Re: Remote Desktop for Fedora 11 on External Hard Drive

2009-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:27:34 -0600, Bryan Cassidy bsdsys_...@comcast.net wrote: I am currently using FreebSD 7.2 and I have just installed and configured Fedora 11 on an external hard drive so I can do some printing and other things. I was wondering how can I get full access to the Desktop

Remote Desktop for Fedora 11 on External Hard Drive

2009-11-07 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I am currently using FreebSD 7.2 and I have just installed and configured Fedora 11 on an external hard drive so I can do some printing and other things. I was wondering how can I get full access to the Desktop (GUI) on FreeBSD for Fedora 11 on my external hard drive? Any ideas

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
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

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
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 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
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 Are all the

lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
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 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to

Re: external hard drive for mobile pc

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 07:55:20PM -0800, Eric LaVoie wrote: Will FreeBSD work if I install it on an external hard drive, connected to a mobile PC via USB or FireWire, as a partition ( the two partitions being the mobile PC's internal Hardrive and this external hard drive which I am asking

external hard drive for mobile pc

2008-01-16 Thread Eric LaVoie
Will FreeBSD work if I install it on an external hard drive, connected to a mobile PC via USB or FireWire, as a partition ( the two partitions being the mobile PC's internal Hardrive and this external hard drive which I am asking about.)? If the answer is yes: can you provide me with links

Mount an external hard drive

2007-08-02 Thread Roberth Sjonoy
Hello, I have an external serial ata hard drive, I connect to my computer through the usb, but I can't figure out what device in /dev which is teh hard driver, how do I figure that out? Regards, Roberth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mount an external hard drive

2007-08-02 Thread Peter Boosten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberth Sjonoy wrote: Hello, I have an external serial ata hard drive, I connect to my computer through the usb, but I can't figure out what device in /dev which is teh hard driver, how do I figure that out? What's in your dmesg output when you

mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-05-07 Thread cadu aranha
Hello people, i have a USB external HD with FAT32 fs. Today i connected it to my FBSD and got the following mesg entry: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SAMSUNG SP2514N Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors: 255H

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-05-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
cadu aranha wrote: Hello people, i have a USB external HD with FAT32 fs. Today i connected it to my FBSD and got the following mesg entry: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SAMSUNG SP2514N Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 238475MB (488397168

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-05-07 Thread cadu aranha
You didn't say how large your fat 32 filesystem ended up, but if it's larger than a certain size (128 gigs I think?) you need to recompile your kernel with: options MSDOSFS_LARGE Yes, it is larger than 128G. I'll do that. Thank you ... ___

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:55:33 +0200, cadu aranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, i have a USB external HD with FAT32 fs. Today i connected it to my FBSD and got the following mesg entry: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SAMSUNG SP2514N Fixed Direct Access

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-04-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:09:46PM +0200, Tun Eler wrote: Hello, i was trying to mount an external HDD in my machine running FBSD 6.2 RELEASE. I configured the kernel according to the Handbook and pluged the exernal HD. Then i typed (starting with # are my commands, otherwise output): #

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-04-11 Thread Tun Eler
Are you sure it is formatted with FAT? It could be NTFS. Try running 'fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s1' # fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 ** /dev/da0s1 Unknown file system version: 1d.1c # mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /exthd # df /dev/da0s1  244196000 39178084 205017916    16%    /exthd !!! coool !!! Thanks ...

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-04-11 Thread Tun Eler
Are you sure it is formatted with FAT? It could be NTFS. Try running 'fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s1' # fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 ** /dev/da0s1 Unknown file system version: 1d.1c # mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /exthd # df /dev/da0s1  244196000 39178084 205017916    16%    /exthd !!! coool !!! Thanks .. --

mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-04-10 Thread Tun Eler
Hello, i was trying to mount an external HDD in my machine running FBSD 6.2 RELEASE. I configured the kernel according to the Handbook and pluged the exernal HD. Then i typed (starting with # are my commands, otherwise output): # dmesg acpi_tz0: failed to set new freq, disabling passive cooling

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. Thanks again, MC I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem. Since I was only using those

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-16 Thread Eric Schuele
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. I''m interested in the answer myself Did a little googling, found this (not encouraging) post

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-15 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Eric, thank you very much for your help. I'll have a look if my BIOS settings enable me to boot from there. I'll post here any successes! Thanks again, MC 2005/11/14, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marco Calviani wrote: Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-14 Thread Eric Schuele
Marco Calviani wrote: Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD newbie. Could you give me

Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD newbie. Could you give me some hints on how to

auto mount external hard drive but only when present?

2005-03-09 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all, Hoping someone might have a good technique for this situation: I have a laptop with a docking station and in the expansion bay of the dock, I have a second hard drive, which I have configured as /dev/ad4s1d and mount it to /hd2 Normally on workstations with a 2nd drive, I'll just put

Re: auto mount external hard drive but only when present?

