Friday, April 24, 2026

Re: Possible comment added to set install step in ramdisk kernel?

> Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2026 um 09:39 Uhr schrieb Janne Johansson > <icepic.dz@gmail.com>: > > Because some people actually manage to "be on their own" and can > > choose not to have X11 on their serial-console-only routers and so on. > > I have one of those. :-) > But I think that storage is cheap enough now (yes, really!) that it's not > worth the hassle anymore. > Don't know about the slower platforms like octeon, though. On my octeons (and other sbcs) it is not so much about the platform speeds but more that if you run from a built-in mmc card or a usb stick, the space is limited. On any given amd64 box it is totally true that the disks will be large enough today. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: Possible comment added to set install step in ramdisk kernel?

Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2026 um 08:26 Uhr schrieb Florian Obser <florian@openbsd.org>: > The party line really is: "You have to install all sets, otherwise you > are not running OpenBSD and you are on your own." I.e. the advice can be > much firmer. I don't think we should link to the FAQ from the installer. Then why do we still have these sets and not only one? Best Martin