On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 05:43:36PM -0600, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > 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.
Use their default OpenBSD install. They have a special config on the host for OpenBSD and the clock drifting problem. Then download bsd.rd from an official OpenBSD mirror, check the file with signify, copy the file to /, reboot the system, run "boot bsd.rd" in the boot prompt and reinstall everything cleaning the whole disk. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
