while the subject is being revived, there are some changes/additions I
made to libstand/bootp.c, it exports all the dhcp tags so that
they are available to rc.diskless? or rc.d/initdiskless via kenv
check out
ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot/
these are a bit date,
Wes Peters wrote:
Faster than loading a single ISO image with only the boot information and
sysinstall and booting from that, rather than 3 (or 4 or 5) floppies? A
CD-R is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and you don't have to keep
feeding them into the machine.
I think you're missing the
On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:27 am, Paul Robinson wrote:
Perhaps I'm missing something, and I can see why abondoning the current
method in 5-6 years would be reasonable, but I don't see the immediate
advantage of making the change right now.
So you'll be signing up to do the floppy release
Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
I'm having trouble seeing what RF does that Vinum (or at least a
properly GEOMified Vinum) can't do...
Please read the RAIDframe documents at http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/RAIDframe
before you ask again.
I have, long ago, and frankly
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- A statement these options are no longer necessary and will be
be removed in a future release in the newfs(8)-equivalent man
page should read more like these options are essential (this
relates to dimensioning metadata allocation based on the
Wes Peters wrote:
So you'll be signing up to do the floppy release engineering, and to
modify the kernel so it can load the boot-device modules dynamically.
That's great news!
If the kernel changes don't support the established distribution format,
the kernel changes are broken, not the
Paul Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Understood. I just think saying let's get rid of floppies is
shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because you don't like
that dog, to stretch the analogy.
I don't think you have any idea how difficult it is (and has been for
a couple of years
* Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-11 10:19 +0100]:
Paul Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Understood. I just think saying let's get rid of floppies is
shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because you don't like
that dog, to stretch the analogy.
I don't think you
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:01:13PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 9:35 PM + 1/10/04, Andrew Boothman wrote:
Peter Schuller wrote:
Most of the noteworthy features of subversion are listed
on the project front page:
hey guys,
Just got my copy of FreeBSD 5.1.
Spent about an hour going through the BSD Handbook and
preparing a Installation checklist.
ok here's my problem.
I have a WD 40 GB HDD
the primary partition is 10 GB, with the extended
partition 28 GB.(the rest 2 GB is in WD's bank).
OK , the extended
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Leidinge
r writes:
I'm a little bit confused. I've read Pouls mail as an suggestion to
remove vinum from -current and let people modify it in the perforce
repository. If I got this wrong, please tell me and everything is fine,
but if I got it right, do you
On Sunday, 11 January 2004 at 12:08:24 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:46:49 +1030
Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[missing attribution to phk]
I'd say lets kick them both into perforce and let whoever wants
their hands have a go at them.
For some
Scott Long wrote:
I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a proven
and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, while it was made
to work pretty well on 4.x, it has never been viable on 5.x; it never
survived the introduction of GEOM and removal of the old disk
Hi there.
I sent the following question to the list a while ago, and got no
answer yet. The problem looks weird to me, but I have the feeling
that I'm missing something very simple (I did RTFM, though) - so if
anyone can provide any guidance - cannot be that complicated of a
question... I
On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:29, 70uf33q Hu5541n wrote:
hey guys,
Just got my copy of FreeBSD 5.1.
Spent about an hour going through the BSD Handbook and
preparing a Installation checklist.
ok here's my problem.
I have a WD 40 GB HDD
the primary partition is 10 GB, with the extended
--- Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 7:27 PM -0800 1/9/04, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
Hi;
There is a comparison here:
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
I think there are compelling reasons to try subversion,
but we have to wait for a 1.0 Release, and this
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long writes:
All,
I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a proven
and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, while it was made
to work pretty well on 4.x, it has never been viable on 5.x; it never
survived the introduction of
At 12:28 AM +0100 2004/01/11, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
I'm having trouble seeing what RF does that Vinum (or at least a
properly GEOMified Vinum) can't do...
I think Scott is right, in that we should probably have separate
RAID vs. LVM systems. It seems to me that vinum naturally fills the
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:12:57 +0100
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As much as I would hate to see RF and Vinum disappar from our
source tree, maybe what we need to do is to kick them both into
training-camp in p4 while you and Greg look the other way.
[...]
I'd say lets kick them
At 3:30 PM -0700 2004/01/10, Scott Long wrote:
It will probably never be an LVM stack, but I've also always
believed that LVM and RAID are related but separate layers.
Having looked at the RAIDframe documentation you referenced, it
strikes me that it cannot really move towards LVM and
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg 'groggy' Lehey
writes:
As much as I would hate to see RF and Vinum disappar from our
source tree, maybe what we need to do is to kick them both into
training-camp in p4 while you and Greg look the other way.
Hmm. I can't see why they have to disappear from
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:46:49 +1030
Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. I can't see why they have to disappear from the source tree, and
I don't see why Scott or I should have to look the other way. I don't
know about RAIDFrame, but Vinum still works for the most part:
[...]
I'm trying to find out why I can't boot 5.2 from USB CDROM on Supermicro
motherboards. (I have an old Gateway P3 that can!).
I've found out that that only 0x20 of 0x4c sectors of the loader are
read in and it therfor traps when executed. (read is only called once).
My last attempt at
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:57:07PM +, YACINE GHANJAOUI wrote:
when trying to intercept UDP packet after changing the protocol number
from 17 to a user one (99) in the ip_input.c file. when trying to
regenrate the packet after inserting some bit errors an error message
appears in the
Hello hackers...
With attached patch unloading md(4) module is possible.
It also cleans up big part of code according to style(9).
Patch is also avaliable at:
http://garage.freebsd.pl/patches/md.c.patch
--
Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNIX Systems
I also don't think it's the issue that needs to be dealt with -
distribution is much, much, MUCH bigger an issue than shall we get rid
of floppies? I sent this to the list before, but it got ignored, so
I'll send it again, where Jordan points out we have bigger issues to
deal with when
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Danny Braniss wrote:
while the subject is being revived, there are some changes/additions I
made to libstand/bootp.c, it exports all the dhcp tags so that they are
available to rc.diskless? or rc.d/initdiskless via kenv check out
On 8 Jan 2004, at 14:39, Leo Bicknell wrote:
Then, to replace the current floppy process, a new floppy installer
is created. It may or may not be based on FreeBSD, but what it
needs to be able to do is boot, load a network driver, configure
the network, and ftp the above mentioned iso into ram,
While browsing the FreeBSD src tree, I came across a number of
binary files (listed below); the regression tests are perhaps
understandable, but shouldn't the rest of these files be uuencoded?
contrib/groff/doc/gnu.png
contrib/ipfilter/samples/ipfilter-pb.gif
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
With attached patch unloading md(4) module is possible. It also cleans
up big part of code according to style(9).
Could you separate this into a functional diff and a style diff? There's
a general preference to not combine them, as it means
Scott == Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scott Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a
proven and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD.
I'm having trouble seeing what RF does that Vinum (or at
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Gilbert writes:
That said, we need a strong and robust software raid.
And as long as we have something which mostly work there seems to
be insufficient motivation to make that happen.
Therefore my proposal to send both RF and Vinum in training camp in p4.
--
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:27:46AM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
* Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-11 10:19 +0100]:
Paul Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Understood. I just think saying let's get rid of floppies is
shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because
Marco van de Voort wrote:
I also don't think it's the issue that needs to be dealt with -
distribution is much, much, MUCH bigger an issue than shall we get rid
of floppies? I sent this to the list before, but it got ignored, so
I'll send it again, where Jordan points out we have bigger issues
Martin Nilsson wrote:
I'm trying to find out why I can't boot 5.2 from USB CDROM on Supermicro
motherboards. (I have an old Gateway P3 that can!).
I've found out that that only 0x20 of 0x4c sectors of the loader are
read in and it therfor traps when executed. (read is only called once).
My
Poul-Henning == Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Poul-Henning In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Poul-Henning Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes:
Poul-Henning The reason I say this is that neither of you have the
Poul-Henning time needed, and whoever picks up may have ideas, even
Poul-Henning
* Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-11 11:02 -0800]:
If you could make this work such that you just stuffed GENERIC and the
mfsroot onto however many floppies it takes, I think that would almost
certaintly solve re's problems with floppies (i.e. if all they had to do
when the
David Gilbert wrote:
In the p4 tree, we can easier add new talent to our developer
force and I am pretty sure that some sort of merry band of
developers would form around both RF and vinum there.
... now I thought I followed this list relatively well, but can
someone point me at what 'p4' is?
p4
On 01/11/04 12:13:36 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alexander Leidinger writes:
fine, but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from
-current?
My proposal is to do just that with both vinum and raidframe until
one or possibly both are up to full
Sorry to interupt,
but i think that person x, since he has a weird name ;-) ,
means that the partitioning device of freebsd cannot access the extended
partition
at all.
