/boot.config

2010-03-30 Thread Fbsd1
During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-30 Thread Kaya Saman
What is needed is the line just before the Vendor, with the card and chip IDs. Then compare it against the list of cards the FreeBSD msk driver supports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mskapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html Line goes as follows:

Re: Create GMIRROR only one slice

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2010 21:10:42, krad wrote: You will need to newfs the gmirror device after that so backup the data currently on /, then copy it back afterwards. This is counter to all my experience of dealing with gmirror -- it's carefully designed so

Re: Enough Is Enough

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2010 02:58:13, Programmer In Training wrote: find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib -name -type f | \ Is the 'f' a typo? I had to remove it because find kept on erroring on it. There is a typo, but it's to do with the -name predicate. -name

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail client is notified. That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4 -- it's not a

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:31:00 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail client is notified. That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4

Re: Create GMIRROR only one slice

2010-03-30 Thread krad
2010/3/30 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2010 21:10:42, krad wrote: You will need to newfs the gmirror device after that so backup the data currently on /, then copy it back afterwards. This is counter to all my

faad2 build error

2010-03-30 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya all I keep getting this when building faad2 . . . aclocal.m4:4655: _LT_AC_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... aclocal.m4:4654: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... configure.in:14: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works_GCJ, ...): suspicious cache- id, must contain _cv_

Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Walter
In the example firewall rule set in rc.firewall, there are the following lines: # set these to your outside interface network oif=$firewall_simple_oif onet=$firewall_simple_onet # set these to your inside interface network iif=$firewall_simple_iif inet=$firewall_simple_inet Can

Re: faad2 build error

2010-03-30 Thread Koop Mast
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:13 +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: Hiya all I keep getting this when building faad2 . . . aclocal.m4:4655: _LT_AC_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... aclocal.m4:4654: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_F77_CONFIG is expanded from... configure.in:14: warning:

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2010 13:52:57, Walter wrote: In the example firewall rule set in rc.firewall, there are the following lines: # set these to your outside interface network oif=$firewall_simple_oif onet=$firewall_simple_onet # set these to your

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device.

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-30 Thread Jay Hall
On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Aiza wrote: This is the procedure you want to follow. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11680 And for greater detail http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11715 Thanks for the links. I will give them a try. Jay

Making sense out of impitool power supply readings

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Steele
Is there some trick to know when the power supply sensor readings returned by ipmitool actually reflects that there is a power supply issue? Our difficulty is that no one seems to use the same sensor values when it comes to power supply reporting, and even if there are two power supplies the

dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU.

Oracle 64bit driver

2010-03-30 Thread krad
Hi Has anyone had any success with the /usr/ports/databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic driver install on 64bit machines? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

problem with mailing list archives?

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Huff
If I go to http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html;, the last weekly archive is dated March 07. What's up with that? :-) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Steele
Theoretically, doing a straight dd copy of one disk to another and then swapping in that disk should work. I've done it, with no other tweaking needed. I've never done it with mixed OS instances on the same disk, or for that matter with a solid state drive. You'll lose the trailing 12GB of your

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive,

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD

Re: problem with mailing list archives?

2010-03-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-03-30 11:55:18 UTC-0400, Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com) wrote: If I go to http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html;, the last weekly archive is dated March 07. What's up with that? :-) Mar 07 means the week preceding March 7, 2010. It looks

Re: emacs-23.1_3,1 - 23.1._4,1 upgrade

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:22:12 +0200, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: There was an emacs upgrade in the ports today, but it fails: ... image.o(.text+0x6674): In function `png_load': : undefined reference to `png_check_sig' image.o(.text+0x6db4): In function `png_load': : undefined reference

Re: How to send a patch in a proper way?

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:20:49 +0100, Adam PAPAI w...@wooh.hu wrote: Hi, As of today I'll try to help and create bugfix patches for usr/src and usr/ports. I've already done 2 patches and posted it to the -current list but don't really know what is the best way to post the patches. Who will

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:49:08 -0500, Jay Hall jh...@socket.net wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been asked to explore the possibility of booting FreeBSD from a memory stick. This was not a problem; worked great when installed from the distribution CD. What would be the best way to get

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:52:57AM -0500, Walter wrote: Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? I use onet=`ifconfig if | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where if is rl0 or em0 or whatever the outward facing interface is for your system.

RE: Making sense out of impitool power supply readings

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Steele
I think I might be able to solve my issues if I could filter out which of these entries returned by ipmitool sdr type Power Supply actually represent the physical power supplies. One of the cases I have below for example produces a list of six sensors. Only two of those actually represent

releng-8 won't build?

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Franks
Never had trouble with buildworld before...I don't see anything in UPDATING or on the current-list (or a google of the error for that matter), so I assume I've hosed my system in some fashion, but how?? Thanks, Steve #sudo csup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile (which points to releng-8)

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. ... You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free for

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-30 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Walter
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? If you switch to using PF rather than IPFW, this is very easy. In a PF ruleset, the name of an interface is expanded to a list of all

u3g network problem

2010-03-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
(8-STABLE/i386) Hi, I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a long time), I don't have any reply to DNS requests, as far I can see with wireshark... Then if I use an IP,

FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread pvidales
Hola. Estoy interesado en instalar el SO FreeBSD en mi Notebook, el cual tiene en este momento Windows 7 con un disco duro particionado en 2 (C: y D:). Leí las instrucciones de instalación, pero no me quedó claro lo siguiente: Como puedo instalar FreeBSD en la particion D: sin borrar el contenido

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote: Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and D:). I read the installation instructions, but I was clear: How can I

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-30 Thread Dima Panov
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:48:54 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote: Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and D:). I read

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 04:17:22PM -0500, Walter wrote: Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? My first response never showed up. Second try. I use onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-30 Thread John
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:37:58PM +, Varan Okul wrote: Hi, I suggest you try these scenario first. 1st - At RAID controller BIOS. Create 1 small logical drive for FreeBSD installation. The rest space from RAID0, just create 2TB for each logical drive.

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-30 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the

How to make man pages

2010-03-30 Thread Fbsd1
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Upgrading releases?

2010-03-30 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I have a system with 8.0-RELEASE and I read that 8-STABLE has ZFS v14 (instead of v13) I am trying: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8-STABLE and it does not work. it tried 3 mirrors, all fail and nada. Since I am new to FreeBSD, what am I obviously missing? Is there a place that states

Re: Upgrading releases?

2010-03-30 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Jason, Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I have a system with 8.0-RELEASE and I read that 8-STABLE has ZFS v14 (instead of v13) I am trying: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8-STABLE and it does not work. it tried 3 mirrors, all fail and nada. Since I am new to FreeBSD, what am I

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-30 Thread Fbsd1
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot

uname -a

2010-03-30 Thread alexus
su-3.2# uname -a FreeBSD dd.alexus.org 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #13: Tue Mar 23 20:47:52 UTC 2010 xx...@x.xxx.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 su-3.2# why is it showing up #13 here? back when I had 7.2-RELEASE-pX i've had #12, I then did following: rm -rf /usr/src csup

Re: uname -a

2010-03-30 Thread Jason
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:08:08AM -0400, alexus thus spake: su-3.2# uname -a FreeBSD dd.alexus.org 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #13: Tue Mar 23 20:47:52 UTC 2010 xx...@x.xxx.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 su-3.2# why is it showing up #13 here? back when I had 7.2-RELEASE-pX

Re: uname -a

2010-03-30 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, alexus wrote: su-3.2# uname -a FreeBSD dd.alexus.org 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #13: Tue Mar 23 20:47:52 UTC 2010 xx...@x.xxx.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 su-3.2# why is it showing up #13 here? back when I had 7.2-RELEASE-pX i've had #12, I then did following: