Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

> On 13.10.2013 12:16, CeDeROM wrote: > > On 13 Oct 2013 11:30, "David Demelier" > > wrote: > >> Hello there, > >> I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my > >> FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but some > >

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: persistence in freeBSD

> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:29:26 -0400 > "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > > mount -o rw / > That would need to be > mount -u -o rw / > Steve O'Hara-Smith I think you could shorten that to mount -uw / Is that correct? Tom ___ fre

Re: Excessive bounces

> My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. > Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? > What is their operating mode ? > What can I do if they do not require to break my (inclusive) firewall > which seems to work fine and which

RE: Pre-sales question

I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did +not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). > For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core pro

Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

> Hi, > I am Erhan,i have a problem,i read your all definition but i can not > create usb boot FreeBSD,i have a ubuntu 12.04 operating system.I want > to create it with FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso but when i try > this,it shows ''boot error''.Can you help me? Do you want to install onto US

Re: will freebsd run on a mac osx 10.8.4

I assume you are running Mac OS X 10.8.4 on Intel CPU. I assume it must be 64-bits, so you would want amd64 version of FreeBSD, though you could also run i386 version. I don't know if you could install FreeBSD on same hard disk with Mac OS X, but you ought to be able to install FreeBSD on a sep

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: > hello all > > > i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need > > partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions > > from a to h, not any more. > That's correct and expected for the MBR partition

Re: List Spam Filtering

Excerpt from Rich Kulawiec : > 3. Note that Mailman, as part of that same mechanism, allows list-owners > to add non-subscribers to a list of those permitted to send traffic to > the list without approval. This feature is probably more often used to > allow traffic from alternative addresses for

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

> I recently bought a 3 TB external hard drive. I attached it to the > Firewire (400) bus and waited for my 8.2-STABLE i386 system to recognize it. > After a small flurry of Firewire protocol messages, the kernel eventually > said, > Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2 at sbp0 bus 0

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

28.01.2013 01:57, james: >I have a 9.1 system with some SATA disks in RAIDZ, upgraded from 9.0. > >The disks are all the same type, and I formatted them for FreeBSD and >put ZFS in a slice covering most of them. > >I have seen suggestions for OpenIndiana etc that it is better to let ZFS >have the

Re: Reading the handbook from console

On my now-older computer (from July 2001, 256 MB RAM), svgalib ran on FreeBSD but was very crash-prone. svgalib in Linux was erratic and caused color distortions when switching to an X window. So I decided I wanted no part of svgalib on the new computer, FreeBSD or Linux. Use ASCII art or fra

Re: SPAM-flag on FBSD list

FreeBSD emailing lists are not spammers, though they let some spams through that their filters miss. Insight Cable uses synacor.com spam-filtering (dis)service that the Insight Cable user can't turn off. This remedy is worse than the disease in my case because it causes bounces, and then my li

Re: i386 vs amd64

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > i386 will not see anything above 4 GB > Actually you *can* give access to >4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you > to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and supported till > Pentium Pro) but that is only for OS (32bit a

Re: dd command: BSD analog of conv=fsync?

> In the last episode (Nov 18), Thomas Mueller said: > > What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? > > Command in question is > > dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync > > This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is

dd command: BSD analog of conv=fsync?

What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? Command in question is dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is replaced by the actual device node; also I believe bs=8M, good for Linux, would be bs=8m in FreeBS

Re: Mounting SD card.

> >I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be > >to "wake" it up with the following incantation: > >dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > >That's what works here. See the thread starting with > >

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

> Thomas, thank you very much for your mail, but that isn't what I asked. > Of course, I know that "bsdlabel -R ad0s1 new_label_file" writes new > labels to ad0s1. > My question is: what to do if I _lost_ s1, s2, and s3 - how to recover > _them_ first? Without that, all I can do is to write label

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

> Thomas, thank you for reply! No, it wasn't dangerously dedicated disk. > However, what is the exact command to add ad4s1 and ad4s3 using > bsdlabel? Is it possible at all? I thought I should use fdisk or > gpart for that. > Thanks, > Sergi M You use fdisk to create what FreeBSD calls slices s

