Theo de Raadt wrote:
...
Nick is not speaking for the project when he says these things.
Nick was barely speaking for himself.
My appologies to the OP, as somehow I thought he was trying to get
HARDWARE from vendors in the OpenBSD name for own fun. I managed to
miss the word info repeatedly.
Uwe Dippel wrote:
[Background: we now received the second batch of Proliant ML-350G4p with
dual core Xeon. I had pointed out earlier that bsd.mp performs a
miscalculation of the time-stamp by 2:1 on ML350G4. This is unresolved
despite all efforts and input; but goes into another thread.]
On
Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
Hi,
Looking at /etc/daily I can see that backup is done by dd(1) command:
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
kyle wrote:
Hi all,
Im running into a (silly) problem where I am seem not to be writing the boot
install images properly to a compact flash card. Ive been trying
cdrom38.fsand
floppy38.fs. I write the image under linux to the compact flash(seen as hde
device) as so:
cat floppy38.fs
Jason McIntyre wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:50:48PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote:
(2) When doing the installation disklabel, the suggested starting
offset for the 'a' partition is 0? I know using an offset of 0 is
discouraged on i386 and other systems (default is 63), so I figured I'd
ask
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Theo == Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm upgrading a remote box, so a standard upgrade is not an option,
nor is a reinstall. There was no warning in the FAQ that the
information was definitely broken. It must have worked for *someone*
or it wouldn't
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:10:02PM +0100, Raul Aldaz wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:59:35 +0100, Raul Aldaz wrote
Hi,
Why are not provided the corresponding source files? a resource limit I
suppose...
I've found
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
...
Ah, I see the problem. I read the FAQ, chapter 4, install, and it
did not point me to the upgrade guide, just said be sure
to upgrade /etc (which I did using etc38.tgz as a template,
and hence wound up with the missing directories).
It would be good if there was a
Steve Shockley wrote:
Whyzzi wrote:
Hi gang. Running a lightweight mail server here (50 users total) on
OpenBSD, and being the cheap bastard that I am I am looking forward to
scripting a nightly backup onto some DVD-RW media. Can I assume that
dump/restore is out of the question because of
Bobby Johnson wrote:
A few questions in regards to the discussion between Robert Haarman and
mickey around Nov 24 on ccd mirroring. The conclusion is don't use c
for a usable partition in a ccd device.
If conclusion is the right word in a discussion between someone who
didn't understand the
Denny White wrote:
When f-prot tries to update in root's cron, it reports fatal
error, can't find unzip. Unzip is located in /usr/local/bin
which is in root's path env:
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:
/usr/local/bin
WHICH root's path env?
When root logs
Adam Gleave wrote:
I've searched the archives and (re)read the man page of useradd, but I
can't understand why the -p option exists. To me, I can see no way of
using it safely (securely) as it can display on the process listing.
Admittedly, there might be some use for it that I haven't
Edd Barrett wrote:
Hi there,
Rebuilt XF4 the other day to try to track down why some clients were dying.
I believe this page here to be innacurate:
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Xbld
XF86Setup, used to configure XF3 servers on the i386 platform (and ONLY the
i386 platform) requires
Edd Barrett wrote:
Which platform were you building other than i386?
I was building on an i386.
XF4 is the entire X tree, both X.org and XF86v3. On i386, when you
build X, you build the entire X system, X.org's and XF86v3 servers.
pick and chose building what you build is not supported,
knitti wrote:
On 1/3/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/2/06, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet
you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place.
Care to let us in on why? I expect
Daniel Ouellet wrote:
Nick Holland wrote:
IF there is some reason you have to complete an upgrade in one reboot,
or faster than the local boot media process goes, you might want to try
the above referened footnote [1] below. (and if that sentence doesn't
cure you of this delusion that I
Bill wrote:
...
Now here is what I did then...
# cd /mnt/newr
# ../oldr/sbin/dump 0af - /mnt/oldr | restore rf -
(the old drive is also openbsd 3.8)
This worked like a charm for the root fs
Then I tried the var and I got a slew of errors about the disk being
full. But its the /dev/rd*
Gordon Ross wrote:
I've recently posted a couple of questions about problems I've had
booting OpenBSD, and so far, I haven't been able to resolve this
problem.
After some head scratching, I think I've discovered the problem. The
boards I'm using, LEX CV860A (
Austin Hook wrote:
After buying a used Dell 2850 PowerEdge rack mount server I tried to
install 3.8 but I found that the CDROM seemed to be giving me bad data.
The tar/unzip process during install seemed to have trouble with larger
data files, complaining something about having to search for
Josh wrote:
Hello...
Im trying to install openbsd 3.8 onto a sun ultra 30. The box has a scsi
cdrom and a scsi hdd, and no floppy drive. I am using a cdrom burned
with the small cd38.iso image to try and install with.
When I boot the cdrom, it says:
ok boot cdrom
Boot device:
Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
check the jumper settings on the CDROM, you need it set to 512byte sectors,
other wise it wont work, if there are no jumper settings for it on the drive
then its not compatible with your system.
While this is true on sparc systems, I don't believe it is true on
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:29:51AM -0800, M... wrote:
Hello.
I'm playing with OpenBSD 3.8 and would like some
comments/advice on partitioning.
I have a 500MHz test machine, 256MB RAM, 4GB H/D,
100/1Gb intel ethernet card.
Most of the examples show separate partitions for
/
/tmp
/var
M... wrote:
...
I know swap used to be 2x the memory, but does that
still hold with 256MB RAM installed ? as opposed to
years ago with 32MB or 64MB ?
That advice is as bogus now as it was then.
The answer is, use what YOU need.
Most of the time, if your system starts swapping, you are
Igor Vilensky wrote:
I don't believe BIOS is at fault.
I do believe you are wrong.
I could not find anything vaguely related
in BIOS settings,
now, I'm even more sure you are wrong. look again.
Oh, depending on the vintage, you may not have ANY BIOS settings there
-- you may have to
Greg Thomas wrote:
Ok, I'm getting frustrated because I thought I understood aliases well
but I'm having trouble setting an alias with a RFC1918 address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/hostname.xl0
inet 66.245.151.101 255.255.255.0 NONE
inet alias 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.255 NONE
Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2006/01/22 12:39, Peter Fraser wrote:
Rather than going to each machine an installing
this hosts file in \windows\system32\drivers\etc
I would rather have my firewall block these
names instead.
Please note the blocking has to be done on the name,
not the ip
Robert Jacobs wrote:
Hello all,
I got a Tyan S2885 motherboard and am trying to get Xorg to work with 3 PCI
Radeon video cards. I have always had X work with this many or more video
cards so I'm thinking that there might be something specific to this setup
that is screwed up. First tried
Robert Jacobs wrote:
Try this strategy...
Remove all but one video card.
Get X working on that one card, using an xorg.conf file.
Insert a second card, keep X working on the one card (this seems to be
an important step...and not quite as trivial as it sounds).
Get X working on the two cards.
marrandy wrote:
Treid it with a Hitachi micro-drive (Compact Flash fitting). It works but I
see pciide errors listed below. Is this fixable ?
I have seen the FAQ entry on pciide, but obviously, it isn't a cable issue as
there isn't one.
...
pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing
AndrC)s Delfino wrote:
What I'm trying to ask is this: if a user turns on the computer, and
can't log in, is it safe to power off the computer without using halt,
or shutdown, (ie. pressing the power off button)?
SHOULD you power down uncleanly? No.
Can you? Usually. :)
I would even go as
Nick Holland wrote:
...much bigger, if we get the 1G physical disk limit overcome in
OpenBSD).
er... 1T physical disk limit...
(hey, some of us old timers were really wowed by the first 1G drives.
Or the first 20M drives... We get our staggering amount of storage
units confused easily
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote:
The bottom of your dmesg appears to indicate your HD is dying--act fast.
Naw. That's a UDMA error. That's also a chip which I think is prone to
doing EXACTLY that...downgrading from UDMA2 UDMA1. I have a laptop
which does the exact same thing at boot, with the same
Gabriel George POPA wrote:
...
Oh, and what's with that picture on www.openbsd.org (lower-right corner)?
It is a cluster of computers using OpenBSD.
Nick.
AndrC)s Delfino wrote:
Maybe it may help someone, :P
--- license.template Tue Jun 3 19:37:00 2003
+++ license.template.1 Sun Jan 29 10:00:22 2006
@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@
should be separated by a comma, e.g.
Copyright (c) 2003, 2004
+Note that less than and greater than signs
Greg Oster wrote:
Peter Fraser writes:
I had a disk drive fail while running RAIDframe.
The system did not survive the failure. Even worse
there was data loss.
Ow.
Welcome to the REALITY of RAID.
If you rely on RAID to always work, and never go down, you Just Don't
Understand.
...
You
MikeyG wrote:
Hi,
I'm seeing a recurring problem whereby a users process is causing the
system to crash by (I believe) filling up the /tmp partition. Twice this
week this has happened shortly after I have renice-d a resource hungry
bittorrent download I've seen a user running.
I question
Felipe Scarel wrote:
Aside from all (somewhat funny, especially the java one) jokes, what are the
plans regarding SMP?
Same as always.
Wait for someone to show REAL CODE.
Evaluate the merits of that code.
If it is up to OpenBSD standards, commit the code.
Note that the real code comes first.
Dasn Clainst wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:59:17PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
[...]
/sys/sys/systm.h:170: warning: conflicting types for built-in function
`vsnprintf'
[...]
Have you properly updated gcc?
IIRC there have been quite some changes wrt types and in the
instructions for
Siju George wrote:
Hi,
BSD on x86 has also suffered at the hands of these maniac virus
coders, so much so that there are hardly any BSD x86 web servers on
the web that haven't been repeatedly p0wned.
Julesg wrote:
I want to put up 3.8 on my laptop.
Can I download and run a DOS or Windoz pgm?
you can download lots of DOS and Windows programs. Few will help you
with this task, however. :)
I don't think I'm up to a PXE install., (It's the TCP scripting that frightens
me.)
What TCP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to upgrade an old server with 3.8 via a floppy. It was
running 3.7 with a DB and web server previously.
During the upgrade, it did not detect the NIC. As it was a test
server, I tried a re-install rather than an upgrade...same thing.
The 3.7 install disk
Michael Calvi wrote:
As a follow up, the copy of hostname.tx0 to hostname.epic0 allowed me to
perform the upgrade. The dmesg from the 3.8 bsd.rd as suggested is below.
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the feedback. I've updated upgrade38.html and faq1.html to
mention this non-trivial issue.
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Hello,
I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB
and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge.
Box has two uses:
under normal cirumstance, as a thin client to my
athlon box elsewhere in the house.
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:56:32AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Hello,
I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840
John Brahy wrote:
Is there any reason I shouldn't add rmoption INET6 to my kernel? I don't use
IPV6.
maybe because you were smart and read the instructions?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#ProbIPv6
You provide the feet, we provide the bullets. And the warning.
Nick.
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
hello misc@
I bought a collection of old quad port NICS from Ebay and put them in
a old gateway server, just to see what would happen.
Everything worked great the only trouble I had was *if* the plug and
play os option in bios was set to yes. the GENERIC kernel will
jared r r spiegel wrote:
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:58:38PM -0600, Kjell Wooding wrote:
mg is a fine little editor, but it just seems so emacs-centric.
This little diff fixes that. Please test and get back to me.
Maybe *now* we'll get some users.
clarification wise, this diff is just to
sweetnsourbkr wrote:
I'm trying into install OpenBSD 4.0 onto my laptop. It's a Pentium 3 1.13
MHz with 768MB RAM.
I burned an install CD following the installation instructions. I buned the
cd40.iso first, started a multisession CD. Then afterwards, burned the rest
of the packages and
Stephen Takacs wrote:
cpu0: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (AuthenticAMD 686-class, 256KB L2
cache) 1.60 GHz
That's interesting. How long have you been running OBSD 4.0 on that
machine? I have the mobile version of this cpu, and my laptop started
locking up erratically (also w/o ddb)
Stephen Takacs wrote:
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:11:37PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
What you are describing is almost certainly the i386-on-amd64 problem.
Solution is to do one of the following (in my order of preference, your
criteria may be different than mine, of course!) :
* run
Jack J. Woehr wrote:
On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:25 PM, chefren wrote:
Clearly not to death and people here are seriously interested in
pro and contra arguments.
Hey, if you young folks still have all that typing power in your
fingers, please bang on the
code for BSD some more!
Or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I run an openbsd firewall. I want to block certain sites either by IP
address or by domain name. How do I get more information on how to set
this up?
Thanks in advance.
I'm very fond of DNS blocking:
http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/imblock.html
simple
Damon McMahon wrote:
Greetings,
This is quite strange: very occassionally (perhaps a rate of 1 in 25
occasions or so?) automatic booting 3.9/i386 fails, but manually
booting via the console works. Below is the console output and other
potentially relevant information - is this faulty
Siju George wrote:
Hi,
How Do you handle when you have to Serve terrabytes of Data through
http/https/ftp etc?
Put it on Differrent machines and use some knid of
loadbalancer/intelligent program that directs to the right mahine?
use some kind of clustering Software?
Waht hardware do
J.C. Roberts wrote:
On Friday 20 April 2007 08:32, Tony Abernethy wrote:
Jason Beaudoin wrote:
snip
Use all the tricks you can for YOUR solution, including:
* lots of small partitions
What are the reasonings behind this?
Thanks for the awesome post!
I think it runs
Default User wrote:
is a root account really necessary?
well, the account is needed for many tasks.
I presume you mean to ask, Is it necessary to be able to directly log
into the root account?, and that answer, in OpenBSD, is no. However
the account must exist so that many applications can
Nick Holland wrote:
...
sure fat fingered that topic..sorry about that. 8-/
Nick.
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:27:21PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that
today my openbsd package arived (thanks wim) and i know that
it's not released yet, but i was wondering if it was possible
to make the packages available on the ftp servers. the base
system is
Steve Glaus wrote:
I bought a Realtek based 4 port pci 10/110 card off of ebay.
I was hoping I would be able to use this card to set-up for individual
networks. When I boot the card in openbsd it only comes up with one
(ral0) interface. Is it possible this is just a 'switching' card and I
John Mendenhall wrote:
PS a dmesg would be useful...
Sorry! I forgot the dmesg.
much better...
The symptoms you describe sound like classic hardware problems,
however, I see a couple things worthy of note in your dmesg:
-
OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006
Miler Alberto Garcia Villanueva wrote:
hi for all, i have a Hard disk of 80 GB, I like to user 20 GB for
OpenBSD and 60 GB for Windows XP, it is posible? becase I read in the
FAQ openbsd that say: its necessary to installa the openbsd in the
firts 7GB of the Harddisk
Where the heck did you
satimis wrote:
Hi folks,
Old P-II 350 box
IWill motherboard support - ATA-33 HD
Hot Rod ABit ATA-66 PCI Controller
Maxtor HD - ATA-100 10G connected to above Controller
OpenBSD 4.1 CD installer - burned with CD41.iso
with a dmesg, we would have known all that.
AND, we might have
Sebastian Rother wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2007 11:12:54 -0700
Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/6/07, Sebastian Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everybody,
I`ve a problem with one HDD wich has 3 empty Partitions at the
beginning. I wanted to remove those partitions but
satimis wrote:
Hi Nick,
Tks for your advice.
Old P-II 350 box
IWill motherboard support - ATA-33 HD
Hot Rod ABit ATA-66 PCI Controller
Maxtor HD - ATA-100 10G connected to above Controller
OpenBSD 4.1 CD installer - burned with CD41.iso
with a dmesg, we would have known all
Michael Dexter wrote:
Hello,
I have found references to: /pub/OpenBSD/3.6/tools/booteasy suggesting that
it was part of the distribution but I do not see it listed for 3.7 and newer.
I do not see a 3.7 changelist entry for it and I the online man pages to not
seem to refer to it. From
George C wrote:
I've just stumbled across the SoftUpdates section in the FAQ, and was rather
surprised that I had never seen/heard of this feature before. Before
I mount any
partition using softdep, I thought I'd google, browse the archives, etc. for
any
information about when/where they
mickey wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:06:06AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
George C wrote:
...
Is it always best to mount /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home with softdep?
