/boot.config
During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? Is this concept valid? ___ 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: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??
What is needed is the line just before the Vendor, with the card and chip IDs. Then compare it against the list of cards the FreeBSD msk driver supports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mskapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html Line goes as follows: none2:pci0:133:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x30e8103c chip=0x45711ab rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 Wait, the (binary|proprietary?) driver for FreeBSD 7.0 is almost certainly not going to work on FreeBSD 8.0. Yeah I messed the system up completely now and attempted to recover it with FreeSBIE based on BSD 6.0 which doesn't even start for some strange reason. Can't mount the CD it says?? Any other system I've tried manages. I just performed a re-install.. nothing lost so is ok. Kaya ___ 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: Create GMIRROR only one slice
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2010 21:10:42, krad wrote: You will need to newfs the gmirror device after that so backup the data currently on /, then copy it back afterwards. This is counter to all my experience of dealing with gmirror -- it's carefully designed so that the metadata it writes to the drive *doesn't* interfere with the filesystem. While it is always a good idea to have backups, I do not believe that destroying and recreating the filesystem should be necessary. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuxopAACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxvZwCaAgTijPzbHoL5whM6F3GQax2N eN4An3/HZSRgUml7jy+IpYRyK0rEfGRr =e+4T -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: Enough Is Enough
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On 30/03/2010 02:58:13, Programmer In Training wrote:
find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib -name -type f | \
Is the 'f' a typo? I had to remove it because find kept on erroring on it.
There is a typo, but it's to do with the -name predicate. -name needs
an argument -- but as the quoted script seems to be trying to scan for
the libraries linked to be everything in ${PREFIX}/bin and
${PREFIX}/lib you don't need to filter by name at all. Just use:
find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib -type f | \
'-type f' says 'only regular files, not directories or sym-links'
Note that using grep(1) to work out what a binary links to is
exceedingly bizarre. ldd(1) is the correct tool for that job.
In any case, there are better solutions to this problem: try using the
sysutils/libchk port.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail client is notified. That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4 -- it's not a push protocol as such: the client still has to log into the server rather than vice versa, but once the client has read all the available e-mail, it can put itself into an idle state, and the server will wake it up as soon as any new e-mail comes in. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuxqLQACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx6IgCfSDPdb2LrxBDJZ+csTQfn73lB +mMAniO4pq4K9gFEZ1SU53OrJOie9kaQ =oVgM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: Freebsd, postfix and push email
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:31:00 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail client is notified. That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4 -- it's not a push protocol as such: the client still has to log into the server rather than vice versa, but once the client has read all the available e-mail, it can put itself into an idle state, and the server will wake it up as soon as any new e-mail comes in. Yes. In fact, one of the nice things about IMAPrev4 as a protocol is that the server is allowed (in fact, required by rfc3501) to notify the client if the mailbox size increases while executing any command, by sending an EXISTS response which the client is required to handle. IDLE is just a command that takes a long time to execute (specifically, until the client ends it or the server's time limit is reached) so that the server has to send EXISTS responses whenever mail comes in. Jonathan ___ 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: Create GMIRROR only one slice
2010/3/30 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2010 21:10:42, krad wrote: You will need to newfs the gmirror device after that so backup the data currently on /, then copy it back afterwards. This is counter to all my experience of dealing with gmirror -- it's carefully designed so that the metadata it writes to the drive *doesn't* interfere with the filesystem. While it is always a good idea to have backups, I do not believe that destroying and recreating the filesystem should be necessary. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuxopAACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxvZwCaAgTijPzbHoL5whM6F3GQax2N eN4An3/HZSRgUml7jy+IpYRyK0rEfGRr =e+4T -END PGP SIGNATURE- Im pretty sure that it will nick the last sector from the slice, so you will at least need to fsck it. If its a production system i would always go for the cleaner approach as well and newfs is about as clean as it gets. ___ 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
faad2 build error
