Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 5153a2fd.8020...@sneakertech.com, you wrote: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation. Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Quartz
I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea for most systems, I'm not even sure if it's optimal for mine. I did a single test with three random values at different orders of magnitude

Re: gettext problem in FreeBSD 8.3 system hosed

2013-03-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 06:53:11AM -0500, Antonio Olivares typed: Dear Sir, As bapt@ hints: try rebuilding binutils without NLS. -- -- I have binutils installed without NLS. I ran make deinstall reinstall inside /usr/ports/devel/binutils/ and it deinstalls and it fails to

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:27:43 -0400 Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea for most systems, I'm not even sure if it's optimal for mine.

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I didn't. I won't. I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea Any size which is an exact multiple of the physical block

gettext-0.18.1.1_1 fails to build under jail

2013-03-28 Thread Paul Macdonald
this port upgrades fine on the host system but not under a jail.. FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 config.status: executing depfiles commands sed: 2: s/^include inclu ...:

Re: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools

2013-03-28 Thread Loic Capdeville
On 27/03/2013 17:43, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 18:37, Loic Capdeville wrote: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert =

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I didn't. I won't. I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea Any size

databases/mysql55 to databases/mariadb

2013-03-28 Thread Andrei Brezan
Hello list, Is there a make.conf option that I can use to replace mysql55-[server,client] with mariadb55-[server,client] or i need to use for example pkg set -o databases/mysql55-client:databases/mariadb55-client? What happens if I want to use one port with mysql dependency and another one

Re: gettext-0.18.1.1_1 fails to build under jail

2013-03-28 Thread Marco Steinbach
Paul Macdonald wrote on 28.03.2013 11:46: this port upgrades fine on the host system but not under a jail.. FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 config.status: executing depfiles

Re: Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem

2013-03-28 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Well, after trying so many things with no luck, i will give a try on ubuntu. I must say all the support that give to me Odhiambo was excellent. Thanks to all of you, thanks Odhiambo for all your effort. Lets see what happen. Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini

Re: software support

2013-03-28 Thread Dmitry Sarkisov
On 26-03-2013, Tue [10:10:46], Oblitey, Edmund wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on a E7520/6300ESB chipset. Program freezes during probing devices. It always restart when it gets to the atkbd0. Want to know if u can help me on it. Sometimes it helps to disable ACPI support in the loader

Re: databases/mysql55 to databases/mariadb

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Andrei Brezan wrote: Hello list, Is there a make.conf option that I can use to replace mysql55-[server,client] with mariadb55-[server,client] or i need to use for example pkg set -o databases/mysql55-client:databases/mariadb55-client? What happens if I want to use one port with mysql

FreeBSD on VMware ESXi with PCI Pass Through enabled

2013-03-28 Thread dweimer
Just curious if anyone has any good recommendations of settings for running FreeBSD under VMware ESXi 5.1 with PCI(e) pass through enabled. I have been doing some initial testing with a new motherboard processor and RAM. That I am hoping to be able to run 3 Servers on. The intended virtual

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2013-03-28 Thread Jeff Belyea
I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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2013-03-28 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 28 March 2013 18:03, Jeff Belyea jbely...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? Games? -- --

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2013-03-28 Thread Quartz
I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? [pc/free]bsd *can* be used as a desktop system, but it's really aimed more at servers... a lot of

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2013-03-28 Thread James D. Parra
I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? [pc/free]bsd *can* be used as a desktop system, but it's really aimed more at servers... a lot of

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2013-03-28 Thread Patrick McEvoy
On 3/28/13 7:20 PM, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 March 2013 18:03, Jeff Belyea jbely...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with

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2013-03-28 Thread Waitman Gobble
Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA On Mar 28, 2013 3:03 PM, Jeff Belyea jbely...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 51543b7a.4030...@qeng-ho.org, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit at that point, _without_

Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
So, um, I downloaded the memstick.img file for FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and then I dd'ed that to my 16GB ADATA USB flash thingy. After that, it worked just fine, and as expected. No problems. I could boot FreeBSD from it. Now however, I need to use that USB stick for something else, and I want to

Re: Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 29/03/2013 12:29 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So what_is_ the best tool for just simply taking some sort of drive... like a USB flash drive, or any other kind of drive for that matter... and returning it to it's actual size? Did you try using fdisk? It is probably a standard MBR boot

Re: Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Quartz
The problem is that now, the Windows system seems to think that the size of the thing is only something like 24.2 Megabytes... *not* the actual size, which is vastly larger (16GB). but then at the last second I hesitate and decide to actually try to _understand_ what's going on here, really,

Re: Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Quartz
Did you try using fdisk? Don't use fdisk, it's waay out of date, doesn't work with a lot of modern large drives, and has horribly arcane syntax. Modern versions of gpart support MBR, so there's basically no reason to suffer through fdisk anymore.

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2013-03-28 Thread Patrick McEvoy
On 3/28/13 8:01 PM, James D. Parra wrote: I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? [pc/free]bsd *can* be used as a desktop system, but it's

external hdd

2013-03-28 Thread Laszlo Danielisz
Hi there, If I'm sharing an external 1TB HDD with FreeBSD and OS-X (I wan to use Time Machine), what is the best file system to use? thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Jov
use newfs_msdos in FreeBSD,then format it to NTFS in windows. I used this command solve the same problem. 2013/3/29 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com So, um, I downloaded the memstick.img file for FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and then I dd'ed that to my 16GB ADATA USB flash thingy. After

Re: Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Jov
use newfs_msdos /dev/da0 in FreeBSD,then format it to NTFS in windows. I used this command solve the same problem. 2013/3/29 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com So, um, I downloaded the memstick.img file for FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and then I dd'ed that to my 16GB ADATA USB flash thingy.