Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Harries
I know that VMware does all that, I even hear the next release makes you coffee while you use it and not just instant, as in proper Columbian brewed coffee...fantastic. But still yes, every once in a while a smart arse pops his head up and claims he has heard of this VMWARE blah blah blah. It's

Re: Booting from softraid

2009-05-12 Thread Chris Harries
I went through a massive tonne of pain trying to set up two 1TB hard drives in mirrored RAID with data and OS. I eventually found out my hardware just wouldn't work with OpenBSD and RAID but trying on a different machine of VMware and it worked. Check the archives for mine journey and everyone's

No OS safe??

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Harries
This is more of a grammar/wording question, but it does go on to the security of OS's in general. Was having a read of this; http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/15/ibotnet-trojan.html And the last comment made me think about OpenBSD. The article closes by saying this shows that no

Raid + OpenBSD Problem

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Harries
Misc, For several weeks I was battering with Raid 1 and OpenBSD. I had some help from a few people, specifically Alexis de BRUYN who frequents this list often, but I never managed to get it working. Basically what happened was it would seam to work all the way up to copying the data and parity

FW: FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Harries
this isn't hardware related Many Thanks Chris -Original Message- From: Alexis de BRUYN [mailto:ale...@de-bruyn.fr] Sent: 14 April 2009 16:10 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris, Did you try

Re: How start Gnome

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Harries
Have you installed gnome-desktop and gdm as well? You can start by simply typing gdm and enter Chris -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Jose P.G Sent: 07 April 2009 17:17 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: How start Gnome I have

Re: FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Harries
BRUYN Sent: 02 April 2009 21:44 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 From raidctl(8) : -A root dev [snip] All components of the set must be of type RAID in the disklabel. [Snip] the RAID set must have its `a' partition (aka raid[0..n]a) set up

Re: Using 2 internet connections on OpenBSD Gateway

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Harries
I have heard of some ISP's combining 2 network connections for you. I'm not sure how this worked or how they did it however, and I fear it could have just bee 2 lines but going in to 1 when it got to your house, so you still have 2 IP address's. Unless you combine the 2 lines into 2 outgoing IP

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Harries
the OS, but I am guessing you meant I cannot have 2 drives in mirror, built with softraid and bioctl, that the OS is on? Many Thanks Chris -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of J.C. Roberts Sent: 30 March 2009 14:01 To: Chris Harries

FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Harries
All typoes checked. Now correct...finally, Apologies Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Harries [mailto:ch...@sharescope.co.uk] Sent: 02 April 2009 14:07 To: 'Alexis de BRUYN' Subject: RE: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 Afternoon, Well on an i386 system with 2 x 1 TB Seagate hard

Re: FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Harries
parity! Chris -Original Message- From: Alexis de BRUYN [mailto:ale...@de-bruyn.fr] Sent: 02 April 2009 14:58 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: FW: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 Create radi0's partitions: Disklabel -E raid0 A: 5G / 4.2BSD B: 2048M swap D: 50G /var

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Harries
more then I know already and what I am not doing correct to cause this reconstruction to just hang...? Any ideas Many Thanks Chris -Original Message- From: Alexis de BRUYN [mailto:ale...@de-bruyn.fr] Sent: 31 March 2009 12:33 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: raidctl -vF

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Harries
To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 A: 144522 4.2BSD (this is the 64MB drive to boot off B: 1953375480 RAID (this is the RAID data partition C: 1953523055 UNUSED Using 'b' (even 'c') is not a good idea for me too. Try on your second disk (mirror

raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Harries
List, I am having problems building my 2 x 1 TB mirror RAID in openBSD. When I run this command raidctl -vF component0 raid0 on the screen it says quiescence reached and the system hangs. I can type commands but they do nothing, type top and enter and it just sits there, press ctrl C and

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Harries
Message- From: J.C. Roberts [mailto:list-...@designtools.org] Sent: 30 March 2009 13:16 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:43:31 +0100 Chris Harries ch...@sharescope.co.uk wrote: START disks /dev/wd2b # the fake device