Hiya all I keep getting this when building faad2 . . . aclocal.m4:4655: _LT_AC_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... aclocal.m4:4654: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... configure.in:14: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works_GCJ, ...): suspicious cache- id, must contain _cv_ to be cached aclocal.m4:4761: _LT_AC_LANG_GCJ_CONFIG is expanded from... aclocal.m4:4760: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_GCJ_CONFIG is expanded from... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root - g wheel checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... nawk checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes ./configure: 2553: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to multime...@freebsd.org [maintainer] and attach the /usr/ports/audio/faad/work/faad2-2.7/config.log including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/faad. -- I mailed the maintainer last week but have had no reply and no action. I have looked at the code in 'configure' and cannot see a problem with line 2553, except maybe that it needs to be one line, and possibly needs quotes. However, I've tried those changes but cannot seem to make them stick as the file gets rewritten somehwere in the make process. Any ideas or workarounds? -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Setting firewall symbolic constants
In the example firewall rule set in rc.firewall, there are the following lines: # set these to your outside interface network oif=$firewall_simple_oif onet=$firewall_simple_onet # set these to your inside interface network iif=$firewall_simple_iif inet=$firewall_simple_inet Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? When the IP changes on the ISP's side, I'd like to have this detected and updated in the rules without my manual intervention. Do I need to write a utility and run in crontab? Or is there a better way? I'm off-list, so please reply directly to this e-mail addy. TIA. Walter ___ 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: faad2 build error
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:13 +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: Hiya all I keep getting this when building faad2 . . . aclocal.m4:4655: _LT_AC_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... aclocal.m4:4654: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... configure.in:14: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works_GCJ, ...): suspicious cache- id, must contain _cv_ to be cached aclocal.m4:4761: _LT_AC_LANG_GCJ_CONFIG is expanded from... aclocal.m4:4760: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_GCJ_CONFIG is expanded from... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root - g wheel checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... nawk checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes ./configure: 2553: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to multime...@freebsd.org [maintainer] and attach the /usr/ports/audio/faad/work/faad2-2.7/config.log including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/faad. -- I mailed the maintainer last week but have had no reply and no action. Yeah sorry about that. I read up your previous mail that it found /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4. This file was part of the libtool15 package. Which was removed 7 months ago in flavor of libtool22. It seems you got stale packages or files on your system. Can you see if you got libtool-1.5.x install, and if so remove it. If you don't have it remove the libtool15.m4 and we will see after that. -Koop I have looked at the code in 'configure' and cannot see a problem with line 2553, except maybe that it needs to be one line, and possibly needs quotes. However, I've tried those changes but cannot seem to make them stick as the file gets rewritten somehwere in the make process. Any ideas or workarounds? -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-multime...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-multimedia-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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: Setting firewall symbolic constants
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2010 13:52:57, Walter wrote: In the example firewall rule set in rc.firewall, there are the following lines: # set these to your outside interface network oif=$firewall_simple_oif onet=$firewall_simple_onet # set these to your inside interface network iif=$firewall_simple_iif inet=$firewall_simple_inet Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? When the IP changes on the ISP's side, I'd like to have this detected and updated in the rules without my manual intervention. Do I need to write a utility and run in crontab? Or is there a better way? I'm off-list, so please reply directly to this e-mail addy. If you switch to using PF rather than IPFW, this is very easy. In a PF ruleset, the name of an interface is expanded to a list of all of the IP numbers configured on it. So you'll frequently see rules like this: ext_if = de0 [...] pass log on $ext_if proto tcp \ from any to any port smtp \ flags S/SA keep state You can also say $ext_if:network to mean the locally attached network on that inerface. Works with both IPv4 and IPv6. One important wrnkle -- normally the resolution from interface name to IP number happens just once, when the rules are initially loaded. If your interface has a dynamic address, simple enclose the i/f name in brackets, like so: ($ext_if) This causes PF to update the mapping as the IP number changes. It's less efficient, which is why it isn't usually done for a machine with fixed addresses, but that won't cause you any problems for typical DSL or even Cable speeds. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuyElMACgkQ8Mjk52CukIy6LQCePtDUIteOMTnUQVYBZ2eUogfU nUgAn1U87/YBfSw/jBaP1nn9370zbzEN =eUTt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: /boot.config
