In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 4, Message 2
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
> >> NX5000, 2MB
Thank you!
The led flashes with traffic now...however, the flashing between blue and
orange is irritating, so I removed the lines, and yes, the card works. It
would be nice to have a steady blue to signifiy a connection.
To get my ath0 device working, I have the following 2 files with the line
- Original Message -
From: "Mauro Rezzonico"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage
Grant Peel wrote:
The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting
about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:01 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block
wrote:
> So usually I back up /, /var, and /usr to files
> on a USB disk or sshfs. Then I switch to the new target system, booting
> it with a FreeBSD disk and doing a minimal install. That makes sure the
> MBR is installed, gives me a c
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block
wrote:
Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr
instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it.
This works without problems as long as it is running from the
system t
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote:
Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was
issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it
from somewhere else, like
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block
wrote:
> Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr
> instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it.
This works without problems as long as it is running from the
system to be copied. In case you use a live sy
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote:
Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was
issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it
from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from /
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:
Forgot to mention this:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote:
1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f
and g slices or is it partitions?
The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can
be copied 1:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote:
$ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a
$ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target
$ cd /target
$ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf -
dump is reading /dev/ad1s1a and using stdout for output.
restore is writing to the current directory (/target) and is reading
from stdin.
But what
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote:
> Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was
> issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it
> from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from / as
> that is what I was trying to dum
Forgot to mention this:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote:
> 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f
> and g slices or is it partitions?
The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can
be copied 1:1 with dd. By using dump + restore, the
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote:
> I feel a bit stupid, as usual, my carelessness led me to miss the
> difference between ad1 and ad2... dumb, dumb, dumb.
As long as you realize it BEFORE any writing operation, it's
no problem. Keep in mind that the numbering of ad*, as well
as of da
PEople,
Can anybody clue me in on using eSpeak with OOo? Be greak to have a plugin for
OO? Also, how do I choose different Voices than the default?
thanks much,
gary
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Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can
>> it be dumped if its been formatted?
>>
>
> When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your
> commands. Failure to do so can cause da
Olivier Nicole wrote:
$ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a
$ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target
$ cd /target
$ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf -
>>> [...]
>>>
>> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can
>>
>
> Thats ad*1*s1a that has
You are a Master among masters... extraordianry understanding of the
genre and ver, very clear explanations...
I guess my filter between the brain and the computer is a bit foggy... :-(
I really appreciate your explanations.
But I still have a couple of small questions below...
Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote:
> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can
> it be dumped if its been formatted?
When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your
commands. Failure to do so can cause data loss. In the example
you presented, a
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:09:51 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block
wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:
> >> So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L
> >> option.
> >
> > Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions.
>
> That is unnecessary. The -L optio
Hi,
> For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a
> storage enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of
> $'s.
You can asemble the machine yourself, I have put up a storage (for
back-up, slow SATA disks, 7.5 TB, only one quad core AMD 1.9 GHz and
4GB RAM) fo
Grant Peel wrote:
The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about
200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home directories.
It might be worth noting that the Web machines host a full array of software,
i.e. Mail, Web, MySQL, PHP etc.
I don't have
> >> $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a
> >> $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target
> >> $ cd /target
> >> $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf -
> >[...]
> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can
Thats ad*1*s1a that has just been formatted, not ad2...
Best,
Olivier
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Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote:
>
>> I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing
>> up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to
>> computer.
>> I would like to do 2 things:
>> 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote:
So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L
option.
Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions.
That is unnecessary. The -L option is there just for dumping mounted
filesystems.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, Sou
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:00 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block
wrote:
> For me, it would be because dealing with an individual 512-byte
> partition table file is easier than decompressing a multi-gigabyte image
> file to get at the first 512 bytes.
There is a point where a dd copy of the MBR is quite
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:44:38 -0400, PJ wrote:
> This may be clear to someone; it certainly is not to me.
> As I understand it, newfs will (re)format the slice.
No. The newfs program does create a new file system. In
other terminology, this can be called a formatting process.
Note that NOT a slice
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separate
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote:
I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing
up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer.
I would like to do 2 things:
1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation
2. set up a backup scri
I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing
up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer.
I would like to do 2 things:
1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation
2. set up a backup script to back up changes either every
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Adam Vande More wrote:
That looks like a simple splitter that will just send the same signal
to both monitors. They would both display the same image, not an
extended desktop.
That's what I thought too prior to hooking it up and trying it. Since
then, I found DVI is a
I have several related problems with hald on 7.2 i386. First, on one
machine (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2), hald will not start at startup, nor by
executing the startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start. It doesn't
exit with any error code: it simply produces no output at all, and ps -ax
| grep hal
> -Original Message-
> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Frank Steinborn
> Sent: 29 September 2009 11:47
> To: David Southwell
> Cc: ' ?'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: How to restore B
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Hi folks!!
Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the
following error:
ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10! │
│ │
│To edit the labels on a running system set
Hi folks!!
Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the
following error:
ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10! │
│ │
│To edit the labels on a running system set │
│sysctl
David Southwell wrote:
> By base-bind I mean the version of bind that is included in freebsd 7.2
> operating system which is a version earlier than the latest Bind96.
>
> When installing bind96 and I did not keep base-bind.
>
> Now multiple ports give the following type of problem -this is just o
Thanks Warren, now how can I upgrade to 8 without destroying my current
configuration?
Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com
--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Warren Block wrote:
> From: Warren Block
> Subject: Re: NetGear WPN111 and FreeBSD 7.2
> To: "Leonardo M. Ramé"
> Cc: freebsd-questio
On 9/29/09, Polytropon wrote:
> Honestly, I've never seen the need for extended DOS partitions.
> Let's say you intendedly want to run a multi-OS system, then
> you can install four systems, each one in its own slice, and
> within the slice, the partitiions, if needed and supported.
By using
>
> David Southwell пишет:
> > Hi
> >
> > I installed bind96 without keeping base-bind and am now having
> > problems with some ports not compiling.
> >
> > What is the simpliest way to restore the original system Base_Bind?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > David
> >
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote:
> See
> http://busby.net/bret/Screenshot--dev-sda-GParted.png
I think I do understand. You have:
1. a primary DOS partition which contains
a NTFS file system
2. an extended DOS partition containing "subpar
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:32:33 +0100, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
> Polytropon wrote:
>
> > doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
> > keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
> > with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device.
>
> Wh
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said:
Hi all
Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton
eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ?
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064
Hi all,
For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a storage
enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of $'s.
The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about
200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home directo
2009/9/29 doug schmidt
> center for internet security benchmarks;
>
> http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Aflatoon Aflatooni >wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Is there a hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > __
center for internet security benchmarks;
http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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> freebsd-questions@freebsd
Great! I didn know that DVI was that clever!!! thats great news, as a
splitter for 6 is much cheaper than any other tool...
Well the HD7200... is a PCI-E card... (not sure if is 7200 but is from
HD7xxx series), with DVI.
2009/9/29 Adam Vande More :
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Warren Bl
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:14:38AM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
> great I will do a massive Cp as both fs are mounted under BSD, (ntfs
> just with read access)...
>
> should you suggest guy to do a normal
>
> #cp /media/DATAWIN /media/UFShd
>
> as there is no any soft and hard links on this par
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
>
> Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE
>> workstation and my ati card using the following splitter:
>>
>>
>> http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMoni
Is it possible to disable ACPI support for one specific device? (/dev/psm)
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE
workstation and my ati card using the following splitter:
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Splitter+Cable+?productId=17127
That looks like a sim
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jeronimo Calvo <
jeronimocal...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE
> workstation and my ati card using the following splitter:
>
>
> http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Spl
Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE
workstation and my ati card using the following splitter:
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Splitter+Cable+?productId=17127
There is someone currently using any config like this? In this case
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Leonardo M. Ram? wrote:
Hi, I just bought an NetGear WPN111 USB Wireless adapter after reading the
Wireless Networking section of the workbook, but unfortunately I can't make it
work.
I included this in my /boot/loader.conf:
if_ath_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan
Hi, I just bought an NetGear WPN111 USB Wireless adapter after reading the
Wireless Networking section of the workbook, but unfortunately I can't make it
work.
I included this in my /boot/loader.conf:
if_ath_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_cc
Ports update could affect the efficiency of Samba. Perhaps you have
updated your software, that effect on one of the libraries. Try to
rebuild Samba.
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KIRAN пишет:
HI All,
I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back I
Ports update could affect the efficiency of Samba. Perhaps you have
updated your software, that effect on one of the libraries. Try to
rebuild Samba.
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http://www.unixcommunity.net/
KIRAN пишет:
HI All,
I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back
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Тема: Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3 -
Дата: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:51:00 +0400
От: Алексеев Александр
Кому: David Southwell
Ссылки:
Please let me see the error messages that occur when you're building ports.
What means base
Hi Kiran,
> I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back I have
> updated ports. After updating the ports I am not able to join Windows
> desktop samba domain.
I think you must give more details about your configuration. In the
message title you mention LDAP, but you don't me
HI All,
I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back I have
updated ports. After updating the ports I am not able to join Windows
desktop samba domain.
Kindly do the need full (Before joining the domain I use to configure wins
IP into the windows machine)
Kindly do the ne
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
> > Polytropon wrote:
> >
> >> doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
> >> keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
> >> with
Hi
I installed bind96 without keeping base-bind and am now having problems with
some ports not compiling.
What is the simpliest way to restore the original system Base_Bind?
Thanks in advance
David
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great I will do a massive Cp as both fs are mounted under BSD, (ntfs
just with read access)...
should you suggest guy to do a normal
#cp /media/DATAWIN /media/UFShd
as there is no any soft and hard links on this partition... will be fine?
Thanks!
2009/9/28 Jerry McAllister :
> On Mon, Sep 28,
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