On 16 June 2015 at 14:53, Alex <a...@kaworu.ch> wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 01:48 AM, Shaun Reiger wrote:
>> Hello Misc I'm looking at purchasing a Lenovo T450s as my main laptop, but
>> I wanted to find out if anyone has hit any major roadblocks using obsd 5.7
>> with this model. I know this is a fairly new machine and support is always
>> hit and miss, but any guidance on this machine would help.
>>
>> Biggest concerns are battery life and fan noise.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Shaun,
>
> I've just got a Lenovo T450s and tried to install OpenBSD 5.7.
>
> Early during the installation (while typing the hostname) I had a
> strange keyboard behaviour: pressing once "f" lead me to a second of
> freeze and then as if I've inputed "f" about ten times.
>
This should have been fixed :
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142608672523246&w=2
> I've continued the installation and later - during the network
> configuration questions - I pressed once <Enter> which led to the same
> behaviour as previously. What happened is that the "superflous" <Enter>
> did answer the default for the next questions, in particular the disk
> setup which use the whole disk for OpenBSD. This led to the whole hard
> drive being formatted.
>
> I had only a fresh debian installed so no harm here, but if you try to
> install OpenBSD on T450s I would highly recommend you to backup your disk.
>
> FYI I've used /OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/install57.fs on an USB key. I should
> have let the install finish and send a dmesg before reinstalling the
> debian back but I've thought about it too late. If someone need a dmesg
> or other infos I might try again with the hard drive unplugged this
> time, let me know.
>
> Maybe the installer should have a confirmation question before the disk
> partitionning / formatting with a default answer of "no" ?
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
