FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Install Failure: Unable to create a new /etc/fstab

2011-10-25 Thread Rick Miller
around a little, I can see that there is no /etc, despite it's existence in the mfsroot.gz. I must be missing something and am hoping that someone might be able to point in the right direction. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Install Failure: Unable to create a new /etc/fstab

2011-10-27 Thread Rick Miller
Just following up...I resolved the issue by copying /etc/* to /stand/ in the mfsroot. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I am Installing 8.2-RELEASE via PXE and receive an error stating that sysinstall was unable to create new /etc/fstab

Re: pkg_add -r and a local package repo

2012-01-11 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: I've figured out how to point PACKAGESITE at a URL of my choosing. First, it looks like pkg_add -r needs the full package name. Is there any way to give it zsh instead of zsh-4.3.15? I've read somewhere that

make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-29 Thread Rick Miller
the issue so I can get the release built. I appreciate any advice and feedback. Thanks. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-30 Thread Rick Miller
/kernels and symlinking to it from the source tree. If it doesn't work, why is there a tip recommending this practice? On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I am performing

Re: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-31 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks Rob and Lowell, I will keep this information handy. It was helpful. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Thanks Rob... I put the kernel conf file in the source tree

pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

2012-02-06 Thread Rick Miller
-RELEASE code have better support for vlan tagging and can I use it to build an 8.2-RELEASE system? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

2012-02-06 Thread Rick Miller
See my responses inline... On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 06/02/2012 16:35, Rick Miller wrote: We are PXE booting into FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE to perform system builds. The pxeboot.bs file was recompiled with TFTP support.  8.2-RELEASE builds were

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

2012-02-06 Thread Rick Miller
the problem with vlan tagging and not pxeboot.bs? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

2012-02-06 Thread Rick Miller
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Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

2012-02-06 Thread Rick Miller
Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 06/02/2012 17:33, Rick Miller wrote: 2) do you fetch the kernel successfully? When using tftp, The kernel and kernel modules are fetched before the memory file system, so do pxeboot fetch the kernel but not the mfsroot? The reason for these questions

8.2-RELEASE sysinstall creates duplicate rc.conf lines

2012-02-15 Thread Rick Miller
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Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-01 Thread Rick Miller
attempting to download boot files to start a 8.2-RELEASE install. When we run the same sequence of tftp gets in a running 8.2-RELEASE instance continuously, we never received a single failure in a solid hour of attempts. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-04 Thread Rick Miller
identified a fix/workaround I will be sure to follow up here. On 3/4/12, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 01/03/2012 16:16, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Are there significant differences in the implementation between the tftp client in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and the client

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-14 Thread Rick Miller
code in order to get more debug information out of it and have opened a support case with Brocade. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, Are there significant differences in the implementation between the tftp client in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE

Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, I can get run-time depends by executing make run-depends-list or all dependancies by running make all-depends-list. Is there a way to get all run-time depends recursively (I don't need the build depends or their depends)? -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Rick Miller
: SHA1 On 3/21/12 12:51 PM, Rick Miller wrote: Hi all, I can get run-time depends by executing make run-depends-list or all dependancies by running make all-depends-list.  Is there a way to get all run-time depends recursively (I don't need the build depends or their depends)? Hi Rick

Re: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks Matthew... On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 21/03/2012 16:51, Rick Miller wrote: I can get run-time depends by executing make run-depends-list or all dependancies by running make all-depends-list.  Is there a way to get all run

Re: Find run-time dependancies recursively for FreeBSD port

2012-03-21 Thread Rick Miller
Yes it does. pebcak, thanks. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

pxegrub + FreeBSD install

2012-04-24 Thread Rick Miller
in the mfsroot.gz when loading via pxegrub? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: pxegrub + FreeBSD install

2012-04-25 Thread Rick Miller
kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c set kFreeBSD.boot.nfsroot.server=$pxe_default_server set kFreeBSD.boot.netif.hwaddr=$net_pxe_mac set kFreeBSD.boot.netif.ip=$net_pxe_ip set kFreeBSD.dhcp.host-name=$net_pxe_hostname } On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Rick Miller vmil

FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710

2012-05-16 Thread Rick Miller
FreeBSD on the R620 and be able to provide any tips for troubleshooting? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-05-16 Thread Rick Miller
solution was to replace pxeboot.bs with Grub2pxe. I have a blog post detailing the scenario at https://hostileadmin.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/pxe-booting-into-a-freebsd-installation/ On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi On 14/03/2012 11:44, Rick Miller wrote

Need some help building bootcrunch

2012-05-30 Thread Rick Miller
-lssl -lcrypto -ljail -lm -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Need some help building bootcrunch

2012-05-30 Thread Rick Miller
I changed some things around in the bootcrunch.conf and got it to work. It was building 'fetch'. I moved -lfetch before -lmd and it compiled fine. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I am attempting to build a bootcrunch file that I

Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I did not see the Intel 82599ES chipset in the hardware release notes for 8.3 or 9.0. Are these controllers supported at this time? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
was unable to verify this, but that's why I was asking for clarification. I will assume it works at this point. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Michael Butler i...@protected-networks.net wrote: On 06/01/12 13:06, Rick Miller wrote: Thanks, Jack! Also another support question for the lists

How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Miller
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Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Miller
: On Jun 8, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Devin Teske wrote: Hi Rick (!), On Jun 8, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Rick Miller wrote: [snip] I browsed the source and found many references to the BCM5719 and BCM5720.  However, I am unfamiliar enough with driver programming in C to identify if a controller is fully

Re: FreeBSD compatibility with HP ProLiant DL360p Generation 8 (Gen8) ?

2012-06-14 Thread Rick Miller
work with stable/8. We've got on order a few of the HP NC361T, which is based on the Intel i350, which we tested in a Dell and it worked there. Again, all this is with stable/8, but generally if the driver works in 8, it will work in 9. -- Take care Rick Miller

Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Wondering if the Intel X520-DA2 10G Fibre NIC is supported in stable/8. Hardware notes don't specify it, but I have a system up and the interfaces appear to be loaded by the ix driver. However, status indicates no carrier. -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, Wondering if the Intel X520-DA2 10G Fibre NIC is supported in stable/8.  Hardware notes don't specify it, but I have a system up and the interfaces appear to be loaded by the ix driver.  However, status

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Boyer abo...@averesystems.com wrote: The ixgbe driver creates devices named ix0, etc. I believe you need to run 'ifconfig ix0 up' before it will attempt to get link. Thanks for clarifying that tidbit. At least I know the driver loading is the correct

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
dmesg and ifconfig output below... On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Boyer abo...@averesystems.com wrote: The ixgbe driver creates devices named ix0, etc. I believe you need to run 'ifconfig ix0 up' before

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-22 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Increase your system mbuf pool size, you do not want that failure to happen. Thanks, Jack. I saw a thread where you discussed this. You are referring to kern.ipc.nmbclusters, correct? Should I also adjust the following?

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-25 Thread Rick Miller
perspective. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Intel X520-DA2 Supported in stable/8?

2012-06-25 Thread Rick Miller
Turns out the gbic in the switch was bad...I didn't think there was a problem on the host, but you all still gave me some good info. I appreciate it! On 6/25/12, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Would probably

sysinstall diskPartitionEditor Question

2012-06-26 Thread Rick Miller
4194304 /var 1 # 2 GB home \${disk}s1-5=ufs 4194304 /home 1 diskLabelEditor ### End snippet -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: sysinstall diskPartitionEditor Question

2012-06-27 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I'd like to set the offset/starting cylinder in install.cfg so that partitions begin on appropriate boundaries.  The applicable section of install.cfg looks like the following.  My assumption is that I need

FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Miller
if anyone else has experienced this? pci4: network, ethernet at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci4: network, ethernet at device 0.1 (no driver attached) -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:50:52AM -0400, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, I have 2 hosts, HP DL360 G8 and Dell R620.  Both have the X520-DA2/Intel 82599 10G Fiber NIC.  Both also have the same FreeBSD 8-STABLE image

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE on R620 w/ X520-DA2/Intel 82599

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:50:52AM -0400, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, I have 2 hosts, HP DL360 G8 and Dell R620.  Both have the X520-DA2/Intel 82599 10G Fiber NIC.  Both also have the same FreeBSD 8-STABLE image

Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
start partitions at head boundaries? The reason I ask is because I am most familiar with sector 64 being the start of a head boundary as opposed to 63. Is my understanding incorrect? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
sectors at boundaries. Thanks! -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
[snip] I think Ryan means partition and not slice? I would not recommend no slices at all, It's deprecated to use dangerously dedicated disks First of all, it's dedicated disks, there's nothing dangerous related. :-) If you are using the MBR approach (old way), you can do either creating

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Miller
/write to cross the head boundary resulting in unnecessary disk thrashing and long I/O wait times. The issue was corrected in Linux by changing the start cylinder to 2048. Some theorized that FreeBSD was vulnerable to this scenario. Thoughts/feedback? On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Rick Miller

vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-13 Thread Rick Miller
to provide some additional information? I'm not seeing anything in syslog. The interface is configured via rc.conf: cloned_interfaces=vlan0 ifconfig_vlan0=inet 10.x.x.x netmask=255.255.255.0 vlan $id vlandev ix0 Where $id is our vlan id. -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: vlan tagging in releng/8.3 not working

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Miller
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, I am running the latest releng/8.3 on a HP DL360 with an Intel 82599 10G NIC using the ixgbe driver. Without vlan tagging, tcpdump sees traffic on the default vlan. With vlan tagging there is no traffic

Unable to get crash dump

2012-08-24 Thread Rick Miller
to abort Googling and searching freebsd.org have produced what appeared to be some what relevant messages, but I found nothing pointing to a cause and fix. I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in a direction to figuring this out. -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Rick Miller
.  You can use the jail to create pkg's for a custom repository too. I've created the package and copied it to the networked media. How do I edit the INDEX file so that it knows how to get the file? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

dynamically generating install.cfg

2010-10-01 Thread Rick Miller
. At the point where this fails, there is no holographic shell for me to get into and poke around. Thoughts? Ideas? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread Rick Miller
to a file and subsequently loaded via loadConfig. This produced the desired result. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Configuring BCE Interrupt Coalescing on 8.1-RELEASE

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Miller
information on configuring it? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Installation Logs for FreeBSD 8.x?

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Miller
in a directory within /var. sysinstall docs don't seem to explain any sort of facility to accomplish this. Perhaps there is someone out there who has done something similar that might be able to share their knowledge? -- Take care Rick Miller

Creating kernel distribution from sources

2012-09-24 Thread Rick Miller
like I can just run `make release.3 make release.5 make release.6` to accomplish this. Is this correct? Would the resulting files be installed in ${CHROOTDIR}/R? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-26 Thread Rick Miller
to confirm or refute this... -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-26 Thread Rick Miller
also considering approaching one of our developers to ask if they can write a patch, would that be helpful? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-26 Thread Rick Miller
Confirmed. I'll raise a PR with a patch to correct this. Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, Devin! If you don't mind, will you pass on the PR so I can track it? Sure, no prob. It should appear in GNATS within 15-20 minutes. I'll get you the PR number when I get my response from

Re: FreeBSD 8.x sysisntall dists

2012-09-27 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: All patched. http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240972 Can you test? I'll close the PR upon success. Success! Thanks! -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 with LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i

2012-10-04 Thread Rick Miller
help. http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/05/22/freebsd-on-dell-poweredge-12g-servers/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Building a release with custom packages

2012-10-08 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, If anyone has interest, I have a new blog post on building a FreeBSD release with custom packages at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

Adding boot options to the loader menu

2012-10-11 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, If you have any interest, I have posted a blog about adding boot options to the loader menu... http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/11/so-you-want-a-new-freebsd-boot-loader-option/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD help require for DellpowerEdge R620

2012-10-26 Thread Rick Miller
RAID controller is only in stable/8 and stable/9 right now. I believe it should be in 9.1-RELEASE, but I could be wrong. If/when 8.4-RELEASE is dropped, it should be in there too. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Burning .iso DVD's

2012-11-03 Thread Rick Miller
..when I run growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=image.iso growisofs is part of the dvd+rw-tools port/package. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

FreeBSD 8.3 udp_input() kernel panic

2012-11-06 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I posted a blog yesterday with regards to a FreeBSD kernel panic in FreeBSD 8.3 at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/11/05/freebsd-kernel-panic-in-udp_input/ in case anyone has any interest... -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

Fault in Terminal Server causing server to hang on boot?

2012-11-08 Thread Rick Miller
. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

computing kern.maxfilesperproc and kern.maxfiles

2012-11-12 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I just posted a blog about how kern.maxfilesperproc and kern.maxfiles are computed at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/11/12/freebsd-computing-kern-maxfilesperproc-and-kern-maxfiles/ for anyone who may be interested... -- Take care Rick Miller

filesystem size does not equal free space

2012-11-21 Thread Rick Miller
, when the filesystem is labelled and mounted, it is slightly over 1TB in size. Am I correct in assuming that it's only 1TB because the disk geometry is greater than what is supported by sysinstall and/or bsdlabel? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd

How do you manage jails?