Under what curcumstances would it not be appropriate?
If your app makes assumptions about write ordering, softdeps can negate
Alex Holst wrote:
I see from the archives that I'm not alone with this problem, but I have
found no solution: Trying to get the VGA port on my X40 to deliver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to my Dell E228WFP and failing.
Attempt 1 with no xorg.conf in place outputs [EMAIL PROTECTED], a virtual,
Bruce Bauer wrote:
This system has been running flawlessly since mid-March with GENERIC
plus the 010 patch. dmesg below
This morning I found it totally unresponsive both through network and
at the console. Had to use the power switch to recover.
Where do I start trying to track this down?
The
John Nietzsche wrote:
...
Everything is working ok except because of those two boxes always have
a time about 20/22 seconds after my gateway time, like in the output
for date command:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] date
Sun May 13 23:04:35 BRT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED] date
Sun May 13 23:04:59 BRT 2007
Lawrence Horvath wrote:
I am trying to set up authpf. I created all the files however i would
like to be able to login and then start authpf instead of having a
separate user for authpf. when ever i try to start authpf after loging
in with ssh i get the below error
May 14 22:03:31 freemon
Brian wrote:
I am updating my system, and I have just read about xenocara in -current. Do
I
just build this over my pre-existing X.org? I wasn't quite sure from the
README.
updating from what to what? If you are wondering about Xenocara,
I hope you are intending to end up on -current.
Chris S wrote:
On 5/25/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's an add-on SATA board. Remove card, no problem. Install
card, no cursor.
That's not the case for me, I don't even have the cursor on the
OpenBSD boot loader prompt.
It *is* the case for you: something OTHER than
James Hartley wrote:
Section 4.8 of the FAQ discusses how to capture the PBR for multibooting
with dd:
# dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
Two questions.
* For stand-alone installations, is the PBR the same thing as the MBR?
no.
* More importantly, how can I use dd to
studio-v wrote:
I'm trying to install openbsd 4.1 on a firewall server. I'm using the
cd41.iso. The problem is that when the computer boots from cd (in order to
install), it hangs about halfway through. This is the last line:
rl0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 12
RW wrote:
I have a Commell LE564 which will work happily with a serial console
including doing BIOS stuff.
The BIOS allows use of a USB CD drive and that works too. Well, it
works perfectly if you can just time it right and blindly type in the
magic string to redirect the console to com0
luccio01 wrote:
...
And what do you think about stability of aac driver ?
Because I read it is not a good idea to use it ...
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#aac
do you care about your data?
do you feel lucky?
Nick.
Josh Grosse wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:53:49PM -0400, I wrote:
What I have always done is a manual upgrade:
1. Back up.
2. Boot in single user mode
3. # mount -a -t ffs
4. For each fileset except etcXX.tgz and xetcXX.tgz, issue:
# tar xpzf fileset -C /
5. Using etcXX.tgz
Matt wrote:
...
So I am trying to have another instance of the OpenBSD version of Apache
1.3 - chrooted and all.
I *think* it can be done by downloading src.tar.gz and compile it again
from there with instructions so it does not overwrite the existing httpd.
Just changing the
Darrel wrote:
http://openbsd.rt.fm/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot
Per the heading 'What is a chroot?', I plan to change the owner of all
the files in the /var/www directory as read-only by User www. Should
the group of directories and files be changed to www as well? At the
moment, all of the
Martin Schrvder wrote:
2007/6/18, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The question isn't who owns the files, the question is, who can WRITE
to the files. IF the user www can write to the files,
But the owner can always change the permissions (if the directory is
writable by him).
oops, correct
Matt wrote:
Hi all,
I got hold of an older Dell server with a PERC 4/DI raid controller,
including 2 SCSI disks. I found the docs over at Dell.
Am I right in understanding once I have my array in place through the
BIOS the OpenBSD OS has nothing to do with the RAID setup?
setup, no.
Pierre Riteau wrote:
[re: ami(4) RAID card]
I've never used such hardware, but isn't sensorsd a good tool to
monitor the drives attached? ami(4) tells me that disk status is
exposed under hw.sensors.
