RE: Three questions...

2005-07-18 Thread Norbert Koch
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 use XP's

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-18 Thread George Ruch
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

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-17 Thread RW
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. /

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-17 Thread George Ruch
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: [...]

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-16 Thread Michael L. Squires
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

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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-RW This

Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread George Ruch
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-RW This will be a learning installation. I have some past

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread David Kelly
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, but

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread lars
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

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread George Ruch
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

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread George Ruch
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) /ad1e /ad0

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread Steve Quinn
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 DVD-RW

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread George Ruch
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 grin)

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
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

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread George Ruch
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 patch

three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Alexander Bubnov
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? 2) When I download something from the Internet for a long time (around 9 hours) I always receive 3 strange

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
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 last

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
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

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Lars Eighner
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

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
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

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
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