Tim Gustafson wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot
partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to
documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the impression I got
is that support for ZFS partitions
Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen
the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a
USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of
an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall.
PJ wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
Dear Phil,
Ofcourse if you upgrade, files will be overwritten. Could you please be
more specific?
Greetz,
Mark
Neal Hogan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mel
Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote:
2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk
David Southwell wrote:
Hi every one
My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for systems
with Intel Quad Core processors.
It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean why
does
freebsd use a single manufacturer's name to represent a
David Southwell wrote:
David Southwell wrote:
Hi every one
My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for
systems with Intel Quad Core processors.
It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean why
does freebsd use a single manufacturer's
Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:27:55 Erik Trulsson wrote:
The amd64 architecture is called that because it was AMD who invented and
created it and was for a while the only one using it and since AMD named
the architecture AMD64 that was the name FreeBSD used too. Later
Many people's only familiarity with computers in general will be from a
Windows centric perspective. Somehow there is a tendency to believe that
inserting a CD, booting, and then proceeding to click OK in a dialog box a
few dozen times makes them some kind of expert when they successfully
Randall Wood wrote:
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Riegler wrote:
Has anyone tested Arora?
I'm actually surprised no one has recommended Konqueror. It's not my
favorite browser (I happen to love Opera) but it would seem to mostly fit the
bill of fast,
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote:
... PowerPC is dead ...
Well yes
(lousy excuse coming up!) I meant in the PC/Mac world... ;-)
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Frank Shute wrote:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:43:05AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote:
[snip]
Well, we can start to agree that FreeBSD is not a distro, but a UNIX
operating system. :)
We can't quite agree on that ;)
BSD=Berkeley Software Distribution AKA distro of Unix
At least the
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
It's called PC-BSD.
HTH HAND
Matthew
Nice
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Because people using them, new what they were doing.
And probably didn't care...
IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the
Itanium?
The one that didn't stick... indeed.
Yes, also Intel can fail. Intel also failed with their first 32
bit
Hi all,
I've been playing around with incoding/recoding with mencoder.
On one of my boxes mencoder keeps having niceness 20.
I don't want mencoder to play nice so I try to renice the process, but
it resets to 20 within seconds!
Here's the info:
[st...@yoshi ~]$ mencoder -show-profile x264ac3
Hello,
What do you mean by a CS server?
I'm sure there are better of pretier solution but you can use cron
to do this for you.
As the user which should run this service do:
crontab -e
then add a rule like:
@reboot command
Then save and exit. Now next time on reboot the command will be run.
Hello,
I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64.
However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram.
Strangely enough, it says the following:
[r...@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory
real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB)
and
[r...@carmen ~]# sysctl
Hello,
I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD
8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw).
I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is
quite important to me.
I've been using VMware Server 2.x on Gentoo for quite some time and,
apart
Gary Jennejohn wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200
Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote:
I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD
8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw).
I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
John Nielsen wrote:
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:17:10 Scott Schappell wrote:
In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I
installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I
installed X, however, I don't need it or really want
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Hi folks, im migrating from Linux to BSD, and i found my first problem...
First of all, i did save my /home from my old Linux distribution on another
HD, ext2fs partition /dev/ad6s1... I can correctly see the drive from
sysinstall.
I read about compiling the KERNEL in
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
hi Mark!
Im using FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE... but im not sure about the userland,
is currently fresh installed, just compiled the KERNEL to add ext2fs
support and installed the patch for the 256-inode... nothing else...
But I will take your advise and upgrade my kernel to
Gary Gatten wrote:
Naw, I don't recall the POST error exactly, but from what I remember it
couldn't find a boot device. Could've been the controller, but from
what I recall I swapped the drive (later) and all was good. I really
don't recall though - I could've put the bad drive in a good
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Hi folks,
I am setting up a fresh installation of Freebsd on a EMT64 machine...
everything is working smooth so far, but im wondering some things about the
3D support from my graphic card, i bought that card few weeks ago (stupid me
i didnt read about ATU support under
/mesa-demos.
Have fun with it :-)
Greetz,
Mark
2009/8/27 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl mailto:st...@mapper.nl
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Hi folks,
I am setting up a fresh installation of Freebsd on a EMT64
machine...
everything is working smooth so far, but im wondering
/27 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl mailto:st...@mapper.nl
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Hi mate!
