Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I need to make work. Suggestions? What's the problem you see? All I've ever needed to do was edit my .vmx file and add: ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" MikeC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [deleted] Don't know but a dime is too much right now (I am personally living on $15/mo once the rent, food and connectivity is paid for [the wonders of a startup with no investors]). That is one reason why colo is not possible... yes I understand most of the hassles involved since I was the head sysadmin for a full service ISP in a former life (mid to late 90's). Well, I think your stuck paying money for a service, but there are some cheap ones out there. This guy is pretty cheap: http://www.domainmx.net/ This one is free - if you can deal with UUCP and the LD charges to access with it: http://www.bungi.com I have a similar "virtual company" with people all over the place. I was running everything locally at one time. Since my (FreeBSD) router is always up, and my provider keeps the IP the same it worked for me. There were some reverse DNS issues where incoming mail from say AOL wouldn't make it but for me it was "who cares". The senders I cared about worked. I since moved mail for my domains to http://www.csoft.net. These guys fit my budget ($15/mo), provide a static IP, let me pick FreeBSD as my server (vs. OpenBSD or Linux last time I checked; there may be other choices now.) I also get shell access which lets me port forward when needed to get around providers (or hotels) that block ports I need. Last I checked, there are no bandwidth or other restrictions. They are also very open source friendly. MikeC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: /usr/ports & portupgrade when only using packages
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 17:42:55 Michael C. Cambria wrote: I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really need something that doesn't have a pkg available, I will not be using ports. I've always used portupgrade, and plan to do so, using -PP (only packages) for this setup. My first question is should I? It needs the ports tree to know which packages to *upgrade*. I know of no ports management system that is able to use only binary and no ports tree. If you need to save space, consider mounting /usr/ports via nfs. My goal isn't to save space. I don't have the cpu power to build all these (and multiple times) on each machine. Reading the man pages and the handbook about using packages didn't say anything about needing /usr/ports, so before I went and used portsnap etc. I thought I'd ask first. [deleted] You could manage with pkg_add/pkg_delete, but then: 1) *You* have to find out which packages are eligible for upgrading 2) Upgrading a package will mean delete the old version before installing the new one 3) *You* will have to backup libraries manually. (Yes, I realize portupgrade does this) Yup, that's the point of my wanting to use portupgrade ;-) It's worked OK for me since it's inception. Thanks, MikeC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ports collection background-fetch
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Wouldn't portupgrade --fetch-only work? Run this first to grab everything, then build. Not exactly what you asked for, but close MikeC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
/usr/ports & portupgrade when only using packages
I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really need something that doesn't have a pkg available, I will not be using ports. I've always used portupgrade, and plan to do so, using -PP (only packages) for this setup. My first question is should I? Doing'pkg_add -r portupgrade' and it installed fine. Using pkgdb -F however, resulted in these messages: bsd# pkgdb -F cd: can't cd to /usr/ports cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade cd: can't cd to /usr/ports > Chcecking the package registry database Any help appreciated. Thanks, MikeC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mass producing installs?
stan wrote: > > I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens > will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. > > I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. [deleted] > There must be a better way to do this. > > What have others been doing? IIRC, setting up an /install.cfg file can be used. See the bottom of this link for an example of how the author did it, sample install.cfg file etc. http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml Good Luck. MikeC ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
5.1-Rel and COMPAT_OLDPCI
Hi, I use 4.8-Stable day to day, but setup a system to get my feet wet with 5.1-Release. A driver I need to use, lmc, is new to 5.1. On 4.x I use the driver from the support page of LanMedia (now SBEI). The lmc driver will not build. It needs COMPAT_OLDPCI defined in the kernel. This option doesn't seem to be supported anymore. UPDATING has an entry stating that OLDPCI (and OLDISA) are needed for drivers that haven't been modified to newbus. OLDISA is still supported (according to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES), but using options COMPAT_OLDPCI causes the kernel compile to fail. A search on OLDPCI returns several matches in the -current archives stating that one needs this option defined. I can find nothing that says the option went away (nor what (if anything) replaced it). Am I SOL with this driver? I'm surprised that the lmc driver would be formally added to FreeBSD with the 5.1-Release but not in a usable form. The source code expects OLDPCI to be defined. I just can find out how to enable it. Any help appreciated. Thanks, MikeC ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Restoring /usr from a remote tape
Konrad Heuer wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael C. Cambria wrote: > > > Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr > > from a remote tape? > > > > I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or > > boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing > > the remote tape from both single user mode or fixit with no > > luck. I can get the LAN up, and the two machines can ping > > each other. > > > > Things look like they fail when restore trys to run rsh. > > > > Before I guess at modifying the fixit floppy or the script in > > the handbook to try to allow for a remote tape restore, I'd > > like to know what others have done. > > It is possible by using a fixit CD which is the second one of the four > FreeBSD CDs because all necessary binaries and libraries are available > there. I've done it some time ago; maybe you need to create links from > /usr/bin to /mnt2/usr/bin and /usr/lib to /mnt2/usr/lib to get things > working. I needed to link /mnt2/usr/bin to /usr/bin and everything worked fine. Specifically: cd /usr mkdir bin ln -s /mnt2/usr/bin /usr/bin I can now dump and restore in single user mode just fine from the FixIt CD. Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Restoring /usr from a remote tape
Hi, Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr from a remote tape? I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing the remote tape from both single user mode or fixit with no luck. I can get the LAN up, and the two machines can ping each other. Things look like they fail when restore trys to run rsh. Before I guess at modifying the fixit floppy or the script in the handbook to try to allow for a remote tape restore, I'd like to know what others have done. Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Can FreeBSD for Soekris be built this way?
Hi, I've been reading, and playing with various ways of setting up a soekris net4521. Nothing I've seen (or more likely, understood) in the archives seems to show building FreeBSD for the soekris from different sources than the one used on the "build" system (e.g. the PC running FreeBSD already.) What I've looked at so far describes scripts that will copy files built originally from /usr/src used by the PC itself. Since smarter people than I haven't already done this, I'm curious if there is a technical reason why the following isn't possible: - On a stable system, cvsup a different release (e.g. 5.0 -current) into say, /soekris/usr/src. - build everything, setting (if needed?) DESTDIR to somewhere in /soekris and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/soekris/usr/obj - use the results of the steps above to build the CF image or an image than can run via PXE (e.g. no CF at all.) Anything new needed for say, 5.0 would have to be under /soekris as the build system wouldn't have it. If I understand "make release" correctly, the above looks similar. I've never built a release before. I didn't want to start learning it just now if it doesn't apply to setting up the 4521. Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
koffice-kde3 build problem
Hi, I having a problem building koffice via the kde3 metaport. KDE3 itself (seems to) be working fine. I cvsup'ed from 4.6-Stable to 4.7-Stable last night, including ports. I followed the instructions on freebsd.kde.org to remove kde2/qt/koffice. I also ran portsdb -Uu before trying to update any ports. I probably missed something, but can't see it. Can anyone shed some light? Here is what is in /var/db/pkg: # ls /var/db/pkg | grep kde kdebase-3.0.5 kdegames-3.0.4 kdelibs-3.0.5 kdeutils-3.0.4_1 # # #ls /var/db/pkg | grep qt qt-3.0.5_5 In /usr/ports/x11/kde3, make ran OK. make install results in the following error: ow.cc || echo './'`koMainWindow.cc In file included from /usr/include/string.h:50, from /usr/X11R6/include/qcstring.h:46, from /usr/X11R6/include/qstring.h:43, from /usr/X11R6/include/qkeysequence.h:44, from /usr/local/include/kaction.h:29, from /usr/local/include/kparts/mainwindow.h:24, from koMainWindow.h:23, from koMainWindow.cc:20: /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:273: warning: `_POSIX_C_SOURCE' is not defined /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:279: warning: `_POSIX_C_SOURCE' is not defined koMainWindow.cc: In method `void KoMainWindow::slotActivePartChanged(KParts::Part *)': koMainWindow.cc:1138: no matching function for call to `KParts::Plugin::loadPlugins (KoMainWindow *, KoMainWindow *, KInstance *, bool)' /usr/local/include/kparts/plugin.h:81: candidates are: static void KParts::Plugin::loadPlugins(QObject *, const KInstance *) /usr/local/include/kparts/plugin.h:87: static void KParts::Plugin::loadPlugins(QObject *, const QValueList &) /usr/local/include/kparts/plugin.h:93: static void KParts::Plugin::loadPlugins(QObject *, const QValueList &, const KInstance *) gmake[4]: *** [koMainWindow.lo] Error 1 gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3/work/koffice-1.2/lib/kofficecore' gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3/work/koffice-1.2/lib/kofficecore' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3/work/koffice-1.2/lib' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3/work/koffice-1.2' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. # Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
