Re: vultr

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 05:43:36PM -0600, edgar@pettijohn-web.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 02:40:43PM -0800, Misc User wrote:
> > On 1/5/2019 2:22 PM, edgar@pettijohn-web.com wrote:
> > > I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with.
> > > They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I
> > > attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all
> > > whacked out and I had to start over with a fresh install.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Edgar
> > >
> > The default is alright, but comes with keys and passwords they generated,
> > plus they do a single-partition scheme on the smaller disk instances and the
> > auto partition on the others. Good for a general purpose machine, but not
> > so great if you have a specific task in mind. They also tend to install all
> > the sets.
> >
>
> Sounds like a clean install is the way to go.
>
> > But since they let you upload an ISO and give you full console access, I
> > just do a fresh install and customize as much as I want for the system I am
> > building. Usually so I can get a good partitioning scheme set up (256m on
> > /, /home, /tmp, /usr/local, /var and swap; with a 1g /usr and swap) so I can
> > dedicate 15g (Or more) to a partition for whatever task the machine was
> > built for.
> >
> > -CA
> >
> >
>
> I've been using vultr since around 5.8 or there abouts with no issues. Just
> saw they had an image available and didn't want to waste time with it if it
> was going to give me trouble later. Then again a fresh install doesn't take that
> long, might test it out anyway.
>
> Thanks for all the replies.

Use their default OpenBSD install. They have a special config on the
host for OpenBSD and the clock drifting problem.

Then download bsd.rd from an official OpenBSD mirror, check the file
with signify, copy the file to /, reboot the system, run "boot bsd.rd"
in the boot prompt and reinstall everything cleaning the whole disk.


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