recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition

2008-12-20 Thread Fbsd1
I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk What tools do you suggest to use? ___

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. Are you kidding? IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Move it here? -- Regards, Anthony M. Rasat Manager -

Re: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition

2008-12-20 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:16:38PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk What tools do you suggest

Re: Why no dvd isos?

2008-12-20 Thread Octavian Ionescu
hi, if you really need dvd iso you can follow the instructions here http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/creating-your-own-freebsd-70-dvd-22791 -- Octavian Quoting Alan Batie a...@batie.org: m...@sentex.net wrote: There are DVD versions available

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Schuller
I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards. I'm using rdiff-backup and some scripting to backup ZFS snapshots. Other than the use of the ZFS snapshots there's nothing special about it. If your use case is suitable for rdiff-backup,

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Reko Turja
Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. Great, natural and energy saving form of water cooling! Just disconnect all the fans and overclock to your hearts content! -Reko

Re: linux_base question

2008-12-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:45 -0800 Chris wrote: I just updated ports and have the following shown linux_base-f7 linux_base-f8 I'd use this one if you cat't use linux_base-fc4. AFAIC this port has a fixed libc which works better with linuxulator. Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING for more

Re: linux_base question

2008-12-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:43:22 +1000 Da Rock wrote: If this is the case, what is the difference between the ports? Well, just what they are: ports for Fedora Core 6, Fedora 7 and Fedora 8. Do the libraries change? Sure, some libraries changes did occure. At least minor versions were. A more

Re: general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Richard Yang skrev: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Ott Köstner
Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, First, make sure Your ports tree is up to date: # csup -h

mount DVD - invalid argument

2008-12-20 Thread Max Russell
I have two DVD drives on my machine. m...@~: grep acd /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: DVDR PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D/1.19 at ata1-master UDMA66 acd1: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable acd1: DVDROM ASUS DVD-E616A2/1.03 at ata1-slave UDMA33 the optical section of my fstab is like this:

geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Franck Royer
Hi, I found this entry on the official website : http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/r...0-2007-12.html http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2007-10-2007-12.html But I didn't find any other information about the geom lvm class or glvm. How can i activate it in the kernel ? Is here any

Re: mount DVD - invalid argument

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
m...@~: grep acd /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: DVDR PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D/1.19 at ata1-master UDMA66 acd1: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable acd1: DVDROM ASUS DVD-E616A2/1.03 at ata1-slave UDMA33 the optical section of my fstab is like this: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 20 December 2008 08:02:53 Ott Köstner wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, First,

[6.3/Asterisk + Zaptel] Unloading module for upgrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Gilles
Hello Since the Ports collection showed that there were more recent versions of Asterisk and Zaptel, I tried to compile/install Zaptel, but it fails, even after stopping Zaptel cleanly, and even after stopping Asterisk itself: = # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 14

Re: [6.3/Asterisk + Zaptel] Unloading module for upgrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:25:28 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Since the Ports collection showed that there were more recent versions of Asterisk and Zaptel, I tried to compile/install Zaptel, but it fails, even after stopping Zaptel cleanly, and even after stopping Asterisk itself:

mount_msdosfs -o large?

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, I have a 250gb usb hard disk formatted fat32. With just mount_msdosfs I get %mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 mnt/usb mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Disk too big, try '-o large' mount option: Invalid argument The large option does seem to work: %mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da0s1 mnt/usb %mount ...

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
prad wrote: i'm surprised that people actually still live in southern ontario. despite all the imaginative suggestions, this is obviously an issue that should be submitted through the form here: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html you will note that beastie is using something like a shovel

Re: Linking libraries for compat_linux

2008-12-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:46:03 -0800 Chris wrote: This question is may be better unswered at emulation@ ML. I've bumped into a library I can't resolve and I must have a disconnect in how the linux_compat works because I can't see how it could be solved. I have the following: * compat_linux

LPRng cannot open connection...

