The web console copy/paste functionnality is a VMWare limitation.
I don't think it ever worked.
It think would require the console to emulate/simulate key presses
depending on what is pasted and somehow assuming what the VM keymap is.
I didn't try to install 6.5 on ESXI yet, but I definitely installed 6.4.
On a lot of ESXi versions from 5.5 to 6.7.
So you could try to install 6.4 to see if you have the same problems ?
Never experienced your problems, although I experienced some strange
behaviors with disklabeling (if I remember well sometimes it couldn't
install the bootloader or wouldn't boot after install).
They were resolved by :
- dropping to the shell at the start of the install
- fdisk -i <the disk>
- return to the install and proceed normally
Never tried to install a custom label on ESXi, but did it sucessfully
on virtualbox with 6.5 without any issue (not even needed to fdisk -i).
What ESXi version are you running ?
What disk controller are you showing to OpenBSD ?
AB
Le 2019-05-23 12:17, Roderick a écrit :
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
You must be doing something wrong. Since it installer surely leats you
use a custom label. But since you are not showgin waht you did and you
start insulting remarks, you won't get much help.
Excuse me, although my words was not flowers, they were no insult.
And there was no intention to insult, but it is realy nerving to deal
with this web console. I cannot even do "copy and paste" in it for
showing what I did. That is why I described it. It is sure a bug there.
As said: it is not my previous experience with OpenBSD.
There is sure a bug there:
(1) if you installed a label before, the installer does not offer
it to you.
(2) it changes the "custom label" you write in the process. Really
changes it. That can never be something else than a bug.
(3) "disklabel -E /dev/sd0" puts alway cpg=1. The installer in
the autoinstall puts numbers like 10277, 16384.
Rodrigo
