Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-26 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Glenn Dawson wrote:
 At 10:48 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote:
 
 Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
  Yes.  MS-Windows doesn't have anything Unix doesn't in this regard.  I
  take it you're not familiar with the DOS/Windows 'del' command...

 Hehe, this is a good analog I didn't think of. :)

  If he's worried about accidentally deleting files, he should use KDE
  or Gnome.  They both have a trash can/wastebasket/recycle bin.

 Now I just have X Window in my machine. Not as good-looking as Gnome
 desktop.
 Can I install gnome without using ports? I want to install everything
 manually.
 
 
 Are you a glutton for punishment?
 
 You can install it manually, I did it once...never again.
 
 Seriously though, there are so many dependencies that it takes forever
 to get everything set up manually.  With ports you just do a make
 install clean and come back in a few hours (or days depending on how
 fast your machine is)

Yes, indeed.  I've never tried it myself, but the fact that it's been
dropped from Slackware Linux for exactly this reason would seem to
suggest that this is *not* an exercise for the faint hearted.

Ross


 -Glenn
 
 
 thanks,

 Regards,
 Xu Qiang
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Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-25 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Glenn Dawson wrote:
 At 07:51 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote:
 
 I am just wondering the only shortcoming of Unix clone, such as
 FreeBSD, in contrast to M$ Windows, is the lack of a cyclin bin, from
 which you can restore anything you have mis-deleted before.

 Or, am I mis-informed on this issue?

Yes.  MS-Windows doesn't have anything Unix doesn't in this regard.  I
take it you're not familiar with the DOS/Windows 'del' command...

 If you're really worried about accidently deleting files, just make rm
 an alias to 'rm -i' or 'rm -I'

If he's worried about accidentally deleting files, he should use KDE or
Gnome.  They both have a trash can/wastebasket/recycle bin.

Ross


 -Glenn
 
 
 Regards,
 Xu Qiang


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Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-07-24 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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PK wrote:
  --- On Sun 07/24, Robert Slade  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
 From: Robert Slade [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:41:16 +
 Subject: Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ?
 
 On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 13:30, PK wrote:
 hi
 
 howto allow kde export from freeBSD 5.4 ?
 
 I mean to load KDE, for example with X-Win32
 
 http://www.xwin32.com/en/products/
 
 on the windows machine ?
 
 kind regards
 piotr
 
 You are probably better off with VNC. Freebsd has a VNC Server in the
 ports and there are several free vnc clients for windows.
 
 Rob
 
 yes, I know VNC 
 
 but VNC create all the time a new KDE session and I'd like to export already 
 running KDE session.
 

I personally only use VNC to connect to MS-windows computers, and it
simply exports the physical screen, which seems to be what you're after.
 I also use Cygwin's X server on my Windows machines but that's only
suitable for either starting a new login session via XDM or running
single applications through SSH's X11 forwarding, neither of which
appears to be what you want.

The problem is that you appear to want to attach an X client (an
application, in this case KDE) to multiple X servers and X isn't really
set up for that.  VNC, which has it's client/server relationship the
other way around, should be able to provide what you want more easily.

HTH,
Ross

BTW, your mail was horribly mangled.  I suggest you fix that if you want
more replies.

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Re: join my freebsd box to windows domain?

2005-07-22 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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perikillo wrote:
Hi all.
   I want to run freebsd 5.4 and join this machine to my windows
 2k3 domain, i just want to browse with my freebsd machine the others
 windows clients and windows clients browse my box, i just want to be
 another machine on the domain, they are running Windows XP and others
 2k.
 
  This is my first time i am going to try this, i want to know if
 is posible and wich software i need or where i can find some
 information about, i search with google, but all the examples talk
 about making freebsd domain member or PDC, is the only way...?

If you want other machines on the network to be able to browse this
machine, then domain member is probably what you want.  It's all in the
Samba HOWTO at
http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/domain-member.html#domain-member-server.

  Them if is posible, i will need samba software? Any information
 or link are welcome.
 
 NOTE: i want to setup this machine and be my backup server on my
 Redmond domain, this is way im investigate about this, i think that if
 i want to make one Unix system to be my backup system for window
 domain system i need to be another client on that domain, im right or
 wrong???

I'm afraid Samba can only act as a BDC to a _Samba_ PDC, so it looks
like you're out of luck here. This is also in the Samba HOWTO:
http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/samba-bdc.html#id2549809

Ross

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Re: First post

2005-07-22 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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RW wrote:
 On Friday 22 July 2005 18:22, Halldór Rúnar Hafliðason wrote:
 
 I'm curious, why do you want to have so many operating systems on it,
 could as well just go with vmware if you are testing out some operationg
 systems.
 
 
 VMWare costs $189

QEmu, OTOH, is free.

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-21 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 Ross Kendall Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 
Garance A Drosihn wrote:

At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:


... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
at the start of the drive.  Setting up the partition with sysinstall
is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to
diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration?


I doubt you can on FreeBSD.  The problem is that the OS would have
to mount both / and /boot before it could do anything, and FreeBSD
doesn't do that.  It assumes the partition that you are loading
from is '/', and uses that to find (for instance) /etc/fstab so
it can find out what the other partitions are.

I would have though that putting '/sbin/mount /boot' at the start of the
/etc/rc would sort that out.  Surely the contents of /lib, /bin and
/sbin are enough to get you that far?
 
 
 The kernel has to be loaded *first*.

Yes, by the bootloader, which _can_ read /boot :-)

I think I misunderstood Garance's post.  I took it to mean that given /,
the kernel has no way to find /boot, which seems untrue to me.
Re-reading it, I think he meant that given /boot (which the kernel
assumes is /) it has no way to find the correct /.

Bear in mind that my experience is with Linux, where the location of /
is given on the kernel's command line (or hardcoded into the kernel) and
thus need not be the same partition that holds the kernel.  My
understanding (now) is that FreeBSD assumes that the partition the
kernel was loaded from is /.

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
 Being pragmatic, the problems you are facing are because you have such a
 tiny disk in an ancient PC.  This puts you in a very small minority of
 FreeBSD users.

True.

 A separate /boot is new to 5.X and I doubt it was done
 to help you out of this situation.   Developer effort is limited and
 since FreeBSD has never used a separate /boot, it's unlikely to get
 anyone's attention to do it that way unless there is a very good reason,
 and tiny disks are unlikely to be it.

I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a
BSD virgin.  As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS
bugs/quirks?  There's no shortage of those.  Of course, an open source
BIOS would be a better solution to that particular problem.

Also, please don't misinterpret my cry for help as a demand for a new
feature; I may be new to FreeBSD but I'm reasonably seasoned in the ways
of the free software world.

 The oldest PC I have that runs FreeBSD (also a Pentium) has a 4 and an
 8Gb disk, and no problem booting off the ends of either.  It's who knows
 how old, and even charities don't want it because they can't think of
 anything useful that anyone could do with it, even if it was the bees
 knees when I got it.

Pffft.  I've got a 486 with a 1/4GB hard disk around here _somewhere_.

 Depending on where you are located, you might be able to find something
 very cheap (but still better than yours) in classifieds, computer fairs,
 2nd hand shops or the local tip.

This particular machine was actually intercepted before it reached the
dump.  Still, it's powerful enough to make a decent home router.

 
 Best,
 
 --Alex
 

Thanks to all for your input, but I've actually managed to solve the
problem in a different way.  Turns out the BIOS was disabling LBA
because the logical cylinder count was 1024, so mucking about with the
geometry fixed it.  Still, I'll keep these comments in mind if I ever
decide to install FreeBSD on the aforementioned 486 ;-)

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Glenn Dawson wrote:
 At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
 
  Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea
  of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a
  separate partition.
  
 Not sure about that...I always figured it was to keep / from getting too
 cluttered.

I think this is what I must have been thinking of:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN507
Kind of Linux/x86 specific, and not really what I said.  Oh well.

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
 Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
 
 I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a
 BSD virgin.  As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS
 bugs/quirks?  There's no shortage of those.
 
 Well, until someone proves otherwise, I don't believe in them anymore. 
 I believe they *used* to exist, but that comments about cannot boot
 past cyl 1024 only exist in documentation because this *used* to be
 true and no-one really knows whether it can safely be deleted, so it's
 left in.  Sure, if you get an old enough PC it could still be true, but
 as you've proved (congrats, by the way, enjoy FreeBSD) the oldest PC you
 considered it worth installing FreeBSD on did not have this problem.

The situation certainly has improved.  _New_ machines generally work
perfectly.  On the other hand, I have a Celeron machine from 1998 here
that hangs at bootup if the BIOS spots a 32GB drive.  Still quite old,
I know, but I view getting the most out of old hardware as one of the
advantages of free OSes.  I don't see the BIOS problem ever fully going
away until the BIOS is as replaceable as the OS.  Still, it shouldn't be
the job of the OS to fix that.

 Your 486 might have this trouble, then then it would probably have
 trouble addressing a disk that big at all.  (Btw, there are minimum
 memory requirements for 5.X, 32Mb?, if you ever do decide to try FreeBSD
 on that 486).

It just happens that this 486 has exactly 32MB of RAM, so ;-)

 The oldest PC I have that runs FreeBSD (also a Pentium) has a 4 and an
 8Gb disk, and no problem booting off the ends of either.   


 Pffft.  I've got a 486 with a 1/4GB hard disk around here _somewhere_.
  

 I didn't mean that as a pissing contest :-)  I just meant that there
 must be bucketloads of PCs out there similar to yours, unused, unwanted
 and unloved, that could do what you thought yours couldn't.

I know what you mean.  People will quite happily throw away stuff just
because they got something better.  I don't because I enjoy making good
stuff out of would-be junk :-)

 I've never used it myself, but NetBSD gets mentioned as a suitable OS
 for a router.  I stick with FreeBSD just for compatibility across all my
 machines, but if you're interested in trying stuff out you might want to
 see what it offers.
 