2008-12-20 Thread luizbcampos
Trying to use LPRng printing spooler, it shows: $ lpq lpd Printer ip2200_usb...@localhost (dest localhost@/dev/ulpt0) Queue : no printable jobs in queue Printer 'localhost@/dev/ulpt0' cannot open connection -getconnection: cannot get address for '/dev/ulpt0' Does anyone

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Franck Royer wrote: Hi, I found this entry on the official website : http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/r...0-2007-12.html http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2007-10-2007-12.html But I didn't find any other information about the geom lvm class or glvm. How can i activate it

Re: mount DVD - invalid argument

2008-12-20 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:45:49 +, Max Russell thedoss...@googlemail.com a écrit : I have two DVD drives on my machine. m...@~: grep acd /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: DVDR PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D/1.19 at ata1-master UDMA66 acd1: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable acd1: DVDROM

Re: Video driver

2008-12-20 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Alain BATARD wrote: I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video : ATI Mobility Radeon X1350, after looking for

Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
Greetings List. If I am sending to the wrong list, then please let me know what would have been a more appropriate choice. I am attempting to research what is meant when, I saw that Juniper had re-written the network stack from the base freebsd network stack, to what is used in JUNOS. What

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Franck Royer
Ivan Voras a écrit : Franck Royer wrote: Hi, I found this entry on the official website : http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/r...0-2007-12.html http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2007-10-2007-12.html But I didn't find any other information about the geom lvm class or glvm.

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am attempting to research what is meant when, I saw that Juniper had re-written the network stack from the base freebsd network stack, to what is used in JUNOS. What exactly is meant by this? What is included in the network stack, when mentioned that it was completely re-written? ask

Re: mount_msdosfs -o large?

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
chrisw) % However I can't find anything about the large option in man pages for mount, mount_msdosfs or fstab. Would this be suitable text to go in the -o options section of mount_msdosfs(8)? large Mount a filesystem larger than 128gb WARNING: This uses at least 32 bytes of

Re: [6.3/Asterisk + Zaptel] Unloading module for upgrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# kldunload -f zaptel kldunload: can't unload file: Device busy = Dec 20 14:21:39 freebsd kernel: kldunload: attempt to unload file that was loaded by the kernel = What is the right way to upgrade Zaptel, without rebooting the host? please stop asterisk first to be able to

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Franck Royer
Apparently, the option is only available on freebsd-8.0. I will check If I can compile a Freebsd-8.0 kernel on a freebsd-7.0 just for getting the files from my lvm and then going back on a stable kernel. Franck Franck Royer a écrit : Ivan Voras a écrit : Franck Royer wrote:

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/12/20 Franck Royer royer.fra...@gmail.com: Apparently, the option is only available on freebsd-8.0. /boot/kernel/geom_linux_lvm.ko is present in 7-STABLE. I will check If I can compile a Freebsd-8.0 kernel on a freebsd-7.0 just for getting the files from my lvm and then going back on a

Re: mount_msdosfs -o large?

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: chrisw) % However I can't find anything about the large option in man pages for mount, mount_msdosfs or fstab. Would this be suitable text to go in the -o options section of mount_msdosfs(8)? large Mount a filesystem larger than 128gb WARNING: This uses at

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-20 Thread Gennady Kudryashoff
Just try to remove old-stoned CGA video adapter. GH Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd GH 7-release server. GH GH IT seems to be causeing some http outages. GH GH My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. GH GH GH Any suggestions,

Re: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition

2008-12-20 Thread michael
Jeff Laine wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:16:38PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk What

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
Thank you very much for the intuitive commentary. Sorry for making the inquiry so specific to Juniper, however, I could not think of another source that would be a good example. I fully understand how the inquiries appeared, however, thanks for answering what you could. The inquiry was meant

portmanager looping on libtool on 6.2 - 6.3 upgrade

2008-12-20 Thread Alex Kirk
Hello All, I'm in the process of bringing a production web/mail server up to FreeBSD 7.0 from 6.2. After practicing the process on a non-production box set up in essentially the same manner, I discovered that the only major issue to look out for was the fact that I needed to hold back

