Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: >> OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. >> A clear example of how thing should be done. >I will agree with this. As will I. After years of frustration with various Linux distributions and wireless, I'd deferred dealing with

Re: Slow umass(4)

2009-06-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:58:56 +0200 >> Thomas Pfaff wrote: >> >> > Getting really slow performance on umass(4) devices. It takes about &

Re: Slow umass(4)

2009-06-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:58:56 +0200 > Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > > Getting really slow performance on umass(4) devices. It takes about > > 20 minutes to write 1.4G, while the same job takes about 2.5 minutes > > on Ubuntu and Windows (on the sam

Re: Ext2/3 mount trouble

2009-06-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi Ted, > > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Bill Maas wrote: > > > I posted a message earlier about a kernel panic occurring when I > > > accessed a file on some of my ext3 fses. I've al

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jacob L. Leifman wrote: > On 6 Jun 2009 at 12:11, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: >> > Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? >> >> Hi -- >> >>

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: > Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? Hi -- Are you addressing that question to me? If so, I'm really not sure I understand your question. What do you mean by "the legacy system"? If so, are you suggesting that perhaps

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:10:28AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on a Thinkpad X61, dual-booted with >> Windows XP. XP is at the beginning of the disk, starting at sector 63. >> The XP sl

Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on a Thinkpad X61, dual-booted with Windows XP. XP is at the beginning of the disk, starting at sector 63. The XP slice, to use BSD terminology, is about 10 Gb (the disk is 100 Gb). The OpenBSD slice occupies the rest of the disk. During the OpenBSD install, I created

Re: A couple of Lenovo workstation oddities

2009-06-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, David Vasek wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Donald Allen wrote: > >> As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which >> I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb >> memory, 2 146 Gb S

Re: A couple of Lenovo workstation oddities

2009-06-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:16:26 Donald Allen wrote: >> As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which >> I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb >> memory, 2

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-06-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, wrote: >> Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from >> amd64/install45.iso results in > >> uhci3: host system error >> uhci3: host controller process error >> uhci3: host controller halted > >> The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb memo

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-06-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, wrote: >> > Why are you using the AMD installation with an Intel cpu? >> >> Probably because it's a better architecture. > > If such decisions co

A couple of Lenovo workstation oddities

2009-06-02 Thread Donald Allen
As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS disks on an LSI raid controller, arranged as a raid 0. Two questions: 1. In the past, running Linux, I've backed this machine up (to a sata

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-05-31 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:56 AM, David Vasek wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009, Donald Allen wrote: > >> Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from >> amd64/install45.iso results in >> >> uhci3: host system error >> uhci3: host controller process er

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, David Vasek wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009, Donald Allen wrote: > >> Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from >> amd64/install45.iso results in >> >> uhci3: host system error >> uhci3: host controller process er

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-05-30, Donald Allen wrote: >> So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 >> architecture? > > It doesn't build. If you add amd64 to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS and try it: Thank you

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Donald Allen wrote: > >> You have to install a second-stage bootloader, so why not >> use one >> bootloader to do the whole job rather than two? That's >> what. >> >

bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from amd64/install45.iso results in uhci3: host system error uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS drives on an LSI raid controller set up as a

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: >> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> >> >>

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 >> architecture? And I would suggest that grub provides a simple solution >&

amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
I've just installed OpenBSD 4.5, first on an i386 system and then on an amd64 machine. Both installations are dual-boot with Windows XP. The i386 machine, which I worked on first, was pretty straightforward -- I made a grub boot floppy so I was able to boot the system after installation, installed

Re: 4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

2009-05-28 Thread Donald Allen
; >> 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. > > I'll include something I sent to Donald Allen, edited to make things a > little more contextually relevant: > > "The key p

Re: 4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

2009-05-27 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM, STeve Andre' 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 pro

Re: 4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

2009-05-27 Thread Donald Allen
t machine). /Don On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > I'm an experienced hand with Linux (Gentoo, more recently Arch) and with > FreeBSD. I've recently become interested in OpenBSD and have just done a > test install of 4.5 on an old Thinkpad 600x (650 mhz, .5

4.5 on Thinkpad 600x issue

2009-05-27 Thread Donald Allen
I'm an experienced hand with Linux (Gentoo, more recently Arch) and with FreeBSD. I've recently become interested in OpenBSD and have just done a test install of 4.5 on an old Thinkpad 600x (650 mhz, .5 Gb, 20 Gb 5400 rpm disk, 3com Megahertz pcmcia ethernet adapter) for purposes of evaluation. Us

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