The card is an: ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Graphics Technology
running on:
# uname -a
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 24 18:59:43 UTC
2009
Good day to you,
I'm having a bit of trouble with one of the disks in my zfs raidz1 pool.
It's giving me dma read error, and zpool is reporting READ failures.
However, data integrity is OK :-)
Unfortunately I was in the middle of rearranging my backup media, so I'm
backup up everything as we
snip 9 identical messages, based on the uncorrectable LBA error
Since it's all throwing errors at the same LBA, I'd run a SMART
diagnostics on the drive (i think it's port sysutils/smartmontools)
and see if it's showing errors too. Looks like a failing/failed drive
and I would recommend
Kurt Buff wrote:
I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday
morning, with the following entry:
zmx1.zetron.com login failures:
Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2
Aug 30 09:42:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp0
What's
SpinRite is OK but it hasn't been updated in ages. It does not work on
large drives. 250GB works, 1TB does not. Haven't tried it on 500GB
drives.
So it will be useles in... well in this case it IS useles...
If I were you I would 'zpool offline ...' the offending drive, rewrite
the entire
Arthur Chance wrote:
Mark Stapper wrote:
[snip]
I ordered a spare drive so I'll wait until it arrives, replace the
faulty drive with this one by dd-ing data from one to the other (I have
only 4 SATA ports so I can't do zpool replace).
zpool replace has two forms
zpool replace pool old
Daniel Eriksson wrote:
Mark Stapper wrote:
Yeah, i did the long SMART selftest three times now, each of which it
failed on the same LBA address.
I assume 'smartctl -a /dev/adX' reports that the read test failed at LBA
XXX something?
Indeed it does. Always with the same LBA
Daniel Eriksson wrote:
Mark Stapper wrote:
So I see. Could this be why I haven't had any read errors anymore?
(After the zpool scrub that is)
Possibly, but in that case the SMART selftest should pass also. Have you
tried a selftest after you did the scrub?
/Daniel Eriksson
Roy Stuivenberg wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have a clue how I can change language to dutch in Evolution
for spelling check? Default is now English, and that's my only option
so it seems -- (7.2-stable gnome2, English)
Regards,
Roy Stuivenberg.
Gary Kline wrote:
anybody know why getchar() doesn't see 0x80 == 0200? if getchar()
is limited to 7-bit characters, what then?
% od -c file
shows me that every character fits into 8 bits, so getwchar() is the
next thing.
but doesn't getwchar grab wide-chars
On 12/05/2010 06:25, Lacsap Ona wrote:
Hello,
I would like to download the FreeBSD but am unsure which version to download.
I have a Pentium dual core t4200 processor.
thanks
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On 14/05/2010 21:56, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
Hi all,
I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my
screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen,
The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd) works fine in regular text mode,
on windows os's
On 17/05/2010 15:40, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
On 14/05/2010 21:56, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
Hi all,
I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my
screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen,
The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd)
On 17/05/2010 19:10, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
Did you configure Xorg to use the intel driver?
Check the handbook chapter 5.4 especially 5.4.3.1 Configuration with
Intel(r) i810 Graphics Chipsets.
I have got it configured, now I'm a bit confused on which display section
I'm supposed to
On 28/05/2010 08:47, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:41:21 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote:
Hello all,
Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ?
http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update)
Check out cpdup (available via ports or packages).
Hi,
I want to be able to run a vnc server to share my real X-session.
I use kdm.
I've been trying to build vnc with vnc.so module.
However, it fails to build this file.
Any idea on how to resolve this?
Outputs:
FreeBSD mario 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #2: Tue Jun 1
10:09:28 CEST 2010
Hello,
Since updating to 8.X I noticed that network services were started
before the network was up!
I use lagg failover configuration on both my FreeBSD boxes.
First, boot fails on mounting my nfs-shares.
After entering and exiting the rescue shell, the system boots as normal.
uname -a
FreeBSD
Hi,
I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365.
I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree)
run weekly/monthly etc.
As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks
doesn't work as the machine isn't always running on the scheduled time.
So I
On 18-8-2010 9:22, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl
mailto:st...@mapper.nl wrote:
So I need a utility that enable me to say: if a week has passed since
the last run, run this command.
Is there such a utlility?
/usr/ports
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