Re: [g4u-help] Trying to image a blade in an IBM HS21 Blade Chassis

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: > Have you tried a USB keyboard? I honestly have never seen an error like that. ... > Version 2.3 Try 2.4alpha1: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20070808_1459.html - Hubert --

Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: > I've already tried to add GZIP=1 to the front and the result is the > same...it stands around 100~160Kb/s > i can't understand it because the uploadpart transfer rate stops arround > 12MB/s (the maximum speed i can get at my network), so the local copy s

Re: [g4u-help] 2.4a Hangs on Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 Motherboard (agp0 problem?)

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Meanwhile, does g4u have trouble with ULi or Nvidia chipsets? Not that I'm aware of. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R)

Re: [g4u-help] nic ?

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Elisabetta D'Aiutolo wrote: > I am trying to run g4u ver 2.3 over Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V3505 Edition. > > I have tried g4u on other laptops and it works perfectly... > however when I tried on Siemens AMILO Pro V3505, i think that it cannot > detect the NIC. > > I I never o

Re: [g4u-help] "501 Invalid number of arguments" error

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Stephen Jarjoura wrote: > this error and the slurpdisk immediately quit. Obviously this is being > reported by my NAS, but I do not know what the g4u command was that > caused this. > > Here are the particulars. > I'm using "g4u Harddisk Image Cloning V2.2" Please try g4u 2.3

Re: [g4u-help] Test Building g4u 2.4alpha1 from source

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: > Creating disk 1 to g4u1.fs > Creating disk 2 to g4u2.fs > Creating disk 3 to g4u3.fs > 0+1 records in > 1+0 records out > 1474560 bytes transferred in 0.005 secs (294912000 bytes/sec) > Final result: > -rw-r--r-- 1 aclapp wheel 1474560 Sep 25 15:20 g4u1

Re: [g4u-help] USB NIC Support?

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Gary Verhulp wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with a USB NIC under g4u or NetBSD? I played with a USB1 ethernet adapter some years ago, it just worked. > BTW g4U rocks! Thanks :) - Hubert -

Re: [g4u-help] Bad link on home page to mail archive

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, David Balazic wrote: > The correct source forge archive link is > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=g4u-help I've fixed both archive links (for the announce and help lists). Thanks! - Hubert --

Re: [g4u-help] (no subject)

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gummelt, Arne wrote: Der FTP-Server läuft wie gesagt auf einem Windows XP System und funktioniert mit anderen Windows-System und einem Suse Linux System sehr gut, also ohne Beanstandungen. Wenn ich nun den diskupload Befehl eingebe kommt folgendes: Nach der Anmeldung MS

Re: [g4u-help] Probleme beim Upload?

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gummelt, Arne wrote: Nachdem ich nun das "uploaddisk 192.168.0.100 test.gz" mache und das Passwort für den Benutzer "install" eingebe, werden kurz Daten übers Netzwerk geschickt, jedoch nicht kontinuierlich sondern eher sporadisch. Die Datei auf dem FTP-Server ist dann bei

[g4u-help] Howto/Idea: Booting g4u from a USB stick

I don't have hardware to test this with in reach right now, and time's even scarcer during the upcoming few weeks, but maybe someone wants to play with this: FAQ: how can i boot g4u from usb stick Assumptions: - USB stick with some files that you don't want to nuke - FAT filesystem (should

Re: [g4u-help] Dell Optiplex 2.4: USB keyboard problems

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: > Caveats from Hubert: This version doesn't have working keyboard for me in > Parallels. That was actually just a one-time problem, it worked fine on second attempt. No idea what it was... - Hubert --

Re: [g4u-help] G4U ver. 2.3

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Marcin Plichta wrote: > I do have question to ask. recently i have been using your program for > cloning UNIX Chorus drive (6GB) localy to the other drive 40GB by copydisks > wd0 wd1. Everything went well no any errors interruptions etc during process > after cloning Have lis

Re: [g4u-help] [Fwd: RE: G4u hangs during boot on Intel DG965WF]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Dave, you could download 2.4alpha and give it a try. I don't know if will > hang or not. Hubert is the expert here, maybe he will have some ideas. No idea here - all the relevant questions were already asked. :) - Hubert --

