Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD It is very well possible,

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1. You won't be able to build things from source on that machine. Consider using packages for installation, or a second system to build and export (via NFS) the data required. You can but... too slow 3. For using your applications within the GUI, choose a good window manager, e. g. FVWM or

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD Polytropon free...@edvax.de

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:05:36 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: On part 1, it might be possible to build things on the old machine, but only little things. It _will_ work, it just will take some time. If that isn't a major concern -- no problem. If the machine is low on RAM, there should at least be

Re: how to correctly distinguish broadcast udp packets vs unicast (socket, pcap or bpf)?

2012-07-06 Thread Budnev Vladimir
Tnx! Worked like a charm, with skipped init and other checks, just the control point parts: ... int optval=1; setsockopt(root_socket, IPPROTO_IP, IP_RECVDSTADDR, optval, sizeof(optval)) ... char t[200]; unsigned int sender_len;

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-06 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 Message-id: cacy+hvpb08w4bjgucjb1ghvf-jgpzs0869qvxfryrtxef91...@mail.gmail.com Carsten Mattner

Question about gmirror priorities

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Ross
Hi, the manpage says for ``gmirror label'': The order of components is important, because a component's priority is based on its position (starting from 0 to 255). so I would expect to have different priorities for the components, yet both are listed with a priority of

npviewer error

2012-07-06 Thread Carmel
I am running FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE amd64. I continually see this error message in the /var/log/messages file: (npviewer.bin): syscall pipe2 not implemented The program crashes continually also. I have tried doing an RR without favorable results. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be

Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Installing FreeBSD 8.x I select A at the fdisk partition editor to use the entire disk. It creates an unused slice with offset 0 and 63 sectors in size. Then partition 1 starts at sector 63 and utilizes the remaining disk space. Does sysinstall's diskPartitonEditor macro automatically

npviewer error

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Huff
Carmel writes: I am running FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE amd64. I continually see this error message in the /var/log/messages file: (npviewer.bin): syscall pipe2 not implemented The program crashes continually also. I have tried doing an RR without favorable results. Does anyone have any

Re: [Bulk] npviewer error

2012-07-06 Thread Alexandre
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am running FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE amd64. I continually see this error message in the /var/log/messages file: (npviewer.bin): syscall pipe2 not implemented The program crashes continually also. I have tried doing an RR without

Re: video buffer location

2012-07-06 Thread Harald Weis
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:27:44PM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:34:21 +0200 Actually Opera already has a setting: Enable plug-ins only on demand (under preferences-advanced-content). It disables all plugins by default and you can click on an individual placeholder to enable a

NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (64 bit), with a VirtualBox VM also running the same. On the host I am running NFS server: $ showmount -e Exports list on localhost: /usr/home Everyone But when I try to mount is on the client (the VM guest) I get this: # mount

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
automatically start partitions at head boundaries? The reason I ask is because I am most familiar with sector 64 being the start of a head boundary as opposed to 63. Is my understanding incorrect? yes. 63 is normal. Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not had tme to pursued it though. I dont feel like exporting that data public in case its already gone too far. You don't have to export it at all. Can you confirm the data within is the same as say the same file in /etc or ~/.ssh? If that's really the case, it's a problem. the real problem

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Ryan Coleman
On 7/6/2012 11:43 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: automatically start partitions at head boundaries? The reason I ask is because I am most familiar with sector 64 being the start of a head boundary as opposed to 63. Is my understanding incorrect? yes. 63 is normal. Anyway just don't make slices

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-06 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Not had tme to pursued it though. I dont feel like exporting that data public in case its already gone too far. You don't have to export it at all. Can you confirm the data within is the same as say the

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/06/2012 06:03 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (64 bit), with a VirtualBox VM also running the same. On the host I am running NFS server: $ showmount -e Exports list on localhost: /usr/home Everyone But when I try to mount is on the

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:42:02 -0400, kpneal wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:03:27PM +, Walter Hurry wrote: I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (64 bit), with a VirtualBox VM also running the same. On the host I am running NFS server: $ showmount -e Exports list on localhost: /usr/home

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Robert Huff
Ryan Coleman writes: Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD Except for swap, right? Why do you say that? Robert huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:55:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: Are you root when mounting on the client? From looking at your prompt # I think you are, but I ask just to make sure. You can also take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- nfs.html in the

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/06/2012 07:28 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Ryan Coleman writes: Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD Except for swap, right? Why do you say that? Robert huff I think Ryan means partition and not

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote: Sector 64 is sector 63 when you start at 0. OMG, so right...I cannot believe that went over my head! Thanks for pointing it out. It lets me know that diskPartitionEditor is automatically selecting start and end

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD Except for swap, right? wrong. i said slices (==DOS/Windoze MBR partitions), not disklabel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think Ryan means partition and not slice? I would not recommend no slices at all, It's deprecated to use dangerously dedicated disks Starting with 9 I don't see slices in mount ouput anymore but still there are FreeBSD partitions in slices (which is a partitions in dos terms) Example / is

Re: Question about gmirror priorities

2012-07-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote: Hi, the manpage says for ``gmirror label'': The order of components is important, because a component's priority is based on its position (starting from 0 to 255). so I would expect to have

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:47:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 07/06/2012 07:28 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Ryan Coleman writes: Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD Except for swap, right? Why do you say that?

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/06/2012 07:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:55:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: Are you root when mounting on the client? From looking at your prompt # I think you are, but I ask just to make sure. You can also take a look at

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/06/2012 08:25 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:47:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 07/06/2012 07:28 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Ryan Coleman writes: Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD Except for swap, right? Why do

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
[snip] I think Ryan means partition and not slice? I would not recommend no slices at all, It's deprecated to use dangerously dedicated disks First of all, it's dedicated disks, there's nothing dangerous related. :-) If you are using the MBR approach (old way), you can do either creating

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Eitan Adler
On 6 July 2012 11:44, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Thanks for this explanation. Is there any performance advantage to using a dedicated disk layout over the old way of creating a slice and having your partitions within it? Slices isn't the old way. There is no perf advantage

re. Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread herbert langhans
Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I've been using even slower Thinkpads (300MHz), there are a few things to be aware of.

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 11:58:03 -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: On 6 July 2012 11:44, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Thanks for this explanation. Is there any performance advantage to using a dedicated disk layout over the old way of creating a slice and having your partitions within

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Slices isn't the old way. There is no perf advantage for dedicated disks. Maybe you get a few kb of extra space. Don't do it. http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml That is EXTREMELY old advice. The general

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/06/2012 09:06 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Slices isn't the old way. There is no perf advantage for dedicated disks. Maybe you get a few kb of extra space. Don't do it.

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
I went through this exercise to determine if there were boundary issues installing FreeBSD on disks. I concluded that FreeBSD was indeed installing at head boundaries. A colleague then pointed me to http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-01-01.freebsd-on-4k-sector-drives.html which calls into question

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Polytropon wrote: For maximum security, you can use the old approach of using fdisk + disklabel (creating slice, creating partitions within slice). This also delivers most compatibility for other systems, if it should be needed, e. g. in a multiboot environment. gpart(8)