On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 13:53:22 -0700 Jonathan Engwall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 12:00 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Send Users mailing list submissions to > > [email protected] > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > [email protected] > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > [email protected] > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Users digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: can I use the display native resolution on vty0 as on any > > other vty's using KMS ? (nacho Lariguet) > > 2. how do I label (meaning adding a reminder caption) to any > > given BSD slice ? (nacho Lariguet) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 18:06:14 -0300 > > From: nacho Lariguet <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: can I use the display native resolution on vty0 as on any > > other vty's using KMS ? > > Message-ID: <20200808180614.66f67761@leonov> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:26:35 -0700 > > Jonathan Engwall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Your picture looks to me like the standard "UNIX multi-user mode" perhaps > > > you should select a graphical target somehow. Are making a multi-head > > boot, > > > or bringing up each tty simultaneously? > > > Jonathan Engwall > > > > ... standard "UNIX multi-user mode" ... sure: do I did try/ask for > > anything else ? > > > > I'm afraid I'm not following > > > > Your photo shows the BSD/UNIX default to boot to a root system > administrator account. To change this you will need to boot to a graphical > target, or launch a multi head, or something relevant to what you are doing. > I don't know what you are doing. Maybe puppet would work for you? > Jonathan Engwall OK. Let me be more clear. I want to start using dragonFly ... daily. So the first step is to install it on the hardware that for whatever reasons I currently have, get it running without major issues, and last but not least, set a working environment that suits my needs, which ends in the following fact: What I want is dragonFly running ... WITHOUT X11 ! I just want to develop and work with/on the system console, which in our case, happens to be syscons since we still don't have vt/wcons/whatever which means no native UTF-8 console for the time being. I feel comfortable working/developing without a major stack like X because: - I'm learning BSD and the best way to learn something like this is bottom to top not the other way around. This is exactly what I've done with arch-linux some years ago, I just installed a barebones system and from then on I kept learning and needless to say I learned a lot of thinks of linux inner workings which I doubt I could have learned with the zillion packages required by X and any given desktop environment with all their complexity and all the duplicacte functionality. Prior to start using linux I developed for many many years on, yes, Microsoft products and whatnot. Eventually moving to linux was so alien that I wanted to start, I say it again: bottom to top, not the other way around. - That said, I eventually want to move my primary workstation to dragonFly and a couple of servers, and I decided, wisely or not, that I want to move one server first because the server won't need X etc etc and albeit being a file/web server to begin with, it will give me a working environment so I can start coding in BSD, meaning primarily C. - Everything I need to code do not requires X at all: just a working system console. I learned to use VIM in the past few years and feels quite comfortably with it meaning I totally customized it (even I coded many syntax files from scratch), and in my arch linux console environment I have everything I want to. That will give you a detailed overview of what I am after with dragonFly. I need a couple of things: - digital video at max resolution: 1920x1200 in my case ... got it on my test-bed desktop and will attempt to get it running on my PowerEdge servers in a couple of days I guess. - a working US international keyboard layout (us-acentos) ... still not working - a UTF-8 native console ... I know I should give up on this if I want to use this OS - a custom script in CSH to execute after booting a liveCD that formats/installs/ configures everything as needed ... almost done, testing it right now. From there on I'm planing to use what for whatever reasons I am currently using in arch: - BIND - nginx - postgreSQL Nothing special, all are in dPorts and I can customize and recompile them as needed. WHEN I get this server working I will start fiddling with X11 on my future BSD workstation. Sorry if this answer was a bit long but I hope you'll understand where I am standing right now. > I don't know what you are doing. Maybe puppet would work for you? I'll eventually get it running with/without your support. Thanks for your advice, and I mean it. PS: You will note that I am asking a lot of questions on the mailing list, I read the man pages, always, that won't mean that some thing can goes unnoticed to me at any given time or that simply I just forgot about some x detail I read before, there's a LOT to learn and the fact that I am asking is because I am a NEWBIE to BSD in general and I want to learn, nothing out of the ordinary I guess. If that irritates you just ignore me. I will be fine. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 15:04:42 -0300 > > From: nacho Lariguet <[email protected]> > > To: dragonFlyBSD user list <[email protected]> > > Subject: how do I label (meaning adding a reminder caption) to any > > given BSD slice ? > > Message-ID: <20200809150442.7f5bc89d@leonov> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > > ie: the "label:" field shown under the "diskid:" one with disklabel64 > > > > It seems there is no switch (maybe -l) on disklabel64 (when using -w) to > > label a slice. > > > > eg: > > > > # /dev/da0s1: > > # > > # Calculated informational fields for the slice: > > # > > # boot space: 1044480 bytes > > # data space: 175691776 blocks # 171574.00 MB (179908378624 bytes) > > # > > # NOTE: The partition data base and stop are physically > > # aligned instead of slice-relative aligned. > > # > > # All byte equivalent offsets must be aligned. > > # > > diskid: af1b4686-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4 > > label: ... HOW TO SET THIS ONE ? > > boot2 data base: 0x000000001000 > > partitions data base: 0x000000100000 > > partitions data stop: 0x0029e3700000 > > backup label: 0x0029e37ff000 > > total size: 0x0029e3800000 # 171576.00 MB > > alignment: 4096 > > display block size: 1024 # for partition display and edit only > > > > 16 partitions: > > # size offset fstype fsuuid > > a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD # 1024.000MB > > d: 33554432 1048576 HAMMER2 # 32768.000MB > > e: 134217728 34603008 HAMMER2 # 131072.000MB > > f: 6871040 168820736 HAMMER2 # 6710.000MB > > a-stor_uuid: eb61372a-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4 > > d-stor_uuid: eb613733-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4 > > e-stor_uuid: eb613739-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4 > > f-stor_uuid: eb61373e-d85d-11ea-9373-012324e2aca4 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of Users Digest, Vol 96, Issue 10 > > ************************************* > >
