Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Damian Gerow wrote: Thus spake fbsd_user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 08:59]: : I see you both have Bladecenters. : Have you had any luck with getting FreeBSD to install on it yet. : : What is the status of your efforts. : : Been offered contract to do this for client, : but need to know if

Re: Local portaudit server.

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Robillard wrote: Hello, We use the port security/portaudit on all of our FreeBSD servers. Currently, every machine has to out on the internet to download the portaudit vulnerability database from the FreeBSD server. Since all of the machines are downloading the exact same file, we would

make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread beni . brinckman
Hi all, After doing a svsup yesterday and doing a 'make -j4 buildworld' i've (my script that is) tried to proceed with a 'make installworld'. But it failed : www# make installworld ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After doing a svsup yesterday and doing a 'make -j4 buildworld' i've (my script that is) tried to proceed with a 'make installworld'. But it failed : www# make installworld ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. *** Error code 1 Stop in

dge-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

2006-03-11 Thread Freesbie
Hi, I am using FreeBSD6.0(6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1). I just bought two dge-530T gigabyte ethernet cards and installed them in my computer. I have sk compiled into my kernel, but on boot they are not recognized. Is there any additional steps I need to take? My kernel config

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread beni . brinckman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After doing a svsup yesterday and doing a 'make -j4 buildworld' i've (my script that is) tried to proceed with a 'make installworld'. But it failed : www# make installworld ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. *** Error code 1

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:52:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [no he didn't; please use a mail client that quotes properly - it is confusing to read your emails otherwise, since Lars wrote some of the below text and not you] The error message is wrong. Actually it's correct, just a bit

Re: I have one question?

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/10/06, Marko Bukovinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where i can find a list of comands using them in FreeBSD? And second ,how to download apache server and how to configure it in Xterm?(how to open file,set it,copy files in the directory,config mysql database,and start server) all this in

Re: disklabel messup.

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/10/06, Steve P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using sysinstall's disklabel facility to poke around. I accidentally did Undo on my installed 6.0 working slice. Are you sure you actually did anything? If /etc/fstab shows them correctly still and running 'df' shows them still as they should

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread beni . brinckman
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:52:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [no he didn't; please use a mail client that quotes properly - it is confusing to read your emails otherwise, since Lars wrote some of the below text and not you] Yes he did, but i don't see the relevance of this remark to the

Re: a stupid question about sound

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/10/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I got a situation, for some reason, only root can use audio device when playing movies with mplayer on my freebsd 6.0/amd64 now, not user. But vlc is fine for both. I guess there is some audio wrapper issue but couldn't put a finger on

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:39:17AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:52:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [no he didn't; please use a mail client that quotes properly - it is confusing to read your emails otherwise, since Lars wrote some of the below text and not

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-03-11 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Roman Serbski wrote: Start over with a clean /usr/src and /usr/obj tree and read the file ``/usr/src/UPDATING'' for instructions about upgrading from source. Dear Erik and Giorgos, Thanks a lot for your assistance! I just cvsuped one hour ago, build/install kernel/world and now everything is

Re: FreeBSD cluseter ?

2006-03-11 Thread Lars Kristiansen
RJ45 skrev: Hello, I have the tastk to make a project of a server cluster for 20.000 mailboxes. In which way may I create a cluseter of imap servers using FreeBSD ? any suggestions or hints ? The is the problem of the imap mailboxes. How can I syncronize them in real time on both machines ? I

Arplookup strange messages

2006-03-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi list, today in the daily security report (periodic) of a i386 machine there is this message repeated about 30 times: +arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network The machine is the router (ipnat) and firewall (ipfilter) for a small home network. It runs postfix, sshd and nfsd.

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kris Kennaway wrote: The error message is wrong. Actually it's correct, just a bit unclear. UPDATING includes the complete procedure you should always follow when building world. It includes a 'mergemaster -p' step, precisely for the purpose of adding new users and groups when they appear.

md0: Preloaded image - system hangs on install

2006-03-11 Thread Роман Горохов
Hello, all. I trying to install 6.0 on a old box K-6/180(still ok with system requirements) and it hangs when gets to this message: md0: Preloaded image (/boot/mfsroot) xxx bytes at xx. I saw that question several times, but no answer. What should I do? Thanks in advance. Roman

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was

Re: Arplookup strange messages

2006-03-11 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi list, today in the daily security report (periodic) of a i386 machine there is this message repeated about 30 times: +arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network From rfc 3330: 0.0.0.0/8 - Addresses in this block refer to source hosts on this network.

