[g4u-help] Fwd: Help compiling from source Hubert Feyrer
This may be of interest here… - Hubert
> Hi,
>
> I have played though the „rebuilding“ steps, and got things going with a few
> minor changes.
> First the result:
>
> ls -l `pwd`/g4u*fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27
> /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u1.fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27
> /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u2.fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27
> /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u3.fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27
> /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u4.fs
> ls -l `pwd`/g4u.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 6567936 Mar 17 19:27
> /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u.iso
> ls -l `pwd`/g4u-kernel.gz
> -rw-r—r-- 1 feyrer staff 6035680 Mar 17 19:27
> /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u-kernel.gz
>
> My build environment:
>
> - uname -a: NetBSD vmnetbsd.promi.se 7.0_STABLE NetBSD 7.0_STABLE (GENERIC)
> #0: Tue Nov 8 22:19:10 CET 2016
> feyrer@promise.local:/Users/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-7/obj.amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> amd64
>
> Note that I usually cross-build from Mac OS X. No changes for g4u-build
> were needed, no removeing -m64 etc.
> Note this is on NetBSD 7.0 (stable) for amd64, not i386.
>
> - Sources checked out as documented, with an added „-P“ to remove empty
> directories. If you have checked-out sources, you can get this with „cd …/src
> ; cvs up -P -d“. The latter will also create new directories if needed.
>
> Now about what I had to change in sources from 20170418: There were a bunch
> of variables that could possibly be used uninitialized.
> God knows why this was not fixed in the sources, but the attached patch does
> this.
> To apply, something like the following should work:
>
> cd …/src
> patch -p0 <…/diff-out.txt
>
> As you have already mentioned, in g4u-build, „G4U_BUILD_KERNEL=true“ is
> needed.
>
> So altogether, this doen’t look as bad as I feared.
> Let me know if this helps, then I can see into updating the build
> instructions.
>
>
> - Hubert
>
Index: sys/dev/acpi/fujhk_acpi.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/acpi/fujhk_acpi.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 fujhk_acpi.c
--- sys/dev/acpi/fujhk_acpi.c 23 Apr 2015 23:23:00 - 1.4
+++ sys/dev/acpi/fujhk_acpi.c 17 Mar 2018 18:35:15 -
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
{
struct fujitsu_hk_softc *sc = arg;
const int max_irb_buffer_size = 100;
- uint32_t irb;
+ uint32_t irb=0; /*HF*/
int i, index;
for (i = 0; i < max_irb_buffer_size; i++) {
Index: sys/dev/acpi/pckbc_acpi.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/acpi/pckbc_acpi.c,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 pckbc_acpi.c
--- sys/dev/acpi/pckbc_acpi.c 18 Oct 2016 22:08:30 - 1.35
+++ sys/dev/acpi/pckbc_acpi.c 17 Mar 2018 18:35:30 -
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
static void
pckbc_acpi_intr_establish(struct pckbc_softc *sc, pckbc_slot_t slot)
{
- struct pckbc_acpi_softc *psc;
+ struct pckbc_acpi_softc *psc = NULL; /*HF*/
isa_chipset_tag_t ic = NULL;
void *rv = NULL;
int irq = 0, ist = 0; /* XXX: gcc */
Index: sys/dev/ic/rtsx.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/ic/rtsx.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 rtsx.c
--- sys/dev/ic/rtsx.c 29 Oct 2014 14:24:09 - 1.2
+++ sys/dev/ic/rtsx.c 17 Mar 2018 18:35:35 -
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
bus_space_handle_t ioh, bus_size_t iosize, bus_dma_tag_t dmat, int flags)
{
struct sdmmcbus_attach_args saa;
- uint32_t sdio_cfg;
+ uint32_t sdio_cfg = 0; /*HF*/
sc->sc_iot = iot;
sc->sc_ioh = ioh;
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@
rtsx_read(struct rtsx_softc *sc, uint16_t addr, uint8_t *val)
{
int tries = 1024;
- uint32_t reg;
+ uint32_t reg = 0; /*HF*/
WRITE4(sc, RTSX_HAIMR, RTSX_HAIMR_BUSY |
(uint32_t)((addr & 0x3FFF) << 16));
>
>
>
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[g4u-help] g4u 2.6 released
After a five-year period for beta-testing and updating, I have finally
released g4u 2.6. With its origins in 1999, I'd like to say:
Happy 18th Birthday, g4u!
About g4u:
g4u ("ghosting for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows
easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs
using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. The first is to upload the
compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, the other is to
restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and write it back to disk.
Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processed as
an image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u.
Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported.
The past:
When I started g4u, I had the task to install a number of lab machines
with a dual-boot of Windows NT and NetBSD. The hype was about Microsoft's
"Zero Administration Kit" (ZAK) then, but that did barely work for the
Windows part - file transfers were slow, depended on the clients' hardware
a lot (requiring fiddling with MS DOS network driver disks), and on the
ZAK server the files for installing happened do disappear for no good
reason every now and then. Not working well, and leaving out NetBSD (and
everything elase), I created g4u. This gave me the (relative) pain of
getting things working once, but with the option to easily add network
drivers as they appeared in NetBSD (and oh they did!), plus allowed me to
install any operating system.
The present:
We've used g4u successfully in our labs then, booting from CDROM. I also
got many donations from public and private instituations plus comanies
from many sectors, indicating that g4u does make a difference.
In the mean time, the world has changed, and CDROMs aren't used that much
any more. Network boot and USB sticks are today's devices of choice,
cloning of a full disk without knowing its structure has both advantages
but also disadvantages, and g4u's user interface is still command-line
based with not much space for automation. For storage, FTP servers are
nice and fast, but alternatives like SSH/SFTP, NFS, iSCSI and SMB for
remote storage plus local storage (back to fun with filesystems, anyone?
avoiding this was why g4u was created in the first place!) should be
considered these days. Further aspects include integrity (checksums),
confidentiality (encryption). This leaves a number of open points to
address either by future releases, or by other products.
The future:
At this point, my time budget for g4u is very limited. I welcome people to
contribute to g4u - g4u is Open Source for a reason. Feel free to get back
to me for any changes that you want to contribute!
The changes:
Major changes in g4u 2.6 include:
* Make this build with NetBSD-current sources as of 2017-04-17 (shortly
before netbsd-8 release branch), binaries were cross-compiled from Mac
OS X 10.10
* Many new drivers, bugfixes and improvements from NetBSD-current (see
beta1 and beta2 announcements)
* Go back to keeping the disk image inside the kernel as ramdisk, do not
load it as separate module. Less error prone, and allows to boot the
g4u (NetBSD) kernel from a single file e.g. via PXE (Testing and
documentation updates welcome!)
* Actually DO provide the g4u (NetBSD) kernel with the embedded g4u disk
image from now on, as separate file, g4u-kernel.gz
* In addition to MD5, add SHA512 checksums
The software:
Please see the g4u homepage's download section on how to get and use g4u.
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#reqs
Enjoy!
- Hubert
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Re: [g4u-help] Driver injection
Hi, On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Jesse Fenn wrote: > Is it possible to add storage drivers to the G4U image? Or to build a > release of G4U with the IBM Serveraid 6i SCSI drivers? Sure - the g4u website has instructions on how to rebuild g4u. If you have any patches/updates, let me know. I should really try to find time to update g4u to latest -NetBSD... help welcome :) - Hubert -- Announcing the Oxford Dictionaries API! The API offers world-renowned dictionary content that is easy and intuitive to access. Sign up for an account today to start using our lexical data to power your apps and projects. Get started today and enter our developer competition. http://sdm.link/oxford ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] User seeking help
Hi Rich, On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rich wrote: > I misunderstood the original instructions. > Am I now sending this to someone who can help me? > > Reviewing prior posts, I'm not seeing anything past October, 2015. > Am I missing something? You hav successfully reached the g4u-help mailing list. There is little volume here recently, and if I or someone else can help you remains to be seen. But let's try! :) > G4U V-2.5 makes my clones; never a single issue until now. > BIOS finds keyboard, mouse, and monitor, but G4U does not. > When finished loading/scanning, the standard menu appears, but keyboard > has no effect. > All peripherals (keyboard, video, mouse, audio) work fine with three > other systems. > > It appears G4U is running into issues with this mobo/BIOS. > Can do anything to make this work? > Perhaps some BIOS change I'm unaware of? I don't (of course) know your hardware and BIOS, but the latter is exactly where I would start poking: many BIOSes have some "legacy USB mode" setting, which seems to help for NetBSD to recognize your keyboard. Another thing to try is - after booting - to unplug the keyboard. Then see if there is anything printed on the screen in green (=kernel message) - it should. Likewise, plug the keyboard in again after that, more messages should be there. If not, something is very phishy. Last idea: try different USB ports where you put the keyboard (g4u doesn't use the mouse). Some may behave different than others (talking from experience - I agree that this should not happen). As always stuff like this is a bit difficult to debug via email ;) Let me know if any of these helps! - Hubert -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u automation - any experience?