2005-03-09 Thread Mario Hoerich
# Duane Winner: I have a laptop with a docking station and in the expansion bay of the dock, I have a second hard drive, which I have configured as /dev/ad4s1d and mount it to /hd2 [...] But because this is a laptop, and will be pulled off the dock when I'm on the road, I can't have that,

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-23 Thread Zeng Nan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:51:36PM -0800, scott renna wrote: The mount command I'm using is mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/external and it results in: mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/external: incorrect super block Try mount_msdosfs for fat32 and mount_ntfs for ntfs -- Zeng Nan Simple is

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-22 Thread scott renna
Sorry took me so long to get back to this message, but here's what I got: fdisk /dev/da0s1: *** Working on device /dev/da0s1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=19456 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-17 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote: Yeah...so suprise still not working. I was having issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic, creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to read it. So now I'm at a loss. FreeBSD creates a FAT32

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-16 Thread scott renna
Yeah...so suprise still not working. I was having issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic, creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to read it. So now I'm at a loss. FreeBSD creates a FAT32 partition for me and Windows can't read it

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-12 Thread scott renna
purchased an external hard drive case and dropped an IDE drive into it. It's great and all, except that the transfer speed is limited to 1Mb/s due to an error message that I had posted on the list a few days back(GET MAX LUN STALLED). That's fine, I can deal with it for now. Here's

FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread scott renna
Hello list, I was wondering if you all might be able to help on this. I recently purchased an external hard drive case and dropped an IDE drive into it. It's great and all, except that the transfer speed is limited to 1Mb/s due to an error message that I had posted on the list a few days back

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread Brian McCann
an external hard drive case and dropped an IDE drive into it. It's great and all, except that the transfer speed is limited to 1Mb/s due to an error message that I had posted on the list a few days back(GET MAX LUN STALLED). That's fine, I can deal with it for now. Here's the issue: I created

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote: I created a FAT32 parition on the external drive from /stand/sysinstall and dropped some files onto it. I then moved it over to the win box to see if it could see it and sadly no. Is there a way to set up pseudo-drive assignments from FreeBSD on a FAT32

Re: external hard drive

2004-11-04 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I re-installed the system last night. Weather was bad and I decided to close work down early. I got to thinking about it, and simply did a search for da* in the device directory. It came up with da0 and da0s1. da0 produces errors. da0s1 loaded my Buslink external HD fine. Problem solved for

Re: external hard drive

2004-11-02 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I just tried putting vfat in the fstab for file type having just the Buslink drive connected, not the small drive enclosure. Using mount -a, I got Inappropriate file type or format I'm logged in as root. I am beginning to suspect that I installed too much software during this Install. It is

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1056 19:56]: I have been using this 6 year old laptop as a test bed for the different versions of Linux and FreeBSD. (The built-in CD ROM is almost worn out.) I just put v5.2.1 back on this laptop. It doesn't want to recognize this hard drive. I have checked

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Yes, this drive works fine under windows XP. It has fat32 file system on it. When I had FBSD v5.2.1 on this computer several months ago and the system recognized it fine. But none of the Linux distros would recognize it. However, I realized last night that this installation of FBSD is not

Re: external hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Don't have a clue as to the type of drive. I bought it at CompUSA over a year ago. On the case, it simply says: USB2.0 2.5 slim It works fine under Win XP. It is an IBM hard drive within the case. But I realized last night that I am having similar problems with a 40 Buslink external hard drive

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 17:15, Lloyd Hayes wrote: Yes, this drive works fine under windows XP. It has fat32 file system on it. When I had FBSD v5.2.1 on this computer several months ago and the system recognized it fine. But none of the Linux distros would recognize it. However, I realized

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Lloyd Hayes
The information which you requested is at the bottom. dmesg, fstab, and rc.conf. While the 'dmesg' refers to a printer, I haven't hooked one up to this system yet. I figured that I would deal with one problem at a time. So far, none of the UNIX type systems has liked much of my equipment, and I

Re: External Hard drive

2004-11-01 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:01, Lloyd Hayes wrote: The information which you requested is at the bottom. dmesg, fstab, and rc.conf. While the 'dmesg' refers to a printer, I haven't hooked one up to this system yet. I figured that I would deal with one problem at a time. So far, none of the

External Hard drive

2004-10-31 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I took the 10 GB hard drive out of a 4 year old laptop, which had died, and put it into a generic hard drive box, which connects to my laptop by USB cable. It pulls it's power from the computer. It sometimes worked with Windows 98SE. But it would not work with Windows 98SE if I also had my

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

2004-02-14 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 16:02, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi Ivan, did you get any reply to your posting? I am having the same problem: Maxtor 250 GB external USB2 drive, Belkin USB2 card, FreeBSD 5.1, but i get only 1MB/sec. Does FreeBSD support USB 2.0 at all? Did you

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

2004-02-13 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
ivan georgiev wrote: Hi, I just bought 80GB WD USB2 hard drive. Everything works. I have formated it with ext2 file system, so that I can share file with linux. But the problem is that it is very slow compared to linux. When I transfered some files under linux the speed of the transfer is

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

2004-02-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Friday 13 February 2004 16:02, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi Ivan, did you get any reply to your posting? I am having the same problem: Maxtor 250 GB external USB2 drive, Belkin USB2 card, FreeBSD 5.1, but i get only 1MB/sec. Does FreeBSD support USB 2.0 at all? Did you add device ehci in

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

2004-02-13 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: ivan georgiev wrote: Hi, I just bought 80GB WD USB2 hard drive. Everything works. I have formated it with ext2 file system, so that I can share file with linux. But the problem is that it is very slow compared to linux. When I transfered some files under linux the speed

USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

2003-11-01 Thread ivan georgiev
Hi, I just bought 80GB WD USB2 hard drive. Everything works. I have formated it with ext2 file system, so that I can share file with linux. But the problem is that it is very slow compared to linux. When I transfered some files under linux the speed of the transfer is somewhere around 10MB/s