Re: [g4u-help] I still use the floppy version of g4u

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: > Have you given any thought to network booting them from a PXE server? Since > its still in Alpha maybe Hubert can make a single floppy image for use with > USB sticks (I have no idea whats involved with making a floppy image that is > larger than a flop

[g4u-help] NetBSD Fundraising Campaign 2007 (fwd)

FYI, just in case someone feels like supporting the operating system that g4u is based on. :-) - Hubert -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:34:00 + (UTC) From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NetBSD Fundraising Camp

[g4u-help] please test: 2.4alpha1

Please try: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.iso - ISO http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.iso.zip - compressed ISO http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-1.fs - First floppy http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-2.fs - 2nd floppy http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-3.f

Re: [g4u-help] g4u local copy problem

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Jam Talk wrote: > Anyhow, when I do the copydisk wd0(55 gigs) sd0(160gigs) it copys upto > around 700mb, beeps three times, and reboots to a black screen. > > Anyone know how to fix this? No idea, not by the amount of data. It shouldn't expose the behaviour you describe at any

Re: [g4u-help] Help adding mkdir

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: > nbmake: don't know how to make mkidr. Stop ^ Pilot error. :-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping throug

Re: [g4u-help] Help adding mkdir

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: > I tried adding bin/mkdir to the file: >/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisks/ramdisk-g4u/list > but that complains about not being able to know how to make mkdir. That sounds ok. Can you paste the exact error with some (5-50) lines of context? - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] Broadcom, Dell, HP, IBM users: please test!

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Lisa Schermerhorn wrote: > Broadcom product 0v167a (ethernet network revision 0x02) at pci4 dev 0 > function 0 not configured "not configured" means there's no driver for the card. fwip0 is IP over firewire - you don't want that. I'll try to get 21.4alpha1 out soonis

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: > For a laptop, transferring data with COPYDISK over USB 1.1 with 4200 rpm ^^^ There's your problem. USB1.1 is known to be dog slow. - Hubert -

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: > What are the specs on your Laptop? The GZIP compression used by g4u is > fairly processor intensive. You should try adding BEFORE the slurpdisk > command "GZIP=1" without the quotes. This will force GZIP to use the > lightest compression possible, thus

Re: [g4u-help] I still use the floppy version of g4u

[I'll reply in english, should fit the audience better] On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Gehring, Stephan wrote: > N?, brauch heute kein Mensch mehr. (Translation: nobody needs it = g4u floppy version) That sounds like a very liberal generalization, forcing me to pull out web stats. Let's see, downloads i

Re: [g4u-help] Changing path on FTP server

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Chris wrote: > Is there an easy fix and i've just missed it, or am i going to have to start > looking in another direction? Try using a path that's relative to /mnt. Or use a non-crappy FTP server (sorry). - Hubert -

Re: [g4u-help] G4U with a Dell PowerEdge 6600

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: > Do you have a test box with that NIC in it? Sometimes I've found that > G4U has issues with the Broadcom controllers. There are other options > too, if G4U doesn't work. FYI: The power supply of my development machine died, and left me with the latest

Re: [g4u-help] disks wd4 and higher supported?

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Ethan Hall-Beyer wrote: > Then I tried "parts" and determined that it only worked for disks wd0, wd1, > wd2 and wd3. Is there a limit in g4u somewhere to supported only four IDE > disks? The tool works properly on the disk I want to back up if I take > wd0..wd7 offline (two Prom

Re: [g4u-help] frage

(www.feyrer.de/g4u/), konkrete Rueckfragen kann ich gerne versuchen zu beantworten. Linux/Fedora kann mit g4u selbstverstaendlich gesichert & restored werden. MfG, Hubert Feyrer- This SF.net email is sponsored by

Re: [g4u-help] Feature request

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Jesse Peterson wrote: > If you happen to be preparing a fresh OS it might be useful to have a > disk zero feature. Say "zero wd0" (or wd0e, or any other partition) > so that you may start a disk with zero'd blocks and install your OS > over that for smaller images. It's easy en

Re: [g4u-help] Cloning 359 Gb Drive to 120 Gb Drive

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: > This should give me only a 62 Gb image on the 120 Gb hard drive. Am I > correct in thinking this? No. You don't know where on your 359GB the 62GB are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem - Hubert ---

Re: [g4u-help] help

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Christopher Thompson wrote: > uploaddisk > ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone > /dell.gz > > 0 0.00 KB/s ftp: ftp:1.1.1237/windist/clone/dell_clone: No address > associated with

Re: [g4u-help] Network Problem

On Tue, 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IFConfig -a : > > Re0 : flags = 8843 < up, BROADCAST, RUNNING, Simplex, Multicast > mtu > 1500 > >Capabilities = 3f80 TCP4CSUM-RX, TCP4CSUM-TX, UDP4CSUM-RX, UDP4CSUM-TX > >Enable=0 > >Address:00:18:F3 ... > >

Re: [g4u-help] Booting problem

On Fri, 18 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using g4u 2.3 and used the ISO CD image. > I have been using this package on Gateway M280 with no problem, but on > the M285-E, the booting process hangs at the following: > > [...] > pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0 > pcmcia1 at pcic0 cont

Re: [g4u-help] Network driver

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Martin Richard wrote: > Info from dmesg: > > pci 4 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82573E IAMT, rev 3 > PCI-Express Bus > 256 word (8 address bits) SPI EEPROM > makphys ... Marvell 88E Gigabit PHY rev 2 > > and for the second one > > pci 5 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82573L Gigabit Et

Re: [g4u-help] help with booting g4u

[copying this back to the list, as it has some interesting data for the public] On Tue, 8 May 2007, deggs meister wrote: > yes, it happens repeatably (i've tried 4 times so far). > > so, i gave up with the ubcd and downloaded g4u on its own. i burnt to cd and > booted ok, That's an interesting

Re: [g4u-help] help with booting g4u

On Tue, 8 May 2007, deggs meister wrote: > Press Return to boot now, any other key for boot menu > booting fd0a:netbsd - starting in 0 > 1792369 + 2406984 + 150708 = 0x427290 > That's pretty early... at that point the kernel was loaded into RAM, but not started yet. which is why you can ctrl+alt

Re: [g4u-help] g4u experience

Hi Mike, On Mon, 7 May 2007, Mike M. Volokhov wrote: > On the past week I have to reinstall machines in our training center > (my new job). Well, all machines looks very common thus g4u is exactly > the tool what I need. Although I've heard a lot about g4u before, this > was my first time experie

[g4u-help] FYI: updated conditions for voluntary commercial licenses

To allow easier for companies to support g4u, I've added voluntary commercial licenses some time ago. Given the success of the concept, I'd like to allow more & smaller companies to give back to g4u, and I've thus adjusted pricing to $70US / 50EUR for up to 5 machines Multiple license

Re: [g4u-help] Probably not g4u related, but best place to ask

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: > to the other, and my windows server was running in "Unix" ftp mode... > so, moral of the story is, don't use windows! I don't know what "unix" ftp mode is, but many clients have a "binary" and an "ascii" transfer mode, and the latter is known to break

Re: [g4u-help] [RESOLVED] RE: g4u freezes at ~300MB using slurpdisk

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Thijs Boonstra wrote: > I've got it working with ProFTPD for 2 years now! I was wondering why > it's not in the list on your site. It wasn't the ProFTP service that > caused the kernelpanic, but some other program on the same server. > ProFTPD even works "out of the box" no con

Re: [g4u-help] [RESOLVED] RE: g4u freezes at ~300MB using slurpdisk

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Thijs Boonstra wrote: >> FTP server used is ProFTPD 1.2.10 (on Debian). ... > program :D). Apparently the FTP server in question had a problem with > spinlock.c which resulted in a kernel panic. This has now been resolved! Interesting enough, ProFTPd is not listed at http://w

Re: [g4u-help] Mounting FAT partition

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to mount a FAT partition to access some files. > But when I try to mount it I get this error: > OPERATION NOT SUPPORTED BY DEVICE > > I have rebuilt g4u from sources and included MOUNT_MSDOS file. > > But even with MOUNT_MSDOS i couldn't mount

Re: [g4u-help] G4U Over USB

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Thank you, Hubert. I'm a little confused. In this situation it should > put an exact image of the source drive on the destination drive, > correct? And this works over USB as well, so that > > copydisk wd0 sd0 > > will have exactly the same effect as >

Re: [g4u-help] G4U Over USB

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I want to put a spare 2.5 inch hard drive into a USB hard drive > enclosure and plug this into a laptop. Then I want to boot to g4u and > `copydisk' from the laptop's hard drive to the spare hard drive in the > USB enclosure. > > Will this work? Sure.

