On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:53 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
If you just want na instant workstation, why you just don't try
Freesbie or something like that?
Because I want something from the source -- from the main team -- and
not something
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:53 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
If you just want na instant workstation, why you just don't try
Freesbie or something like that?
Because I want something from the source -- from the main team --
On 2008-Sep-03 15:53:30 -0600, Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see. I was thinking of FreeBSD 7.0 whose disc1 is 509 MB in size,
leaving almost 200 MB free for a standard 700 MB CD.
I missed that the disc layous have been rearranged and disc1 is now
somewhat emptier than when I last
Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
## O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
My box at home has an older NV6800GT and I do not have this special
issue, but instead I do have another well known issue of box-freezing.
This also happens with 'nv'.
Whoa. Guess I'm lucky, as my nvidia chis is working,
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx
must have been stripped by the mailing list software. Can you please
re-send them.
I have not written patches,
Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2008-Sep-03 15:53:30 -0600, Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see. I was thinking of FreeBSD 7.0 whose disc1 is 509 MB in size,
leaving almost 200 MB free for a standard 700 MB CD.
I missed that the disc layous have been rearranged and disc1 is now
Dear all,
I've tried to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE,
but it is failed to boot after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC.
I didn't modify any file at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, it was all default.
After done make kernel and reboot, system stop at:
Timecounters tick every
Hi,
Just noticed that when I try to ACPI-sleep an ASUS Vintage AH-1 based
desktop system, that I get the following message:
acpiconf: request sleep type (3) failed: Operation not supported
Supported sleep states in sysctl:
hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S3 S4 S5
This is an amd64
Chih Liang wrote:
Dear all,
I've tried to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 6.3-RELEASE to
7.0-RELEASE, but it is failed to boot after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC.
I didn't modify any file at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, it was all default.
After done make kernel and reboot, system stop at:
Chih Liang pisze:
Dear all,
I've tried to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 6.3-RELEASE to
7.0-RELEASE, but it is failed to boot after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC.
I didn't modify any file at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, it was all default.
After done make kernel and reboot, system stop at:
I am sorry for the noise, it was caused by failure of enclosures power
supply.
Miroslav Lachman wrote:
Hi,
I tried to use 1TB HDD (SAMSUNG HD103UJ) in external enclosure connected
by USB 2.0 to my old machine with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC i386.
It connects OK, I can read write to
Chih Liang wrote:
Dear all,
I've tried to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE,
but it is failed to boot after make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC.
I didn't modify any file at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, it was all default.
After done make kernel and reboot, system stop at:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:24 +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
Hi,
Just noticed that when I try to ACPI-sleep an ASUS Vintage AH-1 based
desktop system, that I get the following message:
acpiconf: request sleep type (3) failed: Operation not supported
Supported sleep states in sysctl:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
Actually FreeBSD does support a compressed (read only) filesystem,
geom_uzip(4) This is used by freesbie if I remember rightly.
However it does mean you cannot just mount and browse the install cd
with the generic kernel, and I'd guess it bumps up the
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
Actually FreeBSD does support a compressed (read only) filesystem,
geom_uzip(4) This is used by freesbie if I remember rightly.
However it does mean you cannot just mount and browse the install cd
with the generic kernel,
Peter Jeremy wrote, on 9/4/2008 12:54 AM:
2) Traditionally, the ISO images have been sized to fit on 650MB CD-RWs.
Maybe this should be revisited but during a release freeze is not
the right time for that.
Isn't there a little more room now by default? From the 7.0 release
notes:
The
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:24:04PM -0700, Nathan Way wrote:
Where can one find the expected EoL for these releases? I've poked
around the website and can't find any notes mentioning this, although
several people have been making posts suggesting that people should
review the EoL
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:28:44PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 5:54 PM, Brian wrote:
I always do the minimal install over the net. I got X working in 7-
stable by doing the minimal install, then the following.
pkg_add -r xorg
pkg_add -r portupgrade
portupgrade -NRP
Royce Williams wrote:
Peter Jeremy wrote, on 9/4/2008 12:54 AM:
2) Traditionally, the ISO images have been sized to fit on 650MB CD-RWs.
Maybe this should be revisited but during a release freeze is not
the right time for that.
Isn't there a little more room now by default?
Hello, Freebsd-stable!
I wonder if there will be available the support for AIC-9405 in
relises 7.0 or 6.4
Regards,
Nic Grig
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On 4 Sep 2008, at 7:43 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:
No thanks. This means you have to have a working connection to
install
firefox via this method. Since not everyone will have that it is
still
necessary to bundle the firefox package on the media, bringing us
right
back to the very issue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Freebsd-stable!
I wonder if there will be available the support for AIC-9405 in
relises 7.0 or 6.4
Regards,
Nic Grig
http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00346.html
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Wesley Shields wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:28:44PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
Hey, these great comments bring up a different solution, which may be
the way to go.
It is simple: have a few of the common apps that are net-centric (like
firefox) be simply calls to pkg_add -r in the
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:22:30AM -0400, Jim Pingle wrote:
Also, is not Ubuntu a downstream release of Debian, much like FreeSBIE and
PC-BSD are downstream of FreeBSD?
Re: Ubuntu -- Yes, it is.
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On 4 Sep 2008, at 12:20 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
I haven't finished reading the thread yet, but your assumption is
ignorant. Why do you think FreeBSD is intended solely for desktop
usage? It's not.
I, for one, **only want a command prompt** out of the box. I **do
not**
want Xorg or
On 4 Sep 2008, at 3:42 AM, Oliver Peter wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx
must have been stripped by the mailing list software. Can you
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:34:54AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 7:43 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:
No thanks. This means you have to have a working connection to
install
firefox via this method. Since not everyone will have that it is
still
necessary to bundle the
On 4 Sep 2008, at 8:22 AM, Jim Pingle wrote:
The CD installs are great for me, and have worked well for years.
Personally, I install, update to -STABLE from a local cvsup mirror,
then use
an updated ports tree or install packages remotely. The packages on
CD are
out of date practically
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:58:27AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
I hope everyone realizes that I am not trying to de-server FreeBSD. I
just remember how daunting it was for me to get X setup when all I
wanted to use was a web browser when I was new to it all.
The early BSD releases had a
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:48:46AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 3:42 AM, Oliver Peter wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx
Hi Dan,
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:45:00 -0600, Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You may be interested to know, however, that some people ALSO use it
as a desktop system. ;-)
I second that! :)
I for one really love FreeBSD on a server, 'cause it has a (to me) perfect
setup of tools to use on a
Hej Guido,
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:07:36 +0200, Guido Falsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:58:27AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
I hope everyone realizes that I am not trying to de-server FreeBSD. I
just remember how daunting it was for me to get X setup when all I
wanted to
I've had this very same problem. I had to go into the kernel config and
change comment out this line:
optionsATA_STATIC_ID
I may have also had to edit /etc/fstab so that it had the proper device
name in it.
Then I could rebuild the kernel and it worked.
For me this had to to with
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:58:27 -0600
Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then, since packages are always out-of-date, why not just skip the DVD
and use the internet with a couple of check boxes at the end of the
install, the way ports is treated now, that are just calls to pkg_add -
r for:
Guido, I agree completely with you and Jeremy.
At Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:51:00 +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:53 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
If you just want na instant workstation, why you just
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
A large number of Marvell 88E80xx chips are supported by msk(4). If
yours isn't, you are going to need to provide more details on what
chip you have.
On 3 Sep 2008, at 7:02 PM, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
lspci ?
I ran the lspci command and it
Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 8:22 AM, Jim Pingle wrote:
Okay, so how about for packages on the base CD:
* cvsup-without-gui (I also always use this)
* rsync
* perl
As others have mentioned, there are plenty of uses for packages, even if I
do not use them out of the box there are lots
On 4 Sep 2008, at 9:42 AM, Randy Pratt wrote:
2 FTP Install from an FTP server
We have a winner! I think this is what I may have overlooked: setting
the source to FTP rather than to CD.
I have always used the packages on the discs, and I have always
downloaded just disc1,
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:58:27AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
Okay, so how about for packages on the base CD:
* cvsup-without-gui (I also always use this)
Side note:
You don't need this, especially since you're using -without-gui.
There is a utility in the base system called csup(1) which
On 4 Sep 2008, at 9:49 AM, Jim Pingle wrote:
My memory may be failing me, but there used to be a port called
instant
workstaion that accomplished quite a bit, and the installer would
drop in X
but asked for KDE or Gnome, but I don't recall when those choices
went away.
This is in fact
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:47:52AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 7:02 PM, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
lspci ?
