Re: PDF FAQ

Adam and Ingo, hello. On 2014 Aug 16, at 22:20, Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: Adam Thompson wrote on Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 03:27:46PM -0500: On 14-08-16 01:01 PM, Norman Gray wrote: To do this, I took the HTML versions of the FAQ sections, and normalised them into regular XHTML

Re: PDF FAQ [Was: Donations to OpenBSD]

be usable as the master version, and used to generate HTML and any other formats that were desirable (such as a PDF, or a text version via *roff). All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: PDF FAQ [Was: Donations to OpenBSD]

project must be maintained also, Thank you for your kind condescension. FAQ is a changing information, it needs another resources and maintainers. Indeed, and the easier that task is, the better. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy

Re: PDF FAQ [Was: Donations to OpenBSD]

to calculate. All I'm adding is that if that trade-off _were_ deemed to be worth it, then generating the PDF, and HTML, is trivial. All the best, Norman [1] http://www.amazon.com/Python-Language-Reference-Manual/dp/1906966141/ -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics

PDF FAQ [Was: Donations to OpenBSD]

Greetings. Some way up this thread, I said: On 2014 Aug 14, at 11:21, Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk wrote: On 2014 Aug 14, at 01:10, Worik Stanton worik.stan...@gmail.com wrote: Suggestion: Package the release notes, FAQ and some other documentation into a PDF and sell

Re: Donations to OpenBSD

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Python-Language-Reference-Manual/dp/1906966141/ [2] https://docs.python.org/3/download.html [3] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html [4] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/obsd-faq.txt -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University

Re: [OT] Commonwealth Games Ceremonies

! (I should probably confess that the weather isn't _always_ quite as good as this...) Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: immutable-ish version control repo?

appears to have been designed by a committee of rabid monkeys, which I myself feel is a downside). With experience of CVS, SVN, Mercurial and Git, I'd choose Mercurial any time I had a choice. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: SUMMARY: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

of the logic here) that this had ensured there were up-to-date drivers, in a way that wouldn't have been true if I'd installed OpenBSD onto the 'raw' machine. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: SUMMARY: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

manufacturer as the netbook, but that wasn't my principal concern at that point, so I can't be sure. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

SUMMARY: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

Greetings, all. On 2014 Apr 6, at 18:09, Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to install the released OpenBSD 5.4 onto a old-ish netbook without an optical drive. I thought I could do this via install54.iso; I can see where I need to get to, and can almost get there, but I

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

supported by OpenBSD, and as you explain the wired interface isn't supported on the floppy.fs installer, doesn't this rule out a pxeboot? (or am I getting myself terribly confused?) Thanks! Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

back when I clear time to have a go at this. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

=20140225072408 [5] http://blog.breeno.net/2014/02/creating-flexible-openbsd-usb-installer.html [6] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/bless.8.html -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

it. It's interesting to know that this is possible. Thanks for your help. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

, and stays off thereafter, so that, plus the reassurance that this _should_ work with this release, makes me think of hardware brokenness as the next most likely thing. Damn. I'll reply to Martin's Brandenburg's message separately. Thanks for your help. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray