Re: OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-11-18 13:59, Bob Jones wrote: Re: never reactivate the console unless you do it over ssh Aah, well therein lies the twist, SSH never comes up, so I guess you're right, its waiting for tty. How do now I tell it to not use tty0 (and will doing so prevent me from using the console port for

Re: OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread Bob Jones
Re: never reactivate the console unless you do it over ssh Aah, well therein lies the twist, SSH never comes up, so I guess you're right, its waiting for tty. How do now I tell it to not use tty0 (and will doing so prevent me from using the console port for diagnostics at a future date ?) On 18

Re: OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-11-18 13:13, Bob Jones wrote: I successfully installed OpenBSD 6 on a system that only has USB console by broadly following the instructions here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292891/how-can-i-install-openbsd-using-the-serial-console-without-external-monitor-wi When the console

OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread Bob Jones
I successfully installed OpenBSD 6 on a system that only has USB console by broadly following the instructions here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292891/how-can-i-install-openbsd-using-the-serial-console-without-external-monitor-wi When the console cable session is connected, the system

Re: maybe move texinfo from base in the ports?

2016-11-18 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Andrey Bolkonsky wrote on Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:47:48PM +0300: > IMHO, texinfo isn't need in most cases, is GPL software and legacy > version In most cases, it isn't needed, but in some cases, it is still in use: schwarze@isnote $ ls /usr/share/info/ amdref.info cppinternals.info

Re: Gigabyte-range /dev, for whatever reason

2016-11-18 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On 11/18/16 11:53, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | so a device had indeed been replaced by a regular file. > > No, the /dev/sd0 device doesn't exist anywhere. If you want the full > device, use /dev/sd0c. Yes, as I said earlier, it took a stupid user abusing privileges (AKA a PEBKAC) to create the situ

Re: alternative method for "gtar --delete"

2016-11-18 Thread BSD
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:07:45 +1100 Aaron Mason wrote: > It's a bit long winded, but here's a possibility: > > # cd / > # tar zcpvf siteXX.tgz /share/* /siteX/* > > # tar ztf siteXX.tgz | grep '^/share' | xargs rm -f > > Though I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "on a per site basis" in > t

Re: hydrogen bomb explosion

2016-11-18 Thread Carson Chittom
Carson Chittom writes: > Today's calendar reminder includes: > >> Nov 18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 > > All the sources I could find online say that the first hydrogen bomb, > the Ivy Mike device, was actually detonated on Nov 1 local (Oct 31 > UTC). Wikipedia has a writeup https:

hydrogen bomb explosion

2016-11-18 Thread Carson Chittom
Today's calendar reminder includes: > Nov 18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 All the sources I could find online say that the first hydrogen bomb, the Ivy Mike device, was actually detonated on Nov 1 local (Oct 31 UTC). Wikipedia has a writeup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike Ad

Re: OpenBSD 6.0 amd64 Release --> pkg_add returns error when running as Virtualbox guest

2016-11-18 Thread Andre Ruppert
Hello again, Date: 17.11.16 time: 18:32 - Christer Solskogen wrote: > Try use bridge mode instead of NAT. I had the exact same problem on > Windows 10 as a host. > > -- > chs > ...that hit the point. Tested on Mac OS and Win10 as host - same solution. Thank You! My former tested bridged-setu

Re: OpenBSD 6.0 amd64 Release --> pkg_add returns error when running as Virtualbox guest

2016-11-18 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Thursday, November 17, 2016 18:11 CET, Andre Ruppert wrote: > Hello to the list, > > this morning I stumbled about a "pkg_add" problem when running OpenBSD > 6.0 amd64 Release on an actual Virtualbox release. Doesn't matter which > host platform (I tried Mac OS Sierra and Windows 10 and 7). >

Re: Saw-shaped load on idle computer

2016-11-18 Thread Philippe Meunier
Clint Pachl wrote: >But Philippe is noticing this behavior even in single user mode, right? In >single user, init and a shell should be all that is running in userland. Right. Even after cold-booting straight into single user mode I still see those weird-looking load peaks. >If in single user, I

Re: Gigabyte-range /dev, for whatever reason

2016-11-18 Thread Paul de Weerd
Hi Peter, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 09:09:17PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: | [Thu Nov 17 21:00:39] peter@skapet:~$ doas ls -lS /dev/ | head | total 2301984 | -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1178386432 Oct 27 2015 sd0 | -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel11584 Nov 17 07:36 MAKEDEV | dr-xr

Re: Install to MacBookPro mid 2007 fails

2016-11-18 Thread miraculli .
Yes, I boot from USB and want to use the whole disk. But I don“t even get to the installer or into a shell. The problem occurs during boot from install60.fs 2016-11-17 23:42 GMT+01:00 emtee : > Try this: > > Assuming you are installing from a USB drive and assuming further the > whole disk will b