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Re: "How sucky is OpenBSD installation for the first time? I..."
Thank you! These are great pointers. It seems like a familiar but slightly different ecosystem, it will be an interesting learning experience!
May 15 · 12 days ago
Oh no! I made some typos! patch follows --.xession ++.xsession --pcidevs(8) ++usbdevs(8)
💀 requiem [OP] · May 18 at 11:28:
So I gave it a go. I got really stuck with what seems to be some bug with `radeondrm` — it boots fine but as soon as it loads the video driver the display just crashes. I can get FreeBSD to run fine with what I assume to be just vesa. But I really would prefer OpenBSD, it seems more ... "elegant" somehow? Any tips on what I could do to overcome the `radeondrm` problem?
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How sucky is OpenBSD installation for the first time? I managed to boot up my old laptop (An 1.8ghz Acer from 2008-ish?), and I thought I’d give OpenBSD a crack on it. What do I need to be looking out for, coming from a MacOS / Linux background?