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

> Short version: Is it possible to group existing partitions into slices > without affecting data? > Long version: > I had a disk sliced/partitioned like this: > ad4s1 > ad4s1a > ad4s1b (swap) > ad4s1d > ad4s1e > ad4s1f > ad4s2 (storage) > ad4s3 > ad4s3a > ad4s3b (swap) > ad4s3d

Re: yelp could not be built because of libxul dependency (10.0 vs. <2)

from Ewald Jenisch : > I'm trying to get my system up2date using portupgrade as usual. > However during the upgrade process I ran into a problem during upgrade > of yelp: > ===> yelp-2.30.2_4 depends on package: libxul<2 - not found > ===> Found libxul-10.0.10, but you need to upgrade to libx

Re: yelp could not be built because of libxul dependency (10.0 vs. <2)

from Ewald Jenisch : > I'm trying to get my system up2date using portupgrade as usual. > However during the upgrade process I ran into a problem during upgrade > of yelp: > ===> yelp-2.30.2_4 depends on package: libxul<2 - not found > ===> Found libxul-10.0.10, but you need to upgrade to libx

Re: New User to FreeBSD

> Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other > than linux with enthusiasm. > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's licensing", "such > complex family of distributions which are so different from each other". > Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fel

Re: A problem with loader

from Zbigniew : > installed recently 9.0 - and I've got a little problem: while booting, > "loader" somehow gets incorrect currdevice value, stopping boot > process. It does get "disk1s6a", but it should be "disk1s7a". I can > boot system, when I set currdev "manually", then type "boot". > But h

Problem upgrading misc/help2man: missing language files

I am unable to upgrade misc/help2man, required by autoconf and other ports that I want to upgrade that depend on perl and/or png. Currently installed version of help2man is 1.40.12 and new version is 1.40.13 I get a bundle of error messages like Extracting help2man (with variable substitution

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

from "David J. Weller-Fahy" : > svn update /usr/src/ When you use svn the first time, svn doesn't know where the repository is, and svn repository is not fully in sync with cvs or csup repository. So you might need, in a fresh directory, svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src Th

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

> * PLEASE RERUN FSCK * > > Script done on Wed Sep 19 04:17:27 2012 > > Would this indicate a software bug, or is my Western Digital Caviar Green > > 3 TB hard drive failing? > Either something was referencing sectors off the end of the disc, > or the drive is failing. I'd be in

fsck not working on messed-up file system

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: svn and/or portsnap

Regarding my question, How do you get the ports tree or svn in that case if not using portsnap? Helmut Schneider had two suggestions: > You install ports from CD/DVD. Or use pkg_add -r subversion. :) > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ I guess I could use the latter and then buil

Re: svn and/or portsnap

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:37:03 + (UTC), Helmut Schneider wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a custom kernel so I (guess I) need svn in future to fetch > sources instead of cvsup. Should I still use portsnap then for ports or > also fetch them via svn? Polytropon responded: > Ports and system sources ar

Re: Partitioning with gpart

from "Lynn Steven Killingsworth" : > I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. > The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and > another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr > disk with zfs and move everything from the

Re: text editor

On getting vim text editor ("vi improved") for FreeBSD, you can either pkg_add or use the ports system, where you build from source code with a convenient setup. You can check http://www.freebsd.org/ and check the documentation, including the handbook and ports system. I've heard of Cygwin but

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

from Peter Wemm : > As a data point.. if you're talking about "stable/9", then that is > still available via cvs/csup/cvsup as RELENG_9. > If you track 9-stable, you're unaffected. > I got two private emails about this. > To be clear, yes, if you're tracking RELENG_9, you will get > "9.1-STABLE

Re: Upgrading 9.1-BETA1 -> 9.1-RC1

from Maarten Billemont : > I've installed a FreeBSD server using the BETA1 release because RC1 was > delayed. I notice the 9.1-RC1 is available now, so I thought I'd upgrade > ASAP. > The following command, however, fails me: > freebsd-update -r 9.1-RC1 upgrade > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

> So this statement in the WikiP is false? > systemd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as > cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due > to this issue.[7] > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. I read an a

Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

from Gary Aitken : > Aargh... > So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... > it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general > even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. > X (screen was allowed to blank after

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

Regarding the security of various methods of deleting data, I just saw in Office Depot's online ad for the coming week, which is the reason I couldn't post this any earlier: Need to discard an old PC but worried about protecting your identity? Let us securely erase your personal files and pictu

Questions on ndis for USB wireless adapter

I am having problems getting the Hiro USB wireless adapter to work and think I might possibly be missing something. Chip is Realtek RTL8191S. I read the man pages for ndisgen and ndiscvt and the FreeBSD Handbook online. Do I need options NDISAPI # and device ndis in the kernel config, even

Re: Broken link on your website

Snippet from Robert Bonomi regarding spam from Emma Haze : > Now, *PLEASE* stop bombarding the innocent users of the support mailing-list > with your ignorant, ill-informed, impossible-of-fullfilment nonsense. > Continued spamming off the mailing-list might well result in numerous people > decid

Re: Basic i5/i7 Motherboard Suggestion..

from Pierre-Luc Drouin : > I am looking to build a simple i5 or i7 CPU-based desktop computer that is > compatible with FreeBSD. Could someone suggest me a sub $200 motherboard > whose chipsets and BIOS works well with FreeBSD? I would prefer to stick > with either Intel or Asus if possible... MS

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:45:17 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Does a USB flash drive also work as a giant floppy, no partitions? > Can you make a flash drive bootable when nonpartitioned and > formatted that way? Polytropon responded: > Yes, that's exactly what my advice was aim

Re: GUI for "gpart"

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I > heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for > FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, rep

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB > > flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to > > erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. > In that case, screw slic

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) > is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 > 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and > 5gb HDD Polytropon responded: >

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

from Ivan Ivanov : > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be enough RAM or

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

from Ivan Ivanov : > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be enough RAM or

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

> No, I'm just borderline sure that WITHOUT_MODULES works > the same way as MODULES_OVERRIDE, that is it looks in > top directory in /usr/src/sys/modules/ and ulpt is in > /usr/src/sys/modules/usb/ulpt > Speaking of RAM savings, things you would always load > should be compiled in kernel, modules

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

from Polytropon : > Yes, /etc/src.conf uses WITHOUT_* on a per-module basis, so you need > to explicitely name the modules not to build. > But you're right, there's only WITHOUT_USB (for not building the > USB-related parts), so going with kernel configuration would be > a good point to start --

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

from Polytropon : > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more > > modules? > Use the "new" means of /etc/src.conf (see "man src.conf" for > details) to prevent t

WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules? I have WITHOUT_MODULES= ulpt in /etc/make.conf but ulpt.ko always appears in /boot/kernel directory. For now, I want to build all modules except for this one, but perhaps I could keep everything in kernel config and no

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

"Peter A. Giessel" responded: > According to: > http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list > It does not contain any version of restore. > There are a lot of Linux boot disks out there. I haven't found one yet that > includes an ext4 compatible restore. Debian lets you roll your own, but

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:59, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > We use dump to backup ext4 filesystems on linux (Centos6) at work "Peter A. Giessel" responded: > You can find a version of dump for Linux that supports ext4. What I have > been completely unable to find is a linux boot disk that has a vers

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

from Al Plant : > Aloha Woj, > How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I > read there is a USB to ide on the market. I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives. One problem

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

from Al Plant : > Thanks > Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is > throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a > FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive > the Omega disks we found. > Again thanks for headi

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

from Mike Jeays : > I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the > click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get > any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would > make nice museum exhibits, but that's

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

> Hi, > On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I > > tried the opposite. > I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work > on FreeBSD on a

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

> My elder colleague often told me that it is the easiest and well-working way > to check whether the one is certified to work for Mac OS X to get USB mass > storage devices which work with *BSD :) > Just my 5 yen, -|-__ YAMAMOTO, Taku | __ < What if a USB mass storage device works with

Re: Why Clang

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. > >If FreeBSD appears > >as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure this > >will be good > > I think any project that size is

Re: Why Clang

Snippet from Antonio Olivares : > I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under > GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not > giving back as the license requires. There was little to no way to > enforce the license, he decided to move to other li

Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

from Stephen Cook : > No, this is unusual. But also remember that most of these lists are not > just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription. Then it > becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is. > That's not an accident, the admins work hard to limit abuse.

