FreeBSD 8.0 reboot hangs at welcome screen
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 nothing happened. I had do power-off the Virtual Machine, then power-on and it rebooted. After that I saw the time (date command) on that machine was 5 minutes behind ... Why is that? And can the 5 minutes behind in time be caused by that 5 minute 'hang' period? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages
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 files locally, the file- and directory names that utilize russian and finnish languages are full of question marks, like this for russian: -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody11M Feb 21 2008 ?? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 9.2M Feb 21 2008 ??-?? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 6.3M Feb 21 2008 ?? ... -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.6M Feb 21 2008 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.1M Feb 21 2008 ?? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.7M Feb 21 2008 ?? and like this for finnish: drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody 13 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Hoitovirhe drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody7 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Niuva 20 drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody 13 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Pirun Nyrkki drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody 12 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - U.S.C.H.! And operating on these files locally is tricky to say the least: for example I cannot do a: cd ?? for obvious reasons, because there is no directory that REALLY has all those question marks. However, I am still able to browse and operate on these files using Midnight Commander, somehow it actually works. How do I need to set the locale settings on the FreeBSD machine so that all file names are displayed correctly when operated on locally? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages
-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 Windows client, the file and directory names all look correct. However when accessing these same files locally, the file- and directory names that utilize russian and finnish languages are full of question marks, like this for russian: -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody11M Feb 21 2008 ?? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 9.2M Feb 21 2008 ??-?? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 6.3M Feb 21 2008 ?? ... -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.6M Feb 21 2008 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.1M Feb 21 2008 ?? -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7.7M Feb 21 2008 ?? and like this for finnish: drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody 13 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Hoitovirhe drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody7 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Niuva 20 drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody 13 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - Pirun Nyrkki drwxr-xr-x2 nobody nobody 12 Mar 2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t - U.S.C.H.! And operating on these files locally is tricky to say the least: for example I cannot do a: cd ?? for obvious reasons, because there is no directory that REALLY has all those question marks. However, I am still able to browse and operate on these files using Midnight Commander, somehow it actually works. How do I need to set the locale settings on the FreeBSD machine so that all file names are displayed correctly when operated on locally? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org It's actually an illusion. It happens because ls quite rightly refuses to spew characters the terminal capabilities doesn't state that can be displayed, simply because they might send control characters to the terminal that may or may not corrupt the display. If you use completion (f.eks. tab), you'll see a ton of \#0x??? or whatnot being the actual pathname. If you're really intent on displaying the directory, try echo * //Svein - -- - +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE - +---+--- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mob...@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuOLcQACgkQODUnwSLUlKS7ZACgkHbTiMS/Nd3Bvt+9TSwaCt3i xjAAoIA3d9vZg8CnqPTC6R7dWyJ9FtSR =ig8W -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd install from floppy
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/ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html I tried so install Freebsd 7 using availiable floppy (successful) and update it to 8.0 (after 3 days finally error and now now whole /usr directory so I am stacked). Could you please produce install floppy images for Freebsd 8.0? Please please please. I have no power to do the install of 7, upgrade and fail again :-( Thanks in adavance. Piotr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Did something in the hashes change from 6 to 8?
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 machine, I just put in a new drive and installed
8.0.
The deal is that a script I restored from backup doesn't quite work as I
think it should. This is the part that somehow causes problems:
!/bin/sh
stty -echo
read -p Enter passphrase: passphrase
stty echo
main=`echo ${passphrase} | sha256 | cut -c 1-5`
if [ ${main} != ddfab ]; then
echo Wrong passphrase!
exit
fi
I have typed the password in question about a gazillion times, so I am
pretty sure I got it right. But somehow the 'if' keeps kicking in.
There are two possible reasons for this:
1. I have Alzheimer's.
2. Something about the way sha256(1) and/or digest(1) or one of the
other commands in the script react differenly than before.
Maybe there is another reason that I just don't see?
sha256 and the like cannot change because they are standard algorithms
and changing them would break a lot of things.
