Shutdown And User Intervention

2004-10-13 Thread Rishi Chopra
requiring the user (me) to press a key afterwards. = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

out of i-nodes?

2004-10-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
% 0 0 100% /fat32/video [13:29:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/]$ How can I be out of inodes for my 800MB /usr partition? I didn't modify anything from the standard minimal installation and only installed the ports tree, CVSUP, and /src/sys afterwards. = Rishi Chopra http

Re: out of i-nodes?

2004-10-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
of some email clients. = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ATA - UDMA ICRC Error

2004-09-23 Thread Rishi Chopra
Can anyone help with this please? --- Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:29:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ATA - UDMA ICRC Error To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed the posting at: http://groups.google.com

ATA - UDMA ICRC Error

2004-09-20 Thread Rishi Chopra
controller failure or cable failure. In my case I'm certain that neither is the cause of the problem. Any ideas? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http

Re: Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller

2004-09-14 Thread Rishi Chopra
? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller

2004-09-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
--- Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 16:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an old Dell (Pentium 120). The box has an ide controller onboard as well as a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI controller card. There's a 4GB hard drive

Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller

2004-09-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
so that the drive is recognized? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: 5.2.1 Install Error (Unable To Find Device Node)

2004-07-13 Thread Rishi Chopra
with the installation floppies. The BIOS does indeed boot for the array, and the array is intact; can you think of anything else that would prevent the installation? The array also shows up as asr0 when /stand/sysinstall boots. = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

Re: 5.2.1 Install Error (Unable To Find Device Node)

2004-07-12 Thread Rishi Chopra
with the standard mfs and kernel floppies? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

5.2.1 Install Error (Unable To Find Device Node)

2004-07-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm getting an Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev error that is causing installation to abort. The disk is a 4x200GB IDE RAID array. Any idea what the problem might be? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

Bay Area FreeBSD Consultants?

2004-07-06 Thread Rishi Chopra
Are there any CA Bay Area FreeBSD consultants willing to take a look at my malfunctioning home server (a 'bad dir ino' error)? The list at http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting.html wasn't too helpful =( = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

Re: Reinstalling And /usr

2004-06-29 Thread Rishi Chopra
--- Sergey Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:43:54AM -0700, Rishi Chopra probably wrote: What I've done is gotten another set of four drives and reinstalled everything from scratch (using the same partition and slice values) and then simply exported

Re: Reinstalling And /usr

2004-06-28 Thread Rishi Chopra
--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 21), Rishi Chopra said: What is the effect on the /usr partition when reinstalling over an installation? I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd like to simply reinstall with the same partition/slice values

Reinstalling And /usr

2004-06-21 Thread Rishi Chopra
What is the effect on the /usr partition when reinstalling over an installation? I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd like to simply reinstall with the same partition/slice values - will my /usr partition and the data therein still be accessible after reinstallation? = Rishi

RAID-5 Failure And Booting

2004-05-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
? -- ._ . |\_|/__/| .--. / / \/ \ \ | Rishi Chopra |/__| oo |__ \ | http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

RAID-5 Failure And Booting

2004-05-29 Thread Rishi Chopra
? -- ._ . |\_|/__/| .--. / / \/ \ \ | Rishi Chopra |/__| oo |__ \ | http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

RAID5 Failure And Booting

2004-05-27 Thread Rishi Chopra
? -- ._ . |\_|/__/| .--. / / \/ \ \ | Rishi Chopra |/__| oo |__ \ | http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

Re: apcupsd and 'shutdown -p'

2004-04-24 Thread Rishi Chopra
Rishi Chopra wrote: I'd like apcupsd to call 'shutdown -p' when halting the system. Currently the daemon works OK but allows for a race condition (e.g. battery is not dead but power is restored, leaving the system waiting for a key to be pressed)... Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish

apcupsd and 'shutdown -p'

2004-04-20 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'd like apcupsd to call 'shutdown -p' when halting the system. Currently the daemon works OK but allows for a race condition (e.g. battery is not dead but power is restored, leaving the system waiting for a key to be pressed)... Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this? -- Rishi

Re: Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM

2004-04-14 Thread Rishi Chopra
Chuck McManis wrote: At 02:04 AM 3/6/2004, Rishi Chopra wrote: What if the drive is recognized by the BIOS? Then you know its cabled correctly. It can still be misjumpered or bad. FBSD doesn't use the bios functions to talk to the drive. --Chuck Drive was cabled as master, jumpered

