On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM, STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 13:12:26 you wrote: >> Update: rsync completed. I brought up X, Firefox, emacs and was downloading >> packages when the curse struck again. Little or no response to the mouse. >> ctrl-alt F2 got me to a fresh login prompt, but every character I type is >> repeated 7 times, so login is impossible. No response to ping and, not >> surprisingly, I can't ssh in. It occurs to me that I'm using a pcmcia 3com >> ethernet card that I haven't used in years and that I don't use when I run >> Linux on this machine (I use a wireless card in that case, but wasn't ready >> to tackle wireless vs. OpenBSD just yet), so that's another hardware >> difference. I suspect that this is just crufty old hardware acting up. I >> think to debug this I will install OpenBSD on another machine I have that >> is >> >> - newer >> - there will be no hardware variation and it is all known to be good (Linux >> and FreeBSD have both run reliably on that machine). >> >> /Don > > I've never tried installing OpenBSD on a 600x but I'm a little surprised that > it isn't working fine. > > Since you are new to OpenBSD, how did you get OpenBSD, and also how > (where) did you get the packages?
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/i386/ Downloaded cd45.iso and burned that to a cd. Downloaded bsd plus *45.tgz (except for the games) and wrote them to a cd (4.5/i386 directory). I probably should have included INSTALL.i386, since the installer noticed that it was missing from the cd, but other than making it grumpy, it seemed to do no harm. You MUST get the packages that > match the version of OpenBSD. More than one person has gotten a > release CD and then gotten the packages in snapshots/packages/i386 > which is "-current", the wip stuff that will be a part of the next release. > > Also, it would be good to post the contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot, to > see what the kernel thinks of the hardware. Thats a start. Ok, will do in a separate msg. /Don > > --STeve Andre'
