Re: FreeBSD 9 port XORG failed to install

2013-04-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi Савельев Владимир, El día Saturday, April 27, 2013 a las 08:59:36PM +0400, Савельев Владимир escribió: Hi, colleagues! I am trying to install FreeBSD 9 to my notebook Acer Aspire V3-571G. Ports I am trying to install: /usr/ports/x11/xorg My issue is that build

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP partition. This way you don't need to restart in WinXP. The same can be done from WinXP side, a minimal

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:14:05 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP partition. This

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 14:31 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:14:05 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a minimal hard disk with

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 09:05 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything else, including FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so,

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:25 -0600, Warren Block wrote: Booting the same Windows install alternately in a VM and then on real hardware may trigger the Genuine Advantage annoyance. This is true, but for some exceptional cases perhaps untrue. I wasn't aware about this possibility, but it does

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:07 PM, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? As others have already answered, yes. The risks are minimal if you are careful but you will always

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Partition Magic I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a live media. Perhaps you need to defragment the Windows

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:49:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Partition Magic I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Ross
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:27:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? Yes. If so,

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-19 Thread Hooman Oroojeni
Issue solved; I forgot to edit .xinitrc. Cheers, Hooman On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 +, Hooman Oroojeni wrote: Dear All, I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. Any idea to help is

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 + Hooman Oroojeni orooj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. I think that you have mist a paste command here. Anyway, what graphics adaptor are you using? Intel? It it is Intel, read about

Re: Freebsd 9 Startx

2012-11-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 +, Hooman Oroojeni wrote: Dear All, I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. Any idea to help is appreciated. You need to show the error message for diagnostics and suggestions better than pure guessing. :-) Meanwhile, allow me to

Re: FreeBSD 9's SSH HPN

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: Is the HPN patchset included with the base OpenSSH the full patchset? Does it include the threaded CTR patch? I can't seem to find a clear answer to this. crypto/openssh/README.hpn references it so I would assume so. -- Adam

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread egoitz
Take a look at freebsd-hackers mailing list... I have suggested some change in some Makefile and sh script in order to unless at this moment to be able to have an unattended system built with sysinstall (the idea I think it was to maintain sysinstall in 9.0 unless) and using you're

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 March 2012 11:53 +0100 ego...@ramattack.net wrote: So I recomend you reading last mails of mine in freebsd-hackers... Hope it helps, Bye! For what it's worth - I've resolved the issue I had (which was basically the system booted, but failed trying to re-mount root as RW, and hence

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread egoitz
In the new way of booting... you need to have the cd because the own cd is the root filesystem... and in fact is live filesystem too so unless you're booting from mfsroot... I assume you should have that line in /etc/fstab inside the iso image but if you're using mfsroot... I really

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-10 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:02:29 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really the recommendation to go with just / ? Depends on who you ask :)

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-10 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:20:03 +0100 Michael Cardell Widerkrantz m...@hack.org wrote: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com, 2012-02-08 19:42 (+0100): 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize disks - correct? I think the guide you linked to:

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-09 Thread perryh
Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really the recommendation to go with just / ? Depends on who you ask :) and on your intended usage. 2. Is there a way to use the old sysinstall

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-09 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com, 2012-02-08 19:42 (+0100): 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize disks - correct? I think the guide you linked to: http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1071 meant that you have to be in single user mode until you have

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-08 Thread Bas Smeelen
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:42:59 -0500 Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: Hello Everyone, May be I should have searched more for answers, but after installing FreeBSD 9 with gmirror, I am wondering if the experts here have some recommendations for best practices. 1. The Guided

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-08 Thread George Kontostanos
3. Assuming one has enough RAM, is zfs mirror or raidz recommended over gmirror? zfs mirror but I would not recommend a raidz root on zfs. -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Aitken
I can't speak to the mirror issue, but I had difficulty trying to tweak the defaults in the install on a 128G SSD: When manually configuring the SSD, I tried to leave some extra space at the end of the SSD. Not sure that is necessary or not. In any case, I had a 128GB SSD, reported as

Re: FreeBSD 9 buildworld with clang failure

2012-02-03 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On 02.02.2012 15:12, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Might try: Commenting out CFLAGS= Setting NO_WERROR= in /etc/make.conf Removing the CFLAGS= line made no difference, after some searching for info about the NO_WERROR=, I went ahead and added the CFLAGS line back in added NO_WERROR= WERROR=

Re: FreeBSD 9 buildworld with clang failure

2012-02-02 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 2 February 2012 14:43, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: I am trying to rebuild everything in a development machine with clang to test for production, and ran into a problem on the buildworld process.  This machine was already rebuilt from source using gcc, here are the options I

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-26 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/26/2012 01:57 AM, Da Rock wrote: Despite having similar hardware, you're only real best bet is to suck it and see. Try installing and seeing what you can get to work (dmesg, pciconf -lv, usbconfig, kldload modules, questions here, etc). I've had mixed success with laptops (they're just

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 18:54, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/25/2012 5:43 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have a Huawei E1820 I will also try RTFM. Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/26/2012 10:58 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because I booted up with my Huawei dongle plugged in. kldstat | grep u3g shows me nothing though. Looks like

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 19:12, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/26/2012 10:58 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because I booted up with my Huawei

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 18:54, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/25/2012 5:43 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have a Huawei E1820 I will also try RTFM. Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/26/2012 12:00 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Mike, I guess the internet.com http://internet.com in AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\IP\\\,\\\internet.com http://internet.com/\\\ OK \ refer to the APN? I know I need to read ppp.conf again soon :) Hi, Yes, thats the APN. Your APN seems to

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 19:37, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/24/2012 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Someone can point me to a recent document detailing the

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 21:48, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Which one? You need to

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:23, Ivan Frosty ivanfro...@gmail.com wrote: The FreeBSD u3g driver ¶¶ Introduction ¶¶ This driver supports 3G (UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA) cards that provide access to one or more serial ports through a USB interface, providing PPP and AT command channels

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, January 24, 2012 a las 10:23:18PM -0800, Ivan Frosty escribió: The FreeBSD u3g driver ¶¶ Introduction ¶¶ This driver supports 3G (UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA) cards that provide access to one or more serial ports through a USB interface, providing PPP and AT command channels

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/25/2012 5:43 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have a Huawei E1820 I will also try RTFM. Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem plug in the modem Show the output of usbconfig then sysctl -a dev.u3g and ls -l /dev/cuaU* and dmesg On some 3g sticks, you have to send a

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: [...] You know, sometimes all this process is what makes people shy off of *BSD. I am a diehard lover of FreeBSD, but the few times I have installed Linux on my laptop, this whole process was a breeze... well,

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 11:50, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I discovered this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25539 and am wondering what will and won't work on my Lenovo X220 I'm currently in the process in deciding between FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 15/16. I love FreeBSD on servers but

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread John Levine
I'm running 8.2 on an X200. For the most part everything works. My main complaint is that the sound is very quiet, and I haven't found the setting to fix that. Video and wifi work fine. The kernel sees the camera and the thumb reader but I haven't looked for applications that use them. R's,

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/24/2012 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Someone can point me to a recent document detailing the steps. I have PC-BSD 9 on my laptop. Most of them just come up as cuaU*

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
All of these complaints can go directly to /dev/null Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, you don't get to express your opinion about -RELEASE changes when you didn't run the STABLE/RC/BETAs. You had your chance to help improve FreeBSD for

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0600 Mark Felder articulated: Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, Excuse me, but are you just trying to look naive? -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:40:42 -0600, je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0600 Mark Felder articulated: Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, Excuse me, but are you just trying to look naive? The wording wasn't exactly as

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
I've recently been presented with new information: namely that RC3 had sysinstall as an option (I did not know this, and I've been reading the lists) and that it was taken away for -RELEASE even though it was agreed upon that would not happen for 9.x. I'll crawl under this rock now.

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Allan ___ Erm, you have to realize the new installer was discussed at length here, when 9.0 was still under development/beta/prerelease. Alternatively, you could do like me and install entirely by hand: - boot

RE: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:25 AM To: Damien Fleuriot Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:25:03PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: And IMHO sysinstall should not exist, while good documentation about installing BY HAND should be there. I agree with the part of that sentence following the comma. That is all. Someone that cannot install it him/herself

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:52:17AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:40:42 -0600, je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0600 Mark Felder articulated: Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, Excuse me, but

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread B. Kyle Adkins
I'm very new to FreeBSD but it seems to me that the installer is pretty much ok. My only wish is that there might be a little more info upfront somewhere, preferably in the installer somewhere, about setting up for a dual boot. I couldn't find in the handbook, (that may be my fault, don't

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread gore
On Monday 23 January 2012 05:18:01 pm B. Kyle Adkins wrote: I'm very new to FreeBSD but it seems to me that the installer is pretty much ok. My only wish is that there might be a little more info upfront somewhere, preferably in the installer somewhere, about setting up for a dual boot. I

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread gore
On Monday 23 January 2012 12:17:33 pm Mark Felder wrote: I've recently been presented with new information: namely that RC3 had sysinstall as an option (I did not know this, and I've been reading the lists) and that it was taken away for -RELEASE even though it was agreed upon that would not

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-20 Thread 'Frank Shute'
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:31:00PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: 'Frank Shute' [mailto:fr...@shute.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:52 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Chad Perrin'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Dave Robison Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread inquiz
Allan McKinnon mckinnon at live.com writes: ... I really enjoyed the old installer because then I had complete control over how I tweaked my computer during and after the install. I agree. The new installer got rid of dependencies and is scriptable - very good ! But the new installer

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 10:05 19/01/2012, you wrote: Allan McKinnon mckinnon at live.com writes: ... I really enjoyed the old installer because then I had complete control over how I tweaked my computer during and after the install. I agree. The new installer got rid of dependencies and is scriptable - very

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread inquiz
Eduardo Morras nec556 at retena.com writes: ... I think that a full/complete update of the old installer to add it support GEOM, ZFS, scripting and more newer features will consume more manpower and resources than create a new one from scratch, where the devs aren't chained by old code,

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Jan 18, 2012 9:37 PM, Allan McKinnon mckin...@live.com wrote: I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that the installer is now different. It seems to me that it forces you into doing extra steps that I was comfortable doing on my own. I really enjoyed the old

Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-19 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/19/12 3:25 AM, Allan McKinnon wrote: I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that the installer is now different. It seems to me that it forces you into doing extra steps that I was comfortable doing on my own. I really enjoyed the old installer because

* Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:05 AM, inquiz inq...@gmx.com wrote: Allan McKinnon mckinnon at live.com writes: ... I really enjoyed the old installer because then I had complete control over how I tweaked my computer during and after the install. I agree. The new installer got rid of

Re: * Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread inquiz
Devin Teske devin.teske at fisglobal.com writes: ... The new installer got rid of dependencies and is scriptable - very good ! ??? *cough* Old installer _is_ scriptable and had less external dependencies as it was written in C not sh(1) *cough* Well, here it is:

Re: * Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 19, 2012, at 7:20 AM, inquiz wrote: Devin Teske devin.teske at fisglobal.com writes: ... The new installer got rid of dependencies and is scriptable - very good ! ??? *cough* Old installer _is_ scriptable and had less external dependencies as it was written in C not sh(1)

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: I think that a full/complete update of the old installer to add it support GEOM, ZFS, scripting and more newer features will consume more manpower and resources than create a new one from scratch, where the devs aren't chained

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:41:37AM +, inquiz wrote: Eduardo Morras nec556 at retena.com writes: ... I think that a full/complete update of the old installer to add it support GEOM, ZFS, scripting and more newer features will consume more manpower and resources than create a new

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:41:37AM +, inquiz wrote: Eduardo Morras nec556 at retena.com writes: ... I think that a full/complete update of the old installer to add it support GEOM, ZFS, scripting and more newer features will consume

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Ismael Farfán
2012/1/19 Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com: On Jan 18, 2012 9:37 PM, Allan McKinnon mckin...@live.com wrote: I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that the installer is now different.  It seems to me that it forces you into doing extra steps that I was comfortable

RE: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:43 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Eduardo

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: I think that a full/complete update of the old installer to add it support GEOM, ZFS, scripting and more newer features will consume more manpower and

RE: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: Frank Shute [mailto:fr...@shute.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:01 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Chad Perrin'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: On Thu, Jan

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:36:29PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: From: Frank Shute The new installer will get better with time. The new installer is buggy, and the above maxim is something I'd rather not have to deal with when downloading RELEASE software. I do not dispute that the new

RE: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:15 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:36:29PM -0800, Devin

RE: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:15 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:36:29PM -0800, Devin

RE: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Devin Teske Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:33 PM To: 'Chad Perrin'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dave Robison Subject: RE: FreeBSD 9 [snip

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread 'Frank Shute'
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:36:29PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: I believe the difficulty in maintenance stems primarily from the fact that the existing partition editor MAY have to be entirely rewritten to accommodate other root filesystem types (but even that's not entirely true

RE: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: 'Frank Shute' [mailto:fr...@shute.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:52 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Chad Perrin'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Dave Robison Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:36:29PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote

Re: FreeBSD 9 on an AMD64 with an LSI SAS controller

2011-10-03 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 10/2/11 11:48 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: Greetings all, Roughly a week ago I sent to this mailing list a question about problems with installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD64 system. It seems that I now know the reason why booting from the install CD failed. When buying the system I had not

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-30 Thread Hiroshi Saeki
Hi, this mail is from Japan. My name is Hiroshi Saeki, a hobby user of FreeBSD. I think that this issue is invoked by kernel of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3. /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c 1.244.2.2 may have problem. I recommend you to revert older kernel. For example, downgrade to FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2,

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-30 Thread crsnet.pl
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:10:29 +0900, Hiroshi Saeki hsa...@wmail.plala.or.jp wrote: Hi, this mail is from Japan. My name is Hiroshi Saeki, a hobby user of FreeBSD. I think that this issue is invoked by kernel of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3. /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c 1.244.2.2 may have problem. I

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-30 Thread Sergei Hedgehog
Now flash plugin and skype 2.0 doesn't work after applying the lastest security patch to 8.2-RELEASE $ uname -srm FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64 launching skype doesn't show any output in console, it's just silently hangs. there is nothing in logs either. Opera, firefox and nspluginwrapper are

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-30 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:58:48 +0200 crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:10:29 +0900, Hiroshi Saeki hsa...@wmail.plala.or.jp wrote: I think that this issue is invoked by kernel of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3. /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c 1.244.2.2 may have problem.

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-30 Thread crsnet.pl
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:07:26 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:58:48 +0200 crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:10:29 +0900, Hiroshi Saeki hsa...@wmail.plala.or.jp wrote: I think that this issue is invoked by kernel of FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-30 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:31:24 +0200 crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:07:26 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Strange, flash works fine for me under 9.0-BETA3. Go figure. [cr4sh@x300 ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD x300 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #3: Tue

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-29 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
2011/9/29, crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl: Hello. I make update yesterday with csup. And i have build new firefox 7 from src. And today i see my flashplayer dont work (under Opera/Firefox). Opera about:plugins Opis: Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 and FlashPlayer

2011-09-29 Thread crsnet.pl
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:22:56 -0500, Edgar Rodolfo cybernaut...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/29, crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl: Hello. I make update yesterday with csup. And i have build new firefox 7 from src. And today i see my flashplayer dont work (under Opera/Firefox). Opera about:plugins

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 2 problems

2011-09-28 Thread Attilio Rao
2011/9/27 crsnet.pl crs...@crsnet.pl: Hi, Hello, thanks for reply. Please try to do this without wlan loaded at all (not just down, but build your wifi support as a module.) Then try without X, see whether it's related to that or not. First i make kldunload if_iwn. When i try to suspend

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 2 problems

2011-09-27 Thread crsnet.pl
Hi, Hello, thanks for reply. Please try to do this without wlan loaded at all (not just down, but build your wifi support as a module.) Then try without X, see whether it's related to that or not. First i make kldunload if_iwn. When i try to suspend from X, Xorg close, i see console and

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 problems.

2011-09-26 Thread crsnet.pl
2. Kadu/Gnu Gadu. I dont know why, but when i run kadu / gnu gadu and try to connect to Gadu-Gadu network software segments ;/ Kadu with signal 6, GnuGadu with signal 11. I try to use old gadulib, or recompie it. But this doesn't help ;/ I run portmaster -y --no-confirm --packages-if-newer -m

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 2 problems

2011-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Please try to do this without wlan loaded at all (not just down, but build your wifi support as a module.) Then try without X, see whether it's related to that or not. (And you haven't told us what your hardware is.) Adrian ___

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 problems.

2011-09-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/26/2011 16:02, crsnet.pl wrote: 2. Kadu/Gnu Gadu. I dont know why, but when i run kadu / gnu gadu and try to connect to Gadu-Gadu network software segments ;/ Kadu with signal 6, GnuGadu with signal 11. I try to use old gadulib, or recompie it. But this doesn't help ;/ I run

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disks with ZFS. The only way of

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread krad
On 26 January 2011 09:21, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk?

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disks with

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing the capacity of the pool itself.  Sure, you're going to lose the contents of the large 2TB drive, but that's sort of assumed.  You can't convert

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