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2007/10/10 20:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to hide your local network IP ;) Do not show it anyone! On 10/10/07, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a kind of useless and funny XSS... in OpenBSD ;) Well, it's fixed in

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/10 11:20, Tony Abernethy wrote: Siju George wrote: snip so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? O.K I get it :-) So when does changing from 32 bit to a 64-bit processor actually help? Quoting Paul de Weerd, In short: There is no short answer. It

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Bryan
San Diego, CA here... I just got mine yesterday, at the same time I received my ship notice. Be patient Kentucky, you'll get it... don't worry... And Argentina, surely your bank has a debit card or credit card you can get. Hell, charge up an AMEX gift card and buy it that way. Those are

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread James R.Campbell
On Wed Oct 10 12:51 , Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: San Diego, CA here... I just got mine yesterday, at the same time I received my ship notice. Be patient Kentucky, you'll get it... don't worry... And Argentina, surely your bank has a debit card or credit card you can get. Hell, charge up

Re: [side thread] security implcations of multiple kernel threads?

2007-10-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/9/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:03:18PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: So, assuming the box is a pure firewall / static router (so just pf and static routes), even with multiple interfaces, all those tasks run in a single kernel thread?

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Robert C Wittig
Paul de Weerd wrote: wittig wrote: | 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have | the ability to address more RAM than 32 bit processors because 64^2 is a | much larger number than 32^2... lots more RAM addresses). Oops! that should have read: 2^64 and 2^32

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Gerald Thornberry
Not worried. Actually I was just responding to post that declared instead of complaining about it, you would have your gear already, like the rest of us. All pre-orders are not created equal. Now that the USPS actually has them in hand, I anticipate my discs tomorrow or Saturday. Gerald On

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:34:48PM -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: | If you had to choose between, say, 2 gig RAM and a 32 bit CPU, or 1 gig | RAM and a 64 bit CPU, which would be a better choice, in general? There is no such generalization. The amount of RAM you need depends on the task. For

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/10/07, Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had to choose between, say, 2 gig RAM and a 32 bit CPU, or 1 gig RAM and a 64 bit CPU, which would be a better choice, in general? 64-bit and 1 GB. it's much easier to add another GB RAM later than to add 32-bits.

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Anton Karpov
2007/10/10, Can Erkin Acar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, if you have some web application on the same *domain name* then the XSS can be used to take control of the user session on the application. Especially fun for isp/hosting kind of settings

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Can Erkin Acar
Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/10, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2007/10/10 20:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to hide your local network IP ;) Do not show it anyone! On 10/10/07, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a kind of useless and funny XSS...

Re: non-PHP webmail solutions

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Shockley
Robert Urban wrote: Does anyone know of any others that don't use PHP? I don't use it myself, but sqwebmail may do what you want. http://www.courier-mta.org/sqwebmail/

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Shockley
stan wrote: Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my concern is about portions. If it is possible can anyone give me an idea how best to approach this? Or a pointer to some docs? I've done what you mention using Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic, but

How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Christopher Bianchi
Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the procedure from an older OpenBSD

Driver for Winbond W83793G

2007-10-10 Thread Jonathan Steel
I have created some code to handle the winbond W83793G. The design of this chip is different from other winbond chips, so the normal detection method did not work, as different registers needed to be queried. I left out the sensor information for the fans because I could not get them working. If

Re: Transparent Firewall with NAT

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Shockley
Cidric THIBAULT wrote: I'm searching a way to enable a transparent firewall (without ip adress), probably in bridge mode.., with a capability of NAT. I know the interest is not evident to nat some computers on the same IP lan, but it's for a client, so! You want to have a bridge that does

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/10/07, Gerald Thornberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not entirely true. I've been checking the USPS Track Confirm website each day since October 2 when I got my tracking confirmation via email. Until today the USPS had no record of my shipment. Finally I have a response: Your item was

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Henning Brauer
* Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-10 20:45]: If you had to choose between, say, 2 gig RAM and a 32 bit CPU, or 1 gig RAM and a 64 bit CPU, which would be a better choice, in general? for a packet filter/router/...? 32bit 2Gig and take a gig out. for a databse server? 64bit and add

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-10 Thread Stijn
I was very impressed about BootIt NG. Only a few MB in size, bootable from CD. Resized my Windows partition in less than two minutes. I don't know if it's still freeware though... HTH, Stijn Steve Shockley wrote: stan wrote: Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space,

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Christopher Bianchi
Nick Guenther ha scritto: On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've

Re: requesting help in building xenocara

2007-10-10 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On 10/10/07, Juan Miscaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am running CURRENT on a development server and I have some questions about building the X portion of a release. First, normally I don't need Xorg but I regularly use a package that needs the xbase install set. So before I used to

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Tilo Stritzky
On 10/10/07 21:37 RW wrote: Then (the devil made me do it!) I thought: Why not four OpenBSDs as in Release, Release minus one, current and some experimental stuff. Just multiboot to whichever and away. Is it at all possible? If so what is the trick? I did flag the new MBR entry as active