I had this with a friend of mine, and we could not access the devices
anymore since it was
packed inside another partition (we
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Gilbert writes:
: That said, we need a strong and robust software raid.
:
: And as long as we have something which mostly work there seems to
: be insufficient motivation to
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
Now, who wants to give this a try?
OK, I tried now the following:
I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Floppies, split the half of the
kernel and mfsroot to another floppy and added two appropriate
splitfiles.
Afterwards
Marcin Dalecki wrote:
Martin Nilsson wrote:
I'm trying to find out why I can't boot 5.2 from USB CDROM on
Supermicro motherboards. (I have an old Gateway P3 that can!).
I've found out that that only 0x20 of 0x4c sectors of the loader are
read in and it therfor traps when executed. (read is
At 10:00 AM + 1/11/04, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
I disagree. Andrew raised two issues (type of license and
port vs base location). The type of license is an input to
the decision as to which SCM to choose - BSD preferable ...
Subversion has a
On Jan 11, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 10:00 AM + 1/11/04, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
I disagree. Andrew raised two issues (type of license and
port vs base location). The type of license is an input to
the decision as to
hey Remko,
the FreeBSD sysinstall (i think) program does identify
the extended partitions but not the logical drives
contained in it.
and yes, I've not introduced myself yet. :D
btw,
I'm Toufeeq from Chennai,India.
20 yrs old doing my Engineering final year.
Been a linux user for 4 years now.
Excuse me, that is what i ment, (the logical drives)
As said with Avinash, we could not access that as well,
and he used to program he replied with (will be posted to this list
when the admin approves :) ) to restore it's data. But perhaps that makes it
also able to modify it a little to make it
hey,
ok noted.
will wait for Avinash's software.will also check out
if its possible under PartitionMagic 8 and let you
know if that works out.
great to be among this community.
bye,
Toufeeq
--- Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Excuse me, that is what i ment, (the logical drives)
As said
* Avleen Vig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-11 13:34 -0800]:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
Now, who wants to give this a try?
OK, I tried now the following:
I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Floppies, split the half of the
kernel and mfsroot to
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Andreas Braukmann wrote:
On 01/11/04 12:13:36 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alexander Leidinger writes:
fine, but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from
-current?
My proposal is to do just that with both vinum
hey Daan,
:) I did use Partition mAgic 8 to resize the
partition.
PM8 resized the logical drive.Not the extended
partition.SO though I have unused space on my HD,
its locked away in the Extended Partition and not
detected by F-BSD.
Is it possible to resize the whole extended partition
with PM8?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:13:36PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Leidinge
r writes:
I'm a little bit confused. I've read Pouls mail as an suggestion to
remove vinum from -current and let people modify it in the perforce
repository. If I got this
David Gilbert wrote:
Poul-Henning == Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Poul-Henning In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Poul-Henning Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes:
Poul-Henning The reason I say this is that neither of you have the
Poul-Henning time needed, and whoever picks up may
Hi,
I had a similair problem as Remko described. I used R-Linux. U can download it
from http://www.r-tt.com
Put the hard drive, on which u can't reach the certain partition, in a pc with
Windows installed on it, run R-Linux and u should be able to see the drive and
partition that u couldn't
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:05:50AM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
I think we must wait until a 1.0 version is available.
SVN is meant to be a replacement to CVS. The projects repository is using
perforce which happens to be a good tool, so moving it to svn is probably not a
step forward
whew!
Gentlemen,
its done,
freeBSD 5.1 has been installed.PartitionMagic 8 did
the trick though :(
sad that I had to use windows.
anyway, this is what I did.(Daan deserves credit)
1.free disk space at the last logical drive of the
extended partition.
2.resize the last logical drive to create
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Narvi writes:
oh yes - and please fix disklabel to support an arbirtary number of file
system per a disk or slice in the process, because otherwise it will
not be converting many setups.
We need to move to a different labeling format because bsdlabel has
a number of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=
writes:
M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe this would be a good test-case for seeing how well it works?
Maybe not. We do need to run a few more test-cases for things through
this scenario... I'm not sure this
On Saturday 10 January 2004 02:33, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
I have to develop small server which has to manage custom microcontroller
via parallel port interface.
Does anyone know good manual/documentation about UNIX / BSD parallel port
programming ?
Someone mentioned the ppi etc
When I change IP addresses on my 'em' gigabit NIC, ARP isn't sent
properly. This appears to be the problem in the following bug report,
however i'm using the 'fixed' version of the em driver (in FreeBSD 4.9).
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54488
Does anyone have any tips on how to
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