Re: Dell PERC 2/SC Support?

2006-11-10 Thread Rowdy
on amr0 Oct 14 18:04:23 khaki kernel: amrd1: 104034MB (213061632 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread Rowdy
can completely remove any trace of *Nix? -I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record, but this was [mumble] years ago. thanks for any tips, y'all, gary fdisk /mbr Rowdy

Re: 6.0 Migration Guide?

2006-01-25 Thread Rowdy
/src/UPDATING, search for To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable or higher to 6.x-stable (near the end of the file). Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Problem setting up PPPoE in Release 6.0

2006-01-13 Thread Rowdy
, then there might be a bigger problem. I also have option set cd 10 in my ppp.conf that sets a 10 second delay waiting for carrier (FreeBSD checks for carrier once per second until timeout) - I don't know if that makes any difference. Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions

Re: script to monitor internet connection

2006-01-09 Thread Rowdy
or goes down respectively. See ppp(8) for details and /usr/share/examples/ppp for examples. Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script to monitor internet connection

2006-01-06 Thread Rowdy
and /etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown - they should allow you to echo a line to a log file of your own devising. Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Rowdy
hour 25 minutes. Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread Rowdy
within the caddy, and thus within the USB enclosure. Other USB devices, including the second caddy and a couple of flash drives, seem to work fine. Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: USB DataTraveller works but.

2005-12-01 Thread Rowdy
Rowdy wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: with lot of errors after i umount'ed dos filesystem Nov 29 12:00:35 chylonia kernel: umass1: Phase Error, residue = 0 Nov 29 12:00:35 chylonia kernel: (da4:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4, scsi status == 0x0 Nov 29 12:00:35

Re: USB DataTraveller works but.

2005-11-29 Thread Rowdy
trying to schedule an upgrade to 6.0 - I intend to patch the file and recompile as part of the upgrade), but there are several references I found to suggest that it should work. Rowdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: error in burning v5.3 disc 2.iso

2005-01-05 Thread Rowdy
you help? Thanks, John Ward disc2 contains a live filesystem, including the ports tree. There are literally 10's of thousands of files - on my Athlon 64 3200+ it took well over 15 minutes for Nero to collate the directories before it started burning. Have patience ... Rowdy

Re: 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso

2004-12-14 Thread Rowdy
it built the table of contents or similar. dics2 contains a live filesystem including the ports tree, there are 10's of thousands of files. Rowdy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Can Portupgrade provide a list of files to download?

2004-07-12 Thread Rowdy
epilogue wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:07:57 +1000 Ron Joordens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning Everyone, Having only a dial-up connection at home, I try to download most of the large files I need for FreeBSD at work. To date I have to sit down in front of the pc, run portupgrade with the fetch

multiple versions of ports installed

2004-07-06 Thread Rowdy
Greetings, I have multiple versions of a couple of ports installed under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I'm not sure why, nor whether I can remove any of the older versions. sharwyn:~ # portversion -v | grep ? autoconf-2.57_1 ? error - origin not found libtool-1.4.3_3 ?

Re: [OT] What's QED? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-09 Thread Rowdy
Jos De Laender wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: snip of on topic stuff ;-) The original Latin is ``Quod Erat Demonstrandum'', translates to that was demonstrated (about as much as I remember from five years of Latin). Quod erat demonstrandum is correct. The translation is rather : what needed to

Re: Is Freebsd graphical?

2004-05-20 Thread Rowdy
Doug Lawrence wrote: I am very new to anything but Windows and some MAC. I bought a retail box of 4.7 about 2 years ago.It had no printed material.I tried for about a month to get it up and running but I gave up. I was to new. I talked to people in my department about how to learn the program

Re: FreeBSD and Internal IDE 100M ZIP drive

2004-03-28 Thread Rowdy
Shawn Guillemette wrote: Looking to eject my 100M iomega ZIP deive from with in my shell script. URL's, Pasted examples, anything.. Im searching the net too... not much luck yet... Shawn There is no place like 127.0.0.1 There is an eject utility in ports that purports to be able to eject

Re: Weird directory entries

2004-03-15 Thread Rowdy
Hugo wrote: Hi, From times to times I get weird directory entries on a 4.8-RELEASE-p13 server. some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/stand]: dir | head total 71298 -r-xr-xr-x 33 root wheel - 2181808 Apr 3 2003 -sh* drwxr-x--- 5 root wheel -1024 Oct 15 20:16 ./ drwxr-x--x 19 root

Re: LINT file?

2004-02-29 Thread Rowdy
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf make LINT Note that the LINT kernel is _strictly_ a list of all the possible things to put in your kernel config -- there are no explanatory comments anymore. That's a shame. I was counting on the comments to educate me.

Re: 5.2.1-RC2

2004-02-15 Thread Rowdy
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:55:16PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see the above mentioned is on the site under ISO's But the release candidate has not yet been announced, so these may change at any time. Don't use them until the announcement comes out, because you might encounter

Re: reliable tape units

2004-02-05 Thread Rowdy
David Bear wrote: I wanted to ask this group what their experience was regarding tape units, what your experience has been regarding reliability and longevity. I am faced with replacing an AIT tape unit thats just over 3 years old. Its based on a sony sdx-300 series. Its had minimal use. I am

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-29 Thread Rowdy
Chris Pressey wrote: Well, I'm not sure if it works on 5.x, but you could try /usr/ports/sysutils/muse Should be easier to parse than the other options. -Chris Works fine under 5.1 - thanx Chris. However the output is a little confusing, /var/run/dmesg.boot shows this: real memory =

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-29 Thread Rowdy
Jez Hancock wrote: You could always output the results of dmesg at boot-time to a file - adding something like this: dmesg /var/log/dmesg.boot to /usr/local/etc/rc.local. Don't need to ... a default FreeBSD 5.1 installation already writes it to /var/run/dmesg.boot :-) Dave

showing total/free memory

2004-01-28 Thread Rowdy
Greetings, What is the best/easiest way on FreeBSD 5.1 to show the total and free amount of memory (at any given moment in time)? I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free memory respectively, but I hope

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-28 Thread Rowdy
Matthew Hunt wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free memory respectively, but I hope there is an easier way. Try vmstat instead. Thought

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-28 Thread Rowdy
Chris Pressey wrote: Well, I'm not sure if it works on 5.x, but you could try /usr/ports/sysutils/muse Should be easier to parse than the other options. -Chris That sounds just the ticket, thanx :) It is listed in the current ports tree, and so presumably does work under 5.x. Dave

compiling a kernel on a different machine

2003-12-23 Thread Rowdy
Greetings, My attempts to compile a (5.1-RELEASE) kernel on a very old PC take around 5 hours (of compile time), while a much faster machine sits by idle. It would be great to be able to compile the kernel on the faster machine and transfer it to the older machine. Would I be correct in