Hi!
I'm trying to create a custom disk image for installing on a server. The
plan is to PXE boot the server and dd the image to the hard-disk of the
server.
The gzipped files I need for the server are 45MB. However, when I create
a 4GB image, stick the same files in there and gzip the
Tim Judd wrote:
Hi all,
Recently, for pure entertainment and a little bit of a experience
thing, I have been looking and/or finding many devices that have linux
embedded. While in of itself the fact that it works, I'm not
discounting. But I'd like to expand it or get it running on a system
Chad Perrin wrote:
I've installed PostgreSQL here on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and I'm a
little confused by the presence of the initdb(1) manpage and absence
of an initdb command.
# locate initdb /usr/local/man/man1/initdb.1.gz
Hi!
I'm installing a small set of ports into lots of jails, using the
DESTDIR support recently added to the ports system. Each jail contains a
unique CVS revision of FreeBSD. I'd like to speed up compiles by using
ccache, but as I understand it, I'll have to install ccache into each
jail
Roberth Sjonøy wrote:
Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The
Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when
running make buildworld, this occours:
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 dir-tmpl /usr/share/info/dir
install:No such file or directory
***Error
Ross Penner wrote:
Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In
examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates
that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip
have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will
Hi!
I just created an i386 chroot on an amd64 host (make TARGET=i386
TARGET_ARCH=i386 ...). The host is compiled with lib32 support.
I'm trying to chroot into the directory to install a port (ports dir is
nullfs_mount'ed):
chroot /path/to/chroot /bin/sh -c cd /usr/ports/my/port; make
David Yeske wrote:
I have a lot of appliances in the field running FreeBSD. These
machines do not have a working compiler. They need to be upgraded
from FreeBSD 4.10 to FreeBSD 6.2. Has anyone gone through this
successfully? Does anyone have pointers on a clean way to do this?
Due to the
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:41:51PM +, Daniel Bye wrote:
[...]
Using FreeBSD-6.2 and Bash, how do I determine the number of files in a
given directory? I have tried all sorts of combinations using different
flags with the 'ls' command; however, none of them displays the
Tino Engel wrote:
Dear FreeBSD folks,
What is the proper Tag for 8-CURRENT in cvs? Ist it '.'?
Yes.
Erik
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Ewald Jenisch wrote:
Hi,
Because of severe problems wrt. a third party app (TSM Backup - see my
previous post) I'm looking for a way to compile a kernel/system to a
state as it was several weeks ago.
To be specific I'd like to build my system/kernel using the
source-files of FreeBSD 6.2 as
Jonathan Horne wrote:
...
IMO, (and forgive me, i generally dont spew my opinions where they arent
welcome or asked for), RELENG_6_2 is better for a server over RELENG_6
(aka, -STABLE), as it doesnt include items that are not critically
required for secure and stable operation. remember,
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu
utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine.
Is there some way I can get higher cpu usage?
/usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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How do I get a list of ports that need to be made before a port is
made given the following:
Note: Sorry for the *CAPS* stuff but I am using my standard specs
formating
1. The list *MUST* be in build order with the first
Monah Baki wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install on Freebsd 6.3 plone from ports. I keep geting the
error message
libtool: link: `gscanner.lo' is not a valid libtool object
gmake[4]: *** [libglib.la] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory
Matt Fioravante wrote:
I've heard that things like freebsd jails or solaris zones can still
be insecure on multicore boxes because a race condition can occur. I
don't know more details about it other than that. Is this true now on
freebsd?
There's always the possibility that a bug exists which
Jonathan Horne wrote:
I was reading a while back that the jails tcp system was getting an
overhaul, possibly in the 7.0 release. I don't remember all the
particulars, but things along the lines to make jails function even
more like a real (independant) system. I believe one of the
improvments
Javier Martín Rueda wrote:
I have set up a simple unattended installation system for FreeBSD, so
that I can manually configure a group of computers to boot with PXE,
and when they boot they will automatically install FreeBSD.
The final step would be to configure the BIOS to boot from the first
David Naylor wrote:
Hi,
I have been looking regularly at the FreeBSD website about the
upcoming (and highly anticipated) releases, however I have noticed
that the pages are outdated and have not been updated recently.
Additionally, from what I can gather of the schedule the release
process in
Aryeh Friedman wrote:
I just cvsuped the latest sources and they break many programs named
and most X11-apps comes to mind immediately
Well how do I backout of the this keep in miond I use cvs-supfile
to populate a local repo and did a rm -rf /usr/obj /usr/src thinking
that might clear
Chuck Robey wrote:
I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix
outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey
either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my mail,
it makes for a very portable mail system, but I am now
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at
least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should
remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the
Hi!
I'm trying to set up a system to continually and automatically run
benchmarks on the most recent CURRENT. The idea is to PXE-boot the
server, do an automated jumpstart installation, reboot and run a few
benchmarks. Lather, rinse, repeat.
My problem is when the jumpstart installation
Found the answer elsewhere, so this is just for the records...
Erik Cederstrand wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to set up a system to continually and automatically run
benchmarks on the most recent CURRENT. The idea is to PXE-boot the
server, do an automated jumpstart installation, reboot and run
ronggui wrote:
My problem, many times I install some software from ports, it install
the dependency software. Then after some time, I find that software
isn't what I want, and deinstall it. At this point, the dependency
software isn't necessary as well. Is there a way to clean them
Ed Maste wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:02:04PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote:
The alternative is to put PXE ahead of the HD in the boot order, and
call back to the deployment host at the end of installation (prior to
reboot) to signal a DHCP reconfiguration.
It adds a PXE timeout to each boot;
Rek Jed wrote:
Hey,
I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly
works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted
sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time
I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes
Zinevich Denis wrote:
It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists
it randomly helps sometimes.
Please don't top-post. I have a comment in
src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c v1.26 (RELENG_7) saying:
#if defined(LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT) defined(LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT)
your system when it's installed.
Erik (Cederstrand)
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Gary Kline wrote:
Nutshell, I'd like anyone's ideas/experiences with some of these
new HP/ or whateverbrand printers. I wouldn't *mind* if I
could scan in text from a techy paper into HTML or PDF or text.
But mostly, like 99.44% plain black text. My old deskjet used
James Harrison wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 12:02 -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
I am looking to install a CMS system (something like postnuke) and want to
have a blog component.
Anybody have any recommendations ? If it is in the ports, it would be even
better.
thanks,
Darryl
I've
vincenzo romero wrote:
Thank you for the input from a couple of folks. After a few research
and readings I am able to boot off a diskless client; and have a
little error encountered. To clarify the environment:
1. PXE/DHCP/NFS/TFTP servers is a linux host
2. DHCP - server - dhcpd.conf file
E. J. Cerejo wrote:
FreeBSD is a dying OS because netcraft.com confirms it that's the
argument used some of these guys, and I'm wondering what data are they
using to make their point! Even netcraft is running FreeBSD and the
uptimes section I can see quite a few running FreeBSD and not one
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