upgrade from source

2005-06-02 Thread Mihai IACOB
opying it by hand? Thank you for your time. Mihai IACOB

moving to a bigger disk

2005-06-15 Thread Mihai IACOB
with tar/pax/cpio, switch the disks and pray it works. Do you think the above steps might work or did anyone do this before? Thank you for your time. Mihai IACOB

Re: moving to a bigger disk

2005-06-15 Thread Mihai IACOB
Sorry for not searching carefully the archives. I found a thread discussing this situation - the subject is ""Cloning" a hard drive..." from July 24 and 25, 2004. Thanks, Tony, I'll try it in a couple of hours.

Re: moving to a bigger disk

2005-06-16 Thread Mihai IACOB
Tony Lambiris wrote: > its quite simple... boot into single user mode, foreach partition you have, > mount the src under /src/X and /dst/X (where src is the old disk and dst is > the new disk) and do a: > cd /src/X; tar cf - . | (cd /dst/X; tar xpf - ) > > ive used this before, works great. > a

home directory in unusual location

2006-04-26 Thread Mihai IACOB
Hello! I created a couple of users with their home directory on a second disk drive, mounted under /usr/local. The strange thing is this message I get each time when I log using those accounts: # su - scfsd sh: Cannot determine current working directory $ pwd sh: pwd: can't get current directory -

Re: home directory in unusual location

2006-04-26 Thread Mihai IACOB
with the filesystem mounted: # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 Jun 22 2005 / # ls -ld /usr/ drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 May 26 2005 /usr/ # ls -ld /usr/local/ drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 Nov 28 16:41 /usr/local/ # ls -ld /usr/local/DEPOZIT/ drwxr-xr-x 10 fsd fsd 512 Apr 26 09

understanding the kernel

2006-10-29 Thread George Mihai IACOB
Hello! I am a not-so-experienced programmer and I started a personal project which requires a deep understanding of the OpenBSD kernel - no, I am not going to fork another BSD style operating system. I wonder if there is documentation describing the kernel, other that the comments in the sour

Re: understanding the kernel

2006-10-29 Thread George Mihai IACOB
Jonathan Gray wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:24:16PM -0700, George Mihai IACOB wrote: Hello! I am a not-so-experienced programmer and I started a personal project which requires a deep understanding of the OpenBSD kernel - no, I am not going to fork another BSD style operating system. I