Installations
Good morning I'm difucudade to install the graphics and installation of the Oracle database and 11XE Caché database in FreeBSD 9. Could someone help me? I need to make these facilities for my CBT. Thank you for your attention ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Manual Installations on Flash Media
On 8/3/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote: I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. 1. Would a device alphabetical order (as used by bsdlabel) work? I think it's no problem. My /etc/fstab looks that way: /dev/ad0s1b none swapsw0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw2 2 Knowing that will make things easier when editing the disklabel and adding corresponding entries in fstab. 2. I don't expect the system to swap, so can I dispense with a swap entry and have everything function normally (no error messages, etc.)? I don't know how to expect swapping. As far as I understood, the system decides by itself if to write data to / read data from the swap file. Something got lost in the translation. I don't expect is an idiomatic form of I estimate a low probability of swapping. I'm not sure if you can omit it. Haven't done an actual NanoBSD installation on flash, but my reading of the setup is that there is no swap partition whatsoever. Guess I'll have to experiment to find out for myself. 3. Will adding `noatime' to / or any other filesystem have any consequences? Yes. The access time for files won't be recorded. Using the noatime option is often advised for the use with SSD media, so is ANY advice that helps to minimize read / write cycles in order to increase the life time of the media. Just wanted to be sure. I'm still open to using md devices for /var and /tmp (with a cron-ed sync to disk) possibly in conjunction with remote logging, but one of the reasons I opted for SSD over regular flash is to avoid that extra layer of complexity. Thanks for the reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Manual Installations on Flash Media
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote: I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. 1. Would a device alphabetical order (as used by bsdlabel) work? I think it's no problem. My /etc/fstab looks that way: /dev/ad0s1b none swapsw0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw2 2 2. I don't expect the system to swap, so can I dispense with a swap entry and have everything function normally (no error messages, etc.)? I don't know how to expect swapping. As far as I understood, the system decides by itself if to write data to / read data from the swap file. I'm not sure if you can omit it. 3. Will adding `noatime' to / or any other filesystem have any consequences? Yes. The access time for files won't be recorded. Using the noatime option is often advised for the use with SSD media, so is ANY advice that helps to minimize read / write cycles in order to increase the life time of the media. You may want to look at the link below. It describes how to install freebsd on an USB-pendrive. http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 It notes that /var/log /var/run and /tmp should not be written to flash memory. You can use memory devices for these directories to minimize disk writes. If you want, you can backup/and repopulate these directories on shutdown/startup. Hope it helps! Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Manual Installations on Flash Media
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote: I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. 1.Would a device alphabetical order (as used by bsdlabel) work? I think it's no problem. My /etc/fstab looks that way: /dev/ad0s1b none swapsw0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw2 2 2.I don't expect the system to swap, so can I dispense with a swap entry and have everything function normally (no error messages, etc.)? I don't know how to expect swapping. As far as I understood, the system decides by itself if to write data to / read data from the swap file. I'm not sure if you can omit it. 3.Will adding `noatime' to / or any other filesystem have any consequences? Yes. The access time for files won't be recorded. Using the noatime option is often advised for the use with SSD media, so is ANY advice that helps to minimize read / write cycles in order to increase the life time of the media. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Manual Installations on Flash Media
I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. 1. When creating an /etc/fstab file, does the order in which entries appear have any significance? I've noticed that when using sysinstall approach, the entries appear in the following order: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1bnone swapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a/ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e/tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f/usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d/var ufs rw 2 2 Would a device alphabetical order (as used by bsdlabel) work? 2. I don't expect the system to swap, so can I dispense with a swap entry and have everything function normally (no error messages, etc.)? 3. Will adding `noatime' to / or any other filesystem have any consequences? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD reference installations?
Nejc Skoberne wrote: Hello, is there any list of FreeBSD reference installations? Like a list of big companies that use FreeBSD as their core servers? Thanks, Nejc ___ You may have some luck looking around and/or contacting the FreeBSD Advocacy Project - http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/ They also have their own mailing list. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD reference installations?
Hello, is there any list of FreeBSD reference installations? Like a list of big companies that use FreeBSD as their core servers? Thanks, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
Chris, excellent reply. Thanks best regards Nils Valentin Quoting Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysutils/freesbie ? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysutils/freesbie ? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:15:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be considerate of others. Please don't top post. Quoting George Allan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? sysinstall(8) is your friend. pxeboot(8) will buy the drinks. Be sure to read through Section 2 of the fine Handbook. That basically means that I have to compile/burn my own CD with the config file install.cfg in it right ? Not at all. I'd advise against trying to compile/burn your own CD. I'd even advise against using CDs altogether, except perhaps in the case of emergencies. Once you're past the 1 system count, setting up a network infrastructure to handle your installations (along with just about everything else) is often more than just a good idea. The small investment in time will give you the opportunity to learn something, and will save you time and grief in the future. is there a version f.e. to start from the CD (with some parameters where the config file is located) and do that from a boot floppy - basically without PXEboot or can I point PXEboot to the CD image AND the install.cfg somehow ? Again, drop the CD idea. You want to be booting off the network, and installing from the network. The following link provides a newbie-friendly description of how you can use PXE to perform a simple network-based installation: http://gja.space4me.com/things/Using_pxeboot_Install53.html Once you're comfortable with the concepts, you can proceed to automating the installation (and customising install.cfg): http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin Well, there are already a sysinstall and GUI-Sysinstall is on it's way. Also, there are such things like PC-BSD and DesktopBSD. While PC-BSD is kind of fork (with it's pbi subsystem), DesktopBSD is just preconfigured FreeBSD with nice graphical user-friendly installer and some additional soft like graphical pakage manager, wi-fi network configurator, user-mounting GUI tool and so on. Maybe you should try DesktopBSD? Best regards, Bachilo Dmitry. www.allunix.ru - Russian UNIX portal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
Hi George, cool reply. Thank you. ;-) That basically means that I have to compile/burn my own CD with the config file install.cfg in it right ? is there a version f.e. to start from the CD (with some parameters where the config file is located) and do that from a boot floppy - basically without PXEboot or can I point PXEboot to the CD image AND the install.cfg somehow ? Best regards Nils Valentin Quoting George Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? sysinstall(8) is your friend. pxeboot(8) will buy the drinks. Be sure to read through Section 2 of the fine Handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automated installations
Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? sysinstall(8) is your friend. pxeboot(8) will buy the drinks. Be sure to read through Section 2 of the fine Handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.1 recommended instead of 5.x for new installations [was: Efficacy vs. friendliness]
Pete Slagle writes: jdow wrote: I noticed that FreeBSD 5.x was somewhat quicker than that to get up, running, and up to date. I can't think of a good reason to use FreeBSD 5.x for a new installation; 6.1 contains so many reliability and performance improvements that it is the clear choice over 5.5. (Upgrades are of course a more complicated question.) The reason I have is that none of the AFS clients will run on 6.1, but they are supposed to run under 5.x.I am about to embark on a test of it under 5.5 this afternoon. I know OpenAFS fails under 6.1. Although it seems to build OK - and even starts up, as soon as I try to go to a directory, it crashes the whole system with a partial error message from lock manager. Something similar is true of the ARLA AFS client port. So, there can be a reason, though it is not overall system quality. jerry ps. If anyone knows enough about the new locks (or locks in general), it would be nice to have someone make the changes for the FreeBSD 6.xx versions of OpenAFS and Arla. It is really beyond my knowledge. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.1 recommended instead of 5.x for new installations [was: Efficacy vs. friendliness]
jdow wrote: I noticed that FreeBSD 5.x was somewhat quicker than that to get up, running, and up to date. I can't think of a good reason to use FreeBSD 5.x for a new installation; 6.1 contains so many reliability and performance improvements that it is the clear choice over 5.5. (Upgrades are of course a more complicated question.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unattended installations
Hi, I work for an ISP, we offer currently Linux and Windows dedicated hosting services and I'm trying to convince mi boss to start a new product based on FreeBSD. Now he is asking me for how we could do unattended installations. I've an idea of how to do it, but seems like I have a lot fof work ahead... is any howto, tutorial, guide, etc? Thanks a lot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unattended installations
Matias wrote: Hi, I work for an ISP, we offer currently Linux and Windows dedicated hosting services and I'm trying to convince mi boss to start a new product based on FreeBSD. Now he is asking me for how we could do unattended installations. I've an idea of how to do it, but seems like I have a lot fof work ahead... is any howto, tutorial, guide, etc? http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html Is an example of how to set things up to install over a network. You can also install in a similar way from CD Rom by supplying a configuration script to sysinstall, exactly like the install.cfg file described in the PXEBOOT article. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Cloning FreeBSD installations
Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
Peter wrote: Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko You can also use ghost4unix, check www.feyrer.de/g4u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
