Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 3:56:50 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-20 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: There's not quite enough information here to identify your motherboard, but you should make sure there aren't any BIOS upgrades available for it, as

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-19 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote: I'm trying to boot on the 9.0 Current or 8.0 Release CD to  install and it just hangs on; Probing devices,  please wait (this can take a while)... I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would be nice

Re: sysinstall fails when adding distributions

2010-07-02 Thread Randi Harper
This has been fixed. Get a newer RC. -- randi On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Kristaps Kūlis kristaps.ku...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  On FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (i386) on IBM T43, sysinstall fails when trying to add src distribution to already installed system (when starting to download them from

Re: File system

2010-05-20 Thread Randi Harper
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: 2) You could try using a 'journaling' filesystem, *BUT* you'd have to build/   implement it yourself.  Journaling filesystems are deliberately _not_   provided with FreeBSD, due to security issues/implications with

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Randi Harper
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about adding it as an option to sysinstall, but, unfortunately, I don't have

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Randi Harper
mikel king wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Randi Harper wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-12 Thread Randi Harper
Please create a PR for any problems you find here or additions to install.cfg that you would like to see, and I'll take a look at it. -- randi On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:        I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found out

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Randi Harper wrote:   On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:   In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7   On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper

Re: can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
I could be mistaken, but that sounds like an awfully big /var and /usr. Are you sure this is a vanilla install that no one has touched? -- randi On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: At 11:50 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote: fbsd 7.2 amd64 kernel developer install

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Randi Harper
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote:   On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Some of the responses have said that UFS handling of 'Dangerously dedicated' has not gone away, just sysinstall handling of it. That may be true and if that is true, then you can probably still access dangerously dedicated

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Randi Harper
I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: Due to history I won't go into, all

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Randi Harper
Did you see all the mailing list chatter about new installations failing due to sysinstall not being able to newfs device names that didn't exist? This is related. Also, a partition table isn't just a partition table. It's a little more complex than that. It has *nothing* to do with the

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-19 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: no joy on 8.0rcx. i got stuck in an infinite loop and decided to go back to my 7.2 DVD. there i know i can get out to the net ; i always installed zsh. there are TWO kinds of gateways. one

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-19 Thread Randi Harper
Correction - s/installed/enabled/. sigh. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-10 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: [ -current CC dropped ] On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now done via gpart

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: My second concerned is the ports. In the file ports-supfile there is one option, *default release=cvs tag=.. I believe this specifies which cvs tag to use when pulling files from the ports. At one point I had *default release=cvs

Re: Failure to do netinstall

2009-10-31 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:34 AM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Friday 30 October 2009 03:12:29 Vadim Maksimenko wrote: I have faced an unpleasant fact that your netinstall ability of 7.2 RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 are dead. My network card is being identified and initialized properly

Re: freebsd 6.4 can't load kernel after upgrade

2009-10-31 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:20 PM, oscar Seo oscar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a beginner in freebsd. my machine consists of freebsd-6.4 + i386 bootstrap loader,+ windowmaker after upgrade freebsd-6.4 using sysinstall then reboot the system, I got an error message as follows

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Randi Harper
MAKE THE PAIN STOP. Seriously, read back in the friggin' mailing list archives. None of y'all are going to say anything that hasn't been said before. Or don't, and just prove how valuable your time isn't by wasting it arguing about something that everyone else is just rolling their eyes at and

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-16 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michiel Overtoom mot...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Friday 16 October 2009, Randi Harper wrote: Personally if I spent a lot of time on such a project, I'd be sure to have the is this going to make it into freebsd base? conversation first. I think there's

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-15 Thread Randi Harper
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: just did a quick research and google soc sponsored the finstaller in 2007 and the bsdinstaller in 2005. personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it to get integrated into

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-09 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: At least as far back as SunOs 3.5* the installer was able to auto- size the partitions based on the selected distribution sets. Of course, this means that the installer must know the size of each distribution set -- on each of /,

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-09 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Jon Radel j...@radel.com wrote: I believe it's been years since I didn't bump up the sizes on an install, otherwise I just end up with all this space where it's least likely to save me from a filled disk in the future. While I am actually running some

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-26 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD.

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-26 Thread Randi Harper
To big a rewrite needed i think. Tell me about it. :P I've heard of plans to potentially release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. There's quite a few installer options that are around. bsdinstaller, then

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-26 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: I hope our developers see fit to make sysinstall zfs aware, but I hope we are not pushed (I know how to kick and my screams are deafening) into using it any time soon: ufs is wonderful for us ordinary computer users.

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

2009-09-10 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Rom Albuquerque a_rom...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. The details of my system : Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor Disk :WD

Re: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-23 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote: Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu: Hello I found here that some bios does have problem with booting from partitions they do not know So first I initialize the USB stick with

Re: Install from a USB Pen (semi OT)

2009-07-22 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: Just curious, but is there an easy way to get all of this onto the pen in the first place? I missed the origin of the thread. dd if=image file of=usb drive bs=10240 conv=sync -- randi

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-19 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Randi Harper
On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0 BETA(s). Use dd, a

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk

Re: partition black magic but no data lost phew!

2009-07-14 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Hi, This is from memory (brain not ram) and I can't recreate the steps for reasons which will be obvious, so may not be entirely accurate. I have a sata hard disk which is divided into 2 slices. Slice 1 (ad4s1) is

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-14 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Mark Wallbank wrote: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to

Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD

2006-04-19 Thread Randi Harper
noticed no problems at all. Although I'm not using the gmail service, I'm one of the beta testers for domain mail hosting, so my MX is pointed at google's servers.. Randi Harper -- FreeBSD Tsarina http://freebsdgirl.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections

2005-04-22 Thread Randi Harper
plugged it into a usb 2.0 port on your computer - I'm not sure what the limits are. USB HD enclosures are meant to be convenient, not fast. Next time, choose firewire. ;) Randi Harper URL: http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Randi BSD pgp4QcmTwKxxr.pgp Description: PGP

Re: System very slow to boot

2005-04-22 Thread Randi Harper
On Thursday 21 April 2005 02:54 pm, matadeen dokania wrote: system is very slow to boot, pl. sugest, what to do A dmesg would be nice, or perhaps just a bit more of an explanation than that. Where is it slow? Randi Harper URL: http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Randi

Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections

2005-04-22 Thread Randi Harper
, and I haven't had any problems with it (yet). Randi Harper URL: http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Randi BSD pgpr7EUzhqWKU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections

2005-04-22 Thread Randi Harper
at your kernel config...? So use UFS2. ;) Randi Harper URL: http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Randi BSD pgpNYCdIydW62.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sysinstall don't want to install packages

2005-04-20 Thread Randi Harper
rare for the precompiled packages to be slightly behind. Randi Harper URL:http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM:Randi BSD pgptwiD97zek6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sound not working

2005-04-20 Thread Randi Harper
: `mixer vol 70` Randi Harper URL: http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Randi BSD pgpfWN4Hm2q7I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread Randi Harper
Here is the error: = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch: ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733 = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch:

Re: One of your employees are very rude.

2004-02-02 Thread Randi Harper
I'm sorry but.. hahahahahahahahahahahaha. It's IRC. You expected something different? Love, Randi Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://freebsdgirl.com On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:06 PM, lorink wrote: To whom it may concern, I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a great OS and it is meeting

Re: Post-installation configuration problems with FreeBSD 4.4

2003-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
, just not -STABLE. and the latest version of FreeBSD 4.x is 4.9. This might be your problem. Check freebsd.org. Randi Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://freebsdgirl.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd