Re: using dd to dump an image file to a floppy

2007-04-16 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:24:14 -0400
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Everyone,

 I'm trying to make boot and kern floppies, using dd, as follows:
 Cdrom is mounted, floppy is mounted (and I have test written to it)
 I have the 6.2 disk 1 in the cdrom drive (the floppies directory contains
 the disk images I'd like to write)
 I'm in the /cdrom directory
 When I try to disk image the boot.flp file, here's what happens:

 # dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/fd0
 dd: /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted

 I keep getting the operation not permitted message.
 As I said before, I CAN write to the fd0 (floppy drive), and I am logged in
 as root.
 Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
 

Maybe you just unmount your floppy before doing dd if=floppies/boot.flp 
of=/dev/fd0.
It's blocked.

  
 
 Thanks,
 John
 
 So here's to the role of time, patience, and reflection in our lives.  If we
 believe it is better to build than to destroy, better to live and let live,
 better to be than to be seen, then we might have a chance, slowly, to find a
 satisfying way through life, this flicker of consciousness between two great
 silences.
 
  
 
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Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-11 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:06:15 -0400
Jules Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Boy, do I want answers too!
 
 We have HD's that run 24X7.  And I don't want to turn them off, I  
 just want them to sleep quietly until needed.  We have lot's of RAM,  
 thus plenty of cache space.
 
 Our machines are all blades.  (Does this matter?  I don't know.)   
 IBMs and Super-Micros.
 
 We spend zillions of bucks on electricity;  We use these machines  
 24X7 now, but soon will only need them about 12 hours a day.  Is 24X7  
 operation the optimal strategy?
 
 What's the best course here, wrt electric costs, and wrt disk failures?

That's the point! Electric costs vs failures.
If financial side is the interest, - obvioulsy statistics and calculator.
My original question sounded like what's the safest way.

Let's see:

An HD in full operation get definitely hot and hence (evidently) consuming
power. And then it turns to sleeping mode and becomes cooler... cooler...
Then (maybe) this process repeats all the time. Despite even cold turning on
stresses these permanent temperature differences can't be good.

Conclusion might be like this:

If one has certain amount of trusted drives and they are expected to sleep
reasonable time only a few times a day then one should save energy, thinking
of tuning wakeups and regular backup. The same with stations that rarely use
HDs and/or do their stuff (if any) using only RAM.

If a machine is under constant load, or expected to wake up once per several
hours it's better to leave it all in peace :). It seems somewhat hard to
estimate sleeping periods accurately in this case. And even huge cache can
be a reason for unexpected need in accessing a bit of disk data.

As Gary Kline said, slowing down drives could be a good idea in some
circumstances. There are so many user desktops running only a text processor
and... heating the air! What for? And there is more to it, these desktops
are everywhere and all of them together burn too much more energy resources
than server and development installations, like ones, I hope, we are talking
about. And I think that stability of latter ones is a concern (to serve the
rest of production teapots).

Finally, if one is using (it's highly encouraged!) FreeBSD at home to do all
sort of things, let's experiment with power savings too! Because the feature
must retain in OS and improve with overall experience and support.

- Yuri

 
 --jg
 
 
 
 On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Yuri Grebenkin wrote:
 
  Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all.
  Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch?
  What do you think?
 
  Hello again all,
 I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed  
  means to
  spin down disks available in either ports or the base system, by  
  chance.
 Just trying to cut down on energy use, and increase my disks'  
  lives :).
  TIA,
  -Garrett
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Re: Fw: get me off this list

2007-04-11 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:59:49 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Ted Ims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm incorrectly receiving the list as well and can't unsubscribe.

Welcome, Ted! To our little carnival.

Wow! It's getting windy.
Better to form some kind of strategy.
For example to found a club for newcomers.
Or just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And send everybody there to talk ;-)

- Yuri
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Re: Proper list server? (was Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?)

2007-04-11 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
L Goodwin,

Wrap your lines;
To reply to both list and sender use Reply to all;
To send a private message delete [EMAIL PROTECTED];
To and so on. Control everything yourself!

But I think that the best is to use some normal mailer program that support
simple list handling.

It's not like some kind of forum and it's all about transparent architecture
and freedom.

- Yuri


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:14:54 -0700 (PDT)
L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Well, Jonathan, since you asked, here are the things I've found cumbersome 
 about freebsd-questions, some/all of which may be due to my own ignorance:
 
 1) I get all email posted to freebsd-questions in my inbox (actually, some 
 end up in bulk mail folder). That's a lot of mail to wade through. I'm 
 trying to get a system up and running so I can move on to the next task.
 I suppose I could set up some email filtering rules to limit what comes in.
 
 2) To reply to an email, I have to copy/paste freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
 into the To field. If I forget to do this, my reply gets send to the sender 
 only.
 See? I almost forgot to do it for this reply. :-}
 
 One feature I like about (some) list servers is the ability to send a private 
 message to another member. This comes in handy when one person is helping 
 troubleshoot a problem, and you don't need everybody on the list to get 
 involved.
 
 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Wednesday 11 April 2007 05:12, L Goodwin wrote:
  For starters, how about getting this mail group on a proper list server?
  I'll gladly help if there is anything I can do other than get in the way...
 
 I normally try not to be rude, but...
 
 what on Earth are you talking about? What is it about a Mailman installation 
 on a host within the freebsd.org domain that renders it less than proper?
 
 Jonathan

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Re: Fw: get me off this list

2007-04-11 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:32:45 -0400
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Are both of you getting the emails via mailanyone.net as well?
 
 Seems to me that someone compromised mailanyone.net -- anyone know for sure?
 
 In response to Jaymz Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  Add me to the list of folks who did not subscribe and can not unsubscribe???
  
  On 4/11/07, Ted Ims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   I'm incorrectly receiving the list as well and can't unsubscribe.

Well, for whom it's an interest, there is another fire front on [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]
There you can find new facts and other stuff like email headers etc.

- Yuri
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Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all.
Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch?
What do you think?

 Hello again all,
   I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to
 spin down disks available in either ports or the base system, by chance.
   Just trying to cut down on energy use, and increase my disks' lives :).
 TIA,
 -Garrett
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Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:58:22 +0200
Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi.
  By what device name should I mount
 the flash memory disk (disk-on-key).
 
 On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ?
 
 Thanks,
  Dima.

Try this (just a hint):
% mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /path/where
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Re: Can I use an HP printer

2007-02-10 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
I have an Epson Stylus C43SX and have made it print PostScript
through the following filter using GIMP Print and Ghostscript:

# /usr/local/libexec/ps2eps.sh
gs -DSAFER -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=ijsgimpprint \
   -sDeviceManufacturer=EPSON -sDeviceModel=escp2-c42sx \
   -DIjsUseOutputFD -q -sOutputFile=- -DNOPAUSE -DBATCH - \
   exit 0

Also, to turn on extended mode for my local lpt0 I use this:

lptcontrol -e /dev/lpt0

Yuri


On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:31:31 -0800
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I myself have an Epson C84 inkjet in my home that has the same issues.
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Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

2004-02-29 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Hi. I've bought a ATI Radion 9000 64Mb and now I'm happy! It runs movies 
of any kind with postprocessing. I've already tested it by running Quake2 
and Quake3arena with Wine under FreeBSD 4.9. They both are looking more 
alive than under Windows with nVidia TNT2! Even more if you believe top, 
60% of CPU is idle while playing Quake2 with Wine! (Coppermine 900, heated 
to 1008MHz, 112MHz external)

If someone interested here is as I configured the card under FreeBSD 4.9:
1) I had very messed XF86Config after my failed attempts to set up nVidia 
TNT2 (I will sell it to hell). So I recreated one with /stand/sysinstall 
- Configure - XFree86 - xf86cfg -textmode. I prefer text mode 
configuration. The string ''Driver something'' substituted with ''Driver 
radeon''.
2) Included ''device radeondrm'' in my kernel config and ensured that 
''device agp'' is there too. Recompiled and installed a new kernel. (I 
like the way of this in FreeBSD!)
3) That's all.

If someone has any suggestions or remarks then please email me.

Yuri
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nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

2004-02-01 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Hi. I spent so much time trying to make nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 running on 
FreeBSD4.9 and I think one of us must die!
I downloaded NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365.tar.gz from www.nvidia.com (it's 
identical to one from ports' /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). That's no 
matter I instal from ports or just by 'make setup' I get the same problem.
I have a configured kernel as it was described in nVidia docs (e.g. with 
USER_LDT) and configured XF86Config accordingly to nvidia driver. I have 
made big amount of installations (tryed between FreeBSD AGPGART and nVidia 
AGP, etc.) but whatever I do I get this story:

I reboot after installation; login; issue 'startx'.

Here I see as it starts Ok (it fills about a half of screen with messages, 
ends at 'Using config file...'). Usually (with VESA driver) at this point 
screen flashes to black and then to my desktop (I use KDE). But with 
nVidia driver I still see these textmode messages for awhile, after that 
machine reboots! (Without any syncing to disks or shutdown process). I 
mean it hangs up and nothing of keyboard or hdd or else is active before 
this dirty reboot.

Thanks to God that I configured X back to VESA, but GLX became unusable.

So I need help with configuration of nVidia acceleration. I need it for I 
had some OpenGL programming experience under RH Linux that could be ported 
to FreeBSD with success.

Configurations and logs attached.

Thankyou!

Yuri

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Fwd: Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

2004-02-01 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Sorry it seems that my attachments fall in abyss some weird way. But 
forwarding must work well. Try to find them in this email.

--- Forwarded message ---
From: Yuri Grebenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:48:11 +0300
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:04 +0100, Marco Trentini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:


I don't see any attachments, anyway this could be a
SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards problem.
Try (before run X)

sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM or
SGRAM (according to your card memory type)
I've attached again - configs_logs.tgz

And here I try sysctl:

Script started on Sun Feb  1 20:30:39 2004

# sysctl -a -o | grep nvidia

hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f07:0x
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 nvidia.ko Kernel Module  1.0-4365  
Wed May 28 09:20:25 PDT 2003
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.UpdateKernelAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 11
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.??
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP

# sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM

sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride'

# exit

exit

Script done on Sun Feb  1 20:32:47 2004

Thanks, Yuri.

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Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

2004-02-01 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:04 +0100, Marco Trentini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:


I don't see any attachments, anyway this could be a
SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards problem.
Try (before run X)

sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM or
SGRAM (according to your card memory type)
I've attached again - configs_logs.tgz

And here I try sysctl:

Script started on Sun Feb  1 20:30:39 2004

# sysctl -a -o | grep nvidia

hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f07:0x
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 nvidia.ko Kernel Module  1.0-4365  
Wed May 28 09:20:25 PDT 2003
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.UpdateKernelAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 11
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.??
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP

# sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM

sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride'

# exit

exit

Script done on Sun Feb  1 20:32:47 2004

Thanks, Yuri.

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Re: Power off

2004-02-01 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
I've added
device  acpica
to my kernel and removed
device  apm0
Now all work very well!
Handbook says that ACPI is better to use than APM. I probably had problems 
while using APM (even enabled in any sort).
Also handbook says that to enable ACPI on -STABLE you need to add 'device 
acpi' to kernel config, but I found that it must be acpica instead! Maybe 
it's a mistake?

Yuri

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:45:53 +0300, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 31 Jan 2004 18:14:42 -0500
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote:
Yuri Grebenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi. I used to run poweroff on RH Linux. Now I'm under FreeBSD 4.9 and
 I can't turn power off - I have to push button by my hand after
 running halt that prints that system has halted and ready to
 reboot. Is there any way to turn power off by software?
Sure.  'shutdown -p now' will do it, assuming you have apm(4) in your 
kernel.
and apm_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf



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Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

2004-02-01 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:21:18 +0100, Marco Trentini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:45:45PM +0300, Yuri Grebenkin wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:04 +0100, Marco Trentini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


I don't see any attachments, anyway this could be a
SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards problem.

Try (before run X)

sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM or
SGRAM (according to your card memory type)

I've attached again - configs_logs.tgz

And here I try sysctl:

Script started on Sun Feb  1 20:30:39 2004

# sysctl -a -o | grep nvidia

hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f07:0x
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 nvidia.ko Kernel Module  1.0-4365
Wed May 28 09:20:25 PDT 2003
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.UpdateKernelAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 11
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.??
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP
# sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM

sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride'

It's stange ... I've noted that trick in the nvidia
README (for freebsd). It has become probably obsolete.
Try to add a BusID entry in your XF86Config file
(Device section ...see XF86Config(5) for more
details).
See README.linux (/usr/X11R6/share/doc/) also
(research tnt key).
I've already tryed BusID - the same as ever.

In README.Linux I found next interesting things:

(1)
HARDWARE ISSUES
This section describes problems that will not be fixed.  Usually, the
source of the problem is beyond the control of NVIDIA.  Following is
the list of problems:
...
   o VIA KX133 and 694X Chip sets with AGP 2x
 On Athlon motherboards with the VIA KX133 or 694X chip set, such
 as the ASUS K7V motherboard, NVIDIA drivers default to AGP 2x mode
 to work around insufficient drive strength on one of the signals.

But I used my card (on motherboard Acorp 694XA with VIA chipset) on 
Windows with AGP 4x normally.

(2)
APPENDIX H: TNT SPECIFIC ISSUES
Most issues pertaining to SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards should be resolved.
There is the rare chance, however, that your video card has the wrong
BIOS installed, and that this driver will continue to fail for you.
If this driver fails for you, do the following:
   o watch your monitor as the system boots. The very first, brief screen
 will identify the type of video memory your card has. This will be
 either SGRAM or SDRAM.
   o edit the file os-registry.c from the kernel module sources.  Look
 for the variable NVreg_VideoMemoryTypeOverride.  Set the value of
 the variable to the type of memory you have (numerically, see the
 line just above it).
   o since we don't normally use this variable, change the #if 0 that is
 about 10 lines above the variable to #if 1.
   o rebuild and reinstall the new driver (make)
About rare chance - I used this card on RH Linux with this sort of drivers 
and it worked.
What they mean by this rare chance? Who that people that install the wrong 
BIOS? And who is responsible for it? It can be treated by me like a 
product malfunction...

At first when computer reboots I see only 16.0M RAM without any mention of 
SDRAM or SGRAM. At second I have no os-registry.c on my computer (probably 
it should be only in linux distro of drivers). I issued grep and found 
that variable is in nvidia_os_registry.c. I opened it and saw that there 
is no #if directive at all. After some time I guesed that activation of 
variables was in tail of the file and in a vary different way than 
described in docs (by setting '1' in structure). Strange... I compiled 
with SGRAM (value 2) and was trashed to hang up and reboot as ever. But 
when I restored my machine I noticed that now the key 
hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride exist!!! I set it to SDRAM and 
was punished by rebooting. Maybe I go crazy?

And could anyone receive my attachments, is it possible or I'm in trouble? 
Hell... |:-)

Yuri

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Power off

2004-01-31 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Hi. I used to run poweroff on RH Linux. Now I'm under FreeBSD 4.9 and I 
can't turn power off - I have to push button by my hand after running halt 
that prints that system has halted and ready to reboot. Is there any way 
to turn power off by software?

Please.

Yuri

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What hostname should I set?

2004-01-31 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Hi. I am a full time FreeBSD user at home and all I need from networking 
is dialup via modem to my ISP. I get my IP dynamically and thus it may 
vary from call to call. I have migrated to FreeBSD from RH Linux some time 
ago. RH installation procedure sets hostname and domain as 'localhost' and 
'localdomain'. Under FreeBSD there is no default value of hostname. So 
I've tryed to set it to something like 'me_at_home' or didn't touch it at 
all. In last case there was some troubles, but they were not critical.

So... I wonder what hostname an average user at home should set?

I use 4.9-RELEASE.

Thank you!

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