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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>duckland.org news (Unix)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://www.duckland.org/categories/unix.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:13:32 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>http://getnikola.com/</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Tale of Installs, Part 2</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201401tale-of-install-2.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, as I &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/archive/2013/11/Tale_of_Installs.html"&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, I was trying to install OpenBSD.  Well, my main workstation died, so I have to re-purposed the OpenBSD box as my workstation running &lt;a href="http://www.archlinux.org"&gt;ArchLinux&lt;/a&gt;.  I am hunting for a suitable replacement.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oh, and Happy New Year!&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>FreeBSD</category><category>OpenBSD</category><category>sa</category><category>Unix</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201401tale-of-install-2.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>dd(8) with progress</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201311dd-with-progress.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I needed to write an iso image to a USB key, and the typical way is
with just dd(8), but I wanted a progress bar.  A quick google later,
and I get:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pv -tpreb isoname | sudo dd of=/dev/sdd bs=1024&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Which will write the iso image to the USB stick sdd, and give me a
progress bar, tell me how fast it is writing, and give me an eta when
finished.  Perfect.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>sa</category><category>software</category><category>Unix</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201311dd-with-progress.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 23:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tale of Installs</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201311tale-of-install.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I am starting a new personal project at the house, and I need a new server.  As I was wanting to learn more about the *BSD, I started looking around at things like &lt;a href="http://www.freebsd.org"&gt;FreeBSD&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.netBSD.org"&gt;NetBSD&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://www.openbsd.org"&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since there was a security part, I started with &lt;strong&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/strong&gt;.  One of
the things I noticed quickly while doing my research is that while
there is a lot of documentation, they do not really seem to care about
making it easy for new folks to join the project, nor are the trying
to support new-fangled hardware, like &lt;a href="http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/bootable-OpenBSD-USB-stick-from-windows-td223393.html"&gt;bootable USB
drives&lt;/a&gt;.
This strikes me odd, as FreeBSD has &lt;a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html"&gt;instructions (see
2.3.5)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since I want to use pf, I am going to stay with OpenBSD for now.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>FreeBSD</category><category>OpenBSD</category><category>sa</category><category>Unix</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201311tale-of-install.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>