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:28:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: The error message is wrong. Actually it's correct, just a bit unclear. UPDATING includes the complete procedure you should always follow when building world. It includes a 'mergemaster -p' step,

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erik Trulsson wrote: Is /usr/src/UPDATING synonymous to 'the correct updating procedure'? Yes, /usr/src/UPDATING does describe the correct updating procedure. If you follow that procedure you should not have any problems with missing groups. Look under COMMON ITEMS at the end of

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/11/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might have more luck if you also talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure who this is but I'll look into it. The amd64-related mailing list When something is plugged into a [USB] port and the system

Re: from Anang in Indonesia

2006-03-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/10/06, anang prihantono anang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make FreeBSD as internet gateway(router)only for dial up router and DSL line.Thaks.. It took me about 20 hours of reading the handbook and googling to set up my first FreeBSD LAN-to-DSL gateway with no prior *nix

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
Norikatsu Shigemura wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:42:36 -0500 (EST) Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been attempting to update the vcdimager port. It always fails with this message: install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/vcd-info.info /usr/local/info/dir install-info: menu

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-11 Thread Norikatsu Shigemura
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:34:53 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize, but I am a rather new user of FreeBSD. I have no idea what I am suppose to do with the information that you supplied me with. Should I copy that information below the === line and place it some where?

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 March 2006 22:57, Peter wrote: I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project:

Re: Local portaudit server.

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Robillard wrote: We use the port security/portaudit on all of our FreeBSD servers. Currently, every machine has to out on the internet to download the portaudit vulnerability database from the FreeBSD server. If your internal machines need to talk to the web, and you wish to control or

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: [ ... ] It is sometimes necessary to reboot with the new kernel to have 'make installworld' work correctly (and the recommended procedure is to reboot into single user mode *before* running 'mergemaster -p' (which in turn is to be done before

dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd' and appropriate tool

Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
Sorry, I forgpt to add this, I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? -GRant - Original Message - From: Grant

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-11 Thread Vaaf
At 14:17 07.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:36PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 22:08 04.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:45:29PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 12:05 03.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:58:37AM +0100,

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-11 06:42, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: Onto the problems... You might have more luck if you also talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure who this is but I'll look into it.

Re: strange error code 1 when compile kernel on 6.1-PRERELEASE

2006-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dikshie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got following strange error when compiled kernel: === aic7xxx/ahd (depend) @ - /usr/src/sys machine - /usr/src/sys/i386/include ( cd /usr/src/sys/modules/aic7xxx/ahd/../aicasm; make aicasm; ) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -nostdinc -I/usr/include -I.

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? If you partition the bigger disk into two fdisk partitions, one

Re: Problem running Adobe acroread7

2006-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the following error message when I try to open a file in Adobe acroread7, after which acroread quits: (acroread:7605): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-11 12:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: The error message is wrong. Actually it's correct, just a bit unclear. UPDATING includes the complete procedure you should always follow when building world. It includes a 'mergemaster -p' step, precisely

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vaaf wrote: [ ... ] So, to everyone who has tried helping me: I guess there is no solution to this? I would perform a binary reinstallation of the OS from a known-good ISO image, and retry from a clean environment. Use script or nohup to track the commands you run and their exact output if

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-11 15:30, Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, to everyone who has tried helping me: I guess there is no solution to this? FreeBSD will NOT successfully make my world no matter what I do. I've tried all the sequences. Please stop flaming me for using the wrong sequence. I've used

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Chuck, I was kinda thinkning Dump and Restore might be the way to go. I have never tried to use it to make a bootable disk though...does it do it automaticly or should I read something? (What)? Thanks again, -Grant - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: I was kinda thinkning Dump and Restore might be the way to go. I have never tried to use it to make a bootable disk though...does it do it automaticly or should I read something? (What)? See the nice FAQ entry:

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
Can you think about giving root access to one of us? I would be glad to try and diagnose your issue, 'cuz it looks like a brick wall. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/11/06, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps loaded

GNOME Gdk

2006-03-11 Thread Fabio Cecamore
Hello, the last day i've installed gnome2, it result very very slow .. gedit, to example, open after 32seconds and put that error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gedit (gedit:50388): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) or .. (gedit:23354): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed:

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: No. `UPDATING' mentions running `mergemaster -p' *AFTER* rebooting into single user mode, not *BEFORE*. Yes, sorry, I'm mixing things up. Lately I've skipped that step with no adverse side-effects, saves me one reboot :-) You'll start booting into single user mode

SV: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 126, Issue 17

2006-03-11 Thread johan bergwall
Hi all, After doing a svsup yesterday and doing a 'make -j4 buildworld' i've (my script that is) tried to proceed with a 'make installworld'. But it failed : www# make installworld ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code

Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread stan
I recycle old P2 class machines for a set of applications at work. I switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to autodetect all the correct stuff. Today, though I ran up on 2 machines that are the

Re: Epson C66 doesn't work with Epson drivers (print/pips-sc65_66s port)

2006-03-11 Thread Chris Maness
Chris Maness wrote: I originally posted this in -ports but despite some suggestions it is still a problem. Hopefully someone here may be able to shed some light? I'm (now) running *FreeBSD* postie 4.10-RELEASE *FreeBSD* 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 r...

Re: Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread Micah
stan wrote: I recycle old P2 class machines for a set of applications at work. I switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to autodetect all the correct stuff. Today, though I ran up on 2

Re: sending large amount of data securely

2006-03-11 Thread Micah
Dave wrote: Hi, Unfortunately, the box doesn't have the room on it to make the tar backup, so i'd have to tar over ssh, then untar on the other box. Is this doable? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Trouble with if_bridge and wlan nic in infrastructure mode

2006-03-11 Thread Fabian Keil
I have a problem with if_bridge if one of the members is a wlan nic in infrastructure mode. Bridges between the following device combinations work: em0 and tap0; em0 and wi0 in hostap mode; em0 and ath0 in hostap mode; rl0 and re0 (different system); Bridges between the following don't: em0

Re: Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
stan wrote: I recycle old P2 class machines for a set of applications at work. I switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to autodetect all the correct stuff. Today, though I ran up on 2

Re: Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/11/06, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recycle old P2 class machines for a set of applications at work. I switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to autodetect all the correct stuff.

Spamd keeps falling over

2006-03-11 Thread Derrick MacPherson
I have had spamd die about 3 times in the last couple days, this is what I saw in the logs this morning: Mar 11 06:00:37 mail spamd[28178]: prefork: ordered child to accept, but child reported state '1' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Spam dForkScaling.pm line 390

[SOLVED] Re: Arplookup strange messages

2006-03-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi Erik and List, yesterday my calbe modem went down for a while due to a problem on the line. This also is the reason why I couldn't connect to the machine ;-) My external interface (rl0) recieves the IP address from the cable modem via DHCP, and when the line is down the modem assigns a

Re: Spamd keeps falling over

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Derrick try asking on users@spamassassin.apache.org, theres a few other people seeing something similar wuth Perl 5.8.8 -- Martin On 3/11/06, Derrick MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had spamd die about 3 times in the last couple days, this is what I saw in the logs this morning:

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:42:49AM -0500, Peter wrote: 2. I can't use my USB ports! I get a line like this for each of my ports: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] OK, but what is the problem?

GNOME help PLEASE

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
while i'm not regular user of gnome, i have to configure it for users. the problem is how to make configuration template default for every new user. i tried to copy whole or partial user directory to other users+chown but no success. always something crashes or doesn't work. only copying

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM GCR-8525B/1.02 at ata0-slave PIO4 ad2: 190782MB Seagate ST3200826A 3.03 at ata1-master UDMA100 ad3:

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:28:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: The error message is wrong. Actually it's correct, just a bit unclear. UPDATING includes the complete procedure you should always follow when building world. It includes a 'mergemaster -p' step,

Re: make installworld fails

2006-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:04:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: Is /usr/src/UPDATING synonymous to 'the correct updating procedure'? Yes, /usr/src/UPDATING does describe the correct updating procedure. If you follow that procedure you should not have any problems with

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 11 March 2006 02:42, Peter wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My

Re: disklabel messup.

