Re: Installing sets from /

2022-07-13 Thread Nick Holland
the install files into the ramdisk rather than from an existing file system or other more supported option. I think the "proper" answers will work better for you all around. Nick.

Mirror/website maintenance: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, *.cs.toronto.edu

2022-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
fying. Nick.

Re: OpenBSD hardware accelerated video? (In X on Intel/AMDGPU/ARM64)

2022-07-20 Thread Nick Holland
g. Kinda sucks, I was much more productive before youtube and other video sources became fully functional in OpenBSD. :) Nick.

Re: pfstat is having a bad time

2024-05-05 Thread Nick Owens
On Sun, May 5, 2024, 13:05 Christer Solskogen wrote: > Running pfstat -q gives: > ioctl: DIOCGETSTATUS: Permission denied > pf_query: query_counters() failed > > This is on a newly updated system (current) > OpenBSD tugs.antarctica.no 7.5 GENERIC.MP#50 amd64 > > Packages are also all up to date.

Re: Favorite configuration and system replication tools?

2024-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
e the new favorite revision control system, so knowing got/git is more marketable than cvs. :-/ Nick.

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

2024-05-21 Thread Nick Holland
post boot by a separate script. Maybe make /tmp an MFS if that's an option. That will minimize the fsck problems, and allow the system to come up for either manual, remote fixing or even fsck -y in the mountall script. Don't forget you ro'd the /usr partitions, otherwise your upgrades will be unpleasant. :) Nick.

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

2024-05-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 5/21/24 08:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-05-21, Nick Holland wrote: ... When I remove that disk the boot sequence stops and asks for a fsck I would like that this disk is mounted when it's present, but when it's not installed I don't want the boot sequence to stop

Re: how to fsck automatically at boot

2024-05-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 5/22/24 08:08, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2024 12:53:11 +0100, Nick Holland wrote: For reasons of multi-hour fsck's on a few systems, I'm looking at remounting the problem file systems as "rw" when writing is actually needed and "ro" after th

Re: advice debugging lockups with swap-thrashing symptoms?

2024-05-23 Thread Nick Holland
o zero, and then the next read encounters the same problem. You may be able to hear lots of activity on the drive with little obvious progress. I'm not convinced this is your problem, but ... something to consider. Nick.

Re: mounting audio cd

2024-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
tion to do that is just fine with me. OpenBSD provides cdio(1), which has the "cdrip" option to extract audio tracks to .wav files. In the base system. Nick.

Re: Edit: Installation amd64 7.5: How to access the distribution sets on the USB stick?

2024-06-07 Thread Nick Holland
hat the drive is unused, but if things are as you describe it, it's safe. But most likely, it's sd2, because USB devices are enumerated AFTER IDE/SATA/SCSI/SAS/RAID connected drives. (but there are things that can happen that keep me saying, "most likely" and "here's how you find out" rather than just assuming sd2. :) ) Nick.

Re: booting and RAID-5

2024-06-16 Thread Nick Holland
ing drives). So when I test the drive replacement process, I plan to rebuild the OS partition first (anticipated time: minutes), then the data partition later (anticipated time: days). And yes, I'm testing the behaviors of this thing and the drive replacement process before I commit it to production. Nick.

Re: sshd /var/empty

2024-06-19 Thread Nick Holland
y written software". So really, security is the least important consideration. You want to be able to break your system and repair it over the network without console access. To your credit, you are honest about that. That's your call, but you are gonna want a different OS. Perhaps Windows 95 (remember the user name/PW prompt, where if you just hit ESC, it went away and dropped you at the desktop?). OpenBSD is probably not the tool you want. Nick.

Re: CD/DVD install failed

2024-06-23 Thread Nick Holland
ion process. Either your burner is bad, your media is damaged, or the reader is bad. I've seen all three, lots of times. Be glad you got the error...back in the olden days, I had a drive that would happily install every Novell Netware file on a server...but most were corrupted. Nick.

