Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Ian Darwin
On 5/23/19 7:51 AM, Roderick wrote: I wonder that no one noted this bugs before: are there no new people installing OpenBSD? Or it is a problem only with VMWare? Yes, the fact that nobody else has run into your problem suggest that it might in fact be your problem. Or your provider may be

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Arnaud BRAND
The web console copy/paste functionnality is a VMWare limitation. I don't think it ever worked. It think would require the console to emulate/simulate key presses depending on what is pasted and somehow assuming what the VM keymap is. I didn't try to install 6.5 on ESXI yet, but I definitely

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Tom Smyth
include a copy of dmesg and you might get info about the virtual hardware / hypervisor you are running on On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 12:58, Roderick wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May 2019, Arnaud BRAND wrote: > > > So you could try to install 6.4 to see if you have the same problems ? > > Just copied

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Arnaud BRAND wrote: So you could try to install 6.4 to see if you have the same problems ? Just copied bsd.rd from 6.4 in the root of the running system and booted it. It was a litle better. My settings to fdisk, namely change of offset from 64 to 2048, were ignored,

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 May 2019, Otto Moerbeek wrote: You must be doing something wrong. Since it installer surely leats you use a custom label. But since you are not showgin waht you did and you start insulting remarks, you won't get much help. Excuse me, although my words was not flowers, they were

Re: Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 08:42:05AM +, Roderick wrote: > > Please, delete the cc to b...@openbsd.org in any answer. > > I am now, after hours typing in the damned web console and dealing > with the buggy installer, a little bit furious. This is definitively > not the OpenBSD I know! > > I

Installer sucks ! (Re: OpenBSD on VMware ESXi)

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick
Please, delete the cc to b...@openbsd.org in any answer. I am now, after hours typing in the damned web console and dealing with the buggy installer, a little bit furious. This is definitively not the OpenBSD I know! I did manage to install OpenBSD in VMWare, with the "autopartition", but I