Re: nested labels

2006-09-28 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 28 , at 01:08, Jeffrey Katz wrote: Adam Martin's discussion of nested partitions was very enlightening and useful. A nice thing about the approach is that it can be used on a dangerously dedicated hard drive. Well, it merely takes advantage of GEOM. You can even nest GPTs,

Re: nested labels

2006-09-26 Thread Adam Martin
Jeffery, On 2006 Sep 23 , at 16:15, J65nko wrote: On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice. Supposedly, one can create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit. I googled everything but could only find references to gpt--

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 19 , at 10:38, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched

Re: [OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 20 , at 08:28, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters? Incidentally I'm subscribed to about a dozen other FreeBSD mailing lists. It's

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 19 , at 17:25, Nicolas Blais wrote: On Tuesday 19 September 2006 17:12, Joao Barros wrote: On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different. My machine hangs up

Re: Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 06:26, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 17 Sep Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: For me, booting BSDa and other OS is easier with grub: mine: FreeBSD 6.1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Is this chainloader thing still valid? To my knowledge grub knows about ufs2 nowadays.

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:54, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want to