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hitest

10-18-2018 09:05 AM

OpenBSD 6.4 released

OpenBSD 6.4 Released

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10-18-2018 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest (Post 5916281)

OpenBSD 6.4 Released

thanks for letting us know. i guess ill have to update soon.

hitest

10-18-2018 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ////// (Post 5916283)

thanks for letting us know. i guess ill have to update soon.

You're welcome. Install of 6.4 completed. I'm now pulling in my package sets. Fun! :)

fatmac

10-18-2018 11:03 AM

Great stuff, I've been awaiting it's release rather than put 6.3 on my laptop & upgrade. :)

hitest

10-19-2018 12:22 PM

Very cool! /etc/installurl is preconfigured so syspatch etc. works out of the box after installation.

fatmac

10-19-2018 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac (Post 5916331)

Great stuff, I've been awaiting it's release rather than put 6.3 on my laptop & upgrade. :)

Installed & running nicely. :)

YesItsMe

10-28-2018 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest (Post 5916776)

Very cool! /etc/installurl is preconfigured so syspatch etc. works out of the box after installation.

Wasn't that already in 6.3?

jggimi

10-28-2018 02:32 PM

No. Previously the file was created only if the installed filesets were obtained via a network mirror. This new functionality was added to src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub in August.

Code:

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revision 1.1101

date: 2018/08/22 16:53:36;  author: tb;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -3;  commitid: C61YooA3Nv37VdUd;

Let /etc/installurl default to cdn.openbsd.org if it doesn't exist and no

official mirror was used. This way, people doing installs without network

access also get working pkg_add and syspatch experience out of the box.



Idea from tj

ok halex, job (who made it all possible), deraadt

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YesItsMe

10-28-2018 02:36 PM

Ah, sorry. I must have done that manually then. :)

Livestradamus

10-29-2018 02:03 AM

And it is a fantastic release, steady improvements across the board. Although it would have been better if they knew about the X-hole bug to fix and delay a week or so.

cynwulf

10-29-2018 04:10 AM

Patched

https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=154050453117246&w=2

But also this: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=154050351216908&w=2

Livestradamus

10-29-2018 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cynwulf (Post 5920392)

Patched

https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=154050453117246&w=2

But also this: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=154050351216908&w=2

Thanks, I should have mentioned its been patched.
Having xenodm launch X was already a fix and so I was never affected.

cynwulf

10-29-2018 06:50 AM

No problem - I've used xenodm(1)/xdm(1) for quite a few years as well.

hitest

11-01-2018 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Livestradamus (Post 5920429)

Having xenodm launch X was already a fix and so I was never affected.

I did get hit by that issue after syspatch #1. Now using xenodm. :)

Randicus Draco Albus

11-24-2018 06:39 PM

Attempted to upgrade last night. What a nightmare. I do not have an installation disc burned this time, so I tried upgrading over the internet. The very slow internet connection was even slower than usual. I left the computer on all night, but only half of the sets had been downloaded! :eek: Hopefully the connection will be a little quicker next time.

hitest

11-24-2018 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Randicus Draco Albus (Post 5929622)

That's very odd. The pkg_add command now works out of the box for OpenBSD 6.4 as your /etc/installurl file is pre-configured for you and selects the best download site for you based on location.
I find that download speeds are now a lot faster for me when I download packages.

jggimi

11-24-2018 07:06 PM

I just upgraded my mail servers. It required a lot of testing prior to deployment, due to changes in OpenSMTPd grammar. Details here.

hitest

11-24-2018 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jggimi (Post 5929630)

I just upgraded my mail servers. It required a lot of testing prior to deployment, due to changes in OpenSMTPd grammar. Details here.

Enjoyed reading about your server adventures. Thanks. :)

Randicus Draco Albus

11-26-2018 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest (Post 5929625)

I find that download speeds are now a lot faster for me when I download packages.

Not in China. The internet is slow here at the best of times. It is not unusual for local connections to occasionally go down for an hour or two. So international connections being sporadic is not unusual.

Anyway, upgrade had a hitch, so reinstalled and 6.4 humming along nicely.

hitest

11-26-2018 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Randicus Draco Albus (Post 5930074)

Interesting! Thanks for the reply. I didn't know about the Internet slow downs in China. Very happy to hear that 6.4 is working well for you now. This release is stellar.

sevendogsbsd

11-26-2018 10:08 AM

I really wanted to give OpenBSD 6.4 a go, curious about it - been a FreeBSD user for a while and I see folks running OpenBSD as a desktop. I currently run FreeBSD 11.2 as a desktop. Successfully wrote a thumbdrive with the 6.4 image and booted to the installer - everything seemed fine until I got to the partitioner and then massive confusion overcame me...I am no slouch at the CLI but could not for the life of me figure out how to install to a custom drive/partition scheme. OpenBSD graciously ate my boot drive despite not having committed any changes so that was an issue but I needed to do a fresh install of FreeBSD anyway for other reasons.

Maybe this is a topic for another thread - can someone point me in the direction of a howto on installing OpenBSD? I have already read through the OpenBSD FAQ but it was not terribly informative. Looking at installing to a desktop PC with 2 SSDs: one for the OS and one for user's /home. No windoze involved, BSD only. Been running this config for years on both Linux and FreeBSD with no issues. I am sure it must be possible on OpenBSD?

fatmac

11-26-2018 10:44 AM

It's not complicated, just different to what you are used to. ;)

Read up on partitioning & all will become clear. :)

When I install, I just use a / & /home, (but I'm told this isn't the best set up) - select Whole disk, Custom partitioning, enter 'z' to clear it, then 'a' to add a partition.

(I add the 'a' partition for / & the 'd' partition for /home.)

cynwulf

11-26-2018 10:46 AM

You would want to use disklabel(8)'s interactive mode (presented as the option "manual partitioning" as I recall) during installation to create your own partition schema. There are valid reasons for using the defaults - or close to the defaults - however, which I won't go into here as it's the subject of a whole other thread.

I tend to exit the installer and using fdisk(8) and disklabel(8), ensure I know for certain which disk it is I am installing to and which contains important data or another OS.

sevendogsbsd

11-26-2018 10:54 AM

Great, thanks to both of you - I have no issues with the default partitioning scheme, other than my /home is on another disk and I don't want to format it but leave it as UFS and untouched. Yes, very different than what I am used to! I am intrigued by the simplicity of the OS - I have minimal software requirements and use a WM and a few tools, all of which appear to be in OpenBSD.

Will give another go and report back. Thanks again.

cynwulf

11-27-2018 05:44 AM

I hadn't realised you'd wanted to install across two SSDs. The installer does not support installing to multiple block devices. You would have to do this afterwards.

I suggest creating a very small /home partition on the first device during install (this is your "failsafe" should the other device fail or not be available).

Backup all of the files from this partition.

Then create a suitable sized UFS partition on the other drive and just mount that as your /home partition..

Restore the backed up files to the new /home partition.

sevendogsbsd

11-27-2018 07:05 AM

Thanks cynwulf - saved me some confusion! I have a NAS and regularly back up my /home disk so it is easy to restore. The automatic partition scheme is fine then, and I can just adjust the mount point of /home later, to point to my other SSD.

I still have more reading to do on OpenBSD - reading through the FAQ shows different commands, etc, for tasks that I am used to on FreeBSD. It seems a VM instance might be prudent first so I can learn the system better.

jggimi

11-27-2018 07:20 AM

If you are installing OpenBSD for the first time, PLEASE START with the default partitioning allocations, which are based on disk size. If you use the defaults, you will avoid inadvertently eliminating OpenBSD security features set by mount point, and you will also avoid the risk of boot failure due to having the second stage bootloader randomly stored outside your computer's BIOS sector addressing limits.

sevendogsbsd

11-27-2018 07:43 AM

Thanks for the advice - that brings up another question: can OpenBSD handle UEFI motherboards and booting? I am booting FreeBSD with an EFI partition now. No other OS's (windows) on this machine so no "secure boot, fast boot, etc".

jggimi

11-27-2018 08:45 AM

Yes, OpenBSD supports EFI boot and GPT partitioning. To my recollection, EFI multi-boot is not currently supported, but I also recall that there are some users who have developed workarounds.

Edited to add: I'm using EFI, but I have two OSes on two separate drives. Therefore, I don't have direct knowledge of multi-boot concerns.

sevendogsbsd

11-27-2018 08:51 AM

Great, no multiboot for me, I am a one OS guy, lol. Appreciate the answers.

hitest

11-27-2018 09:17 AM

I currently dual boot Slackware64-current and OpenBSD 6.4 using LILO as the boot loader. Here's my /etc/lilo.conf. After I edit /etc/lilo.conf to add the OpenBSD partition I update lilo with: # lilo -P fix

Code:

bash-4.4$ cat /etc/lilo.conf

# LILO configuration file

# generated by 'liloconfig'

#

# Start LILO global section

# Append any additional kernel parameters:

append=" "



boot = /dev/sda

#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.



# Boot BMP Image.

# Bitmap in BMP format: 640x480x8

  bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp

# Menu colors (foreground, background, shadow, highlighted

# foreground, highlighted background, highlighted shadow):

  bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0

# Location of the option table: location x, location y, number of

# columns, lines per column (max 15), "spill" (this is how many

# entries must be in the first column before the next begins to

# be used. We don't specify it here, as there's just one column.

  bmp-table = 60,6,1,16

# Timer location x, timer location y, foreground color,

# background color, shadow color.

  bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255



# Standard menu.

# Or, you can comment out the bitmap menu above and 

# use a boot message with the standard menu:

#message = /boot/boot_message.txt



# Wait until the timeout to boot (if commented out, boot the

# first entry immediately):

prompt

# Timeout before the first entry boots.

# This is given in tenths of a second, so 600 for every minute:

timeout = 1200

# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:

change-rules

  reset

# Normal VGA console

vga = normal

# Ask for video mode at boot (time out to normal in 30s)

#vga = ask

# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k

#vga=791

# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k

#vga=790

# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256

#vga=773

# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k

#vga=788

# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k

#vga=787

# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256

#vga=771

# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k

#vga=785

# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k

#vga=784

# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256

#vga=769

# End LILO global section

# Linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/sda2

  label = Linux

  read-only

# Linux bootable partition config ends

other = /dev/sda4

label = OpenBSD

table = /dev/sda

bash-4.4$

Here's a thread I started about dual booting OpenBSD. Several options are listed.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ot-4175579277/

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