Draw your own conclusions:
~ $ sysctl hw.sensors
hw.sensors.ami0.drive0=online (sd0), OK
Richard Daemon wrote:
...
As for others saying 'why re-compile GENERIC', well, GENERIC is awesome in
itself and there is no need generally. But I think the reason for some
people is that they too like tweaking /usr/src/sys/conf/GENERIC
/usr/src/sys/arch/$ARCH/conf/GENERIC to remove any
Firas Kraiem wrote:
Greetings everyone :)
So here's the deal, I have :
- An i386 machine with no floppy or CDROM drive that I'm willing to
install OpenBSD on
- A nice and shiny 4.2 CD-set
- A 2 GB USB flash drive
Because I'm stingy and I don't want to spend fifty bucks on an USB
Kyrylo Klimakov wrote:
...[snip the same ol' libexpat stuff]...
I think that such behavior of the installer could be treated like a
bug and package
xbase42 should be moved to required section or at least in the
installation documents
should be described such trouble.
What do you think
frantisek holop wrote:
hi there,
i was wondering if some of the boot sector/fdisk magicians
out there could lend me a hand in booting openbsd on the eee
without access to a cd-rom drive.
what i need is basically advice how to handcraft a boot sector
on an usb media with a snapshot for the boot
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk.
only usb media. i need
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
...
Here's the software that I need to run on the box (beyond what is in 4.2
base):
vim
easy
mc
easy
mutt
easy
tex
considering it dates back to the low two-digit CPU speed days, I
suspect easy, though it might be true that you would appreciate
more.
python
Matt wrote:
Hi all,
Perhaps a bit daft but:
Somehow I have managed to exclude my swap partition from being mounted
on my Raid0 array.
I have no idea why it isn't in fstab but I can only assume I messed
something up along the way while copying.
dunno what you were copying, but in a
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'm wondering how scsi external arrays work in OpenBSD. This is in
relation to my low-MHz box search. Sata drives have too fast a clock
rate so it will be scsi.
Are you speculating, or have you actually tested the results here?
A new 300G SATA vs. an old 2G SCSI? You
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:56:41PM -0500, bofh wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 10:45 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see external multi-disk IDE boxes. Besides, PATA is limited to
something like 18 from controller to drive. Even with a PCI
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Hello again.
In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of old
Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g:
4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249.
HP doesn't have on their website the owner's manuals for these old
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:04:20PM -0800, Mike Larkin wrote:
8-way amd64 (Intel quad Xeon x 2) with 16GB ram. The BIOS and bootloader
correctly see all 16gb, but the kernel only sees 4.00GB (a very
non-random amount, indicating to me an artificial limit is being
Geoff Steckel wrote:
This is my last posting on this, take heart.
For someone who has indicated a distrust of threads (which I
am in agreement with), you have sure started a lot of them on
this same blooming topic (five, by my count).
If you were trying to prove a point by doing so, let's call
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
What is it about OpenBSD that I can't resist it?
After the past long exchange about our ultimate goal and a lot of
people advising me to go over to Solaris 10, I did, I removed OpenBSD
from one of my machines and installed Solaris Express Developers
Edition.
It was slick
Marco Peereboom wrote:
I really have a hard time buying this. I can see how you ended up with
some crap in that memory upon reboot but I fail to see how that memory
could retain its contents. Not knowing the situation you might have
had some huge caps on that machine; or even battery backed
Fabian Heusser wrote:
Hello
I have an old box (3.6) which makes a lot of noise, so i like to
virtualize it. I made an Image with acronis and converted it with
vmware converter.
When i start the virtual machine Loading... ERR M is shown. (dmesg
at the bottom)
I loaded cd36.iso as cdrom
Don Jackson wrote:
I use serial consoles on all my OpenBSD servers for remote serial
access to the machines, both during initial install via pxeboot, and
later on in regular use after the install.
I'm currently running either 4.2 or 4.1 on all my machines.
The FAQ states:
Only the
Don Jackson wrote:
Matt and Paul,
Thank you for the information about boot.conf, using that will enable
me to keep the uniprocessor and multiprocessor versions of the kernel
distinct.
I think I was led astray initially by this comment in Section 8.12 in the FAQ:
A separate SMP
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