Re: trying to boot on HP EliteBook 820 G1

2024-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
eat, others are horribly non-standard, "Works with windows, ship it!". Nick.

Re: trying to boot on HP EliteBook 820 G1

2024-07-24 Thread Nick Holland
I'm having trouble believing your laptop is having this same issue. (this particular machine is noted for this problem on Linux, too, except Linux won't boot headless at all; the full OpenBSD kernel boots just fine headless, but you can't do a headless upgrade.) Nick.

Re: Automatic Disk Partitioning

2024-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
you are good enough that you can deal with the issues when you find out you were not as smart as the OpenBSD devs after all. I like hitting those issues, because then I learn something). Nick.

Re: How to trim SSD?

2024-08-11 Thread Nick Holland
on with a new one, in the next 20G of the disk. In a few years, maybe you need 25G or 30G. But this way, you can never use storage that has been worn for more than a year. Might get ten years of "fresh" disk on a single SSD that way. Do this, I'll laugh at you. :) Nick.

Re: Installation USB

2024-08-29 Thread Nick Holland
incompatible hardware boot an install media just fine then fail to see a disk. But your answer to the disk/http/nfs question will be "disk". The disk will be the USB drive's 'a' partition, and it is not currently mounted. Nick.

Re: failed to install bootblocks

2024-09-04 Thread Nick Holland
but I realize that's a little difficult on a system that won't boot. SOME important bits: BIOS vs UEFI boot OpenBSD version? HW run on? Softraid? What are you booting from? multiple disks? multibooting? Exactly what error messages are you seeing at exactly what point? Nick.

Re: checksums to detect/correct bit-rot

2024-09-15 Thread Nick Owens
On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 12:22 AM Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > > Does OpenBSD support any file systems with built-in checksums to > (try to) ensure metadata and/or data integrity in the face of "bit rot" > disk (or memory/cpu/USB) errors? I'm not looking for ZFS-style storage > pools or logical vol

Re: European orders

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
> Surely I know something You perhaps don't. > More importantly I can see where the lies are. And where are the lies? For those of us uninitiated in whatever you are, cite your science please. -Nick

Re: Can you subscribe to the PF mailing list? I can't

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > The problem is that you can't use the pf mailing list from gmail. > > -Bryan Because people who use gmail aren't smart enough for PF? Because it's a free webmail provider and so a source of spam? -Nick

screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
n Linux, and a guy I asked last night seemed to think my method should work on FreeBSD, so what is OpenBSD doing that's upsetting screen? Thanks for your attention, -Nick

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
Yeah, it's there, that's why I said "I don't have to bother with sudo -u" to switch from root to my user. I still want to know what's killing screen. Thanks, -Nick On 08/04/2009, Mike Erdely wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenthe

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
t 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> I'm trying to make my torrents get started with my server. A script is >> at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-859543.html that starts >> it up in a detached screen session, but obviously the linux-ism of >> that script w

Re: 2 seperate questions: segmentation fault and powerdown issue

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Holland
My old IBM Thinkpads are very fond of that. No promises for you, though. Experiment with "halt -p" before sticking things in rc.shutdown... However, I've also seen defective boards that just didn't power down the power supply...even in the OSs they were orginally sold with, and some that just don't try. File servers that don't power down on their own? I really suspect you won't care much once it goes into production... Nick.

Re: where to order now ?

2009-04-11 Thread Nick Holland
m... By definition...YOU do not know of the years of private effort that went into resolving the problem (why? because it was PRIVATE!). I happen to know, from chance conversation long ago, that this was NOT a problem that popped up last week, or even last year. Nice, polite and quiet seem to have been given their chance, and failed. Time for something different. Nick.

Re: Serial connection settings on Sun Ultra 1

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
doing here is breaking things. You do not need to change any files to get a tip(1) session going with a Sun machine. If you are getting a "lost carrier" response, you need to look at the machine you are getting that from -- i.e., your terminal machine. What command are you using to try to establish the connection? Nick.

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
Because, you know, blind faith has such a solid track record and reputation. On 31/03/2009, David Schulz wrote: > For me, i cant even estimate the time and effort that goes into all the > related work and issues for OpenBSD, and thus am more than thankful. OpenBSD > sits in every important Corner

Re: Low power OpenBSD machine

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
uch of what people assume is not overly accurate. Nick.

Intel 5100AGN in 4.5?

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Guenther
out when 4.4-CURRENT because 4.5-RELEASE. Can anyone tell me? Or better yet, tell me if there's a way to figure these things out in cvsweb? Thanks -Nick

Re: Intel 5100AGN in 4.5?

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:02 AM, wrote: > OpenBSD 4.5 Release has support for Intel WiFi Link 5000 Series > adapters. See http://www.openbsd.org/45.html > D'oh, that was the one place I didn't think to look. Thanks. -Nick

NFS clarifications

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Guenther
ll a program you should always be able to kill it so I suspect I'm misinterpreting -i. Thanks! -Nick

Re: I need to mount in a normal account

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Juan Jimenez Galdos wrote: > Sorry, I pressed enter. > > I add to sudoers (cd0 is the directory in /mnt/): > db ALL=/sbin/mount /cd0,/sbin/umount /cd0 > > But when I try "mount /dev/cd0c /mnt/cd0" and i write the password it says > "try again", and i have writt

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
igging through Google output containing a lot > of links to official FAQ and quotes from it. :( > What would the point of putting it on the RAMDISK kernels, when it isn't in GENERIC? Nick.

Re: Live OpenBSD Bootable i386 CD

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
d games. (for some uses, being unable to write to the CD may be a benefit, though I suspect most people will find it an annoyance to work around more than a benefit) General outline on creating one is in FAQ 14. Nick.

Re: I need to mount in a normal account

2009-04-20 Thread Nick Guenther
ne. > > THank you very much. > > Show us the command you're running. You should get used to copy-pasting the relevant bits from your terminal to here. Please, use your head, you're making us fly blind here. WHY does that seem to not be correct? -Nick

Re: sendmail: cannot open "/var/spool/mqueue"

2009-04-20 Thread Nick Holland
use I was too clever broke the line at the 80 char point, so it would be as you see on your monitor. > > > Here's the full dmesg: > > OpenBSD 4.4-stable (GENERIC.MP) #4: Sun Nov 16 14:21:18 CET 2008 I'd be more convinced I was right if this date was more recent. :) Nick.

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Guenther
Thank you! On 20/04/2009, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:19:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy said that >> frantisek holop wrote: >> > all hw is unrealible to some degree, >> ... and all degrees of unreliability are equivalent? >> Methinks some people like stuff that is LESS un

Re: ThinkPad T60 audible bell *very* loud

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Holland
e it with me to places where all my vi "beep!"s would be annoying. Nick.

Re: newfs changes fstype from RAID to 4.2BSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Holland
. That's the difference between a RAID system that will save you a lot of downtime vs. one that will CAUSE you a lot of downtime. You are definitely working on "cause" right now. you MUST understand how your RAID system works, otherwise you WILL lose data and time. Nick.

gdmsetup hangs

2009-04-22 Thread Nick Guenther
hough. Has anyone ever seen this before? It's not critical, I'm just curious if this is a bug in gdm or a bug in my setup. Thanks! -Nick

Too many partitions?l

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Guenther
ding partition 'n' I can mount and use my data drive fine. My only guess was that I had too many partitions, but the FAQ says "up to 'p'") which is greater than 'n' so that's not it. So any ideas why OpenBSD didn't pick up the data partition on it's own? If you look closely you'll see that it picked up the ubuntu root drive (as sd0i) which was also not within the original disklabel(8) "b" limits. Thanks, -Nick

Re: Unable to mount CD/DVD-RW drive in OpenBSD 4.4/i386.

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Guenther
That wouldn't give device not configured. What does disklabel cd0 give? On 23/04/2009, Mike Erdely wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:13:06PM -0700, minsai0...@yahoo.com wrote: >> /dev/cd0a /mnt/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > Does /mnt/cdrom exist?