Peter Macko wrote Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko Hi Peter I use G4U from http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ quite a bit for backup's and cloning It's very easy to setup and use If you choose to go with G4U, take note of the advantages of Zeroing out unused blocks as it makes a HUGE difference in backup file size I talk about this in sickening detail on this page :-) http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/partimage.html#22 I hope this helps Namaste Steve Quinn __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:34, Peter wrote: Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/ rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko Try the Frisbee package: http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 For what you need, it should be very easy to figure out how to use Frisbee from the README. Frisbee is very fast at distributing OS images (read the USENIX paper on it, if you're sufficiently interested), and scales extremely well when sending out an image to multiple clients at once. -Marshall Pierce
Dealing with ports installations
I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and deinstall those that I don't need/use? Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dealing with ports installations
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:13 am, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and deinstall those that I don't need/use? There are runtime dependencies and there are build dependencies. After installing, you don't need the build dependencies anymore, but in some cases it might be more convenient to leave them there, like if you're going to track updates for those ports, or if many ports need it to build. To see which dependencies of each type that a particular installed package has, you can use: % pkg_info -rR packagename\* That last backslash (escape) and asterix (wildcard) isn't necessary if you know the complete name of the installed package with the version number. You can see a brief listing of all packages on your system with: % pkg_info And you can see all dependencies if you do: % pkg_info -arR For more, see man pkg_info. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dealing with ports installations
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 05:39 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:13 am, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and deinstall those that I don't need/use? There are runtime dependencies and there are build dependencies. After installing, you don't need the build dependencies anymore, but in some cases it might be more convenient to leave them there, like if you're going to track updates for those ports, or if many ports need it to build. To see which dependencies of each type that a particular installed package has, you can use: % pkg_info -rR packagename\* That last backslash (escape) and asterix (wildcard) isn't necessary if you know the complete name of the installed package with the version number. You can see a brief listing of all packages on your system with: % pkg_info And you can see all dependencies if you do: % pkg_info -arR For more, see man pkg_info. Sorry, once again I started writing email right after I woke up ... What I described will show you upward and downward dependencies of installed packages, but not build dependencies. To do that, you can do this, using Firefox as an example (you don't have to be root to do this, but you do to deinstall a port): % cd /usr/ports/www/firefox % make pretty-print-run-depends-list This port requires package(s) atk-1.8.0 bitstream-vera-1.10 expat-1.95.8 fontconfig-2.2.3,1 freetype2-2.1.7_4 gettext-0.14.1 glib-2.4.8 gnomehier-1.0_22 gtk-2.4.14_2 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 jpeg-6b_3 lcms-1.14,1 libIDL-0.8.4 libXft-2.1.6 libiconv-1.9.2_1 libmng-1.0.8 libxml2-2.6.17 pango-1.6.0 perl-5.8.5 pkgconfig-0.15.0_1 png-1.2.8_1 shared-mime-info-0.15_7 tiff-3.7.1_2 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.1 xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.1 xorg-libraries-6.8.1_1 to run. % make pretty-print-build-depends-list This port requires package(s) atk-1.8.0 bitstream-vera-1.10 expat-1.95.8 fontconfig-2.2.3,1 freetype2-2.1.7_4 gettext-0.14.1 glib-2.4.8 gmake-3.80_2 gtk-2.4.14_2 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 intltool-0.32.1 jpeg-6b_3 lcms-1.14,1 libIDL-0.8.4 libXft-2.1.6 libiconv-1.9.2_1 libmng-1.0.8 libxml2-2.6.17 p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1 pango-1.6.0 perl-5.8.5 pkgconfig-0.15.0_1 png-1.2.8_1 shared-mime-info-0.15_7 tiff-3.7.1_2 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.1 xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.1xorg-libraries-6.8.1_1 zip-2.3_2 to build. As you can see, some of the packages are required to run and build, so you need those no matter what. Some of the other build dependencies, like zip, you probably would find useful otherwise, so you may want to keep something like that, too. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dealing with ports installations
try sysutils/pkg_cutleaves in the ports tree. Tom Moyer wrote: I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and deinstall those that I don't need/use? Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clean FreeBSD Installations
Ok, hopefully I'm not throwing out flamebait or opening a can of worms here. But I'll ask anyway. Knoppix is based on Debian and comes with a script to install it to the hard drive. Nevertheless, Knoppix is not considered to be a clean Debian installation, as you can have problems migrating over to the Debian servers for updates and upgrades. I notice FreeSBIE (www.freesbie.org) is based on FreeBSD and also has a script for installing to the hard drive. What I'm wondering is, how clean is FreeSBIE's installation? Am I going to have any problems if I use ports for getting upgrades and security updates? TIA, Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB CD-ROM installations.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, too. If it is possible, consider using Firewire instead: FreeBSD works very well with FW/1394, and FW was designed for that kind of usage (specificly, reserving dedicated I/O channels to guarantee bandwidth for realtime multimedia tasks). [...] Well, I'm sort of limited in one specific way in this regard - it will be the only optical solution available to this particular machine, which unfortunately means that it would -have- to be USB in order to boot off of. As long as I can install FreeBSD 5.3 with this unit, all would be well. I've been looking at Macally external enclosures today and came across one variety that includes both a USB 2.0 and Firewire interface. This really proves to be the best way to go, I believe - if I need to boot off of a CD, slap it on the USB port, otherwise, it'll pretty much stay on the firewire port the remainder of the time for general use which will allow full speed operation. Thankfully, my Audigy 2 sound card has a firewire interface on it. Never thought I'd use it prior to this, but glad that it's there for use now. : ) Thank you for your time, Chuck, and your reply. It was most appreciated. - John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB CD-ROM installations.
Hello folks. I am currently looking into purchasing an external USB CD/DVD+/-RW unit for my machine here at home. However, before doing so, I do have a few questions before plunking down the cash for this thing. For starters, I don't know if this is an issue now, or ever really was an issue to begin with, but I vaguely recall hearing about problems during the installation of FreeBSD from a USB CD-ROM; something akin to the install halting at some point and thus a faulure to install at all. Unfortunately, after google'ing about, I am unable to find anything in regard to this. If anyone could confirm successful USB CD-ROM installs, it would be most appreciated. Yes, my machines does support booting from USB devices. Since the -STABLE EHCI, or USB2.0, support is not fully implemented yet, as I understand it and in so far as supporting full speed operation, will this pose any problems burning DVD +R or -R media? I've never had a DVD burner before, so I am somewhat new to this hardware. Any suggestions or comments would be most appreciated. Thank you, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB CD-ROM installations.
John Wilson wrote: [ ... ] Since the -STABLE EHCI, or USB2.0, support is not fully implemented yet, as I understand it and in so far as supporting full speed operation, will this pose any problems burning DVD +R or -R media? I've never had a DVD burner before, so I am somewhat new to this hardware. I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, too. If it is possible, consider using Firewire instead: FreeBSD works very well with FW/1394, and FW was designed for that kind of usage (specificly, reserving dedicated I/O channels to guarantee bandwidth for realtime multimedia tasks). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Questions about Installations of FreeBSD
I have a Virtual PC to install FreeBSD , but when i try to install appears an error explaining that couldn't find an ELF library. How can i fix it? Thanks, Alexis Please reply my message asap. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Customized/automated FreeBSD Installations....
Hello Forrest, Take a look at the FreeBSD From Scratch article by Jens Schweikhardt at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/in dex.html. This article describes my efforts at FreeBSD From Scratch: a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and configured to match your idea of the perfect system. If you think make world is a wonderful concept, FreeBSD From Scratch extends it to make evenmore. It should at least get you going on the right path. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Forrest Aldrich Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Customized/automated FreeBSD Installations I've been Googling for some information on this (and the Handbook). We have a scenario whereby we'll be building (over time) several mostly-identical systems. There are similar tasks that will need to be performed on those systems (copying over accounts, passwords, homedirectories), and certain *.conf changes, etc. There has to be a decent way to accomplish this, other than manually per-system or having to build a make-release with some customizations. I have seen GNU CFEngine, but it seems like overkill. I'd appreciate some recommendations/pointers. Thanks! ___ [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]
Customized/automated FreeBSD Installations....
