Re: cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Tom wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to use a cdr/cdrw with 4.3 release? I want to use it with my sony vaio f580 (notebook). I have the option of usb or pcmcia. Can you tell me which models are known to work? Thanks for your help. Please mail all responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vm balance

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... merging vnode and vm_object_t ... ] Kirk McKusick wrote: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. Every object backed by a file (e.g., everything but anonymous objects) has an associated vnode. So, the performance of one is pretty tied to the performance of the other. Matt

RE: write() vs aio_write()

2001-05-01 Thread ªL­^¶W
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 'Alfred Perlstein' Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:36 AM To: Charles Randall Cc: ªL­^¶W; Freebsd-Hackers Subject: Re: write() vs aio_write() * Charles Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010430 10:26] wrote:

Re: vm balance

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. No: device vnodes dont... I think the correct solution to that is to move devices away from vnodes and into the fdesc layer, just like fifo's and sockets.

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Michael C . Wu wrote: I have been hearing about GaAs since the beginning of my college career. One chemistry professor put it rather well, Gallium Arsenide based semiconductors are considered the future of semiconductors, and always will be the future of semiconductors. Hitachi has a GaAs

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: Now think about this. Microsoft Visual C++ will be *the* industry compiler for Itainium. Their compiler is already working and has ILP support. Plus Intel makes its own compiler which plugs into Visual Studio. Both the Microsoft and Intel compilers for ILP are going

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Lambert writes: Michael C . Wu wrote: I have been hearing about GaAs since the beginning of my college career. One chemistry professor put it rather well, Gallium Arsenide based semiconductors are considered the future of semiconductors, and always will be

Re: arp_rtrequest error

2001-05-01 Thread Daniel Lang
Hi, Michael Jon Vigodda wrote on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:29:13PM -0400: Hello. I saw your post on the FreeBSD-hackers mailing list and have the same problem. I was wondering what fix you came up with for this as, months later, I am scouring the mail lists to see if there is a fix and also

Re: Problem with device rl

2001-05-01 Thread milunovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: Thank you,this patch is working *** if_rl.c.orig Sun Mar 25 19:08:34 2001 --- if_rl.c Sun Mar 25 23:14:00 2001 *** *** 149,154 --- 149,156 Delta Electronics 8139 10/100BaseTX }, {

Re: Proposed struct file (was Re: vm balance)

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt Dillon wrote: This is all preliminary. The question is whether we can cover enough bases for this to be viable. Here is a proposed struct file. Make f_data opaque (or more opaque), add f_object, extend fileops (see next structure), Added f_vopflags to

Fetching an index of an FTP site using fetch...

2001-05-01 Thread Sean Chittenden
Does anyone have any ideas as far as a way in which it'd be possible to fetch a directory index using fetch? If I try to toss it into mirror mode (-m|-M), it returns the following error: fetch: fetch.out: Syntax error, command unrecognized Anyone have any ideas? The full

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
maillist So, do I need to vnconfig the boot.flp and put my own custom maillist loader in it or what? I don't want to be puting -C in every maillist time I boot. Also, when I put in -C, the kernel will load, maillist but then can't find the CD device Which FreeBSD version you are using,

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Duvall
4.2-20010119-STABLE On Tue, 1 May 2001, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: maillist So, do I need to vnconfig the boot.flp and put my own custom maillist loader in it or what? I don't want to be puting -C in every maillist time I boot. Also, when I put in -C, the kernel will load, maillist but

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
maillist 4.2-20010119-STABLE My sample ISO image (using latest 4-stable) works very fine, booting from CD and mount CD as root partition. It works pretty well. If you have enough bandwidth to fetch 160MB ISO image file, try:

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Duvall
What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as /usr on top of that? Let me know if you think that will work I don't quite understand how loader works, though Handbook doesn't tell me enough. Thanks. Sincerely,

Re: vm balance

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Dillon
:I think we need to remember that we do not always have a :backing object, nor is a backing object always desirable. : :The performance of an mmap'ed file, or swap-backed anonymous :region is _significantly_ below that of unbacked objects. : :-- Terry This is not true, Terry. There is no

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
maillist What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy maillist image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as maillist /usr on top of that? Simply 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /usr' (or whatever CD device) after booting a kernel is not enough for you? I've not tried

Re: cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

2001-05-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Terry Lambert writes: | Tom wrote: | | Does anyone know if it is possible to use a cdr/cdrw | with 4.3 release? I want to use it with my sony vaio | f580 (notebook). I have the option of usb or pcmcia. | Can you tell me which models are known to work? Thanks | for your help. Please mail

Bootable CD IV

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Duvall
So, let me get this straight: To make a bootable CD, you need to: 1. compile a kernel (generic will work) 2. gzip the kernel to kernel.gz 3. vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 boot.flp (from /cdrom/floppies/boot.flp) 4. mount /dev/vn0a /mnt 5. cp kernel.gz /mnt/kernel.gz 6. cp /boot/boot0

Re: Fetching an index of an FTP site using fetch...

2001-05-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have any ideas as far as a way in which it'd be possible to fetch a directory index using fetch? No. It's not intended for that purpose, though it would be a nice addition. PS I've looked through the source of fetch and

Re: Bootable CD IV

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Duvall
So, you mean I need to create that rootmfs.gz thing that is on the second floppy of the freebsd install, then mount cdrom as something other than root? I do actually have a copy of my / on my cd, so, I don't see why it's failing to mount root. The only thing I can see is if I create the

cy0: port not found

2001-05-01 Thread q
Hi, I need some advice to build dial-in server. I've Cyclades Cyclom 32 YeP and FreeBSD 4.3. This is first time for me to Install multiport Serial. I'm trying to look at FreeBSD 4.3 manual : # man cy and I follow to add the lines to my kernel options, recompile it, and restart the computer. But

Re: Bootable CD IV

2001-05-01 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: Rick Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bootable CD IV Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 12:03:21 -0700 (PDT) So, let me get this straight: To make a bootable CD, you need to: [steps alided] That will essentially work, yes, though I've never seen someone use /usr directly as a scratch directory

Re: cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

2001-05-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes: : Any generic PCMCIA IDE based thing should work. I might stop using an Other than flash, I have 5 different PCMCIA IDE based things, and they all work. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Mini Config.

2001-05-01 Thread Daryl Chance
Hi, I'm working on creating the smallest config I can get to compile as an experiment and to basically move to KLM's overall (once I get this working properly, I'll send-pr it to see if anyone wants it in the next release possibly). I have a question about how I would get some of the options

new syscons screensaver

2001-05-01 Thread Andy Sloane
Hello, I just wrote a new syscons screensaver which I think is much more interesting than the other ones, while still being relatively easy on the CPU (much less CPU intensive than fire, anyway). Please review it and let me know what you think. It's the bsd daemon logo (with much editing,