We have one of the above (X12STH-SYS motherboard) that's refusing
to PXE boot. It's connecting to DHCP and downloading the pxeboot
file (according to tftpd), and the bios appears to be printing a
message saying the boot image was successfully loaded, but it only
stays on the screen for about 200ms
Hello all,
I know we’ve all searched and I’ve searched a lot but can’t find
something reliably said much other than old Thinkpads and which hardware to
avoid, or folks suggesting laptops that may work.
Can I get a modern recommendation for newer laptop? Looking to replace
my da
Does the machine have the correct “filename” set in your DHCP server? I
sometimes forget to change it from the BIOS file to the EFI one and get
about your result.
Best regards
Robert
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:20:46 -0700
"Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" wrote:
> We have one of the above (X12STH
Just ordered this from eBay after looking at jcs’ list again:
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen i7-8565U 16GB RAM 512GB SSD 14" FHD Touch
2019
Woot, back to OpenBSD as a daily driver again and looking forward to helping
with ports and stuff.
I’m sure I violated some mailing list formatting ru
I would instead recommend a new package with the critical newbie
information included in text form.
FAQ, anoncvs and ftp addresses, etc.
The first afterboot man page could suggest something like
pkg_add newuser_docs.
If you need or want it, just install it.
Sure, I install Lynx to look at the pa
Chris Bennett writes:
> I would instead recommend a new package with the critical newbie
> information included in text form.
> FAQ, anoncvs and ftp addresses, etc.
Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an
assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a
g
"Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" wrote:
> Regardless, if someone does write a new "intro to sysadmin" document,
I really like to say to fresh new admins that if they want to learn everything
about system administration, find an OpenBSD system and type "help" in any
shell,
then start reading fr
(Sending this to misc@ because I'm not sure it falls within the
purview of arm@, but I can repost to there if that would be more
appropriate.)
I've been tracking snapshots on a RaspPi 3+ and it looks like a recent
snapshot may have introduced some issues with the USB bus.
I don't have a lot of de
For what it's worth, I keep a downloadable copy of the FAQ :
=> https://si3t.ch/pub/openbsd-faq/
=> https://si3t.ch/pub/openbsd-faq.tgz
html is dumped to txt to read with any pager.
One can keep it on a disk if necessary.
Regards.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 03:43:30PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
wrote:
>
> Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an
> assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a
> general-purpose system administrators manual.
>
> I guess people didn't wa
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