RE: LDAPed FreeBSD

1999-07-04 Thread Mark J. Taylor
Are you trying to configure your entire system using LDAP as the database backend, or are you trying to serve current system info? If you are trying *configure* the system using LDAP as a database, then good luck. Our company, Cybernet Systems, has spent over ten man-years developing a

Re: ccd bugs (was: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers)

1999-08-18 Thread Mark J. Taylor
This may be related: There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long. Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where). Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases. I haven't gotten around, because of the NetMAX for Linux project, to comitting things like this

RE: Floppy/diskless booting problem with -current: FIX

1999-08-23 Thread Mark J. Taylor
his and commit a fix (possibly this one). John? Poul? Peter? Without a similar fix, I don't think that BOOTP kernels will not work (as specified in the file /usr/share/examples/diskless/README.BOOTP). -Mark Taylor NetMAX Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netmax.com/ On 23-Aug-99 Mark J. Ta

RE: New combo patch avail

1999-08-25 Thread Mark J. Taylor
Since I am currently experimenting with BOOTP in -current, I patched ONLY vfs_conf.c and vfs_subr.c with your rootfsid changes. Works fine in a BOOTP configuration. -current sources are as of last night. I can now boot a -current system from only a floppy disk with a (kgzipped) kernel on it!

newfs of a ccd failing?

1999-08-25 Thread Mark J. Taylor
I've had this problem since at least FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE (it works in 2.2.7/2.2.8). Same problem in 3.2-RELEASE and -current (as of last night). Can someone reproduce this error? I can't believe that you can't newfs a ccd... did I miss something? spiffy# ./ccdtest.sh [snip] newfs

kgzipped -STABLE GENERIC kernel boots on one machine, not the other

1999-08-31 Thread Mark J. Taylor
I've got a -STABLE GENERIC kernel, cvsupped and built this evening, that is all alone on a UFS floppy, and kgzipped. My P-133 boots the -STABLE kernel fine. My AMD-K6/2 400 stops immediately after "Uncompressing kernel ... done". The same systems both can boot a -CURRENT GENERIC kgzipped