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My sad times

Monday, 6. April 2009, 04:16:58

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Somehow boxee did not work on the e4850 box I built and the drivers from ATI produced a ridiculous noise on the display when the CPU underclocked to 1GHz. I'll just have to settle for boxee on my imac for now. I was really looking forward to attempting hardware decode.

Abandoning Ubuntu I was not able to get the device to boot DragonFly BSD off a jump drive. On top of all of this I forgot my brand new 1TB sata drive at the apartment.

Next weekend I'll try to flash the BIOS from a USB jump drive and install the FreeBSD 7.2 beta but I'm not sure how to make a USB boot image for FreeBSD yet. I may just dd the ISO to a OCZ flash drive and see what happens.

In the meantime I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 8.10 sever on a P3 notebook with 256meg of ram for VPN and dynamic DNS.

:frown:

On a distant tangent I'm hoping to switch Hong to an N280 netbook with 10inch display for her birthday.

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is comixwall retarded or just stupid?

Saturday, 26. April 2008, 23:42:12

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Some time back I downloaded comixwall.

MD5 (comixwall42_20080109_i386.iso) = 36d547ae6e4a0709d7ede62f04bcd2cc

I ran the install today on an old pentium MMX 166 laptop as a test.

OpenBSD can see my malo and ne network interfaces. Great! I used to love openbsd so much.

So I go through a completely generic install and reboot.

Nothing happens.

There's no comixwall documentation to be found on my install.

Did I miss something?

The only thing I see in the ISO that may be of assistance is a "packages" directory.

So someone adds a few packages to an OpenBSD 4.2 CD and calls it a product?

The documentation is useless:



When OpenBSD installation is complete, installation jumps to ComixWall install.site or upgrade.site script, depending on the method you have chosen at the beginning of OpenBSD insta
llation. Installation scripts in ComixWall are heavily modified versions of the scripts in bsd.rd (especially install.sub), but the basic operation and principles are the same.

The first thing you will see is (s/install/upgrade if you have chosen upgrade mode during OpenBSD installation):



This is not true.

At least I can use my openbsd 4.2 install as a serial console in the future so it's not a complete wast e of my time.

I feel for the jackasses that think this is going to be a commercial success.

Go look at the FreeNAS install and see how miserably you fail.

Thanks for wasting my time ComixWall.

Close your site and get a job digging ditches.

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