On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:28:04 +0200, you wrote:
>As I understand, you try to install from the second hard disk.
>
>When I last tried this (using FreeBSD 4) it did not work such way,
>because I found that in FreeBSD's boot sector code the drive number
>is hard-coded. So you would have to go to the s
> Q1: I have two drives, laid out as follows:
> Drive 1
> /ad0a WinXP, NTFS, 16.06GB, primary
> /ad0e data, NTFS, 12.58GB, extended
>
> Drive 2
> /ad1a currently empty, 14.36GB, primary
>(installation target)
> /ad1e /ad0 backup, NTFS, 14.27GB, extended
>
> I'd like to us
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:57:13 +0100, you wrote:
>On Friday 15 July 2005 20:27, George Ruch wrote:
>
>> Q3: Partitioning
[...] Thanks for the recommendations. I'm about to start in on
Junior (dedicated FreeBSD with an FAT-32 exchange partition).
>BTW I would recommend GAG as a boot manager:
[...
On Friday 15 July 2005 20:27, George Ruch wrote:
> Q3: Partitioning
>Yes, I know you've seen several million questions on partitioning
> schemes. I've read up on it, and I'd like to get some feedback on this
> plan. All slices would be p/o ad1a, which has approx. 14,704MB free.
>
> /
On 2005-07-15 13:27, George Ruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on a 5.4-REL test installation on my main desktop machine.
> Hardware specifics:
>
> MSI MS-6378 MB
> AMD Athalon 1800 @ 1536
> 256 MB memory
> 2 x Maxtor 30 GB drives
> Zip 100 ATA
> DVD-R
I have as similar setup on my Toshiba 8100 notebook (XP Pro on ad0,
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and an NTFS partition on ad1); if you install XP first
and then FreeBSD second the FreeBSD boot manager works as well as anything
I've used to manage the process. The installation is also automatic, as
long
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:18:31 +0100, you wrote:
>George Ruch wrote:
>
>>On the little machine, it came up looking like a minimal LILO. It
>>would boot XP correctly, but came up with '??' for the XP
>>partition.
>
>It says ?? but boots XP just fine. If you care about the cosmetics then
>I posted a
George Ruch wrote:
On the little machine, it came up looking like a minimal LILO. It
would boot XP correctly, but came up with '??' for the XP
partition.
It says ?? but boots XP just fine. If you care about the cosmetics then
I posted a patch which makes it say DOS instead, a while ago, done
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:17:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
[much good stuff snipped]
>The RIP floppy has scripts for this sorta thing making it pretty easy
>It would be really smart to experiment with a sacrificial lamb prior to
>your production machine.
Looks like that's the way I'm headed. (evil gri
George Ruch wrote:
--- George Ruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on a 5.4-REL test installation on my main desktop machine.
> Hardware specifics:
> MSI MS-6378 MB
> AMD Athalon 1800 @ 1536
> 256 MB memory
> 2 x Maxtor 30 GB drives
> Zip 100 ATA
> DV
lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>George Ruch wrote:
>> Q1: I have two drives, laid out as follows:
>> Drive 1
>> /ad0a WinXP, NTFS, 16.06GB, primary
>> /ad0e data, NTFS, 12.58GB, extended
>>
>> Drive 2
>> /ad1a currently empty, 14.36GB, primary
>> (installation target)
>>
David Kelly wrote:
> You haven't tried installing FreeBSD yet? I ask because the very simple
> boot block FreeBSD installs has always worked well for me. Then again
> the last Microsoft product I booted with it was either NT4 or Win98.
I have, on both my smaller machine (K6-3/400, single 25GB dri
On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:01 PM, lars wrote:
George Ruch wrote:
Q1: I have two drives, laid out as follows:
Drive 1
/ad0a WinXP, NTFS, 16.06GB, primary
/ad0e data, NTFS, 12.58GB, extended
Drive 2
/ad1a currently empty, 14.36GB, primary
(installation target)
/ad1e /ad0
George Ruch wrote:
Q1: I have two drives, laid out as follows:
Drive 1
/ad0a WinXP, NTFS, 16.06GB, primary
/ad0e data, NTFS, 12.58GB, extended
Drive 2
/ad1a currently empty, 14.36GB, primary
(installation target)
/ad1e /ad0 backup, NTFS, 14.27GB, extended
I'd like to
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:27:41PM -0600, George Ruch wrote:
>
> Q2: Failing that, does anyone out there have any experience with
> PowerQuest's (now Symantec) BootMagic boot manager (p/o Partition Magic
> 8.0) and FreeBSD? The documentation indicated that it will recognize
> Linux partitions,
Lars Eighner wrote:
3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37
VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it?
I don't know what rate you mean.
Refresh rate is a common video parameter that I can think of, and often
specified with resolution. Since vidcontrol refers to the
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600
green. Can I change rate? How to do it?
The rate of what? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this part.
Monitor refresh rate would be my guess.
Checking setuid files and devices:
Checking f
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
Hi!
Could you answer my questions, please?
1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following:
Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done
Is it OK? What does it mean?
Yes, it is okay, and in fact is really necessary.
Disk writes ar
> Hi!
> Could you answer my questions, please?
I'll try.
>
> 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following:
> Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done
>
> Is it OK? What does it mean?
This is relatively normal. What it means is that it is syncing your
hard disk
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:18:21PM +0300, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
> Hi!
> Could you answer my questions, please?
>
> 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following:
>Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done
>
> Is it OK? What does it mean?
It is OK (as long as the
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