I have been installing OpenBSD 4.6 inside a VMWare ESXi 4.0 virtual machine
and ran into a strange behavior I can't explain... it seems to cache my
installation options between totally unrelated virtual machines. The
process goes like this:
I create a new 'Typical' virtual machine, select
Ah, this definitely makes sense. It is a handy little feature but I am a
little surprised the privacy advocates out there in OpenBSD-land didn't cry
foul about reporting information back to the mothership like that.
Perhaps they finally learned that we would not care in the least
what they cried
The install process goes as expected and the virtual machine is running
happily along... The thing is, when I create a second brand new virtual
machine using the process described above and get to the 'select install
media' step, it already has my local ftp server's name populated! As far as
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, joshua stein j...@openbsd.org wrote:
at the end of the installation, the mirror you chose (in your case,
your local ftp server) is sent back to ftp.openbsd.org so that it
will be given to you again the next time, assuming your ip is the
same.
...
because
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