Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)
On 7/26/2013 12:00 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Upon trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL585G5 installation freezes when it comes to the point Archive Extraction while extracting ports. To be specific, the system freezes while extracting ports.txz at 23% with Overal Progress being 29%. You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html): portsnap fetch portsnap extract First I thought about the installation medium, so I re-burned the installation CD (disc1), tried the DVD-installation, even installing over the network - the machine always freezes when it comes to archive extraction. For the hardware part: HP Proliant DL585G5 128GB RAM 8 HDs a 146GB: two of them in Raid-1, the remainder Raid0 2x onboard LAN: (HP NC371i) 2 addon NIC-cards with 2 ports each (HP NC360T) Harddisk has been set up with GPT, for the test automatic partitioning. Has anybody out there seen this type of problem? If yes, any known cure/hint/??? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ 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 ___ 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: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html): portsnap fetch portsnap extract Hi, Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box behaves weird to say the last: I started out be entering portsnap fetch. Everything runs fine up to the point when I see Verifying snapshot integrity. Then the system completely comes to a grind. After sending the portsnap fetch to the background (^Z) and entering top the machine completely freezes without any indication as to why. I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK. Any ideas on how to track this one down? Thanks much in advance, -ewald ___ 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: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html ): portsnap fetch portsnap extract Hi, Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box behaves weird to say the last: I started out be entering portsnap fetch. Everything runs fine up to the point when I see Verifying snapshot integrity. Then the system completely comes to a grind. After sending the portsnap fetch to the background (^Z) and entering top the machine completely freezes without any indication as to why. I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK. Any ideas on how to track this one down? Don't install ports during installation, try using 8.4 or 9.1BETA1 instead -- Adam Vande More ___ 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
portmaster: hal-0.5.14_20 and xorg-server-1.7.7_6, 1 (re)installation fails
When running portmaster -d -w -r pcre because of the upgrade from pcre-8.31 to pcre-8.32 I encountered the following inconveniences: Upgrade to hal-0.5.14_20 failed with the message it needs intltool 0.40 which was installed at the time. First upgrading to intltool-0.41.1 solved this. When reinstalling xorg-server-1.7.7_6,1 with portmaster today: Making install in xkb mkdir: /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/compiled: No such file or directory mkdir: /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/compiled: No such file or directory So I checked /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/compiled and this is a symlink to /var/lib/xkb which did not exist at the time. I created /var/lib/xkb and the installation went fine then. There is one file installed in this location: README.compiled This worked, but is it the right solution? Does anyone know what changed maybe? This is on 9.1-RELEASE with a portstree just updated with portsnap. Previous versions of the ports were from about 20 days ago. Everything is installed the standard way. Just if someone runs into these issues these may be found in the list (or already have been solved in ports) Things like this do not happen too often. ___ 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: installation of yuma
thank you a lot Steve; it's worked very well. Best regards 2012/9/18 Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:25:03 + ahmed elouadrhiri ahmedelouadrh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; i tried to install yuma in freebsd by the command : make freebsd=1 and it give me : Makefile, line 14: Need an operator At a guess you need to use gmake (you may need to install it first from the ports). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ 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: installation of yuma
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:25:03 + ahmed elouadrhiri ahmedelouadrh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; i tried to install yuma in freebsd by the command : make freebsd=1 and it give me : Makefile, line 14: Need an operator At a guess you need to use gmake (you may need to install it first from the ports). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ 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: Installation troubles
On 02/23/12 00:04, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel scans for the UBS-ports, booting impossible. Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff what will/will not get installed if I use the 'wrong' computer? The old hd-cotent will be deleted, the new laptop will only be FreeBSD. Interesting. Could it be some setting in the bios? USB legacy option or such that could be stopping it? ___ 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: Installation troubles
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:04:12 +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff what will/will not get installed if I use the 'wrong' computer? I've done this with a very old laptop (where I did install its 2.5 disk using an adapter in a normal PC). After that, booting performed normally. I've also used a 5.4-p12 PATA disk on a system that previously ran 7-STABLE during a data recovery session - it also booted fine, except X didn't come up (xorg.conf had hardcoded S3, system had an ATI card). But the OS never did anything strange. The only issue I say _may_ be boot loading device names (e. g. if the disk will be ad0 in the run-laptop, but ad4 in the install-laptop); using GPT partitioning or labels should avoid this problem. FreeBSD is totally agnostic of this is not the system I've been installed to. Hardware detection will take place when you boot it, _not_ when you install it. After you have installed the OS, see if it properly boots (or if scanning the USB ports causes a kernel lock again). Do any further installs (ports / packages) from the new laptop. It's also worth mentioning that you need to have the capability to run the same architecture (i386 or amd64) on both machines, and use the proper install image (e. g. don't try to install amd64 version of the OS on a system that doesn't run it). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Installation troubles
On 22 February 2012 09:04, herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel scans for the UBS-ports, booting impossible. Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff what will/will not get installed if I use the 'wrong' computer? The old hd-cotent will be deleted, the new laptop will only be FreeBSD. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X31 has a lot of good advice, though it tends to be a bit more linux-centric. I bought a cheap ATA - USB adapter that had a lap-top style 44-pin connector (in addition to the usual 40-pin IDE) and installed i386 on an old X40 from a running copy of amd64 (make TARGET_ARCH=i386 buildworld make TARGET_ARCH=i386 installworld DESTDIR=/mnt/x40disk cet after setting up and mounting the proper partitions) It worked fine, outside of the flaky intel 2100 wireless chip. -- -- ___ 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: Installation troubles
Hi, On Wednesday 22 February 2012 21:04:12 herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel scans for the UBS-ports, booting impossible. Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff what will/will not get installed if I use the 'wrong' computer? The old hd-cotent will be deleted, the new laptop will only be FreeBSD. All ideas welcome, thank you herb langhans I did this several times before but I used to connect the hard disk via USB. Just get an USB case for the disk. It is much easier this way as you keep one notebook intact. You have to check the drives in fstab and rc.conf. If I remember right the rest was ok. Erich ___ 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 ___ 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: Installation troubles
Thanks for all the hints - now I have some point to go on. First I try to use 8.2 from the memstick. If that fails I get such a little adapter and install it from a normal PC (using the CD). I'll let you know after my homework is done. Good to know that FreeBSD has some neutral kernel and chooses all drivers when it boots. Late on! herb langhans ___ 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: Installation difficulties
On 12/11/11 16:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version installer, which it did on an Intel 64 bit processor. The 64 bit version is marked 'AMD64'. I would have gotten a laptop with AMD but this particular seller (Linux Certified) did not have one available when I was ready to buy. So now I am at it because the warrantee on the laptop has expired. So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. I also tried MySQL. The first time it also failed to install. But did sysinstall and tried a different version than originally selected, and it did install. Since I wanted the GUI, I ran xinit when I got a shell prompt and xwindows failed to load and run, the error is failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist). Perhaps this is not an issue that can be addressed practically, here, which is alright with me. But short of getting another DVD and trying to install from that is there a way to deal, at least with the fbdev complaint? My experience with FreeBSD goes back to 6.0, setting up and running servers, specifically web servers. This is going to be a development server, as it had been when it had Ubuntu Linux. Thank you for time and attention; JK I'd download at least 8.2 (amd64 if you like, but you can stick to i386), and do a basic install (no ports or packages- yet). Once running execute freebsd-update fetch install as root, then portsnap fetch extract. With that done, then go into ports and install what you want from there by entering the directory of the port you want to install (say www/apache22) and running make install clean. You'll have options to select and away you go. If you can wait a few weeks (9.0-Release guys: back me up :) ), install the disk you have there and install in the same way so you have something to play around with and get your feet wet until 9. Or try 9.0-RC3, you can get release using freebsd-update. And above all: to do that you are going to become very good friends with the FreeBSD Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ HTH ___ 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: Installation difficulties
