Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

2013-09-23 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: With GPT, there is no reason to use BSD disklabels at all. And most modern computers do not have any problem booting it. The old MBR approach (as well as dedicated) will probably only be needed in niche applications and

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Robert Simmons
Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully scrutinized. I also don't think it wise to allow them to take a leadership role of any type. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Brett Glass wrote: All: It's good to see corporate

Sockstat Output

2013-09-21 Thread Robert Simmons
There are a few lines in the output of sockstat related to sshd and pflogd that all have ??: admin1 sshd 942 4 stream - ?? root sshd 939 5 stream - ?? _pflogd pflogd 552 5 stream - ?? root pflogd 548 4 stream - ?? Are these normal? Why the ??

Re: Wildly different numbers of portsnap updates between i386 and amd64?

2013-09-21 Thread Robert Simmons
The update is a delta from what is already on your system. When you updated the older box, you pulled in lots of changes to get it current. The newer box needed fewer updates to get current. Or something is wrong. You can always delete the contents of /ports and the database in /var/db/portsnap.

Freeze when running freebsd-update

2012-06-26 Thread Robert Simmons
I've run into a totally reproducible freeze in 9.0. There are a number of variables involved, but I'm able to reproduce this freeze 100% of the time. I'm installing very small servers in a Xen HVM virtualization environment. Each instance has 128M memory and 4G of disk space. There is 384M of

Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?

2012-06-12 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:34:44AM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:34:44 -0400 From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade? To: freebsd-questions

Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?

2012-06-11 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: it is easy to cvs or cvsup ports and get a whole slew of ports in /usr/ports/distfiles, but too often, using portmaster [or another tool], I'll have only one of two ports that fail because they are either 1) broken, or 2) out

Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?

2012-06-11 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:14:52PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:52 -0400 From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade? To: freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Simmons
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users

Re: why I am upset

2012-05-28 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not.  Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount

Re: FreeBSD Server

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: lpeth lp...@centurytel.net wrote: FreeBSD Dear Sirs; I have a 8core, 32 GB ram server I built myself. AMD cpu, with Supermicro motherboard. I want to use FreeNAS as a database system, and I'm wondering what it

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:49:18 + Matthew Seaman articulated: Unfortunately I can't answer that.  I'm not in any position to decide such things. However I can hazard a guess at some of the possible reasons:    * openssl API

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Simmons
One more thing. An easy contribution that could be made is to replace the old version of openssl with the new in the src tree of CURRENT. Then build world and see what breaks. Try to fix what has broken. Contribute patches up to the point that you don't understand the next step or you have build

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Simmons
Oops. Sorry, my mail reader must have recently changed the behavior of the reply button to always reply all. I meant that to be off-list. I apologize. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:41:13 -0500 Robert Simmons articulated: Oops.  Sorry, my mail reader must have recently changed the behavior of the reply button to always reply all.  I meant that to be off-list. Thanks Robert

default value for DESTDIR

2012-03-01 Thread Robert Simmons
During the new installer for 9.0, what is the default value for DESTDIR? The reason I'm asking is I setup my partitions manually in the shell provided for doing this, and I want to know where I need to leave them mounted before I exit the shell to continue installation.

gpart usage during install

2012-02-18 Thread Robert Simmons
I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same thing in 9.0, but when I get

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-19 Thread Robert Simmons
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: If you compile your own kernel, then freebsd-update will patch the kernel sources, but leave you to rebuild and reinstall your customized kernel. I don't know about the -p4 update.  By rights it should have

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Robert Simmons
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: My apologies to all for this, specially to those who already know about this and those who think too little of it. I am really worried about this: http://americancensorship.org/ If these rootless people get control of what

Re: Default Samba port?

2011-11-13 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Peter Harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Can anyone advise me the appropriate Samba port to install - the handbook refers to samba34, but I see samba35 and samba36 in in ports. This is for a home server, so I'm not necessarily looking for production

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-12 Thread Robert Simmons
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Now the updates for -p4 certainly should have touched the kernel, and certainly should have resulted in an updated uname string[*].  There should also be a note about -p4 in /usr/src/UPDATING.  Starting to

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-11 Thread Robert Simmons
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Judging by the output you showed, you've certainly managed to download the -p4 binary patch set.  The 'No updates needed' message is just telling you you've already got all the necessary update patchsets

Re: php5-pgsql and postgresql 9.1.1

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get the php5-pgsql module to work with postgresql 9.1.1, the current version in ports.  It seems that when I install php5-pgsql from ports it depends on postgresql 8.4.9.  I don't see anything

php5-pgsql and postgresql 9.1.1

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Simmons
I'm trying to get the php5-pgsql module to work with postgresql 9.1.1, the current version in ports. It seems that when I install php5-pgsql from ports it depends on postgresql 8.4.9. I don't see anything in the Makefile that allows me to change this. How do I get the php5-pgsql port to see

rpcbind/rpc.umntall error on boot

2011-11-06 Thread Robert Simmons
I'm getting the following error on a new install with NFS: kernel: Starting rpcbind. kernel: NFS access cache time=60 kernel: rpc.umntall: kernel: fileserver: MOUNTPROG: RPC: Program not registered kernel: kernel: rpc.umntall: kernel: localhost: MOUNTPROG: RPC: Program not registered kernel:

ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known 5 Nov

ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known 5 Nov

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: Are you running a firewall?  Do you have a ppp connection? I'm not running a firewall on the machine in question. I am behind a firewall, if that's what you mean. I don't have a ppp connection. The box is a server that

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab: 0       10      *       *       */2     /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart I have something similar in my crontab which is not exactly what I need. I want to

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? Yes, it is.  FreeBSD 8-STABLE and 9 have /etc/rc.d

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: crontabs have this handy '@reboot' syntax...  It's all explained in crontab(5). Thanks! However, you would be well advised to run ntpd(8) rather than bodging the clock with ntpdate at intervals.  ntpdate is

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: netwait_enable=YES netwait_ip=192.168.1.1 # IP address to ping to verify network is up netwait_if=em0 # interface to use Also there's netwait_timeout, which defaults to 60 in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I've finally got a

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: Without wanting to erase all contents of / etc / rc.conf, by running echo slim_enable = YES / etc / rc.conf. Please help!. Well, the absolute basics would be: hostname=YourHostNameHere ifconfig_NameOfNicCardDeviceHere=inet

Re: Distributions are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Grant Walter grantwalt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I burned a CD of the LiveFS image and my installation failed. I then tried installing from the Disk 1 image and the install succeeded. My problem is that there are no Ditstributions on the disk. I don't

Re: Distributions are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote: Distributions, by nature, shouldn't be on the disc... they are outdated the moment they are made into an ISO. run these commands: These are written assuming you are in as root. # ftp

Re: Distributions are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote: Is portsnap installed? I was going with the effed up installer route. :) This works - I tried it when I wrote up the directions. I assume that if the machine boots into the OS, that base is installed and portsnap is

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-26 Thread Robert Simmons
On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isomjri...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the idea is to just minimize

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Simmons
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Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only makes it difficult for others like myself who read the lists online and only post occasionally.

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 07:44:16 AM Jerry wrote: You have voiced a concern that has been voiced here several times in the past. Unfortunately, this is an open list; ie, anyone subscribed or not can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this forum. I have tried contacting

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: I'm against merging chat@ questions@, don't believe it will happen        Lists for different purposes, but even if questions@ people        might come to a consensus in favour of merging, lots of        people on

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy. Traffic too heavy in fact, a mess of themes, Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or current@ or other more specialist lists Also, one place that

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 09:22:43 AM Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/06/2011 13:52, Peter Vereshagin wrote: You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/15 17:08:31 -0400 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net = To Thomas Hansen : CB FreeBSD is a UNIX-like clone, which is indeed

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:29:42 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote: There should be a difference recognized between own a Unix trademark by http://www.unix.org/trademark.html and ownership of the Unix copyrights by http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 where I'm pass. There

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:47:32 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote: This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay for that? Not necessary. FreeBSD does not use (want to use/need to use) the UNIX trademark and according to the USL vs. BSDi court case, FreeBSD does not

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:31:19 PM Reko Turja wrote: In that fictional world MySQL needed a fork and some GPL'd programs have been retroactively made completely closed source, forking denied after taking the issue into court... I thought that Sun reversed that decision in 2008. Can you

Re: SATA SDD cards

2011-06-15 Thread Robert Simmons
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Rob li...@midsummerdream.org wrote: Has anyone tried using an SATA SSD card (SATA add-on card that is a SSD drive) in FreeBSD?  I was looking at an OCZ RevoDrive and was wondering if anyone had tried using one of those specifically, or any SATA SSD card in

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window Manager because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1. Stood for, you mean. It evolved to Tab Window

Re: ftp installation

2011-06-11 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on the console

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:35 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start afresh? gpart destroy ad4 ?? Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions. Think of it this way: you must

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: - or any problems (problems as in I've never tried that before) - using gpart instead of the old scheme? Sorry for the double post, but the only problem that I've encountered is after creating a encrypted provider with

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks .. this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative to fdisk/bsdlabel. gpart(8) from my experience is far superior to all the

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Looks good. I have a few critiques: 1) Linux and FreeBSD do not have alignment requirements, as far as

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the following sequence: # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container #

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:59:44 AM Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the following sequence: # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

2011-06-04 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the following

Re: Funny thing with portsclean

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: # Papi/root [23:28:52] [~]portsclean -D Detecting unreferenced distfiles... -- !! Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE/akonadi-1.5.2.tar.bz2 Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE/kdeaccessibility-4.6.2.tar.bz2 Delete

Re: Funny thing with portsclean

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Simmons
Sorry, I didn't mention why. You need use -DD if you don't want that to happen, and you want it to follow installed packages as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: remote password change

2011-05-28 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, pepe pla...@gmail.com wrote: I have two FreeBSD 8 servers running. Server A is for shell access and server B for www pages. On B there is only scp/sftp access and no shell login. Now I'm looking for solution for people to be able to change password for server

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Robert Simmons
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... Was the root account on the box actually used, or did

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 May 2011 18:09, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM,  fr...@getnet.com wrote: Hello, I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was using was gone from

Re: Xfce4.8 Trash?

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Hello, Since Xfce 4.8 the trash applet does not work : Can't connect to the trash. I've googled a bit but can't find any solution (Thunar, dbus and hal are running). This is a fresh install and not an update.

Re: Xfce4.8 Trash?

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Le Sun, 22 May 2011 10:09:37 -0400, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com a écrit : Since Xfce 4.8 the trash applet does not work : Can't connect to the trash. I've googled a bit but can't find any solution

Re: Ekiga FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Simmons
Also, unless my friends all change from Skype or Skype becomes intolerable with SIP, I'm stuck with Skype. Also, we should wait and see what ms does with Skype before we condemn them. On May 22, 2011 7:20 PM, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 22 May 2011 12:44:50 Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

ipv6 spam

2011-05-21 Thread Robert Simmons
I have begun receiving ipv6 spam from this mailing list, and I was wondering how to determine who the owner of a particular ipv6 address is. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

SSD drive not recognized

2011-05-19 Thread Robert Simmons
I recently upgraded a hard drive to an SSD drive. Initially I bought a cheap(er) Microcenter house branded SATA II drive (after looking around online it turns out it is really an A-Data that was rebranded). It was recognized by the BIOS, but not by FreeBSD. I decided to return it and try a name

Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl wrote: On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at

Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of 200 GB for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt (since sysinstall

boot question

2011-05-14 Thread Robert Simmons
Perhaps my earlier question was too complex and specific. I will rephrase it a bit: How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a disk that is partitioned with the GPT scheme? How do I tell that kernel the location of /etc/fstab?

Re: boot question

2011-05-14 Thread Robert Simmons
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:38:37 AM you wrote: Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:44:42 -0400 From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot question How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a disk that is partitioned

Installing FreeBSD on an encrypted volume

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Simmons
I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on an encrypted volume and I've run into an annoying problem. Before I describe the problem, let me explain what I have done so far. first I used gpart to make GPT partitions: one freebsd-boot, two freebsd-ufs. The freebsd-boot is 64k and the

Encrypted Volume followup

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Simmons
As a followup to my earlier question, are there plans for a geli aware boot0 so /boot does not need to be unencrypted? I know that this functionality can be done with TrueCrypt with FreeBSD running inside a TrueCrypt system, but having it part of FreeBSD would be great!