Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

anted, upgradeXX.html is focused on "version jumpers", such as 4.9-release to 5.0-release, but I think most of your questions for incremental upgrades are covered if you UNDERSTAND what is there, too. Nick.

Re: obsd.cec.mtu.edu rsync 'ftp' target doesn't have 5.0

On 12/05/2011 01:38 PM, jared r r spiegel wrote: openbsd.mirror.frontiernet.net rsyncs from obsd.cec.mtu.edu and thus the former doesn't have 5.0 either. whoops. Sorry 'bout that. set up "fivezero", forgot "ftp" Should be working now... Nick.

Re: Odd Network Lockups

is running Transmission BitTorrent client behind the firewall, maybe that could be the culprit? -Nick On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Erling Westenvik wrote: > You should try upgrading BIOS. As far as I can tell, it would be version > 2.4 as of 8/7/2007. > > http://www.

Re: Odd Network Lockups

ate since): OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #133: Tue Nov 15 22:08:20 MST 2011 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP ...I now have these warnings (and the network lockups): WARNING: mclpools limit reached; increase kern.maxclusters -Nick On Tue, Dec 6, 2011

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

without 64. No idea what you are saying there. It works, it will almost certainly keep working. > > BTW: the ethernet on the motherboard (Asus K8U-X) does not work. yeah, looks like a stinker... > "Acer Labs M5263 LAN" rev 0x40... Nick.

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

On 12/12/11 12:38, sc...@web.de wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > >> No idea what you are saying there. It works, it will almost certainly >> keep working. > > What does mean: > > cpu0: [...] LONG, 3DNOW, ...? > > Is this "LONG" perhaps the expecte

Re: New snapshot install throws ERR M on boot continued

How that's happening...not sure. But, we know the MBR is good, the PBR is good, but what the PBR is pointing at is not. Next step would be to try 5.0-rel to make sure it is not a recent regression. The good thing about how OpenBSD handles flash disks is if something is broke for flash disks, it is typically going to break everywhere (I hope). Nick.

Re: New snapshot install throws ERR M on boot continued

g to boot > off of a flash drive. I did a 5.0 rel install to wd0 and no problems > booting from the hard drive. > > Jeff Silly me...forgot how many screwed up (when it comes to booting from USB) BIOSs I've seen... First time I've seen that exact result, but sadly, not surprising. Nick.

Re: roundcubemail on openbsd 5.0

d a mail, it sends with > @localhost > I know i can modify manually this. But the goal is to have this > automatically > for new users. > > Wesley > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:38:18 +, nick wrote: > >> Wesley, I think once you've logged in with a user, you

Re: upgrade OpenBSD

(and the console would be just in case I got cocky and screwed up :). But then, I understand the process pretty well (we hope!). I understand it well enough that I suggest YOU take the advice. Nick.

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

th the platform name_s_ in his posting, so I suspect it is safe to assume he's doing that elsewhere. Nick.

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

On 12/20/2011 07:49 AM, Richard Thornton wrote: I used the advice from the blog called gab software. Perhaps he was wrong. I am willing to reinstall. I have no personal data to lose on this old box. What was deficient on the official documentation? Nick.

Re: Odd Network Lockups

I'll give it a shot. On Dec 19, 2011 4:27 AM, "Stuart Henderson" wrote: > I just noticed the vether/tun/bridge in your systat output. > To try and narrow things down, are you able to disable these > to see if there's any improvement? > > > On 2011-12-08, Nic

Re: CF Card setup

u have now. (there are cases where you might actually have to alter what is in that file between card types, but I'm going to guess that won't be your problem) Nick.

Re: ftpd change?

e maximum number of chars when the globbing is expanded? Either your 4.9 (why 4.9??) machine has more (or longer file names), or a small difference in some buffer is pushing you over some edge between 3.6 and 4.9? Nick.

Re: create a backup of an online server

p device, so you always know where all your backups are...rather than tapes, where a five year old tape that fell behind a desk could come back to haunt you later. And, it's all useless unless you know you can restore it, so practice... odds are, you will learn something.

Re: create a backup of an online server

est option... Nick.

Re: Odd Network Lockups

0 256 3382 229 2k 33471699 lo0 em02k11 4 25611 em12k12 4 25612 em22k 8 4 256 8 enc0 pflog0 -Nick On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Stuart Henderson

OpenBSD mirror obsd.cec.mtu.edu shutting down

iversity for the use of their bandwidth, power and air conditioning for the last four years! (and with a little luck and a lot of begging, I *may* have a worthy successor in the not too distant future). Nick.

Re: HTTPS and the opinion of the Great OpenBSD team

mpt to fix up the broken SSL system...poking at the very minor edges of a very massive problem. "yawn". Of course, user education, developer training, management responsibility, etc. isn't cool and doesn't get media attention, advanced degrees, etc. I would SO love to get to a point where the flaws in the certificate system were really important to security. What a beautiful day that would be. Nick.

Re: locate weirdness

On 01/11/12 14:24, Barry Grumbine wrote: >> Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 >> > > ...knew I forgot something. > > There aren't many North American mirrors that go back to 4.2. I was > fortunate to find "obsd.cec.mtu.edu" which Nick Ho

Re: CARP health check ?

" on one box, "SLAVE" on the other, plus other overall health issues. Nick. On 01/12/12 13:48, iLXQ {IPICIN wrote: > well, it's usually not possible. > we use OpenBSD, because it supports "carpdev" option (FreeBSD does not > support it) > > most of our

Re: disk management

d you read through sections 4 and 14 of the FAQ, and UNDERSTAND, not blindly follow other people's steps. Then practice on a local computer. Nick.

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

Complete lack of specifics. I'm ignoring. Nick. On 01/13/2012 01:49 PM, Richard Thornton wrote: I a clean 5.0 install on my sun blade today; I setup the ports folder as the documentation says to do, and I setup my PKG_PATH variable using a Chicago mirror; trying to add via the co

Re: mailserv project

!), and that's unlikely to change in the future. Worse, WHEN it blows up on you, you won't be able to fix it (mail servers do this. They tend to quickly show the difference between real administrators and button-pushers). Why do you use OpenBSD? Perhaps because it gives you better than "Well, it seems to work, ship it!" construction. So..why do you settle for that with your finished project? Nick.

Re: mailserv project

done tool, the OP would not be stuck at an obsolete version of OpenBSD (and all associated applications). I fail to see how your statement is related to this thread. There's a well known essay by Eric Raymond ... personally, I find their works speaks more accurately than their words. Nick.

Re: OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC) #65: Thu Nov 3 00:58:36 MDT 2011

On 01/20/12 13:43, Richard Thornton wrote: > Eureka! You were right, I was using the *wrong* 5.0 release.. You keep using words...that do not mean what you think they mean. PLEASE read and understand FAQ5.1. Its really, really important. Nick.

Re: Softraid

one disk, then from that disk to the other disk inside your system. OpenBSD is among the easiest OSs to move its disks from one machine to another around -- much easier than Windows or Linux, assuming the new hardware is supported by the version of OpenBSD on your disks (yet another reason to keep up to date). Nick.

Re: softraid setup

On 01/27/2012 07:02 AM, Ganguin Michel wrote: Hi, I have setup with software raid1: 1. Partitioning 2 disks with a "a" / partition, a "b" swap partition and a "d" partition for the rest of the disk 2. Creating the softraid raid1 device for both "d" partition with bioctl 3. Partit

Re: Long delay updating xenocara source tree?

blem with your mirror of choice, not a problem on your end, and it may be a problem with multiple mirrors. I just checked out xenocara from that mirror, and then did an update on my amd64 system, the update took less than one minute. Your results will vary, but not to nine hours, unless you are using dialup. :) Nick.

Re: The use of DUID

simple device names. Keep your brain engaged, one solution does not fit all. There are also places where you may wish to mix DUIDs with conventional device names (for example, the root partition of a softraid mirror). Nick.

Re: Odd Network Lockups

#x27;m away from the machine, that's obviously not a real solution. -Nick OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #189: Thu Jan 26 16:06:17 MST 2012 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP RTC BIOS diagnostic error 11 real mem = 4216655872 (4021MB) avail mem = 4090253312

Re: Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

On 02/07/2012 04:11 AM, Alan Cheng wrote: thanks Janne for the explanation. I thought a fdisk partition on i386 is *required* after reading FAQ14/man pages and I was a bit surprised to be able to create a disklabel partition without doing "fdisk -i". so I wrote to the list for help on what I mis

Re: Long delay updating xenocara source tree?

harm, but there are a FEW times when it would be appropriate to do so, so a FAQ entry will be coming on this. As trouble resolving thing...great. I've thought about CHANGING all my Root files (as I'm going to have to change my mirror soon...and I'm hoping, soon again after that), simply deleting them and having them recreate is quite nifty, wish I had thought of that. :) Nick.

Re: Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

On 02/15/12 03:23, David Vasek wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote: > >> Just put the fdisk partition in place on every disk you want to use on an >> i386/amd64 and all other fdisk platforms. There are no good reasons not to, >> there are a lot of good re

Hidden Long Filenames and mount_cd9660

iet data on the discs (grrr), which Nero did on the other one. But nevertheless the long file names *are* there because linux reads them. Is there any way to make OpenBSD find the long names anyway? Thanks to all you lovely misc@ers, -Nick

Re: Hidden Long Filenames and mount_cd9660

ave to because Remco has stumbled into the proper solution. On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:41:44 +0100, Remco wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: Here's what cd-info(1) (for the archives: this is from package libcdio) has to say about a DVD that OpenBSD shows LFNs for: ~$ cd-info --dvd [snip] Disc

Re: WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! [not installation]

have other problems with the machine you are using -- normally the clock time error is not fatal...just a "hey, your RTclock is hosed and as time is pretty important to a unix machine, you might want to know this" type warning and move on. Nick.

Re: WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! [not installation]

64M to bring up X and a bunch of xterms, but if you want anything that people think of as graphical...256M and more is where you need to start. Nick.

Re: WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! [not installation]

e machine somewhere between frustrating and useless. In short: YOU need to answer your question. Nick.

Re: smartphones and managing openbsd servers

I use ConnectBot to SSH into servers on my Google/Samsung Nexus S 4G running CyanogenMod with the Hacker's Keyboard. It works great in a pinch, but I wouldn't want to spend all day using it to admin a server. -Nick On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Marcos Ariel Laufer wrote: > Hello

Re: 5.0 Stable (amd64) build appears broken.

ild without the tree being first primed with the 5.0-Release code. Dhu BULLSHIT. Complete and total bullshit. Nick.

Re: Trusting the Installation

buy a CD. Really. The "chains of rust" you were putting your trust in has flaws. Nick.

Re: Odd Network Lockups

This is no longer an issue for me. Not because I was able to track down the issue and fix it, but because this machine has been repurposed and the replacement machine (very different hardware) doesn't exhibit the symptoms. Thanks to those that tried to help! -Nick On Feb 1, 2012 6:20 PM,

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

than it was 12 years ago, and even then, OpenBSD was one of the fastest OSs I've ever come up to speed on. But..you have to put some effort into it...and the rewards, well, are despising most of the alternatives. :) (oh the irony. I just deleted files on the wrong machine here. oops. Good thing I had backups. Wasn't OpenBSD, but the error (right command, wrong window) is quite platform independent. :) Nick.

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

to the "whole disk" installation default. Fortunately, I'm not too close to doing that. HOWEVER, if this bullshit thread and nonsense suggestions go much further, I'd not be surprised to see a note in my inbox saying "remove it. now". And I will. Nick.

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

On 03/07/12 18:32, Marc Espie wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:10:12AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >> yes, scrollback is something that was sacrificed on the installer to >> keep it able to fit on a floppy (contrary to another contribution to >> this thread). Unfor

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

, which is also a desirable trait, as that means more devices can be added to (or more accurately, fewer removed from) the install kernels) Nick.

Re: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions - WTF?

Hey, if having an OS which takes the quality of its product -- and not much else! -- seriously is important to you, this would be a good time to make a donation to the project. Make Theo smile! Nick.

Re: install questions

ogies if this email is not sent as plain-text, Thunderbird > doesn't always do what I expect. came through fine. Familiar with that problem, though... :-/ Nick.

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

se DontZap or use xdm to start X, rather than logging in, starting X and leaving a console running. Note that if you are leaving a console logged in then starting X, a CTRL-ALT-F1 (through F4) may take you somewhere you aren't expecting to be able to get, DontZap or no DontZap. Nick.

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

y be of use for new OpenBSD users...but are they really using OpenBSD? While a USB flash drive may seem a good starting point for new users, due to performance, I'd much rather suggest a junk PC one could dedicate to the (I actually started out thinking I was going to be singing the praise of Giri

Re: Hi-Five OpenBSD World - New installation - Power management questions

gt; > Mike > > P.S. Anybody know why there is an RTC BIOS error 80 for the clock > battery (See below)? Brand New board, this one. yeah, a lot of machines are doing that now. Don't sweat it. > P.P.S. The i386 32-bit version 5.0 works on this MB too - but I haven't > attached the DMESG for that... > > ** > MY DMESG > ** snipped for message size, but thanks. :) Nick.

Re: Considering laptops: Thinkpad T410, T420 others?

I have a ThinkPad T410 and it works great. It does still have the console/X issues you refer to as of the April 23rd amd64 snapshot though. -Nick On Apr 27, 2012 11:34 AM, "Ian Dotson" wrote: > I'm looking for a laptop that will run -current without too much > fiddling. Cu

Re: Can't install rrdtool on OpenBSD 5.0

son not to, and I suspect you aren't running rrdtool on a resource-starved system. Nick.

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why Read the rest of this page, as long as you are here. Nick.

Re: Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.1 is now available

his is The Way Things Should Be Done, then shoot themselves in the foot because they have no idea what they are doing or how to support the thing they have made. And then they run to the OpenBSD lists looking for support, confusing "based on OpenBSD" with "is OpenBSD". Nick. &g

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

nters / suggestions are also appreciated Have you tested the .iso in QEMU? Have you tried it on different hardware? Maybe it's because it's a DVD (DVDs might need more drivers than the boot loader has? Maybe try cdboot instead of cdbr? -Nick

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:06 -0500, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

t. But don't trust it. > Does the CD boot loader have trouble with DVDs? It might. Who knows? CDs are a much more standard technology. Try it first with CDs and make sure that works. Always work from a known good, right? You could always netboot (PXE) these computers, you know. -Nick

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

Dom0 (which when I last looked into this > still could not be OpenBSD) and you can install OpenBSD as a DomU. > So that means that OpenBSD has code in it right now that detects if it's running under Xen and paravirtualizes itself? -Nick

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

started looking through the kqemu code but got totally lost. There's a NetBSD kqemu, so it's certainly possible.. but someone just has to do it... and unfortunately I'm no help. -Nick

Re: Problem with disk size

n you don't follow the rules, ugly things happen. It isn't the size of the disk, it's the way it's laid out that is giving you problems. See faq14.html... Nick.

Re: new dell install completed, but...

aq5.html#BootConfig (see the next two sections as well, which are also appropriate for you) I don't recall if I ever installed OpenBSD on a 745. Certainly did a fair amount with a 620 (which worked fine). Nick.

Re: Problem with raid 1 in server dell

n sd0a is messed up (it happens when you have lockups like you say you did) but why do you say it is not compatible? Nick. > > dmesg > > OpenBSD 4.1-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Wed Oct 10 10:43:00 MDT 2007 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > cpu0

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

was willing to pay for. This class seems to have understood, it doesn't matter what you say, it's what you buy. Talk all you want, when you BUY or USE the product, you have said "This is what I want, and I want it more than I want the money (goal, standard, ideal, whatever)" in the only terms that matter. It is a great honor to work with a group like OpenBSD that will not compromise its ideals for the sake of "convenience" or "expediency". It's a very rare thing to find... If you don't swim to win, you'll never lose. :) Nick.

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

use the same boot process. Still needs to be identified and fixed for 4.3, but it wouldn't be a code problem. Nick.

