Hello NG!
First I want to introduce myself: I'm Falk Husemann, a UNIX addicted
person from western Germany. Currently I'm trying to bite through
OpenBSD, because I want it to replace my Debian Installations and learn
to

I hope you don't get me wrong, I don't want to piss anyone, but when I
even tried to install OpenBSD on a PIII 500 (327MB Memory, 6GB HD), the
Installer failed at the end of the installation process and notified me
of a core dump.

After a restart the System boot to the point where it normally would
open up a console. There it fails, stating that /dev/console does not
exist.

This is the second try I gave OpenBSD. The first one didn't start the
Installation, because of a memory error. Now my BIOS only reports only
327MB of memory, but I have 128+256 installed.

I think that if there is a way to tell the OpenBSD bootloader to use
384MB everything would turn out just fine.

Another thing I didn't get any Information about is the ports tree
especially of OpenBSD. Maybe it's to easy to write anything about, but I
think, that I didn't search the right places.

Please point me to FAQ's, HowTos and manpages (preferably ones which I
can read online) to solve this problem (alone, soo I can learn something).

mfg
Falk Husemann

hi,

this sounds like a problem with the hardware.

have fun ;-)

ms




"Falk Husemann" <josen@macknolle.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20031031205402391+0100@news.cis.dfn.de...
> Hello NG!
> First I want to introduce myself: I'm Falk Husemann, a UNIX addicted
> person from western Germany. Currently I'm trying to bite through
> OpenBSD, because I want it to replace my Debian Installations and learn
> to
>
> I hope you don't get me wrong, I don't want to piss anyone, but when I
> even tried to install OpenBSD on a PIII 500 (327MB Memory, 6GB HD), the
> Installer failed at the end of the installation process and notified me
> of a core dump.
>
> After a restart the System boot to the point where it normally would
> open up a console. There it fails, stating that /dev/console does not
> exist.
>
> This is the second try I gave OpenBSD. The first one didn't start the
> Installation, because of a memory error. Now my BIOS only reports only
> 327MB of memory, but I have 128+256 installed.
>
> I think that if there is a way to tell the OpenBSD bootloader to use
> 384MB everything would turn out just fine.
>
> Another thing I didn't get any Information about is the ports tree
> especially of OpenBSD. Maybe it's to easy to write anything about, but I
> think, that I didn't search the right places.
>
> Please point me to FAQ's, HowTos and manpages (preferably ones which I
> can read online) to solve this problem (alone, soo I can learn something).
>
> mfg
> Falk Husemann