Re: OpenBSD is loosing cd and tshirt sales

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Eidem
I'm right with you with that. I just saw that the USPS site light up with my order too. India, Oz, NZ, England, all before us. Puffy, you're such a tease... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerald Thornberry Sent: Wednesday, October 10,

fsck.ext2 segfault

2007-10-10 Thread Karel Kulhavy
OBSD 4.0, the disk is an IDE disk taken from a long-ago Linux computer put into a IDE-to-USB disk enclosure. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fsck.ext2 /dev/sd0j [...] /dev/sd0j: 503728/7208960 files (3.3% non-contiguous), 9188731/14390223 blocks umass0: Invalid CSW: tag 904086 should be 904087 sd0: WARNING:

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-10 Thread michael hamerski
On 10/7/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new laptop that I would like to set up to have 4 different OS's on. The OS's I would like to install are: I used to favour the ranish partition manager for creating my primary partitions and assigning ids. the installers should pick up on the

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread RW
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:51:26 +0200, Tilo Stritzky wrote: On 10/10/07 21:37 RW wrote: Then (the devil made me do it!) I thought: Why not four OpenBSDs as in Release, Release minus one, current and some experimental stuff. Just multiboot to whichever and away. Is it at all possible? If so

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:51:26PM +0200, Tilo Stritzky wrote: I just got a brand new office PC, 64bit CPU. But I'm stuck with some Apps in i386 compatibility. So I installed i386 for work. Next week I'm going to get an USB stick and put an amd64 install on it, for play :) In Debian amd64

Re: [side thread] security implcations of multiple kernel threads?

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:44:05AM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/9/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this? Is there a security reason why the kernel is single-thread; is it OBSD resource limitations (no developer time, no hardware, etc); is it not enough interest

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:49:24PM +0200, Christopher Bianchi wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the

File permissions question

2007-10-10 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Hi Everybody, I am total a noob in OpenBSD so forgive me for my silly question. In real life I have a homemade Intel based Workstation/Server and an old IBM Think Pad laptop both powered by FreeBSD 6.2 stable. I got an old Pentium III made by Del last weekend originally intended for FreeBSD

4.2 on H8SSL-I2: acpi at mainbus0 not configured

2007-10-10 Thread knitti
Hi, thanks a lot to Vim for sending me my new shiny CD set, and to the developers to making this possible. I just installed on a new server (Supermicro H8SSL-I2) and it seems not possible to get ACPI recognized (yes, I did enable it). Unpacking the source from the CD resulted in about 80-90%

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
One of the sports in answering a question is to figure out what the asker's true motives are, and what the likely results are going to be if things go exactly as the asker wishes. Next you try to figure out what the results are likely to be, regardless of the asker's wishes. I've known R for a

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:51:26PM +0200, Tilo Stritzky wrote: I just got a brand new office PC, 64bit CPU. But I'm stuck with some Apps in i386 compatibility. So I installed i386 for work. Next week I'm going to get an USB stick and put an amd64 install on it, for

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/10/2007, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/10, Can Erkin Acar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, if you have some web application on the same *domain name* then the XSS can be used to take control of the user session on the

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-10 Thread shane
Quoting Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: stan wrote: Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my concern is about portions. If it is possible can anyone give me an idea how best to approach this? Or a pointer to some docs? I've done what you mention using Acronis

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther ha scritto: On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread ropers
On 10/10/2007, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther ha scritto: On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install

ERR M on boot: how to fix?

2007-10-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
had a problem with the / partition getting full (105%) on a fileserver here and then rebooted it. after rebooting the ERR M line came up immediately after the drive 0 partition 3 message that is normally followed by the boot prompt. this is an amd64 4.1-release machine and i can't account for

When loading a home-made module, linker says : undefined reference to `read'

2007-10-10 Thread João Salvatti
Hi all, I wrote a kernel module for my 4.1 OpenBSD kernel. It compiles normally, but when I try to load it, the modload says: : undefined reference to `read' But the read syscall header is declared within my module. Has anyone ever faced this problem before? Could anyone provide me with some

Re: ERR M on boot: how to fix?

2007-10-10 Thread Antti Harri
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Nick Guenther wrote: Running installboot(8) should fix it. That means something like: # cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot # /usr/mdec/installboot -n -v /boot /usr/mdec/biosboot wd0 Remember to remove the -n if you don't get any errors from the first run 8-)

Re: ERR M on boot: how to fix?

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/10/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: had a problem with the / partition getting full (105%) on a fileserver here and then rebooted it. after rebooting the ERR M line came up immediately after the drive 0 partition 3 message that is normally followed by the boot prompt. this

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:09:35PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In Debian amd64 Etch (stable), there is no way to use flashplayer (a 32-bit binary plugin that requires a 32-bit browser. To use it, you have to set up a 32-bit chroot. It never has to boot, just be a

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you take the requirement to view a few flash pages at face value, you're saying that that defeats the whole purpose of OpenBSD and I'm better off just sticking with Debian for the whole thing. My mother is an accountant - OpenBSD

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Shockley
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: So, there are some web sites that I need to access that use flash. Mostly, online product catalogues. Does this mean that I have to use Debian on my main box to do this since OpenBSD doesn't? Is that more secure? At that point, why not just run Windows? The vendor is