Creating a Partition for RAID Arrays

2020-09-16 Thread Justin Noor
Hello Misc, We need to create a partition on an OpenBSD server for the sole purpose of mounting RAID arrays. The mount point would be something like: /data Then we will create directories in that partition and mount the arrays: /data/raid1 /data/raid2 /data/raid3 How big should this

Which AMD GPUs Work the Best with 6.7 Current and Above?

2020-07-22 Thread Justin Noor
Hello Misc, Which AMD GPUs work the best for general purpose use? “Best” is defined as the ability to run xenodm or startx to play every videos, games, render 3D or CAD/CAM graphics, a desktop, etc. - without causing any unexplainable or unreported crashes/freezes. Specs: 6.7 Current Ryzen 5

Encrypting vnodes with softraid0

2020-06-08 Thread Justin Noor
Hi @misc, Is there anything problematic about encrypting vnode devices with softraid0? I made this work on two USB drives and it seems to be fine. For example, if I have a pre-existing external RAID5 array with 20TB of pooled storage (filesystem type 4.2BSD), and I want to encrypt a 2TB portion

Re: Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

2020-06-04 Thread Justin Noor
about forensics either - we're not storing nuclear secrets. Thanks for your time On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:28 AM Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 06:58:01AM -0700, Justin Noor wrote: > | Hi Misc, > | > | Has anyone ever filled a 4TB disk with random data

Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

2020-06-01 Thread Justin Noor
Hi Misc, Has anyone ever filled a 4TB disk with random data and/or zeros with OpenBSD? How long did it take? What did you use (dd, openssl)? Can you share the command that you used? Thank you so much

Re: Failed to install bootblocks. You will not be able to boot OpenBSD

2020-04-04 Thread Justin Noor
:03:23PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 07:11:12AM -0700, Justin Noor wrote: > > > > > Hello OpenBSD Community, > > > > > > Hope you all are staying safe during these crazy times. > > > > > > I am looking

Failed to install bootblocks. You will not be able to boot OpenBSD

2020-04-03 Thread Justin Noor
Hello OpenBSD Community, Hope you all are staying safe during these crazy times. I am looking for any feedback on an installation error that occurred using the custom-layout partition option across two SSDs. ERROR: Installboot: no OpenBSD partition Failed to install bootblocks. You will

Re: Catastrophic machine freezes - X related

2020-03-08 Thread Justin Noor
speak. On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 4:09 PM Avon Robertson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 07:41:59AM -0800, Justin Noor wrote: > > Awesome - thank you for your time and for the valuable information. > > > > That’s hilarious about the serial port. I’ll try plugging into a sw

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-29 Thread Justin Noor
Yeah like Stuart said I need to reproduce the crash and get inside the machine when it’s in that state. To be continued. Best On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 7:42 PM Avon Robertson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 12:57:07AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > > On 28/2/20 11:32 pm, Justin N

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-29 Thread Justin Noor
. Will be in touch. Regards On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 6:57 AM Stuart Longland wrote: > On 28/2/20 11:32 pm, Justin Noor wrote: > > Thanks for offering to help and sorry for the delay - I got dragged into > a > > work emergency. I finally managed to SCP my dmesg to a remote machine. &g

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-28 Thread Justin Noor
Thanks for offering to help and sorry for the delay - I got dragged into a work emergency. I finally managed to SCP my dmesg to a remote machine. As a refresher I have a 6.6 current machine that crashes when X is running, and almost instantly when Firefox is running - it runs fine without X. The

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-11 Thread Justin Noor
Yes the machine runs without X. I can scp a copy of my dmesg to a remote machine and go from there. Will be in touch soon. Thank you. On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:06 PM Stuart Longland wrote: > On 27/1/20 11:59 pm, Justin Noor wrote: > > I am unable to send any log files or anything. I ha

Re: strange dmesg

2020-02-08 Thread Justin Noor
as was mentioned earlier. First time I’ve experienced that. On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 4:50 PM Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Justin Noor wrote: > > > I have the same output on a Protecli firewall device (it's not in > > production yet) running 6.6 stable, and have yet to figure out what

Re: strange dmesg

2020-02-08 Thread Justin Noor
I have the same output on a Protecli firewall device (it’s not in production yet) running 6.6 stable, and have yet to figure out what it is. I’m planning to spend some time on it next week. It’s a brand new device and there were no errors during installation. Specs: - Intel Dual Core Celeron

Catastrophic

2020-01-27 Thread Justin Noor
Thank you, Justin Noor

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread Justin Noor
Mr. Hansteen what are your thoughts on Texlive? On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:16 AM Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen < pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: > > > > 2. nov. 2019 kl. 16:00 skrev Oliver Leaver-Smith : > > > > What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I > mean long form such

Re: Two part question on httpd

2019-10-21 Thread Justin Noor
Try these sites: https://learnbchs.org https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:20 AM Jeremy wrote: > Hello, > > I am experimenting with httpd's cgi options. > > Why when I run binaries written in C from /var/www/cgi-bin, it's allowed > but if I use other compiled languages (ex:

Re: wrong pkg_add url after sysupgrade

2019-10-09 Thread Justin Noor
For future reference you could also: export PKG_PATH=“ https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64” Or whatever your preferred mirror is. Then pkg_add -u should work On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 6:42 AM shadrock uhuru wrote: > after trying sysupgrade for the first time on my laptop running