Last night I upgraded from 3.9 to 4.0 using the sweet official OpenBSD 4.0 media -- after carrying it around with me for days and showing it off to all my co-workers and friends. I love the docs/comic insert that is basically a transcript of an install. So sweet!
With stickers firmly attached to case and monitor, I tried to boot off of disc 2 in the set. It would not read the disc. It read some other discs I had burnt. I tried two different CD readers [1] and both said the media was not present. They read other discs I had around, like the ubuntu install. They also read the copy of disc2 I made with my linux laptop. So, the disc was not bad, just my 3.9 box choked, and 4.0 also says "no medium found". After I booted from the copied disc2, the upgrade went quick and painless. The only annoyance for me was that for some reason it turned off postfix and I had to call postfix-enable script again. Thanx for all the hard work. Been running obsd for my house workstation/server for the last few months, after nearly decade of Debian GNU/Linux. I wouldn't call these complaints, but issues I have run into and not had sufficient time to debug are: 1. audio playback is wonky at times, locking up the puter or getting distorted. Don't know if it's audio driver or hardware issue, or disk issue since I'm reading the audio from drive. 2. CD/DVD support is touchy, as above. It also won't recognize some DVDs my pal burnt for me. Don't know if they were multi-session or not. I haven't tested any other dvds yet -- just got the dvd drive. I got that after it had timing problems with my way old cd drive. The docs helped alot. 3. Can't load a small font to run in 80x50 mode with my nice video card. I was stoked that I could easily poke around the driver and tell exactly what was going on. It lists the fonts as loaded, but no go, get the half-font effect. The things I totally dig about it: 1. rc.local instead of a nest of init scripts. 2. Peace of mind, knowing the box does only what I need and not more. 3. Superb man pages, comprehensive in a way I have never ever experienced on other nixes? 4. Ports is kewl, and I was able to build my own packages (updated aewm) with ease. 5. Simplicity. I installed it for this reason -- I wanted to get back to basic unix simplicity and building tiny tools that work together. It has already helped my approach my work as a lisp and java hacker in a new way. 6. The "Principled Idealism" of the obsd project is a nice foil for the disease of "pragmatism" aka rationalization. [1]: cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TSSTcorp, CD/DVDW SH-S182D, SB01> SCSI0 cd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <RICOH, CD-R/RW MP7040A, 1.1k> SCSI0 -- Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig Less matter, more form! - Bruno Schulz ignazz, I am truly korrupted by yore sinful tzourceware. -jb