Re: Linking libraries for compat_linux

2008-12-20 Thread Chris
On Dec 20, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:46:03 -0800 Chris wrote: This question is may be better unswered at emulation@ ML. Oops, I didn't ever notice that list as I've never needed Linux before. I hate to trouble development lists with an operational

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martes G Wigglesworth mar...@mgwigglesworth.com writes: I am attempting to research what is meant when, I saw that Juniper had re-written the network stack from the base freebsd network stack, to what is used in JUNOS. What exactly is meant by this? What is included in the network stack,

Re: dump and soft-updates question

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gema niskazhu gemoc...@gmail.com writes: Hi! I-ve got a question about dump | restore on soft-updates managed slice. When we dump smth on soft updates slice where it actualy(mechanicaly) dump it? The output of the dump is controlled by a command-line switch (-f). In the absence of the

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you very much for the intuitive commentary. Sorry for making the inquiry so specific to Juniper, however, I could not think of another source that would be a good example. I fully understand how the inquiries appeared, however, thanks for answering what you could. can't you simply ask

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I very much doubt that marketing issues were a significant issue. Off-the-shelf OS networking has always fallen short of supporting it wasn't made for that. As someone else already mentioned in this thread, supporting hardware offload for forwarding is a major issue. Core routers (or even

porting problem....

2008-12-20 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, thanks to an unnamed firm studio I've got a database of some nature that isn't supposed to be given away. It worked fine until version 5 or 6. I couldn't figure it out and quit using it favor of other free or [ick] web services--- the web stuff delayed me

Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread Brett Glass
Netbooks based on Intel's Atom microprocessor are turning into big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an in-order machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it encounters a cache

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread michael
Brett Glass wrote: Netbooks based on Intel's Atom microprocessor are turning into big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an in-order machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl writes: I very much doubt that marketing issues were a significant issue. Off-the-shelf OS networking has always fallen short of supporting it wasn't made for that. It can be. I've written portable IP stacks intended for exactly this purpose.

Re: Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Netbooks based on Intel's Atom microprocessor are turning into big hits this Christmas season. The Atom, a super-low-power x86 processor, is an in-order machine, which means that except for a few special cases it can spend a lot of time waiting for data to arrive when it encounters a cache

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I very much doubt that marketing issues were a significant issue. Off-the-shelf OS networking has always fallen short of supporting it wasn't made for that. It can be. I've written portable IP stacks intended for exactly this Of course it can. i just write that FreeBSD network stack WASN'T

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:35:35 -0500 Martes G Wigglesworth mar...@mgwigglesworth.com wrote: However, the intuitive list member response strikes again. Thanks alot for you input. I, as you, can't really figure out why they felt, years ago, that they needed to re-invent the wheel. Bear in

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
A year, or two, ago, I found such information buried within the Juniper website; however, upon recent attempts at further investigation, both for learning about certifications, and subject matter for this topic, I am unable to locate said information. The historic Juniper blurbs were very

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
Thanks again for further information on this topic. Where can I find more information this as a research topic. I am talking about Academic/PHD-level information or industry-level information. (I mean that I am looking at this from a knowledge-base expansion point of view, so don't filter out

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl writes: I very much doubt that marketing issues were a significant issue. Off-the-shelf OS networking has always fallen short of supporting it wasn't made for that. It can be. I've written portable IP stacks intended for exactly this Of

Re: handbook suggestion

2008-12-20 Thread oklahoma
First, let me say that I find FreeBSD to be the best of all the free Unices -- and it is due to the excellent and practical documentation. That said, there is an easy way to make FreeBSD easier for the home user. There are a number of suggestions/methods of doing things in the handbook that

Re: nessus report

2008-12-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 19, 2008 11:32:51 PM -0600 Richard Yang kusanagiy...@gmail.com wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx There are several ways to detect if a

