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Yes, your pings to Google's main website are returning, at 120-150 milliseconds each. Not very speedy, either due to your virtual machine or your network connectivity.
You could install a browser, but with only 256 megabytes of RAM, none of the major browsers will perform well; they are all huge resource consumers. I have a little Atom netbook with 1 gigabyte of RAM, and Firefox consumes all of it, often. I just saw dillo recommended on the misc@ mailing list today. That, or other lightweight browsers may be more useful in a small VM. The key to installing any third party package is to first set a PKG_PATH. If you have a a file called /etc/pkg.conf, it defines this path. That file is created for you during network installation. If you installed filesets and kernels from USB or CD-ROM, the file won't exist. So, you can set the PKG_PATH environment variable, then use the pkg_add(1) command. Here's an example, for two browsers: # export PKG_PATH=http://<your nearest mirror>/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/packages/i386/ # pkg_add w3m dillo
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I would also add that at an early stage, after pinging as you did, but before installing a package, you could check your network connectivity by using the built-in ftp(1) program to poke around some anonymous ftp site. If that sounds like unfamiliar gibberish, then probably best to go right for a simple browser as suggested by jggimi.
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Thanks,
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with the VM, On the "built in ftp program, and "some anonymous" ftp site, not gibberish, makes sense. In fact when I work on my website, I all ways use either the ssh, or sftp to access it, upload files, edit ,etc. Quote:
explore different options, and when I have another computer I can install too , I will have more experience on the installation,setup ,etc. Thanks for the response. |
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I noticed in your dmesg that you've got an i3 CPU. So I presume you've got a lot more RAM to be allocated to the VM... 50% of your physical RAM could be a good solution...
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@LeFrettchen,
Thanks, I found that, and increased the ram, also I was able to install dillo, it seems to work pretty good, when I was going to log in here, apparently the "window" for the log in is to small, and my entire password did not fit, so I need to shorten my password, I was able to log into another forum, just fine, using Dillo, but my password is shorter, unfortunately, with the VM, and not such a good connection, it is very slow,.. Anyway, I am starting to like open bsd more and more , ... Another thing though, when I installed Debian 8 (Jessie), to the VM, I was able to connect , similar as I now can with OpenBsd, but when I actually installed it (debian 8 ) to my HD, I also did have to install these "non free firmwares",drivers, other wise the networking won't work, I have not seen anything on this on the FAQs, but to be honest, had not looked much, cause I am not there yet, am I going to need to do the same with, OpenBsd, ? Thanks on the replies, they are helping me very much,.. |
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Use www/netsurf then.
It's a little bigger than dillo, but I find it tends to render HTML better. Still good for low-RAM situations. OpenBSD automatically installs any non-free firmware you may need on first boot. |
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Thanks, I will try that, I changed my password, and now logged on just fine,
So, I am now using openbsd ,with dillo, Quote:
Thanks a bunch. |
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