Something else must be the problem. Maybe previous versions got newlines
in the $passphrase variable or something like that? You will need to
check output of every step of the script separately.
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Virtualbox on Freebsd
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 To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Stress testing a new FreeBSD server?
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 proper suite of tools for doing just this and google hasn't brought up anything particularly appealing. Thanks in advance, Matt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
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 optical unit, and preferable a long battery time (i.e. CPU speed is not that important). Webpages, own experiences or any other comparisons available? Please cc me if answering. /andreas You May want to checkout this list: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: snip 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 ATI devices, or is this only affecting laptops with ATI cards? I only ask because I'm running an ATI card for my desktop with no problems. If this is true for more recent ATI cards only, this puts a crimp in my plans for my super-computer. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: / slice too small
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: 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: $ df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s2190M146M 29M84%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s4129G 15G104G12%/usr devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev I've got a CD/DVD writer on that machine along with a 100MB ethernet connection to my desktop. How do I go about upgrading it? Dump/restore and change the partition table? Any suggestions gratefully received. Regards, Yes. The dump/restore should do the trick as long as you have another medium to store the dumps (such as another hard disk). You will store the images of your slices to the new medium using dump(8). You can then use FixIt console to re-partition and re-slice your hard disk and then restore(8) your images in the newly sliced hard disk. Actually, if you have another hard disk device, you can use piped dump/restore to copy the whole system from one disk to the other and make the second one your bootable disk. Of course you must have sliced the second device first. I've done this many times. The first was to remove an openSUSE partition I had, living in the same hard disk as my FreeBSD. The second time was to move my FreeBSD to another hard disk (physical device). The new disk became my boot disk. The third time was to move my system to another bigger hard disk device and at the same time be formated as ZFS. Now my system boots from this third hard disk device, having ZFS and the operating system is the same as that I first installed (of cource updated...) Elias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You might well find it easier to use rsync rather than dump. Just make sure you use the following flags rsync -aHP --numeric-ids This is a bit questionable for copying live fs. Probably OK if you use snapshots. Leaves you in very similar situation as doing backups with tar. These schemes also alter the access times on files (which I guess doesn't usually matter too much). But dump/restore is no more complex to use than rsync and manages snapshots for you, so why mess about with questionable schemes. Malcolm Kay I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks eg fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com 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), wireless, ~15 screen, lots of memory, and optical unit, and preferable a long battery time (i.e. CPU speed is not that important). Webpages, own experiences or any other comparisons available? Please cc me if answering. /andreas You May want to checkout this list: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) Here´s another suggestion: don´t buy anything that has a Broadcom (BCM) ethernet and/or wireless card of any kind. You´ll find that your hardware has no support at all or that the existen support has some serious issues (specially regarding ACPI) My 2 cents 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: snip 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 ATI devices, or is this only affecting laptops with ATI cards? I only ask because I'm running an ATI card for my desktop with no problems. If this is true for more recent ATI cards only, this puts a crimp in my plans for my super-computer. Yeah , it's too new, the open-source driver will not support it. Well , that's because my Thinkpad has two video card , one ATI , one Intel integrated card. The Default OS is Vista , it supports switch between these two without changing BIOS settings. But i kick windows off my laptop , i'm using Linux with ATI card someway ;-) So in my BIOS , i disabled intel integrated video card , only use ATI. Then FBSD hangs after boot menu , can't load kernel ;- ( Strongly recommand you try out NVIDIA , at least it has FreeBSD and Solaris drivers ATI has a bad support for Linux/UNIX .. -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xA476D2E9 irc: A4r0n on freenode ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
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), wireless, ~15 screen, lots of memory, and optical unit, and preferable a long battery time (i.e. CPU speed is not that important). Webpages, own experiences or any other comparisons available? Please cc me if answering. /andreas You May want to checkout this list: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers .. ) 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 cards in two notebooks I've tested. 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. Are you saying the R400 has both integrated and discrete video cards? Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
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 list , but it just don't work ;-( Are you saying the R400 has both integrated and discrete video cards? Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I bought it in china , you'll had to know R400 has lots of types , mine is 2784a18. Of course you can choose to buy an energy-save laptop , which has on independent Video Cards , Just an build-in intel Video Card , it's better for power saving someway. -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xA476D2E9 irc: A4r0n on freenode ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
According to Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com 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 cards in two notebooks I've tested. 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. Are you saying the R400 has both integrated and discrete video cards? Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. I think yes. At least in my case. I have a T500 and it came with both integrated Intel video plus an additional ATI mini-card. I don't recall if there was an Nvidia video choice. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU
[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/usr/include -I. -I../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wunused-parameter -Wchar-subscripts -Winline -Wnested-externs -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-sign -c ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c cc1: warnings being treated as errors ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c:1: warning: SSE instruction set disabled, using 387 arithmetics *** Error code 1 It's interesting something can work with SSE instruction , while some are not , Warnings are treated as errors , if we can safely disable it in some specific occasions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: snip 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 ATI devices, or is this only affecting laptops with ATI cards? I only ask because I'm running an ATI card for my desktop with no problems. If this is true for more recent ATI cards only, this puts a crimp in my plans for my super-computer. Yeah , it's too new, the open-source driver will not support it. Well , that's because my Thinkpad has two video card , one ATI , one Intel integrated card. The Default OS is Vista , it supports switch between these two without changing BIOS settings. But i kick windows off my laptop , i'm using Linux with ATI card someway ;-) So in my BIOS , i disabled intel integrated video card , only use ATI. Then FBSD hangs after boot menu , can't load kernel ;- ( Strongly recommand you try out NVIDIA , at least it has FreeBSD and Solaris drivers Closed binary drivers only. Which is adequate if they support the version and arch of operating system you plan to run, and you trust the vendor to supply updated drivers for later versions of the OS. ATI has a bad support for Linux/UNIX .. I disagree. ATI has released programming information for their boards; nVidia has not. Which is why there's a mostly-functional open-source driver with 2D and 3D acceleration for ATI, ...and nouveau for nVidia. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
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 is on the support list , but it just don't work ;-( Are you saying the R400 has both integrated and discrete video cards? Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I bought it in china , you'll had to know R400 has lots of types , mine is 2784a18. Of course you can choose to buy an energy-save laptop , which has on independent Video Cards , Just an build-in intel Video Card , it's better for power saving someway. It's very strange that your machine should crash so early in its boot process. I don't own any ATI hardware so I'm not entirely sure on this, but my impression is that booting into the console should work with just about any kind of video hardware. Does Windows actually work with the ATI card? I'm beginning to suspect broken hardware here.. Bas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: / slice too small
On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: 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: $ df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s2190M146M 29M84%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s4129G 15G104G12%/usr devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev I've got a CD/DVD writer on that machine along with a 100MB ethernet connection to my desktop. How do I go about upgrading it? Dump/restore and change the partition table? Any suggestions gratefully received. Regards, Yes. The dump/restore should do the trick as long as you have another medium to store the dumps (such as another hard disk). You will store the images of your slices to the new medium using dump(8). You can then use FixIt console to re-partition and re-slice your hard disk and then restore(8) your images in the newly sliced hard disk. Actually, if you have another hard disk device, you can use piped dump/restore to copy the whole system from one disk to the other and make the second one your bootable disk. Of course you must have sliced the second device first. I've done this many times. The first was to remove an openSUSE partition I had, living in the same hard disk as my FreeBSD. The second time was to move my FreeBSD to another hard disk (physical device). The new disk became my boot disk. The third time was to move my system to another bigger hard disk device and at the same time be formated as ZFS. Now my system boots from this third hard disk device, having ZFS and the operating system is the same as that I first installed (of cource updated...) Elias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You might well find it easier to use rsync rather than dump. Just make sure you use the following flags rsync -aHP --numeric-ids This is a bit questionable for copying live fs. Probably OK if you use snapshots. Leaves you in very similar situation as doing backups with tar. These schemes also alter the access times on files (which I guess doesn't usually matter too much). But dump/restore is no more complex to use than rsync and manages snapshots for you, so why mess about with questionable schemes. I understand what you mean about live file systems, but in this case its not a problem as he will be in single user mode. Also using the a flag means the modification times are intact. I use rsync at work over 100s of systems and it is very effective, and the noc find it far easier to recover small numbers of files than having to go digging into dump files. The way we have got everything setup on a zfs backend mean we can do incremental forever, as well which is much more efficient than having to do regular level 0 dumps. Malcolm Kay I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks eg fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD
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 process breaks down immediately as if what is on /dev/ad0s1b is not seen as a boot sector. Here is a screen capture from the system so you can see both the boot.config file and the system's response. þÿ/boot.config: -P verbose_loading=YES # Set to YES for verbose loader output autoboot_delay=-1 # Delay in seconds before autobooting, # set to -1 if you don't want user to be # allowed to interrupt autoboot process and comconsole_speed=9600 # Set the current serial console speed console=vidconsole,comconsole # A comma separated list of console(s) currdev=disk1s1b # Set the current device root_disk_unit=0 # Force the root disk unit number rootdev=disk1s1b # Set the root filesystem System Response FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)to boot: 'And there we die. There is a valid boot sector at Default: 0:ad(0,a) but there is also now valid boot code at 0:ad(0,b) which is what I am trying to force with boot.config. If one does fdisk on a partition that has had mfsboot.img sprayed on it, fdisk shows the first 3 partitions as being unused while Partition 4 has a type of 165 or standard FreeBSD. I think I am calling the bootloader wrong since the very same mfsboot image works properly when applied to /dev/ad0. The only difference is that one now has the same partition configuration on /dev/ad0 instead of ad0s1b Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0200, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com 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: `-march=CPU-TYPE' Generate instructions for the machine type CPU-TYPE. The choices for CPU-TYPE are the same as for `-mtune'. Moreover, specifying `-march=CPU-TYPE' implies `-mtune=CPU-TYPE'. Hello Out of curiosity, what is the optimal -march= value to use for the new Atom D510 CPU: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43098 ? I'm not sure. 'nocona' seems a pretty close match: _nocona_ Improved version of Intel Pentium4 CPU with 64-bit extensions, MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set support. Without actually trying -march=nocona on one of these I can't tell for sure if it is 'optimal' or not though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU
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=sse -O3
[ ... ]
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c:1: warning: SSE instruction set
disabled, using 387 arithmetics
*** Error code 1
It's interesting something can work with SSE instruction , while some
are not , Warnings are treated as errors , if we can safely disable it in some
specific occasions.
Dude, the FreeBSD kernel doesn't use floating point, MMX, or SSE. See
sys/conf/kern.mk:
# [ ... ] Explicitly prohibit the use of SSE and other SIMD
# operations inside the kernel itself. These operations are exclusively
# reserved for user applications.
#
.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == i386 ${CC} != icc
CFLAGS+=-mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 \
-mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
INLINE_LIMIT?= 8000
.endif
Trying to override the default compiler flags to force it to use SSE is simply
not going to work.
--
-Chuck
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SATA regression with 7.2
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 booting 6.3: atapci0: VIA AHCI controller port 0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe803,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe403,0xe080-0xe08f mem 0xfebfec00-0xfebfefff irq 21 at device 15.0 on pci0 atapci0: AHCI Version 01.00 controller with 4 ports detected ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0 ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci0 atapci1: VIA 8251 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 ... ad4: 152627MB WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0 05.06H05 at ata2-master SATA300 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a On 7.2 the output is roughly the same (I couldn't save it), but it won't find ad4 and prompt me for a boot device (with none available). Here's an extract from pciconf -lv: atap...@pci0:15:0: class=0x010601 card=0x33491106 chip=0x33491106 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8251 VIA VT8251 AHCI RAID Controller' class = mass storage atap...@pci0:15:1: class=0x01018a card=0x05711106 chip=0x05711106 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C Bus Master IDE Controller' class = mass storage subclass = ATA Please help. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 802.11QinQ support
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 seem to work :( Regards,... Ross Cameron -- Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 802.11QinQ support
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za 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 trouble with netgraph has always been that there was never a sufficient amount of examples on the web to be able to do anything useful with it. Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
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 optical unit, and preferable a long battery time (i.e. CPU speed is not that important). Webpages, own experiences or any other comparisons available? Please cc me if answering. /andreas I am running FreeBSD (8-STABLE) on a Dell Latitude D630, and I'm very content with it. The D630 version has a 14.1 display, but I believe there is also a 15 version (which was called D830 if I recall correctly). Out of the box support for wireless (wpi) , wired (bge) , cpu-throtteling (cpufreq), audio (snd_hda) and the display-dimming functionality. When I bought it battery lifetime was over 6 hours (with a 9 cell battery) when just using browser/e-mail client/ word-processor kind of applications. Now (I have this machine about 2.5 years now) it's still about 3 hours, and I use it every day for at least 3 or 4 hours. Suspend/Resume almost works; meaning it does actually suspend and resume, unfortunately both wired and wireless are dead after resuming. Since I never use a external monitor I do not know if that works correctly or not. My version has an intel card but it is also possible to obtain a laptop with a nvidia GPU. For the external monitor stuff I guess the best bet would be an nvidia card. Anyway: the conclusion is that it may be a good idea to take a look at Dell's range of laptops. Good luck Regards, -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
starting kernel from non zero physical address
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
signal strength for wireless
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@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Andreas Davour a...@update.uu.se 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 optical unit, and preferable a long battery time (i.e. CPU speed is not that important). Webpages, own experiences or any other comparisons available? Please cc me if answering. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I use a lenovo thinkpad T500 running 8.0-STABLE, with xrandr i can set up external monitors in no time. The ATi card works very well, i get over 2000fps on glxgears but it does not have power management just yet, so it gets hot. 15.4 @ 1680x1050, 4GB DDR3, T9550 @ 2.66GHz hos...@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x20e017aa chip=0x2a408086 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Mobile Memory Controller Hub' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI pc...@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x20e217aa chip=0x2a418086 rev=0x07 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI no...@pci0:0:3:0: class=0x078000 card=0x20e617aa chip=0x2a448086 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Intel Management Engine Interface (Mobile 4 Series Chipset)' class = simple comms no...@pci0:0:3:3: class=0x070002 card=0x20ec17aa chip=0x2a478086 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Active Management Technology - SOL (20EC17AA)' class = simple comms subclass = UART e...@pci0:0:25:0:class=0x02 card=0x20ee17aa chip=0x10f58086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Intel 82567LM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (82567LM)' class = network subclass = ethernet uh...@pci0:0:26:0: class=0x0c0300 card=0x20f017aa chip=0x29378086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) USB Universal Host Controller' class = serial bus subclass = USB uh...@pci0:0:26:1: class=0x0c0300 card=0x20f017aa chip=0x29388086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) USB Universal Host Controller' class = serial bus subclass = USB uh...@pci0:0:26:2: class=0x0c0300 card=0x20f017aa chip=0x29398086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) USB Universal Host Controller' class = serial bus subclass = USB eh...@pci0:0:26:7: class=0x0c0320 card=0x20f117aa chip=0x293c8086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) USB2 Enhanced Host Controller' class = serial bus subclass = USB hd...@pci0:0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x20f217aa chip=0x293e8086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller' class = multimedia subclass = HDA pc...@pci0:0:28:0: class=0x060400 card=0x20f317aa chip=0x29408086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) PCIe Root Port 1' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pc...@pci0:0:28:1: class=0x060400 card=0x20f317aa chip=0x29428086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) PCIe Root Port 2' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pc...@pci0:0:28:2: class=0x060400 card=0x20f317aa chip=0x29448086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) PCIe Root Port 3' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pc...@pci0:0:28:3: class=0x060400 card=0x20f317aa chip=0x29468086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) PCIe Root Port 4' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pc...@pci0:0:28:4: class=0x060400 card=0x20f317aa chip=0x29488086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) PCIe Root Port 5' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI uh...@pci0:0:29:0: class=0x0c0300 card=0x20f017aa chip=0x29348086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device =
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:12 + Thomas Lawrence thomas.lawre...@bbconsult.co.uk 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 mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Since there is no FreeBSD download from the VirtualBox website, my guess is no. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
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 documents , and found my ATI is on the support list , but it just don't work ;-( Are you saying the R400 has both integrated and discrete video cards? Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential customers details about their newer computers. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I bought it in china , you'll had to know R400 has lots of types , mine is 2784a18. Of course you can choose to buy an energy-save laptop , which has on independent Video Cards , Just an build-in intel Video Card , it's better for power saving someway. It's very strange that your machine should crash so early in its boot process. I don't own any ATI hardware so I'm not entirely sure on this, but my impression is that booting into the console should work with just about any kind of video hardware. Does Windows actually work with the ATI card? I'm beginning to suspect broken hardware here.. Bas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Yeah , when i enable Switchable Video Card in BIOS , my Linux won't start X11 , fglrx driver doesn't allow me to do so , it tell me directly to disable this feature , and must turn to Discrete Card Mode. And if i do so , after boot menu , right after the progress bar , ( not the boot loader ) i don't know how to describe this , it just hangs at prompt when i press enter. I think it's because my ATI Video Card is kind of special , it has Switchable Video Card ability , some new features , even ATI official linux driver can't really handle this , and for BSD , it even don't boot. -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xA476D2E9 irc: A4r0n on freenode ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
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 ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:48:08 -0500 (EST) Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org 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/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org But is that the PUEL version? Or just a binary of the OSE version? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
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/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. It is a (horribly outdated) pkg_add(1) installer. I haven't had a chance to update it yet; hopefully this weekend now that my attention has been drawn to it. For the record, it is not the closed-source version. It is emulators/virtualbox before it was repocopied to emulators/virtualbox-ose-*. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: / slice too small
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:44 am, krad wrote: On 3 March 2010 14:23, Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: 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: $ df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s2190M146M 29M84%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s4129G 15G104G12%/usr devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev I've got a CD/DVD writer on that machine along with a 100MB ethernet connection to my desktop. How do I go about upgrading it? Dump/restore and change the partition table? Any suggestions gratefully received. Regards, Yes. The dump/restore should do the trick as long as you have another medium to store the dumps (such as another hard disk). You will store the images of your slices to the new medium using dump(8). You can then use FixIt console to re-partition and re-slice your hard disk and then restore(8) your images in the newly sliced hard disk. Actually, if you have another hard disk device, you can use piped dump/restore to copy the whole system from one disk to the other and make the second one your bootable disk. Of course you must have sliced the second device first. I've done this many times. The first was to remove an openSUSE partition I had, living in the same hard disk as my FreeBSD. The second time was to move my FreeBSD to another hard disk (physical device). The new disk became my boot disk. The third time was to move my system to another bigger hard disk device and at the same time be formated as ZFS. Now my system boots from this third hard disk device, having ZFS and the operating system is the same as that I first installed (of cource updated...) Elias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi ons To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You might well find it easier to use rsync rather than dump. Just make sure you use the following flags rsync -aHP --numeric-ids This is a bit questionable for copying live fs. Probably OK if you use snapshots. Leaves you in very similar situation as doing backups with tar. These schemes also alter the access times on files (which I guess doesn't usually matter too much). But dump/restore is no more complex to use than rsync and manages snapshots for you, so why mess about with questionable schemes. I understand what you mean about live file systems, but in this case its not a problem as he will be in single user mode. I'm not sure that single user mode avoids this problem. Also using the a flag means the modification times are intact. I did not mention modification times but access times which I admit are seldom put to any use. It is very difficult for any utility to avoid altering these -- dump is the only exception I know of. I use rsync at work over 100s of systems and it is very effective, and the noc find it far easier to recover small numbers of files than having to go digging into dump files. I've not found this too difficult even when working with compressed dumps. The way we have got everything setup on a zfs backend mean we can do incremental forever, as well which is much more efficient than having to do regular level 0 dumps. Yes, rsync is great for updating incremental changes but this is quite irrelevant to the OP's problem. For backup it seems this also somewhat reduces the effectiveness. For example when you are asked to recover the original of a file that was changed before the lastest backup. Many of us think it desirable to regularly archive complete backups. But each to his own; backup methods and strategies have always been something of a controverial issues. Malcolm Kay I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks eg fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question s To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to
Re: / slice too small
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:44 am, krad wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:42, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.grwrote: 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: $ df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s2190M146M 29M84%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s4129G 15G104G12%/usr devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev I've got a CD/DVD writer on that machine along with a 100MB ethernet connection to my desktop. How do I go about upgrading it? Dump/restore and change the partition table? Any suggestions gratefully received. Regards, Yes. The dump/restore should do the trick as long as you have another medium to store the dumps (such as another hard disk). You will store the images of your slices to the new medium using dump(8). You can then use FixIt console to re-partition and re-slice your hard disk and then restore(8) your images in the newly sliced hard disk. Actually, if you have another hard disk device, you can use piped dump/restore to copy the whole system from one disk to the other and make the second one your bootable disk. Of course you must have sliced the second device first. I've done this many times. The first was to remove an openSUSE partition I had, living in the same hard disk as my FreeBSD. The second time was to move my FreeBSD to another hard disk (physical device). The new disk became my boot disk. The third time was to move my system to another bigger hard disk device and at the same time be formated as ZFS. Now my system boots from this third hard disk device, having ZFS and the operating system is the same as that I first installed (of cource updated...) Elias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You might well find it easier to use rsync rather than dump. Just make sure you use the following flags rsync -aHP --numeric-ids To preserve extended flags set with chflags you also need --fileflags and the fileflags patch enabled on installing rsync. For example look at: #ls -lo /var and note flag on empty. Malcolm Kay I use it in our backup setup at work, and have restored countless freebsd boxes. When you repartition the drive remember to add the boot blocks eg fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gpart command fails sporadically
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
fsck cannot determine fstype automatically
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 freebsd-ufs (5.0G) 144703538 251658245 freebsd-ufs (12G) 169869362 117190606 freebsd (5.6G) 181588422 2006200897 freebsd-ufs (96G) 382208511 1080262088 freebsd-ufs (52G) In this case, partitions 3, 4, and 5 are mirrored with equivalent partitions on another drive and these appear to be working fine. Partitions 7 and 8 are strictly data partitions and not mirrored. When I try to run fsck against them, I get this: # fsck /dev/ad4p4 fsck: Could not determine filesystem type I have to specify the file system type explicitly: # fsck -t ufs /dev/ad4p7 ** /dev/ad4p7 (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on /v0 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 39 files, 553 used, 48573784 free (24 frags, 6071720 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) Why do I have to specify the fstype explicitly? I have a similar system configured with fdisk/bsdlabel and the fsck command doesn't have any problems with determining the fstype. Is there something we need to do to allow the fstype of GPT partitions to be automatically determined by fsck? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd install from floppy
On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com 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/ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html I tried so install Freebsd 7 using availiable floppy (successful) and update it to 8.0 (after 3 days finally error and now now whole /usr directory so I am stacked). Could you please produce install floppy images for Freebsd 8.0? Please please please. I have no power to do the install of 7, upgrade and fail again :-( Thanks in adavance. Piotr Have you tried installing 8.0-RELEASE from your 7.x floppies? I have heard rumour that it is possible by just changing the release name under View/Set Various Installation Options. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, don Juan fmem...@gmail.com 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 question already posted to this forum but it's still unanswered. Thanks! Please? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
