My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Leonardo Sabino dos Santos
Hi, I want to tell you about my experience with OpenBSD. I'm a Linux user, but have always wanted to try OpenBSD. The last time I'd tried installing it was version 4.6 and I didn't get very far. That version wouldn't install on my notebook at all. The kernel couldn't recognise my hard drive becau

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Leonardo Sabino dos Santos
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 13:26 +0100, Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: >> Next, the disk stuff comes up. A lot of partition information appears >> on the screen, followed by the question: >> >> Use (W)hole dis

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Leonardo Sabino dos Santos
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 of downloading an ISO or using PXE, but you failed > disk setup in the installer

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Leonardo Sabino dos Santos
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > To be fair (which is a bit difficult given the tone of the original > message) he has identified what may be the only place in the install > process where a single wrong keystroke can do major damage. Everyplace > else I can think of there's