I've been Googling for some information on this (and the Handbook). We have a scenario whereby we'll be building (over time) several mostly-identical systems. There are similar tasks that will need to be performed on those systems (copying over accounts, passwords, homedirectories), and certain *.conf changes, etc. There has to be a decent way to accomplish this, other than manually per-system or having to build a make-release with some customizations. I have seen GNU CFEngine, but it seems like overkill. I'd appreciate some recommendations/pointers. Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: permissions problem with installations from PORTS
btw: I just verified that my umask is 022. Which is what you stated it should be set to. And those ports still installed some directories with 700 permissions. later Michael On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:11, Michael E. Mercer wrote: Hello, I got a new machine that is blazingly fast. I also installed gnome-lite which in turn installed a majority of these ports that are having these problems. What I am getting at, is I never *saw* that warning. later Michael On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:50, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040413 19:58]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can second this. It also happens with mozilla and friends (my umask is set to 077) Pilot error. Your umask should be 022 or 002 when installing ports. Otherwise, you get what you ask for. May I disagree? I expected the ports system to use install to properly set up permissions for all files. At the very least, it should be documented somewhere. You deliberately ignored the following warning: === Warning: your umask is 077 If this is not desired, set it to an appropriate value and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' DES ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable 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]
Multiple FreeBSD-installations on one harddisk?
In order to run two (different) versions of FreeBSD on one Harddisk (4.9 and 5.2) are there any special caveats/pitfalls besides having a separate slice for every installation? Anything special to take care of during installation (esp. when installing the second FreeBSD?) Is it possible to use the same swap-partition for both instances of BSD? thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple FreeBSD-installations on one harddisk?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:23:13 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to run two (different) versions of FreeBSD on one Harddisk (4.9 and 5.2) are there any special caveats/pitfalls besides having a separate slice for every installation? If you want to be able to access 5.2 partitions from 4.9 you should use UFS1 on both (the default being 2 for 5.x). Try browsing sys/ufs cvs or cvs-src@ arvhives, I vaguely remember a commit about a flag to help fsck for this kind of setup. Anything special to take care of during installation (esp. when installing the second FreeBSD?) Is it possible to use the same swap-partition for both instances of BSD? Yes. You should however pay attention to core's produce but the other installation. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple FreeBSD-installations on one harddisk?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:23:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to run two (different) versions of FreeBSD on one Harddisk (4.9 and 5.2) are there any special caveats/pitfalls besides having a separate slice for every installation? 1) If you use the default FreeBSD master bootstrap program, boot0, do not configure it with the noupdate option. (See the man page for the boot0cfg command.) The boot1 program needs the boot0 update feature to determine which slice is being booted. 2) FreeBSD 4.9 does not understand UFS2 file systems (the default file system for FreeBSD 5.2). Therefore, if you create a file system under 5.2 that you want to access from 4.9, specify the UFS1 file system format when you run newfs. 3) FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2 store UFS1 summary data (e.g. amount of free disk space) in different places in the file system superblock. If you mount the same file system writable from both OS, you might like to fsck -p the file system after you switch to the other OS. Anything special to take care of during installation (esp. when installing the second FreeBSD?) Be very careful not to enable a newfs for any preexisting partition (on the other OS slice) when working in the sysinstall disk partition menu. I generally avoid the issue by doing the installation onto another disk and manually copying the new OS onto the first disk. Caution dictates making a full set of backups before installing the second OS. Is it possible to use the same swap-partition for both instances of BSD? Probably. It used to be possible to configure a partition outside of its slice by specifying an out-of-bounds partition offset to the disklabel program. I don't know if this is still tolerated. I strongly advise against it. You can probably declare a special swapdev in a kernel config file. Perhaps there is a relevant syscontrol or hint (which I don't know about) that you could specify in /boot/whatever. I strongly advise against this also. Disk space and main memory are very cheap these days. If you have enough main memory, you don't need much swap space. Creating a dependency of one OS on another's installation could create a painful long term maintenance problem. Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cloning FreeBSD installations?
Hi, I'm about to set up several identical machines (identical hardware both in terms of processor, harddisk, LAN etc.) with FreeBSD 4.9. The only difference between these machines is they're running under different IP-addresses - all the rest (kernel, software,...) should be identical. In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. To be specific: o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one over the net, i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then setting up the other machines from that image? o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is Knoppix capable of doing this?) Anybody sucessfully tried cloning installations like this? TIA for your help, -ewald ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations?
Hi ewald, o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one over the net, i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then setting up the other machines from that image? http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is Knoppix capable of doing this?) If the disks are indeed identical, set up one disk the way you like; boot into single user mode (boot -s) and dd away (as in `dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=[whatever]`). Maybe experiment a bit with dd's block size. I've had great results with Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40Gb disks and a blocksize of 512k. Takes about 15 minutes. If you're indeed running IDE disks, put both disks on their own IDE controller. HTH... Nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations?
