Matthias Kilian wrote:
Just FYI:
recently there were some discussion wether an installation on i386
hardware with 16 MB or less would be possible (and usable) or not.
Beeing curious, I just made a release(8) (without X11), and gave
it a try with qemu.
Result: you can do a complete
Jim Fron wrote:
I'm attempting to install OBSD 3.7 sparc on a Sparcstation 20. I've
been through installs numerous times on 20's, 2's, and an IPC using
previous OBSD versions.
Currently, I only have one install method -- floppy. I could
conceivably set up a netboot install or
James Boothe wrote:
I'm having a bit of trouble with ccd. I have a box with 2 80G IDE
drives and 1 200G IDE drive. I'm going by the FAQ step for step
here but after the ccd is configured and I get ready to run
disklabel -E ccd0 it only sees the first frive. I've redone it 6 or
7 times, and
Bob Ababurko wrote:
hello-
I am trying to load 3.5 sparc64 on an Ultra2. After booting from the CD
I get an error message that says( i think) it cannot find the cd-drive
No...that's not what it says.
or file on the CD.
yes, that IS what it says.
That makes little sense since I see
Nuzaihan Kamalluddin wrote:
Hi,
I've tried googling but with little success, I am trying to use virtual
terminals (console), but I could get ctrl+alt+f1 to work. From what I see in
the dmesg, it detects those keys such as F1 as a device for brightness and
sound volume.
Emmett Pate wrote:
I'd like to install the latest snapshot on a laptop that's currently
running 3.7-release. The boot CD fails to get a dynamic IP address. My
question is where is the most appropriate archive/list to research
whether this is a known problem? I just want to make sure I'm
Jonathan Weiss wrote:
Hello,
just an idea,
are you connected to the internet via pppoe (DSL).
There is a well-known problem with mtu/mss (1500/1460 vs. 1492/1452)
You can use scrub in your pf.conf to solve it.
something like
scrub out on ppp0 all max-mss 1452
Or do a
set mtu
Gaby vanhegan wrote:
Hi,
I am still working on a nice automated installation CD system. It is
partially a custom boot CD and partially a site36.tgz file that
installs all the relevant packages, then does a scripted restoration
from out backup server. It's intended for bare-metal
Tim wrote:
Hello
1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I
want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches
on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can
I later apply the compiled patches to the weak system?
In addition
Dave Wickberg wrote:
Hi,
I've just recently installed OpenBSD 3.7 (Release) on a Celeron 466 w/
256MB of RAM.
I created a boot floppy and from there the install went flawlessly.
However, after booting the systems for first time I am getting a
kernel page fault error as soon as I try to
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
...
What could cause this disaster?
Please, feel free to ask me for any information that you need before I
wipe the entire disk and install a fresh OpenBSD again.
hello,
The last year a had similar problems because of a bad IDE cable. In
Guido Tschakert wrote:
Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
I don't see where you set the MTU/MSS? Are you sure you have set them
somewhere else? eBay is known to have problems with bad/wrong MTU/MSS.
Try adding scrub out on $ext_if max-mss 1414 to your pf.conf and adding
-mtu 1454 to the route. Also
Edd Barrett wrote:
Hi there,
Is there any reason why we can not include a raid enabled kernel in
the distribution? (not as default, but in the same way bsd.mp is).
I believe this would save me (and others?) time when upgrading OpenBSD
machines.
The kernel would need static device node
Edd Barrett wrote:
rather then trying more stupid band-aids and wuergarounds it would be
fantastic if someone could sit down and get us a software raid
implementation that doesn't suck and thus can be included in the regular
kernels.
I havent noticed anything terribly wrong with raidframe.
Robert Storey wrote:
Glad that somebody else broached this topic, I was about to ask the same
question.
No. Your problem is completely unrelated to a Sunblade 100.
You've hijacked someone else's thread.
Your report is useless.
It is DEAD WRONG. USB keyboards work just fine on i386 machine,
*sigh* found this sitting on the not done pile from over a week ago... 8-/
Dave Wickberg wrote:
On 8/19/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Wickberg wrote:
Hi,
I've just recently installed OpenBSD 3.7 (Release) on a Celeron 466 w/
256MB of RAM.
