Re: Raid

2010-02-22 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
Hey Nick Have you read the handbook which is a good starting point for most questions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Nick Mackowski wrote: > Hi I have a Hp Pavillion dv8 with dual sata drives.  What program do I need

Raid

2010-02-22 Thread Nick Mackowski
Hi I have a Hp Pavillion dv8 with dual sata drives. What program do I need to raid this thing. I installed a second hard drive after I bought it.. I am not sure what I need. Thanks, Nick E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) Database version: 6.14410 http://www.pctools.com/

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
On 22 February 2010 21:16, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:58:51 +, Jeronimo Calvo > wrote: >> It is basically flooding the terminal at the logon prompt... > > Is there media inside the drive? Is the drive working > properly? > > > >> I was >> able to connect trough ssh (to avoid

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 22 February 2010, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:59 +, Mike Clarke wrote: > > I see the "expected xxx, got yyy" type of message every time I do a > > restore from a snapshot dump but it's never caused any problems. > > The message is issued by restore, not by dump. A

Gvinum RAID1+0

2010-02-22 Thread Andrew Klaassen
Hi. Newbie question: I'm trying to figure out how to create a stripe-over-mirrors, aka RAID1+0, with Gvinum. The manual gives an example for a mirror-over-stripes, aka RAID0+1, but I can't for the life of me figure out from that example or others I've feebly Googled how to do a RAID1+0. I'm

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:58:51 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > It is basically flooding the terminal at the logon prompt... Is there media inside the drive? Is the drive working properly? > I was > able to connect trough ssh (to avoid the flooding) and remove the cd0 > entry from fstab... but er

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
It is basically flooding the terminal at the logon prompt... I was able to connect trough ssh (to avoid the flooding) and remove the cd0 entry from fstab... but error still coming up (I removed it as I dont need a cdrom drive on it now) when decompile the atapi module from kernel now the error is

Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive

2010-02-22 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
On 22.02.2010 22:32, Programmer In Training wrote: OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages that wo

IDE ZIP100 Drive

2010-02-22 Thread Programmer In Training
Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (eith

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
Mehul Ved wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m wrote: thanks.. i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and st

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:00:38 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > the error that im getting is the following: > > >> acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 Okay, next question: What are you trying to do when this error occurs? Is it the diagnostic message on startup (when acd driv

Re: if this is a stupid q...

2010-02-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:43:58AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 21), Gary Kline said: > > Excuse me, butthis IS a stupid question. I've tried to figure it out > > logically and by experimentation; just want to see if my findings jib with > > the unix wizards onlist. > > > >

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m wrote: > > > thanks..  i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to > mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can > copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and > started modif

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
thanks.. i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and started modifying the core code basically i just need some com

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM, kalin m wrote: > > hi all...  realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old > fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc...  what would be > the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? To be honest considering its sooo OLD you're bes

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
the error that im getting is the following: >> acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 On 22 February 2010 16:02, Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 02/22/10 16:04, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I have managed to migrate a physic old server to a vps, using KVM. > > Since y

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM, kalin m wrote: > > hi all...  realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old > fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc...  what would be > the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? Does http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_E

sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
hi all... realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc... what would be the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? thanks.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Limiting Port

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Powell
Alex Terente wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my FreeBSD system, i have installed a gameserver on > it and after a period of time, the port 11002 (login port) is closed. What > i can do to resolve this? > Two things spring to mind at first, possibly a way to get started. First, establish

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:45:51PM +0800, Aiza wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: > >>1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the > >>live running file system. > >> > >>Does this mean that a complete copy of the file > >>system is written to .snap directory

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:37:59 +, Mike Clarke wrote: > I see the "expected xxx, got yyy" type of message every time I do a > restore from a snapshot dump but it's never caused any problems. The message is issued by restore, not by dump. According to /usr/src/sbin/restore/restore.c, beginning

Re: Limiting Port

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:49:57 -0800 (PST), Alex Terente wrote: > Hi, >   > I have a problem with my FreeBSD system, i have installed > a gameserver on it and after a period of time, the port > 11002 (login port) is closed. What i can do to resolve this? Do you use PF or IPFW for bandwidth and por

Limiting Port

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Terente
Hi,   I have a problem with my FreeBSD system, i have installed a gameserver on it and after a period of time, the port 11002 (login port) is closed. What i can do to resolve this?   Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 22 February 2010, Jerry McAllister wrote: > I don't know the exact algorithm dump uses for sorting the inodes, > but this looks like a file was deleted between the time the list > was made and the time dump got to reading it. I expect it's the inode for the temporary snapshot in the .sn

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/22/10 16:04, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi All, I have managed to migrate a physic old server to a vps, using KVM. Since you have not explainted what KVM is, I assume it's Linux's virtualization? Dumping the HD with dd to a .img file and assigning the hd under KVM. Everything looks alrigh

Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:04:02 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > Hi All, > > I have managed to migrate a physic old server to a vps, using KVM. > Dumping the HD with dd to a .img file and assigning the hd under KVM. > Everything looks alright except for a cdrom driver error (as the original > server

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/02/2010 14:30, Jerry McAllister wrote: > No. In multi-user, files are still changing. The snapshot could > possibly be made between parts of a change - between different writes > to the file, so there could be some inconsistency. In practice

Re: dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:48:24PM +0800, Aiza wrote: > Here is the output messages from a test dump of a live file system / > What are the warning messages trying to tell me and more important the > expected next file 16454, got 437 > message? Looks like it finished OK. Those numbers are inode

Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE

2010-02-22 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi All, I have managed to migrate a physic old server to a vps, using KVM. Dumping the HD with dd to a .img file and assigning the hd under KVM. Everything looks alright except for a cdrom driver error (as the original server use to have 2 of them...) I have recompile the kernel without atapi modu

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:33:47PM +0800, Aiza wrote: > I have seen this posted in the questions archives to be > used to clone a active system hard drive to a > USB cabled hard drive. > > > > Prepare the target > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 > # fdisk -BI /dev/da0 > # bsdlabel -B -w da

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23:10PM +0800, Aiza wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > >On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza wrote: > >>1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the > >>live running file system. > >> > >>... > >

dump warning msgs??

2010-02-22 Thread Aiza
Here is the output messages from a test dump of a live file system / What are the warning messages trying to tell me and more important the expected next file 16454, got 437 message? /mnt >dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -rf - DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Feb 22 21:28:25 2010 DUM

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/02/2010 08:33, Aiza wrote: > What happened to swap? The fstab will be showing it as > the first file system on the hard drive slice. > Is something missing here? Swap isn't a filesystem. There's no persistent content in a swap partition, so the

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:33:47 +0800, Aiza wrote: > I have seen this posted in the questions archives to be > used to clone a active system hard drive to a > USB cabled hard drive. > > > > Prepare the target > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 > # fdisk -BI /dev/da0 > # bsdlabel -B -w da0s1 >

Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Aiza
I have seen this posted in the questions archives to be used to clone a active system hard drive to a USB cabled hard drive. Prepare the target #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 # fdisk -BI /dev/da0 # bsdlabel -B -w da0s1 # newfs –U /dev/da0s1a # / # newfs -U /dev/da0s1d