Re: Problem with raid 1 in server dell

2007-10-24 Thread Nick Holland
Josi Christian Rodrmguez wrote: Hi list, My system was freeze and when reboot show: /dev/rsd0a: file system is clean;not checking /dev/rsd0d: file system is clean;not checking /dev/rsd0e: file system is clean;not checking /dev/rsd0g: INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=2699655 (20 should be 16)

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: Hi all, Could someone please suggest me a good 4 port NIC ( I mean I will be able to use it in the same way as I use 4 NICs but it will only consume only 1 PCI slot) for OpenBSD 3.7?? Not a Gigabit one please Sorry vetrans, I am a little behind in hardware part :-(

Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Nick Holland
Big rule of scripting: More work gets done by writing code than by arguing about scripting languages. Pick a language. Learn it. Work with it. Implement some tasks in it. If you are satisfied with it, good. If not, try some other language. You ain't marrying it, if it doesn't work out, move

Re: As the OpenBSD 3.7 was released, I've got some doubts about the OpenBSD releases! releases.

2005-05-20 Thread Nick Holland
Jay Savage wrote: On 5/20/05, Vladislav Belogrudov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. or from solaris, where s8 MUST run under s10 #:) They put millions into making their systems compatible (RESPECT) Actually, there's some pretty prominent misinformation out there. _Abolute OpenBSD_ (No

Re: My NIC go to sleep?

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm a newwbie on OpenBSD and I've installed it on a IBM P100 Computer. I have a Intel 82557 NIC inside. This NIC can be seen as fxp0. My problem is: When I don't use the comuputer during about 5 minutes, my NIC go to sleep and don't want to receive or send

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
Damien Hull wrote: ... Thanks for the info. My concern is that OpenBSD is secure by default when you do a base install but when you start adding things like Postfix etc... are you still secure? How can that be answered? The weakest link determins system security. It doesn't matter how

Re: Network performance

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
Matt Van Mater wrote: * Antonios Anastasiadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-21 11:27]: Are all the xl-based cards crap without exceptions? yes. While I don't doubt Henning knows much much more than I do about such things, this answer doesn't exactly satisfy me. Poor performance on xl nics

Re: My NIC go to sleep?

2005-05-26 Thread Nick Holland
Stephen Marley wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:59:00PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: ... Agreed. Some IBM systems of that vintage had power saving modes which went quite beyond the call of duty, turning way too much off way too hard. Your description sounds very much like this. I have

Re: No AMD64 mailing list?

2005-05-29 Thread Nick Holland
z0mer wrote: U... Ok, I'm an idiot. Explain to me in single syllable words why there is no AMD64 list. Wrong. Things don't happen around here because they COULD happen, but because there is REASON for them to happen. Why is there a ROMP list? Because issues regarding ROMP are

Re: SGI hardware options for OpenBSD 3.7

2005-05-29 Thread Nick Holland
Anon Y. Mous wrote: My questions: ... Are there any plans to support older SGI hardware in the future? (e.g., Iris, Indigo, Crimson, etc.) There is no active opposition to doing a port for the older SGI systems. However, it would end up being a totally different platform, being a 32 bit

Re: mounting ext3fs via ext2fs

2005-05-30 Thread Nick Holland
Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:00:34PM +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, ext3fs is not supported. ext3 is mostly ext2 with an extra inode to handle the journal. You can usually mount the partition as

Re: howto clean disks ?

2005-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
Shane J Pearson wrote: Hi Anthony, On 01/06/2005, at 4:01 PM, Anthony Roberts wrote: The 'dd' way is good enough unless someone is willing to to tear the drive apart in a lab. I think this depends on how you use dd though. If you just do a single pass of zeroes, but fear someone will

Re: [A bit OT] KVM recommendation and information on Compaq EO1004B 8 Port KVM Switch, Part No. 147094-001

2005-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
Sascha Retzki wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:55:45PM +, Adam Gleave wrote: I've been looking at KVM's (on eBay mostly, for price reasons :)). What I really need is something that: 1. Will work on a variety of OS's (Linux, OpenBSD, *BSD, ...anything). Those thingies don't *really*

Re: Sun ELC?

2005-06-02 Thread Nick Holland
Gordon Grieder wrote: Before I start following sparc@ (if I go ahead with this): I recently inherited a Sun ELC. It's an ancient all-in-one thing that looks kinda neat. According to the sparc page it's a supported model but I'm not sure how beefy this thing would be. Obviously it's no dual

Re: Problems on boot

2005-06-02 Thread Nick Holland
Alex Stamatis wrote: Thanks all of you that replied to my message. I just saw the dmesg and you were right. It says that Host adapter Bios disabled. Using default scsi device parameters. So how do I get to enable the scsi adapters bios ? The adapter is AIC-7850 and the hdd is a seagate.

Re: Booting off USB-stick emulated as floppy

2005-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: Hello misc@openbsd.org, some BIOSes unable to represent USB-stick as ordinary hard disk with real geometry. instead of it I see fd1 due machine disk with 1.44M floppy geometry (80/2/18). I have tried to copy over floppy??.fs (which is in 80/2/18

Re: PF syntax error during boot

2005-06-06 Thread Nick Holland
Jason Dixon wrote: Ok, this is an odd one. I just finished upgrading a firewall from 3.6 to 3.7 -release using the tarballs. After completing everything as per the upgrade guide, I noticed a syntax error reported by pfctl during boot. However, I can login and enable PF manually without

Re: Correct Values - Sysctl Variables

2005-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
Anderson Nadal wrote: Hello. What is the correct values for a high load firewall: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 net.inet.tcp.rfc3390 The default values is: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 net.inet.tcp.rfc3390=0 Generally, use the defaults, unless you have a problem you are trying to fix. You

Re: Planning remote upgrade 3.6-3.7, ssh work after new kernel?

2005-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I have been working with OpenBSD since the 2.7 days. Strangely enough, I have never had to try to remotely upgrade a system. I have always had hands on. Now I am looking at upgrading a server from 3.6 to 3.7 remotely (through ssh). In preparation, I am going

Re: 3.6 - 3.7 upgrade troubles

2005-06-12 Thread Nick Holland
Hans Zimmerman wrote: ... OpenBSD 3.6-stable (GENERIC) #1: Wed Apr 6 20:23:57 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC ... pciide0 at pci1 dev 11 function 0 CMD Technology SiI3112 SATA rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI

Re: Problems with installation

2005-06-13 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:45:27PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: Hello, Im trying install the openbsd for first time in a old machine (p166, 32mb ram, 2.5gb hd) which doesn't boot with cdrom, so i maked a boot floppy from the floppy37.ps image from ftp of openbsd.org. The floppy boot ok,

Re: Problem booting from wd0

2005-06-13 Thread Nick Holland
arf wrote: I am trying to install 3.7 on a cheap PC. heh. I could use some cheap PCs of that caliber. :) The system boots fine from the CD and installs without problems. However, when I try to reboot from disk, I only get: booting hd0a:/bsd: 4729760read text: Invalid argument

Re: Problem booting from wd0

2005-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
arf wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. It appears to be a problem with disk block mapping even though LBA mode is used. huh? What is the evidence? In light of the suggestions, this is what I did today: Use dd form /dev/zero to wipe MBR and start of disk. Check Bios settings - AMI

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
mdff wrote: are there any plans to support the kernel being loaded directly from a RAID partition in order to avoid that annoying mini-boot-partition which cannot be raided? WHY do you want to mirror root? keep in mind, OpenBSD has an altroot system in place, which will update your backup

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-16 Thread Nick Holland
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 08:31 PM 6/16/2005 +0100, Niall O'Higgins wrote: Controllers don't tend to like it. Sometimes with disk failure, the controller will fail too! The ASUS A7V880 runs just fine with one disk dead - infant mortality a few months ago. Lee One example does not

upgrading from OpenBSD/i386 from 3.3 and before by remote

2005-06-19 Thread Nick Holland
Pretend for a moment I am not part of the OpenBSD team. This is completely unofficial and unsupported by the OpenBSD project. Or me. Or anyone else. I would guess a few people out there still have old OpenBSD/i386 systems which are running just fine, but are at a remote site without a serial

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-19 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Feustel wrote: http://www.amecisco.com/faq_hardwarekeylogger.htm#Q1 This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. It isn't new. It isn't unique. In effect, you just spammed the list, advertising someone's product. If you are going to put totally off-topic stuff on the list, how 'bout making it

Re: A system for patches....

