RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-21 Thread Kevin K
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:31:37 -0400 Kevin K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 7.0-RELEASE, it seemed to hang at Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0. How long did you wait? If you didn't wait 10 or 15 minutes, please do. Various tests / probes take a long time to time out on some hardware

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-18 Thread Kevin K
How long did you wait? If you didn't wait 10 or 15 minutes, please do. Various tests / probes take a long time to time out on some hardware. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen I'll try that as soon as I get a chance. For anyone who's interested, here's more details on the hardware of my

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin K
I just tried to boot off the latest 8.0-CURRENT amd64 snapshot. According to documentation, if you hold the spacebar as it is loading /boot/default/loader.conf you can get to the boot menu. Pressing 6 and entering : set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 set

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin K
I just tried to boot off the latest 8.0-CURRENT amd64 snapshot. According to documentation, if you hold the spacebar as it is loading /boot/default/loader.conf you can get to the boot menu. Pressing 6 and entering : set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 set

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-16 Thread Kevin K
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin K Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:41 PM To: 'FreeBSD Stable' Subject: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd Laptop details : HP Pavilion dv2000 (dv2422ca) Specifications (taken from http

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-16 Thread Kevin K
Please try one of the more recent 7-stable snapshots from June or July. They're located on the FTP sites in /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots. Best regards Oliver This was actually just recommended to me by Gavin Atkinson earlier today. I am downloading 7.0-STABLE-200806-amd64-disc1.iso right now

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-16 Thread Kevin K
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RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-16 Thread Kevin K
on the latest 7.0-release amd64 snapshot. Any further suggestions are welcome. Thank you, Kevin K. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Switching from 32 to 64 bit with freebsd-update?

2008-07-16 Thread Kevin K
I have a 64-bit system that had the 32-bit version of 6.3 installed on it. Is it possible to use freebsd-update (or another somewhat painless method) to switch the system to 64-bit? We're running into the 4GB memory limit. --Wade I believe this is possible but you will come into a lot

HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin K
for other operating systems as far as I can tell. Initial documentation suggests that this laptop should work, however, I'd like to get some more insight from freebsd-stable before continuing. If any additional information is required, please let me know. Cheers, Kevin K

RE: Any idea when a bind update will be forthcoming?

2008-07-10 Thread Kevin K
Given the serious nature of the vulnerability, I'm sure this is at the top of someone's list. Do we have a scheduled release date yet? From -security : Dear all, Doug just updated the ports tree with the updated BIND ports. If you urgently want to upgrade and really cannot wait for the

RE: Latest stable release

2008-04-05 Thread Kevin K
If you took the time to check freebsd.org , you would know. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chhabi Chalise Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:05 AM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Latest stable release Sir,

Xorg 7.2 / FreeBSD 7 errors

2008-03-25 Thread Kevin K
be greatly appreciated! ~Kevin K ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Xorg 7.2 / FreeBSD 7 errors

2008-03-25 Thread Kevin K
You should update the ports tree and rebuild the ports / xorg, the version above is quite old and was not built on FreeBSD 7.0. Andreas I have been keeping the ports tree up 2 date; cvsup ports-supfile. I'll try de-installing/cleaning xorg and re-installing that port. It takes very long so

RE: Xorg 7.2 / FreeBSD 7 errors

2008-03-25 Thread Kevin K
(EE) I810(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range (EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed. Fatal server error: no screens found Interesting sidenote : If I reboot my workstation and try, I can start xorg! If I exit fluxbox, and then try to start it again, I gaid said error above. Very

RE: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-03-19 Thread Kevin K
That said: I do understand what you're saying, and yes, I can see why you would want that. It does make sense, and it's reasonable. It's just hard to achieve. I don't think other mainstream OSes (e.g. Linux) offer this ability either, though. Am I wrong? Redhat's up2date/yum ? I'm not

RE: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-03-01 Thread Kevin K
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:18 PM To: Kevin K Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails On 29/02/2008

RE: FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-03-01 Thread Kevin K
-Original Message- It looks like you did something wrong when using cvsup, and did not check out RELENG_7, but instead got a copy of the whole CVS repository - which cannot be compiled from directly. Remove all the contents of your current /usr/src/, fix your supfile, and try

FreeBSD 6.2 -- cvsup to 7.0 + make buildworld fails

2008-02-29 Thread Kevin K
I have cvsupped my src - cvsup stable-supfile / RELENG_7 cvsup5,3,4.freebsd.org many times and I keep failing @ make buildworld : magic, 67702: Warning type `log' invalid magic, 67703: Warning offset [EMAIL PROTECTED] files no longer part of the vendor's file(1).' invalid magic, 67703: Warning

RE: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-02-28 Thread Kevin K
No one is forcing you to upgrade. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marko Lerota Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:08 PM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements In

RE: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-20 Thread Kevin K
Thank you all for your suggestions. I have been trying to push to move to amd64 architecture for all the reasons you all stated. For the record, we tested PAE on one machine, booted the kernel w/ nextboot and it crashed about 15 minutes later. I will consider configuring a dump device to

Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-19 Thread Kevin K
I have a box that we recently installed 16GB of RAM on. The box is i386 FreeBSD 6.2. It only recognizes 4gb. I am currently recompiling the kernel to support options PAE (KERNCONF=PAE) in order to see this. I understand this is still considered a Beta implementation ,and this is a production

RE: Job Offer

2008-02-01 Thread Kevin K
LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Storistes de France Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Job Offer Storistes de France is currently looking for English Corrections Officer. We currently need

RE: mail problems was Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Kevin K.
Just a FYI, its not a great idea to post your firewall rules w/ external/internal ips still intact. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reinhold Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:46 PM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: mail problems

RE: Properly managing SpamAssassin. . .

2007-07-18 Thread Kevin K.
Managing plesk usually means that you really have to hand over your server (or the jail that plesk creates) to plesk itself. I've hacked and mangled plesk installations in order to merge other technologies and custom solutions that I personally preferred -- and in the end I concluded that it

RE: Properly managing SpamAssassin. . .

2007-07-18 Thread Kevin K.
Of Michael Williams Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:39 AM To: Kevin K. Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Properly managing SpamAssassin. . . Kevin, Thanks. I have no problem with that at all. Can you recommend any quality, modular (redundant I know) jailing techniques (e.g

RE: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin K.
There are some problems, first DDoS (hardware DDoS) in the system. I'd like to know what you mean by hardware DDoS ~k ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

RE: Flash with Firefox 2

2007-03-17 Thread Kevin K.
On Friday 16 March 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote: I'm currently running 6.2-STABLE, firefox-2.0.0.2,1, linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 and linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_7 and flash plugin works well on most of the websites I've been. hi, Could you please post the output of pkg_info ? (the list

RE: Trouble Mounting Seagate HD

2007-02-05 Thread Kevin K.
Stephen A. Lewis wrote: I am having issues mounting a USB Seagate 300MB HD any suggestions. Maybe its time to get a new HD? 300 megs is pretty small! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable