Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-10 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
Another observation I have made; I am trying to install slice /dev/ ad4s3. Now if I run: ls /dev/ad4s* I'll get output for the additional lettered partitions for slices s0, s1 but not anything greater for slices s2 and s3, for instance. Could this be the reason that disklabel is throwing er

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dave Hayes wrote: Does an objective metric of stability actually exist? ( If you say "uptime" I'll take that as a "no" ;) ) If it does, I would really like to learn what that metric is. Do you know of any current low-project-bias work that has been done in this area? Thanks in advance. :) It'

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Hayes
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The assertion is often made by dragonfly project supporters that > dragonfly has "much better" stability than FreeBSD. It is not clear > by what metric this is being objectively evaluated (if at all). ... > Obviously one panic does not demonstrate wide-

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-10 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 06:31:20PM +, Christopher Rawnsley wrote: > > On 9 Mar 2008, at 19:22, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> I suppose this is the same problem I have seen in NetBSD. Basically, >> some firmware images reenable interrupts when the legacy support is >> turned off. Fix can be found

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-10 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
On 9 Mar 2008, at 19:22, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: I suppose this is the same problem I have seen in NetBSD. Basically, some firmware images reenable interrupts when the legacy support is turned off. Fix can be found in NetBSD's UHCI driver. That would wouldn't happen to be related to another

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-10 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
On 10 Mar 2008, at 03:46, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: Last time I tried, it seemed that I managed to smash the partition table when I manually issued the fdisk command. I don't remember if I specified the correct device, but I doubt our fdisk knows about EFI partitions. I'm hoping that it wo

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitri Nikulin wrote: > > > Hi Kris, > > > > Do you think you'd have a chance to load up Windows Server on the same > > machine and compare its MySQL and PostgreSQL to modern Linux, FreeBSD > > and Solaris? > > > > I d

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dmitri Nikulin wrote: Hi Kris, Do you think you'd have a chance to load up Windows Server on the same machine and compare its MySQL and PostgreSQL to modern Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris? I dont think there's much chance of that, sorry. I dont have access to a copy, the test machines are remot

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dmitri Nikulin wrote: Hi Kris, Do you think you'd have a chance to load up Windows Server on the same machine and compare its MySQL and PostgreSQL to modern Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris? I dont think there's much chance of that, sorry. I dont have access to a copy, the test machines are remot

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Hacker wrote: > > > Kris, > > > > w/r the http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html page > > > > The link to the MySQL config: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/%7Ekris/scaling/my.cnf > > > > ...gives me

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-10 Thread Bill Hacker
Christopher Rawnsley wrote: On 9 Mar 2008, at 21:10, Bill Hacker wrote: I would actually recommend an external HDD on FW-800 or USB2. I don't have one of those handy at the moment so I think I'll keep on trying without for the moment. Apple marches to the beat of a whole different orchestra