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm about to set up several identical machines (identical hardware both in terms of processor, harddisk, LAN etc.) with FreeBSD 4.9. The only difference between these machines is they're running under different IP-addresses - all the rest (kernel, software,...) should be identical. I suggest you probably also want different host names. I had a similar task to create clones of a machine 'phoenix00' as machines 'phoenix01' to 'phoenix14' for which I wrote (and used) the attached script. The original machine had ip 192.168.3.237 and the clones were to have ip addresses in the range 192.168.3.211 to 192.168.3.249 The original system is in partitions ad0s1a, ad0s1e, ad0s1f and ads1g with swap on ad01b. To use the script attach the (identical) drive to as ad1 to 'phoenix00' and call the script (as root):- (There is no secondary IDE port on the machines in question which might have been somewhat faster) # ./clone.sh ip mach where ip is the last group for the required ip and mach is the numeric part of the clone host name 'phoenixNN'. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Plug the cloned disk into the new machine (as ad0) and it should boot without problems (remembering to fix master/slave links on the disk). Adapt, use and enjoy. In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. To be specific: o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one over the net, i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then setting up the other machines from that image? Probably but would need more preparatory work. o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is Knoppix capable of doing this?) I don't know Knoppix but if you have large disks any literal byte to byte disk copying will take quite a while. Should also be possible with dd but if the source is mounted rw at the time the copy will not appear to be clean when booted in the new machine. Malcolm Kay___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Distribution installations
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 03:06 PM, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: Hello, Can anyone explain, how can I install more distribution into a running freebsd from the root directory. for example if my initial freebsd installation was only customed to install the bin (required) distribution only, how can I install other distributions like the games distribution, the man distribution, the crypto distribution and etc. thanks, You should be able to add to your installation using sysinstall. First start your modem connection loggen in as root. Then do the the following #/stand/sysinstall from the main menu select Upgrade an existing system press enter when you get the message First, you must select some distribution components. ... on the next screen select the option Custom by highlighting it and pressing space bar the next screen should show a list of available distributions, highlight those you wish to install and press space bar to select them after you've done this press enter which will return you to the Choose Distributions screen. Press enter again to get to a confirmation question. I'm using an old version of FreeBSD here to check this so I hope this is still valid. If this isn't right hopefully someone else will correct it. Cheers...John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Distribution installations
Hello, Can anyone explain, how can I install more distribution into a running freebsd from the root directory. for example if my initial freebsd installation was only customed to install the bin (required) distribution only, how can I install other distributions like the games distribution, the man distribution, the crypto distribution and etc. thanks, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Distribution installations
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:06:26PM +0800, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: Hello, Can anyone explain, how can I install more distribution into a running freebsd from the root directory. for example if my initial freebsd installation was only customed to install the bin (required) distribution only, how can I install other distributions like the games distribution, the man distribution, the crypto distribution and etc. If you are using CD roms for the install, just go to fireup /stand/sysinstall and follow the menus. I would suggest the ports system. Check it http://freebsd.org/ports You can also ftp to ftp.freebsd.org and go to /pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages and download the compiled packages, and install them with pkg_add. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
port installations failing
Hi, since upgrading to 4.7-STABLE, i have some strange behaviour when i try to install or upgrade some ports, for example xchat and gdkxft. The config fails with the message: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. Other ports are upgrading without this problem. I've rebuild the entire gcc3.0, but i get the same error. Any ideas? Thomas 'Neo' Weber --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
port installations failing
Hi, since upgrading to 4.7-STABLE, i have some strange behaviour when i try to install or upgrade some ports, for example xchat. The config fails with the message: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. Other ports are upgrading without this problem. I've rebuild the entire gcc3.0, but i get the same error. Any ideas? Thomas 'Neo' Weber --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: port installations failing
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: Hi, since upgrading to 4.7-STABLE, i have some strange behaviour when i try to install or upgrade some ports, for example xchat. The config fails with the message: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. Other ports are upgrading without this problem. I've rebuild the entire gcc3.0, but i get the same error. FreeBSD 4.x does not use gcc 3.0. Did you mis-speak, or have you really been playing with the compiler? Kris msg06783/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: port installations failing
I had the problem before. I thought maybe some parts of my compiler are broken and installed the port of gcc 3.0. Wich one is the right one? On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: Hi, since upgrading to 4.7-STABLE, i have some strange behaviour when i try to install or upgrade some ports, for example xchat. The config fails with the message: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. Other ports are upgrading without this problem. I've rebuild the entire gcc3.0, but i get the same error. FreeBSD 4.x does not use gcc 3.0. Did you mis-speak, or have you really been playing with the compiler? Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
