what is the best method to upgrade from release to current?

2008-04-17 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
I usually run current and sometimes stable on openbsd, but I was wondering what would be the best method to go from openbsd release to current? I have used openbsd-binary-update, boot.iso from snapshots, and bsd.rd from snapshots. I have installed directly using a boot.iso from snapshots

tcl-8.4 and tk-8.4 manpages

2008-04-14 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
I would like to thank all those who replied to my enquiry. The openbsd mailing list is an excellent mailing list, and its members are a great help to all those searching for answers to their questions about openbsd. I want to add want I can, so I am writing the answer to my question in order to

tcl-8.4 and tk-8.4 manpages

2008-03-25 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
I installed tcl-8.4 and tk-8.4 which are required when installing git. My question is how to get the mann directory to display in man. I have tried organising tcltk in /etc/man.conf in several different ways. Here is how I have it organized now. # tcltk manpages _whatdb

Re: P2V with VMWare - ERR M

2008-02-28 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Thanks for the replay. I was not sure which man page you were referring to, but I took a quick glance at installboot. I have often cloned linux systems at work with rsync. I have also done bare-bone restores using system-rescue cd and backups from our backup system. I thought it would be

Re: P2V with VMWare - ERR M

2008-02-27 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Hi, Did you use http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#Backup to restore your old box to a vmware server image. The only part I am confused by is At the end I installed the boot loader as described in the manpages with success. What man page are you referring to? What steps did you use to

installing openbsd in xen

2007-12-21 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Just curious if anyone has installed openbsd as a xen pv guest. If so would send your notes on how to setup openbsd as a pv guest on xen. Zlfar M. E. Johnson Sk}rr [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 569 5100 http://www.skyrr.is http://www.skyrr.is

anyone succeeded with compiling cvsup on linux recently?

2007-11-12 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Hi, I have been trying to compile ezm3 and bootstrap for linuxlibc6 to use with cvup-snap-16.1h but to no avail. I would be interested in hearing if anyone on this list has succeeded with installing cvsup on linux, and if so would they be willing to share their knowledge.

help with cvsupd server setup

2007-05-02 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Hi. I know this is probably not the right forum for my question, due to the fact that the cvsupd server is running on linux and that the cvsupd setup is for the serving abs on the archlinux system, but maybe someone can give me a hint to my how to fix my problem. My problem is though I have

amd howto

2007-03-08 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Hi I would appreciate if someone could point me to a good how to or directions for setting up amd on openbsd. I had hoped there was something like /etc/automount.master, but I see that openbsd uses amd to do basically the same thing. I want to try mounting nfs shares with amd using something

Re: amd howto

2007-03-08 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
Thanks David. Two questions? Where is the ${key} refer to? Since I do not see it defined anywhere. And instead of /homes would it not be acceptable to use /net? I had begun setting up a /etc/amd.conf and a /etc/amd/amd.net file. Here are the contents as they are now. /etc/amd.conf [global]

openbsd 4.0 on vmware server

2007-02-19 Thread Úlfar M . E . Johnson
I was wondering if anyone else experienced clock trouble with openbsd 4.0 as a host on vmware server 1.01? My setup was vmware server 1.01 on centos 4.4 using a dell c600 laptop. I had openbsd 4.0 installed as a host, but after many attempts to fix the time synch issue between openbsd and centos