Re: Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM

2004-04-12 Thread Rishi Chopra
Chuck McManis wrote: At 02:04 AM 3/6/2004, Rishi Chopra wrote: What if the drive is recognized by the BIOS? Then you know its cabled correctly. It can still be misjumpered or bad. FBSD doesn't use the bios functions to talk to the drive. --Chuck Drive was cabled as master, jumpered

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-03-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
-RELEASE. -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:30:15PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: I've included copies of my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and /etc/pam.d/ssh - I'm running a default minimal installation of FreeBSD 5.2: etc/ssh

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-08 Thread Rishi Chopra
-07 at 08:17, Rishi Chopra wrote: Wayne, I left an SSH connection open to my server last night, and it was still connected this morning; the amount of time exceeded that of past sessions when I was unexpectedly disconnected. I understand your reasoning when stating this is not a configuration

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Rishi Chopra
? Arrgh! -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra Wayne Sierke wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:45, Rishi Chopra wrote: I have two machines in my loft (a FreeBSD server and a Win2k box) connected via CAT5 crossover cable. I connect to the FreeBSD machine via SSH, and use

Re: Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM

2004-03-06 Thread Rishi Chopra
of (in order of likelyness): drive is mis-jumpered drive is mis-cabled drive is dead HTH --Chuck -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ssh disconnecting [WAS: Getting Cut-Off]

2004-03-06 Thread Rishi Chopra
is that the server has been up for weeks now, and even though a particular SSH session is dropped, the server is still up and running, and will accept new SSH connections after unexpecteded termination of previous connections. This leads me to believe that this is *not* and ACPI problem. -- Rishi Chopra

Getting Cut-Off

2004-03-05 Thread Rishi Chopra
disconnected in the future? Unfortunately the file transfer client portion of SSH Secure Shell is very poor at resuming queued work, so this is starting to cause me an inconvinience. -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM

2004-03-05 Thread Rishi Chopra
? Also, I'm unable to boot from CDROM despite their being a BIOS option to do so. Any ideas what the problem is? -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
Here's what happens: usha# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Rishi Chopra wrote: Rob, The 'c' definitely was missing. Unfortunately, so is /dev/acd0c - what should I do now? Hi, Rishi...have you tried

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
# ATAPI CDROM drives device cd # CD Peter Risdon wrote: Rishi Chopra wrote: Here's what happens: usha# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory I don't think you've shown your dmesg... is the cd drive picked up? If so, what

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
The drive is IDE, but it doesn't seem to show up. Any idea what the problem might be? Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:46:56 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the dmesg (Kernel config also included below): Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright

Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-01 Thread Rishi Chopra
When I try to mount a CD, I get the following errror: usha# mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory Any idea what the problem might be? -- Rishi Chopra =) http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-01 Thread Rishi Chopra
Rob, The 'c' definitely was missing. Unfortunately, so is /dev/acd0c - what should I do now? Rob wrote: Rishi Chopra wrote: When I try to mount a CD, I get the following errror: usha# mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory Any idea what the problem might be? You should

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-20 Thread Rishi Chopra
offered to help. I suppose you can draw your own conclusions about the community-like nature of FreeBSD use in the Bay Area (home to UC Berkeley, FreeBSD Mall, and birthplace of the FreeBSD movement.) -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra Rishi Chopra wrote: I do not have the FIX

FIXIT CD and Non-Bootable CDROM

2004-02-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
Is it possible to boot the FreeBSD FIXIT CD from a non-bootable CDROM drive, by using a FreeBSD boot disk or something similar? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
Please see my reply below: Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a summary of my problem so far: Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
dissection/removal is a full-time affair, and the 30 some-odd staples in my neck greatly limit my ability to sit at the computer. Looks like the important thing is for me to make a new friend in the FreeBSD community and a new start on computing, or bid y'all adieu. -- Rishi Chopra http

Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-08 Thread Rishi Chopra
not work in my case? Thanks, Rishi Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:22 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the terminal says: FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN /dev/da0s1e Last

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-03 Thread Rishi Chopra
the filesystem? Have I suffered a total loss or is fsck still doing its thing? If this is a total loss, can I do anything to get my data back? -Rishi Rishi Chopra wrote: I'm getting the following error message during startup: /usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1 I'm guessing

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-03 Thread Rishi Chopra
partition take? It's been running for almost 12 hours now, and the latest output is still Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes; is something wrong or is fsck still doing its thing? Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:22 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I booted into single

Removing Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
My understanding is that 'make deinstall' only removes the port from the ports database - is there any way to actually remove all of the files associated with a particular port? -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
Thank you! Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:49:50 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the following error message during startup: /usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1 I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of the filesystem

Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
Is there any difference between 'make install' and 'make install clean'? -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Make Syntax

2004-01-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
Is there any way to run a 'clean' command to remove 'WORK' directories from the ports tree after the fact? Chris wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:26 pm, Chris wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 11:21 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: Is there any difference between 'make install' and 'make install

Re: Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-24 Thread Rishi Chopra
: On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:51 AM, Rishi Chopra wrote: I was rather disappointed with the results. Can anyone suggest what might be causing such slow disk speeds, or whether these speeds are out of the ordinary for a 4-disk FreeBSD RAID5 installation? I have done nothing to configure the card

Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-23 Thread Rishi Chopra
tests (60-70MB/sec), hence my dismay. -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

System Startup Messages

2004-01-23 Thread Rishi Chopra
with regards to detecting and installing devices)? -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-22 Thread Rishi Chopra
slightly the DNS related ones that already exist under SIMPLE. Instead of letting DNS queries in from the outside, you want to let DNS queries in from the inside. Let me know if you have any other questions, and I'll try to help. James On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:06, Rishi Chopra wrote: If I want

Port Forwarding

2004-01-19 Thread Rishi Chopra
# Everything else is denied by default, unless the # IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT option is set in your kernel # config file. ;; -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-19 Thread Rishi Chopra
No, those are the values in the file. I had posted a previous question to the list asking what the right values should be (my rl0 interface is configured via DHCP) - any ideas what I should put in this section? James Earl wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: Here's

rc.firewall 'simple' question

2004-01-18 Thread Rishi Chopra
via ${oif} ${fwcmd} add deny all from 192.0.2.0/24 to any via ${oif} ${fwcmd} add deny all from 224.0.0.0/4 to any via ${oif} ${fwcmd} add deny all from 240.0.0.0/4 to any via ${oif} -- Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2004-01-14 Thread Rishi Chopra
to 'rl0' (a nic in my system) and I set the oip to 'me', what should the onet address be set to? Can I set the onet address to 'me' also? The oif has its address assigned by DHCP. -R Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps someone can help me with this small part

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-01-13 Thread Rishi Chopra
should change? -Rishi Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:55:50AM +, Matthew Seaman typed: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:32:30PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: I have a nitpicky question about logging into a FreeBSD machine and SSH. I'm using a minimal FreeBSD install and SSH

FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-01-12 Thread Rishi Chopra
I have a nitpicky question about logging into a FreeBSD machine and SSH. I'm using a minimal FreeBSD install and SSH Secure Shell client v3.2.0 - the crux of the problem is I am unable to smoothly login. When I login to my machine, I'm prompted to enter an authentication response. A window

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2004-01-12 Thread Rishi Chopra
, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rishi Chopra Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 1:42 PM To: Mike Maltese Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question I was able to get my

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2004-01-12 Thread Rishi Chopra
Thanks for the generally good info; the 'me' keyword was the key piece of info that I needed =) Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps someone can help me with this small part of rc.firewall: [Ss][Ii][Mm][Pp][Ll][Ee

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2004-01-11 Thread Rishi Chopra
I was able to get my network up and running with the suggestions below. To review, my setup is the following: ISP FreeBSD Gateway Win2k Box --rl0--rl1--- ALL DHCP 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 rl0 is connected to the modem by

Re: A jail?

2004-01-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
with feature changes in 7.3 and 7.4. Best of luck, Andrew Gould On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:34 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: I was installing linux_base; it seems to be required, since I was getting an error about libintl.so.4 - then again, I also updated gmake via 'portupgrade -r gmake', so that may

A jail?

2004-01-08 Thread Rishi Chopra
While installing postgres I get the following: You need to create the null device in your jailed Linux environment. Run this outside the jail, then press enter: mkdir -m 0755 -p Jail root dir/dev rm -f Jail root dir//compat/linux/dev/null mknod Jail root dir//compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2 chmod

Re: A jail?

2004-01-08 Thread Rishi Chopra
Simply trying to install postgresql - the message I included is what the system prints out when installing from the ports collection. Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 06:13 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: While installing postgres I get the following: You need to create the null

Re: A jail?

2004-01-08 Thread Rishi Chopra
, Rishi Chopra wrote: Simply trying to install postgresql - the message I included is what the system prints out when installing from the ports collection. Andrew L. Gould wrote: Er, what directory were you in when you did the make install? The only port that produces the message below

Re: Updating Ports Index

2004-01-06 Thread Rishi Chopra
no additional output. Is the server working on the request, or has the request hung? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rishi Chopra Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Updating Ports Index For some reason, I can't

Updating Ports Index

2004-01-05 Thread Rishi Chopra
For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database: idfubar# cd /usr/ports idfubar# make index Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found perl: not found Done. I also tried attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, but am running into some problems:

'Portsdb -Uu' Fails

2004-01-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, but am running into some problems: idfubar# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... perl: not found /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE) from

ID says no such user, PW says already exists ?!?!

2003-12-15 Thread Rishi Chopra
This is gonna sound crazy, but: I got my FreeBSD box up and running and decided to add a user account for myself (avoid the perils of working as root?) I added a named account 'rchopra' and everything was honky-dorey. The following series of events occured and have left me confused and

(Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2003-12-12 Thread Rishi Chopra
Here's my setup: ISP FreeBSD Gateway Win2k Box --rl0--rl1--- ALL DHCP 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 rl0 is connected to the modem by ethernet and set for DHCP, the ISP's method of address asignment. rl1 is the second NIC in the BSD

Re: growfs says 'we are not growing' ?!?!

2003-12-05 Thread Rishi Chopra
Problems have been resolved, thanks again for the help =) -Rishi Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:23:13 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I get: growfs: we are not growing (1048576 - 0) So I took a look at your email, and you said: You've grown

growfs says 'we are not growing' ?!?!

2003-12-04 Thread Rishi Chopra
Trying to enlarge a partition (/usr) on a slice (da0s1) with plenty of space: # fdisk The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 1171861362 (572197 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1 end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 #

Re: growfs says 'we are not growing' ?!?!

2003-12-04 Thread Rishi Chopra
using the standard GUI. -Rishi Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Rishi Chopra said: Trying to enlarge a partition (/usr) on a slice (da0s1) with plenty of space: # fdisk The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 1171861362 (572197

Raid Array Stripe Size Investigation

2003-11-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
After some initial trouble getting my FreeBSD box up and running, I'm happy to report that I've been able to conduct a few empirical tests on IDE hardware RAID array stripe size and performance. I decided to do these benchmarks when I noticed a lack of this information on the web and as part

Problem Booting (Bad Super Block)

2003-11-28 Thread Rishi Chopra
I've started having problems on my FreeBSD box; I've installed FreeBSD on this system at least 5 times before without any problems. This time, the installation took many attempts, and the following error message occurs when I attempt to boot up: /dev/da0s1a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER

No Kernel?

2003-11-28 Thread Rishi Chopra
After installing FreeBSD I get the following message: No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel boot: When installing the OS, I created one partition using the entire disk (in this case a 560GB arrray) and created two mount points (256M 'swap' as da0s1a and 559G '/' as

FTP Servers...

2003-11-28 Thread Rishi Chopra
I've been installing and wiping FreeBSD installations a lot recently, and I've noticed that the FTP servers aren't all that accomodating of installation. For example, only 1-in-4 or 1-in-5 installations from ftp.freebsd.org is successful (these are all minimal installations done through FTP,

Installation Problem (Synchronize Cache)?

2003-11-26 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension XPS120C w/ Adaptec 2400A Raid Controller (4x200GB Raid5). The second installation disk almost finishes loading when the program gets stuck on: (da0:asr0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x1b, scsi status == 0x0 What

Installing Without Video Card

2003-11-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
Is there a way to install FreeBSD without a video card? Can I somehow install the OS over ethernet without having a video card and monitor hooked up? Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can think of a way... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Running RawIO

2003-11-07 Thread Rishi Chopra
I am newbie who just installed RawIO ('cd /usr/ports/benchmarks/rawio', 'make install') but am having trouble running the benchmark. I run 'pkg_info -L rawio-1.2' to see that the program is installed in /usr/local/bin/rawio. To run the program, I used: '/usr/local/bin/rawio -a /dev/da0' but

Choosing A Stripe-Size (RAID5 Array)

2003-10-26 Thread Rishi Chopra
I've had a tough time getting help for this question on the newsgroups and freebsd.org discussion forums, so I thought I'd mail the list... I'm setting up a 600GB Raid-5 array (4-200GB 8MB Buffer IDE disks connected to an Adaptec 2400A controller) and would like some help picking a stripe-size