gptboot: invalid GPT backup header on soekris net5501

2011-03-30 Thread Matthias Teege
Hello, I formatted a ssd with the following procedure: gpart create -s gpt ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l sboot -s 64K ad0 gpart bootcode -b /mnt/boot/pmbr -p /mnt/boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l sroot -b 2048 -s 1G ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l svar -s 1G ad0 gpart add -t

about NKPT on amd64

2011-03-30 Thread fuzhli
Hi, Alan I'm study the Revision 187465 : Prepare for a larger kernel virtual address space. After read some relative source code, I have an question about the macro NKPT on amd64: why 32 is enough for the kernel page table pages? Do it means that the range (KERNBASE, virtual_avail) should

xorg on Toshiba Tecra A1 freebsd senseless

2011-03-30 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Xorg -configure Xorg -config xorg.conf.new After doing that on Toshiba Tecra A1 FreeBSD 8.2 Stable. FreeBSD totally hanged + hard boot few times. Hence stressing and fdisking with y option every try. Any one suceeded rinning X on Toshiba Tecra A1? - jahan

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:09:17AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:56:14 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel, that's the tachometer. It

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:09:17AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:56:14 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No,

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word processing, etc.). A word of caution -- as you have probably noticed in responses

Re: Unable to update to kde-4.6.1

2011-03-30 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
try uninstalling cmake cd /usr/ports/devel/cmake make deinstall make install clean -jahan On 3/27/11, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: After following the instructions in UPDATING, I am still experiencing a problem getting KDE-4 updated. I have tried several different methods. The

Re: about NKPT on amd64

2011-03-30 Thread Alan Cox
On 03/30/2011 01:47, fuzhli wrote: Hi, Alan I'm study the Revision 187465 : Prepare for a larger kernel virtual address space. After read some relative source code, I have an question about the macro NKPT on amd64: why 32 is enough for the kernel page table pages? Do it means that the range

RE: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread four.harris...@googlemail.com
When I find things in FreeBSD difficult to accomplish (eg. first time upgrading world kernel from source) I reflect on something I read I think in the introduction to 'Learning Perl' which applies equally to FreeBSD. If there is a choice between making things easy to learn and easy to use, the

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 30, 2011 9:49:02 AM -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word processing,

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) four.harris...@googlemail.com four.harris...@googlemail.com articulated: Once you've scaled the learning curve, you will appreciate how easy it is to achieve things with FreeBSD compared to other OS which attempt to make things 'easy' for you (wireless

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
If there is a choice between making things easy to learn and easy to use, the design principle is to make it easy to use - even if that comes at the cost of a steeper learning curve. And you can always create easy-to-learn GUI-based tool that works on the top of low-level tools. BTW Microsoft

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Tom Worster
I only know FreeBSD so I can't recommend any other BSD as being easier. And I don't use a windowing system on it. But I've an answer to a question you didn't ask: FreeBSD in VirtualBox a convenient way of learning. It saves a lot of uninteresting messing around. And it allows me to save my

Re: how to enforce password change at first login

2011-03-30 Thread Michael
On 30/03/2011 06:19, Yuri Pankov wrote: Something like: # pw usermodusername -p -1 Thanks a lot, exactly what I was looking for. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Al Plant
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:56:14 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel, that's the tachometer. It is supposed to point at zero if the car is not

Re: xorg on Toshiba Tecra A1 freebsd senseless

2011-03-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:32:32PM +, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Xorg -configure Xorg -config xorg.conf.new After doing that on Toshiba Tecra A1 FreeBSD 8.2 Stable. FreeBSD totally hanged + hard boot few times. Hence stressing and fdisking with y option every try. Any one suceeded

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel,    that's the tachometer. It is supposed to point at zero if the    car is not started. The fuel

Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Graham Bentley
Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: xorg on Toshiba Tecra A1 freebsd senseless

2011-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Maybe of no relevance, but I think the default for Xorg -config xorg.conf.new is to show blank screen. You have to type CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to get back to the terminal. Depending on key mapping, that may not work. But ctrl-alt-f1 to switch back

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Devin Teske
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 22:00 +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] Depends on what you want to write. I find that Gnome has pretty good built-in support (both for writing ISO's and dysjoint files/directories). -- Cheers,

Re: xorg on Toshiba Tecra A1 freebsd senseless

2011-03-30 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Its confirmed dead with 20 - 60 blocks un referenced i nodes in HDD. I had to fsck -y using option 4 from boot menu ( the single user mode). And I thing as Unix it should not be able to that right? Its happening tried this that etc. In the process I found that doing Xorg -config xorg.conf.new

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Polytropon
Allow me to add something here: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:49:55 -0400, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: FreeBSD in VirtualBox a convenient way of learning. It saves a lot of uninteresting messing around. And it allows me to save my project (by saving VM state), get on with some other work and

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:23 -0400, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) four.harris...@googlemail.com four.harris...@googlemail.com articulated: Once you've scaled the learning curve, you will appreciate how easy it is to achieve things with

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating system -- so I think if it said 1/0 it would be more accurate to say the car would crash. It's uncertain

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating system -- so I think if it said

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:14 +0100, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] I don't know of a stand-alone GUI program, but all the big desktop environments have a favourite. The one provided by Gnome should work quite

Re: kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-30 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I understand that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is working, but I'm not sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should. During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system across the

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] If you're already got KDE libs, running sysutils/k3b or sysutils/k3b-kde4 is pretty light. It's feature set is comparable if not better than

Re: kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Luke Dean lu...@pobox.com wrote: The Handbook says 1GB is good enough most of the time, but it also says that 3x the amount of physical memory is a good size as well. I compromised between the two and made an 8GB journal for this system that has ~4GB of

gcc

2011-03-30 Thread Gary Dunn
When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu Open Slate Project http://openslate.org http://www.facebook.com/garydunn808 http://e9erust.blogspot.com Twitter @garydunn808 Sent from my

Re: gcc

2011-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote: When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. Probably never, as GPL 3 code isn't allowed in the base system. There have been some

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:57:45AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely. Mathematically, that