Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:51:45PM +0000, Ryan McBride wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:25:52AM +0900, vladas wrote: >>>> On 10/24/06, Andreas Bihlmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Is this LiveCD/DVD reliable enough to send in dmesg's from it? >>> Exuse me, but I don't see a point in posting a dmesg for a livecd, which >>> by definition is portable. The dmesg depends on the machine I insert it >>> into. >> I /believe/ the poster is asking whether it can be used to plug into >> $RANDOM_MACHINE and mail a dmesg from that machine. Nice for scoping >> out potential OpenBSD systems in a shop provided you can get the sales >> droids to look away long enough for the reboot. > > Of course! > Actually that was my very first motivation to even build an OpenBSD livecd. > Wherever I encounter an 'interesting' machine (i386/amd64) I put the > livecd in to see how good this machine would be supported. > One thing I noted since my first livecd with 3.7: > much more machines just work PERFECT (at least by dmesg output), even > the weird P4s we have at school. > > The problem is that the boot sequence seems to scare some windows users: > "What are all those messages, you didn't you wrack my PC, did you?" ;) > > Regards, > ahb So true, I once used a floppy based linux (I'm sorry posting this on a OpenBSD mailing list) distribution in media lab at school with the lynx browser on it. The librarian kicked me out almost immediately because I was "hacking" the network... I was only using a text based browser because of the slow network..
Frank