I created a boot floppy
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
Currently, our Institute investigates alternative operating systems
compared to Linux. Apart from technical issues we are also concerned
about lifecycle management as well. We simply don't want to
reinstall/upgrade an entire OS all half year, which is the main
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:03:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there any problem with CVSYNC currently?
3.8 has been tagged, which puts heavy load on all mirrors (including
cvsync mirrors).
Yes I thought about that too but I wonder why it takes about 1-2
Siju George wrote:
Hi,
In there an online openbsd version of
http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/nazario.html
by Jose??
I understad that it is there in his book but am unable to place it on
the web :-(
Please let me know if it exists on the web!!!
Haven't seen such a beast. LONG ago
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
Nick Holland schrieb:
...
Yes, OpenBSD had new releases every six months, and only supports a
previous release with patches for one past release, so your frequency is
going to be higher. So, at the outside, you are looking at an upgrade
Ok, that is the key issue
M. Schatzl wrote:
Philip S. Schulz wrote:
Could be your BIOS' fault. Try sth like
machine mem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot. That was it.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstProb
for more info.
Nick.
Sebastian .Rother wrote:
Theo de Raadt schrieb:
Hello everybody,
I found an entry on the Website wich confused me:
New functionality:
.
.
.
wd http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wdsektion=4 disks
have the security feature frozen before being attached to prevent
malicious users
Mariano Benedettini wrote:
I wrote last week, about some problems I've experienced with 3.7 GENERIC.MP
on a PowerEdge 1850 dual Xeon [1].
Some people suggested to try a 3.8 snapshot, and that's what I did.
The system runs fine, but is there any way to make it work with 3.7
GENERIC.MP ?
Of
Stuart Henderson wrote:
--On 22 September 2005 16:52 -0400, Chris wrote:
...
Replace i386 in the first line with your machine name.
That's 'machine' as in 'what uname -m tells you' (i386, sparc64,
macppc, hppa, [...]), not hostname.
That was somewhat unclear on my part. Fixed now.
L. V. Lammert wrote:
I have been working with a local OS friendly hosting company to add support
for OpenBSD. Unfortunately, they also support with Red Hat, SuSE, and
Apple, and these vendors offer an 'Open Source Indemnification', ostensibly
protecting against legal action from
Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:29:18 +0300, Kiraly Zoltan wrote:
I want to build a home network using OpenBSD as gateway. A child in
network have a computer, and like to surf the Internet. I want to drop
her Internet connection at night (11:00AM) because the child don't go to
Budhi Setiawan wrote:
dear all
i guess this is stupid question, but since i very young in the
openbsd land, i have a lof of question :
1. how important to make our system (OS and packages) always
up-to-date ( except with security reason of course ), because some
people says you should
Michael Favinsky wrote:
I understand async is always unsafe. I don't mean async. I don't use async.
I mean the hardware write cache built into the ATA drives. I read somewhere
Funny...I've read lots of things that proved to be wrong.
Wrote a few things, too. ;)
that, unlike SCSI drives, the
eric wrote:
[ Note: I don't like doing this. I would rather use a snapshot and ]
[ just get -current, but I have the Adaptec bullshit on this machine ]
[ and need a kernel that support aac(4). ]
I'm going from 3.6 to 3.7, and just trying to get the fscking
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:35:36PM +0100, Bryan wrote:
I recently attempted to dualboot my laptop with Windows XP. I was
following the FAQ and came to the point where I issued this command:
dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
And the system tells me that:
/dev/rsd0a not
Steve Harding wrote:
I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a while
now, and have replaced nearly everything,
Statements like that without an itemized list are very dangerous. You
might make someone think you really changed everything, when in reality,
you just
Rogier Krieger wrote:
We recently deployed a new fileserver:)
Most surprising thing was that it recognised a 250 GByte HDD at the
first go, without real effort.
Yes, I've been pleasantly surprised about how well big drives work on
old machines. I've been assured that this is ok by people
Tom Cosgrove wrote:
Andreas Bihlmaier 8-Oct-05 15:20
...
Now what should I do about my network card?
Send describtion of problem
1.) to misc@ ?
2.) use sendbug ?
3.) to tech@ ?
Plenty of bug reports start out as threads on [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're not
sure, ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I have installed Openbsd on my computer.
The manual says now for multi-booting with XP you must
do dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
but if i do this i get a error-message that rsd0a does not exist
how can i make this right.
Roelof
Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Hello,
I have an external USB 2.0 storage device with OpenBSD i386
installation and some free space. Is it possible to install
OpenBSD/macppc on that spare space without breaking my i386
installation?
ew, ick.
How will it all work? Would it be possible to
Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:09:39 -0500, J Moore wrote:
I want to set up an OBSD box as a file server for some Windoze boxes. I
think a RAID 1 setup will provide sufficient reliability - and it
appears to be the cheapest way to go.
I don't desire to become an expert on
David Elze wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to block p2p traffic via pf on OpenBSD 3.x.
Unfortunately, all new p2p-clients are able to use dynamic ports or even
(ab-)use http-ports etc. so blocking well known p2p-ports is not enough.
yep.
Apart from blocking ports I just see two possibilities:
-
Erwin Zbinden wrote:
Hi
I am upgrading a i386 box from 3.6 to 3.7. In the upgrade guide I miss any
hint to mergemaster.
Is it obsolete?
Tia
Erwin
Mergemaster is not a part of the base system.
OpenBSD is and should be a complete system, the set of CDs, and in
fact, the base
J Moore wrote:
Anyway...you HAVE to spend time getting to know whatever RAID solution
you are using. Practice, practice, practice!!! Try swapping drives --
what happens if you swap a drive with a larger drive? smaller drive?
how does it indicate errors? etc... In short: never trust
J Moore wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:47:48AM -0400, the unit calling itself Nick
Holland wrote:
Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here... are you
advocating that one develop expertise in all areas to become totally
self-sufficient? If so, I suppose you are all at once
Graham Toal wrote:
steven mestdagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:11:59PM -0500, Graham Toal wrote:
For anyone who is interested, I've written up a document on
how to install OpenBSD, configure it as a transparent bridge,
then install spamd on it. It was written
Michael Frost wrote:
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Hash: RIPEMD160
I wonder if the Cyrix Cx5530 IDE is not supported by OpenBSD v3.8/i386.
I'm a newbie to OpenBSD and therefore would like to post my dmesg, maybe
somebody is able to clear the thing up and give me some advice howto
JD Harrington wrote:
Is there any documentation outlining the preferred process for patch
submission from members of the community? I've got something small I'd
like to send up, but I'm not entirely sure about where to send it
(misc@, bugs@/sendbug, or tech@) as it's not a bug, per se, and I'm
Jason Dixon wrote:
On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Joe Advisor wrote:
Congrats on the cool OpenBSD SAN installation. I was
wondering how you are dealing with the relatively
large filesystem. By default, if you lose power to
the server, OpenBSD will do a rather long fsck when
coming back up.
Chris Zakelj wrote:
Szechuan Death wrote:
Speaking of which: Which driver supports the Adaptec 1205SA? Anybody?
Bueller? Manpages are not forthcoming.
Don't know if any of them do, especially now that Adaptec SCSI has been
removed from the kernel. However, if any dev wants it, I just
per engelbrecht wrote:
Nick Holland wrote:
...
Would I love to see the 1T limit removed? Sure. HOWEVER, I think I
would handle this application the exact same way if it didn't exist
(that might not be true: I might foolishly plowed ahead with the One Big
Pile philosophy, and regretted
Digging through the backlog, and found this unanswered...
Joe S wrote:
Since some quad nics share 1 interrupt, what kind of performance impact
would I be dealing with versus using 4 indiviual nics?
Debating wehter to use a Phobox P430TX quad dc nic or individual fxp0 nics.
Just test it and
Ken Gunderson wrote:
Greets:
I've been exploring root on raidframe w/a pair of mirrored disks. Once
I bring something like this up I then go ahead and do my best to break
it, test out recovery scenarios, etc.
smart. VERY smart. :)
Which brings me to the question
at hand.
Following a
Beck Zoltan Gyula wrote:
Hi!
I would like to ask if it is possible to use a large, more than 2T
diskarray or CCD?
In FAQ: 14.7 - What are the issues regarding large
drives with OpenBSD?
OpenBSD supports an individual file system of up to 231-1, or
2,147,483,647 sectors, and as each
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:21:16AM -0500, C. Bensend wrote:
Hey folks,
I seem to have gotten myself into a pickle, and I'm not quite sure
how screwed I am.