Am 14.03.2014 um 10:39 schrieb Mateusz Viste: Now, I don't see any scripting feature integrated into g4u, but maybe I'm missing something. Where should I look? Where would I need to start? Use the source, luke - it's all scripts, what else would you need? In particular: * Rebuilding from source: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#rebuilding * The script started at g4u startup is src/distrib/i386/ramdisks/ramdisk-g4u/dot.profile * From there it's all /bin/sh - should be enough for what you need ;) Have anyone already done similar things? Not really. At one point I've pondered using client-specific settings into DHCP, and then read those settings and start whatever command comes from the DHCP server (backup, restore, parameters), but I've never really persued this way. If you find all the details, this shouldn't be too hard. Of course adding that menue you mention would probably be even easier. Most interesting is probably what/where you boot g4u from - if CD is really still an option. Support for USB / netboot is not where I'd love it to be today... but patches are always appreciated :) - Hubert -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Problem with g4u 2.5 reading sata disk with vol groups
Hi, I can't make any sense out of that error - other than broken disk. dmesg output would of course help here. of course you can always copy to a different local disk (wd2?), assuming the target disk is empty / can be erased, and that disk access itself works at all... - Hubert Am 18.02.2014 um 10:44 schrieb Colin Ager: I am trying to use g4u 2.5 to clone a sata drive. On an older machine with ide disks it has no difficulty finding the disks but with the newer machine the disk I want to clone as wd0 is detected plus a second disk wd1 as shown by dmesg, but running the disks command gives a repeating error message that it is having problems detecting the partitions. wd0d device fault reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0),retrying If I try the partition check on this disk I get a similar response, but if I try partition check on wd1 it works correctly. Both disks are sata types but wd0 has logical volumes on it, while wd1 just has normal partitions. Is it safe to do a copydisk operation in these circumstances to a third sata disk that I havn't yet tried in place of wd1. wd0 has Fedora16 32b on it while wd1 has win7 64. Back in 2006 I used g4u 2.2 to clone a disk and sent a donation to you! Cheers Colin Ager Norfolk UK -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Your G4U Opinion: kernel with embedded RAMdisk vs. miniroot?
Hi, On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Hubert Feyrer wrote: Looking forward for your opinions! Thanks for your input - 100% of the feedback was to put the ramdisk back in the kernel, with no objections. As such here you go: I have release g4u version 2.6beta1. Important changes are an update to recent NetBSD codebase, and moving the ramdisk from a separate file back into the kernel. This allows easy netbooting - at least I hope so, feedback is welcome here. I'd like to push out version 2.6 within the next few weeks. Please test and let me know if there are any showstoppers! See my blog or the link in the History section of the g4u homepage for more information: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20131110_1628.html Quick download link of the ISO: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.6beta1.iso - Hubert -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] Your G4U Opinion: kernel with embedded RAMdisk vs. miniroot?
My dear g4u community, I've found little time to hack on g4u in the recent past. Yet, I've managed to setup my development and test environment for g4u (crosscompiling NetBSD from Mac OS X, getting recent Qemu to compile), and also got g4u built from recent NetBSD-current sources. As such, take this as small sign of life. Now, while I don't have any plans for large changes, I'd like to bring an update with latest drivers and bugfixes from NetBSD. There's one change that I'm pondering, though: g4u originally came as one kernel-file that had an embedded RAM-disk. This was changed in the last release to reflect NetBSD's ability to load a RAM-disk from a separate file. This change broke the ability to netboot g4u from a single file, and required some more effort. There were no real wins for g4u as such. So, opinion time: keep the RAM-disk as separate file, or move it back into the kernel? Looking forward for your opinions! - Hubert -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] G4U 2.5
Hi Tim, I'll take the liberty to CC the g4u-help list, as this may come up again: Am 18.06.2013 um 20:08 schrieb Tim Burks: Something about 2.5s netbsd file not like the one before. Ive extracted it from the floppies and uploaded to my pxe server. Doing so with the latest 2.5 file pxe clients cant boot G4U. I have revered back to the 2.4 netbsd file which works fine. I cant seem to resolve the difference. I do notice that the old netbsd file is 7,487,132 in size and the newer is 6,902,704. I notice on your webpage a link for zipped which extracts 3 files but for uncompressed there is only disk one and two links listed. Maybe Im confused as which set I need. As far as the error goes, the boot process stops here: root on md0a dumps on md0b, no file system for md0, cannot mount root error 79,. After that some usb lines and hangs. g4u 2.5 changed from a kernel that includes the root filesystem as ram-disk (root on md0a) to a system that just loads the kernel, and then loads the ramdisk with the root filesystem (still at md0a) from an extra file. see the boot.cfg file: menu=Start g4u:load /miniroot.kmod;boot netbsd netbsd is still the kernel, and miniroot.kmod is the root filesystem which gets loaded before the kernel starts. IIRC it's possible to also do this with PXE. Check this out for documentation on how to do this, which actually doesn't cover NetBSD but g4u :-) http://math.uwb.edu.pl/~mariusz/projects/g4u/ Enjoy! - Hubert signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] 2.5beta1 uploaddisk to IIS FTP 7.5 (WHS 2011)
Hi, g4u just runs a put command on ftp, no delete... I haven't heared of any such effect, either with IIS or any other FTP server software. Can you try another FTP server? (No, sftp won't work with g4u) Good luck! - Hubert Am 19.05.2012 um 14:33 schrieb Jo L: Hello, I download the 2.5beta1 as I suspected the drivers in 2.4 could be outdated and burned the image to a DVD. Booting is OK and ethernet works (unlike other software I tried). I used uploaddisk to my FTP server, a WHS 2011 (Windows Server 2008R2) with IIS 7.5. During the upload I can see the created image file in the destination folder, however once the upload is finished the file disappears as if the last step during upload is a delete.. Is this a known issue with IIS? Maybe a configuration issue on either side? Thanks Best regards, Jol -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] g4u 2.5beta1 supports handling of partition tables and bad disk sectors
Dear g4u user community, after some absence (job-related) and technical problems (building of NetBSD failing for me from Mac OS X), I'm very happy to release a beta version of g4u with some long-overdue changes. Those include being able to backup/restore the MBR, which includes the partition table - needed when recovering single partitions to a new disk. Also, the various commands reading disks are now adjusted to not abort when a disk sector cannot be used. Instead, the bad bytes are skipped and the rest of the disk is recovered. Please give me feedback on this feature as I didn't have a bad disk to test this! Other news include a command to wipe a disk by completely overwriting it with 0-bytes (once). Last, command line editing was enabled - finally! Remember that this is a test release, so your feedback is wanted - either to me in person, or to the g4u-help mailing list. Thanks! See my blog entry for more details and download links: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20120114_1331.html - Hubert -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Using G4U in Parallel on a Mac
Am 20.08.2010 um Fr. 20.08.2010 06:17 schrieb Steve Hammond: I'm trying to boot the ISO image on a Parallels Desktop virtual machine, but the boot process stop in the middle. I'm suspecting a problem with the network card, but cannot figure out what it is. Anyone can help on this one? No, as you dont give a lot of information. See http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#bugreporting My personal experience with Parallels in version 3 or so was that NetBSD didn't boot with it, which was the reason why I switched to VMware Fusion. - Hubert -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4 problem with via rhine driver?
