Re: FreeBSD Install Problem

2012-09-08 Thread Devin Teske
(or vice versa). > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of dte...@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 6:20 PM > To: 'Chris Neudorf'; questi...@freebsd.org > Sub

RE: FreeBSD Install Problem

2012-09-07 Thread Dale Scott
To: 'Chris Neudorf'; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Install Problem > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM >

RE: FreeBSD Install Problem

2012-09-07 Thread dteske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM > To: questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD Install Problem > > Hell

Re: FreeBSD Install Problem

2012-09-07 Thread lokada...@gmx.de
On 09/07/12 23:10, Chris Neudorf wrote: An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the installation or exit the installer? --- [ Restart ] [ Exit ]

FreeBSD Install Problem

2012-09-07 Thread Chris Neudorf
Hello, I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 Releaseon my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i laptop (4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 32-bit). It doesn't matter if I tried installing it from the CD or the DVD, I still have the same problem. I even tried re-downloading and re-burning a new CD or DVD, and I'm still unabl

Re: pxegrub + FreeBSD install

2012-04-25 Thread Rick Miller
I was able to figure out how to pass the variables to the FreeBSD mfsroot. I did so by modifying the grub.cfg file like the below: menuentry "freebsd82-x86_64" { kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints kfreebsd_module /boot/mfsroot.gz type=mfs_root set kFreeBS

pxegrub + FreeBSD install

2012-04-24 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I am attempting to build FreeBSD 8.x-RELEASE over the network via PXE. I chain pxegrub to pxelinux and load the FreeBSD kernel and mfsroot through pxegrub with the following: menuentry "freebsd-x86_64" { kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints kfreebsd_m

Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp

2012-04-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain

Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp

2012-04-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing > FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also > setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you > don't

domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
hi, I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? I've never supplied a domain na

iBook G3 -- FreeBSD Install -- USB Wireless adapter support?

2010-10-26 Thread David A.
Someone with experience with a similar hardware? I want to know if is viable to install FreeBSD on an iBook G3 (PowerPC 800MHz 12''), the main focus is to get working the network hardware, also if there's someone with the same experience and could let me know which wireless network adapter (USB) c

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:17:14 +0530 Mubeesh ali wrote: > thanks bruce. Here the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen. here if > i cannot get to bios set up. You'll need to either follow instructions for resetting the CMOS battery on the laptop (probably involving partial disassembly), or remove

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-16 Thread Mubeesh ali
thanks bruce. Here the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen. here if i cannot get to bios set up. thanks, Mubeesh On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:30:07 +0100 > Bruce Cran wrote: > > > Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:30:07 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: > Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns) are > known to cause some BIOSes to hang during POST - on mine it was > Windows and FreeBSD. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or > vice versa. Otherwise you might have

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:54:51 +0530 Mubeesh ali wrote: > Hi, i have an acer 5745 which had ubuntu running not booting after an > attempted freebsd install .i understand that i might have wiped by > choosing auto partition :-( and had not written mbr so that we could > manage all fr

Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-16 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi, i have an acer 5745 which had ubuntu running not booting after an attempted freebsd install .i understand that i might have wiped by choosing auto partition :-( and had not written mbr so that we could manage all from grub .now the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen.it refuses to go even

Re: freebsd-install upgrade, how many install phases required

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/07/2010 17:19:54, Martin Koch Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > Will freebsd-install upgrade tell you, if any libraries version numbers got > bumped, and thus if installed packages needs rebuilding? > > I followed the handbook and did the 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE upgrade

freebsd-install upgrade, how many install phases required

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Koch Andersen
Hi, Will freebsd-install upgrade tell you, if any libraries version numbers got bumped, and thus if installed packages needs rebuilding? I followed the handbook and did the 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE upgrade like: freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update install shutdown -r now

Re: FreeBSD install Error

2010-04-21 Thread Georghy
Georghy a écrit : Hi folks, I'm experiencing a problem when I try to install FreeBSD on a Virtual Server using KVM, The first part of the installation was fine but after setting all the option (I use a custom installation of FreeBSD) the installation encounter an error : "Write failure on tran

FreeBSD install Error

2010-04-21 Thread Georghy
Hi folks, I'm experiencing a problem when I try to install FreeBSD on a Virtual Server using KVM, The first part of the installation was fine but after setting all the option (I use a custom installation of FreeBSD) the installation encounter an error : "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 byt

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800, Walt Pawley wrote: > At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the > >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy > >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-07 Thread Walt Pawley
At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a >floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymor

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, James Phillips wrote: Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about 10 years ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is still no viable replacement that has the same (or better) functionality. While I think floppy drives are s

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread James Phillips
> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 + > From: Matthew Seaman > Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy > To: per...@pluto.rain.com > Cc: questi...@freebsd.org, > plukaw...@gmail.com > Message-ID: <4b92265e.5030...@infracaninophile.co.uk> > Content-T

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment > floppies are the best or even the only solution. > [...] > The decision to make floppies obsolete is very bad, because it is still > needed by many people. Sometimes

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread Piotr Lukawski
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment floppies are the best or even the only solution. Actually if I haven't found the solution to use floppy to install FreeBSD, I would be forced to use another system eg. OpenBSD instead, even if I prefer FreeBSD. The decision to mak

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped > because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at > all, much less a bootable one. Yeah, but the floppy disk

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread perryh
Piotr Lukawski wrote: > ... I really cannot understand why nobody can change > just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped because few current (o

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 March 2010 13:51, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: >> > Dears, >> > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are >> > no >> > floppy images . . . >> > Could you please produce ins

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread Piotr Lukawski
Illoai, Thanks a lot! Your solution works - system is up and running now :-) However, in such a case I really cannot understand why nobody can change just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread herbert langhans
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:33:52PM +0100, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > Dears, > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no > floppy images in > +ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > Dears, > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no > floppy images in > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mention

freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread Piotr Lukawski
Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

unateended FreeBSD install + zfs + gpt

2009-10-03 Thread kickbsd kickbsd
Hi! I've modified mfsBSD scripts http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/ to make unattended installer for FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 on GPT ZFS root. I've successfully installed 3 different servers with that set of scrips. Modified scrips can be downloaded from http://unixdom.com/kickbsd/ Modified files are

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:13 AM, wrote: > > If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy > > images. > > Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable > zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso? problem is to create the zip disk bootable. Never

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-04 Thread perryh
> If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy > images. Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-03 Thread Tim Judd
e > install. > Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have a similar method to > installation? > > Thanks! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723.html > Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing li

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-03 Thread Mel
On Monday 02 March 2009 08:36:39 new_guy wrote: > We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. > Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by > downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the > install. Our machines have no

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
. I think some people have done it from network and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots. jerry -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
I think some people have done it from network and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots. jerry > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html > Sent from the freebsd-questions

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install'

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:19:57PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote: > new_guy wrote: > >You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). > >Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, > >formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operatin

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over ftp. If that's what you want I definitely misunderstood.

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
tall wants to be on some media other than where it will be installed. That is mostly because you build your disk filesystem as part of the installation. jerry > > Thanks! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
d-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
new_guy wrote: Hi, We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install. Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have

bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
method to installation? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:19:55PM -0700, Chris Weiss wrote: > How would I go about copying an existing FreeBSD installation to a smaller > disk? > > I've got a 3rd FreeBSD install I can boot from and store temporary > files on, all the disks are in the same har

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:55:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [8] The final step was to chroot [...] > [9] Finally, I checked the new `/etc/fstab' [...] Heh! Adding `one last "final" step' didn't really work very well in this case. I should have read the long message another

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:19:55 -0700, "Chris Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I go about copying an existing FreeBSD installation to a smaller > disk? > > I've got a 3rd FreeBSD install I can boot from and store temporary > files on, all the disks

Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Chris Weiss
How would I go about copying an existing FreeBSD installation to a smaller disk? I've got a 3rd FreeBSD install I can boot from and store temporary files on, all the disks are in the same hardware, so there's no reconfiguration other than the boot device name and interface (IE -SAT

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Joe in MPLS
Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot C

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
> A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you > might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to > pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. Thank you, I will definitely check that out. ___

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Tore Lund
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? The boot-on

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-02 Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one

doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios serve

Re: Net-snmp dying with an "ld-elf" error at start on brand new FreeBSD install

2007-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Philip B wrote: Starting snmpd. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/sbin/snmpd: Undefined symbol "PL_markstack_ptr" I've Googled on "PL_markstack_ptr snmpd" and got back only 5 hits, none which seem to explain this problem at runtime. I don't know even where to begin to dig. It's usually

Net-snmp dying with an "ld-elf" error at start on brand new FreeBSD install

2007-09-09 Thread Philip B
I've just set up my 1st FreeBSD box to use as a home router/firewall, replacing my recently departed Linksys all-in-one. I installed the latest FeeBSD release, version 6.2-RELEASE. I installed the Net-Snmp port, with the goal of eventually using it with RRDTool to graph & monitor activity on the