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

Snippet from Wojciech Puchar : > I successfully predicted the fall of linux (in quality point of view) > years ago, then netbsd - after this and my prediction were good. > Now i predict FreeBSD will fall within 2015 time frame. > What i mean fall - that it would be better to use older version as

Re: Why Clang?

ould not stop me from trying Clang on an experimental/testing installation, such as HEAD, where the basic intent is development. >From Volodymyr Kostyrko: > Thomas Mueller wrote: > >Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to "make buildworld". > For me I&#

Re: Why Clang?

> On 17 June 2012 21:37, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports > > and for > > "make buildworld" and "make buildkernel" in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE? > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang

Re: Why Clang?

What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports and for "make buildworld" and "make buildkernel" in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE? Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to "make buildworld". I see from reading the emailing lists that the intention is to make Clan

USB device activity when not mounted

> I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first > plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a > usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat > up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd

Re: ports: make config-recursive doesn't really

from Gary Aitken : I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling out the +appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed: for port in $ports do cd /usr/port/$port make c

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

Snippet from David Christensen : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239742.html > It looks like -STABLE are daily development/ test builds (?): > ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/ > I'm looking for stability. I'll try the 9.0-RELEASE: > ftp

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Snippet from Jerry : > I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then > threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use > 2+ year old units that have been replaced by shiny new Windows units. I > don't see that changing anytime soon. I did, or almost.

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

- Original Message - From: David Christensen I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3 motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host, desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC). Can this be done with FreeBSD; if so, which distributi

Re: (no subject)

>>For a server, you don't need a lot of fancy stuff such as Adobe Flash > and do you need this for a non-server? Adobe don't want us (FreeBSD users) > to use their closed-source software. And i respect their will and don't > use it. Which resulted in much easier browsing by the way :) Some, too m

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

Polytropon, you mention ppd files (.ppd or .ppd.gz). Is this the binary plugin that hplip was unable to install for me? Or am I grasping at straws? Somehow I thought the binary plugin was much bigger than the .ppd.gz files found in /usr/local/share/ppd/HP/ Tom

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

> this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 > things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. > Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS > server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out > over

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

From: Wojciech Puchar : > seems you like to incredibly complicated things. > It just happens that i configured that printer in one office and there is > NO NEED for this windows-style crappy shit from HP. > /usr/ports/print/hplip (make config and disable GUI trash) is enough. > scanning works

Re: (no subject)

> Well, I still see complains about a few quirks in 9 here in the list, > specially after certain src updates. > Re:Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 > Re: kern/168190: [pf] panic when using pf and route-to (maybe: bad fragment > handling?) > Re: ULE/sched issues on stable/

(no subject)

On 29 May 2012 20:06, wrote: >    Hello, >   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability >   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which >   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used >   at home and away, for e-mail, prepa

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

> From Gary Aitken : > I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. > hp-probe finds it: > #hp-probe -bnet > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) > Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 > ... > Device URI Model

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. > I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged > to an USB2(two!) reports > da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 > da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

> freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list > that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address > ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. > The message you got ab

Re: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

>From Lowell Gilbert : > For ports, I would would normally say that you want SRC_BASE. However, > that's for building ports, not running them, so I may be missing the > point. That may be what I need. I would be building ports. For running ports, source code wouldn't come into play. I couldn'

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

> freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list > that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address > ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. > The message you got ab

Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

When a list member has problems with the list that require contacting a human list owner/operator, what is the address to send to? I received a probe message regarding messages to me that bounced, might have been spams that slipped by the list's filters. I was advised in the message that the ad

How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

How does one indicate a system source directory location when in other than /usr/src? That could be necessary when in another directory, for instance running ndiscvt. Or one could be building FreeBSD for a USB stick and want to do the heavy work on a hard drive; I could also want to build and i

Re: ports tree

from Henri Reinikainen : > Would it be stupid idea to have publicly available, mountable (nfs) > partition, with full port tree(s)? I think it would be good for > systems with low storage space. I know hd space is cheap, but I run > over and over to this problem. > I don't know how easily it coul

