Hello Daniel, I'm writing my text to the top of the email. This is probably easier for you to read than inline quoting.
On the reboot question, you can ctrl+z + reboot. This would not have a negative effect on the installation. This is exactly what the installer would do if you answer "r" for reboot. Also unplugging the USB stick has no negative effect at this point. The boot loader has been installed, otherwise your OpenBSD installation would not have started. And the boot loader is installed after all sets have been extracted. Therefore it's unlikely that files are missing. I can not tell why the network configuration has not been written. If you type "mail" as root, you should find an email with all the questions and answers that were used during the installation. Maybe this gives a clue. I tend to believe that the network was not configured using the installer. Best Regards, Stefan Odd Martin Baanrud wrote (2023-04-27 23:31 CEST): > Hello, > > I’m blind, and got sighted help to install OpenBSD on the machine which > should become a new router. > Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to detach the USB stick I booted from, > before I was to hit R for the reboot. > The result was that the last selection disappeared due to the detach message > from the kernel, and I didn’t manage to get it back. > The only way I thaught could be used for reboot was to hit ctrl+Z, and then > type reboot. > And it “worked”. > > When I connected the machine to the LAN afterwords, I didn’t get contact. > After trying a few things, I finally got an IP on it, with the correct > hostname. > (I connected a keyboard, logged in as root, and configured one of the > interfaces with ifconfig $if autoconf.) > I’ve good expereince doing so without braille. > > So the machine got an IP, but still no contact, either with ping or ssh. > I then realized that mandatory files has not been written, including the > hostname.if file for the NIC used durring install. > And I guess others too. :-) > > Which files are actually written when rebooting the corret way? > I’ve OpenBSD 7.3 installed on both a arm64 and a i386 machine. > Can I use the missing files from one of those? > I should be able to copy them to a USB stick, and mount it and get the files > in place without sighted help. > And the network interface can be configured with dhcp for now. > As soon as the machine is on the lan, I’ll ssh into it from a linux machine > with a braille display. > > Regards, Martin > > PS: I’ve now learned that one should reboot _BEFORE_ detaching any external > device when the installer is still running. :-) >