Re: [g4u-help] g4u writes more to disk then expected

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Mike Shultz wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to plug our g4u disk images into virtual machines on > my workstation. Problem is, there's limited space on this machine. > > The image I'm trying to write to the virtual disk is only 2.8GB but when > doing a 'slurpdisk' it writes much m

Re: [g4u-help] Network Card not plumbed -> Intel e1000g (0x2994)

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Per Öberg wrote: I'm trying to boot a Fujitsu-Siemens and can't get the network card to be recognised. dmesg puts Intel product 0x2994 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 (not configured) Ayy hints to get it working appreciated The usual: get documentation on the device. Or find out i

Re: [g4u-help] Broadcom BCM5754 hardware wanted for driver development

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Gary Verhulp wrote: > maybe the fine folks over @ broadcom will want to kick one down... for a > good cause ;) Do you have any contacts that can be asked? - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

[g4u-help] Broadcom BCM5754 hardware wanted for driver development

Hi, I've had many people ask about a driver for Broadcom BCM5754 Ethernet in g4u. This is currently lacking as there's no such driver in NetBSD. I've talked to a few people today that would be interested in working on such a driver (and that have the neccessary skills, in contrast to me :), bu

Re: [g4u-help] Investigation g4u

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ingo wrote: I´ve an image of a 40gig HDD with 4 Partitions. 1.NTFS 2. Freebsd, 3. Openbsd 4. NetBSD Could someone please explain how to get the data of the NetBSD slice on a Netbsd machine? gunzip image.gz vnconfig vnd0 image disklabel vnd0 This sh

Re: [g4u-help] Investigation g4u

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Stephen Mears wrote: > I recently read a review on g4u on dig.com and thought I would > investigate the product. It seams good I will be doing some more testing > over the next few days. I have a query though we have used a old version > of ghost for some time one of the featur

Re: [g4u-help] command line

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, A K Jowett wrote: > I'm just implementing the G4U package and would like to be able to pass the > slurp command via the boot process so it doesn't need to be typed in for all > of > the 43 clients. Is there a way to do this without recompiling? No. I have some ideas in the ba

Re: [g4u-help] A disk read error occurred problem

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jason Lewis wrote: > A disk read error has occurred, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot. > > The image is 4 gig and I am dumping it onto a 20 gig drive. The image is > good as I have used it previously, successfully on a different computer > (with different hardware). > > I have trie

Re: [g4u-help] UPDATE - Part 2 - g4u - "device not configured" when uploaddisk....

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Paul Krater wrote: > He also had a question: Any idea when you're going to have g4u working > with/on a MAC G5??? Maybe after someone's sent me a G5 Mac. :) - Hubert - Using Tomcat but need to do mor

Re: [g4u-help] Part 2 - g4u - "device not configured" when uploaddisk....

Hi, On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Paul Krater wrote: > So I was off one letter... It's apparently a lower case L - ld0, not > id0.I'm so used to "ide0"! > Also, I said I could ftp. Not true. What I was meaning is that after > issuing the uploaddisk command, it sees the server I'm trying to load > to, f

Re: [g4u-help] g4u - "device not configured" when uploaddisk....

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Paul Krater wrote: > Yes, I can ftp, and the "disks" command shows id0. > > Upon trying to uploaddisk, it comes back with: > dd: /dev/rwd0d: device not configured So a) what exact command did you run, and b) how does the corresponding output from dmesg / disks for "id0" look

Re: [g4u-help] Dell Optiplex 320

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just popping a quick mail into the list. Quickly searched the archives and > couldn't find a fix. I just recieved my first shipment of Optiplex 320s as > the > 210Ls are now end of life. I couldn't get G4U to boot originally but have now > resolve

Re: [g4u-help] Boot hangs on Thinkpad T23

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, M. Fla Fla wrote: > g4u is 2.3, the .iso file is dated 1/24/2007. > you are right about the last line being isa0. I have no idea, really. A guess would be lack of ACPI support, enabling would require rebuilding. - Hubert ---

Re: [g4u-help] Boot hangs on Thinkpad T23

What g4u version is this with? And: I presume the last line means isa0 instead of iso0? - Hubert On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, M. Fla Fla wrote: > I want to image my Thinkpad T23 dual boot Win 2k/Suse > 10.0. However, when I boot g4u from CD ROM, the > machine hangs on startup. It only gets through a

[g4u-help] g4u 2.3 has been released

* g4u 2.3 has been released This release of the harddisk image cloning software g4u 2.3 includes updated drivers based on the latest development version of NetBSD, a complete overhaul of the build system to remove the 2.88MB size limit, and availability of contracts for technical support ove

Re: [g4u-help] network card issues.

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Jeff Little wrote: > g4u 2.2 There's a 2.3beta3 version out, please try that. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the cha

Re: [g4u-help] G4u on a Dell Poweredge 1950 with broadcom BCM5708 error/support

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill wrote: > I'm trying to use G4u on a broadcom BCM5708 NetXtreme II 1000base-T > adapter. The lan adapter does not show in ifconfig -a, there is one > entry - lo0: flags=8048(loopback, running, multicast) mtu 33192, but no IP > info. > > G4U version 2.3beta3 was the version

Re: [g4u-help] Help Dell Optiplex 320

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nathaniel Hooten wrote: § If the system hangs during boot: what are the last five lines printed on the screen (again all three of them, verbatime): (six lines just in case) uhub0: ATI Technologie OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 r

Re: [g4u-help] Drivers for Dell PowerEdge 1950

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Bill Hase wrote: > Is there anything else I can do? I'm afraid not at this point, sorry. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll

Re: [g4u-help] nvidia nforce onboard NIC

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Douglas, Jason wrote: > DHCPDISCOVER on nfe0... ( 2 lines like this) > nfe0 watchdog timeout Yumm, nVidia... (not) There were some improvements to that drivers recently that are not in the 2.3beta. I have a 2.3 (final) release here that should have the change, and I'm hopein

Re: [g4u-help] cloning hp dx2200

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Tim Furgerson wrote: > Just an FYI for those having trouble cloning the HP dx2200 and locking > up on the isa plugandplay. I was able to resolve this issue by disabling > the usb legacy support in the bios. It appears this is enabled by > default. Thanks for the report! -

Re: [g4u-help] Jobing.com (Help) G4U 2.3 Beta

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Craig Casimir wrote: I am currently utilizing you newest ISO version, but there are no network drivers for IBM's  T60 and R60 series laptops. How can I get those drivers on that cd or ISO? What new version exactly, and what does dmesg say? (see 'bugreporting' on the g4u

Re: [g4u-help] HP Compaq dc7700

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Bayer, David wrote: > Just tested g4u on a new dc7700. The 7700 changes from an integrated > Broadcom nic to Intel, but there is no support in g4u for the integrated > nic. On the dc7600, g4u would hang unless you disabled the on-board > Broadcom nic, but it does not hang with

Re: [g4u-help] No write permission

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, jt wrote: > 425 Permission denied No write permission This is a message from your FTP server telling you that it can't write something. Check your permissions on the FTP server. Try uploading a file as the 'install' (= default for g4u) user. This is not a g4u issue. - Hu

Re: [g4u-help] "process" script

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Steve Parker wrote: > What does "progress" do? I can't find a source for it in the src > tarball. I can see that it's going to take stdin and chuck it out to, > presumably, ftpput. Citing from the NetBSD progress(1) manpage: NAME progress -- feed input to a command, disp

Re: [g4u-help] local FTP server

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Jean-Manuel Croset wrote: > I was wondering if it could be possible to include a FTP server on the g4u > ISO, so that you can restore an image included on the CD (DVD) with > slurpdisk 127.0.0.1 blablaba wd0? > > Any idea? That doesn't make sense. It just creates unneccessary

Re: [g4u-help] Drivers for Dell PowerEdge 1950

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Bill Hase wrote: > Is support for the following drivers coming soon? > Network:Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE > SCSI: DELL PERC 5/i Integrated RAID Controller IIRC something for that was added to NetBSD recently... can you check out 2.3beta3 and report back

Re: [g4u-help] g4u: Xircom

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, iXneonXi wrote: > What is the status on the latest floppy beta? > The progress was very noticeable and the program almost made it to the > point where it would be useable. However, I haven't noticed any > changes in the past week. > I still would like to run g4u on my old Tosh

Re: [g4u-help] Hangs at boot on a Acer 5051AWXMi laptop

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Santos wrote: > Something else i should include? I guess this is one of the machines that would benefit from enabling ACPI... currently that's not enabled in g4u, as it's either on and off permamently, and some old machines don't get along without it that well. In the long

