Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure
Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I really hope you meant Gb here ;) I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD. From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses hard disc slices rather than partitions, and therefore cannot easily be installed in a free partition, but needs for hard disc slices to be used. 'Slice' is FreeBSD jargon for what Windows / DOS would call a 'primary partition'. In short, FreeBSD can only be installed in your machine only if you have free space *and* the possibility to create a primary partition in it . Due to BIOS limitations, PC hardware only supports 4 primary partitions on any disk. If you already have 4 primary partitions and you are not willing to delete one, you can't install FreeBSD as it won't install on what Windows calls an Extended partition. But let's say you have a typical laptop with two partitions for OS and data, and some free space at the end. FreeBSD will happily install there. Is it yet possible to install FreeBSD into a hard disc partition, rather than needing to install into hard disc slices? I have attached a copy of the screenshot showing the partition table; I wanted to install FreeBSD into sda8. Can this be done. Thank you in anticipation. The screenshot won't come through in the mailing list, if at all possible upload it somewhere and send us a link. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2
Hi, Is there a hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: named issue
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: These are queries your mailservers are making to the spamhaus blocking list. How many queries to the ZEN Spamhaus DNSBL are you making per day? If you exceed their non-commercial usage, they will cut you off. I see. Thank you all for your suggestions. Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver
Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine. So... If you are running hald you probably need option AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off in the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf Or you can configure hal to recognise them - there are various threads in the archives i believe. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Freebs 8.0 rc1 install problem
I am trying to install the RC1 on my main machine. It was running beta 3 but after a poweroutage I had to replace some damaged parts. etc. But now I get errors while trying to boot the install disc both from an sata drive but also the cdrom !warning setfeatures set transfer mode taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ! !Setfeatures enable Rcache taskqueue timeout ! ! setfeatures enable wcache taskqueue timeout ! ! Read_big retrying (x retry left) ! I have had the latter often on this machine but it always bumps into sysinstall sooner or later, but this time a whole night before locking up completely. removing the sata disk from the setup removes the second and third error. the machine is scsi mainly Any suggestions ? would using the usb install image work ?? kenneth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: changing port options in Freebsd
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: What is the best way to change an option on an installed port? should I deinstall and then reinstall with the updated options on the port? Yes. Also what was the command to change the options through make? make config. If you also wish to configure every dependency, use make config-recursive. This is useful when you wish to run a port build without attending every few minutes to press OK at the option dialogs that pop up. There are a lot more useful options in the manpages. Try man ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Tune USB latency...is that the right word?
Aside from hacking ulpt.c, is there any way to tune the USB latency? More... I have a USB printer, which works, but it takes about 2 minutes before FreeBSD 7.2 will send it ANY data...during that 2 minutes nothing is hapenning. It's not a printer warmup issue either, or a cable or anything like that, as it worked on FreeBSD 6.1 (after applying a patch to ulpt.c as submitted by someone on this list. (You know who you are! Thanks!) For lack of a better term is there a, don't wait 2 minutes before you decide the printer is probably not up to USB spec and start talking to it anyway sysctl or something? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Question about FreeBSD installation procedure
Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD. From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses hard disc slices rather than partitions, and therefore cannot easily be installed in a free partition, but needs for hard disc slices to be used. Is it yet possible to install FreeBSD into a hard disc partition, rather than needing to install into hard disc slices? I have attached a copy of the screenshot showing the partition table; I wanted to install FreeBSD into sda8. Can this be done. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:28:37 +0800 From: Bret Busby b...@busby.net To: b...@mailserver Subject: screenshot of partition table of laptop -- -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
lacie external hard drive supported?
Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
changing port options in Freebsd
What is the best way to change an option on an installed port? should I deinstall and then reinstall with the updated options on the port? Also what was the command to change the options through make? Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote: I have read all about the WPA sub-system; I've also setup my /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf files, correctly. Except one small detail... ifconfig ath0 up scan never returns. And when I do a: ifconfig ath0 It tells me I don't have a carrier. Let me repeat: Then you need the entries in /etc/rc.conf to create the wlan0 interface ... wlans_ath0=wlan0 After /etc/rc.d/netif runs, that is equivalent to ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 Then use the wlan0 interface instead of ath0: ifconfig wlan0 up scan -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD. From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses hard disc slices rather than partitions, and therefore cannot easily be installed in a free partition, but needs for hard disc slices to be used. A slice is a primary partition in IBM PC terminology. A disk can have four primary partitions or three primary partitions and an extended partition. The extended partition can contain logical partitions Is it yet possible to install FreeBSD into a hard disc partition, rather than needing to install into hard disc slices? I have attached a copy of the screenshot showing the partition table; Attachments are stripped. I wanted to install FreeBSD into sda8. Assuming that's a logical partition, then no. If you have less than three primary partitions, you might be able to delete the logical partition, shrink the extended partition and convert the free space into a primary partition. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system
I have read all about the WPA sub-system; I've also setup my
/boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf files, correctly.
Except one small detail...
ifconfig ath0 up scan
never returns.
And when I do a:
ifconfig ath0
It tells me I don't have a carrier.
I know the wireless router is working because this Apple sees it. So the
problem is on my Presario.
But the HP CQ-60 Presario is a pretty popular laptop, and the Atheros
chip-set is also very widely used. So, some one has almost certainly been
here before me.
I think my only problem now is to get the carrier logic to respond. Of
course I'd like to be able to control my wireless by pushing the light
button, to turn on and off wireless access.
Does any FreeBSD user have the button working? I understand it turns blue
when it's up. Orange when it's not...
This is a friend's email account.
I am Jules Gilbert, and thank's very much -- I couldn't do this stuff by
myself.
--jg
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote:
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router.
How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly?
--jg
I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just
need
FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do??
If you're using WPA, create your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid=myssid
psk=mykey
}
Then you need the entries in /etc/rc.conf to create the wlan0 interface and
set it up for WPA and DHCP:
wlans_ath0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP
If you're not using WPA, well, why not?
See the Handbook for more:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI
Today I did a portupgrade of PHP from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11. This broke both lighttpd and Apache web servers, on which I run PHP as FastCGI. I do not know if this affects those who use mod_php as I do not use it. I use mod_fcgid instead. Execute php -v at a prompt and it will spew the following and segfault. testbed suhosin[48982]: ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected (attacker 'REMOTE_ADDR not set', file 'unknown') If you are using FastCGI the workaround is to do make config in lang/php5 and deselect the Suhosin option. There is something very broken in the Suhosin patch as far as CLI and FastCGI is concerned. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:34:25 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Today I did a portupgrade of PHP from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11. This broke both lighttpd and Apache web servers, on which I run PHP as FastCGI. I do not know if this affects those who use mod_php as I do not use it. I use mod_fcgid instead. Execute php -v at a prompt and it will spew the following and segfault. testbed suhosin[48982]: ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected (attacker 'REMOTE_ADDR not set', file 'unknown') If you are using FastCGI the workaround is to do make config in lang/php5 and deselect the Suhosin option. There is something very broken in the Suhosin patch as far as CLI and FastCGI is concerned. -Mike No problems on my machines. PHP 5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Sep 24 2009 19:08:59) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Did you rebuild all of the ports that depend on PHP? I used portmanager with the '-p' option to update all dependencies. portmanager -u -l -y -p That should get everything working.Update you ports system first however. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com A life spent in search of the perfect hash brownie is a life well spent. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI
Jerry wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:34:25 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: [snip] If you are using FastCGI the workaround is to do make config in lang/php5 and deselect the Suhosin option. There is something very broken in the Suhosin patch as far as CLI and FastCGI is concerned. -Mike No problems on my machines. PHP 5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Sep 24 2009 19:08:59) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Did you rebuild all of the ports that depend on PHP? I used portmanager with the '-p' option to update all dependencies. portmanager -u -l -y -p That should get everything working.Update you ports system first however. Ports was updated immediately prior to this. The only thing that depends on php5 is php5-extensions. I completely removed all PHP and rebuilt manually, same problem. Removed all and did again without using the Suhosin patch and now all is fine. Except for running without the hardening benefits of Suhosin. I run both lighttpd and Apache on this box with PHP as FastCGI and it took them both down. Will look into it a little more later. The error I got was periodically a PHP bug on and off for years. I think there is something wrong with the patch I got. I use cvsup11 because it closest to me (in the Verizon datacenter in Ashland, Va.) but I have had that server go stale before. Might try csupping ports again from something a little higher up in the hierarchy. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI
Hi Michael, Michael Powell schrieb: patch I got. I use cvsup11 because it closest to me (in the Verizon datacenter in Ashland, Va.) but I have had that server go stale before. Might try csupping ports again from something a little higher up in the hierarchy. why not using portsnap? Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
adaptec 5805 and FreeBSD NAS
We are considering building 12 x 2TB NAS system in an Intel storage server box with Adaptec 5805 SAS/SATA HBA. Anybody have FreeBSD experience with 24TB (RAID6) and Adaptec 5805? thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
firefox and evolution (c) get hung up...
