Re: fdisk / disklabel issues...

2000-03-01 Thread Jason Seidel
> Hi all, > > I've got a problem with a couple of machines... The first time I saw the > problem, I thought it was my hardware, but now I've encountered the problem > on three different systems, all with different motherboards, and hard > disks. The only think in common, is that with all of

RE: FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-01 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Mar-00 David van Deijk wrote: > Dear hackers, > > I have encountered Problems using the FBSDBOOT.exe since version > 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4. I have looked into the source and could not > find ELF support but only aout. Are you able to tell me wheter this is > because of me or that i am righ

DLink DGE-500SX

2000-03-01 Thread Mark Newton
We've been speaking with our local DLink salescritter about FreeBSD support (we couldn't help it - he coldcalled us with a visit yesterday and tried to demo a whole lot of gear which wouldn't work under FreeBSD :-) We suggested to him that the best way to get us interested would be to contribut

Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-03-01 Thread Marty Leisner
Well, I never like to do anything as root which I don't need root permissions to do. If you have a "compiling" engine, and a "test" machine, this may be reasonable. Just let the compilers be able to write to the build directory (I think -- I haven't looked into this in a while (and generally us

Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-03-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 1 March 2000 at 11:11:35 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>> What are you using for your command lines? You have to target the >>> disklabel specifically at slice 1 on the disk otherwise disklabel will >>> think you're trying to overwrite the slice table and get mad. >> >> Here's what

Great American Gas Out

2000-03-01 Thread The Raifords
Subject: Fw: Great American Gas Out This message was received and forwarded - please forward it! Anytime we can stick it to them it's a good day. Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across Canada and the U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it worked. It's time to do somethin

Disklabel from command line...

2000-03-01 Thread Warren Welch
Hi all, Is it possible to create FreeBSD partitions from the command line? I'd really like to be able to script creating a FreeBSD partitions, so that I could create /, /var, /usr, etc. without having to edit the disklabel manually. Any scripts out there already? Any ideas? Thanks in advanc

fdisk / disklabel issues...

2000-03-01 Thread Warren Welch
Hi all, I've got a problem with a couple of machines... The first time I saw the problem, I thought it was my hardware, but now I've encountered the problem on three different systems, all with different motherboards, and hard disks. The only think in common, is that with all of them I'm wor

MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting?

2000-03-01 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hiya folks i just wondered what the maximum MAXUSERS setting for a 3.4 kernel would be on a smp system with 512mb ram... the impact on the system structures seems to be very... errrhh... rather complex. any ideas? it gives me a warning if i got past 512, but what will happen then? /k -- > Mot

Fix for quotas grace time when using chown and soft limits are hit again

2000-03-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
Here is a problem with FreeBSD's quotas that I have observed for a long time now but finally found some time to track it down: Let's assume the following settings on a quota enabled system: soft limits : 100MB hard limits : 200MB grace period: 7 days On day 1, the user U1 creates 150MB of data.

Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-03-01 Thread Mike Smith
> > What are you using for your command lines? You have to target the > > disklabel specifically at slice 1 on the disk otherwise disklabel will > > think you're trying to overwrite the slice table and get mad. > > Here's what I did: > > fdisk -e /dev/rda1 > disklabel -r -w da1

Re: FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-01 Thread David van Deijk
> > I have encountered Problems using the FBSDBOOT.exe since version > > 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4. I have looked into the source and could not > > find ELF support but only aout. Are you able to tell me wheter this is > > because of me or that i am right in this elf-aout thingy . > > ThanX in advance

Re: FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-01 Thread Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David van Deijk wrote: > I have encountered Problems using the FBSDBOOT.exe since version > 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4. I have looked into the source and could not > find ELF support but only aout. Are you able to tell me wheter this is > because of me or that i am right in this el

Re: d: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive) ??

2000-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Johan Kruger wrote: > If i try to load the example in > /usr/src/share/exaples/lkm/misc/module/misc_mod.o i get the following. > Pleeaaas help ? LKMs are deprecated in favour of KLDs. Do you have options LKM in your kernel if you really wnt to play with the old technology

FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-01 Thread David van Deijk
Dear hackers, I have encountered Problems using the FBSDBOOT.exe since version 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4. I have looked into the source and could not find ELF support but only aout. Are you able to tell me wheter this is because of me or that i am right in this elf-aout thingy . ThanX in advance. Da

Re: d: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive) ??

2000-03-01 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Johan Kruger wrote: > If i try to load the example in > /usr/src/share/exaples/lkm/misc/module/misc_mod.o i get the following. > Pleeaaas help ? > > borg# modload ./misc_mod.o > ld: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive) > modload: /usr/bin/ld: return code 1 What FreeBSD release

d: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive) ??

2000-03-01 Thread Johan Kruger
If i try to load the example in /usr/src/share/exaples/lkm/misc/module/misc_mod.o i get the following. Pleeaaas help ? borg# modload ./misc_mod.o ld: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive) modload: /usr/bin/ld: return code 1 -- Johan Kruger ( B.Ing Electronic Engineering ) Deve

mounting filesystem multiple times

2000-03-01 Thread Dmitry S. Rzhavin
Hi! I want to mount one filesystem rw once and ro multiple times (lets say, 500 times). Can I do it? And if yes, will it slow FreeBSD down and will it use additional memory, cpu and other system resources in this case? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hack

Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-03-01 Thread Marc Frajola
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Marc Frajola wrote: > > > Thanks very much for the reply. I checked out the URL you gave > > (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/), and unfortunately > > I'm still wondering how to create one FreeBSD fdisk slice so t