Re: GPT BIOS boot

2019-05-31 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars
On 31/05/2019 16:00, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > Robert Elz wrote: > >> Well, you could, but I doubt that would work - it isn't wise to lie >> to the system... But it works with drives that really have 4K sectors. > > Sorry, I do not get it: how can I know if the disk has 4k sectors, andd > if

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-19 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 19/06/2019 21:59, Chris Humphries wrote: > I'm shopping for a new laptop and would like to have a laptop with > very good NetBSD support (ethernet and wireless networking works, > graphics works using the graphics card in a non-generic way, > suspend/resume works, trackpad). Does "new" mean

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-21 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
Good choice, Chris! Is it possible to collect the suggestions that others gave you and send them around, either privately, or publicly to the list? I am looking for a Thinkpad too (anything that starts with X or T and ends in #00, #20, or #30) but it doesn't _have_ to be a TP. So far my

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-23 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
I have been designing a system that does something a lot like this, to function as a multimedia asset management system. I would love to compare notes with you if you like. Do you want this to work on the block level? It sounds like you do. Things like this do exist, but you have to be very

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 24 June 2019 09:38:17 BST, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: >RAID1 puts an equal burden on both disks Is it really equal? It doesn't depend on implementation? >you will spend your time replacing disks praying that they >not both die at the same moment. This is one argument for not mirroring

Re: sdf members : please participate in the poll for choice of OS

2019-05-09 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
If anybody has the email address for one of the SDF admins, could you please let me know? Or, forward my email address to them and tell them I need to make contact regarding my account? I donated several days ago for ARPA membership but I haven't heard back and I'm having difficulty making

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-09 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
FYI all I made an account at Vultr.com and installed OpenBSD (not Net*). Anyway, it was a nice process. But the $2.50 and $3.50 VPS'es didn't seem to exist.

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-10 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 10 May 2019 07:53:06 BST, Mayuresh wrote: >On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 06:45:14AM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars >wrote: >> FYI all I made an account at Vultr.com and installed OpenBSD (not >> Net*). Anyway, it was a nice process. But the $2.50 and $3.50 >VPS'es &g

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-07 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is MetaArray IV? I have been out of the SDF loop for while. In any case, I will log on to SDF tonight and find out. NetBSD is something special. Debian is in pretty bad shape these days. I hope it recovers soon. On 7 May 2019 19:57:32 BST, Mayuresh

Re: netbsd : internals : bach book : good to start-off?

2019-07-26 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars
On 26/07/2019 16:14, Andrei M. wrote: чт, 25 июл. 2019 г. в 08:33, Germain Le Chapelain : There is a book litteraly called `NetBSD Internals' in the documentation section of the website: http://netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/netbsd-internals.html Sounds like the best complement to

NetBSD + npf for main Internet-facing firewall?

2021-02-25 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
Hi all, I'm considering running NetBSD on Supermicro A1SRi-2758F server for my Internet-facing firewall and main switch. I love this server for home servers because it's so quiet, and has many other suitable attributes. My plan is to run npf as the main firewall, and to use this machine as the