Re: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports

- Original Message - From: Gary Aitken To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:02:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports According to the handbook, one can do portsnap fetch portsnap update and the update will work with a previou

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

from Polytropon: > In case you need to do more than one additional installation, > you should consider creating a tar archive of the fully installed > system and then use tar --unlink to the mounted target. If you > need to create many bootable systems from scratch, a script > performing the diskl

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

> > The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once > > and install to two different DESTDIRs. > I'm not sure I understand: The two install* targets ("make installkernel" > and "make installworld") are only able to install to _one_ location, > which is the _default_ location *or

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

> > Better to "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel" as two > > separate steps, rather than "make kernel"? > Yes. You only need to "make buildkernel" once, then "make installkernel" > for both $DESTDIRs. The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once and install to two d

Re: This does look strange

>From Bernt Hansson : > After a reinstall of winxp, yes I know but the games. > I have a fat32 slice/partition/postcard whatever it's called. > Mocking me with: > testbox# fsck -y -t msdosfs /dev/ad4 > ** /dev/ad4 > Invalid signature in fsinfo block > Fix? yes > fsck: /dev/ad4: Floating point e

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

> What exactly went wrong? Setting DESTDIR is the correct way to do this > sort of thing. You only need to set it when running the installworld or > installkernel steps though -- there's nothing that gets compiled into > /usr/obj which prevents you from installing into a different than normal > t

Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

I would like to build FreeBSD to install in two places: regular hard drive and also on a USB stick, probably 8 GB. USB stick install would be for backup, in case something goes awry with a later update, then I have something to fall back on; could also install tools such as gdisk to use on hard

Re: help me please

from Vinicio Santiago Altamirano Mendez : > please can u tell me how to remapping tftp with a remapping file or exist > another form?. > i see that in tftp manual no exist the -m option > how to do remapping on tftp on mac os x 10.6 pleas > thanks. Is this question for FreeBSD or Mac OS X?

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

from Xavier : > I have: > casa# disktype /dev/da1 > --- /dev/da1 > Character device, size 3.771 GiB (4048551936 bytes) > FreeBSD boot loader (i386 boot2/BTX 1.02 at sector 2) > BSD disklabel (at sector 1), 8 partitions > Partition c: 2.145 GiB (2302711808 bytes, 4497484 sectors from 0) > Type

Re: booting a CD-ROM

> I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time and > I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 and > FreeBSD-4.7 > on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting onto that system by > booting with a CD-ROM which started going and gave me t

Re: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential

> Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer > side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or > test my USB receptacles? USB 3.0 connectors have a somewhat different appearance than USB 2.0 or 1.1 connectors. I knew which were which fr

Re: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential

> Has anyone gotten one to work? > Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a > different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. > Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm > not say that, YET. > I'd like to hear fr

Re: Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

from Kévin Hagner : > > I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 2Gb > > RAM and no "native" swap partition. > Oh. You should never configure a Unix system without at least some swap > space available, and configuring at least as much swap as you have RAM (plus >

Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1

from: Matthias Fechner : > > b) Does 9.0 have USB 3.0 support. > my system says: > Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: xhci0: controller> mem 0xf9cfe000-0xf9cf irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5 > Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: xhci0: 64 byte context size. > Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: usbus3 on xh

Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed

> On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: > > NetBSD > > Not recommended, sorry to say > Why? Fritz Wuehler responded: > Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and > NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's > best days are behind u

Re: Clang - what is the story?

While on the subject of Clang, is this compiler only for C, C++ and Objective-C? What about Ada and Fortran? Does one need GCC for that? Dragonlace for Ada? I believe some of the ports require GCC. Many of these ports are developed primarily for Linux and subsequently ported to FreeBSD ports

Building FreeBSD for two or more architectures but not all

How would I build FreeBSD, in this case 9.0-RELEASE, for two or more architectures, in this case i386 and amd64? One build (amd64) would update the present system (9.0 RC3), but the other would go on a USB stick, likely 16 GB. Real question is how to keep things like /usr/obj and other things f

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