In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? If you boot DOS from a floppy, can you see the USB stick as B: or C: ? If not, then the BIOS probably has no USB support at all, and you'll need to put a small boot partition somewhere on your hard drive to pull the kernel from. 128MB is large enough for a /boot directory, and you can set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a in loader.conf to make it mount its root filesystem from the USB stick (since at that point the kernel has loaded its own USB drivers). If you do see the USB drive from a DOS boot floppy, try entering 1:da(0,a)? at the boot block prompt and see if it lists the files in your USB filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick
On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Aiza wrote: This is the procedure you want to follow. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11680 And for greater detail http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11715 Thanks for the links. I will give them a try. Jay ___ 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
Making sense out of impitool power supply readings
Is there some trick to know when the power supply sensor readings returned by ipmitool actually reflects that there is a power supply issue? Our difficulty is that no one seems to use the same sensor values when it comes to power supply reporting, and even if there are two power supplies the impitool command may only report a single status. For example, here's one box that I have: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply PS 1 STATUS | 61h | lcr | 10.0 | 0 unspecified PS 2 STATUS | 62h | lnc | 10.1 | 0 unspecified PS REDUNDANCY| 6Fh | lcr | 19.0 | 0 unspecified Here's another: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply Power Supply | 17h | ok | 10.0 | 0 unspecified And another: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply PS1 PRESENT | 53h | ok | 10.0 | Device Present PS2 PRESENT | 54h | ok | 10.1 | Device Present PDB PRESENT | 55h | ok | 21.0 | Device Present PS1 STATUS | 4Ah | ok | 10.0 | PS2 STATUS | 4Bh | ok | 10.1 | PS REDUNDANCY| 4Dh | ok | 21.0 | Fully Redundant And here's yet another: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply Status | 64h | ok | 10.1 | Presence detected Status | 65h | ok | 10.2 | Presence detected PS Redundancy| 74h | ok | 7.1 | Fully Redundant All of these are systems with dual power supplies. When we query these sensors are queried, on some systems 0 means the power supply is online and 200 means it's offline, whereas others might user 80 and 180 or 180 and 380. Is there some trick in figuring out what status values means online, or would we have to maintain a table of motherboard/vendor versions and map these to how to interpret the PS readings? ___ 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
dd cloning slightly different disks
Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). -- Christoph ___ 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
Oracle 64bit driver
Hi Has anyone had any success with the /usr/ports/databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic driver install on 64bit machines? ___ 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
problem with mailing list archives?
If I go to http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html;, the last weekly archive is dated March 07. What's up with that? :-) Robert Huff ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
Theoretically, doing a straight dd copy of one disk to another and then swapping in that disk should work. I've done it, with no other tweaking needed. I've never done it with mixed OS instances on the same disk, or for that matter with a solid state drive. You'll lose the trailing 12GB of your disk, although you might be able to expand the last partition of whatever OS uses it to include this lost space -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Kukulies Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). -- Christoph ___ 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 ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). Well, this could possibly work, but I wonder why you want to do it this way.I would be inclined to divide the disk as desired, do the MSW install in the first slice and then get a FeeBSD fixit and partition the other slice and then use dump/restore to move the FreeBSD stuff over. That way you get the best fit for the new disk, no worries about tweaking geometry and no loss of the amount the new drive is bigger than the old one. jerry -- Christoph ___ 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 ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). Well, this could possibly work, but I wonder why you want to do it this way. I would be inclined to divide the disk as desired, do the MSW install in the first slice and then get a FeeBSD fixit and partition the other slice and then use dump/restore to move the FreeBSD stuff over. That way you get the best fit for the new disk, no worries about tweaking geometry and no loss of the amount the new drive is bigger than the old one. jerry Or even a middle path of creating the slices, making sure