[g4u-help] [g4u-announce] g4u 2.3beta3 released (fwd)

For Your Information - Hubert -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:53:53 +0100 (CET) From: Hubert Feyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [g4u-announce] g4u 2.3beta3 released * g4u 2.3beta3 released I haven't published floppy im

Re: [g4u-help] New Lenovo System hang

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Larry Belan wrote: > As Hubert asks, here's the last 5 lines of the dmesg: Hubert also asks you to state the g4u version you used, as there may be a newer one somewhere. ;) For the time being: I've put up g4u 2.3beta3, can you please try and tell me if this works better: ht

Re: [g4u-help] Speed problem

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Tom Dison wrote: > I had a similar "slowness" poblem. I copied a 60GB drive to an 80GB > drive (I used the G4U CD). It took about 48 hours (but did succeed). I > would have expected less than an hour. The source drive was an internal > IDE (laptop) and the destination drive

Re: [g4u-help] Error message recording/reporting

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, W. Jay Murphy wrote: > 'Nuf said. Thanks again. I guess you can use the FTP client to upload your dmesg and ifconfig output somewhere: dmesg >d ifconfig -a >i ftp 1.2.3.4, login & put 'd' and 'i' Of course that works only if you're far enough that

Re: [g4u-help] g4u: Xircom

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, iXneonXi wrote: > 2.3beta1 (floppy set) is giving an issue similar to 2.2. After > loading the 3rd disk the computer attempts to do something, and then > fails. However, unlike version 2.2 where it appears to shut down, > this time the laptop seems to reboot. It reboots to a

Re: [g4u-help] g4u: Xircom

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, iXneonXi wrote: > Is it possible to get an alpha version in floppy form (even if it > requires multiple floppies)? The Toshiba Satellite T2105CT only has a > floppy drive and 2 slots for PCMCIA cards. You're right, that's probably useful... I've pushed out 2.3beta1 (see other

Re: [g4u-help] g4u: Xircom

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, iXneonXi wrote: > I have a Xircom credit card for my old laptop and I'm using 1.17. > Version 2.2 doesnt work, after the 3rd floppy the screen goes blank. > 1.17 does not recognize my Xircom Credit Card for my laptop. What can > I do to get on the network so I can finally trans

Re: [g4u-help] G4U deployment on multiple disks

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Laurent van der Straten wrote: > Is it possible to make a clone of the master disk to a number of target? > > I would like to make a duplication system when I need to install 30 > times OS on system. No. g4u is not what you want... (I guess there are 'dd' implementations that c

Re: [g4u-help] Permission Denied - Boot Fail

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Rob Kelledy wrote: > I've been using g4u for a while with good success but recently it seems > to have broken somehow. When the machines boot and get an IP they boot > the pxe boot file but then i get: > > net_open: file name: pxeboot_ia32.bin > open netbsd: Permission denied >

Re: [g4u-help] Paypal

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Tom Dison wrote: > I click on the Paypal donation link and Paypal says it is an invalid link. You mean the "Paypal Donate" button on the upper left of www.feyrer.de/g4u? That works for me. What browser do you use, and what exact error do you get? FWIW you can always send mo

Re: [g4u-help] Prob cloning HP dx2200 workstations

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Albert Kwok wrote: > We have been using G4U for about a year and love it but we have a small > problem now. We recently acquired a new HP dx2200 workstation and when > trying to image it G4U will halt on ISA Plug 'n Play devices. I have > tried this with g4u 2.1, 2.2, 2.3alpha

Re: [g4u-help] Problems with Toshiba Terca A8 (more information)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Chris Janssen wrote: > Sorry for the lack of information. Here is some more details: > > > > G4u version: 2.2 > > Ifconfig -a returns: > > > > Wm0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > Capabilities=2bf80 P4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Tx> > > Enabled=0 > > Address: 00:0e:7b:eb:24:e0 > > Media: Etherne

[g4u-help] keeping this list clean

Guys, I've removed a number of folks from this list who caused bounces whenever _anyone_ posted (including me). I'd like to remind you to the mailing list etiquette - just unsubscribe if you don't want to be on the g4u-help mailing list any longer, don't let things bounce when your account's

