Re: Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

2013-06-28 Thread KK CHN
there a possibility to retrieve that FreeBSD Installation which > > is overwritten by Linux installation. > > In most cases: What has been overwritten is lost. > > But: What has "only" been disallocated (data still on disk) > can _sometimes_ be recovered. > >

Re: Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

2013-06-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:28:49 +, KK CHN wrote: > List, > > I accidentally installed a Linux variant(mint OS) on my Harddisk > where FreeBSD is installed( which contains my data). > > Is there a possibility to retrieve that FreeBSD Installation which > is

Retrieving a FreeBSD installation

2013-06-27 Thread KK CHN
List, I accidentally installed a Linux variant(mint OS) on my Harddisk where FreeBSD is installed( which contains my data). Is there a possibility to retrieve that FreeBSD Installation which is overwritten by Linux installation. Any hints welcome! Thanks Chn

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 23:34:48 +0100, jb wrote: > Andre Albsmeier siemens.com> writes: > > > ... > > However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is > > loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads > > the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. > > ... > > Is there no chance t

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 18:46:04 +0100, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier > mailto:andre.albsme...@siemens.com>> wrote: > For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: > > One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box: > > Slice 1: Windo

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-03 Thread jb
jb gmail.com> writes: > ... > I do not know the story of active slice in FreeBSD, but I know that neither > Windows nor Linux require active partitions (in their jargon) to boot from any > more. > Perhaps it is time to review this requirement in FreeBSD and drop it if > possible. > Opinions are

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-03 Thread jb
Andre Albsmeier siemens.com> writes: > ... > However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is > loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads > the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. > ... > Is there no chance to actually honour the fact that F3 was > pressed and boot from sl

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-03 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: > > One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box: > > Slice 1: Windows XP :-( > Slice 2: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V1 > Slice 3: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V2 > > The MBR is configured as: > > option

Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-03 Thread Andre Albsmeier
For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box: Slice 1: Windows XP :-( Slice 2: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V1 Slice 3: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V2 The MBR is configured as: options=packet,noupdate,nosetdrv default_selection=F2 (Slice 2) When booting, I

Re: Freebsd installation problem with 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID)

2011-12-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Dec 24 23:42:28 2011 > Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:38:04 -0500 > From: heat...@trans-world.org > To: > Subject: Freebsd installation problem with 3ware 8506-4LP - storage > controller (RAID) > > Hello, we tried to instal Fr

Freebsd installation problem with 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID)

2011-12-24 Thread heather
Hello, we tried to instal Freebsd with my 3ware 8506-4LP - storage controller (RAID) and it seems freebsd does not support my raid card could you please tell me how to fox this problem? Here below ismy data center message I got after they tried to instal freebsd on my server, regards, Miss Rive

Re: USB thumb drives for bootable flash FreeBSD installation...

2011-10-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jason Usher wrote: I'm going to run FreeBSD off of a flash drive on some older mac mini systems. Before I begin, though, I'd like some advice on the best USB thumb drives for this. These systems will be deployed and left in place, hopefully for YEARS in a remote, inacces

Re: USB thumb drives for bootable flash FreeBSD installation...

2011-10-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 17, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Jason Usher wrote: > Are they all the same, or are there some USB flash choices that are more > durable and fault tolerant than others ? There's fairly significant differences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Write_endurance SLC NOR flash tends to

USB thumb drives for bootable flash FreeBSD installation...

2011-10-17 Thread Jason Usher
I'm going to run FreeBSD off of a flash drive on some older mac mini systems. Before I begin, though, I'd like some advice on the best USB thumb drives for this. These systems will be deployed and left in place, hopefully for YEARS in a remote, inaccessible location. So, I'd like to make sure

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
I tried responding to an off-list message. Delivery failed for some reason. I just don't want the sender of the message to which I tried to reply to think I'm ignoring him, so I elected to send this to the list. Thanks for your patience. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://o

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:09:52PM +, Devin Teske wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > > > You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a > > > system upgrade if you wan

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a > > system upgrade if you want to find out the `true' answer as to when the > > box was first ... what

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a > system upgrade if you want to find out the `true' answer as to when the > box was first ... what? partitioned? newfs'd? clue me in here. > > What _is_ the defin

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Alexandr Sushko wrote: > Try to use not ls -l, but ls -lc. It will show you file creation time. > > > ls -lcd /bin/, for example > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Dec 10 00:31 /bin/ > > I ran this and the earliest date I found was Oct 12, 2008 which seems to be a

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Alexandr Sushko
On 01/13/2011 11:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: Hello folks, I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is possible. I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-26 Thread David Demelier
On 14/01/2011 19:46, Carl Johnson wrote: Chip Camden writes: Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011: I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories stat -f "%SB %N" /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top level directories sodser

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Chip Camden writes: > Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011: >> > I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories >> > >> > stat -f "%SB %N" /* >> >> Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the >> remaining top level directories >> >> >> sodserve# stat -f

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread RW
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:32:13 -0800 Chip Camden wrote: > > sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /* > > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT > > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin > > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot > > Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev > > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /etc > > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /lib > > Jan 9 04:54:21 20

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread krad
On 14 January 2011 15:37, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth n j on Friday, 14 January 2011: > > >>> I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation > date. > > >>> We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth n j on Friday, 14 January 2011: > >>> I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. > >>> We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD > >>> kernel is possible. > > How about looking a

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: > How about /var/empty: > > % ls -ldo /var/empty/ > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jul 18 19:16 /var/empty/ > > It can be changed, but doesn't look likely. > > Ivan's e-mail I think might be a little more accurate ch...@ziggy.xaerolimit.

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth David DEMELIER on Friday, 14 January 2011: > 2011/1/13 Chip Camden : > > > > The date on the /home symlink reflects my install date.  I don't think > > anything would touch that. > > > > -- > > Sterling (Chip) Camden    | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F > > http://camdensoftware.

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011: > > I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories > > > > stat -f "%SB %N" /* > > Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the > remaining top level directories > > > sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /* > Jan 9 04:54:21 201

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread krad
On 13 January 2011 20:34, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, January 13, 2011 a las 09:28:29PM +0100, David Demelier > escribió: > > > Hello folks, > > > > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. > > We can't look

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread n j
>>> I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. >>> We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD >>> kernel is possible. How about looking at /proc or /mnt? On a couple of my boxes that I checked, tho

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-14 Thread David DEMELIER
2011/1/13 Chip Camden : > Quoth David Demelier on Thursday, 13 January 2011: >> Hello folks, >> >> I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. >> We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD >> kernel

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Chave
> I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories > > stat -f "%SB %N" /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top level directories sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /* Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Chip Camden writes: > Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011: >> Polytropon writes: >> >> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> >> > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to >> >>

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:28:29 +0100 David Demelier wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation > date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the > FreeBSD kernel is possible. > > I think searchin

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011: > Polytropon writes: > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > >> > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to > >> > query the date the machine

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Ivan Voras on Friday, 14 January 2011: > On 13/01/2011 21:28, David Demelier wrote: > >Hello folks, > > > >I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. > >We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeB

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Polytropon writes: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to >> > query the date the machine was built): >> > >> >ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf >> >>

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On 13/01/2011 21:28, David Demelier wrote: Hello folks, I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is possible. If you haven't removed it, a line in /etc/rc.conf shoul

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to > > query the date the machine was built): > > > > ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > I gather that you don't ever

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:50 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to > > query the date the machine was built): > > > > ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > I gather that you don't ever ru

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to > query the date the machine was built): > > ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file? My machine installed i

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:03 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011: > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > > > On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation > > > (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009).

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > > On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation > > (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first > > installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010.

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation > (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first > installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010. Certainly the target of the link would change; my /etc/t

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread David DEMELIER
2011/1/13 Chuck Swiger : > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: >> I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We >> can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is >> possible. >> >&

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chuck Swiger on Thursday, 13 January 2011: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: > > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We > > can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel > >

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth David Demelier on Thursday, 13 January 2011: > Hello folks, > > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. > We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD > kernel is possible. > > I think searching a f

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We > can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is > possible. > > I think searching a file absolutely not touch

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, January 13, 2011 a las 09:28:29PM +0100, David Demelier escribió: > Hello folks, > > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. > We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD > kernel is possibl

Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread David Demelier
Hello folks, I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is possible. I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can helps but which one? markand@Me

Re: Effective FreeBSD installation on several servers

2010-08-29 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 8/29/2010 10:21 AM, Mikhail wrote: > Hello, I have three servers which I'm going to use for dynamips setup, so I > basicly need only computing power of those machines. > > What would be the most effective way to install/upgrade FreeBSD on servers? > I think about PXE booting through the network

Effective FreeBSD installation on several servers

2010-08-29 Thread Mikhail
Hello, I have three servers which I'm going to use for dynamips setup, so I basicly need only computing power of those machines. What would be the most effective way to install/upgrade FreeBSD on servers? I think about PXE booting through the network and mounting /,/home over NFS - is it possible?

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 4, Message 2 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq > >> NX5000, 2MB

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/29/09, Polytropon wrote: > Honestly, I've never seen the need for extended DOS partitions. > Let's say you intendedly want to run a multi-OS system, then > you can install four systems, each one in its own slice, and > within the slice, the partitiions, if needed and supported. By using

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: > See > http://busby.net/bret/Screenshot--dev-sda-GParted.png I think I do understand. You have: 1. a primary DOS partition which contains a NTFS file system 2. an extended DOS partition containing "subpar

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq >>> NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. >> >> I really hope you meant Gb here ;) >> >>> >>> I noticed that the Li

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I really hope you meant Gb here ;) I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:01:18PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq > NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. > > I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue > 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: > From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses hard > disc slices rather than partitions, and therefore cannot > easily be installed in a free partition, but needs for > hard disc slices to be used. I see a terminology pr

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-26 Thread RW
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq > NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. > > I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in > Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on

Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-26 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD. From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq > NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I really hope you meant Gb here ;) > > I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in > Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD

RE: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Fallon
d=2740699 -Original Message- From: Miguel [mailto:luis.hen...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:53 PM To: Ben Fallon Cc: freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ben Fallon wrote: > What mod

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-06 Thread Miguel
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ben Fallon wrote: > Might want to take a look at this page as it may provide a bit more insight. > The problem isn't with the Machine specifically but with the ATI Sata > Controller/Chipset.  Not sure if this has been fixed yet. > > http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-06 Thread Miguel
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > Your best bet is to poll the mobile list (CC'd) to see if anyone was able to > get FreeBSD working on this laptop (or even to know whether this is a lost > cause till somebody makes some patches for this laptop). Since 7.2 also does > not work and

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Mel Flynn
NG: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 > warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set > accurately > > And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. > > Please let me know if anyone has any sug

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Miguel
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Miguel wrote: >> Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the >> snapshot I >> tried.  Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released.  My >> problem with trying BETA2 is th

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Miguel
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Miguel wrote: >> Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the >> snapshot I >> tried.  Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released.  My >> problem with trying BETA2 is th

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Miguel wrote: > Yes, I understand -- just realised that BETA2 is more recent than the > snapshot I > tried.  Most probably, I'll just wait until 8.0 is actually released.  My > problem with trying BETA2 is that it will take long time to get it (slow > connection her

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Miguel
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >> I have not tried 8.0-BETA (as someone on the IRC channel suggested) but not >> sure >> if it will make any difference.  As far as I understand, the snapshot I >> tried is >> more recent than 8.0-BETA2.  Or am I wrong?  Is it worth downloading

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Miguel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Miguel wrote: >>> Hi Glen, >>> Can you try booting with ACPI disabled?  It should be option 2 from the loader menu. >>> >>> Yes, I tried that already

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Miguel
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Miguel wrote: >> Hi Glen, >> >>> >>> Can you try booting with ACPI disabled?  It should be option 2 from >>> the loader menu. >> >> Yes, I tried that already with same results. >> > > Can you try the installation

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Miguel wrote: > Hi Glen, > >> >> Can you try booting with ACPI disabled?  It should be option 2 from >> the loader menu. > > Yes, I tried that already with same results. > Can you try the installation media on another machine (to rule out a bad CD or bad burn)? Als

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Miguel
p] > > >> >> acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST >> device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6 >> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec >> md0: Preload image 4194304 bytes at 0x80fd8660 >> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! >> WARNIN

Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Glen Barber
on enabled, expect reduced performance. > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 > warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set > accurately > > And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. > > Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for

Problems with FreeBSD installation

2009-08-05 Thread Miguel
expect reduced performance. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately And at this point... nothing else -- system freezes. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions for me to have a FreeBSD installation on my laptop.

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Powell
pwn wrote: [snip] >>> on this page >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html >>> it says: >>> Tip: By default, when you build a custom kernel, all kernel modules will >>> be rebuilt as well. If you want to update a kernel faster or to build >>> only custom m

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread pwn
Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:39:16PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: im

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:39:16PM +, pwn wrote: > Jerry McAllister escreveu: > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: > > > > > >>Jerry McAllister escreveu: > >> > >>>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > immediately after the

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread pwn
Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: > Jerry McAllister escreveu: > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: > > > > > >>immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be > >>performed by order > >>1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel > >>2 - The Cutt

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread pwn
Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3 - Updating FreeBSD Is this the proper order? I would say, f

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: > immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be > performed by order > 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel > 2 - The Cutting Edge > 3 - Updating FreeBSD > > Is this the proper order? I would say, first update FreeBSD src a

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread pwn
andrew clarke escreveu: On Wed 2008-10-29 13:43:23 UTC+, pwn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3 - Updating FreeBSD Is this the proper order? there is

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 13:43:23 UTC+, pwn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be > performed by order > 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel > 2 - The Cutting Edge > 3 - Updating FreeBSD > > Is this the proper order? > there is some set of ru

freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread pwn
immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3 - Updating FreeBSD Is this the proper order? there is some set of rules to be followed post-installation? since, i do not find any reference mentioning

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-20 Thread Mel
On Friday 19 September 2008 12:17:35 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Mel wrote: > > > > that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to > > > > be the first partition, for the simple reason that everything else

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Mel wrote: > > > that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to be > > > the > > > first partition, for the simple reason that everything else is mounted > > > on top > > > of it. > > > > It's n

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Mel wrote: > > that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to be > > the > > first partition, for the simple reason that everything else is mounted on > > top > > of it. > > It's not the partition device names that determine the mount order

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mel wrote: that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to be the first partition, for the simple reason that everything else is mounted on top of it. For the same reason: /dev/ad1se /usr/local /dev/ad1sf /usr will not work. For this particular case (root

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Mel
On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:26:43 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:49:37PM +0300, Robert Lebovich wrote: > > I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it > > doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. > > I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:49:37PM +0300, Robert Lebovich wrote: > I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it > doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. > I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: > /boot > swap > / > /var > /usr > Can you he

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:32:09PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > Robert Lebovich skrev: > >I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it > >doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. > >I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: > >/boot > >swap

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Leslie Jensen
Robert Lebovich skrev: I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: /boot swap / /var /usr Can you help me how to install in this order? __

FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Robert Lebovich
I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: /boot swap / /var /usr Can you help me how to install in this order? __

moving FreeBSD installation disk to USB stick

2008-06-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've an USB stick of 1 GByte and my idea is to put the FreeBSD 7.0 installation disk on this to boot from and install the system in a laptop which does not have other external devices; in the past I've put already a FreeBSD boot able system on such a stick, following this recipe: http://gr

Re: FreeBSD Installation

2008-06-11 Thread _sickfile
and when learning something new and this notion should be pointed out somewhat earlier in chapter 2. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Installation-tp4535482p17793141.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

HOWTO local FTP mirror for FreeBSD installation

2008-04-19 Thread John Mok
Hi, For local installations of FreeBSD via FTP, I tried to setup a local FTP mirror using the preferred method as described in section 3.1.3 of the following :- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/hubs/mirror-howto.html However, I found that the ftp-master.freebsd.org refused to accept cv

Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64

2008-04-16 Thread sergio lenzi
I use an ACER notebook 5050 with 2 partitions (one i386, and other amd64) the amd64 is faster, the software is very stable, and everything works... I do not use the sleep mode, the freebsd kernel keeps the processor halted when not in use, so the battery lasts longer, and the boot (total boot is

Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64

2008-04-16 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Sébastien Morand wrote: Hi, ... So before reinstalling everything, I'd like to know : Is it a reasonable choice (in terme of performance, reliability, and compatibility terms) to install i386 over amd64 arch? For a desktop i386 is still the better choice and unless you have more than 3G of R

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