FreeBSD 8.0 reboot hangs at welcome screen

2010-03-03 Thread n dhert
I have a server with VMware ESXi4 with two FreeBSD-amd64 virtual machines (one 7.2, one 8.0). I wanted to do a shutdown -r of the 8.0 machine. The system when down, started 'Rebooting ..', showed the FBSD Welcome screen, counted down 10 seconds, .. then nothing happened, waited about 5 minutes

locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

2010-03-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windows client, the file and directory names all look correct. However when accessing these same

Re: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

2010-03-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.03.2010 10:24, Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windows

freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread Piotr Lukawski
Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in

Re: Did something in the hashes change from 6 to 8?

2010-03-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/02/10 16:48, Christian Baer wrote: Mellow greetings! On a box running FreeBSD 6.something (probably 6.4) the boot drive died. I had never bothered to update it to 7 or 8, since I was planning to build a new computer anyway. Since I hadn't done that yet and I still needed the work of this

Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Lawrence
Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Stress testing a new FreeBSD server?

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Law
I would be grateful if anyone could recommend any tests, scripts, ports or packages which would stress test a new FreeBSD box? - both CPU and disk I/O. I would particularly like to get the processors nice and warm! :-) We already use bonnie++, unixbench, etc. but I was wondering if there is a

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations), wireless, ~15 screen, lots of memory, and

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: snip Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video Card , FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card. Is this only true of more recent

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: I've got a machine here running 7.2 which I want to upgrade to 8.0 but looking at the root slice it is

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: snip Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video Card , FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card.

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote: On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations),

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). Well , the opensource ati driver doesn't work for me , no matter linux or FreeBSD , it crashes I've read the documents , and found my ATI is on the support

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread William Bulley
According to Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com on Wed, 03/03/10 at 10:30: Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). xorg's open xf86-video-ati driver supports ATI video cards, including the Radeon

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
[r...@meilk /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON]# make CC='cc' make -f ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile MAKESRCPATH=../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON cc -O2 -pipe -march=i686 -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse -O3 -nostdinc

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: snip Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video Card , FBSD doesn't boot

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Bas v.d. Wiel
Aaron Lewis wrote: Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). Well , the opensource ati driver doesn't work for me , no matter linux or FreeBSD , it crashes I've read the documents , and found my

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread krad
On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: I've got a machine here running 7.2

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I am beginning to wonder if there is something different about the way mfsbsd boots since it actually extracts itself in to memory upon boot. I looked at bootloader.conf once again and created a new boot.config file. The system does definitely see the file because it echos the commands. The boot

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0200, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: See the section 3.17.14 Intel 386 and AMD x86-64 Options in the gcc Info manual. It contains a full list of the supported CPU-TYPE values for the -mtune=CPU-TYPE option. The -march=CPU-TYPE option accepts the same CPU

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Aaron Lewis wrote: [r...@meilk /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON]# make CC='cc' make -f ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile MAKESRCPATH=../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON cc -O2 -pipe -march=i686 -ffast-math

SATA regression with 7.2

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a box with a VIA VT8251 chipset and a single SATA HD, running 6.3/i386. I'm trying to upgrade it to 7.2, but, when booting with the new kernel, it won't detect any HD. In my BIOS I can set the controller to SATA, RAID or AHCI, but that doesn't matter. Here's what I see

Re: 802.11QinQ support

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Cameron
Hi there all Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? If so, how do I configure it as I've tried the usual ifconfig vlan? create and tried stipulating that the secondary VLan's parent interface it the primary VLan interface. But this doesn't seem

Re: 802.11QinQ support

2010-03-03 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Hi there all Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? I don't believe FreeBSD supports QinQ yet, however it apparently has always been possible to do nested vlans

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Staals
On 03/03/10 14:48, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations), wireless, ~15 screen, lots of memory, and

starting kernel from non zero physical address

2010-03-03 Thread Naeem Afzal
Hi, I am trying to figure out best way to boot FreeBSD8 kernel when physical memory is not starting at zero address. Is using physfree address in hammer_time() argument is the one which sets start of physical memory address? Any input would be appreciated. thanks naeem

signal strength for wireless

2010-03-03 Thread Eitan Adler
Does any of the output of ifconfig have to do with the signal strength of the network? If yes - which part? If no - how can I determine that? I looked in the ifconfig man page but could not find any information relating to this. ___

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread George Liaskos
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Andreas Davour a...@update.uu.se wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations), wireless, ~15

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread sand_man
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:12 + Thomas Lawrence thomas.lawre...@bbconsult.co.uk wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. ___

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: Aaron Lewis wrote: Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). Well , the opensource ati driver doesn't work for me , no matter linux or FreeBSD , it crashes I've read the

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted this... http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread sand_man
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:48:08 -0500 (EST) Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted this...

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote: On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: I've got a machine here running 7.2 which I want to upgrade to 8.0 but looking at the root slice it is

gpart command fails sporadically

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Steele
We've seen this error sporadically when using the gpart command: gpart: Cannot get GEOM tree: Cannot allocate memory What would cause this? It does not happen often but I wouldn't think we should never see it, not with a simple gpart show command.

fsck cannot determine fstype automatically

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Steele
We use gpart to create GPT style partitions. For example: # gpart show ad4 = 34 490234685 ad4 GPT (234G) 34 161 freebsd-boot (8.0K) 50 671088642 freebsd-swap (32G) 67108914 671088643 freebsd-swap (32G) 134217778 104857604

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in

Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-03 Thread don Juan
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, don Juan fmem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say, English Documentation. i've found