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, andreas scherrer wrote: g4u 2.3 does not seem to exist for downloading anymore Use the 2.4 URLs and replace 2.4 with 2.3. - Hubert -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] alternative image save method
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Willie wrote: Is is possible to achive this? not with g4u. use your nearest netbsd/unix/linux/whatever live cd - Hubert -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Autostart Diskimage creation?
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, mika.kilpelai...@holmenpaper.com wrote: Is there anyway to autostart a image creation to the ftp server? The only input from the user should be the image name... Not right now. You can put it into the right startup file and rebuild g4u, but there's nothing ready-made right now. Feel free to send patches! :-) - Hubert -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] disable wireless interface
In the bootloader, try boot -c, then disable xxx, where xxx' is your wifi driver name. E.g. for iwi0 it's just iwi/ - Hubert -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] [g4U] : how to know the manufacturer behind each sdxx
disks On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Yann DABY-SEESARAM wrote: hi, I bought 2 years ago a WD NAS (My book World Edition : WDG1NC5000) with one 500GB SATA disk. I would like to clone that disk so as to have a spare one just in case. I figured out to open it and fixed it on my PC , which has 2 SATA connexion , and use my old 500GB hitachi SATA disk as destination. I found out that g4U could clone from disk to disk, with the copydisk sd0 sd1 command at the shell prompt. (is that correct or copydisk sda sdb) Question : when I have the prompt, is there any command I can use to be sure which one is the WD disk and which one is the Hitachi one (a command such as hdparm -I /dev/sda , which would give me for sda and sdb the manufacturer name). thanks Yann -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] copy disk with enabled SMART
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Kucharski, Rafal wrote: Could I do it? Not with g4u. I still have to find time to make sure dd(1) is compiled in full in g4u, not in a cut-down version that omits the skip-bad-sectors option (exact name forgotten). Just boot your favourite Linux/NetBSD Live CD and do it from there. - Hubert -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] panic: trap problem with g4u
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Arek Odrowaz wrote: any can help me? What g4u version is this with? (Someone send me a patch to include those firmware files and enable them by default ;-) - Hubert -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] some notes (was: Re: g4u with GPT enabled, stuck)
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Torsten Harenberg wrote: 1.) At least on my system, sysinst was not built, but is needed later. So this does the trick cd /usr/src/distrib/utils/sysinst TOOLDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/tooldir/ OBJDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/ \ DESTDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/destdir/ \ RELEASEDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/releasedir make FWIW, you want to use the nbmake-i386 program that's built somewhere in .../src/obj.i386/tooldir/bin or so - it automatically sets those variables for you (actually, it's a shell wrapper for the tools nbmake program. Also, I have no idea from the top of myhead why sysinst isn't built... it's needed for the install ISOs, so should be built. 2.) after finishing the build, the iso image was bootable inside VMware, but not on real hardware (can't read CD after primary bootstrap). It turned out that I hit this bug here: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2009/10/24/msg010932.html the author stated that the problem vanishes if one updates to at least 5.99.21 (G4U's is build against sources from 20091018 and this is 5.99.20) I updated the sources to -D 20091208 instead of -D 20091018. The G4U patches still apply without any misses. And after a complete rebuild, the new iso image now also boots fine on real hardware. I've updated the build instructions to contain this date. Thanks for the hint! I did some more modifications to enable GPT, but this was more or less straight forward. I didn't try to copy single GPT partitions, as I don't need that. I doubt that this would work as these are not mapped to the disklabel and to my knowledge G4U relies on disklabel entries, or am I wrong? Is anybody else interested in getting GPT to work? In this case I would love to co-operate. Maybe ask that question on the NetBSD lists, too. - Hubert -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Shrinking image size
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Same as for file systems: fill RAM with spaces. :-)
perl -e '$s=; while(1){ $s.= x 1000;}'
Really? That simple?? It won't crash the machine when RAM is filled?
That depends if your OS is good enough. It shouldn't, but what do I know.
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Re: [g4u-help] g4u with GPT enabled, stuck
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Torsten Harenberg wrote: Some of my machines have RAID systems (these ones have a Dell Perc 5/i SCSI controller) with GPT partition tables. So the NetBSD kernel stops at sd0: fabricating a geometry (the next device should be sd1 and this has a GPT table). So I tried to build g4u myself with GPT enabled. I followed the instructions on the web, but enabled optionsDKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT # Supports GPT partitions as wedges in the G4U kernel config. ... /usr/src/sbin/fsck/partutil.c: In function 'part2wedge': /usr/src/sbin/fsck/partutil.c:101: error: 'devminor_t' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/sbin/fsck/partutil.c:101: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/src/sbin/fsck/partutil.c:101: error: for each function it appears in.) /usr/src/sbin/fsck/partutil.c:101: error: expected ')' before 'ptn' g4u currently doesn't support GPT. If you want to venture into that direction, I recommend posting to the appropriate NetBSD amiling list directly, and ask for support there. For your case, I'd try current-us...@netbsd.org. Don't forget stating from what date and CVS branch your sources are, exactly. Good luck! - Hubert -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] How can I ...
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Kenneth Lee wrote: I used upload disk to create a backup image called backup.gz. What I would like to do is copy this file to a flash drive, then use the program to use this file on the flash drive to image the drive on the PC/Laptop. This way, with one flash drive, I could image machines quickly that are not networked. I thought that I could simply use copy disk with the backup.gz to the hard drive. Doh! That didn't work. Going the other way, it would also be nice to simply plug in a USB external drive and create a backup image as well. If this is possible to do with a backed-up image (backup.gz), please let me know! g4u is primarily for network based operation, what you want can be done with every Unix (Linux, NetBSD, whatever) Live CD. - Hubert -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] alpha 4 worked well on Dell Optiplex 760
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: Just wanted to report a success with g4u alpha 4 on these Dell Optiplex systems. Last semester, I reported here that g4u did not work because the ethernet card was not found by alpha 3, but now it is! It appears as device wm0. Thanks for the report - reminds me i should push out the 2.5 release :) - Hubert -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Help compiling from source
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Nathaniel Pitcher wrote: Is there a more recent version of the instructions? Ok, let's try, see instructions below. I'm asking you to report back on me any success or failure. In case of failure, there's a logfile called log.i386 (or so) in /usr/src, please make that file accessible to me if things fail (attached in private mail is fine, no need to send to the list; an URL is most welcome!). Now, to rebuild the images: * Note that for rebuilding, no root permissions are needed any more! Below, the # prompt shows action needed as root, % is the prompt for commands executed as user. * Get a i386/PC machine running NetBSD 5.0. Cross-building from other Unix-like operating systems may work too, right now it is confirmed working for Mac OS X 10.5. Reports of others welcome. * Get NetBSD-current source from ~Aug 30th 2009 as /usr/src: % su # mkdir /usr/cvs # chown $USER /usr/cvs # ln -s cvs/src /usr/src # exit % cd /usr/cvs % env CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d anon...@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -D 20090830 src * Get the g4u 2.4alpha4 sources % cd /usr/src % ftp http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha4.tgz * Unpack the g4u sources: % tar plzvxf g4u-2.4alpha4.tgz * Apply patches: % cd /usr/src/sys/dev/ata % patch wd.c.patch-g4u % cd /usr/src/sys/dev/scsipi % patch sd.c.patch-g4u % cd /usr/src/sys/kern % patch subr_prf.c.patch-g4u * Tweak build settings: % su - # touch /etc/mk.conf # chown $USER /etc/mk.conf # exit % echo OBJMACHINE=1 /etc/mk.conf % * Build g4u, which requires a full build of NetBSD userland and a kernel: % cd /usr/src % sh g4u-build Depending on your machine, this will take some time! * After that, you'll find g4u1.fs, g4u1.fs and g4u.iso in /usr/src/distrib/i386/g4u I'm looking forward for your report. Good luck! - Hubert -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] [SPAM] Need network help
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Dave Carter wrote: I don't know where I got that old version # from. I actually have V2.3. Latest is 2.4alpha4. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#history - Hubert -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] [SPAM] Need network help
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Dave Carter wrote: How do I get past this? Please try a recent version. - Hubert -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] grub error after restore