Re: Debugging a CD/DVD driver?

ey caused a lot of little issues in all the OSs I tried them on when I first came across them. I'm not surprised 4.0 had issues. Find out of 4.2 or -current solves them. Nick.

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

; > Yeah, right. I don't understand. Is newbies learning new things a waste to you? Do you think they won't really learn anything unless the patch is approved? Or will the patches not be subject to peer review? Or are you worried at who would pass for peer review getting overwhelmed by a huge volume of poor quality patches? -Nick

Re: OpenBSD Sound

st=jurp5-desktop:16001" name "esd" } Yes, you need to have each program direct it's output to the mixer, there's no way (as far as I know) to sneakily make /dev/audio be a software mixer. I don't know if the reason there's no /dev/audio_mix is technical, or if it's just that no one's done the work, or if it's just a tradition now. -Nick

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

On 10/31/07, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-31 08:40]: > > On 10/31/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Obviously patches will be subject to peer review. Even if a patch isn'

Re: OpenBSD Sound

ions > a-la ARTS/ESD. Oh awesome! Is /Open/BSD one of those? -Nick

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

On 10/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31.10-08:40, Theo de Raadt wrote: > [ ... ] > > > Yeah, right. > [ ... ] > > and i would suggest that the severe and prevelant attitude toward the > possibilty of poor patches or under-educated actions is the most > significant ba

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

ed on the front page, isn't emphasized at all. But I'm not complaining. This sort of thing is one of those barriers that keeps out the riffraff who would drag the project down, or something (whoo partyline). -Nick

Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time

s to give me lots of machines to test the upgradeXX.html process, but it often works fine between releases to just ignore the /etc file changes. This was not a recommendation, just a "what I do that is wrong, but I get away with it" :) Nick.

Re: deploy openssl patch

o do this, because openssl > is not a package, but part of the base system. > > Is there any way other than tar - scp - untar after compiling libssl? yes, just make a release, and install that. Or, install the compilation tools where you need them and be done with it. Nick.

Re: When will OpenBSD support UTF8?

On 11/1/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang. > > Is there any priority for having OpenBSD support UTF8? > > // peter utf-8 isn't an OS-level thing. You need to do it in every app. Googling, the first result brings up http://osdir.com/ml/os.openbsd.ports/2004-02/msg00376.html as a

Re: Wireless problems.

7;t like to let packets through until I poke it a bunch for some reason. -Nick

Re: When will OpenBSD support UTF8?

On 11/2/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > On 11/1/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi

Re: What is the "nice" process state?

On Nov 3, 2007 12:20 PM, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:21:13PM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: > > > > Go away, troll. > > > Wrong answer. Cf. Patricia Evans - Controlling People. The definition of troll > includes "with the intention of baiting users into an

Re: OBSD on MacBook

figured it all out yet, I've been too busy. If you get it working for the macbook, post about it. -Nick

Re: Problem with xl interfaces

PS: on 2006-01-06 I reported a keyboard problem with OpenBSD 3.8, the > problem is still present with 4.2: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113658848307726&w=2 Dang, I think I remember that. Had me scratching back then, too. Not doing any better now... This might be a stinker

Re: Help: panic before 4.2 kernel loads?

nts of the panic come out on the CRT when you apparently have a serial console... I'm really grasping at straws here...but what's in your /etc/boot.conf? (and are you SURE?) What happens if you just delete(/rename/hide) it? what happens if you just "boot" instead of "boot hd0a:/bsd"? ALSO...does anything different happen between a cold power-off/power-on and a reboot? Nick.

Re: Questions to 4.0->4.1 upgrade

o your needs. I don't hide much. :) ... > > I love "pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends". > > Up until this upgrade I'd manually removed and added packages. cool, isn't it? :) Nick.

Re: 4.2 won't boot after fresh installation

a hardware problem. It sounds like there is something else weird going on. Obviously some driver in /bsd that isn't in /bsd.rd is hanging because your hardware is some weird case (or maybe broken). Is there anyway to diff the enabled drivers between the two? -Nick

Re: [4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

ther things "odd" about the file (compare to the file in etc42.tgz). Look at the logs, look at "last" and "who", etc. I can think of lots of errors that might mess up libraries and such, but not much that can actually DELETE a user... Nick.

Re: avail mem is only 66% of real mem

ng that much "stuff" in his machine that he's exhausting that, he really needs an upgrade of his hardware... you just can't gain enough by removing drivers to really change the fact that he's got a really small machine by 2007 standards. If what he is doing works well in 32M, great, but don't expect to customize your way into running Mozilla... Nick.

Re: support for USB compact flash readers?

On 11/6/07, Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message , > I asked about how best to read/write a Compact Flash (CF) card from > an OpenBSD system (Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T41p). In message >

Re: OBSD on MacBook

s some firmware updates (that you should already have) which make the bootloader capable of booting arbitrary partitions, a GUI wrapper around `diskutil resizeVolume` and some Windows drivers. -Nick

Re: OBSD on MacBook

On 11/6/07, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I single boot my macbook and then you just install it as you would on > a normal laptop. Just say yes that you will use whole hd for OpenBSD > and then you are set. No special magic. > > I use OpenBSD on my macbook daily and it works

Re: OBSD on MacBook

On 11/6/07, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 4:25 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > MacBook or MacBook Pro? > > > MacBook. How did you install it? My problem is that the internal keyboard doesn't work

Re: altroot is not mentioned in FAQ [diff]

rive fully bootable. One problem I have is every time I sit down to write something about this, it decays into a general study of "good system design" rather than OpenBSD documentation. :) Again, worth repeating, you had an idea, and you followed it through. I didn't like the implementation, but the idea (documenting /altroot) isn't bad. Feel free to try again (I probably won't have a chance to do it for a while myself. Think of section 4.7, under "additional thoughts", maybe starting with, "If you have a second disk, you can ...") Nick.

Re: altroot is not mentioned in FAQ [diff]

Jan Stary wrote: ... > See at bottom; looks much simpler now, hmm :-) > I leave the RAID analogy to someone else. > > Anyway, first diff, screwed up, I'd prefer the term, "learning experience". > thanks for all the comments. > > Jan > > > Index: faq4.html > =

reply-to rule not working

e is already maintaining states for port 1194 on $ext_if1. Is this the wrong application for 'reply-to'? If so, what would be the correct way to handle incoming traffic on a route-less interface? Even if the 'reply-to' rule isn't followed, shouldn't the 'route-to' rule work? -- Nick Golder

Re: altroot is not mentioned in FAQ [diff]

Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote: >> what benefit do you see in having /altroot on the same disk as / ? > > See the thread "Regenerating damaged /etc" ;) > see /var/backup. :) Really. /altroot is useful for certain things, but ONLY

Re: Softraid queries

FAQ. It also isn't in GENERIC yet. It isn't quite ready for production. The lack of a rebuild feature is a limiting factor. It isn't quite fatal, you can manually rebuild with dd(1). While doing this for a disk failure isn't all bad, doing it every time the power goes out unexpectedly (or it crashes for any reason) is a pain, and ignoring it after an event is potentially risky. Nick.

Re: reply-to rule not working

On 2007-11-07 14:29 -0500, Steven Surdock wrote: > Nick Golder wrote: > > I am trying to serve out OpenVPN (port 1194 UDP) through > > multiple external > > I solved this problem by running OpenVPN on the loopback only and using > "rdr" and " > pass in o

Re: google team and the DIY way of life

On Nov 10, 2007 5:00 AM, Sean Darby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:31:11AM +0100, xavier brinon wrote: > > from the "Official Google Blog" > > > > "Posted by Reza Behforooz, Software Engineer > > > > In my first month at Google, I complained to a friend on the Gmail > > t

Re: partition and copy in one line?

a currently mounted partition). HOWEVER, if you can do it from bsd.rd, it should be no problem. The one-line part is just a dangerous stunt, really. Make one error, and it goes bad quickly. Nick.

Re: partition and copy in one line?

Lars Noodin wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: >> ... >> In general, it seems to be bad to drastically change the disklabel on a >> running system (i.e., changing the beginning and ending points of a >> currently mounted partition). >> >> HOWEVER, if you can do

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