Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. Excellent choice of OS. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:57:04 -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote: I have just rebuilt world and kernel according to the Handbook, installed the new kernel, rebooted, logged in, issued sudo shutdown now - the machine entered single user mode, then immediately exited without any intervention by me and

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Robert. Вы писали 31 декабря 2011 г., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? RH No. RH Basic steps: RH 0) go to single-user; unmount partition RH 1) backup affected

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:39:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:57:04 -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote: I have just rebuilt world and kernel according to the Handbook, installed the new kernel, rebooted, logged in, issued sudo shutdown now - the machine entered

Re: very small network

2011-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/12/2011 04:12, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: I bought into FreeBSD with a DVD of PC-BSD. It's great, but the PC-BSD user manual is not up to the level of the FreeBSD manual. In the latter I have found, as you all suggested, all the necessary information. I haven't set the network up yet

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Виталий Владимирович
--- Original message --- From: Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru To: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com Date: 31 December 2011, 11:23:56 Subject: Re: reduce partition size. HELP Здравствуйте, Robert. Вы писали 31 декабря 2011 г., 5:16:33: RH

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/12/2011 09:23, Коньков Евгений wrote: is there a way to goto singe-user through ssh? Not in a useful way -- you can bring the system down to single user, but you will be logged out and not able to log in again. If you need to do this level of admin work on a remote machine, you will need

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-31 Thread Joe Gain
Writers who rely on ideological positions such as (socialism || fascism || jedi-knight == good | bad) really need to go visit a social science mailing list. It's not like political/ religious mailing lists don't exist. My positivist take on things: 1. Nobody is stopping anybody from changing

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-31 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 12/31/2011 01:02 PM, Joe Gain wrote: Writers who rely on ideological positions such as (socialism || fascism || jedi-knight == good | bad) really need to go visit a social science mailing list. It's not like political/ religious mailing lists don't exist. My positivist take on things: 1.

Re: Enter kernel panic

2011-12-31 Thread Arto Pekkanen
On 31.12.2011 17:05, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! FreeBSD FQDN 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Wed Sep 21 17:29:38 CEST 2011 root@FQDN:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DESKTOP amd64 testbox# If I press enter 4+ times during a cold boot I get a kernel panic. I call hardware problem. Maybe your

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, ??? ??? wrote: , Robert. ?? ?? 31 ??? 2011 ?., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system? RH No. RH Basic steps: RH 0) go to single-user;

CPU MHz discrepency

2011-12-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
Curios here. My BIOS reports my CPU at 4,023 MHz but when FreeBSD boots it says 3973.35-MHz. How is this determined? Seems like an off-by-one error somewhere. MB: ASUS Crosshair V FORMULA, latest BIOS, overclocked. dmesg output: Tasha dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project.

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:45:32 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, ??? ??? wrote: , Robert. ?? ?? 31 ??? 2011 ?., 5:16:33: RH =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= writes: Is there any way to reduce partition size on live system?

buildworld error 8.2-STABLE amd64

2011-12-31 Thread Janos Dohanics
Buildworld stopped with this error (with updated source): [...] cc -O3 -DNEED_SOLARIS_BOOLEAN -I/usr/src/cddl/usr.bin/ctfconvert/../../../sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris -I/usr/src/cddl/usr.bin/ctfconvert/../../../cddl/compat/opensolaris/include

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-31 Thread David Jackson
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 12/31/2011 01:02 PM, Joe Gain wrote: Writers who rely on ideological positions such as (socialism || fascism || jedi-knight == good | bad) really need to go visit a social science mailing list. It's not like political/

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-31 Thread David Jackson
An OS should strive to be a better platform for many people, including techies and non-techies. A good software design philosophy is that good software works out of the box without configuration using reasonable defaults, but, that that the software should be flexible, very configurable, the

Help Recovering FBSD 8 ZFS System

2011-12-31 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a FBSD 8 system that won't boot. Console messages suggest I lost my ad6 drive. When I created the system, built root on a zfs mirror and a raidz1 pool for data. I've managed to boot into an 8.2 Fixit shell and been able to mount root on /mnt/root. However my raidz1 pool (data) can't

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/12 06:32, David Jackson wrote: An OS should strive to be a better platform for many people, including techies and non-techies. A good software design philosophy is that good software works out of the box without configuration using reasonable defaults, but, that that the software

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

2011-12-31 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: # cd /var # dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -r -f - Make sure /var does _not_ contain directory names identical to those found on the / partition! As I said, maybe use /scratch. :-) Unless using a freshly newfs-ed partition, it