Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-14 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: Hi, I would like to first say that by no means is this a hey, why is my Mac faster then my PC kind of email. I'm really hoping its an LSI driver issue. It may very well be an LSI

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-14 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: Hi, I would like to first say that by no means is this a hey, why is my Mac faster then my PC kind of email. I'm really hoping its an LSI driver issue. It may very well be an LSI

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: Hi, I would like to first say that by no means is this a hey, why is my Mac faster then my PC kind of email. I'm really hoping its an LSI driver issue. It may very well be an LSI firmware issue. What are the firmwares for those HBAs?

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-12 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: Hi, I would like to first say that by no means is this a hey, why is my Mac faster then my PC kind of email. I'm really hoping its an LSI driver issue. It may very well be an LSI

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-12 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: Hi, I would like to first say that by no means is this a hey, why is my Mac faster then my PC kind of email. I'm really hoping its an LSI driver issue. It may very well be an LSI

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 8:36, Eduardo Morras wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:32:39 -0600 (MDT) Mike Brown m...@skew.org wrote: alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 22:32, Mike Brown wrote: alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:32:39 -0600 (MDT) Mike Brown m...@skew.org wrote: alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread alexus
Mike Brown: $ grep ^BRANCH /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh BRANCH=RELEASE-p12 $ then again, I used freebsd-update and not /usr/src, but it makes sense what you said with kernel, so I guess I _AM_ on the latest -p12 and kernel is on -p9 as there was no changes after that to kernel. thank you. On

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Brown
Eduardo Morras wrote: [...] uname -a should give the correct answer. Has uname other utility than show information about the operating system implementation? No, and it must be accurate. That's what I thought, but when I asked about it here last year, I was told that this is the way things

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Brown
alexus wrote: ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12?

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:22:17 -0400 alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: bash-4.2# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Is there a way to upgrade 7.4-RELEASE-p5 to 7.4-RELEASE-p12 using freebsd-update now? What about: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013, at 14:22, alexus wrote: bash-4.2# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12 Just freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install is all you should have to run. The -r flag is for jumping major releases (from 7.x to 8.x, for example). I can't comment on whether or not the

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread alexus
ok, I just did fetch install and got bumped from p5 to p9 # uname -a FreeBSD XX.X.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11 19:47:58 UTC 2012 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # can I take it all the way to -p12? (I'm running fetch again,

Re: freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

2013-10-07 Thread alexus
it didn't help.. # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.4-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files are

Re: FreeBSD routing problem

2013-10-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
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Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-10-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013, at 14:01, Brett Glass wrote: How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops

Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-10-01 Thread CeDeROM
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Mark Felder f...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013, at 14:01, Brett Glass wrote: How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? For me freebsd-update from 9.1 to 9.2 went smooth on my workstation laptop, the userland works fine :-) I remember

Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-10-01 Thread other
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013, at 14:01, Brett Glass wrote: How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether

Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-10-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013, at 18:54, ot...@ahhyes.net wrote: * I run powerdns recursor for resolution of domain names. Despite having the recursor as being one of the first things in rc.conf to start (certainly before ntpdate), ntpdate decides to run before the recursor has started. This causes

Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-09-30 Thread staticsafe
On 9/30/2013 15:01, Brett Glass wrote: How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are

Re: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-09-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:26 -0600, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net a écrit : Hello, How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-26 Thread Tyler Sweet
Well, I wasn't able to continue troubleshooting. I took the opportunity that the server was already down to upgrade the BIOS. HP kindly does not provide any checks or warnings letting you know that you need to do a stepped upgrade, so the server is bricked. *sigh*. So this likely won't get

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-25 Thread Terje Elde
On 25. sep. 2013, at 06:59, Tyler Sweet ty...@tsweet.net wrote: I tried reinstalling the boot blocks from both the fixit live filesystem and also mounting zroot and using the files there in case they were different. Disclaimer: I haven't gotten (enough) morning-coffee yet, but... Disclaimer

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-25 Thread Tyler Sweet
Luckily, in this case, I had set a cron job long, long ago to do daily snapshots. So I have a snapshot from before the upgrade - There are indeed two different loaders. The newer one matches zfs when grepped, the older one does not... But, since it was working before, I restored the older loader

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Brett Glass
All: It's good to see corporate support of BSD, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about certain corporations -- Verisign among them -- hosting BSD-related conferences or becoming involved in the development of BSD-based operating systems. Why? Because Verisign, based in Reston,

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Michael Powell
Brett Glass wrote: All: It's good to see corporate support of BSD, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about certain corporations -- Verisign among them -- hosting BSD-related conferences or becoming involved in the development of BSD-based operating systems. Why? Because Verisign,

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Robert Simmons
Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully scrutinized. I also don't think it wise to allow them to take a leadership role of any type. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Brett Glass wrote: All: It's good to see corporate

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Good points in Brett Michael's posts, but for brevity not copied. Best avoid having code written reviewed just in USA as it would get less trust globaly, NSA is a known alien mega spy, USA even coerces non USA citizens outside USA, eg

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 20:00 -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully scrutinized. No it has to be turned down flat. Huge companies from the USA at all events are untrustworthy. The only trustworthy companies are such companies: I have

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Greg questions@ etc That's massively out of date. Mike left Adelaide in 1998, and has been working for Apple in Cupertino for about 10 years. OK deleted. Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 That's out of date too. I left Adelaide over 6 years ago. Up-to-date information at

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Danny Beger da...@beger.com.au Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:57 +0930 Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-21 Thread Al Plant
Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can you recommend anyone? Regards _ _ Danny Beger | Beger Co Lawyers p: 8362 6400 | f: 8362 3555

Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I considered dropping FreeBSD-questions from this reply, but since it contains out-of-date contact details, I'm leaving them in. On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 17:17:07 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From:Danny Beger da...@beger.com.au Date:

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

2013-09-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:15:58 +0300, Atar wrote: When I try to boot FreeBSD from a USB stick, it stuck during the boot process. But if I boot it in safe mode, it succeeds to boot. How can I figure out what's wrong with the standard boot process? I can't even log the boot messages since the

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:47 AM, atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:15:58 +0300, Atar wrote: When I try to boot FreeBSD from a USB stick, it stuck during the boot process. But if I boot it in safe mode, it succeeds to boot. Yes, you

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

2013-09-17 Thread atar
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:15:58 +0300, Atar wrote: When I try to boot FreeBSD from a USB stick, it stuck during the boot process. But if I boot it in safe mode, it succeeds to boot. How can I figure out what's wrong with the standard boot process? I can't even

Re: FreeBSD Squid 3.2 Reverse Proxy with HTTPS

2013-09-05 Thread Daniel Duerr
Hi Dean, Just stumbled upon your post. I'm encountering the exact same issue as you with my freebsd 8.3 squid-3.2.13 server. Have you learned anything new on this issue? Best, Daniel -- daniel duerr | president | ouido.net d...@ouido.net | +1 (831) 531-2272 x103 Managed hosting

Re: FreeBSD Squid 3.2 Reverse Proxy with HTTPS

2013-09-05 Thread dweimer
On 09/05/2013 7:24 pm, Daniel Duerr wrote: Hi Dean, Just stumbled upon your post. I'm encountering the exact same issue as you with my freebsd 8.3 squid-3.2.13 server. Have you learned anything new on this issue? Best, Daniel -- daniel duerr | president | ouido.net d...@ouido.net

Re: FreeBSD ports problem

2013-08-29 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Harpreet Singh Chawla preet10101...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying to install virtualbox support for my FreeBSD 9.1. A package named v4l_compat-1.0.20120501.tar.gz is causing problems in the installation. The package was downloaded automatically and it

Re: FreeBSD ports problem

2013-08-29 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Harpreet Singh Chawla preet10101...@gmail.com wrote: yup...did it...and downloaded manually... But its giving a checksum matching error. *Harpreet Singh Chawla* On 29 August 2013 22:48, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at

Re: FreeBSD 9.2

2013-08-21 Thread ajtiM
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1619404 It is helpful too… On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On 15 August 2013, at 06:37, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: How will be ATI supported in FreeBSD 9.2, please? I like bluetooth mouse. Is it supported?

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:40:58 +0200, vermaden wrote: Hi and thanks for reply ;) Yay another FreeBSD laptop user! I use FreeBSD for dekstop/workstation for I do not remember how long: http://vermaden.deviantart.com/art/CorporateBSD-FreeBSD-at-Work-190680188 Please do this: *

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:28:25 +0100, John wrote: Is it safe to start using 9.2 in the svn repos? I have a line like this in a daily crontab: svn co svn://svn.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src Can I change that 9.1 to 9.2 now, or should I wait? I aim to follow 9.2-R with security

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread John
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 04:17:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: 9.2-RELEASE hasn't been released yet. :-) well yes, there is that I suppose ;) If you don't use a custom kernel, why not use freebsd-update and follow the 9.2-RELEASE path with the security updates? Not sure if this is logic or

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:22:15 +0100, John wrote: If you don't use a custom kernel, why not use freebsd-update and follow the 9.2-RELEASE path with the security updates? Not sure if this is logic or religon, but freebsd-update makes me nervous. I'm allergic to automatic anything unless I've

Re: FreeBSD 9.2

2013-08-16 Thread ajtiM
Thank you very much. I will wait for 9.2 release or switch to Linux which works but it is not hat I want it… On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On 15 August 2013, at 06:37, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: How will be ATI supported in FreeBSD 9.2, please? I like

Re: FreeBSD 9.2

2013-08-15 Thread Doug Hardie
On 15 August 2013, at 06:37, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: How will be ATI supported in FreeBSD 9.2, please? I like bluetooth mouse. Is it supported? I try Linux Mint and it works perfect. I am downloading live CD for NetBSD (jibbed) and I will see how is works but I like to install

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-14 Thread vermaden
Hi and thanks for reply ;) Yay another FreeBSD laptop user! I use FreeBSD for dekstop/workstation for I do not remember how long: http://vermaden.deviantart.com/art/CorporateBSD-FreeBSD-at-Work-190680188 Please do this: * join the freebsd-mobile list;* create PRs for each of your problems

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! Yay another FreeBSD laptop user! Please do this: * join the freebsd-mobile list; * create PRs for each of your problems with -10 above!; * the power utilisation thing is going to be fun to track down - what kind of CPU is in there? Is it a recent Intel? I'm playing around with their tools

Re: Freebsd SVN

2013-08-01 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:46+0400, Alexey Smirnov wrote: Hello community. I got a question here. I am trying to get freebsd source code on linux machine using svn. Here is error i got during this proccess. ramyalexis@asmirnov ~ $ svn co https://svn0.eu.FreeBSD.org freebsd svn: E175002: Unable

Re: Freebsd SVN

2013-08-01 Thread Ulrik Søgaard
On 1 August 2013 11:46, Alexey Smirnov ramyale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello community. I got a question here. I am trying to get freebsd source code on linux machine using svn. Here is error i got during this proccess. ramyalexis@asmirnov ~ $ svn co https://svn0.eu.FreeBSD.org freebsd svn:

Re: Freebsd SVN

2013-08-01 Thread Alexey Smirnov
Thank you for the quick answer. The addition of /base helps a lot ) Have a nice day, 2013/8/1 Trond Endrestøl trond.endres...@fagskolen.gjovik.no On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:46+0400, Alexey Smirnov wrote: Hello community. I got a question here. I am trying to get freebsd source code on linux

Re: Freebsd SVN

2013-08-01 Thread Alexandre
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Alexey Smirnov ramyale...@gmail.comwrote: Hello community. I got a question here. I am trying to get freebsd source code on linux machine using svn. Here is error i got during this proccess. ramyalexis@asmirnov ~ $ svn co https://svn0.eu.FreeBSD.org freebsd

Re: Freebsd SVN

2013-08-01 Thread Alexey Smirnov
Thank you. I already got the answer and evrything is ok now. 2013/8/1 Alexandre axel...@ymail.com On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Alexey Smirnov ramyale...@gmail.comwrote: Hello community. I got a question here. I am trying to get freebsd source code on linux machine using svn. Here is

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: Hi Devin, Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. I can't

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:34:10 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Peter Andreev
Why wouldn't you simply update your 8.1 to 8.4? 2013/7/27 Conny Andersson atar...@telia.com Hi, I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three year warranty of the workstation as Dell techs

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: Hi, I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three year warranty of the workstation as Dell techs mostly speak the Microsoft

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3 and detect it as slice 2 on disk 1? I'm not sure I'm following you

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3 and

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 477, Issue 8, Message: 10 On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Conny Andersson atar...@telia.com wrote: Hi, I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
Hi Ian, Thank you for all of your advices regarding my questions. I have been using FreeBSD for more than ten years, but I never heard of sade (sysadmins disk editor). That is one of the joyful things with running FreeBSD/Unix; there is always something earlier unheard of to explore. And,

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
Hi Peter, I need much more disk space for the FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, so I will need the space of the two 'old' slices. Thanks, Conny On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Peter Andreev wrote: Why wouldn't you simply update your 8.1 to 8.4? 2013/7/27 Conny Andersson atar...@telia.com Hi, I have a

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
Hi Warren and Polytropon, A few minutes ago I booted up from a FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img to experience that it is sysinstall that is used in that release. Next, I did a 'dummy' custom installation. And, as I supposed sysinstall recognized disk ada0 as ad4 and disk ada1 as ad6.

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Conny Andersson wrote: Hi Warren and Polytropon, A few minutes ago I booted up from a FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img to experience that it is sysinstall that is used in that release. Next, I did a 'dummy' custom installation. And, as I supposed sysinstall

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Teske, Devin
On Jul 28, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Conny Andersson wrote: Hi Ian, Thank you for all of your advices regarding my questions. I have been using FreeBSD for more than ten years, but I never heard of sade (sysadmins disk editor). That is one of the joyful things with running FreeBSD/Unix; there

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade /usr/sbin/sade System is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE of August 2011. I think sade has been introduced in a v8 version of

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
Hi Devin, Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. Regards, Conny On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Shane Ambler
On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade /usr/sbin/sade System is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE of August 2011. I think

Re: FreeBSD website is not up to date

2013-07-24 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:27:38 +0200, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, There is a problem between : http://www.freebsd.org/where.html and http://www.freebsd.org/fr/where.html On the second one, 9.1-RELEASE is available for ia64 while it's not for the english

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 as wifi client

2013-07-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Laszlo Danielisz laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: Yesterday I've received a usb wifi card. I've successfully connected to my home network with wpa-psk but I couldn't make it to connect via boot. [...] I've also added the following lines to my rc.conf: wlans_run0=wlan0

Re: FreeBSD software installation problems

2013-07-17 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:32:28 +0800 (CST) chenjunbing1234 chenjunbing1...@126.com wrote: questi...@freebsd.org Iknowvery littleEnglish, and Iwant to learnfreebsd,I was underftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/zh_CN.GB2312/books/handbook/above tutorialto installand preparation, andmeta lot

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 fails to boot from CD on Notebook

2013-07-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:56:12 +0200 Martin Siebel msie...@gmx.de wrote: Any ideas about BIOS settings I may change? find out how how the CD drive is connected and then play with the settings fir this interface Erich I burnt the CD twice by the way, with different burning software, to

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 fails to boot from CD on Notebook

2013-07-12 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
seems that some notebooks the bios loads part of the boot from the HD first before trying to boot from the CD, so when the CD boots, the system expects some windows stuff, when it sees FreeBSD, it reboots... Solution I found: 1) get/buy another HD for notebook (here a 320GB costs U$100) 2) make

Re: FreeBSD on Asus F70SL

2013-07-10 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jul 10, 2013 12:55 PM, Martin Siebel msie...@gmx.de wrote: Hello! I recently tried (and failed) installing FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE on my Asus F70SL Notebook. I already created a thread in the official FreeBSD boards but so far no one could help me out with my problem. Since I really want to

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-06 Thread Simon
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 19:43:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: I booted the 9.1 install CD, executed gpart destroy -F ada0, and installed. After completing the install, boot fails with: ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. That is a BIOS error, probably due to UEFI

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Simon wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 19:43:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: I booted the 9.1 install CD, executed gpart destroy -F ada0, and installed. After completing the install, boot fails with: ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. That is a

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and 12 GB of memory, shipped with Windows 8. I have disabled Secure Boot and enabled Legacy device booting. That says the disk is GPT

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread James E. Pace
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your trying to help me. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your trying to help me. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread James Pace
You, sir, are a wizard. You magical incantations worked, and I now have a bootable FreeBSD 9.1 system.  ​ ​ Use 'gpart destroy' again, and set up an MBR partitioning scheme:  http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210postcount=13   I really, really appreciate your help. ​  James

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James Pace wrote: You, sir, are a wizard. You magical incantations worked, and I now have a bootable FreeBSD 9.1 system. ? ? Use 'gpart destroy' again, and set up an MBR partitioning scheme: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210postcount=13 I really, really

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The vendor has rebranded everything so uname isn't helping me determine what exact branch of FreeBSD they used. Is there another canonical way to figure this out? - For

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The vendor has rebranded everything so uname isn't helping me determine what exact branch of

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/28/2013 05:31 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com mailto:tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am working on an NAS appliance built on FreeSBD. Several questions: - The

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:31 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.commailto: tun...@tundraware.com** wrote: On 06/28/2013 05:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/28/2013 05:46 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: research shows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system D'oh. I looked it up under Isolon but not OneFS. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP

Re: FreeBSD Appliance Questions

2013-06-28 Thread iamatt
Hi. Have some experience with isilon NL and ssd iseries. Onefs 6.5 . Dont go mucking around like you are on a normal bsd system. It doesnt work that way. They have a system which is similar to cfengine which overwrites changes so you need to do things their way not the bsd way. Their support

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Alex Liptsin al...@mellanox.com wrote: Hello. I work with FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE. I had configured VLANs on my server, but I can't find a way to configure VLAN priority. How can I do it? Thanks. ??? vlan priority as in… ?

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alex Liptsin wrote this message on Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:54 +: I work with FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE. I had configured VLANs on my server, but I can't find a way to configure VLAN priority. How can I do it? Looks like you can't w/ the default VLAN code: BUGS No 802.1Q features except

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread Ermal Luçi
This is a patch originially written from rwatson@ iirc. https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools/blob/master/patches/RELENG_10_0/pf_802.1p.diff Remove the pf(4) craft and it should work for you. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:27 PM, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com wrote: Alex Liptsin wrote

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% I think this is a result of having -v in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that.

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Block
There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on FreeBSD and get to the files with rsync or scp or some FUSE module on the

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 19. 19:41 napon Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com írta: There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: ... How can I do this in FreeBSD? Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? Can I do something like the following: /dev/ad0s1a / /dev/ad0s2e /home /dev/ad0s3e /usr/local /dev/ad0s5b swap

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 18. 19:49 napon Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com írta: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: ... How can I do this in FreeBSD? Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? Can I do something like the following:

Re: Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jun 18 13:47:50 2013 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_FreeBSD_slice/partiton_setup_?= =?UTF-8?Q?question?= From: =?UTF-8?Q?Istvan_Gabor?= suseuse...@lajt.hu To: =?UTF-8?Q?FreeBSD_Questions?=freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,

Re: Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
You can simply newfs the device itself, without a volume label, slice, or partition. That's the normal thing to do with malloc devices, or additional disks. If the disk doesn't require a boot loader, isn't the root device, etc. that may be the best thing to do. Your caution about EXT* is

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