 --Alex
 

Trying stuff out is what I'm here for.  I'd noticed I'd started talking
about Linux like it was the only OS in the universe, so I thought I'd
broaden my mind a little.

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Bob Johnson wrote:
 
 On a 1 GB drive you aren't going to have room to do much learning no matter 
 how little you waste in /.  Maybe I should just ship you a bigger hard drive. 
  
 I'm pretty sure I have a 3 or 6 GB drive around that I have no use for.  Are 
 you willing to pay shipping?  
 

That's a generous offer, but since I've fixed the immediate problem, and
I'm only playing for now, it probably isn't worth the effort.  In any
event, it now looks like a couple of fair sized drives are going to
become available here soon anyway.

Ross
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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
 At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
 

 ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
 at the start of the drive.  Setting up the partition with sysinstall
 is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to
 diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration?
 
 
 I doubt you can on FreeBSD.  The problem is that the OS would have
 to mount both / and /boot before it could do anything, and FreeBSD
 doesn't do that.  It assumes the partition that you are loading
 from is '/', and uses that to find (for instance) /etc/fstab so
 it can find out what the other partitions are.

I would have though that putting '/sbin/mount /boot' at the start of the
/etc/rc would sort that out.  Surely the contents of /lib, /bin and
/sbin are enough to get you that far?

 I know that linux supports this, as well as some other clever
 trickery with partitions at system-startup, but FreeBSD doesn't.

I must admit, I'm not sure what trickery you're talking about here,
unless you're referring to initrd, which _is_ a horrible hack IMHO.

Ross


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/boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out
on an old Pentium machine.  However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to
read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB
partition at the start of the drive.  Setting up the partition with
sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how
to diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration?

I don't particularly want to go for the standard 'small / partition and
separate partitions for /usr, /var, /home...' since I only have a 1GB
drive to play with and judging the partition sizes down the nearest KB
would be... tricky.  I have performed this procedure before (many, many
times) on Linux using both LILO and GRUB, but I can't seem to get my
head around the FreeBSD bootloader.

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
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Luke Dean wrote:
 
 On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
 
 I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out
 on an old Pentium machine.  However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to
 read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB
 partition at the start of the drive.  Setting up the partition with
 sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how
 to diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration?
 
 All I would expect you have to do is use FDISK to make two partitions,
 remembering to mark the first one as bootable.  Then use disklabel to
 create your slices.  Make a /boot slice on the first partition, then
 make a / slice and a swap slice on the second partition.
 That should be all that's required for what you're trying to do.
 A little over a year ago, I had to split up a drive to solve the same
 problem you're having, but I went the small / route instead, so you
 might be running into a problem I didn't have.
 
 Luke Dean
 

I created the partitions easily enough when installing the system.  I
created a single slice and, inside that, partition d as my small /boot
partition and partition a as the root.

The problem I'm having is trying to actually boot the system.  On boot,
the output (after the BIOS) looks like this:

error 1 lba 1190783
No /boot/loader

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot: short delay...
No /kernel

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:

The 'error 1' is presumably due to my dodgy BIOS, and 'No /boot/loader'
happens because it's looking on the wrong place for the stage 3 loader.
 Undaunted, I type 'ad(0,d)/loader' to load the stage 3 loader.  The
loader appears to load properly, apart from the fact that is displays
the message can't load 'kernel.  At this point, I type 'boot
kernel/kernel', which successfully loads the kernel and produces a
momentary 'twirling baton'.  The keyboard then resets and the system hangs.

Attempt 2: Change all occurrences of /boot/ in all text files in the
/boot directory to /.  Then, at the stage 3 loader prompt, type 'include
/loader.rc' instead of 'boot /kernel/kernel'.  Again, the kernel appears
to be loaded successfully, and I get the standard boot menu with the
ASCII beastie.  However, the boot hangs as before, with a keyboard reset.

Attempt 3: Try to load the kernel directly from stage 2 by typing
'ad(0.d)/kernel/kernel'.  Fails with a register dump and the message
'BTX halted'.

It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel
both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a.  I'd love to be
proved wrong :-)

I'm using 5.4-RELEASE.

Ross

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Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe

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On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote:


At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:

It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel
both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a.  I'd love to be
proved wrong :-)


I think this is exactly the case.

According to the boot(8) man page, you can create a /boot.config that will 
allow you to customize things.  The only catch being that /boot.config has to 
be on the a partition of the slice you are booting from.  Normally the a 
partition would be / and also contain /boot.




Yes, /boot.config does look like a bit of a showstopper :-(
I take it there's no way to get the bootloader to look elsewhere for that?

/ defaults to being 256MB.  If you're trying to conserve space, it might be 
easier to run through an install and see how big / really needs to be and 
then do a second install and customize the size of / so that it only has the 
space it really needs.  (On one of my 5.4 systems / requires about 53MB)


You may have problems later on if you make the size of / too small.

-Glenn



That's what I'm going for now.  100MB in / and the rest of the disk 
given to /usr and swap.  Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea of 
keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a 
separate partition.


Ross


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