OpenBSD 3.7 in a virtualpc-machine
Hi. Maybe the wrong side of the coin, but I think this list is right for that than [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to install OpenBSD on my iBooks VirtualPC 6 for several times now, anytime just a processor failure when installing the base-packages. Maybe this will be fixed in version 7, a friend of mine will test this soon. Googeling around brought no enligthenment to me. So any suggestions by your person? Thanks and some special weekend regards, Thorsten
Re: openbsd list fckery
JR Dalrymple wrote: The installer is awesome, it fits right beside the base kernel on ONE 1.44 floppy (speaking for i386). Yes, really thin. I just like that un-bloated one, no extras, just rude basement. That is enough for setting up a raw machine. More tuning could be done in later time in my opinion. Regards, Thorsten
Re: openbsd list fckery
Will H. Backman wrote: About a week ago, I was trying to upgrade my dual boot laptop to 3.7. I had to run the installer about 20 times to figure out my problem and correct it. In the process, I learned more about fdisk and disklabel than I had ever needed to before, and I count that as a good thing. It took no more than about 5 minutes each time to run the installer from scratch to completion in each case. Typing Ctrl-C and then install when you make a mistake isn't that difficult. I think the installer should be the last thing to go user friendly. OpenBSD is not point and click. If you can figure out the installer, it means you actually read instructions. If you could install OpenBSD by just clicking Next, you would be in for a rough ride after. Uh, I do not think so. The OpenBSD-installer is as easy as some gui-stuff, maybe much easier. Now blinking Touch me-Buttons, just straight work. I have done my first installation just without any documentation, it worked, but do not ask how the layout was :) In my opinion not the user-friendly task is important, but the easy and fast setup-possibility. Sometimes I neeed just a raw installation with an anonymous ftp for backup up some machine in trouble or for fileserving some data for a temporary issue, for that cases I love OpenBSD (as for some other reasons). Regards, Thorsten
Re: mounting ext3fs via ext2fs
Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:00:34PM +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, ext3fs is not supported. ext3 is mostly ext2 with an extra inode to handle the journal. You can usually mount the partition as ext3 or ext2 without any special tweak. However on some distributions (at least Fedora it seems), directory hashing (htree) is enabled by default when partitions are formatted as ext3. And *BSD don't support htree yet. So maybe this is your showstopper. In order to this, my last formatted ext3-partition from a mandriva(cooker)-system, the OpenBSD 3.7-Machine could not handle with my external usb-hdd mounting it. Maybe something was wrong with the disk, after playing around with some mount_fooFS on the disk, there was no chance to read it under the usage of mandriva again either. Shure, no relevant data on it, just testing stuff, this was a big shame for me spending one day of my life :) Regards, Thorsten
greek website out of release-number
Hello, openbsd.org is just updated, the other language-sites are on the run, I think, but the el(greek)-site is just at 3.5. Maybe someone of the hellenic geeks is reading this one. Regards, Thorsten
