Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:35 AM To: Alexander Best Cc: Devin Teske; freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske, Devin' Subject: Re: [UPDATE]

access an extended partition and

2011-04-28 Thread sofiane chabane
  Good morning,   I have installed FreeBSD in a multiboot way on my PC but till now I can't access my extended partition. Indeed, on my PC I have 4 primary partitions that I organized like this:   Primary partition 1 : WinRE of windows vista Primary partition 2 : windows Vista Primary

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-28 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.org wrote: My thanks to everyone for their replies.  I guess that I wasn't specific enough about my needs, though.  I don't need a tiny chassis. In fact, I need a proxy for around 750-900 computers, so an Atom system or the

Re: access an extended partition and

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Powell
sofiane chabane wrote: Good morning, I have installed FreeBSD in a multiboot way on my PC but till now I can't access my extended partition. Indeed, on my PC I have 4 primary partitions that I organized like this: Primary partition 1 : WinRE of windows vista Primary partition 2 :

Re: access an extended partition and

2011-04-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:35:10 -0400, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: sofiane chabane wrote: Good morning, I have installed FreeBSD in a multiboot way on my PC but till now I can't access my extended partition. Indeed, on my PC I have 4 primary partitions that I organized

ZFS-Only FreeBSD and crashdump

2011-04-28 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
I have the ZFS-Only FreeBSD 8.2. # gpart show = 34 321672893 ad4 GPT (153G) 341281 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 335544322 freebsd-swap (16G) 33554594 2881183333 freebsd-zfs (137G) How to obtain crash dump, so he kept on zfs? Is it enough for

Re: ZFS-Only FreeBSD and crashdump

2011-04-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 28/04/2011 19:01 Vladislav V. Prodan said the following: I have the ZFS-Only FreeBSD 8.2. # gpart show = 34 321672893 ad4 GPT (153G) 341281 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 335544322 freebsd-swap (16G) 33554594 2881183333 freebsd-zfs (137G)

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man page. I think it's just taken as read. I just got what you're trying to say. Unfortunately, your quotes mislead me

RE: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-28 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:27 AM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Bruce Cran'; freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske, Devin' Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility

Re: ZFS-Only FreeBSD and crashdump

2011-04-28 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
28.04.2011 19:40, Andriy Gapon wrote: At the moment FreeBSD doesn't support dumping to ZFS zvols, if that's what you are asking. And when do planning to add support? :) Option to use to dump the usb-flash has its limitations, both on disk size and write speed? -- Vladislav V. Prodan

Re: ZFS-Only FreeBSD and crashdump

2011-04-28 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:14:08PM +0300, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: 28.04.2011 19:40, Andriy Gapon wrote: At the moment FreeBSD doesn't support dumping to ZFS zvols, if that's what you are asking. And when do planning to add support? :) Option to use to dump the usb-flash has its

serial console install

2011-04-28 Thread Paul Macdonald
over a test local serial install on a serial configured 8.2 cd install, my serial connection works fine, see's installer menus and everything else works fine. in DC on similar hardware ( supermicro) da0: 70092MB (143548416 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8935C) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM

Drive selection for gmirror

2011-04-28 Thread Ireneusz Pluta
Hello, when selecting SATA drives for gmirror, boot device, connected to an on-board controller, should I look for so-called enterprise grade, or raid edition drives (like for instance http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=40), or I should rather focus on models closer to consumer

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:17:41 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man page. I think it's just taken as read.

audacious-2.5.0 broken for anyone else?

2011-04-28 Thread Jimmie James
Removing audio/xmp fixes the xmp-audacious.so is not compatible with this version of Audacious Removing the icecast (libshout2) leaves Failed to load plugin (/usr/local/lib/audacious/Output/icecast.so): Shared object libshout.so.5 not found, required by icecast.so Audacious will not load up