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Old 02-23-2005
OpenBSD N00b: HELP ME!!! AGGGH!!

Note: This is not meant to start a flamewar. I am looking for serious answers to questions regarding OpenBSD.

I'm coming to OpenBSD from an eight year background in Linux (specifically various versions of RedHat and now Fedora Core 3). I have some experience with Solaris 8 and HP-UX 11/11i. I tend to throw a lot of the GNU stuff on top of those platforms so that I feel more at home. After spending some time talking about how security tends to be 50% OS and 50% admin skills, I got into an argument in a forum with an OpenBSDer. His claim was that where OpenBSD is concerned it's 100% OS and OpenBSD is pretty infallable. I've tried a few of the BSDs before and then gone back to Linux because it seems easier to me. But that just has to do with experience. With all that out of the way, here are some of my questions:

1. After I ran xf86config to set up X and then ran X itself (as root), my terminal session just displayed a blinking cursor and nothing happened. I don't think the system crashed, but as I didn't have a system to try and connect from, I just power cycled the box. It doesn't appear that the Ctrl-Alt-F1 (F2, F3, etc...) trick works in OpenBSD. So... how do I get X working?
2. A continuation of the above question: Are there virtual terminals in OpenBSD that I can switch between like I am used to in Fedora?
3. Is there LVM support in OpenBSD so that I can ditch the inconvenient partitioning scheme?
4. Is there a list of the software included with OpenBSD? (named, Apache, some kind of mail service that provides smtp, pop3, imap in one seamless package, etc...)

I am willing to deal with the difficulty of setting up an OpenBSD box if it truly will be more secure as an internet server. But I would really like to find some decent help in getting it set up to do my bidding in the first place...
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Old 02-23-2005
1.) Well you can run XFree86 -configure to let it be done automagic so there will less chance you made a mistake. Next is to try to run these commands

XFree86 &
xdm -display unix:0.0 &

wich wil give you a nice gui login atleast if it worked.

2.) yes there should be virtual terminals if you use ctrl+F*

3.) what ?

4.) Yes you can install packages with the pkg_add command
here is a ftp mirror with some packages consider using one near you ftp://muk.kd85.com/pub/OpenBSD/3.6/packages/i386/

You should also try to read the faq on the openbsd homepage.

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