This is a short English howto for installing OpenBSD on a vServer from Hetzner.

Preparation

The first step is to install a VNC client on your host system (ssh connection didn't work out for me as the keyboard layout was havocked - perhaps a tmux problem?). If you need a suggestion …

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I copied this setup for a FreeBSD based git server with nginx and cgit from various sites and thus I should call it my Frankenstein jail...

First we must create a new jail, copy the resolv.conf, followed by the installation of various packages, namely:

# pkg install nginx fcgiwrap git …

Today I tried to get my Wacom Bamboo graphic tablet into a working state. The result is depending on how you define "working".

I plugged it into an active USB-hub attached to an USB3 port, which seems to be the root of all evil. The dmesg message is:

[   62.112449 …

This post will show how I set up my FreeBSD server which aims to act as a fileserver (primarily).

Failover

# ifconfig igb0 up
# ifconfig igb1 up
# ifconfig lagg0 create 
# ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto lacp laggport igb0 laggport igb1 10.0.1.1/8

This is how the result looks:

lagg0 …

This is just a reminder for me to set up my Lenovo x230 as an OpenBSD laptop (I'm running -current).

Full-disk encryption

For full-disk encryption choose the (S)hell option from the installation medium.

If your hard disk isn't available yet, change directory to /dev and enter

::: ksh
# /bin/sh …

I realized that some guys of my german speaking ADN followers hesitate to write english blog posts or Twitter/Facebook/whatever messages because they think their English isn't good enough. As consequence I'll start blogging in english more often to do the first step into the right direction.

It's been …