Well, I managed to get OpenBSD 3.0 set up successfully on my server, but some problems I haven't the slightest idea how to fix forced me back to Linux for the time being.
1. Weird problems with the CD-ROM drive. I was trying to add some packages from the installation CD, and all was working well until I tried to ls in /mnt/cdrom/3.0/packages/i386. At that point, the console flooded out with white-on-blue errors about not being able to index something, and the command fails. Same thing when I try to umount the CD.
2. It doesn't seem to work too well with my cable modem. At first, all is fine, I can ping and browse both from the console and through NAT from another box, but some time later (about 3 minutes after boot) it starts giving errors about "transmit failed on xl0" (xl0 is the card connected to the cable modem) and I can no longer send out pings to internet addresses.
Other from that, and the annoying fact that it defaults to ksh when I'm used to bash, the little bit of openbsd I DID see looked great. Hopefully I can work these problems out (in vmware of course, not bringing down the server unneccissarily again) because when this OS works right, it sure beats Linux.
So, any advice?
Some specs:
Pentium 3 800 @ 896
External NIC: 3com Etherlink XL 10baseT (eth0 in linux, xl0 in bsd)
Internal NIC: Realtek 8139 100baseTX (eth1 in linux, rl0 in bsd)
CD-ROM: Samsung 48x IDE (secondary master)
1. Weird problems with the CD-ROM drive. I was trying to add some packages from the installation CD, and all was working well until I tried to ls in /mnt/cdrom/3.0/packages/i386. At that point, the console flooded out with white-on-blue errors about not being able to index something, and the command fails. Same thing when I try to umount the CD.
2. It doesn't seem to work too well with my cable modem. At first, all is fine, I can ping and browse both from the console and through NAT from another box, but some time later (about 3 minutes after boot) it starts giving errors about "transmit failed on xl0" (xl0 is the card connected to the cable modem) and I can no longer send out pings to internet addresses.
Other from that, and the annoying fact that it defaults to ksh when I'm used to bash, the little bit of openbsd I DID see looked great. Hopefully I can work these problems out (in vmware of course, not bringing down the server unneccissarily again) because when this OS works right, it sure beats Linux.
So, any advice?
Some specs:
Pentium 3 800 @ 896
External NIC: 3com Etherlink XL 10baseT (eth0 in linux, xl0 in bsd)
Internal NIC: Realtek 8139 100baseTX (eth1 in linux, rl0 in bsd)
CD-ROM: Samsung 48x IDE (secondary master)
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