gptid's in fstab while installing FreeBSD using ISO

2013-10-04 Thread varanasi sainath
Hi All, How do I get gptid's as default in fstab while installing using FreeBSD iso file (Virtual,machine installation) ? Is this possible currently? if not how do I achieve this? I use guided partitioning while installing - If I were to tweak in to the source code which files or drivers I should

Re: gptid's in fstab while installing FreeBSD using ISO

2013-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 20:04:09 +0530, varanasi sainath wrote: Hi All, How do I get gptid's as default in fstab while installing using FreeBSD iso file (Virtual,machine installation) ? Is this possible currently? As far as I know, the installer bsdinstall currently does not have this option

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 Miller

[solved] Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-12-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Linux I switched from GRUB legacy to GRUB 2. To transform menu.lst into grub.cfg: SYNOPSIS grub-menulst2cfg [INFILE [OUTFILE]] To boot FreeBSD: menuentry FreeBSD{ set root=(hd0,msdos1) chainloader +1 } ___

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-30 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On 29.11.2012 05:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD, because of Error17: Cannot mount selected partition

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 13:08 +0100, Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: On 29.11.2012 05:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD,

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-30 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On 30.11.2012 13:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 13:08 +0100, Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: On 29.11.2012 05:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the bootloader install. Linux grub

Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD, because of Error17: Cannot mount selected partition spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: spinymouse@q:/boot$ grep CONFIG_UFS_FS config-3.6.5-rt14 CONFIG_UFS_FS=m # CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set spinymouse@q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs spinymouse@q:/boot$ sudo modprobe ufs [sudo] password for spinymouse: spinymouse@q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs ufs74797 0 So for

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: spinymouse@q:/boot$ grep CONFIG_UFS_FS config-3.6.5-rt14 CONFIG_UFS_FS=m # CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set spinymouse@q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs spinymouse@q:/boot$ sudo modprobe ufs [sudo] password for spinymouse: spinymouse@q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD, because of Error17: Cannot mount selected partition spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 8

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-09 Thread Da Rock
On 01/08/12 09:05, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Normally,

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-01-07 15:05:55 UTC-0800, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net (leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net) wrote: (5) What device driver must be installed for the sound board to be able to receive a m.i.d.i. over u.s.b. signal? This signal would be generated by a musician's keyboard, and would

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 12:32:25AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with HP followed by a eleven digits, and

Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Normally, only one of them is logged in at any given time. I have

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 01/08/2012 01:05 AM, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people.

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with HP followed by a eleven digits, and is given in Windows XP as Full Computer Name on the Computer Name

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with HP followed by a eleven digits, and is given in Windows XP as

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. Excellent choice of OS. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I

Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-30 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I want my system to include an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card, MIDI over USB driver, X-windows, and Gnome. The

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/31/11 14:45, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I want my system to include an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 25/09/2011 17:04, Mark Felder wrote: I have an Opteron machine that on both 7.x and 8.x it displays this behavior. The only fix was to boot from USB and it would get past it. Weird. Was it also an LSI controller? I had the same problem a month ago. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 9/25/2011 5:16 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found and the little rotor started running in the beginning of the line. From that moment on there was absolutely no progress. Any hints and pointers about what to try next would be

Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
Greetings all, I grabbed the FreeBSD-9.0 beta 2 AMD 64 DVD1 intending to use it for installing FreeBSD 9 on a system with 2 AMD 4162 EE CPUs and 16 GB of physical memory. Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found and the little rotor started running in the beginning

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, I installed FreeBSD8.2 amd64 the other day on a 98GB RAM machine with 24 CPU's (a supermicro 2U server). Due to this alone, I doubt that the bootloader is limited in any way by the amount of RAM the machine has. However, I experienced the same behavior on several small machines (normal PC's)

issue on installing FreeBSD-8.2 release i386

2011-08-16 Thread Fudelancio Smartel
  Hey...someone help me! After I have recorded FreeBSD-8.2 i386 on Windows using Nero6 it shows some contents reminding a floppy not a dvd disc like DR/DOS:\A:command to type   I´ve downloaded FreeBSD-8.2 release i386 by using a torrent client on Windows and when it boots some messages say

Re: issue on installing FreeBSD-8.2 release i386

2011-08-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Fudelancio Smartel wrote:   Hey...someone help me! After I have recorded FreeBSD-8.2 i386 on Windows using Nero6 it shows some contents reminding a floppy not a dvd disc like DR/DOS:\A:command to type   I´ve downloaded FreeBSD-8.2 release i386 by using a torrent client

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

2011-07-19 Thread Mygamejw
On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:43, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have reasonable grounds to believe the problem is ACPI related. On 2011-Jul-15 17:49:17 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: I recently got FreeBSD 8.1 for a present Note

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

2011-07-19 Thread Mygamejw
hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 hint.uart.0.irq=4 hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 Would this be a concern for the BIOS/apm? On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:44, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:43, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

2011-07-19 Thread Mygamejw
On Jul 19, 2011, at 5:10, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: On 2011-Jul-19 02:44:13 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! No need to shout. In that case, your boot media would appear to be

Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Jul-19 02:44:13 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! No need to shout. In that case, your boot media would appear to be corrupt. I saw in the manuals that you want to disable the APCI if the system

Installing FreeBSD on an encrypted volume

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Simmons
I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on an encrypted volume and I've run into an annoying problem. Before I describe the problem, let me explain what I have done so far. first I used gpart to make GPT partitions: one freebsd-boot, two freebsd-ufs. The freebsd-boot is 64k and the

installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

2011-03-18 Thread Alokat
Hi, I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver problems. Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and the wlan card? And the second point is: does someone know a GUI network manager I can use for xfce4? Regards, alokat

Re: installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

2011-03-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Alokat, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi, I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver problems. Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and the wlan card? For the sound^{1}, try loading the $ su -

Re: installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

2011-03-18 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi, I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver problems. Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and the wlan card? The sound card should be snd_hda(4):

Installing FreeBSD 8.1 on MacBook 5,1

2011-03-11 Thread Jasper Bedwell
Hi, I've been trying to dual-boot FreeBSD 8.1 with Mac OS X on my MacBook (5,1) for some time now, but am having trouble trying to get the live cd to boot. I reach the FreeBSD Boot Loader Screen with the options for boot, boot without ACPI etc. However, I cannot select an option. I have tried

Re: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

2010-10-19 Thread Bas Smeelen
Subject: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110 (New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine replaces operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet connection. When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386 ISO disc, which installed

Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Overton
(New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine replaces operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet connection. When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386 ISO disc, which installed with no problems on Dell 686 Pentium machine, new machine is not

Re: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

2010-10-18 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:55:41 -0500 Mike Overton mikeo.veterantut...@gmail.com articulated: (New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine replaces operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet connection. When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386

Re: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

2010-10-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Mike Overton mikeo.veterantut...@gmail.com wrote: (New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine replaces operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet connection. When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386 ISO disc,

Re: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

2010-10-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:55:41AM -0500, Mike Overton wrote: (New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine replaces operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet connection. When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386 ISO disc, which installed with

Re: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

2010-10-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Oct 18 06:47:12 2010 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:55:41 -0500 From: Mike Overton mikeo.veterantut...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Richard Ehrlich richarde.veterantut...@gmail.com Subject: Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
I could solve the boot problem of the USB key in the older laptop of my wife by inserting into /boot/loader.conf the line kern.cam.scsi_delay=1 (note: set kern.cam.boot_delay did not help) matthias -- Matthias Apitz «...una sola vez, que es cuanto basta si se trata de verdades

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
I wrote a small howTo for such a migration for others in the same situation. Comments/Impromvements are welcome; Thanks matthias $Id: moveFreeBSDintoVM.txt,v 1.2 2010/09/02 10:55:29 guru Exp $ How to move a complete FreeBSD installation into a VM Matthias Apitz

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, August 31, 2010 a las 03:13:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Now I have already again my 'old' root partition booting to single user mode and I'm filling in the 120 GByte dump of the /usr ... The 1st try crashed the Win7 to blue screen over the night :-( The 2nd try was

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 30, 2010 a las 11:31:13AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the

installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player (was: running FreeBSD on Windows host)

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
. Will it be a problem having the kernel /boot/* in this case far away from the beginning of the partition? I did some 1st tests with installing FreeBSD into a VM. I grabed some other laptop which runs already Win7 and installed a VMWare-player in it to do some tests. Of course the VMWare-player was not able

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 27/08/2010 10:24 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... matthias I've heard of stories of

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... Will prepare the

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 27/08/2010 3:17 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? I'm wondering why the system even is

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 04:20:41PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Try recreating, preferably newfs the key first. Don't be surprised if you find out you need a new USB key. newfs(8) did not worked; a format in Win7 lies that it was fine and stops later writing to it after 2

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/15/10, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Without even clicking his link, I've had

Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-14 Thread Fbsd1
Hello list. I wrote this article on the different ways to install Freebsd on a USB stick. It covers a large range of related subjects dealing with installing Freebsd and the use of an USB stick. It's way to large to post here so the link below will take you to the article. Looking

Re: (SOLVED) Re: installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-17 Thread Ronald Klop
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:57:03 +0100, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for

(SOLVED) Re: installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced to stick with UFS2 for the root

installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced to stick with UFS2 for the root partition (the actual data pool will be ZFS using traditional SATA disks). I am probably going to use GPT partitioning and have

Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Ed Lerner
Hello, I have been wanting to put FreeBSD on my laptop for some time now. I backed up all of my files to a separate HD. I burned 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso to a DVD and installed it on my laptop, removing all partitions so FreeBSD is my sole OS. I also used the FreeBSD boot manager. I have

Re: Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Ed Lerner wrote: Hello, I have been wanting to put FreeBSD on my laptop for some time now. I backed up all of my files to a separate HD. I burned 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso to a DVD and installed it on my laptop, removing all partitions so FreeBSD is my sole OS. I also used

Re: Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: For the future, it's often helpful to identify the notebook you're using. And now I see it was in the subject all along... -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Shi
Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:00:07 +0800 Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk replied: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:00:07PM +0800, Paul Shi wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote: I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote: I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc.

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Fbsd1
Paul Shi wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD

Installing FreeBSD from a disk partition

2009-09-19 Thread J F
I had FreeBSD 7.1 running on my machine and wanted to do a fresh install of 7.2. Having two hardrives available, I created a small bootable partition on the second hard drive and copied the contents of the iso file onto it. I was able to boot into the installer just fine. In the media selection

Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

2009-09-10 Thread Rom Albuquerque
Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. The details of my system : Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor Disk :WD 500GB SATA DVD : Samsung DVD/Writer Super Write Master Primary OS :

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

2009-09-10 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Rom Albuquerque a_rom...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. The details of my system : Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor Disk :WD

it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Hsieh
hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install FreeBSD on USB stick

Re: it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick

2009-06-05 Thread Fbsd1
Eric Hsieh wrote: hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install

[compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread alligator424
dear freeBSD's gurus, question is: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? I think I have read that make installkernel do a backup of the kernel in kernel.old but for the world I would like to know. Regards

Re: [compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 11:42:15 am alligator...@free.fr wrote: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? No. Restore from (your own) backups, installation media, or rebuild the world you need from appropriately-dated sources. I

[compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread Robert Huff
alligator...@free.fr writes: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? Have you read the section of the handbook which explains the accepted procedure for updating the system? Robert Huff

Energy use (was installing freebsd on windows)

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent job of course. windows vista runs well too

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/outputerror)

2009-03-31 Thread ajeesh joseph
in solving this so that i can install freebsd. Original message From:Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Date: 30 Mar 09 20:16:00Subject:Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/outputerror)To: Kevin Kinsey CD/DVD DMA problems are commontryset hw.ata.atapidma=0

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/outputerror)

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Rees
/if/ide/z_000553idecable80.jpg 40 conductor: http://www.scientific-solutions.biz/products/938605/images/cable_ribbon.jpg The 40 conductor ribbons sometimes throw up problems in strange times and places, an effect I observed when installing FreeBSD on my Xbox. Also, the 80-conductor cables often

installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread ajeesh joseph
Hello,I was installing freebsd 7.0/7.1to my Ampro RB700,celeron processor,usb hdd 80gb using my CD drive.during the time of installation i get error error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output errorcould any one tell me how to solve this and how can i install the OS..regardsAjeesh

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ajeesh joseph wrote: Hello,I was installing freebsd 7.0/7.1to my Ampro RB700,celeron processor,usb hdd 80gb using my CD drive.during the time of installation i get error error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error could any one tell me how to solve this and how can i install the OS

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
CD/DVD DMA problems are common try set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 boot after getting to bootloader prompt (6) On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Kevin Kinsey wrote: ajeesh joseph wrote: Hello,I was installing freebsd 7.0/7.1to my Ampro RB700,celeron processor,usb hdd 80gb using my CD drive.during the time

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:39:32AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:49:48 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Virtual desktops. What are you referring to? Visit the power toys URL for further information. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx Thanks for that. Did they use to be called

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows support list etc. ___

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Harold Hartley
Wojciech Puchar wrote: got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows support list etc.

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell, if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so I am most definitely not using the machine. So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other than a local power

Heller-Johnson syndrome (Re: installing freebsd on windows)

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization. Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the organization, that person must be

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an operating system, just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different operating systems. If

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:09:52AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Adam Vandemore
Tim Judd wrote: I'm looking for an OS with a sane file hierarchy and a shell I can use to manage the files therein. An editor better than Notepad would be a bonus too. I see the sense in C:\Users I see the sense in C:\Documents and Settings I see the sense in C:\WINDOWS I see the sense

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