Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of.. ..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money? Apparently the US government has worked with the hardware manufactures to perform this feat. What's next? Probably not being able to listen to music that I'm not certified as owning. Or being able to rip a DVD I purchased. ..of not being in control of my computer. The two straws that broke my Wincamel's back were SP2 killing my machine (which I eventually solved with a BIOS update), and then (less seriously) not being able to set the theme of the task bar to the Win 2000 theme. Now I'm going to run GNOME and FVWM2, which I will be in full control of my desktop. No weird crap anymore. ..of skills becoming outdated. I was a master of the Commodore. I was a master of AmigaDOS. I was a master of MS-DOS. I was a master of Win95. I was a master of Windows NT4. Then a funny thing happened, I realized if I spent the time to learn UNIX, I could run it for the rest of life, without having to learn a new OS every time Microsoft needed to keep their stock price up. ..of GUI's. What a marvelous thing to be able to shell in to my own computer, from anywhere in the world, from many kind of computers - and check my mail, read newsgroups, write programs, etc. ..of having to enter serial numbers for tons of software I legitimately purchased. The worst is having to type in Microsoft's 44-digit activation codes anytime I want to change my HD, say from RAID 0 to RAID 1. Normally this involves a call to India. ..of purchasing software. Why drive to CompUSA and purchase WordPerfect, when I go to my ports directory and install OpenOffice? Actually I've done both, and going to the directory was a lot cheaper. Why buy MS-SQL or Sybase when I can get Interbase, MySQL, or PostreSQL for free? ..of stupid software. Firefox is so much better than IE, it's hard to where to begin. Throw in the Adblock extension, and it's the perfect tabbed browsing experience. IE is a nightmare of fear and chaos, Hey someone sent me a cool JPEG to view, OH ITS A VIRUS! ..of Linux distributions with fatal flaws. I went on a giant search to pick the perfect Linux distro, and I ended up selecting FreeBSD. Every single distro had some aspect I didn't like. ..of proprietary formats. All the emails I lost over the years that were in some kind of Outlook format that at the time I was either too lazy or too ignorant, to make a back up of. ..of malware. UNIX has been secure since it supported multiple users, which was a very long time ago. Windows has never been, and likely will never be, secure. I bought my brother a Mac, he sometimes calls to see if he needs to be concerned about the latest virus making the rounds. No., I tell him. My point is, the knowledge you gain about UNIX is your's forever. The freedom is forever. The control is forever. If want to be a sysadmin, you don't have to be master of everything. You just need to be on the path - and you are. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)
Just saw this.. There is a new kid on the block called. Serenity Virtual Station, very similar to VMWare, but they have just released a version specifically for FreeBSD.. This is beta software, (not free), and although If they supporr FreeBSD, then I will support them. I tried to purchase their stuff for $50, but Iam waiting for a confirmation email. Tonigh I gad 11 beers while tryint to get VMWare to work on FreeBSD. ANother option is highly welcomed. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)
Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171871667 Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Those are the same errors I am getting! It's somewhat of a relief to see other people getting the same error, at least now we know it isn't me doing something silly. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare 2 works on FreeBSD 4.10-Stable (except for NIC)
I have everything working except for the networking (which is proving to be very difficult). I followed Phusion's guide for VMWare 2 and FreeBSD 4.10 located here: http://www.packetwatch.net/documents/guides/freebsd/vmware2.php Previously I had tried 4.10, but I think at that time I was erroneously entering vmnet1 in to the NIC config, instead of /dev/vmnet1. I was also getting ATA errors on that particular machine's 200GB drives, which is prolly a completely different problem. My Win 2000 Pro virtual machine can ping itself, but not the host machine, or any of my other LAN machines. Christian emailed me some instructions that differ from Phusion's regarding the configuration of the /usr/local/etc/vmware/config file. Christian has these 2 lines while Phusion does not (and I tried it both ways): vmnet1.Bridged = YES vmnet1.BridgedInterface = x10 Phusion does mention the x10 in his instructions for the /etc/rc.firewall. My IP setting are: Linksys Router: 192.168.0.1 FreeBSD 4.10-Stable PC Static IP: 192.168.0.24 DNS Server: 167.206.1.103 Gateway:192.168.0.1 SubnetMask: 255.255.255.0 VMWare /usr/local/etc/vmware/config: vmnet1.HostOnlyAddress = 192.168.0.10 vmnet1.HostOnlyNetMask = 255.255.255.0 (also from Christian's doc) vmnet1.Bridged = YES vmnet1.BridgedInterface = x10 Win2000 Pro Virtual PC Static IP: 192.168.0.11 Gateway: 192.168.0.10 SubnetMask: 255.255.255.0 I made the changes to my kernel, /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.firewall, and /etc/fstab that Phusion indicated. Any ideas why my Virtual Machine cannot ping either the HostOnly IP or the FreeBSD's machine normal IP? It also cannot ping my Linksys router, or any of my other machines. Inside the VM I have the NIC defined as Custom and /dev/vmnet1. The HostOnly and Bridged options did not work, as they seemed to be leaving off the /dev/ in front of vmnet0 and vmnet1 (as I did too!). Aside from no networking, Win 2000 Pro seems to be running pretty well inside VMWare 2.0. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare 2 works on FreeBSD 4.10-Stable (SOLVED!)
I have mostly everything working now: special thanks to George Hartzell, Christian Hiris, Phusion, and Orlando Bassotto. I will write up my experience after I digest it a little more. A few of the gotchas were that I originally did not install bridging when I installed vmware, and when I did, I was binding it to the wrong NIC (I was binding it to Christian's NIC, lol). For some reason I *had* to select Custom as the VM's ethernet type, and use the value of /dev/vmnet1 when I did. Bridged and HostOnly did not work. Also the VM's gateway setting had to be that of my Linksys router, and not the Host IP of my FreeBSD machine. I ended up running VMWare 2.0 on FreeBSD 4.10-Stable. I will make another attempt at VMWare 3.2 and also using FBSD 5.x when I have more time (in about 2 months). I am ecstatic, I get to run FreeBSD now! Woo Hoo!! thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?
I'm going to try to install vmware2 instead of vmware3. I put a call in to VMWare to get a 2.0 license. I tried everything, I think. I'm new to FreeBSD, so that is kind of working against me. I will now try to dig up how to install vmware2 (I assume I don't have to make quite some many changes). vmware3 kept causing the DMA Read/Write errors when I turned on the vm machine. thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?
bsdfsse wrote: I'm going to try to install vmware2 instead of vmware3. I put a call in to VMWare to get a 2.0 license. I tried everything, I think. I'm new to FreeBSD, so that is kind of working against me. I will now try to dig up how to install vmware2 (I assume I don't have to make quite some many changes). vmware3 kept causing the DMA Read/Write errors when I turned on the vm machine. thx I didn't get very far with vmware2: cpq24# cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2 cpq24# make install === Building for vmware2-2.0.4.1142 === vmmon-only make -f Makefile.FreeBSD SMP=YES clean make -f Makefile.FreeBSD SMP=YES rm -f /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/export_syms vmmon_smp.ko vmmon_smp.kld memtrack.o phystrack.o task.o vmx86.o driver.o hostif.o linux_emu.o vmnet_linux.o @ machine symb.tmp tmp.o Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only @ - /usr/src/sys machine - /usr/src/sys/i386/include cc -O -pipe -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/include -I/usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/common - SNIP - /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:489: warning: 'FreeBSD_Driver_Poll' defined but not used /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:572: warning: 'FreeBSD_Driver_Ioctl' defined but not used *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2. cpq24# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pls give me more info about..
Pls give me more link for free dowload freebsd 5.2.1. http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=15 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)
I give up on trying to get VMWare 3.2 to work on either FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me. After 5 full days of trial and error on 3 machines, I think I can say it needs to be looked at by a non-newby. The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release installation with networking disabled (following Christian's docs). Every other configuration resulted in losing access to the hard-drive as soon as I hit the VM's Power On button. I might try again if there is a known working solution, but for now I have to do a 6-week project on native Winblows. I learned a ton, and wouldn't use any other OS on a server. I hope to run it on my desktop soon. thx. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you know how to install ports? (like vmware3)
For example, I have been trying to install the vmware3 port - and I find all kinds of tidbits all over the web about little things that need to be done to get it to work. The information sometimes covers version 2.0, sometimes 3.2, and sometimes 4.5. If someone just goes in to /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 and does a make install, how would they know what else to do? I'm new to FreeBSD, maybe I am missing something obvious? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you know how to install ports? (like vmware3)
I'm new to FreeBSD, maybe I am missing something obvious? You probably missed the pkg-message display. In your terminal session, simply scroll back a view lines after the install target has been completed or type 'cat /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message' to view it again. Indeed, I was missing those messages, and was able to incorporate that information once I was aware of it. If you're not running X, is there a way to get the screen to scroll upwards? When I was running XFCE4, the terminal also did not have scroll bars. I will be doing a fresh install after I get something to eat. I will start over from scratch. Currently I have a lot more info, but now my FBSD machine simply reboots when I run VMWARE. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions?
I am beginning to try and run the vmware3 port on FreeBSD-5.3beta6. First I upgraded the machine to 5.3-Stable by putting RELENG_5 in my stable-supfile. Next I went in to /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 and ran: make make install I rebooted and ran vmware in a command window, and then entered my Linux licsense serial number. One of the first things it asked me, was what network device to bind to vmmonet (I think), so I entered fxp0 - which now I wonder if it should have been /dev/fxp0. After completing the install, I rebooted so it would run its start script. Next I used the wizard to make Win2000 Professional system, and copied the Win2000 Pro ISO over to this machine. I configured the vm's cdrom to be the Win2000 ISO file, so I could install it. When the VM machine boot, it couldn't find the mouse, so I selected (I think) /dev/mouse and that error went away. Them it would not go past this error: Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I looked up on Google and found this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2004-August/000526.html ake sure that you have sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed set to 1 So I made the change he suggested, rebooted, and it did get past that error. When it came up, it complained about not being able to bind vmnet, then the machine locked up solid. Now I made a new virtual machine, and tried to install without networking inside the vm, and it the machine 99% locked (the mouse sometimes moves). I can't shell in using putty.exe either. It would really be nice if there was some step-by-step instructions, it would make it easier for people to switch to FreeBSD (like I'm doing). I am trying to document things as I go along, so if such doucments do not exist, mine can be used by the next guy. The above link I found is an example of the knowledge being spread around, maybe we can collect it in to one spot? I can post more detailed errors if this document does not exist, I thought I would ask first in case it did. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok,status
I solved these DMA problems on my server by replacing my ASUS motherboard's IDE controller with an Adaptec 1200A RAID controller (simply used as a different ATA controller). Now my workstation is getting a similar error. The machine is a 2 year-old Compaq Presario 6024. What's up with 5.3-Beta6? Does it not work with regular Maxtor drives? I've been converting all my machines to FreeBSD, but I keep running in to these showstoppers. Any suggestions? thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ok, this is bad
My computers are trully going haywire. The subject of this thread was supposed to be: Ok, this is bad. WRITE_DMA retrying...WRITE_DMA no interrupt but good status Thunderbird also deletes messages after I read them, to where I do not know. All I know is, I get to read them once. :-( bsdfsse wrote: I solved these DMA problems on my server by replacing my ASUS motherboard's IDE controller with an Adaptec 1200A RAID controller (simply used as a different ATA controller). Now my workstation is getting a similar error. The machine is a 2 year-old Compaq Presario 6024. What's up with 5.3-Beta6? Does it not work with regular Maxtor drives? I've been converting all my machines to FreeBSD, but I keep running in to these showstoppers. Any suggestions? thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I turn off preemption (getting TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA)
I am getting TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA messages on my ad2 and ad3 hard-drives. I never get them on ad0 or the CD drive. I did some searching, and it sounds like I need to turn of preemption in the kernel. I'm running 5.3-BETA4 on the computer. I am going to guess this is turned on for the beta-testing. Any ideas? I just started running 5.x last night. %-) thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5855
Well, I think I found the problem. FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x do not like my new Asus P4SP-MX (Celeron) motherboard's IDE controller. I fixed this by using a leftover Adaptec 1200A Raid controller as an alternate IDE controller. I plugged the 3 HD's in to the 1200A, and I no longer get the DMA errors. I havent' tried the DVD drive, but I expect I will get the DMA errors, since it is still connected to the mobo. I installed via FTP, so I didn't use the CD's. There was another problem with using some Compaq RAM chips on the Celeron, doing so generates Signal 11's in addition to the DMA errors. I guess I will buy some new RAM for the machine, if the functioning 128MB isn't enough for it. I have another machine, a Compaq Presario 6024 (P4 1.8Ghz). It has 3 big (Western Digital) drives, and is also running FBSD 5.3-Beta6 - and it does *not* get the DMA errors. My laptop (Toshiba 2805-S301) also runs Beta6 fine. Only my Asus P4SP-MX mobo has the DMA errors. thx! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
