Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-03 Thread don Juan
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, don Juan wrote: > Hi, > > What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD > Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know > what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say, > English Documentation. > > i've found this ques

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > Dears, > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no > floppy images in > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mention

fsck cannot determine fstype automatically

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Steele
We use gpart to create GPT style partitions. For example: # gpart show ad4 => 34 490234685 ad4 GPT (234G) 34 161 freebsd-boot (8.0K) 50 671088642 freebsd-swap (32G) 67108914 671088643 freebsd-swap (32G) 134217778 104857604 freeb

gpart command fails sporadically

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Steele
We've seen this error sporadically when using the gpart command: gpart: Cannot get GEOM tree: Cannot allocate memory What would cause this? It does not happen often but I wouldn't think we should never see it, not with a simple "gpart show" command. _

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: > On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris wrote: > > On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: > > > I've got a machine here running 7.2 which I want to > > > upgrade to 8.0 but looking at the root slice it is > > > woefully small: > >

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote: > On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: > > > On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris > > > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: > > > > > I've got a machine here

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > > > Hello Guys and Gals, > > Can you clear something up for me. > > Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on > > Freebsd8. > > Glen Barber posted this... > > http://www.mail-archive.com/fre

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread sand_man
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:48:08 -0500 (EST) Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > > > Hello Guys and Gals, > > Can you clear something up for me. > > Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox > > on Freebsd8. > > Glen Barber posted this... >

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted this... http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html ...las

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: Aaron Lewis wrote: Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). Well , the opensource ati driver doesn't work for me , no matter linux or FreeBSD , it crashes I've read the docume

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread sand_man
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:12 + Thomas Lawrence wrote: > >Hello Guys and Gals, >Can you clear something up for me. >Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox > on Freebsd8. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread George Liaskos
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with > FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? > > It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing > presentations), wireless, ~15" screen, lots

signal strength for wireless

2010-03-03 Thread Eitan Adler
Does any of the output of ifconfig have to do with the signal strength of the network? If yes - which part? If no - how can I determine that? I looked in the ifconfig man page but could not find any information relating to this. ___ freebsd-questions@free

starting kernel from non zero physical address

2010-03-03 Thread Naeem Afzal
Hi, I am trying to figure out best way to boot FreeBSD8 kernel when physical memory is not starting at zero address. Is using physfree address in hammer_time() argument is the one which sets start of physical memory address? Any input would be appreciated. thanks naeem

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Staals
On 03/03/10 14:48, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations), wireless, ~15" screen, lots of memory, and opt

Re: 802.11QinQ support

2010-03-03 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: > Hi there all > > Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports > 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? I don't believe FreeBSD supports QinQ yet, however it apparently has always been possible to do nested vlans with netgraph. My troub

Re: 802.11QinQ support

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Cameron
Hi there all Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? If so, how do I configure it as I've tried the usual "ifconfig vlan? create" and tried stipulating that the secondary VLan's parent interface it the primary VLan interface. But this doesn't see

SATA regression with 7.2

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a box with a VIA VT8251 chipset and a single SATA HD, running 6.3/i386. I'm trying to upgrade it to 7.2, but, when booting with the new kernel, it won't detect any HD. In my BIOS I can set the controller to SATA, RAID or AHCI, but that doesn't matter. Here's what I see when

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Aaron Lewis wrote: [r...@meilk /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON]# make CC='cc' make -f ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile MAKESRCPATH=../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON cc -O2 -pipe -march=i686 -ffast-math -mfpmath=s

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >>See the section "3.17.14 Intel 386 and AMD x86-64 Options" in the gcc >>Info manual. It contains a full list of the supported CPU-TYPE values >>for the -mtune=CPU-TYPE option. The -march=CPU-TYPE option accepts the >>same CPU types: >> >>

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I am beginning to wonder if there is something different about the way mfsbsd boots since it actually extracts itself in to memory upon boot. I looked at bootloader.conf once again and created a new boot.config file. The system does definitely see the file because it echos the commands. The boot pr

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread krad
On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: > > On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris > wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: > > > > I've got a machine here running 7.2 which I want to > > > > upgrade to 8.0 but lo

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Bas v.d. Wiel
Aaron Lewis wrote: Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). Well , the opensource ati driver doesn't work for me , no matter linux or FreeBSD , it crashes I've read the documents , and found my ATI

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video Card , FBSD doesn't boot when

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
[r...@meilk /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON]# make CC='cc' make -f ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile MAKESRCPATH=../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON cc -O2 -pipe -march=i686 -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse -O3 -nostdinc -I

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread William Bulley
According to Warren Block on Wed, 03/03/10 at 10:30: > > Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed > drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). > > xorg's open xf86-video-ati driver supports ATI video cards, including > the Radeon Mobility card

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). Well , the opensource ati driver doesn't work for me , no matter linux or FreeBSD , it crashes I've read the documents , and found my ATI is on the support l

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote: On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations), wire

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video Card , FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card. Is

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Aaron Lewis wrote: > On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: >> >> I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine >> with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? >> >> It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when >> d

Re: / slice too small

2010-03-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: > On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris wrote: > > On Sunday 28 of February 2010 15:26:54 Frank Shute wrote: > > > I've got a machine here running 7.2 which I want to > > > upgrade to 8.0 but looking at the root slice it is > > > woefully small: > >

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: > Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX > Drivers .. ) > > Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video > Card , > FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card. Is this only true of more recent

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

2010-03-03 Thread Aaron Lewis
On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when doing presentations), wireless, ~15" screen, lots of memory, and o

Stress testing a new FreeBSD server?

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Law
I would be grateful if anyone could recommend any tests, scripts, ports or packages which would stress test a new FreeBSD box? - both CPU and disk I/O. I would particularly like to get the processors nice and warm! :-) We already use bonnie++, unixbench, etc. but I was wondering if there is a pr

Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Lawrence
Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Did something in the hashes change from 6 to 8?

2010-03-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/02/10 16:48, Christian Baer wrote: Mellow greetings! On a box running FreeBSD 6.something (probably 6.4) the boot drive died. I had never bothered to update it to 7 or 8, since I was planning to build a new computer anyway. Since I hadn't done that yet and I still needed the work of this m

freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-03 Thread Piotr Lukawski
Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

Re: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

2010-03-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.03.2010 10:24, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients > write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, > finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windo

locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

2010-03-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windows client, the file and directory names all look correct. However when accessing these same file

FreeBSD 8.0 reboot hangs at welcome screen

2010-03-03 Thread n dhert
I have a server with VMware ESXi4 with two FreeBSD-amd64 virtual machines (one 7.2, one 8.0). I wanted to do a shutdown -r of the 8.0 machine. The system when down, started 'Rebooting ..', showed the FBSD Welcome screen, counted down 10 seconds, .. then nothing happened, waited about 5 minutes noth