Re: A messed-up fresh install due to a careless user

If that's a new install, may as well just redo it.

The install is really fast, so this way you are sure you have a clean
system and NOT one that you may have problem down the road, specially if
that's your first time.

That's what I would do anyway.

Compare to any other IS, the install for OpenBSD is the fastest I ever
seen, except may be NixOS when you move it to a new system. (;






On 4/27/23 5:31 PM, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm blind, and got sighted help to install OpenBSD on the machine which should become a new router.
> Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to detach the USB stick I booted from, before I was to hit R for the reboot.
> The result was that the last selection disappeared due to the detach message from the kernel, and I didn't manage to get it back.
> The only way I thaught could be used for reboot was to hit ctrl+Z, and then type reboot.
> And it "worked".
>
> When I connected the machine to the LAN afterwords, I didn't get contact.
> After trying a few things, I finally got an IP on it, with the correct hostname.
> (I connected a keyboard, logged in as root, and configured one of the interfaces with ifconfig $if autoconf.)
> I've good expereince doing so without braille.
>
> So the machine got an IP, but still no contact, either with ping or ssh.
> I then realized that mandatory files has not been written, including the hostname.if file for the NIC used durring install.
> And I guess others too. :-)
>
> Which files are actually written when rebooting the corret way?
> I've OpenBSD 7.3 installed on both a arm64 and a i386 machine.
> Can I use the missing files from one of those?
> I should be able to copy them to a USB stick, and mount it and get the files in place without sighted help.
> And the network interface can be configured with dhcp for now.
> As soon as the machine is on the lan, I'll ssh into it from a linux machine with a braille display.
>
> Regards, Martin
>
> PS: I've now learned that one should reboot _BEFORE_ detaching any external device when the installer is still running. :-)
>