that the windows-to-be slice is exactly close enough, dd-ing the windows slice over (testing that it boots), and then running the dump/restore cycle for the freebsd portion of the drive. -- -- ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). Well, this could possibly work, but I wonder why you want to do it this way.I would be inclined to divide the disk as desired, do the MSW install in the first slice and then get a FeeBSD fixit and partition the other slice and then use dump/restore to move the FreeBSD stuff over. That way you get the best fit for the new disk, no worries about tweaking geometry and no loss of the amount the new drive is bigger than the old one. Reason was: I wanted to preserve all settings (Windows XP and FreeBSD) and avoid any reinstallation of packages or sth. and wanted to continue working with a minimum of interruption. Maybe I could use the 12GB overspace either later by assigning it an extra partition or grow some partition that is adjacent to the free space. -- Christoph jerry -- Christoph ___ 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 ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). Well, this could possibly work, but I wonder why you want to do it this way.I would be inclined to divide the disk as desired, do the MSW install in the first slice and then get a FeeBSD fixit and partition the other slice and then use dump/restore to move the FreeBSD stuff over. That way you get the best fit for the new disk, no worries about tweaking geometry and no loss of the amount the new drive is bigger than the old one. Reason was: I wanted to preserve all settings (Windows XP and FreeBSD) and avoid any reinstallation of packages or sth. and wanted to continue working with a minimum of interruption. Well, I don't know about the MSW stuff, but for the FreeBSD part, the dump/restore would keep everything they way it was. jerry Maybe I could use the 12GB overspace either later by assigning it an extra partition or grow some partition that is adjacent to the free space. -- Christoph jerry -- Christoph ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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: problem with mailing list archives?
On Tue 2010-03-30 11:55:18 UTC-0400, Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com) wrote: If I go to http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html;, the last weekly archive is dated March 07. What's up with that? :-) Mar 07 means the week preceding March 7, 2010. It looks like the index hasn't been generated for mail newer than that for some reason. However there's a this week link above Mar 07 which is current, and it links to your question: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=463321+0+current/freebsd-questions For the list archives you may prefer to use this link instead: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ ... although it only goes back to 2003, whereas the archive you pointed to goes way back to 1994! ___ 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: emacs-23.1_3,1 - 23.1._4,1 upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:22:12 +0200, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: There was an emacs upgrade in the ports today, but it fails: ... image.o(.text+0x6674): In function `png_load': : undefined reference to `png_check_sig' image.o(.text+0x6db4): In function `png_load': : undefined reference to `png_check_sig' On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:31:56 +, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same problem with x11-fm/thunar, png_check_sig got replaced by png_sig_cmp in libpng 1.4.0. Right. The new libpng version has png_check_sig - png_sig_cmp. I am testing a patch submitted by a few Emacs users and I will try to commit it during the next few days. In the meantime you can also test the same patch for Emacs by fetching the patch from PR ports/145171. It appears to work for editors/emacs on i386. I will be testing editors/emacs-devel and editors/emacs22 too in the next few hours. ___ 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: How to send a patch in a proper way?
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:20:49 +0100, Adam PAPAI w...@wooh.hu wrote: Hi, As of today I'll try to help and create bugfix patches for usr/src and usr/ports. I've already done 2 patches and posted it to the -current list but don't really know what is the best way to post the patches. Who will check them? who will make the decision to use them? How should I send the patches? diff -u full path or relative path? Is there any FAQ about this issue? The appropriate path is often a judgement call for you. I usually send patches that include at least *part* of the pathname, e.g. when patches for ports are created I diff at the toplevel /usr/ports tree, so that both the port-categogy and the port-name are visible in the patch file. When generating patches for the /usr/src tree it is also useful to see the relative path under /usr/src, e.g. I try to use: cd /usr/src diff -ruN bin/ls.orig bin/ls When the pathname of the source subdirectory is trivial to infer from the name of the utility itself you can also just diff files inside the source of the utility itself: cd /usr/src/bin/ls diff -u ls.c.orig ls.c You shouldn't worry too much about pathname context though. The FreeBSD developers will ask for more details if they cannot understand what you are patching. A couple of email iterations later you'll both know what is being patched where it was patched, and so on. ___ 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: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:49:08 -0500, Jay Hall jh...@socket.net wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been asked to explore the possibility of booting FreeBSD from a memory stick. This was not a problem; worked great when installed from the distribution CD. What would be the best way to get our custom configuration onto the memory stick? The fastest way I know is to create an image to an 'image' file stored on disk or ramdisk and then dd the image to the USB disk. You can create a suitably large image with truncate(1), e.g.: truncate -s 1g /var/tmp/image.bin Then attach the image to an mdconfig device: mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 20 -f /var/tmp/image.bin Create a filesystem on it, and install everything from your buildworld and buildkernel run: fdisk -BI /dev/md20 bsdlabel -w -B /dev/md20s1 newfs -U /dev/md20s1a Mount the new image partition before installkernel+installworld: mount -t ufs /dev/md20s1a /mnt Then you sould be able to install with DESTDIR pointing to the image partition: cd /usr/src env DESTDIR=/mnt make installkernel installworld Don't forgte to use mergemaster with -D /mnt to install the /mnt/etc files from /usr/src/etc. Then tweak the /mnt/etc/fstab file to point at the USB disk as the root filesystem. Finally detach the image and write it on a USB disk: umount /mnt mdconfig -du 20 dd if=/var/tmp/image.bin of=/dev/da0 bs=4m One of the nice tricks you can use for the root filesystem of the USB disk is to add a UFS label to the USB root filesystem. This way you don't have to assume that the USB root filesystem is called da0s1a but you can use /dev/ufs/LABELNAME in the fstab file of the image 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Having created problems for myself by doing something similar in the past I'd be wary of using dd for this, http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzckfx5 will take you to Google Groups for the relevant thread in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. The safe approach would be to use fdisk to create the desired slices on the new disk, use bsdlabel to partition the FreeBSD slice and then use dump|restore to copy the data. You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free for private use from http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: Setting firewall symbolic constants
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:52:57AM -0500, Walter wrote:
Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically
$firewall_simple_onet?
I use
onet=`ifconfig if | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'`
where if is rl0 or em0 or whatever the outward facing interface is for
your system.
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RE: Making sense out of impitool power supply readings
I think I might be able to solve my issues if I could filter out which of these entries returned by ipmitool sdr type Power Supply actually represent the physical power supplies. One of the cases I have below for example produces a list of six sensors. Only two of those actually represent the true physical status, but when I'm writing generic code, how do I filter these? In some cases the ones I want are called PS 1 STATUS and PS 2 STATUS and in others PS1 STATUS and PS2 STATUS are used (note the missing space). Yet another one just uses Status for both PS sensors. This is all very non-deterministic. Is there a call I can make in the ipmitool library to list only the sensors representing the real power status and not these other sensors like PDB PRESENT? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Steele Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Making sense out of impitool power supply readings Is there some trick to know when the power supply sensor readings returned by ipmitool actually reflects that there is a power supply issue? Our difficulty is that no one seems to use the same sensor values when it comes to power supply reporting, and even if there are two power supplies the impitool command may only report a single status. For example, here's one box that I have: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply PS 1 STATUS | 61h | lcr | 10.0 | 0 unspecified PS 2 STATUS | 62h | lnc | 10.1 | 0 unspecified PS REDUNDANCY| 6Fh | lcr | 19.0 | 0 unspecified Here's another: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply Power Supply | 17h | ok | 10.0 | 0 unspecified And another: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply PS1 PRESENT | 53h | ok | 10.0 | Device Present PS2 PRESENT | 54h | ok | 10.1 | Device Present PDB PRESENT | 55h | ok | 21.0 | Device Present PS1 STATUS | 4Ah | ok | 10.0 | PS2 STATUS | 4Bh | ok | 10.1 | PS REDUNDANCY| 4Dh | ok | 21.0 | Fully Redundant And here's yet another: # ipmitool sdr type Power Supply Status | 64h | ok | 10.1 | Presence detected Status | 65h | ok | 10.2 | Presence detected PS Redundancy| 74h | ok | 7.1 | Fully Redundant All of these are systems with dual power supplies. When we query these sensors are queried, on some systems 0 means the power supply is online and 200 means it's offline, whereas others might user 80 and 180 or 180 and 380. Is there some trick in figuring out what status values means online, or would we have to maintain a table of motherboard/vendor versions and map these to how to interpret the PS readings? ___ 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 ___ 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
releng-8 won't build?
Never had trouble with buildworld before...I don't see anything in UPDATING or on the current-list (or a google of the error for that matter), so I assume I've hosed my system in some fashion, but how?? Thanks, Steve #sudo csup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile (which points to releng-8) Connected to 130.94.149.166 Updating collection src-all/cvs Finished successfully #sudo make clean ... #sudo make buildworld ... In file included from /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/asn1/a_mbstr.c:62: /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include/openssl/asn1.h:717:36: error: ` may not appear in macro parameter list *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto. *** Error code 1 ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. ... You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free for private use from http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm Clonezilla is open source and has worked for me: http://www.clonezilla.org -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: random FreeBSD panics
On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages? ___ 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 umm, how do I do that ? Add this to /boot/loader.conf vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 I keep getting RW errors while writing into an USB drive, wondering if its the same problem is related to your reply ? USB mass storage driver seems to be broken. Works for me. da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1940MB (3973120 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 247C) info: [drm] Num pipes: 2 info: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode info: [drm] Num pipes: 2 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648923648, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648956416, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648989184, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=649021952, length=65536)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=649087488, length=32768)]error = 5 Are you sure that your device is not dead (weared out)? ___ 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: Setting firewall symbolic constants
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? If you switch to using PF rather than IPFW, this is very easy. In a PF ruleset, the name of an interface is expanded to a list of all of the IP numbers configured on it. So you'll frequently see rules like this: ext_if = de0 [...] pass log on $ext_if proto tcp \ from any to any port smtp \ flags S/SA keep state You can also say $ext_if:network to mean the locally attached network on that inerface. Works with both IPv4 and IPv6. One important wrnkle -- normally the resolution from interface name to IP number happens just once, when the rules are initially loaded. If your interface has a dynamic address, simple enclose the i/f name in brackets, like so: ($ext_if) This causes PF to update the mapping as the IP number changes. It's less efficient, which is why it isn't usually done for a machine with fixed addresses, but that won't cause you any problems for typical DSL or even Cable speeds. Cheers, Matthew Thanks, that's good to know, but I think I'll still plunge along to work a solution for ipfw; it seems to be the default. And along the way I can detect and assign both interfaces and addresses automatically so I can make it work magically (crosses fingers) on computers with different cards without me having to configure them. Walter ___ 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
u3g network problem
(8-STABLE/i386) Hi, I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a long time), I don't have any reply to DNS requests, as far I can see with wireshark... Then if I use an IP, it works. So it looks like it is a problem with DNS. I've tried with an other dns server with the same result. I've also tried with a local dns server to cache the requests. It looks to help a bit. Anyway I also use a ssh tunnel to connect to my server and (on the server) I can see a lot of CLOSED sockets with netstat, and a lot of sshd processes stuck, even after days. So there is something wrong with the connection. Any idea or suggestion? Thanks, regards. ___ 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
FreeBSD Instalation question
Hola. Estoy interesado en instalar el SO FreeBSD en mi Notebook, el cual tiene en este momento Windows 7 con un disco duro particionado en 2 (C: y D:). Leí las instrucciones de instalación, pero no me quedó claro lo siguiente: Como puedo instalar FreeBSD en la particion D: sin borrar el contenido de C: (Windows 7 y otros archivos) de manera que pueda elegir al momento de iniciar mi Notebook el SO con el cual trabajar (Windows 7 o FreeBSD)? Gracias !! Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and D:). I read the installation instructions, but I was clear: How can I install FreeBSD OS on partition D: without deleting the contents of C: (Windows 7 and other files) so you can choose when starting the OS with my Notebook which to work (Windows 7 or FreeBSD)? Thank you! Pablo Vidales Sáez Santiago, Chile ___ 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: FreeBSD Instalation question
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote:
Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at
this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C:
and D:).
I read the installation instructions, but I was clear:
How can I install FreeBSD OS on partition D: without deleting the contents of
C: (Windows 7 and other files) so you can choose when starting the OS with my
Notebook which to work (Windows 7 or FreeBSD)?
Thank you!
