Re: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root

2009-11-16 Thread James Phillips
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: James Phillips wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:29:59 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net Subject: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root The single IDE connector is accessible via the legacy

Re: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root

2009-11-16 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
James Phillips wrote: --- On Sun, 11/15/09, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: James Phillips wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:29:59 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net Subject: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root The single IDE connector is accessible

NFS and crossmount

2009-11-16 Thread Patrik Usher
Hi All ! I'm chaning fileserver to a FreeBSD 7.2 from my old linux and can't find how to define the option crossmnt (crossmount) for NFS. Does anyone know if it's supported under FreeBSD 7 and if so, how to define it ? Thanks //paus ___

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:18:36 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com replied: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:21:28 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Just the fact that I now have to edit an xml file to simply add a Greek keyboard layout is

LinkedIn Messages, 11/16/2009

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Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:23:15PM -0700, David Allen wrote: Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700 David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote: 2. My second question is in regards to using the 'xx' fstype to have the system ignore that device. Consider, for example, a geli encrypted partition. The .eli device doesn't exist at boot time. I

ZFS Snaphost Hardware RAID

2009-11-16 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. I plan to set up backup server with 24x1Tb HDD and use ZFS with FreeBSD-8.0 on it. I prefare to have ZFS only system but as I see there is no any easy way to do so. I would like to use ZFS snapshots - is I undestand right what snaphots work OVER ZFS raidz\storage? So I can`t use

RE: ZFS Snaphost Hardware RAID

2009-11-16 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello all. I plan to set up backup server with 24x1Tb HDD and use ZFS with FreeBSD-8.0 on it. I prefare to have ZFS only system but as I see there is no any easy way to do so. I would like to use ZFS snapshots - is I undestand right what snaphots work OVER ZFS raidz\storage? So I can`t use

Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread John Almberg
Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to IE 6, 7, and 8 (with 3 different virtual boxes,

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 2, Message 2 On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700 David Allen wrote: Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:18:36 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com replied: It's also worth remembering that open source projects like xorg give the users the rare privilege of being able to make a difference. Test code, provide hardware, document bugs

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Julien Gormotte
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com a écrit : Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Bill Moran
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to IE

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:02:59AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... I've been using it to do some .NET programming, and it's been pretty good. No major

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Philipp Lengemann
Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com: I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two ways described there to re-enable CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE functionality for the X

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Philipp Lengemann wrote: Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com: I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two ways described there to re-enable

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:04:27AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 2, Message 2 On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700 David Allen wrote: Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE drive with the following entries in

Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, thanks again for your response: here's what I have, what I do and what I want to happen 1. I have my desktop machine which is running FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE-amd64 from June. I created a new distribution like that (as shown in the handbook -

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:06:55PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In one of my systems, I've got a Seagate SATA 500GB drive (ST3500320AS) which is actually not very old... purchased 12/11/2008. snip same single block. Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages: Nov 15 15:24:17

Re: No /dev/da0

2009-11-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:11:14PM +0100, Sabine Baer wrote: Well my problem is mounting my digital camera. If I remember correctly I did it with mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /lumix I think that was under FreeBSD 6.n But now, upgraded to 7.2, there ist no /dev/da0. Attached to an iBook with Mac

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread John Almberg
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:02:59AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... I've been using it to do some .NET programming, and it's been

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:56 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: there were stderrs output when i tried to exec sshd. reason was that the rc.conf entry was not in rc.conf. (this is all going into my .howto file The rc.d mechanism suggests to use /etc/rc.d/sshd

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:35:54 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: If you stick with HAL however (using AllowEmptyInput bypasses the autodetection), you can just use the policy file in the Handbook and just add the DontZap option in ServerFlags or ServerLayout section.

[solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mario Pavlov
Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on and as you know it's default to deny so once the kernel initializes ipfw it blocks everything including NFS so that was the whole problem...I removed the IPFIREWALL

Re: Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: sti

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
vuthecuong wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config and then 120, 180 etc. Anyone know whats wrong? thanks

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:35:54 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: If you stick with HAL however (using AllowEmptyInput bypasses the autodetection), you can just use the policy file in the Handbook and just add the DontZap option in ServerFlags or ServerLayout

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/16/09, Mario Pavlov free...@abv.bg wrote: Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on and as you know it's default to deny so once the kernel initializes ipfw it blocks everything including NFS so that was

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Doug Barton
Mario Pavlov wrote: Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at least one mission-critical system. Bonus points if it has no out-of-band

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:58 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Install the smartmontools port, and check the drive with 'smartctl -a /dev/ad4'. If you see a non-zero Reallocated_Sector_Ct, RMA it immediately, as it is about to fail. If see other errors reported, RMA it. (S)ATA

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Philipp Lengemann wrote: Am Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:29 -0800 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com: I _did_ go and read the Handbook section that Manolis Kiagias kindly posted a link to, and I have now tried _both_ of the two ways described there to re-enable

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:43:31PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:58 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Install the smartmontools port, and check the drive with 'smartctl -a /dev/ad4'. If you see a non-zero Reallocated_Sector_Ct, RMA it immediately, as it is

panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
something panicked my dell. more than twice. i have loaded, the i386 7.2-R Dvd. the panic was something like PHY#1 panic[y/n]y then something about cpu 0 being involved. i have the 8.0 rc3 bootonly.iso cd. should i try that? or did

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4b01c4df.4040...@freebsd.org, Doug Barton writes: Mario Pavlov wrote: Hi, it turned out I was stupid enough to misconfigure the kernel...I forgot that I had left the IPFIREWALL options turned on You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at least one

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:56 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: there were stderrs output when i tried to exec sshd. reason was that the rc.conf entry was not in rc.conf. (this is all going into my .howto

Lockup problems on FreeBSD disks

2009-11-16 Thread David Jackson
I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be some issue with the USB driver and perhaps a deadlock involving multiple

Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Ade Lovett
On Nov 16, 2009, at 13:32 , Doug Barton wrote: You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at least one mission-critical system. Bonus points if it has no out-of-band control plane. Further bonus points if it is more than 100 miles away, and you are the one who has

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-16 Thread Glen Barber
Hi On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        something panicked my dell.  more than twice.  i have loaded, the        i386 7.2-R Dvd.  the panic was something like        PHY#1        panic[y/n]y Do you have a crash report in /var/crash ?        then

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Hi On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        something panicked my dell.  more than twice.  i have loaded, the        i386 7.2-R Dvd.  the panic was something like        PHY#1        

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-16 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Gary, On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Hi On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        something panicked my dell.  more than twice.  i have loaded, the    

Re: No /dev/da0

2009-11-16 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:56:59AM +, Frank Shute wrote: [...] Have you tried playing around with camcontrol(8)? Yes, but the only effect was a freezing controlling terminal. Only # camcontrol devlist MATSHITA DMC-FX8 0100at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) # Shutting down

Re: No /dev/da0

2009-11-16 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:39:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: [...] The USB stack in 7.2 doesn't always handle quirky hardware well. There could be a regression on your hardware going from 6.x to 7.2. The USB stack has been rewritten for 8.0. In my limited testing it works better. I've got

Re: Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Mario Pavlov
indeed you get bonus points if you firewall yourself :) and of course this is not the first time I do that so my score is pretty good however my favourite is to forget about net.inet.ip.forwarding when I upgrade routers with many clients :) Tim, thanks for your hints...but I don't understand

Iomega REV Drive

2009-11-16 Thread Dean Weimer
I have recently found a used Iomega REV drive for a cheap price, and thought it might work as a good low cost backup solution on my home FreeBSD server. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to make it work with FreeBSD. FreeBSD finds it as a CDROM drive, has anyone managed to make

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:28:44PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Gary, On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Hi On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: