Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 2024-04-25 17:51:59, Claudio Jeker wrote: Without providing at least a dmesg of that system there is no way we can help you. It is not even clear what kind of system or arch it is? See my post from 2024-04-20. Regards Harri

USB keyboard quirks may not be properly catered to in bsd.rd kernels (was: Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time)

2024-04-25 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 06:52:38AM +0200, Lourens wrote: > I too experienced this issue during installation. > I simply plugged in an old Logitech keyboard to complete the installation > and after rebooting the previously 'problematic' keyboard was detected and > fully usable. Summing up, this sou

Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Lourens
On 25/04/2024 17:46, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, I posted this before, without any response from the community: At the boot> prompt of the installer image my USB keyboard still works, but at the install prompt the keyboard is ignored. I cannot press "i" to actually install OpenBSD. Fortunat

Re: Fwd: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Страхиња Радић
Дана 24/04/26 11:44AM, Alexis написа: > One thing not mentioned there is top-posting, which is common outside tech > communities, but often frowned upon within tech communities. 'Top-posting' > involves adding one's reply _before_ the message one is replying to, rather > than _after_. Some links o

Re: Fwd: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Alexis
Katherine Mcmillan writes: Hi Harald, I am compiling a qualitative list of experiences of those who have requested help from various user groups who/which have been rejected or ignored, to try to find similarities between the approaches used by the poster; a grounded theory methodology.

Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Chris Petrik
Hello, Please don't bash the OS based on unsupported HW or not I knowing what HW is or not supported before I stalling it that's the users fault. Blame the companies that fail to provide documentation to make oss drivers etc.. as you use any BSD you will learned that looking through the current

Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 05:46:04PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > I posted this before, without any response from the community: > > At the boot> prompt of the installer image my USB keyboard still works, > but at the install prompt the keyboard is ignored. I cannot press "i" > to actually insta

Re: Fwd: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Mihai Popescu
it be okay if I included yours? Thank you for considering, Katie From: owner-m...@openbsd.org on behalf of Harald D= unkel Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2024 11:46:04 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time Attention

Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Bodie
On 25.4.2024 17:46, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, I posted this before, without any response from the community: And where did you post it exactly as there is nothing from you this year in archives except of this new message on misc@ ;-) At the boot> prompt of the installer image my USB

Fwd: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Katherine Mcmillan
From: Katherine Mcmillan Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2024 12:30:03 PM To: Harald Dunkel Subject: Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time Hi Harald, I am compiling a qualitative list of experiences of those who have requested help from various user

Re: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 05:46:04PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > I posted this before, without any response from the community: > > At the boot> prompt of the installer image my USB keyboard still works, > but at the install prompt the keyboard is ignored. I cannot press "i" > to ac

bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I posted this before, without any response from the community: At the boot> prompt of the installer image my USB keyboard still works, but at the install prompt the keyboard is ignored. I cannot press "i" to actually install OpenBSD. Fortunately I am with BSD since Ultrix and SunOS 4.