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, grieve wrote: I tried cloning an Ubuntu 9.04 system with g4u 2.1 using Try the latest, which is 2.4alpha4 - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] About broken pipes and PXE booting
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Michael Landers wrote: I work at a school and use g4u 2.3 via pxe boot which works amazingly well. I am wondering if version 2.4 will be compatable with pxe boot. I've never used PXE with g4u, so I'm afraid you're left out in the dark... maybe do whatever you did for 2.3 with 2.4(alpha4), and see what happens? Keep us posted! My second question is I am having a problem loading an image onto a machine at work and though I can't remember the specific error it was something along the lines of broken pipe failure to write output. Could this be caused by a faulty hard drive? It may be... more context would be useful to give a more precise answer. Thanks you for your time. How do you do prefer your donations? Paypal or amazon books? Whatever fits you - I've updated my Amazon wishlist for my recent interests, but paypal's always fine, too. :) - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] wd0: mbr partition exceeds disk size
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, jon jon wrote: Hi Hubert, when you set the ip manually do you have to also set the default gateway also? if so what is the command for it. That depends where your FTP server is - basic TCP/IP knowledge assumed. :) The command is route add default 1.2.3.4. About the Connection timed out in your other mail: try to ping the ftp server from g4u, and also try ftp ip to see if you can read it. The message suggests you can't, for some reason. - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] creating image
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, bb271 wrote: Personally, I find comopressing 40GB of data (OK, of which only 6.5GB is used) down to 3.2GB pretty good. I didn't explain myself very well. Yes I agree Hubert that it is very good. There does not seem to be a downside to GZIP=1 and that is what I was curious about. Perhaps this is particular to my setup and data? I think so. IIRC, gzip -9 tries to be even more sophisticated when finding patterns to compress, but also for the cost of using more RAM and much more time. In the end the ratio depends on what you have on the disk - if image size doesn't matter and time to get the image done is limited (the usual case) then -1 is preferable over -9. - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] reduce image size
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, jon jon wrote: I beleive I do this command at the g4u command prompt uploaddisk (ipaddress) (nameichoose.gz0) wd0 and that will upload my image of my hard drive. I seen something about reducing image size after it is done. How do I do that this image is going to a network hard drive. any advice? http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg You do the listed things before creating the image. - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] funky username
Try user%40dom...@ftphost ... or get a decent FTP server w/o funny logins :) - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Can't connect to FTP server
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Jerry Weinstein wrote: My network system configuration: PCMandriva Linux 2009 Laptopsame Proftpd server is running okay on PC. I can ftp into it from the command line using the correct username and password. When booting from g4u, however, when I issue the command to upload the Laptops' image using the command uploaddisk gol...@192.168.1.106 I am prompted for username and passworkd, it goes okay, then g4u will being transferring except it ends with a cannot connect message. The first time I did this, an actual transfer of 20mb occurred. After the first time, g4u can't even establish a connection to the ftp server. I am using version 1.3.2. Please let me know what more information will help diagnose this. 1.3.2 is dead old, please check the webpage for current releases and alpha versions. Also, there are a few questions for answering in a problem reports. For you, output of ifconfig -a may be interesting to see. - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u stops reading HHD at about 50000 MB
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Manuel Beltrandelrio wrote: Does anyone know what is going on here? No idea here. It shouldn't hang. I've only really used the FTP servers that come with Solaris and NetBSD, though. Maybe run ktrace on the FreeBSD machine as soon as the transfer hangs, and see what happens? That's not for the faint at heart, though... ;) - Hubert -- ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] problem cloning from floppy disk set
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Willie wrote: g4u version: 2.3 (floppy disks) http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20081122_1744.html - Hubert -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Cloning an Seagate ST34573W Hard Drive
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: To get the drive cloned, it looks like my best bet will be to boot from g4u floppy images. This assumes that the floppy drive will work. My question is, do the floppy images of G4U provide the same functionality as booting from the iso version? Yes. Good luck! - Hubert -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u problem
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, John Richards wrote: I have tried 2.3 and 2.4alpha3 from CD. The CD works OK in an older Compaq machine. With 2.4 alpha3 I have tried all three boot options. I'm afraid I cannot help you right now. The way to go right now would be to adjust g4u to latest NetBSD-current sources, then see what happens. If anyone wants to help out on that, let me know. I'm somewhat flooded right now, and cannot do it myself. Sorry. - Hubert -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] problem with defect sector
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Norbert Kanter wrote: Is there a solution to this? Any trick or hint would be appreciated! Unfortunately not. I never got around to enable the proper code in the 'dd' command used in g4u. (-DSMALL needs to be removed...) - Hubert -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Recovering Very Old SCO OpenServer 5 System
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: Can G4U work with so little system memory? Sure, 64MB is plenty. Can it also detect this rather old hard drive? SCSI is not rather old. Question is if your SCSI controller is recognized, but why don't you just bootup g4u and see what happens? Type disks and see if anything is found. Easy! I wish to clone the hard drive to a newer drive. What if, for example, this newer drive is a 32 Gb USB flash drive. Will that present a problem for G4U? I don't see one. One more question but it is not a G4U question. Is there any good reason to continue using SCSI hard drives? The system in question will be used in a medical office. That means constant and very comfortable conditions and at most three users of the system. There may be uses for SCSI today, but I think they are pretty rate, and I stronly doubt your light use qualifies. :) - Hubert -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha3 is available for testing
* g4u 2.4alpha3 is available for testing After a lot of time, a lot of distractions, and a lot of changes to NetBSD's install system, I've finally found time again to adjust g4u to the current world order, and I'm happy to finally have g4u 2.4alpha3 available for testing. What is g4u? ``g4u (ghosting for unix) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. The first is to upload the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, the other is to restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and write it back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processed as an image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported.'' Get it now: * ISO:http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3.iso * compressed ISO: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3.iso.zip * First floppy: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3-1.fs * 2nd floppy: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3-2.fs * 3rd floppy: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3-3.fs * all 3 floppies: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3.fs.zip * sources:http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha3.tgz What's new in g4u 2.4alpha3: * Support Bluetooth keyboard and USB hubs * ACPI support is enabled by default. SMP is, too, but that's not really used in g4u; They can both be disabled form the bootloader in case of problems. * Moved away from GENERIC kernel back to customized kernel, to avoid bloat through too many drivers that aren't needed in g4u (audio, video, ...) * The build structure was adjusted to NetBSD's latest framework, which loads the kernel from CD, then loads the ramdisk, too, before starting the kernel. No more kernel+ramdisk for now. (Need to re-evaluate situation for PXE) * Drivers for: o AMD CS5535/CS5536 and Intel PIIX4 PCI bridges o Areca SATA PCI RAID controllers o Workbit NinjaATA-32 CardBus IDE controllers o Realtek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S cardbus wlan cards o Geode CSC and ScanLogic SL811HS USB controllers o Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN o JMicron JMC2[56]0 ethernet o Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet o Realtek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S cardbus network cards * ... and any driver updates, bug fixes and other enhancements from NetBSD-current * This version of g4u was again cross-compiled on Mac OS X. To get your own build, grap NetBSD-current sources from yesterday (20081122), unpack the g4u source .tgz then cd .../src ; sh g4u-build and report what happens. I'd like to hear any reports if this version works better or worse than any previous alpha version or release, esp. under the light that this version is (another...) attempt to switch to ACPI, which is on by default in NetBSD now. Let me hear if it works, or if it hangs for you! - Hubert Feyrer - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] No Disks Detected ?
