Re: What's the difference between the ncr0 and sym0 drivers?

2000-09-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
sym is actively maintained, ncr isn't really. On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe McGuckin writes: > : Is one preferable? > > sym is generally preferable to ncr. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe fre

Re: What's the difference between the ncr0 and sym0 drivers?

2000-09-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe McGuckin writes: : Is one preferable? sym is generally preferable to ncr. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-25 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a > DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send m

What's the difference between the ncr0 and sym0 drivers?

2000-09-25 Thread Joe McGuckin
Is one preferable? Thanks, Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-969-2203 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: atomic operations

2000-09-25 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Kevin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I found the atomic_* functions in , but noticed that they >have no return value. What I need is a function that increments/decrements >the given value *and* returns the new value in an atomic operation. I >suppose this is possible, yes? How would one modi

Re: Can't work out which disk we are booting from

2000-09-25 Thread Yonny Cardenas B.
Hi Mike Of course, I tried with both CD-ROM and floppy, but the problem is the same. Thanks. Mike Smith wrote: > > Booting from CDROM is not (yet) supported on these systems. You will > have to boot from floppy disk (you can install from CDROM OK). > +--

Re: Sysinstall HTTP Proxy install information...

2000-09-25 Thread Brian McGovern
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Just in case someone has more time than I do to look at this, I've been pl aying > > with sysinstall, most notably installation through an HTTP proxy. > [...] > > The first is when you try to set one of the pre-fab choices, such as > > instal

Re: Sysinstall HTTP Proxy install information...

2000-09-25 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Correct. The method by which the directory on the FTP server is found > has been changed in ftp.c some time ago. Since installing via proxy > relied on this, it is now broken. > > A patch is in PR bin/21449 Thanks! A lot of "cooks" have been in sysinstall lately and the upshot of it is that

Re: Sysinstall HTTP Proxy install information...

2000-09-25 Thread Philipp Mergenthaler
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Just in case someone has more time than I do to look at this, I've been playing > with sysinstall, most notably installation through an HTTP proxy. [...] > The first is when you try to set one of the pre-fab choices, such as > installing from ftp.freebs

Re: Can't work out which disk we are booting from

2000-09-25 Thread Mike Smith
Booting from CDROM is not (yet) supported on these systems. You will have to boot from floppy disk (you can install from CDROM OK). > I apologize for ask this in the hackers list, but I have looked in the > history mail list in the FreeBSD web site and I haven't found nothing > similar. > > I

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-25 Thread Mike Smith
> }> what's in a name ;-) > }> the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not > }> enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and > }> supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever. > } > > ok, so now i can setenv(dhc.xxx,

atomic operations

2000-09-25 Thread Kevin Mills
I found the atomic_* functions in , but noticed that they have no return value. What I need is a function that increments/decrements the given value *and* returns the new value in an atomic operation. I suppose this is possible, yes? How would one modify the assembly to make this work? Thanks

Can't work out which disk we are booting from

2000-09-25 Thread Yonny Cardenas B.
Hi I apologize for ask this in the hackers list, but I have looked in the history mail list in the FreeBSD web site and I haven't found nothing similar. I can't start to install FreeBSD 4.0 or FreeBSD 3.8. It says: "Can't work which disk we are booting from." I have a IBM PC 300GL, with Pent

Multipath routing in 4.x?

2000-09-25 Thread David Miller
I searched the archives and found a few references to patches for 2.x for multipath routing. I'd like not to have to go that far back. How did something as useful as this to anyone using freebsd as a router not make it into release 3 and 4? Is there any work going on to add it? Thanks! --

Sysinstall HTTP Proxy install information...

2000-09-25 Thread Brian McGovern
Just in case someone has more time than I do to look at this, I've been playing with sysinstall, most notably installation through an HTTP proxy. I've found what I believe to be two distinct bugs. The first is when you try to set one of the pre-fab choices, such as installing from ftp.freebsd.o

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-25 Thread Paul Saab
Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: > }Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > }> ok, so now i can setenv(dhc.xxx, val). > }> > }> I would very much like to make them available as sysctl dhcp.xxx, the only > }> problem, is that the sysctl interfa

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-25 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: }> ok, so now i can setenv(dhc.xxx, val). }> }> I would very much like to make them available as sysctl dhcp.xxx, the only }> problem, is that the sysctl interface is prety much static, so has anybody }> lookeed in

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-25 Thread Paul Saab
Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ok, so now i can setenv(dhc.xxx, val). > > I would very much like to make them available as sysctl dhcp.xxx, the only > problem, is that the sysctl interface is prety much static, so has anybody > lookeed into making it 'dynamic'?, ie: malloc'ing structs

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-25 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }> }> }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP }> }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter }> }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names

Re: virtual console 'snapshot'?

2000-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anything like Linux's /dev/vcs* in FreeBSD? That is, some way > to obtain the complete view of a virtual console - characters, attributes, > everything? The snoop device gives deltas, but never the complete > picture, unless the program runni