How Do I Get The OpenBSD Install Procedure To Stop Trashing My Bootloader?

2023-07-13 Thread Jay F. Shachter
in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice

Re: A Couple Of Questions

2023-07-14 Thread Jay F. Shachter
ules that support ZFS, I would be a happy man. (There has also been zfs-fuse for decades, but you do not want to get me started on that, either.) > > All the best, > Katie > Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1

OpenBSD Successfully Installed On A Logical Slice, But The Bootloader Does Not Load It; Wireless Device

2023-07-23 Thread Jay F. Shachter
gure this device is due to my not having yet invoked the fw_update command. I am puzzled, though: I thought that fw_update is now invoked automatically within the install procedure. As always, thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whippl

Re: Temporary failure when sending emails to this mailing list

2023-07-24 Thread Jay F. Shachter
over, although we do use greylisting on incoming mail to our nameserver, our 451 messages are polite and do not insult people, which makes us better citizens of the e-mail community than the system administrator of mail.openbsd.org. Jay F. Shachter 6

Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-07 Thread Jay F. Shachter
Linux logical volumes? As always, thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline

Recognition Of My Wireless Network Device

2023-08-07 Thread Jay F. Shachter
is question. If you do direct me to the fabulous manual, please be so kind as to tell me where the fabulous manual answers the question. As always, thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street

Is Pip Available On OpenBSD?

2023-12-02 Thread Jay F. Shachter
4.208.0, whereas I need at least version 6.292.0) without building it from source? I haven't upgraded to OpenBSD 7.4 yet and am still running 7.3, if that makes a difference. Thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chica

Re: Is Pip Available On OpenBSD? -- Sunday Afternoon Followup

2023-12-03 Thread Jay F. Shachter
advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)99

Re: [PossibleSpam] UTF-8 chars

2023-12-15 Thread Jay F. Shachter
ersion of xterm that supported UTF-8. That was a long time ago; on my system, xterm now also supports UTF-8. Maybe on your system you have to install uxterm. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111

Re: Files on external drive randomly deleted ? Yet still show up on df

2024-11-04 Thread Jay F. Shachter
fs filesystem, of a type that you do not reveal, it is always possible that there is some bug in the filesystem implementation.) > -- > Sylvain Saboua > www.saboua.xyz > Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 +1 773 76

Re: Need some information about fork(2) -- Pedantic Correction

2024-09-22 Thread Jay F. Shachter
opyright, even though FreeBSD and NetBSD have no fear of it. But I digress. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 +1 773 7613784 landline +1 410 9964737 GoogleVoice http://m5.chicago.il.us

Re: /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname -- Who Is Right

2025-04-04 Thread Jay F. Shachter
me should be taken from the contents of /etc/nodename. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 +1 773 7613784 landline +1 410 9964737 GoogleVoice http://m5.chicago.il.us j...@m5.chicago.il.us

War Games, And The misc@openbsd.org Mailing List

2025-05-25 Thread Jay F. Shachter
joy, and although I think that telling people like the OP how utterly witless they are is a waste of time, it is arguably not a waste of time if you enjoy doing it. But can you please do it in private e-mails to the OP, and not on the mailing list? A lot of people, I think, would apprecia

Plan 9?

2025-06-15 Thread Jay F. Shachter
, I really do -- but I can't even install it on modern hardware, and if I could, I couldn't do anything useful on it. And you may disdain the comparison of a toy operating system to a serious operating system, but Plan 9, or even 9front, must at this point be also considered a toy ope

Plan 9?

2025-06-16 Thread Jay F. Shachter
u, usually the enemy just wants someone, and you can be fully protected just by being slighly harder to catch than all your neighbors. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111