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
lready > > present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the > > installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > > all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > > > Any tips, hints, an

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing > > is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in > > your case) > > It

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
he > installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing > the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home pa

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in your case) It's been some time since

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing >> is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in >> your case) >> It's been some time since I've done this mys

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing > is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in > your case) > It's been some time since I've done this myself (I am no longer dual > boo

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
o, already >>> present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the >>> installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at >>> all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. >>> >>> An

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
didn't get very far (the installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. What exactly is broken in the FBSD installation? Just won't find enough bootstrap stuff to boot? Shortly af

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
re install didn't get very far (the > >installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > >all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > > >Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing > &g

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
re install didn't get very far (the > >installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > >all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > > >Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing > &g

Re: repear a FreeBSD install (s/repear/repair/ -- wow, I can't spell)

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Sorry about the typo in the title of this thread. I don't know how that happened. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: "A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience." ___ freebsd-questio

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ize a swap partition at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home partition and losing the installed system configuration to minimize time lost getting t

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
ize a swap partition at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home partition and losing the installed system configuration to minimize time lost getting t

repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
ion at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home partition and losing the installed system configuration to minimize time lost getting things back to "

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-23 Thread Mark Tinguely
> John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 > APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= > =20 > both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should= > =20

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 23 April 2007 02:51:19 pm Mark Tinguely wrote: > > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > > APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 > > APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= > > =20 > > both mptabl

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11:32 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could > > that be changed with a logical CPU t

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
hese lists into the red book! mjt > -Original Message- > From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 3:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Murray Taylor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Instal

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
CTED] > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > > > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > > CPU X 4: 40K2522 > > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > > > We are attempting

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could > that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? > > Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am sugg

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Mark Tinguely
> > If you can either install without ACPI, or remove two of the CPUs > during installation, this should be fairly easy to fix: change the > definition of NLAPICS in /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/acpica/madt.c and > rebuild your kernel, then boot with ACPI enabled and report back to > us. > > DES

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Murray Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the > RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to > installing the O/S. > > We have att

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > CPU X 4: 40K2522 > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > are running into a problem getting the operating system to re

Re: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-19 Thread David Robillard
In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not

Re: FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:32 PM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we

FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
ray Taylor Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:26 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set h

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output of

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem At 07

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
ylor Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:26 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes t

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes t

Re: unattended FreeBSD install

2007-03-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
The trick about make release(7) is that it installs your native /usr/obj into /usr/release_chroot or wherever and begins a fresh make buildworld in it's chroot and doesn't honor or systems' make.conf(5). Good for integrating source patches Bad for pruning out subsystems / profiling. ~BAS On Mon,

unattended FreeBSD install

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hello, I've read a howto on creating your own FreeBSD isos located at: http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html and i'd like to combine this with an unattended file install.cfg i believe it is. My goal is to go to a box, boot it from CD, then walk away, come back, and the OS includin

Re: how to mount an already freebsd paritioned external usb drive onto a new freebsd install

2006-12-30 Thread perryh
> I was running FreebBSD 5.x until a few days ago at home on a little > shuttle cube server with a celeron processor when my hard drive > appeared to develop multiple problems and finally died. I had a > western digital external usb hard drive attached to the server that > I used for daily backups

Re: how to mount an already freebsd paritioned external usb drive onto a new freebsd install

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/31/06, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I was running FreebBSD 5.x until a few days ago at home on a little shuttle cube server with a celeron processor when my hard drive appeared to develop multiple problems and finally died. I had a western digital external usb hard drive attached

how to mount an already freebsd paritioned external usb drive onto a new freebsd install

2006-12-30 Thread Steve
Hi, I was running FreebBSD 5.x until a few days ago at home on a little shuttle cube server with a celeron processor when my hard drive appeared to develop multiple problems and finally died. I had a western digital external usb hard drive attached to the server that I used for daily backups.

freebsd install on poweredge 2900

2006-10-27 Thread Stas Khromoy
ration one virtual drive is 146gb the other one is 280gb when i finally get to partioning menu during the FreeBSD install i see two volumes, problem is both of them are showing up as 146GB. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: FreeBSD Install

2006-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:28:47PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: > > I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize > myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment. I would like > something fairly easy to install and maintain. I do not want to > replac

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