[Way OT] Roadtrip...

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Bender
Apologies to most people who won't give a shit but I'm finally moving to New Mexico and am posting updates at http://nbender.com more or less daily as we make our way across the country. Regards, -N

Re: sudo won't work with login_fingerprint

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
valid swipe" or "login incorrect". I see the same result as you with sudo. Annoying. Sudo must not be feeding it correctly right, but perhaps login_fingerprint is expecting wrongly. It would be a neat gimmick if we could get this working! -Nick On 23/04/2009, LEVAI Daniel wro

Re: sudo won't work with login_fingerprint

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
I should probably shyly mention here that I'm on -CURRENT right now)? Why are we writing "-fingerprint" instead of "fingerprint"? login.conf(8) is hazy on what this means. It doesn't seem to matter espcially which is chosen. I suspect my problem is a driver issue. I have a 1600 chip (as linux tells me... dunno why OpenBSD) but the driver is written for 1610 chips. Until I can at least use su with my finger I'm not sure I can help you. -Nick

Re: sudo won't work with login_fingerprint

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
e I can >> help you. > What does `ls -lR /home/$USER/.fprint/` tells you? Do you have the proper > scanned fingerprints there? Do you have the $USER in the fingerprint class > (if you've followed the README file with login_fingerprint)? > The fingerprint files exist alright. The only thing I thought it might be is that -CURRENT broke login_fingerprint somehow, but if you're running the same code it must be the driver. http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Aes1610 sort of suggests that the reader isn't great to begin with and if mine's a version off I wouldn't be surprised it's b0rked. -Nick

aucat's volume-sharing algorithm

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
ms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support umass0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "TOSHIBA

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Nick Holland
NE risk. Many others exist. For example, administrators who refuses to do basic research, but rather resorts to posting basic questions on public mail lists rather than reading documentation or hiring a qualified administrator opens themselves to "social engineering" exploits which no OS can protect them from. Nick.

Re: Auto allocations in 4.6 with big drives and bios limitations

2009-04-26 Thread Nick Holland
tions. Personally, I can't imagine there are many applications of 250G disks where the entire disk needs to or should be allocated. If you are building a firewall, 8G is still a plenty big chunk of disk to allocate, and a /lot/ faster to fsck after you trip over the power cord. ... > PS: Who could even possibly think of asking for a GUI installer after > that. I love it! wait for it. :-/ Nick.

Re: installing i386 filesets with a amd64 cd.... possible?

2009-04-27 Thread Nick Holland
dering how fast it is to do an install, why didn't you just TRY it and find out...etc. I've spent longer answering than it would take to test your question... Nick.

Re: Someone has running Ekiga?

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
The "apps" dir there is virtual. Gconf makes a virtual filesystem where preference data is stored. Install gconf-editor to understand really quickly. I found it confusing too. So did you run that command? On 27/04/2009, Toma Bodar wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed ekiga trough ports (pkg_add wa

Re: automaticaly mount/umount encrypted $HOME or ...

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
#x27;s awkward to do it in .profile because you'd have to remount your /home/$USER over top, but moving the mounting code into login(1) avoids that -Nick On 28/04/2009, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > ... yet another vnd-hack including modified login_passwd, sudo > and .bash_logout: >

wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
ed?): wi(4) (zyd(4) says the chip has the ability to do ad-hoc but "more work is required", and googling (http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/11-2005/18095.html) suggests it can be an access point too) Thank you in advance -Nick

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
Apologies. By now of course I see *that*. But so it's just a software issue then: that's the answer I was hoping for! It means there's nothing inherently wrong with my hardware, I can make it work if I just put the effort in (and find the time to learn). Thanks -Nick On 28/04/2009

Re: OpenBSD install question

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Holland
for help on it AND pretend everything is perfectly normal is completely tacky. :) Wild guess, though: you have two CD-like devices, you booted off one, your FrankenBSD boot disk assumed the other was cd0, and ta-da, no disklabel, which is EXACTLY what the error message said. But still...just do a normal OpenBSD install. It's easy, it works. Nick.

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:47:20PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> Why do only certain wireless cards support host AP mode or IBSS mode? >> Is the 'modality' hardwired into the wifi hardware? >> >> Fo

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-29 Thread Nick Guenther
ank you very kindly for the explanation. I really mean that. -Nick

Re: Someone has running Ekiga?

2009-04-29 Thread Nick Guenther
that is actually what fixed ekiga, or maybe running it a first time caused gconf to valid-ize all your keys. Weird. -Nick

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

2009-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
ct there is more to refit than just those 512 bytes...but that's all you need to restore. refit may help you here in some way...I'd suggest asking on a refit list, see if they know of any magic secret extra copies of the MBR sector of the disk, or any other magic tricks it has. Just tell them that all that happened is the very first sector of the disk, the MBR, got clobbered. Good luck...hopefully, someone with more IntelMac experience can give you better guidance. Nick.

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

2009-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: >> the "Use entire disk" question changes no more than 512 bytes on your >> disk. That's the good news. The significance of that 512 bytes is the >> problem. (and while 512 bytes doesn't sound that bad, that&

Re: How do I enable bsd.mp kernel in 4.4/i386?

2009-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
ove things in the past, it will make things less fun in the future. it's also quite i386/amd64-centric. Nick.

Re: sysmerge detects changes in files patched by upgrade45.patch

2009-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
the contents of the file no longer resemble ANY revision of the stock file. On the other hand, if the install was five years old and never had used PF, but today you want to start using PF today, it would be best to start with the newest version of pf.conf as an example. You gotta keep your brain involved Nick.

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Guenther
How does it not boot? What's the error/symptoms? I know I had OpenBSD booting without a hitch in qemu under OS X. You can either install it from darwinports or there's a GUI wrapper called Q.app available somewhere. On 03/05/2009, jebyrnes wrote: > Indeed, that was my first impulse as well once

Re: No OpenBSD for Lenovo Thinkpad w500 4058CTO

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Guenther
Your disks aren't showing up in dmesg. Try tweaking your BIOS settings--i know that I had to change from IDE emulation to AHCI when I upgraded to 4.5. On 05/05/2009, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi, > > First, and just for the record: while trying to set up an FTP server on > OpenBSD 4.2 I got this error m

Re: Installboot to usb drive?

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Holland
root partition, but rather the /boot that exists on the root partition of the target drive (i.e., the "boot" you WILL use, not the one that you already used). Nick.

Re: Installboot to usb drive?

2009-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
job long before the kernel is even loaded (is five seconds "long"? :). See faq14 for more info on how this all works. You want something like: /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd0 assuming sd0a is mounted on /mnt and is your new disk. (alternately: just boot install media, point it at sd0, and it will do the rest for you...) Nick.

Re: how to configure Grub 0.97 for booting my OpenBSD 4.5

2009-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
n't get replaced when the real one is. So now you have the old PBR reading ...something other than /boot If you replace your grub boot loader with a normal MBR and flag the OpenBSD partition as active, I bet the system will boot just fine. Alternatively, do whatever voodoo you need to do to tell grub there is a new PBR for it to use. Nick.

Re: eject(1) locks machine on >= 4.4

2009-05-09 Thread Nick Guenther
I had a similar problem where trying to write anything with my CD drive, and sometimes even just reading it, would lock. I saw something go by on here that hinted it was because the drive was a fancy blu-ray/duallayer/hddvd-capable drive but that's as far as I cared to dig. On 09/05/2009, Jasper V

Re: Upgrade or not?

2009-05-09 Thread Nick Holland
now!'" event occurs, it is much easier to do it if you have kept yourself up to date. Nick.

Re: KVM Switch HP Problem

2009-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
to the monitor. In this case, you will need to hard-set X to run at exactly the resolution and timing you are after. Nick.

mDNS

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
es are nicer anyway. .Actually I just solved my problem a different way because I discovered the dhclient.conf:send host-name ""; option. I'm still curious about mDNS support in OpenBSD though (and this took me a couple hours of searching, so the archives could probably use this tip). -Nick

Re: mDNS

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Marco Peereboom wrote: > >> I need an mdns solution as well. If you have something working please >> let me know. > > I'm working on avahi which I intend to finish at c2k9. > Thank you!

Re: Building OpenBSD

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
that's always the -ideal-, wheras in linux the goal is just to get things working, not necessarily working reproducibly well without regard to platform and situations. -Nick On 13/05/2009, Eric Furman wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:01:40 -0400, "Chuck Robey" > said: >> bet

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Nick Holland
MANI wrote: > and why I can not boot to > OpenBSD using bootable cd ? boot > hd0a:/bsd not working for me. That should work... What happens? Nick.

Re: OpenBSD 3.4 hanging after boot

2009-05-16 Thread Nick Holland
ent. If you don't have much of a scrap pile, you may have difficulty expanding old machines to the useful minimum. Nick.

Re: Kylin

2009-05-17 Thread Nick Holland
ser and > I really feel that I've enought privacy, don't need a > super-secret-ultra-secure OS > nor to say "Made In China" xD As at least some Chinese people are not proficient in the language that most of the mainstream OS are written in (though I'm sure an awful lot of them could correct my grammar *sigh*), so I can easily imagine the benefit to a "home grown" OS with a little less of an English bias. Nick.

Re: mp3 stick as both an mp3 stick and an obsd install

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Holland
epartitioned" it with Windows, you almost certainly ended up with the Windows partition at the beginning of the disk, and very probably as the first MBR partition, because that's how Windows does flash devices. Windows can't handle a Windows partition that is not first on a flash disk, so it wouldn't surprise me if the stripped-way-down-non-OS on an MP3 player would have even more significant limitations. Still, a cool thing to do. :) Nick.

Re: Intel PRO/1000MT (82541GI) not working with 4.5

2009-05-20 Thread Nick Holland
what you saw is EXACTLY what I'd expect to happen. Nick.

Re: multiple videocards... for console text

2009-05-21 Thread Nick Holland
ing, you would probably have to run them in graphics mode, and probably be hopelessly hardware specific. Now look at what you have done, and realize you on your way to re-inventing X. Just keep going, might as well see if you can do better... Nick.

Re: PPTP vpn with OBSD gateway (outgoing)

2009-05-30 Thread Nick Ryan
on. It's handy to not have this ticked if you want all your non work traffic to go out via your normal connection, but in this case you want it ticked. Cheers - Nick On 29 May 2009, at 22:08, Juan Miscaro wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a PPTP tunnel for a Windows machine lyin

Re: PPTP vpn with OBSD gateway (outgoing)

2009-05-30 Thread Nick Ryan
you'd need to add routes and rules into that. Hope some of this helps. On 30 May 2009, at 21:19, patrick keshishian wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Nick Ryan wrote: There's a tickbox on the windows vpn client to tick. It's quite well hidden. To get to it, do properties

Re: KNF for usr.bin?

2009-06-04 Thread Nick Holland
kes the improvement. If all you are doing is a mechanical KNFing, please don't. If you aren't finding OTHER errors while reading code, just keep reading, not changing. (Devs: feel free to jump all over me if I'm wrong here, working on an article in the FAQ along these lines... :) Nick.

Re: Voice-chat on OpenBSD with nothing more than aucat and ssh

2009-06-06 Thread Nick Guenther
ut users would still have to be in the audio group or whatever to use this. Conversely, if you're actually worried about eavesdropping you can run aucat -l like usual. Actually, you could hack this now: make an 'audio' user, at boot do "sudo -u audio aucat -l" and also create links to the socket that made for each user on the system. I don't know what's worse: recreating links at each boot or having to have a config file. -Nick

Re: newfs_msdos alters disklabel?