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julien Berard wrote: dmesg desn't give me any output about my disk. 1) what g4u version 2) look for an unrecognized controller in dmesg output - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Ability to Post
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Chris Hoffman wrote: I would like to be able to post to this list for a quick question or if you would like to answer through email that would be fine also. It seems you can post, at least I got your mail via the list address. Fire away! :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Asus EEE PC Network Card
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Simon Bowen wrote: I am having problems getting G4U to ran on the Asus EEE PC machine. I have been googling and get the feeling that the Atheros L2 driver (named Lii?!?) needs to be added to NetBSD? Is there anyway that I can get hold of this driver and add it to G4U manually rather than wait for the next NetBSD and then the next version of G4U? Latest NetBSD-current has a driver. If you want, add it to the G4U-KERNEL and rebuild g4u. Else I'll see that this will be in the next alpha/beta version (which I do not have time to do right now). - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Booting g4u with isolinux
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Kim Mik wrote: Can the NetBSD kernel in one of the next releases, be in the multiboot format? http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html?page=2 Julio M. Merino Vidal made the nessesary changes in the netbsd-4 stable branch. As far as I know g4u uses the NetBSD-3.1 branch. I am only familiar with linux. Will there be a switch to the netbsd-4 branch in one of the next releases? This will allow users to boot the kernel with isolinux and syslinux. So users can include g4u in a custum iso with other usefull tools (e.g. with Ultimate boot CD). The isolinux.cfg entry will look like this. LABEL g4u KERNEL mboot.c32 APPEND g4u-krnl where g4u-krnl is the netbsd kernel Please note that recent versions of g4u are based on NetBSD-current, which is long-past NetBSD 4.x, and rather close to what NetBSD 5.0 will be. As such, I think enabling multiboot support in the kernel shouldn't be much of a problem - if you want you can rebuild it yourself to test. See the g4u blog for the latest alpha version. (Multiboot is not a new format; It's still ELF, but the passing of parameters between the bootloader and the kernel is accprding to, well, the multiboot specs, which are not what NetBSD uses by default). - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Restricting the g4u-help list
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Rob wrote: About time! Three cheers for Hubert! I hope it's better now... next time just holler earlier. :-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 hangs on Thinkpad T23
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jeff wrote: Wondering if kernel just needs more of the GENERIC_LAPTOP stuff in it. I've run NetBSD-3.1 and 4.x liveCDs on this system w/o issues. good question... another guess I have is that ACPI is a problem. Can you boot -c, try to disable acpi (disable acpi or so), and let me know if that changes anything? Not that I'd prefer to go that route again, but previously ACPI was not enabled, and that may be a reason why those things haven't popped up yet. Can you try 2.4alpha1 or 2.3, and see if they boot properly? (They don't have ACPI both) Oh, and BTW: There's no more GENERIC_LAPTOP, it seems. 8-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Restoring Whole Disk Image
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jack Lucivero wrote: I am attempting to clone a whole harddisk and restore to a new unformatted disk. I am using the latest version of g4u. I successfully clone a 2.9GB image and compressed it to 292MB. I then restore the image using the slurpdisk command to a brand new hard disk. The system boots after reimage and I receive some errors : vfs_mount cannot mount root, memory dump aborted, kernel memory will be dumped. I am not sure what if anything I did wrong. Maybe there is an answer floating around? Thanks for the help in advance. It seems the operating system you're booting wasn't too happy about changed disk geometry. Maybe consult your vendor... - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 is ok on my HP Pavillon zv5000 !
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Fabien Toral wrote: I plan to use g4u over the net and i need to secure the transfert : is FTPS or SFTP implemented ? No. g4u is intended for an environment that's assumed to be under your control -- optimized for speed, not encryption. :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 is ok on my HP Pavillon zv5000 !
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Kulick wrote: I plan to use g4u over the net and i need to secure the transfert : is FTPS or SFTP implemented ? The only suggestion I can offer is an SSH tunnel via port forwarding. How is that supposed to work? Mind you, g4u is a pretty tailored environment, with no ssh client available... (assuming he's not trusting his own LAN, of course :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.3 and piix 4 ide controller
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Dave wrote: I'm trying to evaluate g4u as an imaging tool for both Unix, i.e. Linux and FreeBSD, machines as well as Windows mostly XP boxes. I wanted something open source, that unlike ghost could work from a cd-rom and had support for multiple network cards and controllers. The box i'm testing this on is a test machine, a p2 400 mhz with i think 384 mb of ram. It has an Intel Piix4 IDE controller and bridge, which is giving the trouble. I downloaded the 2.3 iso.zip and extracted it. I then burned the iso to disk and booted it. The boot process halted at the piix4 controller. Googling revealed a 2.4 alpha2 just released that has this controller in it. I downloaded that, extracted, burned, and booted. It also halted at this controller detection. As i do not have a NetBSD or Mac OSX machine i'm at a loss to troubleshoot. I would provide a screen output, but i'm at the boot process and am not sure how to get that output redirected to anywhere useful. If there's any additional information i can provide please let me know. Can you type in the last few (~5) lines of output before it hangs? - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u not configuring network connection
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, SMITH, RANDY A, ATTSI wrote: g4u version 2.3 Can you please check 2.4alpha2, and check for dmesg output of the network card, if ifconfig -a doesn't show a network card? - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 ready for testing
[This text is from my blog, see http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20080120_0523.html) I was asked to update g4u to a more recent version of NetBSD-current and here is g4u 2.4alpha2! What is g4u? ``g4u (ghosting for unix) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. The first is to upload the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, the other is to restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and write it back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processed as an image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported.'' Get it now: * ISO: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2.iso * compressed ISO: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2.iso.zip * First floppy: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2-1.fs * 2nd floppy: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2-2.fs * 3rd floppy: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2-3.fs * all 3 floppies: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2.fs.zip * sources: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha2.tgz Changes in alpha2: * ACPI Support enabled * Support Bluetooth keyboard and USB hubs * Drivers for AMD CS5535/CS5536 and Intel PIIX4 PCI bridges * Driver for the Areca SATA PCI RAID controllers * Driver for Workbit NinjaATA-32 CardBus IDE controllers * Driver for Realtek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S cardbus wlan cards * Driver for Geode CSC and ScanLogic SL811HS USB controllers * ... and any driver updates, bug fixes and other enhancements from NetBSD-current I'd like to hear any reports if this version works better or worse than any previous alpha version or release, esp. under the light that this version is (another...) attempt to switch to ACPI, which is on by default in NetBSD now. Let me hear if it works, or if it hangs for you! (For reporting details, follow http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#bugreporting) BTW, as a funny side note, this version was not built on NetBSD but on Mac OS X - the procedure should be the same on both systems (and maybe other Unix systems, like e.g. Linux): Get NetBSD-current sources as of today (20080120), run cd .../src ; sh g4u-build and report what happens. Enjoy! - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Regarding g4u problem
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Saandiip Koturwwar wrote: test123.gz partition+disk_name, here my input is /dev/sdb3 then I am getting an error, dd: /dev/r/dev/sdb3 :No such file or directory if anything, it's sd3b, NetBSD is different from Linux here -- use the parts command to find out the partition letter for your drive. Also, you should not specify the full device path (/dev/...) but only the device (sd3b). - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] Last month of NetBSD's fundraising campaign
NetBSD is the free, open source operating system that g4u is based upon. I'm sending this here as both a developer of the NetBSD project, and of someone who thinks that NetBSD is worth support. As volunteer project without commercial backing, NetBSD depends on donations to continue development, and the current fundtaising campaign is setup to assist this goal. December is the last month of NetBSD's fundraising campaign. It is a great opportunity to make a Christmas present for the NetBSD project. YOU can still help us to improve NetBSD even more - donate! So far the set goal of $50,000 US is not reached, donations rank up to a bit over $20k. There's some time left for you to help us out, and everyone is welcome to join in! Your donations will make a difference in many of the areas where NetBSD is currently seeing active development, including SMP and fine-grained kernel locking and general improvements of quality. Paypal donations can be made to [EMAIL PROTECTED], information on how to donate can be found at http://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate, and more informations on donations for NetBSD can be found at http://www.netbsd.org/donations/. People who like g4u and think the author deserves a warm meal are always welcome to donate to [EMAIL PROTECTED], too. :-) - Hubert - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u with amd64
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dr Lawrence M Fox wrote: I tried to use g4u on a new HP dv9617nr notebook, and the live cd failed. I suspect it has to do with the 64-bit architecture. How does it fail? as far as I understand, you should be able to boot an i386 architecture cd on an amd64 machine... - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] I messed up
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Jeff Thornburg wrote: I was trying to copy disk sd0(old small drive) to sd1(new big drive). After Copydisk finished, the new big drive is now the same size as the old small drive. I basically lost 150GB, is there any way to rewrite the disk so that it thinks it is full size of 250GB? What is it? You probably want to use PartitionMagick or so to fix your partition table and expand the related file systems. This is beyond what g4u does. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Sco uploaddisk error message
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One error read something like, ld0: Error 0X0003 Device Failure Another error was, ld0d: error reading FSBN ... Any assistance is greatly appreciated. As with any backup, you can only be sure if it worked if you try to restore it. The latter error sounds like the expected one (weird error trying to read past end-of-disc), the former I have no idea about - seems RAID-related, but I've never used such a device, so I cannot advise other then test and see. If you have a spare machine, ship it to me, and I'll do the testing for you. :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: I'll try to explain better: i have a computer with 2 partitions... I'm trying to create a copy of the first partition and save it in the second... running the script in netbsd, the script runs good... when i boot the g4u kernel, firstly i mount the second partition at /mnt (it's a FAT partition)... then i tell the script to save the file into /mnt ... when this occurs the performance goes bad... don't know if you got it... thanks anyway... Can you show the exact commands you use in both cases? I have an idea of what's going on... - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: i removed the gzip command of the script, letting it run just the dd command, without compressing, and it gave me a 'good' transfer rate: about 6MBs running on netbsd ... then i rebuilt g4u kernel and booted it, but when booting this kernel and running the same script the transfer rate stops around 1MBs... is there any kernel config i should alter to make it work? I'm not sure I fully grasp this yet: what's the difference between the system, exactly, that you got good/bad performance? - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Can it be done? Deploying a G4U image with dd?
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Barneck, Jared wrote: I was wondering if the following was possible. If I boot to linux or windows could I use dd (the linux or the win32 version) to image the workstation? Yes. Just make sure to gunzip it first: cat foo.img | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda bs=1m - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: I've already tried to add GZIP=1 to the front and the result is the same...it stands around 100~160Kb/s i can't understand it because the uploadpart transfer rate stops arround 12MB/s (the maximum speed i can get at my network), so the local copy should at least do it at the same transfer rate, or not? if you have some idea about it please reply... Well, look at the script - it uses 512 *byte* blocks - that sure asks for sucky performance. I forgot why i used such a bad block size... change bs=512 to bs=1m and rebuild g4u, or just try dd directly. (Why did I use 512 byte blocks? To skip forward to the right partition, and get size etc. right, as those numbers are stored in those units, at least in the BSD disk label, probably the MBR, too. I'm sure there's some ways better way, I just never got my brains together to do this right. Now guess why that's not really documented/enabled. :-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] 2.4a Hangs on Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 Motherboard (agp0 problem?)
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: Meanwhile, does g4u have trouble with ULi or Nvidia chipsets? Not that I'm aware of. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] nic ?
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Elisabetta D'Aiutolo wrote: I am trying to run g4u ver 2.3 over Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V3505 Edition. I have tried g4u on other laptops and it works perfectly... however when I tried on Siemens AMILO Pro V3505, i think that it cannot detect the NIC. I I never obtined the prompt because boot is stopped. Please help, I have plenty of T61 to clone! How can I help? Need more data! If you have a spare machine, ship it and I'll have a look. :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] 501 Invalid number of arguments error
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Stephen Jarjoura wrote: this error and the slurpdisk immediately quit. Obviously this is being reported by my NAS, but I do not know what the g4u command was that caused this. Here are the particulars. I'm using g4u Harddisk Image Cloning V2.2 Please try g4u 2.3 or 2.4alpha1, just in case. Not that I think this matters for that error. According to RFC 959, error code 501 is Syntax error in parameters or arguments. Slurpdisk uses ftp(1)'s URL syntax, so I cannot tell the exact FTP-level command that's being used either - can you try running Wireshark/Ethereal/tcpdump, and see what happens? Disclaimer: I blame your NAS device's FTP daemon. ;) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Test Building g4u 2.4alpha1 from source
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: Creating disk 1 to g4u1.fs Creating disk 2 to g4u2.fs Creating disk 3 to g4u3.fs 0+1 records in 1+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 0.005 secs (294912000 bytes/sec) Final result: -rw-r--r-- 1 aclapp wheel 1474560 Sep 25 15:20 g4u1.fs -rw-r--r-- 1 aclapp wheel 1474560 Sep 25 15:20 g4u2.fs -rw-r--r-- 1 aclapp wheel 1474560 Sep 25 15:20 g4u3.fs ln -f /usr/cvs/src/distrib/i386/g4u/../floppies/bootfloppy-g4u/obj/g4u*.fs . So it gets to build the floppy version fine... good to know. cd /usr/cvs/src/distrib/i386/g4u/../cdroms/bootcd-g4u ; /usr/cvs/src/obj.i386/t ooldir/bin/nbmake mkdir -p cdrom cp /usr/cvs/src/distrib/i386/instkernel/obj/netbsd-INSTALL_LARGE.gz cdrom/netbsd cp: /usr/cvs/src/distrib/i386/instkernel/obj/netbsd-INSTALL_LARGE.gz: No such fi le or directory It should not touch the INSTALL_LARGE kernel. Can you update your NetBSD sources to something that matches the date of when I announced 2.4alpha1 (I forgot the date, check the archive)? If in doubt, use cvs update -A to try latest NetBSD-current sources - no idea if they still work, I haven't tested. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] USB NIC Support?
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Gary Verhulp wrote: Does anyone have any experience with a USB NIC under g4u or NetBSD? I played with a USB1 ethernet adapter some years ago, it just worked. BTW g4U rocks! Thanks :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Bad link on home page to mail archive
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, David Balazic wrote: The correct source forge archive link is http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=g4u-help I've fixed both archive links (for the announce and help lists). Thanks! - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Probleme beim Upload?
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gummelt, Arne wrote: Nachdem ich nun das uploaddisk 192.168.0.100 test.gz mache und das Passwort für den Benutzer install eingebe, werden kurz Daten übers Netzwerk geschickt, jedoch nicht kontinuierlich sondern eher sporadisch. Die Datei auf dem FTP-Server ist dann bei ca. 120 KB fertig??? Das Cloneprogramm zählt fleißig bis zu 280 MB? Auf der Festplatte ist einmal Mac osX und dann über Bootcamp Windows XP. Gibt es da vielleicht einen Ansatz, was ich falsch mache? Keine Ahnung. Funktioniert der FTP Server per Hand, z.B mit dem ftp-Befehl unter Mac OS X? Genaue Bildschirmausgabe von g4u waere ggf. auch Hilfreich, so kann ich leider gar nichts sagen. :( - Hubert- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] (no subject)
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gummelt, Arne wrote: Der FTP-Server läuft wie gesagt auf einem Windows XP System und funktioniert mit anderen Windows-System und einem Suse Linux System sehr gut, also ohne Beanstandungen. Wenn ich nun den diskupload Befehl eingebe kommt folgendes: Nach der Anmeldung MSG: Remote system is UNIX 200 Type Set to I Remote: test1.gz 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,59,214,4,21) 150 Connection accept Xx Die x sind die Bytezahlen die schnell auf 5000 hochschnellen, dann aber nichts mehr machen, außer ich drücke die ganze Zeit die Return-Taste. Dann geht der Upload zähneknirschend weiter mit 5 kb, und hört nach ca. 5 Minuten ganz auf. Die Timeouts habe ich bereits auf dem Server disabled. Hm, dazu faellt mir leider nichts ein. Wenn die Datei auf dem FTP-Server immer konstant gross ist wuerde ich da mal reingucken ob was sinnvolles drinsteht. Ansonsten waere vielleicht mal sniffen (Wireshark/Ethereal, tcpdump, ...) angebracht um zu gucken was da abgeht. So aus der Ferne kann ich dazu leider gar nichts sagen. :-( - Hubert- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Dell Optiplex 2.4: USB keyboard problems
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: Caveats from Hubert: This version doesn't have working keyboard for me in Parallels. That was actually just a one-time problem, it worked fine on second attempt. No idea what it was... - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] G4U ver. 2.3
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Marcin Plichta wrote: I do have question to ask. recently i have been using your program for cloning UNIX Chorus drive (6GB) localy to the other drive 40GB by copydisks wd0 wd1. Everything went well no any errors interruptions etc during process after cloning Have listout partition on both drives and it looks the same beside of free space. However when i have installed newly copied drive to the machine I have recived some errors during startup and eventualy chorus get crazy and has started to reboot it again and this situation has repeated, it will go this way up to end of the world unless it will get stop by powering off. Do you have some feedback about it? Or maybe you can advice me how I can clone Unix-chorus drive? Maybe ask Chorus support? They'll appreciate the exact error messages you get, too, I guess. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] I still use the floppy version of g4u
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: Have you given any thought to network booting them from a PXE server? Since its still in Alpha maybe Hubert can make a single floppy image for use with USB sticks (I have no idea whats involved with making a floppy image that is larger than a floppy... Just brainstorming) I've never played with booting from an USB device. What structure does it need - MBR like when booting from a harddisk? - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] NetBSD Fundraising Campaign 2007 (fwd)