I ran the lspci command and it states that the Ethernet is a Marvell
88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller. Are you looking for more info?
Here is what lspci on Ubunut
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:35:09PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote:
Ah, I have to disagree.
The last few times I installed a FreeBSD with xorg, I was really pleased
how good xorg was in guessing my hardware in comparison to the olde days of
XFree86.
It was really, install xorg, run xorg
No thanks. This means you have to have a working connection to install
firefox via this method. Since not everyone will have that it is still
necessary to bundle the firefox package on the media, bringing us right
back to the very issue you are trying to solve.
-- WXS
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:47 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
Here is what lspci on Ubunut returns:
Slot: 09:00.0
Class:Ethernet controller [0200]
Vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. [11ab]
Device: 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [4354]
SVendor: Dell [1028]
For some reason we want to disable fnctl lock for NFS
mounted partition. We can achieve this by the following
command: mount_nfs -T -L server:/home /mnt
However after several time of failure tests, we still
can not make it work in /etc/fstab.
server:/home /mnt nfs rw,tcp 0 0
It seems there is no
For some reason we want to disable fnctl lock for NFS
mounted partition. We can achieve this by the following
command: mount_nfs -T -L server:/home /mnt
However after several time of failure tests, we still
can not make it work in /etc/fstab.
According to man mount_nfs:
-L Do not
Tim Chen wrote:
For some reason we want to disable fnctl lock for NFS
mounted partition. We can achieve this by the following
command: mount_nfs -T -L server:/home /mnt
However after several time of failure tests, we still
can not make it work in /etc/fstab.
server:/home /mnt nfs rw,tcp 0 0
It
Tim Chen wrote:
For some reason we want to disable fnctl lock for NFS
mounted partition. We can achieve this by the following
command: mount_nfs -T -L server:/home /mnt
However after several time of failure tests, we still
can not make it work in /etc/fstab.
server:/home /mnt nfs rw,tcp 0 0
It
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:11:20AM +0800, Tim Chen wrote:
By the way, since the machine is running as a mail server which
install postfix,courier-imap, will it happen any kind of data
corruption due to NFS fnctl lock disabled?
Regarding postfix, you will probably need dotlocking enabled during
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in
reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this
can
be sorted.
I am interested in
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in
reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported
Where can one find the expected EoL for these releases?
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:24:04PM -0700, Nathan Way wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#supported-branches
To quote from the above web site: (snip)
On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:
These are the
Gavin Atkinson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in
reinstalling FreeBSD and testing
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gavin Atkinson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
quite easy to
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:20:53PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:53 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
If you just want na instant workstation, why you just don't try
Freesbie or something like that?
Because I want
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:22:30 -0400
From: Jim Pingle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
To: Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Wesley Shields
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are available at
http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/
Thanks. I hadn't tried them. But they didn't work. (I used the Sept 4
patch on CURRENT.)
I could provide more diagnostics if anyone wants
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
Did you try using Alexander Motin's new snd_hda patches? They are
available at
http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/
Thanks. I hadn't tried them. But they didn't work. (I used
Bartosz Stec wrote:
Chih Liang pisze:
Dear all,
I've tried to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 6.3-RELEASE to
7.0-RELEASE, but it is failed to boot after make kernel
KERNCONF=GENERIC.
I didn't modify any file at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, it was all default.
After done make kernel and reboot,
Jeff Dowsley wrote:
Try selecting boot option 2, ACPI disabled
It still stop with mountroot message.
Thanks!
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Miroslav Lachman 提到:
Chih Liang wrote:
Dear all,
I've tried to upgrade my FreeBSD server from 6.3-RELEASE to
7.0-RELEASE, but it is failed to boot after make kernel
KERNCONF=GENERIC.
I didn't modify any file at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, it was all default.
After done make kernel and reboot,
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
I use to update ports almost weekly from -latest, but the resulting GUI is
not always consistent, so I am considering to stick with the -release tag.
Could someone comment on the quality of ports from -release vs. -latest? In
other
Miroslav Lachman wrote:
What is your hardware setup? (post dmesg)
I have bad experience with some old PC with nForce 2 chipset. This
machine is unbootable with 7.x kernel, so I am using it with 6.3. (it
can't boot even from 7.x CD)
Miroslav Lachman
I've tried to boot with 7.0 CD, it
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Gavin Atkinson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
quite easy to port
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Gavin Atkinson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported
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