Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/09/2012 23:59, Polytropon wrote: > The terminology is simple and as follows: > > A disk is a disk, e. g. /dev/ad0. > > A slice is a "DOS primary partition" on the disk, e. g. /dev/ad0s1. > > A partition is a subdivision of a slice, e. g. /dev/ad0s1a. > > Partitions can be used without a s

Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:03:11 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just discovered a knowledge deficiency on my part that > I can't seem to resolve. > > If one writes a loop of the following form: > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash Just a sidenote: If you're not using bash-specific functionalit

Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-19 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:03:11 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > ls -LF |grep \/ >/tmp/files > while read dirname; do > cd $dirname > #Do whatever commands to be repeated in each directory. > done < /tmp/files > How about: ls -LF | grep \/ | while read dirname; do cd $

bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
I just discovered a knowledge deficiency on my part that I can't seem to resolve. If one writes a loop of the following form: #!/usr/local/bin/bash ls -LF |grep \/ >/tmp/files while read dirname; do cd $dirname #Do whatever commands to be repeated in each directory. done < /tmp/f

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-19 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: dweimer To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:53 AM Subject: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:18:02 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > I also find portsnap slower than either > csup or svn. That surprises me. Once the initial download and extract is done, I find "portsnap fetch update" to be miles faster than csup. However, each to his own, I suppose. _

Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:22:20 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: > On 19 September 2012 23:37, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:28:30 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: > >> Hi list! > >> > >> I must warn you, I'm quite new to FreeBSD (I'm mostly using Linux > >> otherwise). I have inherited an old

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:26:45 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> For ports, it's probably worth saving the distfile directory along with >> local diffs. Move it back into place after the svn checkout of the >> ports tree. > > PMFJI. Newbie here:

Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Fritiof Hedman
On 19 September 2012 23:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:28:30 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I must warn you, I'm quite new to FreeBSD (I'm mostly using Linux >> otherwise). I have inherited an old (yes, very old) BSD 4.7 machine on >> my work that I need to clone. I

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:26:45 -0600, Warren Block wrote: For ports, it's probably worth saving the distfile directory along with local diffs. Move it back into place after the svn checkout of the ports tree. PMFJI. Newbie here: What's wrong with using

Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:28:30 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: > Hi list! > > I must warn you, I'm quite new to FreeBSD (I'm mostly using Linux > otherwise). I have inherited an old (yes, very old) BSD 4.7 machine on > my work that I need to clone. I've setuped an identical copy of the > slices on the

Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-19 Thread Fritiof Hedman
Hi list! I must warn you, I'm quite new to FreeBSD (I'm mostly using Linux otherwise). I have inherited an old (yes, very old) BSD 4.7 machine on my work that I need to clone. I've setuped an identical copy of the slices on the target machine, ran dump the source machine and restore on the target

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread Robert Huff
Walter Hurry writes: > PMFJI. Newbie here: What's wrong with using SVN for src, and > portsnap for ports? _Wrong_? Nothing. But a lot of people like the idea of using the same tool to solve nearly identical problems. Your experience may diverga.

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:26:45 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > For ports, it's probably worth saving the distfile directory along with > local diffs. Move it back into place after the svn checkout of the > ports tree. PMFJI. Newbie here: What's wrong with using SVN for src, and portsnap for ports?

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Stas Verberkt wrote: > Jerry schreef op : > >> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:00:08 -0700 >> Michael Sierchio articulated: >> >>> We are really behind the curve here. Git assumes (correctly) that >>> disk space is inexpensive, much cheaper per byte than network >>> bandwi

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, pete wright wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> >>> csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. >>> svn >>> export can get a copy of all the current files,

Reprieve [was: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... (fwd)]

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Smith
Folks, Seems that those (like me) concerned about 9.1 release branch activity not having been exported to CVS, requiring moving to SVN and abandoning c*sup source updating 'all of a sudden', can relax migration schedules a bit, for now .. though it's been a good 'gee-up' for me, at least. Prob

Re: schg flags from installworld

2012-09-19 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Tue 2012-09-18 (23:31), Gareth de Vaux wrote: > Looking at /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk and /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk - > bins and libs get installed with schg if PRECIOUSPROG and PRECIOUSLIB are > set respectively in their makefiles, both of which can be overridden by > setting NO_FSCHG, pr

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-19 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-09-19 07:23, saeedeh motlagh skrev: thanks Bernt, i deinstall it and then try startx. startx works and displays graphical page. but when i restart me system i do not have desktop yet. you know, startx displays graphical page when fbdev is installed too. please let me know if you have any id

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:05:06 -0400 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Script started on Wed Sep 19 04:15:02 2012 > fsck_ffs /dev/ada0p9 just to make sure: the partition was not mounted when you started fsck? > Now I wonder if the file system is really fixed, with possibly some > files in /pkgsrc su

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:05:06 -0400 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 7584318, 7584319, > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity > ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts > ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups > 1475900 files, 4638292 used, 211624

fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have or had a problem with a file system (FreeBSD UFS2) messed up, either by errant software or system freeze/crash. I successfully cross-compiled, from FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, a NetBSD 5.1_STABLE i386 system to install on 8 GB USB stick. I have both the NetBSD system source as well as pkgsrc and

Re: installation of yuma

2012-09-19 Thread ahmed elouadrhiri
thank you a lot Steve; it's worked very well. Best regards 2012/9/18 Steve O'Hara-Smith > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:25:03 + > ahmed elouadrhiri wrote: > > > Hi all; > > > > i tried to install yuma in freebsd by the command : "make freebsd=1" > > > > and it give me : > > "Makefile", line 14:

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread Stas Verberkt
mer...@stonehenge.com schreef op : "Stas" == Stas Verberkt writes: Stas> On a side note, using Git does mean that everyone has to download a complete Stas> repository. This makes using a csup-like architecture quite Stas> "heavy-weight". The entire history of the Linux kernel since switching