During the installation (usually involving the sysinstall
installation program), you are entering the slice editor.
This is where primary partitions are mentioned. Delete
the partition corresponding to the drive letter D:, I
would assume it's the second one on the disk. Then create
a new slice for the (now) free space and make it a FreeBSD
slice. After that, you can install the FreeBSD boot manager.
I'm not familiar with Windows, so I would assume that
it won't harm the Windows installation on the disk if
you add this boot manager. After that, you continue in
the normal way partitioning your FreeBSD slice, selecting
things to install, and so on.
The FreeBSD boot manager will then allow you to select
to boot FreeBSD or Windows at system startup.
Before:
{ [ Windows partition C: ] [ Windows partition D: ] }
First step in slice editor (delete second Windows partition):
{ [ Windows partition C: ] -free- }
Second step in slice editor (create FreeBSD slice):
{ [ Windows partition C: ] [ FreeBSD] }
Third step, after slice editor (install boot manager):
{M[ Windows partition C: ] [ FreeBSD] }
Keep an eye on which partition you mark active inside the slice
editor. As I said, I'm not familiar with how Windows handles
things, and I'm not a multi-booter, so excuse me for being quite
generic in my answer. :-)
Don't miss the excellent documentation in the FreeBSD handbook,
esp. ch. 2.6, to be found here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html
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Re: FreeBSD Instalation question
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:48:54 Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote:
Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has
at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary
partition (C: and D:).
I read the installation instructions, but I was clear:
How can I install FreeBSD OS on partition D: without deleting the
contents of C: (Windows 7 and other files) so you can choose when
starting the OS with my Notebook which to work (Windows 7 or FreeBSD)?
Thank you!
During the installation (usually involving the sysinstall
installation program), you are entering the slice editor.
This is where primary partitions are mentioned. Delete
the partition corresponding to the drive letter D:, I
would assume it's the second one on the disk. Then create
a new slice for the (now) free space and make it a FreeBSD
slice. After that, you can install the FreeBSD boot manager.
I'm not familiar with Windows, so I would assume that
it won't harm the Windows installation on the disk if
you add this boot manager. After that, you continue in
the normal way partitioning your FreeBSD slice, selecting
things to install, and so on.
The FreeBSD boot manager will then allow you to select
to boot FreeBSD or Windows at system startup.
Before:
{ [ Windows partition C: ] [ Windows partition D: ] }
First step in slice editor (delete second Windows partition):
{ [ Windows partition C: ] -free- }
Second step in slice editor (create FreeBSD slice):
{ [ Windows partition C: ] [ FreeBSD] }
Third step, after slice editor (install boot manager):
{M[ Windows partition C: ] [ FreeBSD] }
Keep an eye on which partition you mark active inside the slice
editor. As I said, I'm not familiar with how Windows handles
things, and I'm not a multi-booter, so excuse me for being quite
generic in my answer. :-)
Don't miss the excellent documentation in the FreeBSD handbook,
esp. ch. 2.6, to be found here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html
Just one note.
Usually Windows7 have additional hidden 100M boot partition first, than own
system
partition (Drive C:), don't be missed.
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Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 04:17:22PM -0500, Walter wrote:
Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically
$firewall_simple_onet?
My first response never showed up. Second try.
I use
onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'`
where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on this gateway.
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Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:37:58PM +, Varan Okul wrote: Hi, I suggest you try these scenario first. 1st - At RAID controller BIOS. Create 1 small logical drive for FreeBSD installation. The rest space from RAID0, just create 2TB for each logical drive. 2nd - Boot with FreeBSD installation CD/DVD Lets see FreeBSD bootable CD/DVD can see the small logical drive created, or not? If this not work, may be the RAID controller is too new for this FreeBSD version. The CD/DVD doesn't have driver for it inside. You may need to change to older RAID controller, or move to newer FreeBSD version. Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 ___ 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: random FreeBSD panics
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages? ___ 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 umm, how do I do that ? Add this to /boot/loader.conf vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 I keep getting RW errors while writing into an USB drive, wondering if its the same problem is related to your reply ? USB mass storage driver seems to be broken. Works for me. da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1940MB (3973120 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 247C) info: [drm] Num pipes: 2 info: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode info: [drm] Num pipes: 2 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648923648, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648956416, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648989184, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=649021952, length=65536)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=649087488, length=32768)]error = 5 Are you sure that your device is not dead (weared out)? That seem to have been the case. :P Ran a scan disk on windows and fixed it. :) But this doesn't solve the FreeBSD 8.0 frequent crashes. ___ 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: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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
How to make man pages
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? ___ 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
Upgrading releases?
