pe...@bsdly.net wrote:
> You probably read too much (or too little) into this part:
>
> 0 4.3BSD format file system. This option is
> primarily used to build root file systems that can
> be understood by older boot ROMs.
Yes. Although my dislike of fanciness for (especially) the root file
system plays just as a big a part.
Turns out things can get *too* unfancy =)
> Checking CVSweb, it looks like this part was in the newfs man page at
> initial import in 1995. So for the option to be useful, you would need
> to look for hardware and ROMs that were considered old in 1995 or even
> earlier. It's possible that modern OpenBSD still supports some hardware
> that actually matches the description, but others will know for sure.
Yeah. That's how I understood it.
> Anyway, your R40 is likely to be no older than 2003 or so, and to me at
> least it sounds like the most useful thing to do would be to simply
> reinstall with as little deviation from the defaults as possible.
That's asking a lot from a deviate ;)
Seriously though, I already re-did my work, w/ the root fs at level 1. I
take it as a lesson learned.
> I didn't get hold of a ThinkPad that I was allowed to install OpenBSD on
> until about 2006, but by then the install and use experience was
> straightforward.
I don't seem to be running into any ThinkPad-specific problems either.
Except of course some hardware problems attributable to old age, but I
can hardly blame OpenBSD for that <g>.
> - P
--schaafuit.