I have an AMD64 server that has been having some stability issues
...^
try to build -STABLE again. 'make
frantisek holop wrote:
hi there,
poking around in the HP ssh docs, one can see the following in the FAQ:
Q: How is the performance of HP-UX Secure Shell?
A: Compared with conventional file transfer methods, the scp command
is 2 - 3 times slower than rcp, and sftp is 2 to 3 times slower
I'd like to take a moment to bring a few new things in the FAQ to your
attention:
1) upgrade38.html ( http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade38.html )
In addition to the usual stuff you have been used to, note the
upgrade38.patch file which is linked from this page. This patch file
attempts to make
Matthew Weigel wrote:
Despite the lack of responses, I persevere... below is the complete
dmesg, if anyone was waiting for it. OpenBSD finds a total of 120
unknown PHYs (ukphy) on my Quad Fast Ethernet 2.0 card, 30 per hme, and
8 Lucent PHYs (luphy), 2 per hme.
Now that you have a
Han Boetes wrote:
Michael Favinsky wrote:
I just installed 3.8 on a server that never had OpenBSD on it.
OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #138: Sat Sep 10 15:41:37 MDT 2005
That's not 3.8: 3.8-stable was compiled on september the 26th.
Yes, that *is* 3.8. That *is* what is on the CDs. I have no
Siju George wrote:
Hi,
I been asked about
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO
How is the Layout defined???
maybe Nick or Theo or some other responsible person could give an
authoritative answer so I can give it back to the person who asked me.
If the md5 sum of the ISO image of
Riccardo Giuntoli wrote:
Hi there.
Can someone tell me why during boot my wd1 hd is seen with the correct
number of sectors and after fdisk sees only half of them?
Yeah.
Because Something's Wrong.
Since you apparently knew what I need to know to give you that
diagnosis, I'm sure you will be
Gustavo Rios wrote:
Hey folks,
sorry, but i found this on the web. May someone tell if it is serious,
i myself could not believe it.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=424451seqNum=1
The author is taking themselves seriously. I don't recommend you make
the same mistake.
1)
Gustavo Rios wrote:
Dear friends,
mo desktop box's graphic card has support for two monitor. I have two
sets containing each: 1 monitor, 1 mouse and 1 keyboard. The mouse and
keyboard are connected to the monitor via USB. I wonder if i could
have a configuration like that:
I would like
Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
...
Personnaly I don't use telnetd for ages especialy on systems that are
security based...
there's a point.
You use OpenBSD for security.
Then you do horribly insecure things to access it.
huh?
Nick.
Martin Ekendahl wrote:
What do you guys use to update your mirrors? I have a colo server that
I'm not doing much with and I thought about setting up a mirror and just
running `cvs up -Pd` twice a day or something to update it. Am I on the
right track or is there a better or more official
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Alari Kask wrote:
Hello everybody, i put together some instructions for tracking -CURRENT,
it's just for getting things done faster, than reading the cvs
instructions on the homepage of openbsd.
Any feedback is welcome.
Install snapshot
If you get
Jose H. wrote:
...
On 7/4/07, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Why do you need to clear the dmesg?
I think it is a pretty valid question(request?), you have to relay on
external mechanisms, like syslog, or to compare differences from previous
outputs of dmesg.
and the problem with
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
On 07/06/2007 06:46:26 PM, Chris Smith wrote:
I assume the problem is not enough RAM because when I
add more RAM everything works fine.
Repeatable? Sure you've ruled out a seating problem?
Yes, repeatable.
yep, I'd believe that.
Some time back (3.6?), when I stuffed
Todd Pytel wrote:
...If it
matters, this is going to be lightweight, home server kind of stuff.
There's the answer to your question: For your app, it just won't matter.
You've spent more time asking, and others (including myself) have spent
more time answering your question than you will ever
Richard Wilson wrote:
I think I may have found a glitch in the OpenBSD website - The FAQ and
the PF User's guide are provided as PDF's, which is very handy for those
of us who like to print them out to hand to people as part of their site
documentation. Quickly out of date I know, but some of
John Nietzsche wrote:
Dear list members,
is there plans for openbsd to support multi terabyte filesystems?
there is desire. There is work being done.