Re: [g4u-help] dell precision 390

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Vinh Nguyen wrote: > Broadcom product 0x167a (ethernet network, revision 0x02) at pci4 dev > 0 function 0 not configured Known problem... no docs, no drivers. :( - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Ca

Re: [g4u-help] Compile g4u 2.2 source against NetBSD 3.1

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Chris whelan wrote: > Question will the 2.2 source compile on 3.1. It should (I haven't tried it) > If so are there any quirks I > should be aware of? You have to set BUILD_KERNEL=yes somewhere in src/distrib/i386/floppies/g4u/Makefile or so, but that should be the only t

Re: [g4u-help] problems with dhcp / resolv.conf with

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Gary Verhulp wrote: > following the instructions on > http://www.robbennett.co.uk/mids/compile.html I cannot comment on that, sorry. - Hubert - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web ser

Re: [g4u-help] how to "grab the g4u.fs from the ISO "??

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, David Morehead wrote: > If i were to follow the "rebuild g4u from source" directions would that yield > a usable .fs file at all? As I just said: >> I'm afraid not, actually. >> During building of g4u, a FFS image is made, but the bootloader is only >> added after the splitt

Re: [g4u-help] G4U Cloning

Hi, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Lemuel Larena wrote: > I dont understand g4u-2.2-1.fs > and g4u-2.2-2.fs and g4u-2.2-3.fs > > how to make that work in windows You need to write them to disk, using rawrite32. See http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#prep. - Hubert --

Re: [g4u-help] how to "grab the g4u.fs from the ISO "??

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Patrick Lee wrote: > I was just going to ask the same thing. I created a USB boot stick using the > g4u.fs file produced from that command but it seems to be hanging after I > select boot from USB drive. I ran the command on one of my OS X machines > though. Is there a way to

Re: [g4u-help] problems with dhcp / resolv.conf with

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Gary Verhulp wrote: > I cd /etc > > cat resolv.conf > which responds with nothing Strange... stupid question: you're sure that your DHCP server hands out the necessary information for /etc/resolv.conf (nameserver IPs, maybe DNS domain name)? > I have network connectivity I

Re: [g4u-help] how to "grab the g4u.fs from the ISO "??

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Morehead wrote: > Im trying to make a bootable usb stick with the g4u image on it but im > unsure how to get to the g4u.fs file on the iso? when i look in the iso > all i see is 2 files: BOOT. and NETBSD., would I need a server > installed with netbsd to access the files

Re: [g4u-help] problems with dhcp / resolv.conf with

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Gary Verhulp wrote: > Everything seems to work great except /etc/resolv.conf does not get > populated. > > Am I missing some flag to pass to dhclient in the dot.profile? Ideally, dhclient writes /etc/rc.conf. Why this is not the case, and what your /etc/resolv.con contains etc.

[g4u-help] g4u 2.3alpha6 is out

I've put up a build of g4u based on latest NetBSD-current sources as g4u 2.3alpha6. There should be some updated drivers in there that may or may not help with latest hardware - I'm sure you're aware of the situation with Broadcom not handing out documentation for their hardware, so writing dr

Re: [g4u-help] Dell Precision 390 Network problem 2.3alpha5

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Scott Ainslie wrote: > Broadcom product 0x167a (Ethernet network, revision 0x02) at pci4 dev0 > function 0 not configured > > Any ideas? Easy: get documentation from Dell/Broardcom on their hardware so someone can write drivers for them. (haha :-/) I'm in the process of cutt

Re: [g4u-help] Image creation fails

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Tony Su wrote: > Image creation failed with a sector unreadable near the end. > > There may be an unknown issue with this partition because I've also > tried 2 other imaging applications which also generated errors within > only a few sectors of the end, but those application

Re: [g4u-help] New Subscriber - Is there a List Archive?

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Tony Su wrote: > Without taking time to lurk, I'd like to ask a question... > > Is there a List Archive where previous posts to this List can be searched to > see if a question I have has already been asked? Look near the information on how to subscribe to this list on the g4

Re: [g4u-help] Does not support Intel Pro/1000 PL Network Adapter

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Tony Su wrote: > Have verified this is an adapter support issue... Booting the same > machine into Windows works fine. > > Booting into g4u successfully, but cannot communicate over the network. > > Running ifconfig -a, verifies that the network adapter did not > successfully a

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