Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice
Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). Well, you know that i386 is Intel, do you? It might work just moving the old kernel to a 64-bit system but I have no experience with it. My current system is alive since 2005, so is full of code, scripts, configurations,lookfeel,ssh keys etc.. that i would like to keep handy in my new system. Also, currently i run gmirror, i am mentioning it, in case it affects something. Since 2005, dealing with programming/support/etc.. i haven't done any upgrade task in FreeBSD, so i dont feel that confident in this regard. I could: a) install a brand new 8.0-RELEASE in the new hardware and then a1) just mount the old disks to the new system or a2) migrate /home user data directly to the new home dirs b) migrate all current data to the new hardware, kernel/system included, and then try to upgrade to 8.0 (by sysinstall or makeworld/makekernel) Item b) is not recommended. There are so many changes AFAIK that it is no clear update. You might do so but then you should update the following way from 6.3 - 7.0 - 7.1 - 7.2 - 8.0 as was recommended on this list earlier (search the archives, please, for further details if you choose this way). For me, a clean install of 8.0 and a move from the old data to the fresh install is better. Use a2) ! Greetings 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
Re: GUI
Monty Pyth schrieb: I am running a Freebsd 6.2 server. How do I get a GUI going? Either GNOME or KDE. I know I have to startx and then I am a little confused. I want to be able to view phpmyadmin in a GUI. Thanks. Hi! Create a .xinitrc in your /home/username and fill it with exec startkde. If you log into your box with X already started then do the same with .xsession. Have fun! Greetings 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
Problems with module cx88
Hi, folks! Having installed a TV-card (WinTV HVR-1100) I now want to use it. there are currently two problems: 1. When I boot into KDE 3.5.10, my artsd is not starting giving the message: Can't open /dev/dsp - operation not permitted This is happening till I installed and loaded (via /boot/loader.conf) the modules under /usr/ports/multimedia/cx88. Are there any conflicts known which can be solved? 2. When I try to capture a video from my old tape-recorder with the command cx88 -d /dev/cx88video0 -f name_of_movie.m2t -x /home/frank/cx88.xml I get the following message: [cx88] Warning: the -f option is deprecated; please instead use -u with a file:// URL prefix [cx88] Unable to create cx88 video driver What does that mean? I thought I had installed the drivers with the port. Can anybody point me to any web resource? I still found http://corona.homeunix.net/cx88wiki but it doesn't seem to fit my needs. Greetings 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
Re: What should be backed up?
John Almberg schrieb: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think... Question: am I missing anything crucial? Thanks: John ___ 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 Hi! As I think you should backup /var/db/ports and /var/db/packages in case your machine crashes and you might have /usr/local on an extra partition. Then you can easily make a new installation without reinstalling the whole stuff under /usr/local. The named directories contain information about the installed ports/packages and are needed to recover a crashed system. Greetings 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
Re: server was hacked
Brent wrote: , HOw excatly are they getting in ? what are the things I can do to prevent this. On FBSD how do you checksum binaries on the system to ensure someone hasnt replaced one with there own binary. Do yourself a favor and buy the book BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne O'Reilly Media ISBN 0-596-00679-9 Chapter 6 and especially hacks 56,58 and 59 are useful. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors at make installworld
Hi all! After a successful make buildworld, make buildkernel and make installkernel I tried to make installworld, but it fails with the following error: Installing everything -- cd /usr/src; /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make -f Makefile.inc1 install === share/info (install) === lib (install) === lib/csu/i386-elf (install) install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 crt1.o crti.o crtn.o gcrt1.o /usr/lib === lib/libc (install) install -C -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc.a /usr/lib *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. So my question is: What is error 71? man errno hasn't it. And what can I do now? The kernel just works, but not the world. Strange is too that uname -a gives me a 7.0 Current although I csup'ped to RELENG_6, and with that I made the world. May this be the reason? I'm thankful for any hints. Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 and FreeBSD
Hello all! I just got a new computer with the above mentioned card in it. What I want to know is if anybody has experience in making it work under FreeBSD. Googling around has brought no results but it should work under Linux and obviously under Windows. But who wants this if it will work with FreeBSD? So, can anybody give me a hint or do I have to use it with another OS? Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question re reducing a file system in FreeBSD 6.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question re reducing a filesystem in FreeBSD 6.2 - I am new to FreeBSD - I am use to AIX We have FreeBSD installed on a dell 1950 - I would like to reduce the size of /usr in case I want to added the space to another file system. We currently have all our space allocated as follows. Here is the set-up $ df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mfid0s1a1.9G 59M1.7G 3%/ devfs1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/mfid0s1d1.9G 14K1.8G 0%/tmp /dev/mfid0s1f 58G3.2G 50G 6%/usr /dev/mfid0s1e1.9G 58M1.7G 3%/var $ mount /dev/mfid0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/mfid0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/mfid0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/mfid0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) In AIX I can reduce the filesystem on the fly - however I don't think I can do that with FreeBSD from what I have seen and I am not sure how this would be done consdering it is /usr I would like to reduce. I am currently looking at google to see what I can find. Any Suggestions you have would be helpful. Thank you Regards Irene Hi! As far as I do know there is only one way to do what you want: 1. Backup your partition to an external disk using the dump command. 2. Boot your computer from a Live-CD and delete that particular partition. 3. Make a smaller partition using bsdlabel and mount it. 4. Restore your data in the new and smaller partition using the named command restore. This seems to be a hard work, but AFAIK is the only way in FBSD to resize a partition to a smaller amount. Greetings Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop
It may be that you configured securelevel on startup. Try with sysctl kern.securelevel to find out which is your securelevel. It may be 1 or greater. Then try to change it either with sysinstall or directly at the command prompt with sysctl -w kern.securelevel=-1. This should work. Greetings Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it will work. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
Well, I think if you boot your computer from a cdrom and edit with bsdlabel you get into an editor where you can change the d into an a. That must be the solution you want. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port updates
Did you clean your /usr/ports-directory before and did you then make a cvs co ports? Or how did you do it? Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error with make buildworld
Hello all! I'm having serious trouble with getting my system up to date. I installed FreeBSD 6.2 as of January 13, 2007 and cvsup'ed it to the newest sources. When running make buildworld I got the error message which you can see below. This happened two or three times and always came the same error up. Though I'm not the greatest programmer I now seek help through the list. Are there any hints you can give? Greetings Frank == sys/modules/digi/digi_Xr (depend) @ - /usr/src/sys machine - /usr/src/sys/i386/include rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq /usr/src/sys/modules/digi/digi_Xr/../../../dev/digi/Xr.c === sys/modules/dpt (depend) @ - /usr/src/sys machine - /usr/src/sys/i386/include awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h : opt_dpt.h : opt_cam.h : opt_scsi.h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/device_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/bus_if.m -h rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq /usr/src/sys/modules/dpt/../../dev/dpt/dpt_scsi.c /usr/src/sys/modules/dpt/../../dev/dpt/dpt_pci.c /usr/src/sys/modules/dpt/../../dev/dpt/dpt_scsi.c:53:22: opt_eisa.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/dpt. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