Which release should i expect to see such support?
The release it is ready for.
What do you want someone to say?
For example, do you want
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
...
So the question is how to properly install and boot OpenBSD on an extended
partition? I couldn't find any relevant documentation anywhere...
Booting from extended partitions is not supported by the OpenBSD boot
system. OpenBSD has to be installed on a primary
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
Hello again,
I forgot to mention that I'm not subscribed so please CC: me personally in
all
replies.
I know that installation on extended partitions is not officially supported,
that's why I'm asking for unofficial information.
Always interesting to see
John H. Nyhuis wrote:
Greetings,
My apologies if this is a repost. I am having trouble getting this
through to the list.
I am trying to install OpenBSD (i386) 4.1 and am failing to get it
to identify my standard parallel ide disk. The disk is identified at
bootstrapping as
First of all, a fine point of English:
How to should be followed by an explanation of how to do something,
not a question, 'specially if not followed by a question mark. The
phrase you are probably looking for is how do I . . . ?.
(yes, strange thing for me, who has mangled English in many a
Nick Holland wrote:
...
2) I see the thing is picking up as a DMA mode 2 device. I've not
seen that with the CF devices and adapters I've used...might want to
try disabling the DMA on that device. man 4 wd
3) Try another OS on your adapter/MoBo combo. You may find your CF
adapter and CF
Toni Mueller wrote:
...
Leaving these aside, I just discovered that the i386 compatibility page
does apparently not list _any_ current intel CPUs (eg. Pentium D),
and the question about whether recent Xeons still classify as Xeon in
this list has been raised.
So, is it right to conclude
Adriaan wrote:
A md5 -c MD5 fails for install42.iso
Thats' an experimental feature, not necessarily kept in sync
with the rest of the build process at the moment, and thus,
the MD5 files may very well not match.
Nick.
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
hello misc@
I am PRETTY sure there is no way to do a pf rdr command based on a hostname
and I am just trying to confirm this
Maybe I could somehow use hostated?
What I want to do is have 4 seprate Windows XP Professional workstations
with 192.168.x.x address behind
Timo Myyrd wrote:
Still having problems. I can't get the soekris to boot as far as I can tell.
I used fdisk and created slice for OpenBSD and then used disklabel to
create the partitions inside it.
After that I extracted sets (base,etc,man) to the disk.
I used fdisk -u sd1 to update the
Kevin Cheng wrote:
Hi Darrin,
Thanks for reply.
The reason is that we have bunch of files integrated with 4.0 and it would
take us months to upgrade to 4.2 again. we just finished from 3.3 to 4.0 of
upgrade few months ago, plus months of test to stabilize our 4.0 based
applications.
Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote:
Travers Buda wrote:
*snip*
Just tell him that OpenBSD in the stead of HP-UX will be
cheaper, faster to setup, and easier to maintain (because
of your experience with Open.) Both OpenBSD and HP-UX can
do LDAP, yes, but it's yourself that makes the
Gabri Mati wrote:
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Hey there!
I'm trying to run OpenBSD under the latest VmWare server, but i've got
some problem: i can't use cvs to check out the repositories. It hangs at
the connecting phase. It's strange, cause ftp and http connection
Don Jackson wrote:
I have gotten past all the problems I discussed in my original message
to this list.
On the AMD/Tyan motherboard with the Addonics CF to SATA converter,
what I did was purchase a Lexar Professional UDMA 300X CF card.
This card is faster, and provides the UDMA interface
Theo de Raadt wrote:
I recognize that writeup about the Atheros / Linux / SFLC story is a
bit complex, so I wrote a very simple explanation to someone, and they
liked it's clarity so much that they asked me to post it for everyone.
Here it is (with a few more changes)
-
starting
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 07:09 -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
GNUspeak:
These are definitely not the views of the GNU project. They *might* be
views of the self-styled Linux nerds that think they are k00l and
eleet because they read Slashdot, but to imply the GNU project
Darren Spruell wrote:
...
If cua00 is the right device to use when connecting out, why the
missing phone number error?
That means your /etc/remote file is still at its defaults (which
perhaps should change):
tty00|For hp300,i386,mac68k,macppc,mvmeppc,vax:\
Chris wrote:
I was wondering whether this - http://openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO -
FAQ entry should be changed as OpenBSD now does provide ISO for base
install?
