how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default,

diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, I'm trying to setup diskless operation between my FreeBSD desktop (server) and my laptop (client) I have NFS_ROOT and all other necessary options compiled into my kernel, I have this in /etc/exports: == / -ro

RE: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread David Rawling
-Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default, /, /var

Re: rc.subr patch to set FIB to demon

2009-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Коньков Евгений wrote: Hello, . Link to news: http://www.kes.net.ua/softdev/fib_patch.html rc.subr.patch - 2c2 # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.77.2.1.2.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $ --- # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.77.2.1 2008/05/12 07:29:03 mtm Exp $ 605d604

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question

Re: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-15 Thread Chris
b. f. wrote: Chris wrote: I'm also thinking of building a simple checksum database to track what actually changes and what my options were when I compiled it. It would allow me to better make regression decisions. I could also be free to delete packages and know if I recompile it later

weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Ed Jobs
Greetings. Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is running 8.0-RC3 btw. The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and growing (i have a screenshot if anyone is

No /dev/da0

2009-11-15 Thread Sabine Baer
Hello, I am writing to this list because I haven't found anything that helps me in the 'web' nor in usenet. First I have to apologize for my bad english and mey bad knowing of what I'm doing with FreeBSD, I am not a 'hacker' but just a user. Well my problem is mounting my digital camera. If I

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 284, Issue 11

2009-11-15 Thread James Phillips
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:29:59 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net Subject: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: CyberLeo cyber...@cyberleo.net Message-ID: 4aff67a7.6040...@cyberleo.net Content-Type:

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:03:03 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: anybody remember what keys to hit in the installation procedure? Let me access my brain... open(brain); Start installation which brings up sysinstall. Choose CUSTOM. First set up slice in FDISK, press 'd' to nuke 'em

Re: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-15 Thread b. f.
On 11/15/09, Chris christopher...@telting.org wrote: b. f. wrote: Chris wrote: ... Even if you edited your filesystem or archives to change the timestamps of package files, the I think that could be accomplished though the port makefiles. I think that the exact reproduction of whole

Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Tim Judd
snip all Please compare my working configuration to yours to check. I found lots of odd problems in your post and I thought it'd be best to just run with this clean slate. Network config: One low-power PC Engines ALIX board running as the NFS server, with a microdrive partitioned off for it's

Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-15 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi Tim, thanks a lot for your answer, I'll try that out tomorrow. cheers, mgp Please compare my working configuration to yours to check. I found lots of odd problems in your post and I thought it'd be best to just run with this clean slate. Network config: One low-power PC Engines

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 15 November 2009 17:30:02 Ed Jobs wrote: Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is running 8.0-RC3 btw. The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and growing

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:12, Mel Flynn wrote: Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this script is supposed to run every 11 minutes, there should

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:38:10 Ed Jobs wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 00:12, Mel Flynn wrote: Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 284, Issue 11

2009-11-15 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
James Phillips wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:29:59 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net Subject: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root The single IDE connector is accessible via the legacy ISA ports, and is thus limited to PIO modes (about 1.6MB/sec max, even with

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:58, Mel Flynn wrote: Does the cron log (/var/log/cron) show that it was run as operator around the time it started? /usr/sbin/cron[47350]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Even if it wasn't, I don't see a reason for such a buildup. Unlesssince

Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Many thanks to those who responded regarding my two questions. With regards to the CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE sequence and its ability (or lack thereof) to cause an immediate shutdown of the X server... well... I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias kindly posted a link to, and I

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Many thanks to those who responded regarding my two questions. With regards to the CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE sequence and its ability (or lack thereof) to cause an immediate shutdown of the X server... well... I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias

no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ? checking around does no good. tia

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote: ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ? checking around does no good.

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:49:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: By the way Xorg configuration becomes more and more elusive. Initially, DontZap was enough. Then it had no effect at all and the fdi file was needed. Now seems both are needed. What's next? If this continues, I'll run

Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In one of my systems, I've got a Seagate SATA 500GB drive (ST3500320AS) which is actually not very old... purchased 12/11/2008. It's never given me any problems, but just a few minutes ago, while compiling a small C program, I got a set of three irrecoverable errors in quick succession...

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: By the way Xorg configuration becomes more and more elusive. Initially, DontZap was enough. Then it had no effect at all and the fdi file was needed. Now seems both are needed. What's next?

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Jon Radel
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:49:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh or scp stuff in. so my question is: how

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:21:28 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Just the fact that I now have to edit an xml file to simply add a Greek keyboard layout is annoying enough. The fact that annoys me is that configuration seems to have disassembled into several parts that are not

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:06:55 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: So, the question is, should I: 1) RMA the drive back to Seagate? Yes. 2) Somehow try to lock-out the bad sector(s)? (If so, how?) [...] If it was failing all over the place (and on

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: Nov 15 15:24:17 coredump kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=256230591 This is *not* necessarily a big deal, despite what your other response told you. Errors on reads do not mean that your

bash prompt update lagging

2009-11-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I use the same bash config on Linux, FreeBSD and Cygwin, for the most part, and I just noticed that on my FreeBSD system the prompt is updating one command too late. r...@kanga:/root$ pwd /home/msoulier r...@kanga:~$ cd /root r...@kanga:~$ pwd /root r...@kanga:/root$ As you can see, the

Re: No /dev/da0

2009-11-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:11:14PM +0100, Sabine Baer wrote: Hello, I am writing to this list because I haven't found anything that helps me in the 'web' nor in usenet. First I have to apologize for my bad english and mey bad knowing of what I'm doing with FreeBSD, I am not a 'hacker' but

Re: bash prompt update lagging

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:14:25 -0500, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: \[\033[1;32m\]\[\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[1;32...@\[\033[0;36m\]\h\[\033[1;32m\]:\[\033[0;37m\]${SHORT_PWD}\[\033[1;32m\]$\[\033[0;37m\] I'm wondering if this is a bash bug on bsd, or if I'm doing something

Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-15 Thread David Allen
Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700, David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote: 1. The Handbook suggests there is a convention that when partitioning a a drive that's been added, to label the first new partition on that drive as 'e' as opposed to 'a' (which is reserved for the /root

Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still w

2009-11-15 Thread vuthecuong
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config and then 120, 180 etc. Anyone know whats wrong? thanks -- View this message in context:

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: By the way Xorg configuration becomes more and more elusive. Initially, DontZap was enough. Then it had no effect at all and the fdi file was needed. Now seems both are needed.

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-15 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:21:28 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Just the fact that I now have to edit an xml file to simply add a Greek keyboard layout is annoying enough. The fact that annoys me is that configuration seems to have

Re: Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: sti

2009-11-15 Thread Uwe Laverenz
vuthecuong schrieb: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config and then 120, 180 etc. Anyone know whats wrong? thanks If there is a firewire

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: Nov 15 15:24:17 coredump kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=256230591 This is *not* necessarily a big deal, despite what your other response told you. Errors on reads do

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-15 Thread David Allen
On 11/15/09, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700, David Allen wrote: 1. The Handbook suggests there is a convention that when partitioning a a drive that's been added, to label the first new partition on that drive as 'e' as opposed to 'a' (which is reserved for the /root

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: Nov 15 15:24:17 coredump kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=256230591 This is *not* necessarily a big deal, despite what your other response told you. Errors on reads do

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:57:18AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:00:14AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:49:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh or scp