Hey guys, Anybody know why shmctl is undefined? I keep bumpiing into the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: Undefined symbol shmctl I'm running 7.1 and want to wait for 8 to reach Stable before I do that trip. Meanwhile, I'm looking for what to build or portupgrade to fix the above. any clues? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses hard disc slices rather than partitions, and therefore cannot easily be installed in a free partition, but needs for hard disc slices to be used. I see a terminology problem first. FreeBSD's slices are DOS primary partitions, and FreeBSD needs one of them to be installed into. FreeBSD's partitions are... they are like... erm... they are partitions. :-) You can imagine them as a subdivision to hold a file system. Slices are divided into at least one partition, or more than one, e. g. for the file system root, the swap partition, the home partition. Please note that (hard) disk != (optical) disc. Is it yet possible to install FreeBSD into a hard disc partition, rather than needing to install into hard disc slices? Both words are refering to the same thing. Everything you need is a free DOS primary partition, which is called a slice. I have attached a copy of the screenshot showing the partition table; I wanted to install FreeBSD into sda8. I cannot see it. Furthermore, I'm not familiar with the naming convention of Linux. As far as I remember, sd refers to disks, and sda is the first disk. sda8 would be... the 8th partition on it? Is this even possible? From FreeBSD's naming convention, ad refers to ATA disks. The first disk is ad0. You would possibly already have other operating systems on that disks, e. g. occupying slices (DOS primary partitions) s1 and s2, so ad0s1 and ad0s2 cannot be used. If there's unpartitioned space, you start the installation of FreeBSD with creating a new slice, ad0s3. Into this slice the installation goes, and the partitions are ad0s3b for the swap and ad0s3a for /; if you do partitioning with filesystems on their own partitions, you can of course do that. Refer to the handbook's chapter about installing FreeBSD for a much more detailed explaination. Can this be done. See above, and note that FreeBSD needs a DOS primary partition which is different from a logical volume inside an extended partition. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
No History after shutdown -h on FBSD 8 or 9
Aloha, Is there a reason the history no longer stays in memory on FreeBSD 8 9? Reko Turja sent me a work around for a reboot: shutdown -r +1 logout or shutdown -h +1 logout Both of the above work to save the history in a tcsh shell. We used to be able to use: shutdown -h now Is this not going to be possible from FreeBSD 8 onward? Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting ZFS and GPT
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to include GPT and ZFS setup in sysinstall during an initial installation? I am working on this, but it is a lot of work. Don't expect it anytime soon, as it involves ripping out libdisk and replacing it with libgeom. -- randi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting ZFS and GPT
To big a rewrite needed i think. Tell me about it. :P I've heard of plans to potentially release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. There's quite a few installer options that are around. bsdinstaller, then there's ivan's finstall. I've never used either of them. AFAIK, there aren't any graphical installers in the works that are 'based on pc-bsd'. I also seriously doubt these will make it to the official iso's. -- randi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting ZFS and GPT
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: I hope our developers see fit to make sysinstall zfs aware, but I hope we are not pushed (I know how to kick and my screams are deafening) into using it any time soon: ufs is wonderful for us ordinary computer users. Getting libgeom support is what is currently being worked on. ZFS is probably quite a ways down the road unless someone else steps up to help out. That said, sysinstall is the beast that no one else wants to touch, so don't expect this anytime soon. I'm hoping to have this done (or at least mostly done) by 9. FWIW, I'll kick and scream before sysinstall defaults to zfs. I'm currently planning on making zfs/gpt/etc only available from expert mode. -- randi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