As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and
changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my
Jake Conk wrote:
Hello,
For some reason when I try to add my bridge interface to one of my
cards it just hangs. My commands are:
ifconfig bridge0 create
ifconfig bridge0 add fxp1
And it just hangs pretty much forever until i Ctrl-C it... If I put in
my /etc/hostname.bridge0 file...
Josh wrote:
Hello there.
We have a bunch of obsd firewalls, 8 at the moment, all working nice and
so forth. But we
need to add about another 4 in there for new connections and networks,
which means more
machines to find room for.
So basically I have been asked to investigate running
Gregory Edigarov wrote:
Hello Everybody,
Supposing I have several identical NIC's in my server, can I predict
which become int0, which become int1, etc?
A link to document explaining (or man something) would absolutely suffice.
Thank you.
Not Easily, at least if you are referring to a
Jan Stary wrote:
Hi all,
last night, I installed 4.1 on the new ALIX.1C:
http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm (see dmesg at bottom).
The intended use of the box is a home router/firewall/NAT/DNS/DHCP
for my home network of about four computers (heterogeneous).
Everything works fine (as usual
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
...
Hi Nick.
I understand your reasons. To me they look like reasons for separate
firewalls on separate boxes. In the scenarios you mention, would you
put separate firewalls on one machine?
That's where you are supposed to 1) recognize that my mysteriously
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I currently have OBSD running on my P-II with an 850 MB drive and 64 MB
ram. On install, I chose not to include the compiler set over concern
re drive space. The FAQ says how much space is required to minimally
run OBSD and it says how much to be able to comfortably
Steve Shockley wrote:
RedShift wrote:
Anyone got any similar experiences with hardware RAID cards? Hardware
RAID has always been misery for me.
I've had two instances where older Adaptec RAID cards had a disk failure
and then reverted to a week-old copy of the data. I'm not quite sure
kyle wrote:
Hey list..
Im looking to upgrade my 3.9 boxes to 4.1. I plan on upgrading the
standby boxes first, and am expecting them to still be paired up
pf/carp/ospf-wise with the 3.9 active boxes while I burn them in. I
know in the past I ran into an issue where there were differences
Paul Stvber wrote:
If OpenBSD's MBR bootcode works for you (fdisk -u), you can hexedit
it so that it will boot a fixed MBR partition (instead of the
``active'' one) if the user holds down either Alt key during boot.
The marked byte at offset 0x35 tells the fixed MBR partition
(04=first,
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Hello all,
I have a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. I bought an 8 GB drive to put in my
P-II and it won't boot it so I've put in in the 486 along with a 1 GB
drive.
you might want to spend more time on that PII system...
I'm on dialup and would like to avoid a bad
stan 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:
OpenBSD
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows (XP r Vista)
Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my
concern is about portions. If it is possible
with about 40G at
the end of the disk and use the b command in disklabel to describe
the disk and whacked in a bunch of filesystems. Pretty standard install
- booted and ran just file.
Then I fdisked again to do partition 0, easy. Even remembered the 63
offset.
BUT (and I can see Nick
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
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I've been evaluating OpenBSD as a desktop system while learning about it
on my lesser (older) hardware. I've learned a lot and will continue to
learn about OpenBSD but I don't think it will work as my primary
desktop.
Based on what I've learned here on Misc, I'd
Mike F wrote:
i am installing in ipx, created floopy, booted ok into floopy, but got
these errors when I selected [I] for install.
ERROR: No root partition (sd0a).
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Input/output error
Is my hdd toast?
thanks,
Toast, or not there, or not hooked up
Jon Sjvstedt wrote:
Hello all!
I have an OpenBSD-box with two 250G drives inside (and some SCSI). Trying
to use one of the drives as a whole gave this from disklabel
$ sudo disklabel -p g wd0
[snip]
don't snip.
16 partitions:
# sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize
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all,
I'm happy to read whatever I need to, in order to get this system
running. I come before this list humbly. Please don't flame my ass
with RTFMs :)
I have a new Dell Optiplex 745 with an Intel Core 2 Duo.
this system completed the install. Now on boot it
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