RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960?
Good day, It's been about a week since I posted this, so, I'd just like to ask one more time before I give up testing and just put Linux back on the machine. The machine that I'm now trying to install FreeBSD on is a HP lp2000r netserver, dual P3 1GHz, AcceleRAID 160 PCI RAID Controller (also a DAC960, but using FreeBSD's mly driver), and installing via CD on a standard ATAPI CDROM drive. As documented on the 5.0 hardware release notes, the package installation just stops a few minutes after it starts. The same thing happens if I try a FTP install using floppies. I then tried 4.8-RC2 and 4.7-RELEASE. In both cases, the installer does load the mly module, and the module does indeed find the RAID controller (as noted on the debug screen) but it doesn't find any drives. I finally went all the way back to 4.6-RELEASE, which detected my hardware properly and with which I successfully did the install. So, again, I'd like to try out 5.0 on this machine just to do some benchmarking on how far smp support has come. I have a working 4.6 system on it, so I could try to do this the hard way with cvsup/makeworld/mergemaster, but what gotchas are there to doing this? 4.X uses gcc 2 and 5.x uses gcc 3, and of course it's going up a major version, so I'm not quite sure what to expect. Is there any other way to get 5.0-RELEASE/CURRENT on this system? Thanks in advance, Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960?
Good day, Hi Darren! Thanks for your reply! Sorry for not checking my messages over the weekend. My only other thought was to install from 4.X and upgrade to 5.0, but I think that would be far too messy considering their differences. We also have other machines of varying hardware to install on, but they all use DAC960 RAID controllers too. Is there a specific reason why you *have* to run 5.0? I assume that you have read the Early Adopter's Guide. Yes, and yes. Specifically, it's a dual-proc machine, and we'd like to see how well SMB support has advanced in 5.0 . We'd just like to run some benchmarking programs on it, and also for our team to play around with the newest FreeBSD (most of our group has grown up on Linux, but like to try out new things). I've also read that the 5.0 kernel still has some debugging code put into it for help with troubleshooting various things- thus slowing it down a bit- which we'll be taking into consideration. FWIW, I'm happily running 4.7-RELEASE-p6 on DAC960PG (yes, mlx driver). Yeah, the 5.0 release notes mentioned that this was a problem introduced in 5.0 . Anyway, again, could anyone give me some information on how I could actually do this install? I should also mention that I tried the install by changing 5.0-RELEASE into 5.0-CURRENT in the install configuration menu, but the installer isn't able to retrieve any packages. I presume this is because the packages are kept in a packages subdirectory in the 5.0-CURRENT directory on the FTP server, unlike the 5.0-RELEASE packages, so I'm guessing that probably isn't really designed as an installation method. Maybe if I set up my own FTP server with the packages in the right location... ? Thanks in advance, Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960?
Hi Darren! My only other thought was to install from 4.X and upgrade to 5.0, but I think that would be far too messy considering their differences. We also have other machines of varying hardware to install on, but they all use DAC960 RAID controllers too. Is there a specific reason why you *have* to run 5.0? I assume that you have read the Early Adopter's Guide. FWIW, I'm happily running 4.7-RELEASE-p6 on DAC960PG (yes, mlx driver). -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Life is too short to drink cheap beer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
