On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 02:40:43PM -0800, Misc User wrote: > On 1/5/2019 2:22 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > > I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. > > They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I > > attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all > > whacked out and I had to start over with a fresh install. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Edgar > > > The default is alright, but comes with keys and passwords they generated, > plus they do a single-partition scheme on the smaller disk instances and the > auto partition on the others. Good for a general purpose machine, but not > so great if you have a specific task in mind. They also tend to install all > the sets. >
Sounds like a clean install is the way to go. > But since they let you upload an ISO and give you full console access, I > just do a fresh install and customize as much as I want for the system I am > building. Usually so I can get a good partitioning scheme set up (256m on > /, /home, /tmp, /usr/local, /var and swap; with a 1g /usr and swap) so I can > dedicate 15g (Or more) to a partition for whatever task the machine was > built for. > > -CA > > I've been using vultr since around 5.8 or there abouts with no issues. Just saw they had an image available and didn't want to waste time with it if it was going to give me trouble later. Then again a fresh install doesn't take that long, might test it out anyway. Thanks for all the replies. Edgar
