Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
HI, I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old USB drive. There were several IO errors while dd was copying the disk, so I think

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre navarre.matt...@gmail.comwrote: I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote: I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical disk. I've read the Handbook section on using mdconfig, but that assumes the image file is of

Introducing new ports - best practises

2012-08-06 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hello, at the moment I am working on porting the Tryton business solution and later GNU Health is planned. Tryton is made up of small modules (Python Eggs), each of them providing data models and business logic for a particular business domain - e.g. product management, invoicing, crm,

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre navarre.matt...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what file says about the file: mnavarre@pcbsd-1810] /# file /mnt/ada1_backup /mnt/ada1_backup: x86 boot sector; partition

Re: Introducing new ports - best practises

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2012 08:10, Matthias Petermann wrote: at the moment I am working on porting the Tryton business solution and later GNU Health is planned. Tryton is made up of small modules (Python Eggs), each of them providing data models and business logic for a particular business domain - e.g.

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote: I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical disk. I've read the

Re: Partnership query

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2012 09:15, Yoanna Savova wrote: By way of brief introduction, my name is Yoanna Savova, part of the CloudSigma team. We are interested in becoming your partners. We see there are many hardware and software vendors enlisted on your site who offer a FreeBSD product. Hence, I am

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old USB drive. There were several IO errors while dd was copying the disk, so I think the

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.5.10 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2012-08-06 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.5.10 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. The packages for FreeBSD 10 use the pkgng [3] format. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an

Re: boinc_gui missing after portupgrade

2012-08-06 Thread David Whytcross
Thanks for your help Robert it is working again, odd how it has to be started form /var/db/boinc ! also noticed that boinc_cmd has changed it name to boinccmd and as for boincmgr, I found that you need to run boinccmd from the /var/db/boinc folder as well, to do a manual update regards,

Re: Partnership query

2012-08-06 Thread Yoanna Savova
Hi Mathew, Thank you very much for the explanations and support! We do provide FreeBSD so I have filled in and submitted the form. I will be waiting for an e-mail from your side as stated. Thank you! Regards, Yoanna Savova CloudSigma On 6 August 2012 12:35, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:43:21 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:33:20 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:48:56 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: [Snip] The socialists still feel they are entitled to something for nothing. Jerry;

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Mario Lobo
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:43:21 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:33:20 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:48:56 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: [Snip] The

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 12:25:31PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Jerry writes: I agree up to the point about financial incentive. For myself, I like making money. I don't apologize for that. Most engineers, software / hardware designers also enjoy receiving a monetary reward for their

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one interested in monetary compensation would patient anything unless they were: ⁽¹⁾

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 07:57:34AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Do lawyers not use the law to their clients' advatage -- often abusing it -- just because they're wrong in the final analysis? seems you never worked long with lawyers, or you are lucky and have really fair one. If the word fair

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:37:17 +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith articulated: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one interested in

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:08:19 +, David Brodbeck wrote: Now, it's reasonable to argue that in some fields the duration of that limited monopoly is too long, given how quickly technology advances, but that doesn't mean the concept isn't sound. It's also debatable if one of today's most

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 09:33:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:48:56 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: Patents are - or should be - the means, not the end. The end is encourage people to create new stuff; the means of encouragement is to give them exclusive rights for a

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:48:30 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:08:19 +, David Brodbeck wrote: Now, it's reasonable to argue that in some fields the duration of that limited monopoly is too long, given how quickly technology advances, but that doesn't mean the concept

Problem with cvsup since 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #225 r229960M

2012-08-06 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
TreeList failed: Error in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/cvsroot-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_9: Bad header line. Delete it and try again. I deleted that above mentioned file before running cvsup. I've been using the configuration file for many years with no changes and don't normally check because it

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: It's also debatable if one of today's most prominent use of patents is fair: I tell you! I have patents! You are infringing! I'm not gonna tell you which patents about what, but I'll sue all your users! Of course, if such a

Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jason Usher
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: cpu I586_CPU and: cpu I686_CPU (I also tried them both lowercase, like i686_cpu) But all of these fail: GENERIC:

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
make LINT vi LINT On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jason Usher jushe...@yahoo.com wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: cpu I586_CPU and: cpu

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread RW
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, RW wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC