Move a locked file

2004-05-13 Thread Michael Alexander
Hi All:
I have a multi-boot 3 unix box I'm toying with. I was using the Debian
partition as my main work station for a while... till I broke it. I have
some e-mails and addresses on that partition I would like to export to
the other partitions, perhaps even create a permanent reference file to
share system wide. The main problem I have, beside the fact that, in my
lust for UNIX POWER, I keep breaking things:), is that the Evolution
files in my mostly-dead Debian partition are locked and resist any
attempt to move them. Any thoughts on gaining access to these files to
copy or move them? 

 BTW I'm thinking of using Knoppix as my recovery tool, and the boot
error on Debian is: 

Enter runlevel 5
ID 1 respawning too fast; waite for five minute.
ID 2 respawning too fast; waite for five minute.
ID 3 respawning too fast; waite for five minute.
ID 4 respawning too fast; waite for five minute.
ID 5 respawning too fast; waite for five minute.
ID 6 respawning too fast; waite for five minute.



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Re: AMD vs Intel

2004-04-24 Thread MIchael Alexander
Hey Marc:
Five of the six computers in my home office / conservatory are AMD's.
They do run a little hotter than Intel, but they are cheaper to buy, and
I'm a certified cheap-skate. Now the question Why do I have sooo many
computers? I just do.


On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 18:51, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 I'm looking at picking up the following:
 
 Intel Technology Server
 Chassis Intel SC1300 1U Rack
 MainBoard: Intel SE7501WV2SCSI
 Ram memory: 4 x 1 GB
 Processor: 2  x  Xeon 3.06 Ghz
 Discos Duros: 3x Seagate ST336607KLC
 Intel: SRCZR
 CD-ROM: 52x
 Floppy: 3.5
 Monitor, Mouse  Keyboard: Not Included
 
 
 Now, I've been hearing alot of how AMD tends to perform better, but I have
 zero experience with AMD ... I'm curious as to what those with experience
 with AMD would be considered:
 
   1. equivalent in power to the Xeon 3.06Ghz
   2. a rackmount/motherboard they would recommend for a server
 
 Thanks ...
 
 Marc G. Fournier   Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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Booting Q.

2004-04-22 Thread MIchael Alexander
What is the command to make a bootable disk for FreeBSD? I need it in
case I screw up my latest project. I have a dual OS set-up running BSD
and Fedora C1. Fedora only boots from a floppy disk and doesn't show up
as bootable when trying to boot from FreeBSD boot loader. Both
partitions are primary. How do I get Fedora to become bootable. When I
fix Fedora does the FreeBSD boot utility have an OS finder (like Acronis
BL)?

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RE: Booting Q.

2004-04-22 Thread MIchael Alexander
Vijay wrote : Which OS did you install first? Fedora/FreeBSD ? 
I've FreeBSD first and then RH9. The Grub Seems to load the FBSD without
any problem.


Fedora was first. I didn't install a boot loader at that time because I
was having problems with my MBR on previous installs of Mandrake 10 and
Suse 8.0. By the time I was done poking around trying to fix things I
ended up crashing the whole bloody thing. So I started from scratch. My
mate really liked Fedora, but I installed it to boot only from floppy.
Later I read that the boot manager on FreeBSD was fool-proof. So here I
am, the fool that is going to test that statement. Installing FreeBSD
fixed my MNR and boots fine from my HD, but Fed is not recognized as a
bootable partition with Boot Magic (I didn't install it as it wouldn't
have fixed my problem).

BTW I have really learned a lot from this list in the short time I have
been here, thank you all. And I decided to put my music files on a
separate partition that will be used as a secondary back-up (see file
sharing across desktops).


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Re: Booting Q.

2004-04-22 Thread MIchael Alexander
Fedora was first. I didn't install a boot loader at that time because I
was having problems with my MBR on previous installs of Mandrake 10 and
Suse 8.0. By the time I was done poking around trying to fix things I
ended up crashing the whole bloody thing. So I started from scratch. My
mate really liked Fedora, but I installed it to boot only from floppy.
Later I read that the boot manager on FreeBSD was fool-proof. So here I
am, the fool that is going to test that statement. Installing FreeBSD
fixed my MNR and boots fine from my HD, but Fed is not recognized as a
bootable partition with Boot Magic (I didn't install it as it wouldn't
have fixed my problem).

BTW I have really learned a lot from this list in the short time I have
been here, thank you all. And I decided to put my music files on a
separate partition that will be used as a secondary back-up (see file
sharing across desktops).

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 20:17, Vijay wrote:
 Which OS did you install first? Fedora/FreeBSD ? 
 I've FreeBSD first and then RH9. The Grub Seems to load the FBSD without
 any problem.
 
 On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 08:40, MIchael Alexander wrote:
  What is the command to make a bootable disk for FreeBSD? I need it in
  case I screw up my latest project. I have a dual OS set-up running BSD
  and Fedora C1. Fedora only boots from a floppy disk and doesn't show up
  as bootable when trying to boot from FreeBSD boot loader. Both
  partitions are primary. How do I get Fedora to become bootable. When I
  fix Fedora does the FreeBSD boot utility have an OS finder (like Acronis
  BL)?
  
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file sharing accross desktops -unix

2004-04-21 Thread MIchael Alexander
Frog Here:

I have a file on my /root desktop I would like to share on my
/home/mike desktop (it's a file full-o-music). Which is better? Creating
a hard link   ln,  a soft link   ln -s, or would changing group do the
job? Or should I just create a separate partition to hold the tunes?

Bass Players Rule!

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Internet Problem

2004-04-18 Thread MIchael Alexander
Quick q. can't seem to get Internet to work in free bsd 5.1. Can ping
to other addresses in intranet, but can't get out to www. Other machines
in intranet work just fine. Also, mouse scroll doesn't work. Mouse is
behind KVM but that may not make a diff. I am immersing myself in Linux
/ Unix with Fedora Core 1 and FreeBSD on one machine. It's late and I'm
tired so I can't work on this anymore 'cause I'll screw it up. Chat
soon.
 frog

P.S. I wrote that last night and was soo tired I forgot to send it :)

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RE: Imap Server and Procmail

2004-01-21 Thread michael Alexander
I believe you have to add it into IE's certificate list, and then outlook
will remember it.
As for how to do that step with FreeBSD, I'm not sure on that.

-Mike

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
 Drew Tomlinson
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:32 AM
 To: Matthew Seaman
 Cc: Loren M. Lang; FreeBSD Mailing list; Jonathan Chen
 Subject: Re: Imap Server and Procmail
 
 
 Matthew Seaman told a big fish story including the following on 
 1/21/2004 1:26 AM:
 
 On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:22:25PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
   
 
 On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:22:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
 
 
 On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:18:07PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
 
 [...]
   
 
 access.  I installed uw-imap as it's what I used on 
 linux.  It doesn't
 have any confg file support and was pretty much plug in 
 way, but on
 freebsd it doesn't seem to be working, it gives the error 
 message bad
 username or password.  What am I missing, there doesn't seem to be
 anything to even configure for it to complain about.
 
 
 You need to build the mail/imap-uw port and the underlying 
 mail/cclient
 with -DWITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT.
   
 
 Will this require SSL for using plaintext or can I avoid 
 SSL?  This is
 for a company migrating from a windoze mail server to a unix-based
 solution and I don't want to have to install a homemade CA 
 cert on all
 the 40+ computers there.
 
 
 
 No, you misunderstand.  mail/cclient defaults to doing 
 SSL-ized stuff,
 and this option adds back the ability to work in plaintext.
 
 Even so, you can run IMAPS (encrypted IMAP, uses port 993) and access
 it via MS Outlook quite happily, without having to install
 certificates all over the place.
   
 
 However, you will have to teach your users to accept the security 
 certificate cannot be verified message at the beginning of a mail 
 session.   This has proved a difficult concept for a few of 
 my users.  
 It seems there should be some way to teach Outlook to accept it 
 permanently but I have not been able to do so.  If you find a 
 solution 
 to this, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Drew
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RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email web ports

2004-01-21 Thread michael Alexander
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fbsd_user
 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:39 PM
 To: Dinesh Nair
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
 Subject: RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email  web ports
 
 
 My friends PC is an MS/Windows 98 box.
 I know all windows system have telnet in command.com.
 Which is reachable from start/run and opens an native dos window.
 
 Would anybody know the syntax of the native dos telnet command
  to include the port number to use?
 
 telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx would get me to the telnet port
 at that IP address.

I believe Just add the port number at the end...
Telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25
For testing a mail server connection for example.  I don't have anything
that old to test it on though.  Works in XP for sure, I use it frequently.

-Mike

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RE: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem

2004-01-06 Thread michael Alexander


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul
 Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:16 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem
 
 
 I've already posted this question to -mobile just trying to 
 get as much traffic as possible ok I got a rather frustrating 
 problem if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated 
 I've tryed 3 pcmcia cards on my i8k all 3 of them give me 
 device timeouts (netgear fa410tx, smc 8040, and a linksys 
 card) all of which are on the hardware compat list except the 
 smc card which i read somewhere is supported so i gave it a 
 try. Anyway I added pccard_enable=YES 
 pccardd_ifconfig=DHCP tryed ifconfig_ed1=DHCP for fun and 
 i tryed changing the irq port with the -i flag for 
 pccardd_flags and editing pccard.conf. Nothing seems to work 
 I have miibus compiled in the kernel all the proper drivers 
 all 3 of the cards are recognized at boot however i recieve 
 the infamous ed1: device timeout message. The cards work on 
 linux and windows maybe I'm missing something I have never 
 dealt with pcmcia cards until now. I googled for 2 days and 
 asked on numerous irc channels. Am I missing something? It 
 seems to be a rather common problem with all the results from 
 my google searchs. I've also disabled everything in my bios 
 still nothing I've tryed using 4.9, 5.2rc2 and -current with  
 the same results. Someone please help me! I keep hearing its 
 an irq conflict my card gets set to irq 10 its seems even 
 when i try to change it..btw all tryed device.hints and kernel.conf. 
 Thanks -Paul

In your bios, is there an option for the pcmcia type??  Such as Auto,
cardbus, and something else that I can't remember right now... I don't know
if the Dell's have that option, I haven't checked mine, but I know our
toshiba's had it.  I haven't tried freebsd on a notebook, but when using
Novell Netware's Zenworks Imaging, which uses linux base for the clients
before imaging, I always had to set that option in bios to be cardbus (auto
would not work) for the cards we had (3com/megahertz FE575) in order for it
to be detected. 

-Mike

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Help with Mylex Acceleraid250(DAC960) install

2003-12-29 Thread Michael Alexander
Hello,

  I am trying to install FreeBSD4.9 (or 5.1 even) on a system that uses a
Mylex Acceleraid250 (DAC960 driver) without success.  The install CD hangs
when it attempts to spin up the drives on the raid, waiting 15 seconds for
scsi devices to settle is the last message on the screen.  I found that
there is a similar problem with RH9, but that they have a work around, which
involves recompiling the kernel and remaking the installation CDs.  I have
the instructions for RH9, but I was hoping to be able to use FreeBSD.  If I
can't get it installed though, I will have to go to RedHat instead.
http://www.techonthenet.com/linux/rh9_update.htm is the instructions, it is
just a simple changing of two kernel options.  Is this possibly the same
reason that I cannot install FreeBSD?  The two kernel options to be changed
are the following:


# CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
# CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set

Change them to:

CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y

If so, are there instructions like the RH ones?  I have never used FreeBSD
before, I have used RH7 and 8.  Since RH is not really offering itself free
anymore, I thought I would give FreeBSD a try, and it also appears that
FreeBSD is abit more current in its packages than RH has been.  I do have
another machine I can install onto to make the changes.  Since this system
is going to be a mail server for the company, we want to be able use RAID
for the entire system including boot.  The system is fully up to date on
bios and firmware for both MB and raid card.

Thank you,
Mike

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DAC906 (was RE: Installation troubles)

2003-12-18 Thread michael Alexander
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
 michael Alexander
 Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:17 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Installation troubles
 
 
 Hi,
 
   I am trying to install FreeBSD (have tried 4.9, and the 5.1 
 ISO's)  It
 hangs at:
 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
 
 My hardware:
 Intel NA440BX MB, 512MB ram, dual PIII 350 processors
 Mylex Acceleraid 250(DAC960)
 Latest bios/firmware downloaded and installed on both MB and 
 Raid card last
 week.

This is listed as bug in redhat, that hasn't been resolved.  Is it also a
bug here?  I don't know where to look to find the kernel options, how to
change them or recompile.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89527 
Lists that 
 from bug listing -
The BOOT and single processor 2.4.20 kernels for RedHat 9 (including the
kernel
on the boot disks and CD) have been compiled with the following two options
off:
 (All of the SMP kernels have these options enabled.)

# CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
# CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set

Turning the above kernel options on and recompiling allows the machine to
boot.
 end copy -
Also that it applies to some other controllers as well.
Could this be the same problem I'm having with FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.1 installs?

Thanks,
Mike

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RE: DAC960 (was RE: Installation troubles)

2003-12-18 Thread michael Alexander
Corrected subject in case someone else is searching for this later on.

  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
  michael Alexander
  Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:17 PM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Installation troubles
  
  
  Hi,
  
I am trying to install FreeBSD (have tried 4.9, and the 5.1 
  ISO's)  It
  hangs at:
  Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
  
  My hardware:
  Intel NA440BX MB, 512MB ram, dual PIII 350 processors
  Mylex Acceleraid 250(DAC960)
  Latest bios/firmware downloaded and installed on both MB and 
  Raid card last
  week.
 
 This is listed as bug in redhat, that hasn't been resolved.  
 Is it also a
 bug here?  I don't know where to look to find the kernel 
 options, how to
 change them or recompile.
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89527 
 Lists that 
  from bug listing -
 The BOOT and single processor 2.4.20 kernels for RedHat 9 
 (including the
 kernel
 on the boot disks and CD) have been compiled with the 
 following two options
 off:
  (All of the SMP kernels have these options enabled.)
 
 # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
 # CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set
 
 Turning the above kernel options on and recompiling allows 
 the machine to
 boot.
  end copy -
 Also that it applies to some other controllers as well.
 Could this be the same problem I'm having with FreeBSD 4.9 
 and 5.1 installs?
 
 Thanks,
 Mike
 
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RE: Load new drivers during install

2003-12-17 Thread michael Alexander


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
 Lowell Gilbert
 Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:47 AM
 To: michael Alexander
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Load new drivers during install
 
 
 michael Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Is there a way to load updated or additional drivers during 
 initial install?
  (like redhats 'expert' install option)
 
 Yes, the install gives you the option to load kernel modules.
 However, this is very rarely needed, because the install kernel
 includes drivers for pretty much anything you could possibly need to
 get through the install process.
 
 Why do you ask?  What do you need that isn't working?
 

I need drivers for Mylex Acceleraid250 (DAC960) on Intel NA440BX.
It is listed as a supported card on the site, but it doesn't give me any
such drivers to select at install. (note, it also doesn't show any NIC
drivers for onboard NIC)
MB and Raid card are updated to latest bios and firmware, as of last week.

Thanks,
-Mike

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RE: Load new drivers during install

2003-12-17 Thread michael Alexander
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter Pine
 Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:55 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: Load new drivers during install
 
 
 The DAC960 drivers are built into the generic kernel. You 
 shouldn't have to
 install anything third party. Just configure your array in 
 the accelraid's
 bios util, and freebsd setup should see the drives.
 
 # Compaq Smart RAID, Mylex DAC960 and AMI MegaRAID controllers.  Only
 # one entry is needed; the code will find and configure all supported
 # controllers.
 #
 device  ida # Compaq Smart RAID
 device  mlx # Mylex DAC960
 device  pst # Promise Supertrak SX6000
 device  amr # AMI MegaRAID
 
 Hunter

When I just hit enter on the setup screen to skip kernel customizing, it
loads a bunch of drivers and such, then stops at:
Waiting 15 seconds for scsi devices to settle.  The drives blink a couple
times in that 15 seconds, then everything just sits there.  No further
activity of any sort.

-Mike

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RE: Load new drivers during install

2003-12-17 Thread michael Alexander
 
 Any chance you're talking about the do kernel configuration
 in full-screen visual mode stuff?  That's just for old ISA hardware,
 *IIRC*.  On most modern systems you can delete that whole list
 and everything still works.
 
 The GENERIC kernel already contains support for the mly driver
 (Acceleraid/eXtremeraid).
 
 What's the onboard NIC?
 
 Kevin Kinsey
 DaleCo, S.P.

Yes, the visual mode kernel config screen is part of what I'm talking about.

So I should just skip that process then?

One Item I found about the setup at intels site
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/n440bx/mega_ovw.htm

Regarding using zero channel raid, is that the driver for the onboard scsi
controller should not be loaded.  Is it possible that the install is sensing
that controller and loading it?  I am driving the RAID array from the
onboard connection (no compatible connectors on the card, so I can't run it
off the card) so it is a zcr configuration.  I have made sure the card is in
the proper slot as listed, and that the bios changes have been made as well.
(they were already set to those options)

The NIC is a intel EtherExpress Pro/100+  but that would be a non-issue now
if the kernel config is only for legacy products.

-Mike

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RE: Installation troubles

2003-12-16 Thread michael Alexander
 -Original Message-
 From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:24 AM
 To: michael Alexander
 Subject: RE: Installation troubles
 
 
 Stop and think about your question,  what is the purpose of raid?
 FBSD has no problem using an normal scsi hard drive as install
 target.
 Raid has very special purpose in life, and holding the operating
 system is not one of them.

I actually thought that the OS really should reside on a Raid array, so that
in the case of a disk failure your system doesn't fully crash and require a
reinstall.

Would I run into this same issue with a supported IDE raid card?

  Since this will be a mission critical server (mail server w/imap) we don't
want to lose any time because of drive failures.  The raid card is listed as
being supported at the site.

 
 Leaving the raid card in while installing FBSD on IDE drive should
 work also.
 You can also read the list of supported devices at www.freebsd.org
 maybe your card is not supported at all.
 
 Any how that is my option based on my experience, for what ever that
 is worth.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: michael Alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:57 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: Installation troubles
 
 Thanks, I will try that.
 
 Does FBSD not support raid targets very well during install?
 
 -Mike
 
  -Original Message-
  From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:37 AM
  To: michael Alexander
  Subject: RE: Installation troubles
 
 
  If I understand your environment correctly, you are trying to use
  the scsi raid hard drive as the target to install FBSD on. I think
  FBSD can use that scsi raid device for data storage after FBSD is
  installed on an IDE hard drive. Just for an learning experience, I
  would add an IDE HD to the pc, remove the scsi card, and try
  installing FBSD again. After FBSD is installed on the IDE HD
 replace
  the scsi raid card and check the var/run/dmesg.boot file which
  contains a copy of all the probe messages from the booting process
  and look to see if FBSD found your scsi card.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of michael
  Alexander
  Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:46 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: Installation troubles
 
  I find no virus boot detection options in the bios on this machine
  (I have
  seen it on our workstation machines, so I know what you are
 talking
  about)
 
  Just to confirm that the raid is working (since I did add drives
 and
  rebuild
  it all since it was last used) I just began another Netware
 install,
  and it
  is happily going along, created a dos partition and formatted it.
 
  Next possibility?
 
  Thanks,
  Mike
 
   -Original Message-
   From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:17 PM
   To: michael Alexander; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: RE: Installation troubles
  
  
   Check your system bio's and turn off virus boot detection.
  
   -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of michael
   Alexander
   Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:17 PM
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: Installation troubles
  
   Hi,
  
 I am trying to install FreeBSD (have tried 4.9, and the 5.1
  ISO's)
   It
   hangs at:
   Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
  
   My hardware:
   Intel NA440BX MB, 512MB ram, dual PIII 350 processors
   Mylex Acceleraid 250(DAC960)
   Latest bios/firmware downloaded and installed on both MB and
 Raid
   card last
   week.
  
   ISO's downloaded last week as well.
  
   I know the raid card works, I had netware installed on the
 machine
   prior to
   moving it to new hardware.
  
   If there was an option to install unlisted drivers at the
 initial
   setup
   screen, where I am suppose to remove drivers that do not apply,
  then
   I might
   be able to continue on and get this installed.  I selected
 FreeBSD
   because
   it seemed to be abit more up to date with releases of other
  software
   we
   would be running (Sendmail 8.12.10, etc)
  
   Any suggestions where to begin troubleshooting the install?  I
 did
   download
   the latest drivers for the card as well, but all the install
   instructions
   I've found assume there is already a working FreeBSD system,
 which
  I
   do not
   have.
  
   (FWIW, Redhat 9 also is failing to install, it locks up loading
  its
   DAC960
   driver -never even gets to any sort of config)
  
   Thank you,
   Mike

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Load new drivers during install

2003-12-16 Thread michael Alexander
Is there a way to load updated or additional drivers during initial install?
(like redhats 'expert' install option)

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Installation troubles

2003-12-15 Thread michael Alexander
Hi,

  I am trying to install FreeBSD (have tried 4.9, and the 5.1 ISO's)  It
hangs at:
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle

My hardware:
Intel NA440BX MB, 512MB ram, dual PIII 350 processors
Mylex Acceleraid 250(DAC960)
Latest bios/firmware downloaded and installed on both MB and Raid card last
week.

ISO's downloaded last week as well.  

I know the raid card works, I had netware installed on the machine prior to
moving it to new hardware.

If there was an option to install unlisted drivers at the initial setup
screen, where I am suppose to remove drivers that do not apply, then I might
be able to continue on and get this installed.  I selected FreeBSD because
it seemed to be abit more up to date with releases of other software we
would be running (Sendmail 8.12.10, etc)

Any suggestions where to begin troubleshooting the install?  I did download
the latest drivers for the card as well, but all the install instructions
I've found assume there is already a working FreeBSD system, which I do not
have.

(FWIW, Redhat 9 also is failing to install, it locks up loading its DAC960
driver -never even gets to any sort of config)

Thank you,
Mike

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