FYI, just in case someone feels like supporting the operating system that g4u is based on. :-) - Hubert -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:34:00 + (UTC) From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NetBSD Fundraising Campaign 2007 NetBSD Fundraising Campaign 2007 The NetBSD Foundation would like to announce its 2007 fundraising campaign. Thanks to donations from earlier this year, we were able to fund a developer to work on NetBSD and we would like to extend that opportunity. We are aiming to raise $50,000 US by the end of the year. Every donation, both major and minor, is welcome and will be put to good use! We will spend the money with a focus on improving NetBSD's SMP, real-time computing and embedded capabilities. This task requires a lot of work to be done by the NetBSD developers, as well as the provision of the most modern hardware. Thus the main goals are: * provide necessary hardware for developers. * continue funding developers to work on improving NetBSD. * sponsoring developers to work on BSD-related events. * focused development, with specific developers funded to work on their areas of expertise. * offer bounties for long standing, hard to solve problems. We are inviting the NetBSD community and organizations using NetBSD to help us in achieving these goals. This fundraising campaign is an excellent opportunity for everyone to contribute to the NetBSD project and to help us improve NetBSD even more! Please read our donations page for the status of the fundraising campaign and for information on how to donate: http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/ Thanks a lot for your support of the NetBSD project! - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
[g4u-help] please test: 2.4alpha1
Please try: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.iso - ISO http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.iso.zip - compressed ISO http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-1.fs - First floppy http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-2.fs - 2nd floppy http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-3.fs - 3rd floppy http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.fs.zip - all 3 floppies http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.tgz - sources Caveats: This version doesn't have working keyboard for me in Parallels. Please tell me if that's the case for you, too! Users of PERC- and Broadcom-equipped Dell-Servers, please test and report back success or failure. Include dmesg snipped if failure! - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u local copy problem
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Jam Talk wrote: Anyhow, when I do the copydisk wd0(55 gigs) sd0(160gigs) it copys upto around 700mb, beeps three times, and reboots to a black screen. Anyone know how to fix this? No idea, not by the amount of data. It shouldn't expose the behaviour you describe at any time. Faulty hardware? - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Help adding mkdir
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: I tried adding bin/mkdir to the file: /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisks/ramdisk-g4u/list but that complains about not being able to know how to make mkdir. That sounds ok. Can you paste the exact error with some (5-50) lines of context? - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Help adding mkdir
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: nbmake: don't know how to make mkidr. Stop ^ Pilot error. :-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Broadcom, Dell, HP, IBM users: please test!
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Lisa Schermerhorn wrote: Broadcom product 0v167a (ethernet network revision 0x02) at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured not configured means there's no driver for the card. fwip0 is IP over firewire - you don't want that. I'll try to get 21.4alpha1 out soonish, which should support that card... ping me again in a few days if I forget! - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: What are the specs on your Laptop? The GZIP compression used by g4u is fairly processor intensive. You should try adding BEFORE the slurpdisk command GZIP=1 without the quotes. This will force GZIP to use the lightest compression possible, thus USUALLY increasing transfer speed. copydisk copypart do not use compression, so GZIP=whatever doesn't have any effect. (Why would they? They make a 1:1 copy, hence the name :) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] I still use the floppy version of g4u
[I'll reply in english, should fit the audience better] On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Gehring, Stephan wrote: N?, brauch heute kein Mensch mehr. (Translation: nobody needs it = g4u floppy version) That sounds like a very liberal generalization, forcing me to pull out web stats. Let's see, downloads in the past ~10 weeks: 5320 /%7Efeyrer/g4u/g4u-2.3.iso 4922 /%7Efeyrer/g4u/g4u-2.3.iso.zip 1710 /%7Efeyrer/g4u/g4u-2.3.fs.zip 1198 /%7Efeyrer/g4u/g4u-2.3-1.fs 1120 /%7Efeyrer/g4u/g4u-2.3.tgz 933 /%7Efeyrer/g4u/g4u-2.3-2.fs Too far away from nobody to justify killing it, I'd say. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Changing path on FTP server
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Chris wrote: Is there an easy fix and i've just missed it, or am i going to have to start looking in another direction? Try using a path that's relative to /mnt. Or use a non-crappy FTP server (sorry). - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] disks wd4 and higher supported?
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Ethan Hall-Beyer wrote: Then I tried parts and determined that it only worked for disks wd0, wd1, wd2 and wd3. Is there a limit in g4u somewhere to supported only four IDE disks? The tool works properly on the disk I want to back up if I take wd0..wd7 offline (two Promise expansion cards.) It's possible that only device nodes in /dev are available for 0-3 or so. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] frage
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ich wollte noch fragen ob g4u auch kommerziell frei verfügbar ist, g4u ist auch kommerziell frei verfuegbar, ausser fuer den Wiederverkauf und den militaerischen Bereich. Fuer diesen bitte wg. Lizenzen Ruecksprache halten. Die auf der Webseite angegebenen optionalen kommerziellen Lizenzen sind fuer Sie eine moeglichkeit, wie Weiterentwicklung von g4u zu unterstuetzen. vernünftig Verwaltbar und ob eine Integration auf Linux (Fedora 7) möglich ist? Bzgl. der Verwaltbarkeit verweise ich Sie auf die Dokumentation auf der Webseite (www.feyrer.de/g4u/), konkrete Rueckfragen kann ich gerne versuchen zu beantworten. Linux/Fedora kann mit g4u selbstverstaendlich gesichert restored werden. MfG, Hubert Feyrer- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Network Problem
On Tue, 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IFConfig -a : Re0 : flags = 8843 up, BROADCAST, RUNNING, Simplex, Multicast mtu 1500 Capabilities = 3f80TS04, IP4CSUM-RX, IP4CSUM-TX, TCP4CSUM-RX, TCP4CSUM-TX, UDP4CSUM-RX, UDP4CSUM-TX Enable=0 Address:00:18:F3 ... Media: Ethernet Autoselect (none) Status : no carrier The MAC address looks ok, so the card seems to play with the driver in general. Status: no carrier may hint that there's some autonegotiation trouble or so. Try ifconfig -m and see what media options there are. Maybe you also need to check your switch to see what autonegotiation settings there are, and in the worst case hardwire them to something that works for you. Good luck! - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] help
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Christopher Thompson wrote: uploaddisk ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone/dell.gz /dell.gz 0 0.00 KB/s ftp: ftp:1.1.1237/windist/clone/dell_clone: No address associated with hostname not connected not connected not connected I have tried ifconfig -a which returns a valid network address and subnet mask which I can ping from other computers. I have made a user install and given full access to the share on the server. If there is any help that you can give it would be appreciated. looks like the g4u ftp client can't make any sense of your hostname - the IP you give it seems to be a public one, looking a bit strange, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work. Maybe you can try manually: ftp 1.1.1.237 then log in interactively and see what happens. I'd expect this to work. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Network driver
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Martin Richard wrote: Info from dmesg: pci 4 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82573E IAMT, rev 3 PCI-Express Bus 256 word (8 address bits) SPI EEPROM makphys ... Marvell 88E Gigabit PHY rev 2 and for the second one pci 5 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82573L Gigabit Ethernet rev 0 (rest is the same) I'm used to Linux variants, but much less to BSD flavors. If I'm reading this correctly, it sees the Intel hardware (at least querying the equipement to get those strings) but loads a Marvell driver ? I'm guessing the chipset much be recent and would need a recent version of the e1000/pro intel drivers.. Anybody else with those NICs (in my case it's from a supermicro 5015M-MR+ box) ? How would someone go about adding drivers to g4u ? Can you please post the dmesg output above verbatime? seems you left out something on each of the lines... a driver in NetBSD is not announced with pci 5 dev 0 function 0... - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u experience
Hi Mike,
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
On the past week I have to reinstall machines in our training center
(my new job). Well, all machines looks very common thus g4u is exactly
the tool what I need. Although I've heard a lot about g4u before, this
was my first time experience.
So, after preparing 16G partition on source machine I downloaded g4u
to perform PXE-powered setup. Unfortunately, some problems immediately
pursued me. There are.
1) g4u have no partitioning software (i.e. fdisk, please see also p.4
below), and upoading 200G images (please note that my partition size is
16G) for the whole disk looks like an overkill for me. Also, I'd like
to propose new {upload,slurp}layout programs, intended to deal with
partition layouts. 'fdisk -S' may be used in this case.
2) While trying to rebuild the g4u from sources to include fdisk I
found that G4U.MPACPI kernel doesn't compiles (you are already know
this problem :-) While talking about compilation - followed by
instructins on your site my workstation was gone to rebuild the whole
world. But building g4u from src/distrib/i386/g4u is not much complex
(if more complex at all), but saves a hell lot of time.
3) {slurp,upload}{disk,part} are almost the same program. As *nix user
I often incorrectly tried to preform partition operations with
slurpdisk utility. IMHO it would be better to merge *part into *disk
and add disk/partition autodetection (if disk/part contains a digit at
the end it's name, then 'd' should be appended).
4) Because of *disk/*part messing I've to reedit the command each time,
but shell was compiled without editline. Yes, I understand the problem
roots - in this case it will need three floppy disks instead of two. In
order to solve this I'd recommend to create two g4u variants - GENERIC
and TINY. For TINY you may drop lot of drivers and include smallest
tools; this may allow to fit g4u just one floppy. GENERIC, in contrast,
will fit three floppies, but will have all required tools and drivers.
5) While talking about g4u development: dot.profile contains ?()
function, which cannot be properly used because '?' is the shell
metacharacter. IMHO help() is completely enough.
Well, because most of above is criticall for my work I go for it, but
I'd like to see it included in further g4u releases.
Any opinion?
You're right in most parts, as I've already said in our chat.
About #5, I've removed that already in my development version.
If you have scripts to contribute to backup restore partition layout,
I'd be very happy to include that in g4u - It's something I wanted to add
for some time, but as you said, extended partitions make things
interesting.
I prefer not to have several versions of g4u now just to cut down on
floppy size. At least I haven't heared complaints about that yet - I can
only guess people mostly use the ISO these days. (I should dig my
webserver logs...)
Thank you for your feedback!
- Hubert
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Re: [g4u-help] help with booting g4u
On Tue, 8 May 2007, deggs meister wrote: Press Return to boot now, any other key for boot menu booting fd0a:netbsd - starting in 0 1792369 + 2406984 + 150708 = 0x427290 NOTHING HAPPENS HERE That's pretty early... at that point the kernel was loaded into RAM, but not started yet. which is why you can ctrl+alt+del it. I have no idea why that's happening though. I wonder if that's happening repeatably. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] G4U Over USB
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: I want to put a spare 2.5 inch hard drive into a USB hard drive enclosure and plug this into a laptop. Then I want to boot to g4u and `copydisk' from the laptop's hard drive to the spare hard drive in the USB enclosure. Will this work? Sure. Disk will be sd0. Note that thils will still create a 1:1 copy of your disk, not an image on the USB drive, of course. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Broadcom BCM5754 hardware wanted for driver development
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Gary Verhulp wrote: maybe the fine folks over @ broadcom will want to kick one down... for a good cause ;) Do you have any contacts that can be asked? - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Investigation g4u
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ingo wrote: I´ve an image of a 40gig HDD with 4 Partitions. 1.NTFS 2. Freebsd, 3. Openbsd 4. NetBSD Could someone please explain how to get the data of the NetBSD slice on a Netbsd machine? gunzip image.gz vnconfig vnd0 image disklabel vnd0 This should show you the available partitioins. If none are shown, maybe use mbrlabel(8). Then mount -t whatever /dev/vnd0X /mnt with X being some letter. I don't know how well NetBSD can read recent FreeBSD/OpenBSD filesystems, and I think NTFS is read-only. For further NetBSD questions I suggest asking on the NetBSD lists. - Hubert- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] g4u - device not configured when uploaddisk....
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Paul Krater wrote: Yes, I can ftp, and the disks command shows id0. Upon trying to uploaddisk, it comes back with: dd: /dev/rwd0d: device not configured So a) what exact command did you run, and b) how does the corresponding output from dmesg / disks for id0 look like? (I've never headred of an id0...) - Hubert - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] A disk read error occurred problem
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jason Lewis wrote: A disk read error has occurred, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot. The image is 4 gig and I am dumping it onto a 20 gig drive. The image is good as I have used it previously, successfully on a different computer (with different hardware). I have tried with 2.2, 2.3 RC and 2.3 release, all give the same error. This particular machine I am dumping it too is an older PC (800Mhz Athlon) Could that be the issue? Oh, I should also say I am dumping a Windows XP image. What are some other things I could try to get it working or diagnose the problem? Try imaging to a disk with a different geometry. I can only guess that that's the problem. (And the contents of the image, needless to say :-) Good luck! - Hubert - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Boot hangs on Thinkpad T23
What g4u version is this with? And: I presume the last line means isa0 instead of iso0? - Hubert On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, M. Fla Fla wrote: I want to image my Thinkpad T23 dual boot Win 2k/Suse 10.0. However, when I boot g4u from CD ROM, the machine hangs on startup. It only gets through a few screens full of g4u, then locks up solid. The keyboard will not respond at all, not even the shift lock. Here are the last several lines before it locks up (my blank lines inserted to delineate newlines). === atabus0 at piixide0 channel 0 piixide0 Secondary channel configured to compatability mode piixide0 Secondary channel interrupting at IRQ 15 atabus0 at piixide0 channel 1 Intel 82801CR SMBus Controller (SMBus serial bus revision 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured Intel 82801CR AC'97 Audio Controller (audio multimode revision 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 not configured Intel 82801CR AC'97 modem controller (modem conmmunications revision 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured iso0 at pcib0 === Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jim Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] G4u on a Dell Poweredge 1950 with broadcom BCM5708 error/support
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill wrote: I'm trying to use G4u on a broadcom BCM5708 NetXtreme II 1000base-T adapter. The lan adapter does not show in ifconfig -a, there is one entry - lo0: flags=8048(loopback, running, multicast) mtu 33192, but no IP info. G4U version 2.3beta3 was the version I tried which is the latest you have posted. Any help would be great to get this support thanks again. What does dmesg say? There's probably no support for that card, as Broadcom does not release documentation for the network chip, which is unfortunately needed to write the driver. Please ask your vendor for documentation for your hardware, and pass it on! - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] network card issues.
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Jeff Little wrote: g4u 2.2 There's a 2.3beta3 version out, please try that. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Help Dell Optiplex 320
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nathaniel Hooten wrote: § If the system hangs during boot: what are the last five lines printed on the screen (again all three of them, verbatime): (six lines just in case) uhub0: ATI Technologie OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ohci1: at pci0 dev 19 function 1: ATI Technologies product 0x4388 (rev. 0x00) ohci1: interrupting at irq 5 ohci1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support Assuming that was a the system hangs report (which wasn't entirely clear to me): IIRC that machine type was already mentioned a few times before on that list, please search the archive. IIRC the fix had something to do with changing USB controller/keyboard type settings in the BIOS. - Hubert- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] Drivers for Dell PowerEdge 1950
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Bill Hase wrote: Is there anything else I can do? I'm afraid not at this point, sorry. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
Re: [g4u-help] No write permission
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, jt wrote: 425 Permission denied No write permission This is a message from your FTP server telling you that it can't write something. Check your permissions on the FTP server. Try uploading a file as the 'install' (= default for g4u) user. This is not a g4u issue. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
