NFS locks rpcbind port = 0 failed? - try #2

2013-10-14 Thread Rick Romero
This is a continuation of "9.1 VM nfs3 & locks over VPN" - trying a different angle maybe it'll jostle someones memory. I now have a FreeBSD 9.2 VM at an offsite hosting company.  hostname nl101vpn OpenVPN is installed on it, routed not bridged mode. I have multiple OSs installed on local network

vBSDcon: October 25 - 27. 2013 in Herndon, VA

2013-10-14 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
thers. See the full list of speakers and topics at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. All vBSDcon attendees are invited to join Verisign at a reception dinner at the conference venue on October 25 from 6:00 – 8:00PM Eastern. We look forward to seeing you all there! -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Eng

Re: 9.1 VM nfs3 & locks over VPN

2013-10-11 Thread Rick Romero
ssing it's a problem with virtio block driver (which is not installed on the local test VM) or something funky with the hosting providers virtualization.  Does that shed any light on things? Quoting Rick Romero : So let me explain my environment - I have 1 FreeBSD 7.1 server, multiple Linux b

9.1 VM nfs3 & locks over VPN

2013-10-11 Thread Rick Romero
So let me explain my environment - I have 1 FreeBSD 7.1 server, multiple Linux boxes, and a FreeBSD 9.0 server.  The 9.0 server is providing NFS3 mounts to all the other systems. I've built a remote VM (FreeBSD 9.1 offered by Hosting provider), and connected it to my network via OpenVPN.  I copied

OpenBSD at vBSDcon October 25 - 27, 2013 in Herndon, VA

2013-10-07 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
registrations at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. This is an event you will not want to miss. Register now before it's too late! Follow @VERISIGN and @hostileaddmin on Twitter for more news and updates on #vBSDcon -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com<mailto:vmil...@verisign.com&

vBSDcon Is Coming: Oct 25 - 27, 2013 in Herndon, VA

2013-10-03 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
! -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com<mailto:vmil...@verisign.com> t: 703-948-4395 m: 703-581-3068 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190 http://www.vbsdcon.com http://www.verisigninc.com “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the indi

vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
on.com/. -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com t: 703.948.4395 m: 703.581.3068 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190 http://www.vbsdcon.com/ http://www.verisigninc.com/ "This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual

vBSDcon Registrations Remain Open!

2013-09-19 Thread Rick Miller
being accepted on the conference web site at http://www.vbsdcon.com/ through October 23, 2013 after which registrations will only be taken in person at the event. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

2013-09-16 Thread Rick Miller
i found many > hints to start it using inetd. Since it worked for me there was no reason > to change it. > In general, most administrators will not run ssh via inetd. A more common configuration is detailed in the FreeBSD handbook at http:/

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

2013-09-16 Thread Rick Miller
Hi Aurikus, Selecting "Reply all" when replying to messages on the list allows the entire list to benefit from the discussion. On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:05 AM, aurikus grande wrote: > Hello Rick. > > thanks a lot for your quick reply. > > Does your recommendation

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

2013-09-16 Thread Rick Miller
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:57 PM, aurikus grande wrote: > Hello Rick, > > sorry that i did not reply to all, from now on i will use "reply to all". > Thanks for pointing it out. > > I will also open port 80 for web access, but i do not want to log those. > Be

Re: how to log sshd access in a single file

2013-09-16 Thread Rick Miller
uccessful authentication is written to /var/log/auth.log. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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"

vBSDcon 2013 Registrations Open

2013-09-09 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
quot; button to begin your registration! We look forward to meeting you all there! -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com t: 703.948.4395 m: 703.581.3068 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190 http://www.vbsdcon.com/ http://www.verisigninc.com/ “This message (including

vBSDcon 2013 Registration Opens!

2013-08-12 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
official part of vBSDcon -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com<mailto:vmil...@verisign.com> t: 703.948.4395 m: 703.581.3068 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190 http://www.verisigninc.com “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use

Re: Make Release

2013-08-05 Thread Rick Miller
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Amitabh Kant wrote: > Devin Teske & Rick Miller have a fairly extensive explanation on their > blogs on how to create your own modified iso's. Search the archives for > links. Hopefully they can chime in with their respective links. Sorry to sh

Re: vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Miller
I just checked it out. Seems to be up for me... On Monday, July 22, 2013, Виталий Туровец wrote: > The site seems down from here (AS58054). > > > 2013/7/22 Rick Miller 'cvml', 'vmil...@hostileadmin.com');>> > >> Hi all, >> >> For thos

vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Miller
. Please feel free to check it out at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, The vBSDcon website has been updated with a full speaker line-up and schedule for the BSD-related conference October 25 - 27, 2013. Check it out at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. Registrations will begin in the coming weeks. -- Take care Rick Miller

Mirroring Binary Packages

2013-07-01 Thread Rick Miller
2012 as seen by the dates of files. Is this the appropriate source to mirror for the most recently built binary packages for 8.x amd64? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

8.4-RELEASE buildworld failure

2013-06-13 Thread Rick Miller
* Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. There is no src.conf and make.conf only sets PERL_VERSION. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: looking for command to display default route ip address

2013-05-29 Thread Rick Miller
ternet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default192.168.0.1 UGS 0 192em0 ... -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: freebsd-stable/release?

2013-05-21 Thread Rick Miller
n environments, those organizations will only install -RELEASE or releng/ releases. It comes down to a decision you and/or your organization must make and that decision will be based on a risk/reward analysis. Hope that helps. -- Take care Rick Miller _

vBSDCon Announcement

2013-04-17 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
• netmap with Luigi Rizzo • Migration from GCC to LLVM/Clang with David Chisnall Registration information will be sent to you in May! Questions? Please contact: eventst...@verisign.com<mailto:eventst...@verisign.com> -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.

Installing FreeBSD via Cobbler

2013-04-15 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, For anyone interested, I posted a blog article explaining how to install FreeBSD via Cobbler posted at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/04/11/installing-freebsd-via-cobbler/. I'd like to thank Devin Teske for his help with this project. -- Take care Rick M

Re: building crunchgen fails

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Miller
I am far from proficient with C to declare with any authority what the problem might be. I'm hoping someone could help me understand and correct the problem. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > >> Hi All,

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

2013-02-14 Thread Rick Miller
ists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Sent from my mobile device Take care Rick Miller ___ 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: about unatteneded installation

2013-02-14 Thread Rick Miller
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Rick Miller wrote: > > No worries on time lapse. In fact, I had been needing to get back to you on > assuaging those 4 failed > patch hunks on your sysinstall work. > > FreeBSD Druid (both 8.x an

Re: about unatteneded installation

2013-02-14 Thread Rick Miller
DruidBSD, but was sidetracked with a different project. I'm hoping to return to this in the coming weeks. Having said that, I am wondering what disk partition utilities FreeBSD Druid/DruidBSD use when installing 9.x. Is it using fdisk/bsdlabel or gpart? -- Take care Rick Miller __

Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Rick Miller
the variable content is a number and not text? > What am I doing wrong? The -eq operator is used to compare integers. When comparing strings, use the == operator. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: building crunchgen fails

2013-01-23 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> When executing crunchgen -o boot_crunch.conf && make -f boot_crunch.mk >> I get the following error: >> >> cc -static

building crunchgen fails

2013-01-23 Thread Rick Miller
Stop in /tmp/crunchtmp. I understand that there may need to be some shuffling of the libraries in the boot_crunch.conf, but I've done that to no avail. Wondering if anyone else may be able to shed some light on this... The boot_crunch.conf can be viewed at http://pastebin.com/ZwV

FreeBSD 8 or 9 on HP ML350 G8

2012-12-20 Thread Rick Miller
ying sizes (like, 2T or more)? Any special BIOS settings or firmware versions? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, For anyone interested, I posted a blog with regards to how sysinstall is run from mfsroot. URL is http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/18/mfsroot-starts-sysinstall-how/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? To explain more, I would like to boot into a shell as opposed to sysinstall. safe mode and single user don't seem to. -- Take ca

mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Re: make release and mfsroot

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Miller
he source tree. This is how I discovered MFSSIZE, because the resulting boot_crunch binary was larger than the available space. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: make release and mfsroot

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Miller
Hi Devin, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > Hi Rick, > > If you want, you could follow my approach which is to take the completed > mfsroot.gz and use a Makefile to manage the creation of custom mfsroots > (keeping the original unmodified, making it simpler to

make release and mfsroot

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Miller
doconfig.sh \ + && cp ${.CURDIR}/doconfig.sh ${RD}/mfsfd/stand @mkdir -p ${RD}/mfsfd/boot .if ${TARGET_ARCH} != "ia64" && ${TARGET_ARCH} != "powerpc" @cp ${RD}/trees/base/boot/boot* ${RD}/mfsfd/boot -- Take care Rick Miller _

FreeBSD Ports Batch Install

2012-12-10 Thread Rick Miller
For those interested... hostileadmin.com has published a new blog entitled FreeBSD Ports Batch Install at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/10/freebsd-ports-batch-install/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-07 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi all, > > I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was > not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, > but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where it is? Thank

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-07 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have > pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? Thanks for all your replies. Our current direction appears to be one of modifying the FreeBSD

root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where it is? -- Rick -- Sent from my mobile device Take care Rick Miller

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi Dan, On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have >> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?

gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

ipfwNG project?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
I came across the wiki doc for ipfwNG (http://wiki.freebsd.org/IpfwNg) and wondered if any of the concepts of this project are currently being developed for FreeBSD and when we might start seeing those concepts included in releng/ code. -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: gpart and FreeBSD 8.x

2012-12-03 Thread Rick Miller
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Julien Cigar wrote: > > gpart is in BASE on 8.x so there is nothing to install > Thanks, Julien! I added a comment to this effect on the post! -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

gpart and FreeBSD 8.x

2012-12-03 Thread Rick Miller
For anyone interested, Posted a new blog with regards to gpart on FreeBSD 8.x (with a link to one of Warren's blog posts): http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/03/freebsd-partitions-and-filesystems-with-gpart/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ fr

How do you manage jails?

2012-11-29 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I want to inquire how the majority of users manage jails within their own environments. Do you use the utilities described in the handbook in chapter 16 or some other management facility like qjail or ezjail? -- Take care Rick Miller

filesystem size does not equal free space

2012-11-21 Thread Rick Miller
, when the filesystem is labelled and mounted, it is slightly over 1TB in size. Am I correct in assuming that it's only 1TB because the disk geometry is greater than what is supported by sysinstall and/or bsdlabel? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ fr

computing kern.maxfilesperproc and kern.maxfiles

2012-11-12 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I just posted a blog about how kern.maxfilesperproc and kern.maxfiles are computed at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/11/12/freebsd-computing-kern-maxfilesperproc-and-kern-maxfiles/ for anyone who may be interested... -- Take care Rick Miller

Fault in Terminal Server causing server to hang on boot?

2012-11-08 Thread Rick Miller
with the terminal server. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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 8.3 udp_input() kernel panic

2012-11-06 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I posted a blog yesterday with regards to a FreeBSD kernel panic in FreeBSD 8.3 at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/11/05/freebsd-kernel-panic-in-udp_input/ in case anyone has any interest... -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Burning .iso DVD's

2012-11-03 Thread Rick Miller
gt; I get error of no growisofs ..when I run growisofs -dvd-compat -Z > /dev/cd0=image.iso growisofs is part of the dvd+rw-tools port/package. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: PXE tftp - double boot

2012-10-29 Thread Rick Miller
FreeBSD's pxeboot.bs and was chained to pxelinux. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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 help require for DellpowerEdge R620

2012-10-26 Thread Rick Miller
ontroller is only in stable/8 and stable/9 right now. I believe it should be in 9.1-RELEASE, but I could be wrong. If/when 8.4-RELEASE is dropped, it should be in there too. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: MFS root filesystem and static binaries size

2012-10-16 Thread Rick Miller
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Re: MFS root filesystem and static binaries size

2012-10-16 Thread Rick Miller
o copy these files on similar > filesystem using cp or dd the actual used space is bigger? They are hardlinks. I have a blog post at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/08/21/automating-generation-of-the-mfsroot-gz/ that touches on the subject...read the comments starting at line #76. --

Adding boot options to the loader menu

2012-10-11 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, If you have any interest, I have posted a blog about adding boot options to the loader menu... http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/11/so-you-want-a-new-freebsd-boot-loader-option/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Building a release with custom packages

2012-10-08 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, If anyone has interest, I have a new blog post on building a FreeBSD release with custom packages at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 with LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i

2012-10-04 Thread Rick Miller
post below, it may help. http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/05/22/freebsd-on-dell-poweredge-12g-servers/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-10-03 Thread Rick Miller
reat help to me at work! For everyone else that may have interest, I have a blog post with regards to generating a release with multiple kernel distributions: http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/01/building-freebsd-with-multiple-kernels/ -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-27 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > > All patched. > > http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240972 > > Can you test? I'll close the PR upon success. Success! Thanks! -- Take care Rick Miller ___ fre

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-26 Thread Rick Miller
>> > > >> > > Confirmed. I'll raise a PR with a patch to correct this. >> > >> > Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, Devin! If you don't mind, will >> > you pass on the PR so I can track it? >> >> Sure, no prob. It should appear in GNATS within 15-20 minutes. I'll get you > the >> PR number when

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-26 Thread Rick Miller
the quick reply, Devin! If you don't mind, will you pass on the PR so I can track it? I am also considering approaching one of our developers to ask if they can write a patch, would that be helpful? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-question

FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-26 Thread Rick Miller
to confirm or refute this... -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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"

Creating kernel distribution from sources

2012-09-24 Thread Rick Miller
looks like I can just run `make release.3 && make release.5 && make release.6` to accomplish this. Is this correct? Would the resulting files be installed in ${CHROOTDIR}/R? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Installation Logs for FreeBSD 8.x?

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Miller
in a directory within /var. sysinstall docs don't seem to explain any sort of facility to accomplish this. Perhaps there is someone out there who has done something similar that might be able to share their knowledge? -- Take care Rick M

Unable to get crash dump

2012-08-24 Thread Rick Miller
abort Googling and searching freebsd.org have produced what appeared to be some what relevant messages, but I found nothing pointing to a cause and fix. I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in a direction to figuring this out. -- Take care Rick M

Re: vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Miller
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running the latest releng/8.3 on a HP DL360 with an Intel 82599 > 10G NIC using the ixgbe driver. Without vlan tagging, tcpdump sees > traffic on the default vlan. With vlan tagging there is no traffic on

vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-13 Thread Rick Miller
provide some additional information? I'm not seeing anything in syslog. The interface is configured via rc.conf: cloned_interfaces="vlan0" ifconfig_vlan0="inet 10.x.x.x netmask=255.255.255.0 vlan $id vlandev ix0" Where $id is our vlan id.

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
reads/write to cross the head boundary resulting in unnecessary disk thrashing and long I/O wait times. The issue was corrected in Linux by changing the start cylinder to 2048. Some theorized that FreeBSD was vulnerable to this scenario. Thoughts/feedback? On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Rick M

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
[snip] >> I think Ryan means partition and not slice? >> I would not recommend no slices at all, It's deprecated to use >> "dangerously dedicated disks" > > First of all, it's "dedicated disks", there's nothing dangerous > related. :-) > > If you are using the MBR approach ("old way"), you can do

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
ies. Thanks! -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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"

Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
tonEditor macro automatically start partitions at head boundaries? The reason I ask is because I am most familiar with sector 64 being the start of a head boundary as opposed to 63. Is my understanding incorrect? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:50:52AM -0400, Rick Miller wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have 2 hosts, HP DL360 G8 and Dell R620.  Both have the >> X520-DA2/Intel 82599 10G Fiber NIC.  Both also have the same FreeBSD &

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:50:52AM -0400, Rick Miller wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have 2 hosts, HP DL360 G8 and Dell R620.  Both have the >> X520-DA2/Intel 82599 10G Fiber NIC.  Both also have the same FreeBSD &

FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Miller
anyone else has experienced this? pci4: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci4: at device 0.1 (no driver attached) -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: sysinstall diskPartitionEditor Question

2012-06-27 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to set the offset/starting cylinder in install.cfg so that > partitions begin on appropriate boundaries.  The applicable section of > install.cfg looks like the following.  My assumption is that

sysinstall diskPartitionEditor Question

2012-06-26 Thread Rick Miller
${disk}s1-4=ufs 4194304 /var 1 # 2 GB home \${disk}s1-5=ufs 4194304 /home 1 diskLabelEditor ### End snippet -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-25 Thread Rick Miller
Turns out the gbic in the switch was bad...I didn't think there was a problem on the host, but you all still gave me some good info. I appreciate it! On 6/25/12, Rick Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: >> Would probably be good to take car

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-25 Thread Rick Miller
thing looks right from the host's perspective. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > Increase your system mbuf pool size, you do not want that failure to happen. Thanks, Jack. I saw a thread where you discussed this. You are referring to kern.ipc.nmbclusters, correct? Should I also adjust the following? hw.ixgbe.rxd hw.ixgb

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
dmesg and ifconfig output below... On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Boyer wrote: >> The ixgbe driver creates devices named ix0, etc. >> >> I believe you need to run 'ifconfig ix0 up' before it will atte

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Boyer wrote: > The ixgbe driver creates devices named ix0, etc. > > I believe you need to run 'ifconfig ix0 up' before it will attempt to get > link. Thanks for clarifying that tidbit. At least I know the driver loading is the correct driver :) I did try

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > Wondering if the Intel X520-DA2 10G Fibre NIC is supported in > stable/8.  Hardware notes don't specify it, but I have a system up and > the interfaces appear to be loaded by the ix driver.  However, status >

Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Wondering if the Intel X520-DA2 10G Fibre NIC is supported in stable/8. Hardware notes don't specify it, but I have a system up and the interfaces appear to be loaded by the ix driver. However, status indicates "no carrier". -- Take c

Re: FreeBSD compatibility with HP ProLiant DL360p Generation 8 (Gen8) ?

2012-06-14 Thread Rick Miller
PCIe Intel NICs and tried the 82571 which did work with stable/8. We've got on order a few of the HP NC361T, which is based on the Intel i350, which we tested in a Dell and it worked there. Again, all this is with stable/8, but generally if the driver wo

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Miller
t; On Jun 8, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > >> Hi Rick (!), >> >> On Jun 8, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Rick Miller wrote: >> > > [snip] > >>> >>> I browsed the source and found many references to the BCM5719 and >>> BCM5720.  However, I a

How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Miller
support of the i350? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
unable to verify this, but that's why I was asking for clarification. I will assume it works at this point. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Michael Butler wrote: > On 06/01/12 13:06, Rick Miller wrote: >> Thanks, Jack! >> >> Also another support question for the lists.

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Rick Miller > wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I did not see the Intel 82599ES chipset in the hardware release notes >> for 8.3 or 9.0.  Are these controllers supported at this time? >> >> -- >> Take care >> Rick Miller >&

Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I did not see the Intel 82599ES chipset in the hardware release notes for 8.3 or 9.0. Are these controllers supported at this time? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Need some help building bootcrunch

2012-05-30 Thread Rick Miller
I changed some things around in the bootcrunch.conf and got it to work. It was building 'fetch'. I moved -lfetch before -lmd and it compiled fine. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I am attempting to build a bootcrunch file that I will injec

Need some help building bootcrunch

2012-05-30 Thread Rick Miller
zcat srcdirs /usr/src/usr.sbin progs arp progs sysinstall progs usbconfig srcdirs /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin progs grep libs -ll -ledit -lutil -lmd -lcrypt -lftpio -lz -lnetgraph libs -ldialog -lncurses -ldisk -lcam -lsbuf -lutil -lufs -ldevinfo -lkvm libs -lbsdxml -larchive -lbz2 -lusb -lgnuregex -lz -llzma libs -lfetch -lmd -lssl -lcrypto -ljail -lm -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-05-16 Thread Rick Miller
solution was to replace pxeboot.bs with Grub2pxe. I have a blog post detailing the scenario at https://hostileadmin.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/pxe-booting-into-a-freebsd-installation/ On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Hi > > > On 14/03/2012 11:44, Rick Miller wrote: >&

FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710

2012-05-16 Thread Rick Miller
FreeBSD on the R620 and be able to provide any tips for troubleshooting? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Re: pxegrub + FreeBSD install

2012-04-25 Thread Rick Miller
oot set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c set kFreeBSD.boot.nfsroot.server=$pxe_default_server set kFreeBSD.boot.netif.hwaddr=$net_pxe_mac set kFreeBSD.boot.netif.ip=$net_pxe_ip set kFreeBSD.dhcp.host-name=$net_pxe_hostname } On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Rick Miller wrote

pxegrub + FreeBSD install

2012-04-24 Thread Rick Miller
les in the mfsroot.gz when loading via pxegrub? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Rick Miller
> Yes it does. pebcak, thanks. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks Matthew... On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/03/2012 16:51, Rick Miller wrote: >> I can get run-time depends by executing make run-depends-list or all >> dependancies by running make all-depends-list.  Is there a way to get >> all run-tim

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