2005-06-19 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody... I had some trouble with the copy of /usr/src I fetched and so I had to refetch it. But now I'm not sure if I included all patches (even I've e.g. no em-Device (Btw: why are just critical patches listed?)). I guess there's no system to identify

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Feustel wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:51 pm, Nick Holland wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: http://www.amecisco.com/faq_hardwarekeylogger.htm#Q1 This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. It isn't new. It isn't unique. In effect, you just spammed the list, advertising someone's product

Re: anoncvs

2005-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
Ray Percival wrote: Trying to track -stable according to the FAQ I'm doing the following. setenv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs #Which seems to take and the following cvs commands work and the fingerprints match. Then cvs up -rOPENBSD_3_7 -Pd ? archivers/w-cabextract-1.1 ?

Re: OpenBSD 3.7, xorg.conf for dual head matrox mga?

2005-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:29:26PM +0200, chefren wrote: Is there someone who has a working dual monitor matrox X11 configuration? yes. Nick.

Re: Network Adapter couldnt UP

2005-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
Neta wrote: Hello All, I have some strange with NIC Dlink DFE 528TX, dmesg recognize it as rl0 and ifconfig mark this interface ACTIVE, but if I ping on it replied with ping: send to : Host is down Anybody have a clue? Any incompatibility with this one? Kind regards neta kinda hard to

Re: Install on Multiple Disks

2005-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, L. V. Lammert wrote: At 02:04 PM 6/22/2005 -0500, Gabe Johanns wrote: Hello, I have been running BSD on a desktop machine for 3 months and I would like to install OpenBSD on my test server. My test box is a P500 with 128MB of RAM and three

Re: server disaster, forking failure?

2005-06-23 Thread Nick Holland
Winston Williams wrote: This is a continuation of my 'sshd suddenly not responding' message from Tuesday. So you start a new thread. *sigh* And you continue to waste our time by not providing real information. Hint: if we all aren't saying, Me, too!, you have an unusual problem, and you have

Re: Netra X1 and Serial from OpenBSD

2005-06-23 Thread Nick Holland
byte_jump wrote: I tried using /dev/tty01 and got: $ tip test can't open log file /var/log/aculog. connected This seems to have worked, but I couldn't get any sort of response and had to terminate the session. Perhaps I need to check my cable now. :-) yes. That's what happens when you

Re: Limit access to msn to a couple of hours a day

2005-06-28 Thread Nick Holland
Oliver Bode wrote: Hi, I have an openbsd firewall on my home network. My daughter has become addicted to msn and I've spoken to her about restricting the time she spends on it. What I want to do is only allow her access to msn for say 1 or 2 hours a day and enforce this on the

Re: SCSI and disk geometry

2005-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-15] Josi M. [iso-8859-15] Fandiqo wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install OpenBSD in three servers with identical hardware and I was able to install it in two of them but not in the third. Each server detects a diferent geometry for the

Re: openbsd boot after installation failed: i am desperate.

2005-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear friends, i am trying to get 3.7 installed on my Dell Precision Workstation 370. What is getting me nervous is that depend on how i organize my partition i can not boot it. I have installed it perfectly with the following configuration for my partition: #

Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

2005-07-01 Thread Nick Holland
Martin Bruns wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install OpenBSD 3.7 on a HP ProLiant DL140 server via the serial console. I'm booting via pxeboot and I get the second-stage boot loader prompt on the console. But after entering set tty com0, the serial line is nolonger functional. I was

Re: subscribed?

2005-07-02 Thread Nick Holland
Adrian Chelar wrote: This is a bad mail? only in the sense that we now understand how well you read instructions. *sigh*

Re: Release/version/patch management question

2005-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
Markus Wernig wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: 1) With the above install lots of software came onto my disk that I do not want nor need (named, httpd, inetd ...). How can I get rid of those in a consistent way, since they don't show in pkg_info? You don't get rid of it. Is it hurting you? It

Re: Toshiba laptop 3.7 installation problem

2005-07-08 Thread Nick Holland
Z L wrote: I been trying to install OpenBSD 3.7 and/ or 3.5 in my new laptop (new means it was bought in September, 2004). The bootloader get stuck at pckbc0 ISA Q Port 0x60/5 every time. Oddly both 3.5 and 3.7 giving me the same error and getting stuck at the same place. I tried to boot

Re: raid mirror VS cdd mirror

2005-07-08 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In continuation of raidctl -P all in /etc/rc theme. Please, can you explain what difference between RAID mirroring and CCD mirroring? I see that RAID have reconstruction option, and trace parity condition. In the other side, it need to raidctl -P all and wait

Re: raid mirror VS cdd mirror

2005-07-08 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:15:49PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 08 July 2005 06:54 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: You will find that ccd(4) will only mount a mirrored set if all the elements exist, so if you are missing a drive, it just won't mount. There's an easy solution to that: stick

Re: Disk partition error

2005-07-08 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:50:26AM -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: Hello to all. Sorry to start off this way, but I'm a complete noob to openbsd. So, please forgive if I ask stoopid, boring questions. I will try to rtfm and search for solutions to my issues before posting here. The issue

Re: Disk partition error

2005-07-08 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:14:00PM -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: ... OK, more info.: Yes, now THIS is how it is done. :) I don't remember what the geometry of the standard partiton scheme that I first tried is. At any rate, I thought I'd eliminated earlier scheme. Then I created the /

Re: No DMA? What's going on here?

2005-07-09 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Anderson wrote: If I'm reading it correctly, this bit of the dmesg says that my hard drive is not using DMA -- and so is running very inefficiently: wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: Maxtor 91024D4 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9765MB, 1728 sectors

Re: Cross-Compiling OpenBSD

2005-07-10 Thread Nick Holland
Sean Brown wrote: On July 10, 2005 1:56 am, Tom Cosgrove wrote: ... OpenBSD is an entire operating system, designed to be built on OpenBSD - and not even cross-compiled on a different processor architecture of the same operating system. Which would be all well and good if it wern't for the

Re: Building READMEs

2005-07-10 Thread Nick Holland
viq wrote: dmesg attached, maybe that will give anyone an idea. CPU is running at 188 MHz, but it's actually an underclocked 200MHz Pentium MMX - I never managed to get the jumpers straight, and i figured running it at a bit lower speed is safer than making it run too fast. viq

Re: Can't make 3.7-stable release (tries to exceed capacity of /dev/svnd0a?)

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:48:49AM -0500, Chris wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Adam Fabian wrote: I've tried building an OpenBSD release from the 3.7-stable branch a few times in the last few days, on two different i386 machines, and both stopped in the same place. I'm following release(8)

Re: Cross-Compiling OpenBSD

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:28:05PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:38:29PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: If your machine is too slow to do what you need it to do, you need a faster machine. Cross compiling is not the answer to your problem. Not so Nick. There may

Re: Improving routing performance

2005-07-11 Thread Nick Holland
Artur Grabowski wrote: Fredrik Roubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have attached the output of dmesg. Any tips on what the most important things to investigate are? Is there any other information I should post? Ok. OpenBSD 3.5 (GENERIC) #34: Mon Mar 29 12:24:55 MST 2004 Your problems

Re: Cross-Compiling OpenBSD

2005-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
Brett Lymn wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:09:42PM -0401, Nick Holland wrote: Let's see...what possibly fanless, low-power platforms do we have? ... i386..ok, but you can native build on on Really Fast Stuff. Uh huh... unless your Really Fast Stuff happens to be an amd64 box in which

Re: links vs firefox vs ..

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Holland
Bernd Schoeller wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:16:10PM +0700, Neta wrote: If your conclusion is right. Why so many internet banking used it? Do you have any real experiences with your box? Since 9/11, we all should know the difference between an 'abstract threat' and a 'concrete threat'.

Re: To secure WiFi networks

2005-07-15 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:03:01PM +0200, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: ... I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of the needed technologies (sometimes a pro, often a con) but what if one would use a https proxy, like say squid with SSL/TLS support, to obfuscate the http traffic leaving

Re: Choices for Soekris disk drives

2005-07-15 Thread Nick Holland
Mayuresh Kathe wrote: I would recommend the Microdrive option. It uses the CF-II interface which is provided by all new Soekris systems. *AVOID* 2.5 IDE Laptop drives. I've had pretty bad experience with them, 1. They heat up a lot 2. Are slow 3. Fail quite often (this could be due to the

Re: 3.7-stable kernel question

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Holland
J.D. Bronson wrote: I was wondering if this seems normal or not... The stock 3.7 released kernel is about 5151552 in size. I cvs'd up to 3.7-stable today and rebuilt GENERIC. It ended up rather larger at 7372576 Jul 18 06:27 bsd. I know this might be a stupid question, but normally when

Re: No DMA? What's going on here?

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Williams wrote: ... Sorry to follow up on such an old post, but it really caught my attention now that I am facing the same problem. I have inherited a cpu0: Intel Pentium II (GenuineIntel 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 349 MHz with an old wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4028MB, 8249472 sectors

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Hi All, I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3 500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB IDE drives for data. whoa. no where near enough RAM. Trip over the power cord, you will end up swapping during

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:34:04PM +0200, Michael Hamerski wrote: the FAQ which you refer to mentions 1M per 1G of storage, so that's not really 1G of RAM for this system, is it? or is there a reason I'm missing? no...256M would in theory do it (assuming nothing bigger than around 200G in one

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0400, Joe . wrote: On 7/22/05, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 100Kpps should be reachable with the right hardware right now. there is room for optimization in OpenBSD to reach way higher forwarding rates. Part of the problem here is

Re: 3.7 Diskless Config

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 11:53:28AM -0400, Brandon Mercer wrote: Hello Group, I have been using the DISKLESS kernel image in 3.5 and 3.6 to boot my thin stations, but there isn't a config file for that in the 3.7 release. Was this removed because of support reasons or is there another way of

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I agree with you completely and in a sane and rational world it would happen just like that. Unfortunately I highly doubt we'll see any such disclaimers though. I bet there are lots of people eager to defect and it would

Re: OpenBSD 3.7 on VM Workstation 5

2005-07-27 Thread Nick Holland
Brad wrote: I'm just curious what the point of sending the dmesg was? All things considered, I'd rather have five things I don't need than have one thing I wanted that was missing. If for nothing else, it's a refreshing Something Different from the Send me some useful info! exchanges). Heck,

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-27 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Feustel wrote: 1) add the line umask 077 to .profile 2)add the file .kshrc containing at least the line set -o vi Also modify adduser so that the home directory permissions of new users are set to drwx-- instead of drwxr-xr-x OpenBSD is a general purpose OS. There are

Re: segfaults in OpenBSD 3.7

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Holland
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:03:49PM -0400, Jason Crawford wrote: There is a note somewhere on the OpenBSD website about installing on machines with little ram. Basically, you need to drop to a shell, manually enable swap, then go back to the installation process

Re: cleaned mbr

2005-07-29 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:32:21PM +0200, Isak Lyberth wrote: Hi all Most stupid thing i ever did i did today. I was setting up a server today. The customer is using a USB backup drive for all the backing up. When i reinstalled the server i acidentaly mounted the backup drive. I was asked

Re: network adapter order

2005-08-01 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:15:45AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: Perhaps we could get some insight as to how this ordering happens from those who know. I've never had a problem with it changing on me, but it might be nice to know how the kernel decides, and what mistakes we might make that

Re: man 5 passwd fix

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Holland
Jason McIntyre wrote: What, then, is the proper way of fixing small problems with documentation, etc? At least for me, I find it difficult to make a fuzz about things like these, because of their relatively unimportant nature. A wiki-like system comes to mind, but as a disclaimer, I haven't

Re: Requesting an change in the installer

2005-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
Roger Neth Jr wrote: ... Did this newbie (me) do this wrong? cd / cp bsd bsd.old cp bsd.mp bsd #reboot PERSONALLY, I prefer to call the single processor kernel bsd.sp, rather than bsd.old. bsd.old is most commonly the previous kernel before I tried to build my own and hosed the heck out

Re: boot set tty uplcom0 ... is this feasible?

2005-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
Ed Wandasiewicz wrote: I have noticed that some hardware do not have a serial port. e.g. Thinkpad X40 and mac mini. However, you can access a serial console through uplcom(8). As of OpenBSD 3.5, /etc/ttys ttyU0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 on secure If you can show boot

Re: Strange behavior with carp and preemption

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Holland
I'd have prefered that a more experienced person answer this one, but they don't seem to have, so be forewarned: everything I say here might be wrong. However, through the glory of mail lists, if I say something wrong, fifty people will jump all over me, and Google will put it at the top of the

Re: Instructions for tracking -CURRENT

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Holland
Alari Kask wrote: ... [I *refuse* to post that link again] I was right, more damage than good. I *really* wish people would quit accomplishing one little thing, writing it up in HOWTO form, and patting themselves on the back and thinking they were doing the world some kind of favor by publishing

Re: Strange behavior with carp and preemption

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Holland
Jon Hart wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:31:15PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: I'd have prefered that a more experienced person answer this one, but they don't seem to have, so be forewarned: everything I say here might be wrong. However, through the glory of mail lists, if I say something

Re: src.tar.gz vs sys.tar.gz

2005-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
Greg Thomas wrote: Ok, it's been awhile since I've seen a message explaining what's in src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz. I know Nick and a few people have sent messages to the list explaining what is in each but I haven't found the messages. From looking at the two is src.tar.gz the source for the

Re: Transplanted Hard Drive Won't Boot

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
Jeremy David wrote: Hi. Thanks for reading my post. I'm in the midst of a sticky situation. I had an OpenBSD web-server running on an older desktop computer. I decided to take the hard drives and move them into a newer computer, one with more processing power, RAM, etc, because the

Re: timekeeping on Soekris net4801 w/ ntpd. 3.8

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/15/05, J Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, Shane - did you ever take a friggin' course in English? Are you telling me that the passage above makes the following one-liner clear: 'adjusting local clock by XXs'

Re: OpenBSD 3.8, booting ERR M

2005-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
pizeta wrote: ... Once finished the installation he suggested me to type halt and reboot from hd: Using drive 0, partition3; Loading... ERR M yikes. This morning, I responded to a similar message, said this kind of problem almost never happens anymore...and after hitting SEND, see ANOTHER

Re: Can install 3.8, but not boot 3.8 (3.7- worked fine)

2005-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
Gordon Ross wrote: We've got several VIA based micro ATX systems here. We've been using OpenBSD on them for years now, and never had any problems. Today, I installed 3.8 (from the official CDs) and this went fine. I then rebooted the system off of the HD, and the boot started, but stopped

Re: ccd on active disks?

2005-11-18 Thread Nick Holland
Markus Wernig wrote: Hi misc Is anybody aware of a document that describes how to ccd all slices (including /) after installation? You are wanting to RETROFIT ccd mirroring on a disk that was set up without it? No. Not going to happen easily. ccd won't do root, though you could use the

Re: Can install 3.8, but not boot 3.8 (3.7- worked fine)

2005-11-18 Thread Nick Holland
Gordon Ross wrote: On 17 November 2005 at 12:21:27, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/17/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon Ross wrote: We've got several VIA based micro ATX systems here. We've been using OpenBSD on them for years now, and never

Re: Raid and the spare-disk - Forcing the spare disk into sleep-mode?

2005-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
Sebastian Rother wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to know if the spare-disk (specified in the raid.conf of raidctl) gets powered off until it's needed. As far as I understood the manpage the spare-disk is used to rebuild the raid if a HDD fails. And example what happened to a

Re: Questions about 3.8 on amd64

2005-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, As I sit here thinking about it, I have only one question. I have an nvidia video adapter in my box and want to know if the nvidia drivers on their web site work for FreeBSD work for OpenBSD. Has anybody had any luck getting them to work ok? Oh, this is for the

Re: pxeboot arps for its own ip address

2005-11-20 Thread Nick Holland
Paul de Weerd wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install an older Dell system, an Optiplex GX-1. This is a 600 MHz P3 with the latest BIOS (A10) from H^HDell. It has an onboard xl(4) that supports PXE booting so I decided (after several broken floppies) to take the pxeboot-route. The system

Re: Motherboard brands

2005-11-20 Thread Nick Holland
Tim wrote: Hello I read in an earlier thread some criticism of a brand I thought was reliable/quality with OpenBSD and in general: ASUS. So what motherboard brand can you rely on for a desktop then? Life isn't that simple. I suspect almost every manufacturer of almost every product has

Re: Copying disk partitions

2005-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Fraser wrote: /etc/daily uses the following code sync echo echo Backing up root filesystem: echo copying /dev/r$rootdev to /dev/r$rootbak dd if=/dev/r$rootdev of=/dev/r$rootbak bs=16b seek=1 skip=1 \ conv=noerror fsck -y /dev/r$rootbak where as

Re: FAT partition on removable disk wont show up

2005-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: ... Hi Nick Yes I think the label was set before I created the FAT partition... Setting the offset etc is an easy thing.. But how should I set fsize, bsize and cpg on the windows partition when adding it using disklabel -e sd1. And last... How should I set

Re: Strange problem with FAT partition

2005-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
Luciano ES wrote: I am having this strange problem with a FAT partition a in large disk. It is a long story. At first, you'll see me talk a lot about NetBSD, but the problem also occurs with OpenBSD. ... I reinstalled NetBSD. Then OpenBSD. Arf! Another problem. When I try to install OpenBSD

Re: HOTO Write bad documentation

2005-11-25 Thread Nick Holland
Roy Morris wrote: ... Bad hair day Nick? Not at all. At this point in my life, any hair at all is good. If it wants to look like I just lost a battle with a Tesla coil, that's fine by me. :) Nick.

Re: HOTO Write bad documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Nick Holland
Rene Rivera wrote: Hannah Schroeter wrote: ... Deciding for *any* resolution is *bad* design. The current openbsd.org doesn't work at 640x480... Does that make it a bad design? And hence should be considered a bug to be fixed by a new design? One of our star platforms, Zaurus, has only

Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-27 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: dear list, before Theo brings up the (very) valid point of haven't been able to see any proposed design (even if rejected without looking) i would like to ask fellow designers or anyone who feels like to make an openbsd site design proposal just to show that actually

Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:29:43AM -0500, Jeremy David wrote: On 11/28/05, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it's because Nick is a VOLUNTEER that spends an unlimited amount of time keeping the site updated with CONTENT. He knows that no matter what design changes he wishes

Re: Booting very slow when using CompactFlash adapters

2005-11-30 Thread Nick Holland
Martmn Coco wrote: Hi there, We are beginning to do some tests with Compact Flash IDE adapters and OpenBSD 3.8. We installed the OpenBSD 3.8 using a SanDisk 1.0GB CompactFlash on a Pentium 4 (dmesg at the end of this message). The installation finished flawlessly. But when booting, it

Re: Nic problems

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
L. V. Lammert wrote: Had a NIC fail last Monday at a remote site, after a local storm. We have had problems with this site before - apparently the building was built on the 'cheap' and they didn't do a lot of nice electrical stuff like grounding the structure! there are other things that

Re: Booting very slow when using CompactFlash adapters

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
Martmn Coco wrote: ... The oddity is you have the flash on the SECOND disk channel. That should work, but a buggy BIOS might get in the way. I tried to move it to the first channel, but the speed problem was still there when booting: bah. :) ... I see you have a P4. Could the heat

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-12-02 Thread Nick Holland
Greg Oster wrote: ... Here's what I'd encourage you (or anyone else) to do: actually, I'd encourage you do try your own test. Results were interesting. 1) Create a ccd as you describe in the HOWTO and mount the filesystem. used my own instructions, if you don't mind. :) Softdeps on. That

Re: disklabel unused partition warnings

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Holland
Simon Morgan wrote: J.D. Bronson jbronson at wixb.com writes: I think if I zero'd the drive 2x before install OBSD, this problem wouldnt have happened. Thanks for the tip but I have other operating systems and partitions on the drive which I want to keep. I shouldn't need to do this

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Holland
. Some readers of my posts might confuse my knowledge of the OpenBSD boot process and disk layout process as being file-system knowledgable. That would be a big error -- very different topics! Greg Oster wrote: Nick Holland writes: Greg Oster wrote: ... 2) Start extracting 5 copies of src.tar.gz

Re: Can't get VM_UVMEXP: Cannot allocate memory 3.8 GENERIC

2005-12-05 Thread Nick Holland
Thomas Bvrnert wrote: Hi List, i've a problem with 3.8 systat vm shows this error above and no memory values ... BUT: if i'm using the original kernel from the 3.8 cd that it works without this error. BUT: if i build the 3.8 GENERIC kernel by myself without any changes pf

Re: Getting HW info from vendors for own fun

2005-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:28:27PM +0100, Paulo Rodriguez wrote: Hello misc, I was curious about something. Is it considered as a sensible thing to do, to request hardware info in name of the OpenBSD community directly from vendors, for your own experimentation purposes? If it is for

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