2009-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
s you haven't played with SPARC systems which usually only support eight partitions...but with OpenBSD, magic happens and you end up with 16 partitions in such a way that the SPARC boot ROMs (and even Solaris to some degree) still work (for the first eight). Even if you don't use them, all 16 partition table entries exist and could be used later, if needed. Nick.

Re: Automated service/daemon management

2009-06-09 Thread Nick Hasser
(private) HKS wrote: > Has anyone solved this problem on OpenBSD? > > -HKS > I have not yet, but I've been meaning to look into systems such as cfengine [1], puppet [2], chef [3], etc. I'd be interested in any experiences folks have with these types of systems and Op

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
r a disabled boot ROM, this won't work, as there will be no BIOS support for your system, and thus no way to boot OpenBSD to get OpenBSD's support for your system. Nick.

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-12 Thread Nick Holland
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Nick > Holland wrote: > >> If you look early on at the boot messages, you probably see something >> like: >> B disk: fd0 hd0*+ hd1+ > > Exactly that. (Only, since I am now booting from the i

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-12 Thread Nick Holland
net address 8:0:20:9e:d7:72, Host ID: 809ed772. > > > > Rebooting with command: boot floppy bsd > Boot device: /p...@1f,0/p...@1,1/e...@1/fdthree File and args: bsd > Bad magic number in disk label > Can't open disk label package > Evaluating: boot floppy bsd you can't boot most Ultras from floppy, and in this case, the U5/U10 are part of "most". Use a CD-R, if that doesn't work, borrow a known good IDE CDROM. U5/U10s Just Work (when they ain't busted) Nick.

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-13 Thread Nick Holland
ng a bootloader pulled from floppy (or CD), but the fact the system can't boot on its own indicates there's something wrong with the installed system, and if that's the case, the floppy boot trick may not work as well. (you MAY be right, there may be something wrong with the HD, but usually you get SOME kind of error message. Though sometimes you don't... ('scuse me while I have an unpleasant flashback...) Nick.

Re: ftp limits bandwidth

2009-06-20 Thread Nick Bender
On Saturday, June 20, 2009, Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > Hi all, > > It looks like the max bandwidth of ftp is somehow 350 Kb/s. > Is this normaland if so can it be increased ? > > Thx > Bye. I don't think FTP is rate limited by default. Wild guess is you need to google tcp window size. What does

Re: Winbind & Samba on OpenBSD

2009-07-06 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > > to clarify.. you are using Samba, or Samba & Winbind? > > ~Jason Not a user, but samba/winbind was discussed on ports last week: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=124653912620380&w=2

Re: crash after first boot

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Holland
me. As the asker of the question, expect to spend AT LEAST as much time (and more likely, many times as much time) investigating and describing your problem as you expect others to spend helping you for free. This applies to your other thread you have started...and from memory, the ones you have

Re: Success!!

2009-07-10 Thread Nick Guenther
ut my connections for some reason (perhaps because the NAT is full) and I would like to be able to run OpenBSD on it so I could actually tweak things. -Nick

Re: Problems with 4.5 as a KVM guest

2009-07-14 Thread Nick Osborn
On 14 Jul 2009, at 18:27, Bob Beck wrote: * Michiel van Baak [2009-07-05 11:05]: On 10:36, Sun 05 Jul 09, stan wrote: I am trying to get OpenBSD 4.5 working as a guest OS using KVM on Linux. I have been able to get 4.4 to install and run fine, but 4.5 never gives me a login prompt. The las

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
g-term maintenance nightmares. IF your hardware is so anemic that it can't run GENERIC, I think you will do much better getting more realistic hardware than by mangling the OS. On the other hand... I do have a lot of 4M RAM chips and 486 processors maybe I can sell you... Nick.

Re: how much last entries should exist?

2011-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
rotates those log files. Of course, you can adjust the rotation schedule. What you see is (potentially?) entirely normal. Nick.

Odd Network Lockups

2011-12-02 Thread Nick Templeton
o, but there's a few odd lines I've noticed in the dmesg: ... RTC BIOS diagnostic error 11 ... ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 8 ... Anybody have any ideas? -Nick OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #146: M

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