2012-11-29 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I want to inquire how the majority of users manage jails within their own environments. Do you use the utilities described in the handbook in chapter 16 or some other management facility like qjail or ezjail? -- Take care Rick Miller

gpart and FreeBSD 8.x

2012-12-03 Thread Rick Miller
For anyone interested, Posted a new blog with regards to gpart on FreeBSD 8.x (with a link to one of Warren's blog posts): http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/03/freebsd-partitions-and-filesystems-with-gpart/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd

Re: gpart and FreeBSD 8.x

2012-12-03 Thread Rick Miller
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be wrote: gpart is in BASE on 8.x so there is nothing to install Thanks, Julien! I added a comment to this effect on the post! -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ipfwNG project?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
I came across the wiki doc for ipfwNG (http://wiki.freebsd.org/IpfwNg) and wondered if any of the concepts of this project are currently being developed for FreeBSD and when we might start seeing those concepts included in releng/ code. -- Take care Rick Miller

gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi Dan, On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? In the last paragraph of our

root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where it is? -- Rick -- Sent from my mobile device Take care Rick Miller

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-07 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? Thanks for all your replies. Our current direction appears to be one of modifying

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-07 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi all, I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where

FreeBSD Ports Batch Install

2012-12-10 Thread Rick Miller
For those interested... hostileadmin.com has published a new blog entitled FreeBSD Ports Batch Install at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/10/freebsd-ports-batch-install/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

make release and mfsroot

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Miller
.if ${TARGET_ARCH} != ia64 ${TARGET_ARCH} != powerpc @cp ${RD}/trees/base/boot/boot* ${RD}/mfsfd/boot -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: make release and mfsroot

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Miller
the release(7) process each time you want to make a change to your mfsroot. This is a very compelling advantage. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: make release and mfsroot

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Miller
own in the source tree. This is how I discovered MFSSIZE, because the resulting boot_crunch binary was larger than the available space. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi All, How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? To explain more, I would like to boot into a shell as opposed to sysinstall. safe mode and single user don't seem to. -- Take care Rick Miller

mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, For anyone interested, I posted a blog with regards to how sysinstall is run from mfsroot. URL is http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/18/mfsroot-starts-sysinstall-how/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD 8 or 9 on HP ML350 G8

2012-12-20 Thread Rick Miller
(like, 2T or more)? Any special BIOS settings or firmware versions? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

building crunchgen fails

2013-01-23 Thread Rick Miller
understand that there may need to be some shuffling of the libraries in the boot_crunch.conf, but I've done that to no avail. Wondering if anyone else may be able to shed some light on this... The boot_crunch.conf can be viewed at http://pastebin.com/ZwVPQn3h -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: building crunchgen fails

2013-01-23 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Jan 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, When executing crunchgen -o boot_crunch.conf make -f boot_crunch.mk I get the following error: cc -static -o boot_crunch boot_crunch.o hostname.lo pwd.lo

Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Rick Miller
? What am I doing wrong? The -eq operator is used to compare integers. When comparing strings, use the == operator. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: about unatteneded installation

2013-02-14 Thread Rick Miller
with a different project. I'm hoping to return to this in the coming weeks. Having said that, I am wondering what disk partition utilities FreeBSD Druid/DruidBSD use when installing 9.x. Is it using fdisk/bsdlabel or gpart? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd

Re: about unatteneded installation

2013-02-14 Thread Rick Miller
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Rick Miller wrote: No worries on time lapse. In fact, I had been needing to get back to you on assuaging those 4 failed patch hunks on your sysinstall work. FreeBSD Druid (both 8.x and 9.x

Re: Cannot resolve localhost

2013-02-14 Thread Rick Miller
...@freebsd.org -- Sent from my mobile device Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: building crunchgen fails

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Miller
the problem might be. I'm hoping someone could help me understand and correct the problem. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Jan 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, When executing crunchgen -o boot_crunch.conf make -f boot_crunch.mk I

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

Re: freebsd-stable/release?

2013-05-21 Thread Rick Miller
, for production environments, those organizations will only install -RELEASE or releng/ releases. It comes down to a decision you and/or your organization must make and that decision will be based on a risk/reward analysis. Hope that helps. -- Take care Rick Miller

Re: looking for command to display default route ip address

2013-05-29 Thread Rick Miller
: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default192.168.0.1 UGS 0 192em0 ... -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

8.4-RELEASE buildworld failure

2013-06-13 Thread Rick Miller
in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. There is no src.conf and make.conf only sets PERL_VERSION. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Mirroring Binary Packages

2013-07-01 Thread Rick Miller
2012 as seen by the dates of files. Is this the appropriate source to mirror for the most recently built binary packages for 8.x amd64? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, The vBSDcon website has been updated with a full speaker line-up and schedule for the BSD-related conference October 25 - 27, 2013. Check it out at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. Registrations will begin in the coming weeks. -- Take care Rick Miller

vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Miller
. Please feel free to check it out at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Miller
I just checked it out. Seems to be up for me... On Monday, July 22, 2013, Виталий Туровец wrote: The site seems down from here (AS58054). 2013/7/22 Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'vmil...@hostileadmin.com'); Hi all, For those interested in vBSDcon, a BSD

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