Gigabyte Motherboard Bios Setup

2008-12-20 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello, I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P motherboard. I am having troubles installing and running FreeBSD. What are the preferred BIOS settings for this motherboard Thanks, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Franck Royer
Ivan Voras a écrit : 2008/12/20 Franck Royer royer.fra...@gmail.com: Apparently, the option is only available on freebsd-8.0. /boot/kernel/geom_linux_lvm.ko is present in 7-STABLE. Sorry, but it's not the case on my freebsd. my uname -a : FreeBSD methrilla-test.home 7.0-RELEASE

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/12/21 Franck Royer royer.fra...@gmail.com: Ivan Voras a écrit : 2008/12/20 Franck Royer royer.fra...@gmail.com: Apparently, the option is only available on freebsd-8.0. /boot/kernel/geom_linux_lvm.ko is present in 7-STABLE. Sorry, but it's not the case on my freebsd. my uname -a :

portaudit and periodic

2008-12-20 Thread kareemy
I am using FreeBSD 7-RELEASE. I installed portaudit. The FreeBSD handbook stated that during the install process, the configuration files for periodic will be updated, permitting portaudit output in the daily security runs. portaudit was not run in my daily security runs. There is no mention of

Re: geom lvm class - glvm

2008-12-20 Thread Franck Royer
Ivan Voras a écrit : 2008/12/21 Franck Royer royer.fra...@gmail.com: Ivan Voras a écrit : 2008/12/20 Franck Royer royer.fra...@gmail.com: Apparently, the option is only available on freebsd-8.0. /boot/kernel/geom_linux_lvm.ko is present in 7-STABLE.

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-11-30 - 2008-12-20

2008-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Gigabyte Motherboard Bios Setup

2008-12-20 Thread Tom Marchand
On Dec 20, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P motherboard. I am having troubles installing and running FreeBSD. What are the preferred BIOS settings for this motherboard Thanks, Ivan What type of troubles are you encountering?

Re: portaudit and periodic

2008-12-20 Thread kareemy
I believe I am incorrect. I checked further and it looks like $daily_status_security_portaudit_enable defaults to YES in the portaudit script so it should run fine. Everything seems to be working. I don't know why I thought it wasn't running before. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks. On Sat, Dec 20,

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:54:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: However, commercial routers generally do not use their OS kernel this way -- it is far more common that the kernel does send and receive packets within its native IP stack. If I'm understanding

[6.3] Missing portdowngrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Gilles
Hello I need to downgrade a software from the Ports collection because it's buggy on my hardware, but the portdowngrade utility doesn't seem to exist in the 6.3 Ports: = # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade -bash: cd: /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade: No such file or directory

Sed question

2008-12-20 Thread Gary Kline
how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files using sed? Is it sed '8,10d' file newfile or is there a better way? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix

Re: Sed question

2008-12-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:34:10 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files using sed? Is it sed '8,10d' file newfile or is there a better way? Use in-place editing: keram...@kobe:/tmp$ cat -n foo 1 foo 2 bar 3

Re: [6.3] Missing portdowngrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: Hello I need to downgrade a software from the Ports collection because it's buggy on my hardware, but the portdowngrade utility doesn't seem to exist in the 6.3 Ports: = # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade -bash: cd: /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade: No such

Re: [6.3] Missing portdowngrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:43:49 -0500, Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: Try looking in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portdowngrade instead. Thanks Mike, that did it. I successfully downgraded Zaptel and Asterisk to stable versions of the Ports collection.

Re: Sed question

2008-12-20 Thread prad
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:34:10 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: or is there a better way? nothing specific to add for your particular issue, but this link may be useful in the future for sed: http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/ -- In friendship, prad

Re: Sed question

2008-12-20 Thread Corey Chandler
Gary Kline wrote: how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files using sed? Is it sed '8,10d' file newfile or is there a better way? I'd stick it in a for loop using inplace editing, but yes. :-) ___

[solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-20 Thread clemens fischer
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:15 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The problem had nothing to do