Hi All, I have a system with 8.0-RELEASE and I read that 8-STABLE has ZFS v14 (instead of v13) I am trying: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8-STABLE and it does not work. it tried 3 mirrors, all fail and nada. Since I am new to FreeBSD, what am I obviously missing? Is there a place that states the releases? Is there an 8.1 or 8.2 out now that has even a new version of ZFS? Best, -Jason ___ 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: Upgrading releases?
Hi Jason, Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I have a system with 8.0-RELEASE and I read that 8-STABLE has ZFS v14 (instead of v13) I am trying: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8-STABLE and it does not work. it tried 3 mirrors, all fail and nada. Since I am new to FreeBSD, what am I obviously missing? Is there a place that states the releases? Is there an 8.1 or 8.2 out now that has even a new version of ZFS? Have a look at the DESCRIPTION section of the freebsd-update(8) man page, which explains why you cannot upgrade to -STABLE using this utility. If you wish to upgrade from -RELEASE to -STABLE, the handbook covers the proper source-based upgrade procedure. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ 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: /boot.config
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? If you boot DOS from a floppy, can you see the USB stick as B: or C: ? If not, then the BIOS probably has no USB support at all, and you'll need to put a small boot partition somewhere on your hard drive to pull the kernel from. 128MB is large enough for a /boot directory, and you can set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a in loader.conf to make it mount its root filesystem from the USB stick (since at that point the kernel has loaded its own USB drivers). If you do see the USB drive from a DOS boot floppy, try entering 1:da(0,a)? at the boot block prompt and see if it lists the files in your USB filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. The USB stick is plugged in before booting. During boot I select option 6 from Freebsd menu to go direct to the loader prompt. I have ok on command line. I enter vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a and get not found after hitting enter key. At the ok prompt I enter ? for list of available boot devices and only have ad0 listed. It seems the da0 device USB stick is not recognized yet. ___ 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
uname -a
su-3.2# uname -a FreeBSD dd.alexus.org 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #13: Tue Mar 23 20:47:52 UTC 2010 xx...@x.xxx.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 su-3.2# why is it showing up #13 here? back when I had 7.2-RELEASE-pX i've had #12, I then did following: rm -rf /usr/src csup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel ... reboot now it show shows 7.3 and #13, i thought if i get rid of /usr/src and re-csup it it should reset to #1? or #0 -- http://alexus.org/ ___ 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: uname -a
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:08:08AM -0400, alexus thus spake: su-3.2# uname -a FreeBSD dd.alexus.org 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #13: Tue Mar 23 20:47:52 UTC 2010 xx...@x.xxx.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 su-3.2# why is it showing up #13 here? back when I had 7.2-RELEASE-pX i've had #12, I then did following: rm -rf /usr/src csup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel ... reboot now it show shows 7.3 and #13, i thought if i get rid of /usr/src and re-csup it it should reset to #1? or #0 Did you perform a 'make installkernel' ? -- http://alexus.org/ ___ 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 -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html ___ 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: uname -a
Hi, alexus wrote: su-3.2# uname -a FreeBSD dd.alexus.org 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #13: Tue Mar 23 20:47:52 UTC 2010 xx...@x.xxx.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 su-3.2# why is it showing up #13 here? back when I had 7.2-RELEASE-pX i've had #12, I then did following: rm -rf /usr/src csup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel ... reboot now it show shows 7.3 and #13, i thought if i get rid of /usr/src and re-csup it it should reset to #1? or #0 The kernel version is incremented from /usr/obj, not /usr/src. To revert it to #0, remove /usr/obj. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ 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
