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
El día Tuesday, August 24, 2010 a las 01:10:00PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: I have produced three dumps: from the /, /var and /usr file system. The man page of restore(8) reads about creating pristine file system, made by newfs(8). Later, in the VM environment, I'd like to have only

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