Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
i'm not entirely sure i understand. "pnp o/s = no" causes the bios to assign an irq to the pcic controller, meaning the pcic controller raises that interrupt on insertions/removals, but the driver, operating in polling mode, never clears the interrupt so the machine wedges trying to service

Re: New US CVSup mirrors

2000-11-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:17:02 +1100, Zero Sum wrote: If you are going to try a second mirror within a short timeframe, it has to be further up the food chain. If the server you select is not available, then an automatic switch to the next one up the CVS mirror food chain might work. It may

RE: lnc0 and AT1500 NICs

2000-11-20 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
[please, do not trim the CC list : other people in the list may hvae the same problem] you may want to wait just a little for the newest and greatest 4.2. release to come out : the problem should be solved. TfH (you may also want to try one of the latest snapshots from

Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean

2000-11-20 Thread Michael Lucas
{cc's trimmed} On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:24:01PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: It would be even better if the ports system could look in two places for distfiles ... so I could build up local repository on the NFS server that clients would use directly, and still allow clients

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-20 Thread Roman Shterenzon
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system on a machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of course, that artifact has some useful feature(s) or functionality. If it does, I'm all ears. What

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 23:57:25 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:53:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: If it shows valid partitions, you're using a Microsoft partition table.

Re: Vinum versus abit

2000-11-20 Thread Martin Nilsson
But then we recently saw this discussion regarding IDE RAID's go by as well that I saw some adds for e.g. abit's KT7-RAID. Hi, I have just installed 4.2-RC2 on a Abit BX133-RAID with two IBM 20GB drives in a mirror. So now I'm wondering. Given that I care about 1. security without backups

Re: how to get sendmail to handle hyphenated names

2000-11-20 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Cy, How do I get sendmail v.8.9.3 to accept names of the type first_name or my.na me? I think I just need to adjust a rule in sendmail.cf, but am not certain which rule or how specifically to adjust it. Can someone point me in the cor rect direction ?? Userdb. Take a look at pages

Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zero Sum writes: : Does this allow multiple partitions on a zip? Yes, but fdisk is awkward to use for editing. How about fdisk -e in similar vein as disklabel -e? As the PC architecture requires, just use an

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires an fdisk

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Jim King
Greg Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 23:57:25 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:53:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: If it shows valid partitions, you're using a Microsoft partition table. ^

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2000-11-20 Thread Carl Hakanson
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Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean

2000-11-20 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Dillon writes: :In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] James writes: :: If I understand it correctly, there is a limit to the maximum number :: of command line arguments that a program can have. : :Yes, but unless you've built all the ports, you won't even come

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture entirely. I think that should

Re: Removal of Disklabel

2000-11-20 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600, FreeBSD wrote: The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ... disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't. I've never been a fan of this. May I make a recommendation (flame away, boys): redo

make depend fails

2000-11-20 Thread Igor Khavin
Trying to make depend I got @ - /usr/src/sys machine - /usr/src/sys/i386/include make: don't know how to make agp_if.c. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/NOVEMBER. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to build world, as was

Re: make depend fails

2000-11-20 Thread Erick Mechler
If your source is newer than July, you need to use the new buildkernel/installkernel targets (from /usr/src/UPDATING)... 2706: Binutils were updated. In order to build a kernel after this date, you must follow the updating procedure for building kernels exactly as

Re: Vinum versus abit

2000-11-20 Thread Roelof Osinga
Martin Nilsson wrote: ... I tried to remove one IDE cable from my motherboard and then starting the computer. Result: THE HPT370 BIOS HUNG, when detecting drives and the machine never even tried to boot. Nice! Vinum would do way much better than that! As usual Taiwanese hardware proves

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-20 Thread John Baldwin
On 19-Nov-00 Brandon Fosdick wrote: David O'Brien wrote: On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:32:16PM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. Can you tell why?? Just because it is "MS style

Re: Problems with ports

2000-11-20 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Pedro Almeida wrote: Hi all! I've just update my system to 4.2-BETA. After this upgrade many ports doesn't install because they say that bsd.port.mk is too old. How can this be if I've just upgrade the whole source, ports and system? Any ideas? You have to blow

Re: RC1 install size

2000-11-20 Thread Roelof Osinga
Jordan Hubbard wrote: ... Erm, well, let's just get one thing straight first: There's only one release candidate currently under test and that's RC2. It's only available on ONE place and in ONE form, an ISO image, so there's really only:

FBSD src/version info.

2000-11-20 Thread Jason Neumann
Greetings, I am wondering where I can look at /usr/src and find out what version of the src I have (4.1.1-STABLE 4.2-BETA, 4.2-RELEASE) etc. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: FBSD src/version info.

2000-11-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Neumann writes: : I am wondering where I can look at /usr/src and find out what version of : the src I have (4.1.1-STABLE 4.2-BETA, 4.2-RELEASE) etc. Assuming that it was all checked out at the same time, which you cannot easily devine, you can look at

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brandon Fosdick writes: : So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run : FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. First, these aren't MS style partitions. They are part of the PC spec. FreeBSD is lying to the BIOS with the MBR that we

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brandon Fosdick writes: : Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system : on a machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of : course, that artifact has some useful feature(s) or : functionality. If it does, I'm all ears.

Re: Cannot make buildworld

2000-11-20 Thread Jose Luis Arbona Orovay
Hi! David O'Brien wrote: My 'make buildworld' stops with error: ... Any hints? cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/csu rm *.[ch] Is this documented ? Why should we do that ? Anyway, thanks a lot. -- __ José Luis Arbona IBM GLOBAL SERVICES, S.A. Avda. Aragón, 30

Re: Removal of Disklabel

2000-11-20 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: I know of no Unix variant with more than 8 partitions/ disk OpenBSD has 16 / disk. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe