RE: Ongoing Saga Dell PE1850 - FreeBSD 6.0 Release Freezups.

2006-03-22 Thread Brown, Steve
Does your system in question use a SATA hard drive(s)? I've had similar issues with no logs or any errors whatsoever and when I switched from SATA to IDE drives on the same system (it had both SATA and IDE connections) the problem disappeared completely. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PR

6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes

2005-12-07 Thread Brown, Steve
Hello everyone, I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP Pro) now. The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way. I'm running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried th

RE: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes

2005-12-09 Thread Brown, Steve
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brown, Steve Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:25 PM To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes Hello everyone, I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP Pro) now. The hardware is very stable

RE: Partitions???

2006-09-22 Thread Brown, Steve
You need to check out the gparted-livecd. This will allow you to grow or shrink partitions, just like Partition Magic. It should work with all the filesystems in question here. I have recently used it and will never go back to Partition Magic. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php Once

RE: accessing BIOS and RAID info on old Compaqs

2006-11-06 Thread Brown, Steve
dn, 1. You probably already know this but technically, you should have started with the Compaq Smart Start CDs. There's a Unix option on there too but I've never used it so I'm not sure what the difference is specifically (never loaded BSD or Linux on those). This would have taken you through

RE: Apache log rotation question...

2006-11-08 Thread Brown, Steve
I am using cronolog to handle the logging end of apache. Cronolog basically takes care of the logging for apache, allowing you much more flexibility with the logging options. Assuming.. 1. You have cronolog installed 2. /path/to/your/logs/vhost1/ is a valid path A sample Apache config line w

RE: Cloning

2007-05-23 Thread Brown, Steve
I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L. I haven't used G4U but from what I gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure). You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem. The only snag I've run into doing this is with some of the older system