Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 04:28 +, John Levine wrote: > > At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were > >_the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been a while since i > >looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality went > >downhill quickly after Lenovo bought IBM'

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:28:24AM +, John Levine wrote: > > I'm typing this on my Lenovo X200 running 8.1. For the most part it > works quite well and the quality seems similar to my previous IBM X40. > > The worst annoyance is that the sound volume is quite low, and I > haven't yet figured

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Chad Perrin writes: > > > > In my experience, ThinkPads are among the highest quality laptops > > on the market. > > At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were > _the_ recommended used laptop. While it's b

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

> At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were >_the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been a while since i >looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality went >downhill quickly after Lenovo bought IBM's pc hardware division. I'm typing this on my Lenovo X200 r

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

Chad Perrin writes: > In my experience, ThinkPads are among the highest quality laptops > on the market. At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were _the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been a while since i looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality

booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

hi there, is it still possible to boot a kernel directly from stage 1 and 2 and thus bypass loader(8)? this is my disk layout: => 34 488394988 ada0 GPT (233G) [CORRUPT] 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 16777378 4716

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

> The major OEMs will say "OK, then you must return the computer," and > you have no option but to comply. This is true for the USA. 192 sovereign countries exist with differing laws. Licenses I've seen from usually USA companies in Europe over decades have often seemed to contravene local law

Re: Install Squid on FBSD with different configure options?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:53:27 -0800 Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I want to install squid from the ports package (i.e., > /usr/ports/www/squid) instead of installing from source (which, it's > my understanding, would force me to create a squid user, squid group, > etc. manually). > > However, I

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

Sorry for the dupe, I did send them about 8 hours apart... Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial p

ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

I've been reading over the ZFS-only-boot instructions linked here: (and further linked from there) and have one worry: Let's say I install a FreeBSD system using a ZFS-only filesystem into a box with hotswapable hard drives, configured with some redundancy. Time pas

ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

I've been reading over the ZFS-only-boot instructions linked here: (and further linked from there) and have one worry: Let's say I install a FreeBSD system using a ZFS-only filesystem into a box with hotswapable hard drives, configured with some redundancy. Time pas

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:41:09AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > I guess my best bet is top have a used one. Is not that it "has" to > be new but I wanted to invest in something new that last some years, > my last lap has 7 years but it is short on memory and won't accept more. > I will use eba

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Henrik Hudson wrote: Any of the i3 / i5 systems will be using Optimus, even if they don't state as much, and this is not supported under FreeBSD or Linux, neither proprietary or FOSS drivers. Some of the higher-end laptops (Lenovo) you can switch off optimus either in BIOS

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. > I know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the > most powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed > and that increase the value of

Re: Install Squid on FBSD with different configure options?

Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I want to install squid from the ports package (i.e., > /usr/ports/www/squid) instead of installing from source (which, it's > my understanding, would force me to create a squid user, squid group, > etc. manually). > > However, I want squid to be installed with the

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

Thanks for the replies, good to know I'm not missing any issues. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 18 Feb 2011 at 08:13:19 PST MFV wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've been downloading BSD Mag since it first came out and your list is >> identical to mine. > > Same here.

Re: Install Squid on FBSD with different configure options?

On Friday, February 18, 2011 01:53:27 PM Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I want to install squid from the ports package (i.e., > /usr/ports/www/squid) instead of installing from source (which, it's > my understanding, would force me to create a squid user, squid group, > etc. manually). > > However

Install Squid on FBSD with different configure options?

Hi folks, I want to install squid from the ports package (i.e., /usr/ports/www/squid) instead of installing from source (which, it's my understanding, would force me to create a squid user, squid group, etc. manually). However, I want squid to be installed with the ability to restrict end users in

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

On Fri 18 Feb 2011 at 08:13:19 PST MFV wrote: Hello, I've been downloading BSD Mag since it first came out and your list is identical to mine. Same here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

Hello, I've been downloading BSD Mag since it first came out and your list is identical to mine. Cheers .. Marek On Thursday 17 February 2011 21:40:37 Xn Nooby wrote: > Is there a place where I can download all the BSD Magazine PDF back > issues? I have got a lot of them from the BSD Magazine

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

At 11:06 p.m. 17/02/2011, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:23:57PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > > Does it have to be new? > > The best deal might be to get a used laptop. Then it doesn't matter > what it originally shipped with, all you care about is whether it's on > the FreeBSD

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:30:17 -0800, "Robison, Dave" wrote: > I like bacula, I've used it for years. > > I also like this command Julian once taught me: > > find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here ^^ Directory. UNIX doesn't have "folder

Re: mergemaster -U ask for a lot non-user modified files

David Demelier writes: > Hello, > > Each time I run mergemaster -UiF, it asks for a lot of file that I do > not have modified such as /dev/rc.d/* and /etc/defaults/* > > > == > > > Use 'd' to delete the temporary ./etc/network.