Re: Laptop advice
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:04:17 am Jason P. Thomas wrote: > Joe Demeny wrote: > > I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 > > > > Does anyone have experience with these? > > > > Any suggestions for other comparable choices? > > From personal experience, getting a laptop to work under FreeBSD (or > even Linux) is a hair pulling experience. It took me about six months > of tinkering off and on to get a Broadcom(yuck!) wifi adapter to work in > my HP laptop last year. In the interim, I found a work around that was > about $30. I purchased a usb wifi adapter that used the rum driver. At > the time, I had to run -current to get that particular driver, but I > never had a problem with the computer or the adapter under -current. > The most headaches I've gotten with laptops have always involved the > wifi cards. Consequently, every laptop I've installed FreeBSD and Linux > on had a Broadcom(yuck!) wifi chipset. Everything else has been well > supported, graphics, sound, power management, pointing devices, and usb > devices. I even managed to use FreeBSD to connect to the robots I had > to use in one of my master's classes last year. That was pleasantly > surprising. > > --Jay Thank you all for your advice. I am familiar with the Hardware Notes. The problem is that from the specs it's hard to tell what is in the computer. The Gateway web site lists this under the specs: "Integrated Realtek 802.11b/g Wireless Networking" for "Wireless Network"; same for the Toshiba. This is why I wondered if anyone has one of these laptops... In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to take the FreeBSD CD to the brick-and-mortar store... -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Laptop advice
I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system *SOLVED*
On Thursday 14 February 2008 05:49:45 pm Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: > > Actually, I can now mount my old 4.x boot drive cleanly when I hook up > > this drive in a 6.2 machine. > > > > However, I think I need to get the old boot drive to be able to boot, so > > I could then get to my other old drives, which are Vinum RAID-1. > > > > I don't know if and how could I mount 4.x Vinum partitions under 6.2... > > Have you tried gvinum(8)? Try loading geom_vinum.ko and see if any > devices appear in /dev/gvinum. IIRC, the on-disk metadata hasn't changed > between vinum and gvinum. > > Roland gvinum(8) worked perfectly, thank you! After adding geom_vinum_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting, I tried to see if I could find my old partitions: # gvinum list 1 drive: D samsung6_1State: up /dev/ad1s1 A: 575/6102 MB (9%) 1 volume: V home2 State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 5527 MB 2 plexes: P home2.p0C State: down Subdisks: 1 Size: 5527 MB P home2.p1C State: down Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B 2 subdisks: S home2.p0.s0 State: staleD: samsung6_1 Size: 5527 MB S home2.p1.s0 State: staleD: samsung6_2 Size: 5527 MB Then I tried: # gvinum start home2 1 drive: D samsung6_1State: up /dev/ad1s1 A: 575/6102 MB (9%) 1 volume: V home2 State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 5527 MB 2 plexes: P home2.p0C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 5527 MB P home2.p1C State: down Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B 2 subdisks: S home2.p0.s0 State: up D: samsung6_1 Size: 5527 MB S home2.p1.s0 State: staleD: samsung6_2 Size: 5527 MB Everything came up, except the plex home2.p1 - no surprise, since that drive is dead and isn't even hooked up to this machine. Finally, I tried to mount the home2 volume: # mount /dev/gvinum/home2 /mnt All my old files were there. Thank you again for your help. -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system
On Thursday 14 February 2008 03:46:14 pm Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Joe Demeny wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:04:11 pm you wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> Use fdisk to find out how it sees the drive. Do fdisk ad1 > >> and check out what it says. Especially look to see what slices > >> that fdisk thinks it has. Maybe there is only an s1 active > >> with anything in it. That would be easiest and very common. > >> > >> Then use bsdlabel to look at what partitions are defined in any > >> of the slices. do ad1s1 (for slice 1, ad1d2 as well > >> if there is a slice 2 being used, etc) > >> From root, do bsdlabel ad1d1 and see what partitions are defines. > >> Remember that partition 'c' is not a real partition, but a label to > >> define the whole slice to the system (it will have a type of 'unused') > >> and that in most cases partition 'b' is used for swap (and will have > >> a type of 'swap'), though it does not have to be swap. > >> The other partitions; a, d, e, f, g, h, could be real partitions with > >> something on them. Almost certainly the 'a' partition will be root > >> on a bootable slice. > > > > It turns out that I mixed up my drives. I found the boot drive - it could > > not boot with my old custom kernel (unknown processor class...). I fell > > back on kernel.GENERIC, which booted - to a point. It seems to bog down > > when it tries to recognize the keyboard. > > > > I guess at this point my choices are: > > > > 1) build a new 4.x kernel on the new hardware > > 2) find a working old computer and try my boot drive. > > > > Thank you all for your help... > > Another possible path: Boot Freesbie or PC-BSD from CD-ROM and mount your > old drives from there. It might take running an fsck to clean up the old > filesystems (depending on whether or not you clobbered them while trying to > get this all to work). 'Just a thought - I take no responsibility if you > hose your data though :) Actually, I can now mount my old 4.x boot drive cleanly when I hook up this drive in a 6.2 machine. However, I think I need to get the old boot drive to be able to boot, so I could then get to my other old drives, which are Vinum RAID-1. I don't know if and how could I mount 4.x Vinum partitions under 6.2... -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system
On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:04:11 pm you wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: > [...] > Use fdisk to find out how it sees the drive. Do fdisk ad1 > and check out what it says. Especially look to see what slices > that fdisk thinks it has. Maybe there is only an s1 active > with anything in it. That would be easiest and very common. > > Then use bsdlabel to look at what partitions are defined in any > of the slices. do ad1s1 (for slice 1, ad1d2 as well > if there is a slice 2 being used, etc) > From root, do bsdlabel ad1d1 and see what partitions are defines. > Remember that partition 'c' is not a real partition, but a label to > define the whole slice to the system (it will have a type of 'unused') > and that in most cases partition 'b' is used for swap (and will have > a type of 'swap'), though it does not have to be swap. > The other partitions; a, d, e, f, g, h, could be real partitions with > something on them. Almost certainly the 'a' partition will be root > on a bootable slice. It turns out that I mixed up my drives. I found the boot drive - it could not boot with my old custom kernel (unknown processor class...). I fell back on kernel.GENERIC, which booted - to a point. It seems to bog down when it tries to recognize the keyboard. I guess at this point my choices are: 1) build a new 4.x kernel on the new hardware 2) find a working old computer and try my boot drive. Thank you all for your help... -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system
On Thursday 14 February 2008 04:49:05 am you wrote: > > possibly try fsck - i don't know (my first FreeBSD was 5.*) but maybe UFS > > changed a bit? > > Nope, I have had machines that I upgraded from 4 to 5 and 6 without > changing the hard disk, and without changing the file system. > > > So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2 > > system and I tried to mount it, but I got "incorrect super block". > > With no old disk installed, what is your mounted disks/partitions? > Result of mount -p. Old disk is installed, but nothing is mounted from it: # mount -p /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 devfs /devdevfs rw0 0 /dev/ad0s2e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2d /varufs rw 2 2 > If you have it what was the result of mount -p on the old machine. I don't have that, unfortunately. > What is the result of "fdisk /dev/ad0" ? # fdisk /dev/ad0 *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 63, size 40965687 (20002 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 40965750, size 271610955 (132622 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: > Install the old hard disk, what is the result of "fdisk /dev/ad1" ? # fdisk /dev/ad1 *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=13232 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=13232 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 12498507 (6102 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 777/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system
On Thursday 14 February 2008 01:43:19 am you wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Joe Demeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500: > > I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. > > > > It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr > > and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with Vinum RAID 1 for > > /home. > > > > I hooked up what used to be the boot drive in a new system and it showed > > what looked like some hex numbers and then the error message "BTX > > halted". > > > > So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2 > > system and I tried to mount it, but I got "incorrect super block". > > > > Looks like I have /dev/ad1, /dev/ad1s1, /dev/ad1s1c, and /dev/ad1s1e. > > > > Is there a way to mount these filesystems? > > When you try to mount it, what'd you get in dmesg ?? This is the end of dmesg: [...] Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2411127194 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 152627MB at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 6105MB at ata0-slave UDMA33 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a I don't think that my attempts to mount /dev/ad1 shows up in dmesg... -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system
I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with Vinum RAID 1 for /home. I hooked up what used to be the boot drive in a new system and it showed what looked like some hex numbers and then the error message "BTX halted". So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2 system and I tried to mount it, but I got "incorrect super block". Looks like I have /dev/ad1, /dev/ad1s1, /dev/ad1s1c, and /dev/ad1s1e. Is there a way to mount these filesystems? -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: make installworld failed
On Monday 21 January 2008 02:49:22 pm Paul Procacci wrote: > Do you have any partitions mounted with noexec? > > I just got a very similar problem and it was due to me having /tmp mounted > with noexec. > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:49:11PM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: > > After building world and kernel, installed kernel, but got an error when > > I tried make installworld: > > > > # [...] Indeed, that was the problem, thank you... should have thought of this! -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
make installworld failed
After building world and kernel, installed kernel, but got an error when I
tried make installworld:
# make installworld
mkdir -p /tmp/install.uV1yfKEs
for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown date echo egrep find grep
install-info ln lockf make mkdir mtree mv pwd_mkdb rm sed sh sysctl test
true uname wc zic; do cp `which $prog` /tmp/install.uV1yfKEs; done
cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj MACHINE_ARCH=i386 MACHINE=i386
CPUTYPE= GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin
GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/share/groff_font
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/share/tmac
PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/games:/tmp/install.uV1yfKEs
/usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make -f
Makefile.inc1 reinstall
awk: Permission denied
"/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 101:
warning: "awk '/^#define[[:space:]]*__FreeBSD_version/ { print
$3 }' /usr/include/osreldate.h" returned non-zero status
echo:Permission denied
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
This is FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE (just installed new kernel...)
I'm wondering why do I get this error?
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/usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes: Permission denied
After running make index && make readmes (as root) after cvsupping my ports tree, I get this error message: /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes: Permission denied *** Error code 126 Stop in /usr/ports. This is a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE machine. What's happening here? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
