Re: Adding a prompt on the installer before overwriting the partition table

2021-06-28 Thread Renzo Fabriek
Just tried the installer to see what the deafult option was. It was the OpenBSD partition and can't remember what the deafult option is without a OpenBSD partition. If that defaults to Whole you would have a better point. (thinking of the keyboard buffer when impaciant) Otherwise pressing W(hole

Re: Adding a prompt on the installer before overwriting the partition table

2021-06-28 Thread Renzo Fabriek
Most PC's have a BIOS boot menu which make it easy to use multiple OSes on seperate disks. Disks are cheap. Not worth the trouble of bootmanagers. Van: owner-m...@openbsd.org namens Theo de Raadt Verzonden: maandag 28 juni 2021 16:53 Aan: Parodper CC: misc@op

Re: growfs on bsd.rd

2013-01-09 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Wednesday 09 January 2013 05:38:26 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2013-01-04 00:41, Aaron Mason wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera > > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm curious as to why growfs is not included in bsd.rd. Is there any > >> particular reason for th

Re: how to make power off button work like halt -p

2012-11-22 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Thursday 22 November 2012 16:13:26 眼镜蛇 wrote: > i need to install openbsd on a blind computer(without monitor).so i need to > press power off button to shutdown the computer.i know that use ssh is a > right way. but press power off is more effective way. > > > > > > in the version 5.2, i

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Saturday 08 September 2012 15:11:07 Ville Valkonen wrote: > On 7 September 2012 23:14, russell wrote: > > On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: > >> > >> On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell wrote: > >>> > >>> I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure > >>> out >

Re: power button halt vs reboot(8) and halt(8)

2012-07-14 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Saturday 14 July 2012 01:02:12 Norman Golisz wrote: > On Fri Jul 13 2012 23:58, frantisek holop wrote: > > hi there, > > > > how different is the code path between reboot(8), halt(8) > > and when i press the power button? > > > > the reason i ask is, that fairly often, reboot(8) and halt(8) >

Re: missing /etc/fstab

2012-07-08 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 08 July 2012 14:07:44 Илья Шипицин wrote: > Hello! > > I remember some early 5.1 snapshot which installed and successfully run > without /etc/fstab > however, 5.1-RELEASE came with /etc/fstab > > it would be nice to move system from one server to another without having > to bother about /

Re: making packages

2012-05-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
12 21:29:59 +0200 > > From: es...@nerim.net > > To: rfabr...@nerdshack.com > > CC: misc@openbsd.org > > Subject: Re: making packages > > > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:48:15PM +0200, Renzo Fabriek wrote: > > > As for pkg_create. The manual explains that very well,

Re: making packages

2012-05-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
ck.com > > CC: misc@openbsd.org > > Subject: Re: making packages > > > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:24:43PM +0200, Renzo Fabriek wrote: > > > On Friday 11 May 2012 15:15:23 Dimitry T wrote: > > > > I want to create packages from compiled port, copy

Re: making packages

2012-05-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Friday 11 May 2012 15:15:23 Dimitry T wrote: > I want to create packages from compiled port, copy to usb and install on > another computer. After trying with "make package" in xfce4-session port tree > i got only one package. How to include all dependencies and all needed to > install the applic

Re: Why does the ports system delete distfiles?

2012-05-06 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 06 May 2012 18:24:21 Alan Corey wrote: > I just saw another good reason to hit ctrl-C. I'm on a modem, and I just > hit boost_1_42_0.tar.gz in an install. That's 40 megs, more than I can > download in a day. I need to use a different process, like put the url in > a text file and fe

Re: Does your USB keyboard Dot key on keypad fail? Was "Re: Shuttle XS35 v2 - One key going loco"

2012-04-03 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 14:02:20 Opera wrote: > On 3/04/2012 15:54, patrick keshishian wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Opera wrote: > >> > Hlo, > >> > The reason for putting this on top is that I have data that are showing > > that > >> > I can not blame the Shuttle. > >> > > >> >

Re: Does your USB keyboard Dot key on keypad fail? Was "Re: Shuttle XS35 v2 - One key going loco"

2012-04-03 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 05:35:24 Opera wrote: > Hlo, > The reason for putting this on top is that I have data that are > showing that I can not blame the Shuttle. > > Here is the brief infos- > > When using a USB keyboard [native USB or with an adaptor for ps2] > the keypad Del key works perfe

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 11 March 2012 07:57:35 Nomen Nescio wrote: > You wrote: > > > On Friday 09 March 2012 13:10:13 Nomen Nescio wrote: > > > > Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? > > > > > > You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy > > > Windows and to

Re: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions - WTF?

2012-03-09 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Friday 09 March 2012 19:19:33 Nick Holland wrote: > oh good, people DID notice this. I was starting to wonder. > > Note: any return to the old, boring "FAQ" title for 5.1 is purely due to > lack of creativity on my part, not dullards like this guy. Though, I do > admit his posting is prompt

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Friday 09 March 2012 13:10:13 Nomen Nescio wrote: > > Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? > > You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy > Windows and too stupid to figure out how to find a free copy of XP or Win 7 > on the net and do the act

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Wednesday 07 March 2012 15:27:51 Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Russell Garrison > wrote: > > I am absolutely intrigued by this story despite my better judgement. > > You were able to cook your own full OpenBSD installer on a USB stick > > with GRUB instead

Re: Trusting the Installation

2012-03-04 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:12:19 Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: > > the reason is "you can download source code, look at it, make sure for > > yourself there's no backdoors, build your own ISO from source code" > > You can but nobody does. If the entire OpenBSD team can't finish a complete >

Re: What's the location trash after "move to trash"

2012-02-03 Thread Renzo Fabriek
Try ".Trash-1000" (1000 is user-id) gr Renzo On Thursday 02 February 2012 06:05:47 lbvvbooo lbvvbooo wrote: > I checked folder ~/.local/share/Trash/files/, and test it again, still can't > find the deleted files. The trash icon does NOT show them either. > > Anybody help? > > Thanks. > > >

Re: openbsd boot after installation failed: i am desperate.

2005-06-30 Thread Renzo Fabriek
726 28 46 [ 107864064:48385936 ] OpenBSD 2: 000 0 0 -0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 000 0 0 -0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused Notice the asterix (*) . This marks the actvie partition that the bios will boot. Do you se