2006-03-11 Thread Steve P.
Illoai, You were right. There is nothing wrong. Part of my problem was that I had never had or seen anything on other slices. Now I have two fbsd installs, ad0s1 and ad02 and I mistook ad0s2's missing info as applying to ad0s1. What I really want to do is use ad0s1 as my production install

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:38, Peter wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM GCR-8525B/1.02 at ata0-slave PIO4 ad2: 190782MB Seagate

Re: Problem running Adobe acroread7

2006-03-11 Thread Donald T Hayford
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the following error message when I try to open a file in Adobe acroread7, after which acroread quits: (acroread:7605): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either,

mod_perl2 problems

2006-03-11 Thread Andréas Berg
Greetings, I'm trying to get mod_perl2 running on a apache20 server but when I try to load the module, apache does a segmentation fault. I'm using the latest available versions of apache20 and mod_perl2 available in ports. Has anyone else had this problem? FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

Re: Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to autodetect all the correct stuff. anyway - it's always better to create this file based on autoconfig made by -configure option. it's quite unlikely

Re: GNOME Gdk

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gedit (gedit:50388): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) or .. (gedit:23354): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate memory) df and ulimit? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd' and appropriate tool to

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry, I forgpt to add this, I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? yes - with growisofs and disklabel i actually did

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the copy then, but with success. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

2006-03-11 Thread ehrhard . herbst
Hello, may I ask you for help with the following Problem: When I try to install FreeBsd6.0, there is the following error during the boot process (because the system is not able to boot from CD, I have to boot from floppy) occurs: ahc0: probe1:ahc0:0:1:0: SCB 6: immediate reset Flags 0x620 ahc0:

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:48, Peter wrote: You can answer me tomorrow if you like but here is an update: I removed the cdrom and the problem remains. I got the usb ports to work as well by updating the bios and fiddling with some settings. It is truly a mystery why this 300 GB drive

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Joseph Vella
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:37:59PM +0900 I heard the voice of Norikatsu Shigemura, and lo! it spake thus: SEE ALSO: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93916 I got a similar error from dirmngr. It seems like the program installs its own INFO files,

gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-11 Thread Patrick Bowen
List; I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad

Re: Problems mounting msdosfs

2006-03-11 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:00: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still experiencing same problems Christer Solskogen reported two years ago on FreeBSD 5.2.1 with msdosfs mount failure upon boot making it go into single-user-mode (having to press

Re: a stupid question about sound

2006-03-11 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
the same thing happened to mpg321 too. as a regular user, I can't run mpg321, only root can run mpg321 to play mp3 files. TFC On 3/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I got a situation, for some reason, only root can

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:38, Peter wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:29:15PM -0500 I heard the voice of Gerard Seibert, and lo! it spake thus: I would have thought that the port maintainer would have foreseen this predicament and taken steps to alleviate it however. My offhand guess (based on coincidence, not any knowledge that it

RE: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

2006-03-11 Thread fbsd_user
I believe you are saying that 5.2 is currently installed on the hard drive and you want to do a fresh install from scratch of 6.0. You have to change the pc bios setup to boot from the cd drive instead of from the hard drive. The pc will then boot from the 6.0 cd and install 6.0 destroying the

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:48, Peter wrote: You can answer me tomorrow if you like but here is an update: I removed the cdrom and the problem remains. I got the usb ports to work as well by updating the bios and fiddling with some

cg 0: bad magic number [used to be Disappointed with version 6.0]

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that FreeBSD cannot read the partition table of my 300 GB Seagate Barracuda. My dos diagnostic utility works because it accesses the disk in a different way. I used the entire disk (one slice/partition) and attempted to format it.

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd'

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 20:03, Peter wrote: OK, does dmesg still give this with the cdrom removed: ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM GCR-8525B/1.02 at ata0-slave PIO4 ad2: 190782MB Seagate