Problem boot cd70.iso and install70.iso on sparc from sparc64 release

2021-11-11 Thread John Gould
Hi, The release versions of both cd70.iso and install70.iso will not ( at least for me ) boot my sparc machines. The files from snapshot will boot these machines! Please see the two machines reports below. Now I have tried to use a snapshot cd70 boot to install from stable but so far I have been

Can't install from install70.iso on to a Sun t5120

2021-11-02 Thread John Gould
Hi everyone, I have this error trying to install sparc64 on to a Sun t5120 via cd written with install70.iso Enter #. to return to ALOM. {0} ok boot cdrom SPARC Enterprise T5120, No Keyboard Copyright (c) 1998, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.33.6.h,

Re: Sun t5120 LDOMs

2020-11-09 Thread John Gould
Hi Stefan, Thank you so much for your help, I will try current. Kind regards John. On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 15:57, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 01:42:54PM +0000, John Gould wrote: > > Hi everyone, I am trying to set up a ldom on a sun t5120 machine running > &

Sun t5120 LDOMs

2020-11-09 Thread John Gould
Hi everyone, I am trying to set up a ldom on a sun t5120 machine running sparc64 6.8. This did work fine on 6.5. The problem I'm having is that once the machine is reset to use the openbsd bootmode the machine hangs and asks for the root device. If one tries to answer this I get no way of

Boot NVME device on sparc64

2019-07-25 Thread John Gould
Hi there, Does anyone have a way of booting a pcie nvme device on sparc64. I can install OBSD on the device but of course there is no way OBP can see it as a boot device. I can also use it for storage under OpenBSD which works fine. But! Is there any way to boot OpenBSD 6.5 installed on this

Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-23 Thread John Gould
Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for OpenBSD PowerPC? I'm trying to run several G5's and g4 mini's on 6.5 as desktop machines. The basic install works really well but there doesn't seem to be an up to date graphically browser. It's thanks to all the work the devs have put into

tunnel between OpenBSD and OpenVMS on sims

2019-04-09 Thread John Gould
Hi everyone, I am trying to connect to a Vax simulation running under simh on the same OpenBSD host. I have set up the networking as follows but cannot ping or telnet to the virtual Vax. Here are my config files, perhaps some knowledgeable person could explain what I am doing wrong? The tap

After upgrade to -current on sparc64 unable to su

2019-03-23 Thread John Gould
Just upgraded to -current now su give the following:- OpenBSD 6.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #145: Fri Mar 22 11:42:55 MDT 2019 Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system. Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system. Before reporting a bug, please try to

Re: alternatives to sendmail

2007-06-04 Thread John Gould
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hello, I'm totally new to OBSD and have it installed on my 486 which acts basically like a slim client allowing me to ssh in to my main box. OBSD comes with sendmail which I have never knowingly used before and while it works as-is for local mail

Re: Booting a Thinkpad T23

2007-04-05 Thread John Gould
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, sweetnsourbkr wrote: John Gould wrote: Burn a single session CD-R it should just work! Why are you trying to make and boot a multi session CD? There really is no need! The packages aren't included in cd40.iso, are they? From what I understand, I must either do what I

Re: Booting a Thinkpad T23

2007-04-04 Thread John Gould
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, sweetnsourbkr wrote: Timo Schoeler-4 wrote: i bet the CD is crap. I tried burning this CD 3 times and none of them worked, so that's out. I'm almost certain that the CD drive is old enough that it doesn't boot from multisession CDs (that's so unusual for me. ;) ) I

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-16 Thread John Gould
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:54:16AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:46:26PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: This means everyone should have our latest patches installed. *Solution/Vendor Information/Workaround* The OpenBSD

Re: OpenBSD wierdness

2007-03-09 Thread John Gould
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Steve Glaus wrote: Hi everyone, I'm at my wits end here with this and I don't know who to ask.. For about a week now my OpenBSD router has been acting up in the strangest ways. Route's dissapear, ethernet speeds crawl to a halt and other wierdness.. I'm about to wipe this

Re: Howto remove sendmail?

2007-02-15 Thread John Gould
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Antonis Faragitakis wrote: Hi all, I want to install postfix on my openbsd3.9 system and i was wondering how can i remove sendmail, is there a standard procedure to do that? thanks Atn. Search the archive! This has been answered numerous times. You don't need to remove

Re: Wanted: OpenBSD Systems Administrator

2007-01-03 Thread John Gould
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:09, Christopher Snell wrote: Screening Questions: 1. Based on the following statements (props to Lewis Carroll), answer the following questions: a. What can you logically conclude from these statements? b. Explain how you

Re: looking for clue

2006-07-20 Thread John Gould
Dude, going on your recent posts you don't have a clue. On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Peter Philipp wrote: Hi I'm looking for clue. Does anyone have any? -p -- Here my ticker tape .signature My name is Peter Philipp lynx -dump

Re: Sendmail configurations

2006-05-19 Thread John Gould
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Smith wrote: Ah. Add server.skyblue.mine.nu to the file /etc/mail/local-hosts-names On 2006/05/16 01:15, SkyBlueshoes wrote: I've just installed OpenBSD 3.8...my first ever *nix. I've got most up and running, but I'm having problems recieving email. I followed the

Re: newbie: panic question (azalia driver)

2006-05-15 Thread John Gould
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:13:47AM +0200, Srebrenko Sehic wrote: How do you debug/{copy,paste} a panic on pc or laptop that has no serial ports? I think IBM thinkpads docking stations have a serial port. Not sure about the Lenovo. Or you can just

Re: what is the maximum length of username?

2005-12-29 Thread John Gould
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Changing to the source code, it would have to be able to be increased the length of the usernames. I have done it with FreeBSD, but I don't known how to do with OpenBSD. roberto 2005/12/28, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is