Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

2003-06-14 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi Chris and Matthew, Yes. I use it to boot my kitchen and office workstations. Ditto here -- kitchen from rack system in the basement. Computers in the kitchen are good, quiet is good :-) Are your machines completely diskless then? Which kind of PSU do you use then? Some of these

Summary: Problems and Proposals of firewall_enable (was: Re: firewall config (CTFM))

2002-01-28 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hello folks, thanks to Ceri, Erik, Richard and Warner, who made the points, I'm repeating here with a slight addition of mine. In media res: comparing defaults/rc.conf and man rc.conf: defaults/rc.conf: firewall_enable=NO # Set to YES to enable firewall functionality man rc.conf:

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-21 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi Chad, good summary. Only one remark and two additions: To summarize the summary: The problem comes from the fact that a PC-BIOS is permitted to insist on an MBR on each drive, and that the slices in that MBR align on certain boundries whereas FreeBSD doesn't care about such sillyness

Re: Really odd BTX halted problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-30 Thread Siegbert Baude
I have recently created a disklabel on a slice of an ata disk with disklabel. Of course i had to create an entry in /etc/disktab to do that, but encountered no other problem. Last time I had to do that, I used dd to copy the first couple of blocks from a working disk onto the new one,