On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:48:15AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:40:58PM +0100, frantisek holop said that
> > hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that
> > > Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have
> > > posted a
hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:40:58PM +0100, frantisek holop said that
> hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that
> > Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have
> > posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at
> > http://www.er
frantisek holop obiit.org> writes:
>
> i had a nother idea today, the eee comes with grub...
> the more knowledgable are already holding their heads :]
>
> because i dont have the boot sector and /boot, i thought
> grub could maybe load bsd.rd
>
> but all i got was the 'boot too old' message
>
On Feb 1, 2008 3:29 AM, Andre Naehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote:
>
> > If you do test with standard release, please let me know the results,
> > especially if it's on a standard PC - I'm out of systems to test with...
> :-(
>
> Here it comes, the follo
hmm, on Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:27:55AM +0100, ropers said that
> Hopefully this info helps you in your migration from Linux to OpenBSD. ;-P ;-)
thans for the research...
i am by no means a linux head,
and i find their (eee xandros) man pages ... painful to read.
so making kernels is way out of
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote:
If you do test with standard release, please let me know the results,
especially if it's on a standard PC - I'm out of systems to test with... :-(
Here it comes, the following dmesg is again from eee, installed an
original 4.2 from cd on the usb stick
On 31/01/2008, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> nevertheless, the previous post very well pointed out that i will
> need to work with ffs from linux, and i dont know anything about that,
> not even if it is supported.
Like most BSDs, OpenBSD uses the Berkeley Fast File System. By
def
On Jan 31, 2008 8:29 AM, Andre Naehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote:
>
> > Did you have to do boot> boot -a to get it to boot properly off of sd0a,
> > recompile kernel or something else?
> >
> > When I try, I never get it to see "root on sd0a swap on sd0
Hello,
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that
Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have
posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at
http://www.erlang.org/~raimo/OpenBSD/snapshot
hmm, on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen said that
> Since you probably will need the install sets as well, I have
> posted a compressed filesystem image of size 199864838 bytes at
> http://www.erlang.org/~raimo/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/hd.fs.gz
> It contains the same as install
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote:
Did you have to do boot> boot -a to get it to boot properly off of sd0a,
recompile kernel or something else?
When I try, I never get it to see "root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b"
by itself, at least without boot -a or a kernel recompile...
By cha
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:27:46PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell said that
> > "flashboot", see "http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/";. There are
> > binary
> > images available at "http://tilde.se/flashboot/";. "zcat GENERIC-RD.i
On Jan 31, 2008 5:02 AM, Andre Naehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> > On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote:
> >>
> >> "wireless driver reports an error and does not work" is short on
> >> detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs in
hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell said that
> "flashboot", see "http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/";. There are
> binary
> images available at "http://tilde.se/flashboot/";. "zcat GENERIC-RD.image |
> dd
> of=/dev/sd0" under Linux on the eee should give you a boot
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote:
"wireless driver reports an error and does not work" is short on
detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing
(eg the firmware for the iwi driver) to get it to work.
people with Eee PC
i had a nother idea today, the eee comes with grub...
the more knowledgable are already holding their heads :]
because i dont have the boot sector and /boot, i thought
grub could maybe load bsd.rd
but all i got was the 'boot too old' message
well known from the archives.
it was worth a shot...
hmm, on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:39:41PM -0500, Richard Daemon said that
> Does the system support PXE booting? I don't believe it matters (for PXE
> booting that is) if it's not supported by OpenBSD. If so, then maybe you
> could PXE boot and install OpenBSD onto the USB media that way?
as far as
Original-Nachricht
> Datum: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:50:30 +0100
> Von: Raimo Niskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: misc@openbsd.org
> Betreff: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote:
> > Hel
Hello Denis,
Original-Nachricht
> Datum: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:26:17 + (GMT)
> Von: Dennis Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: misc@openbsd.org
> Betreff: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
>
> >
: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom
> On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote:
> >
> > "wireless driver reports an error and does not work" is short on
> > detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing
> > (eg the firmware for the iwi dri
On Jan 30, 2008 9:29 AM, Stefan Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote:
>
> > hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> >> frantisek holop wrote:
> >>> hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said th
On Jan 30, 2008 9:35 AM, Stefan Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Richard Daemon wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>
> >>> But of course you have "boot -a" at the boot prompt for selecting the
> root
> >>> devi
On 2008/01/30 15:26, Dennis Davis wrote:
>
> "wireless driver reports an error and does not work" is short on
> detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing
> (eg the firmware for the iwi driver) to get it to work.
people with Eee PC need to test -current snapshots, the wd/wd
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> From: Raimo Niskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:50:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom
...
> > Anyway, OpenBSD will boot but ethernet does not work: The
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote:
>
> >hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> >>frantisek holop wrote:
> >>>hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
>
Hello,
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Richard Daemon wrote:
...
But of course you have "boot -a" at the boot prompt for selecting the root
device. And I want to try the same the next days :-)
Regards
Stefan Kell
That brings up anothe
Hello,
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
how do i boot bs
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:16:11PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> > frantisek holop wrote:
> > >hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> > >>(short version: just do a normal install to the flash
On Jan 30, 2008 7:16 AM, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> > frantisek holop wrote:
> > >hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> > >>(short version: just do a normal install to the fl
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> frantisek holop wrote:
> >hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> >>(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
> >
> >how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
>
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Richard Daemon wrote:
> ...
> >
> > But of course you have "boot -a" at the boot prompt for selecting the root
> > device. And I want to try the same the next days :-)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Stefan Kell
> >
>
> That brings up another question, hopefully t
...
>
> But of course you have "boot -a" at the boot prompt for selecting the root
> device. And I want to try the same the next days :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan Kell
>
That brings up another question, hopefully there's an answer... rather than
having to do boot -a (even from boot.conf) and be pres
Hi,
Original-Nachricht
> Datum: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:20 -0500
> Von: "Richard Daemon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: "Nick Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: misc@openbsd.org
> Betreff: Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom
&
On 2008/01/29 14:15, Richard Daemon wrote:
> > see recent thread, "Install OpenBSD from USB".
> > Don't believe all of of what people said. :)
> >
> > (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
> >
> > Nick.
> >
> Speaking of which, can a default install on USB Flash work and fully
> see recent thread, "Install OpenBSD from USB".
> Don't believe all of of what people said. :)
>
> (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
>
> Nick.
>
> Speaking of which, can a default install on USB Flash work and fully boot
a generic bsd kernel ok, or needs to boot bsd.rd or
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk.
only usb media. i need t
On Jan 29, 2008 10:05 AM, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> > (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
>
> how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
> chicken egg. i dont have an
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> (short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk.
only usb media. i need to create a bootable usb m
frantisek holop wrote:
hi there,
i was wondering if some of the boot sector/fdisk magicians
out there could lend me a hand in booting openbsd on the eee
without access to a cd-rom drive.
what i need is basically advice how to handcraft a boot sector
on an usb media with a snapshot for the boot
hi there,
i was wondering if some of the boot sector/fdisk magicians
out there could lend me a hand in booting openbsd on the eee
without access to a cd-rom drive.
what i need is basically advice how to handcraft a boot sector
on an usb media with a snapshot for the boot process
to pick it up usi
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