Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:06 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I use the amd64 install DVD. With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy to /dev/sda, the boot flag

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012 On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012 On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or

Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] IIUC I now have to do: # gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0 # gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 256k -l root0 ada0

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow the RELEASE branch, plus the security updates

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:28 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 00:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I meant the really manual mode (CLI) as to be seen in Fig. 3-10, named Shell (that's why the confusion, sorry).

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:19 +0100, Polytropon wrote: How does doesn't work appear? My apologies that I didn't wrote all error messages, they were about non-bootable and other things. I guess it' s better to ignore this and to continue with ... Maybe it's because you have a totally non-standard

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:26:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] IIUC I now have to do: # gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0 # gpart add -s 8G -t

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.25 12:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 * size of the RAM? It depends on use patterns and the amount of RAM in your computer. 1.5* to 2* installed memory is a traditional works for most value, but I feel it's outdated for

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:06:06 +, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be

Music streaming to iPhone

2012-11-25 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi Everybody, I have all of my music on my BSD server at home, and I would like to listen that music on my iPhone, when I'm home. Any ideas? Thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [Bulk] Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:26:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] IIUC I now have to do: # gpart add -s 64k

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm reading http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html at the moment. Seemingly there are many outdated howtos first hits for searching with Google. I frst read 64k for boot and now 512k. IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done and is independent of the

Re: Music streaming to iPhone

2012-11-25 Thread Beni Brinckman
Install the firefly media server (in audio/*firefly-1696_8) *on your server and the simple daap client on you iphone ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-daap-client/id369605270?mt=8). Connect your iphone to the ip-address of the server and you're done. I'm using it with a nas4free server and

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR. Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR, and the Linux partition where the bulk of it is installed).

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
At the moment I still have: This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] Regarding to http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html for my set up it should be ok to run: # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l boot

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:13 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR. Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR, and the

Re: [Bulk] Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:43:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'll read this. I want to test what's possible and/or impossible regarding to MIDI and audio productions using FreeBSD. Will be interesting. I know there is some good support for this

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:30:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: At the moment I still have: This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] Regarding to http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html for my set

Wheres the FreeBSD PBR ? (was Re: Manually partitioning using gpart / wh)

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work? I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it wouldn't do any hamr either. The /boot/gptboot code to be written weighs

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25/11/2012 12:29, Polytropon wrote: Won't be wrong; my understanding of the rule was 2 * size of _possible_ RAM in the machine. But disk space is cheap, so 8 G should be fine. But again, the requirement for the swap partition depends on what you're doing with the machine and what you're

Re: Wheres the FreeBSD PBR ? (was Re: Manually partitioning using gpart / wh)

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 15:10 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work? I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it wouldn't

Re: Music streaming to iPhone

2012-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com writes: I have all of my music on my BSD server at home, and I would like to listen that music on my iPhone, when I'm home. Any ideas? I've got Samba, gnump3d, and vlc all serving off my music machine, and have played with dlnc a bit as well. My

OT: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:37 +0100, Polytropon wrote: BTW, I still have some Atari ST hardware here. Impressive what has been possible with this (quite limited) machines, but with _efficient_ programs... I still have the C64 in some cartons and the Atari ST is still beside my PC, but I don't

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Polytropon, I'll use journaling. I've to apologize for my broken English. Regarding to the comment line my question is, if it's enough to us a # at the beginning, or if it's needed to begin and to end with a #. I suspect just a # at the beginning is needed.

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:42:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Polytropon, I'll use journaling. That should give you additional security in integrity, especially on a everything in one / partition. I've to apologize for my broken English. No understanding problem here. Regarding to the comment

Re: Music streaming to iPhone

2012-11-25 Thread Dánielisz László
Thank you for the idea! Tonight I tried to install firefly but I'm stuck with the following error: === Creating users and/or groups. Using existing group `daapd'. Creating user `daapd' with uid `337'. pw: user 'daapd' already exists *** Error code 74 And when if I try deleting daapd user: #

Re: Music streaming to iPhone

2012-11-25 Thread Dánielisz László
I managed to solve the issue by editing manually master.passwd file then pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd. Firefly is uprunning ;) From: Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com To: Beni Brinckman beni.brinck...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:19 +0100, Polytropon wrote: How does doesn't work appear? My apologies that I didn't wrote all error messages, they were about non-bootable and other things. I guess it' s better to ignore this and to continue with ... Maybe

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] IIUC I now have to do: # gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0 # gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0 # gpart

VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Jim Flowers
I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many problems. Now, however, it looks like there are

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2 and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1. On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote: Assuming the first slice has been deleted. Correct. # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 Create a FreeBSD disklabel/bsdlabel

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity

2012-11-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com writes: Any of hundreds of committer and admin accounts could be compromised with the attacker silently editing the repo. FUD. Committer accounts don't have direct access to the repo. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:09:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2 and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1. Per definition, that's just a copy, not a backup. :-) I would prefer to continue with the installer. However, I guess for my

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote: I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2 and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1. On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote: Assuming the first slice has been deleted. Correct. # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0

serial console issues with FreeBSD 9.0 (i386)

2012-11-25 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello While installing FreeBSD 9.0 i386 on a Soekris net6501 I ran into some problems regarding the serial console. Those problems and their workarounds are described below -- for the archives, in case someone runs into them as well. After having read section 27.6 Setting Up the Serial Console

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:49 -0700, Warren Block wrote: Realize this multi-boot stuff is painful and inconvenient and install everything in a VM? Unfortunately this is impossible. I'll install FreeBSD, because there's a driver for my sound card, a RME HDSPe AIO, that perhaps enables to use all

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25/11/2012 21:08, Jim Flowers wrote: Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? What part of the world are you in? In the US there's RootBSD; in Europe there are a few,

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Sierchio
Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI with you, but you should try

When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the new libraries and ... they're broken, marked as security hazards... TIA, --

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the new libraries and ... they're broken, marked

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday 25 November 2012 17:30:15 Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/25/2012 06:56 PM, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2012 17:30:15 Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hi Warren, On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote: For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is good. Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 02:22 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Hi Warren, On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote: For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is good. Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ? Create a partition for /.

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote: For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is good. Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ? The second only is only relevant to GPT. We went over

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the

error message

2012-11-25 Thread emmanuel ilunga
Hello, By ignorance, I named the host: machine0.example.com (just following what I saw.) Every time I reboot, I get: machine0# Nov26 04:37:03 machine0 ntpd_initrest[2008]:host name not found: 0.freebsd.pool.org I get this error, unless I enter my login info; and after I had entered my login info,

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received any

Re: error message

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2012 05:44, emmanuel ilunga wrote: By ignorance, I named the host: machine0.example.com (just following what I saw.) This is wrong -- example.com is a special purpose domain-name reserved for documentation. You need to choose yourself a proper domain name or use whatever your ISP