Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the paramaters etc. I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot

wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). -Grant ___

Re: booting

2011-12-17 Thread gpeel
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:10:37 +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote On 12/17/2011 04:04 PM, Maxime-Etienne de Gier wrote: I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up

BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-29 Thread gpeel
Hi all, I have ten webservers that I would like nothing more than to update to 6.3 or 7.x But right now I just dont have time. I was wondering if anyone has tried the patches BIND DNS Poioning listed on the freebsd homepage (security advisories) on 6.1 and/or 6.2 and if they worked OK.

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-29 Thread gpeel
the only question is, what branch + version should one upgrade to to secure this. (I assume 6.3 RELENG or 6 Stable). COmments please, -Grant On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:29:13 -0400, gpeel wrote Hi all, I have ten webservers that I would like nothing more than to update to 6.3 or 7.x

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-12 Thread gpeel
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:38:50 -0400, matt donovan wrote On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Christopher Cowart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Just attempting to install the port. Something I noticed when the install crapped out was that it wanted me to use the Force Package