On 11/12/2011 06:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version. Unless you've got all your necessary packages on your DVD you aren't going to have much luck there. I also tried MySQL. The first time it also failed to install. But did sysinstall and tried a different version than originally selected, and it did install. Verb. Sap. sysinstall(8) as a system management tool is like those dinky little training wheels kids get on their first bikes. Best to learn how to use pkg_add(1) from the command line; it will give you much better results in the end, and be a lot less frustrating to debug if it goes wrong. Since I wanted the GUI, I ran xinit when I got a shell prompt and xwindows failed to load and run, the error is failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist). That can optionally be installed from the x11-drives/xorg-drivers port, but it's not enabled by default, so you won't find it in a precompiled package. You'll need to install a copy of the ports tree and use it to compile from source, selecting the fbdev option in that port. However, first I'd recommend updating your system to the latest available (given it is a new install of FreeBSD). There are several possible ways of doing that -- peruse the Handbook for details -- but probably the path of least effort would be to download a new DVD or USB stick installer image and start again with that. It's free, apart from the cost of media, bandwidth and your time. Also, if you want a quick start into a desktop based system, PC-BSD is probably worth a look. That's FreeBSD underneath, but with a lot of GUI-ness layered on top as part of their standard system. You should be able to run mysql and other servers on it just as if you were on a vanilla FreeBSD setup. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Installation difficulties
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version ... What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the -release package sets? 8.1 _is_ still supported (until sometime in 2012 IIRC), but ftp.freebsd.org seems to contain only 8.2-release and 8-stable. ___ 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: Installation problem on AMD64
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Trigg jtr...@spamcop.net wrote: I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs before displaying anything from the standard boot loader. How can I debug this? I found my problem by accident -- I had a badly formatted USB stick connected. (I had tried to write the memstick image to a 1G stick -- not quite large enough.) Thanks, Jim ___ 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: Installation problem
Hi, On Monday 23 August 2010 15:01:22 Mubeesh ali wrote: Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. this is real bad luck. Hope this does not repeat with my next try at freebsd . This was just a hardware fault not detected at the factory. This happens. Good luck for your next installation. Erich ___ 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: Installation problem
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I don't have a memory stick, but I do have other hard drives, should I try it on the other HD's??? Have you been lucky to successfully boot from CD / DVD (1st question) and install FreeBSD onto the hard disk (2nd question)? Did the result then also boot (3rd question)? In case you suspect the hard drive to be any faulty (or at least acting strange), you could test with a spare disk. Doesn't need to be a tenmelonhundredterabytes disk just for testing. :-) I still suspect some remains of some Linux boot loader still present on the disk... If you have a floppy disk drive in your PC, you can download tomsRTBT, a Linux that fits onto one diskette. You can then use its dd command to wipe the first parts of the disk to make ENTIRELY SURE that there's no interfereing rest of a Linux boot loader. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Installation problem
Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. Hope this does not repeat with my next try at freebsd . thanks, Mubeesh On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I don't have a memory stick, but I do have other hard drives, should I try it on the other HD's??? Have you been lucky to successfully boot from CD / DVD (1st question) and install FreeBSD onto the hard disk (2nd question)? Did the result then also boot (3rd question)? In case you suspect the hard drive to be any faulty (or at least acting strange), you could test with a spare disk. Doesn't need to be a tenmelonhundredterabytes disk just for testing. :-) I still suspect some remains of some Linux boot loader still present on the disk... If you have a floppy disk drive in your PC, you can download tomsRTBT, a Linux that fits onto one diskette. You can then use its dd command to wipe the first parts of the disk to make ENTIRELY SURE that there's no interfereing rest of a Linux boot loader. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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 ___ 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: Installation problem
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Derek Schwartz wrote:
Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell
Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard
drive was wiped clean.
I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux
Ubuntu Disk Utility, I changed it to {0-a5} which I heard was for
FreeBSD, but still no luck.
Well, 165 or 0xA5 is indeed the system partition ID for FreeBSD. But that has
nothing to do with the disk geometry (which is cilinders/heads/sectors and
which you should _not_ mess with).
Read and follow Chapter 2 of the freeBSD handbook;
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
Pay attention to §2.6, Allocating Disk Space.
Since you are installing a desktop, I would recommend to create a separate
partition (in the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor, _not_ FDISK!) for your /home. That
makes it easier to separately back up the OS and your own data.
Roland
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Re: Installation problem
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:15:13 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com
wrote:
I re-formated the drive and it still gives me the same error error {0-01}
You don't need to format anything. Just make sure all kinds
of partitions are removed. If they are not, you should be
able to use FreeBSD's sysinstall program (stage fdisk)
to remove all existing partitions (key d), then add one
for FreeBSD (key a); this will automatically set the
correct ID.
What stage of installation, or what program, does issue this
error message? Does it come from the BIOS, the FreeBSD loader,
or the kernel, or sysinstall?
anyway I can force it to install?
Install with an empty disk. FreeBSD does not require any
kind of preparation for its installation by 3rd party means.
Please have a look at the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-start.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/using-sysinstall.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-steps.html
Can you be specific about in WHAT STAGE of the process you are
getting the mentioned error message?
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Re: Installation problem
//* I've re-included the list, hope that's okay.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:02:25 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com
wrote:
as soon as a I put the cd in the computer for the first time.
Please try to avoid top-posting, as it counts as bad style on
this maining list; thank you.
If the message
error {0-01}
is displayed as soon as the PC tries to boot from the FreeBSD
CD, this may indicate two reasons: The first reason is a problem
of the PC itself (e. g. BIOS, defective drive) which I will keep
in background for now, as I assume that your PC and CD drive are
okay. Second reson is a defective CD, either by media, or by logic.
Have you made sure that the CD is bootable, e. g. checked with
a second PC or laptop (just booting)? Did you correctly record
the ISO file to the CD?
Again, make sure you did as explained in the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html
For example, can you mount the CD on a different system, and does
it show the obvious files and structures? Does a different system
boot from this CD?
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Re: Installation problem
Hi ,
not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a
laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had
emailed on this earlier.
thanks,
Mubeesh
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
//* I've re-included the list, hope that's okay.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:02:25 -0400, Derek Schwartz
derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote:
as soon as a I put the cd in the computer for the first time.
Please try to avoid top-posting, as it counts as bad style on
this maining list; thank you.
If the message
error {0-01}
is displayed as soon as the PC tries to boot from the FreeBSD
CD, this may indicate two reasons: The first reason is a problem
of the PC itself (e. g. BIOS, defective drive) which I will keep
in background for now, as I assume that your PC and CD drive are
okay. Second reson is a defective CD, either by media, or by logic.
Have you made sure that the CD is bootable, e. g. checked with
a second PC or laptop (just booting)? Did you correctly record
the ISO file to the CD?
Again, make sure you did as explained in the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html
For example, can you mount the CD on a different system, and does
it show the obvious files and structures? Does a different system
boot from this CD?
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Re: Installation problem
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:58:44 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm... I've tried the full install... maybe I'll try the boot only CD... Basically, that shouldn't make any difference. I usually use the full install (1 CD) when building a system from scratch intendedly. Everything that is not on this CD, I install per FTP right from the beginning. But the error message seems to indicate a generic booting problem. You can also try to use the memstick installation variant if your system can boot from USB. In this case, you can eliminate CD or DVD booting problems. (hate to sound like an idiot) but how do I connect to the FTP site? That's quite easy, as soon as you're in the sysinstall program: Choose FTP as source, select a mirror near you, and if not done yet, your network connection will automatically be initialized, usually by DHCP, which is a common setting. The sysinstall program does all that for you. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html See 2.13.6 here And of course: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-media.html See box FTP Installation Modes -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Installation problem
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:35:42 +0530, Mubeesh ali mubeeshal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi ,
not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a
laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had
emailed on this earlier.
Yes, the verbosity of the error message
error {0-01}
makes me believe that this is already in a very early stage. Maybe
some forgotten remains of a Linux boot loader? In this case, trying
to boot from USB (or maybe floppy?) could help hard-wiping at least
the beginning of the disk, using dd.
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Re: Installation problem
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:01:08 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell
Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard
drive was wiped clean.
I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux
Ubuntu Disk Utility, I changed it to {0-a5} which I heard was for
FreeBSD, but still no luck.
The easiest way to install FreeBSD is to use *its* installation
utilities. Just make sure that the disk space you want to use
for your FreeBSD installation is free, meaning not defined to
be any kind of slice or partition of any type, just wiped plain
empty. Then FreeBSD will happily install into this empty disk
space.
In case you want to use the whole disk for FreeBSD, delete all
stuff from it (remove all primary DOS partitions) and keep
it that way; then start the installation from the CD, DVD or
USB stick.
There usually is no need to employ Linux tools to prepare a
FreeBSD installation.
I still get the error, read error, {0-01}
What program or stage of installation reports that error?
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Re: Installation - no disks detected
On Friday 30 July 2010 05:58:02 Prateek Sharma wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.1 on a server with the LSI SAS 9200 disk controller card. Before the partitioning step the installer says disks not found.. However, just after freebsd boots , i get the diagnostic message saying something like: Drive C: is disk ad0 Drive D: is disk ad1 .. So are my disks getting detected or not? Does anyone know if the card is supported by FreeBSD? Is there any way i can get this to work? Thanks ! There's work in progress to get the new 6gbps LSI HBAs and RAID controllers working in FreeBSD, but so far the driver is pretty experimental. Currently there's nothing in the tree, but hopefully soon there will be something ready for testing. As far as what you are seeing on boot, the system BIOS is seeing the controller and disks, but FreeBSD doesn't have a driver so once the OS is charge you get the no disks found message. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD -- The power to serve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:47:40AM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd drive. I recon the problem occurs because of confusion between the physical cd drive and the virtual ditto. Hi Palle, This absolutely does the trick! Thanks much, -ewald ___ 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: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd drive. I recon the problem occurs because of confusion between the physical cd drive and the virtual ditto. Cheers, Palle --On 22 april 2010 21.19.43 +0200 Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ 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 ___ 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: Installation queries
Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Installation queries
On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, I have always found disk caddies to be a much better solution than dual-boot. It guarantees no interference. I learned the hard way some years ago with an 'accident' with dd on a dual-boot disk... ___ 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: Installation queries
At 09:32 a.m. 24/04/2010, you wrote: On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, I have always found disk caddies to be a much better solution than dual-boot. It guarantees no interference. I learned the hard way some years ago with an 'accident' with dd on a dual-boot disk... I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. - Extra disk(s) and install there the differnet os I need (FreeBSD and some Linux distros). - As mentioned have different small disk with real installations and change according to needs. - Change my slow machine and have a big one with a) have the windows needed (for some clients that have that, I am sorry) and under it run VMWARE or similar and have all the installations that I need. b) Have a big mac and do the same with virtualpc or similar (not sure of the name). Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Installation queries
Hi, Jorge Biquez wrote: I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. - Extra disk(s) and install there the differnet os I need (FreeBSD and some Linux distros). - As mentioned have different small disk with real installations and change according to needs. IMHO, this is a clumsy way to avoid writing over an existing installed operating system. But, you know what they say about opinions. - Change my slow machine and have a big one with a) have the windows needed (for some clients that have that, I am sorry) and under it run VMWARE or similar and have all the installations that I need. b) Have a big mac and do the same with virtualpc or similar (not sure of the name). VirtualBox? Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? FWIW, I run VirtualBox on all of my FreeBSD machines and my Mac for similar purposes. It is much more convenient than carrying around extra disks or obscure disk partitioning. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Installation queries
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Jorge Biquez wrote: I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. [snip] VirtualBox? YES! Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? FWIW, I run VirtualBox on all of my FreeBSD machines and my Mac for similar purposes. It is much more convenient than carrying around extra disks or obscure disk partitioning. Me too. I have an AMD quad core and 8GB RAM. Virtualbox is one of the most painless ways to do this. Whichever OS you install in a VM it won't run as fast as it can if not a VM, but on the larger horsepower box it is very nearly unnoticeable. It's close enough that I'm quite satisfied. In fact it is what I do if I need Office for anything, fire up a Windows VM. I originally started doing this with a Pentium D 940 and 2GB RAM and it made the box a little sluggish. The move up to the higher horsepower box eliminated that. Virtualbox and higher horsepower gets my vote over continually monkeying around with altering slice/partitioning schemes. The more often you mess with that the higher the chance that you sooner or later make a little 'uh oh' and lose gobs of time wiping your drive and starting over. -Mike ___ 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: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. -- Regards, Doug ___ 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: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:27:11AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. Hi Doug, This is exactly what I did in the first playe, i.e. mounting an ISO-Image as a iLO virtual CD/DVD then starting the installation off this .ISO. -ewald ___ 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: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off the CD/DVD then during installation goes south - shouldn't it be either I recognize this drive or I don't recognize this drive? The acd0 is an ATAPI/IDE device. Here's what I'd try. Two options... 1) Boot the livefs ISO and do a ftp/http install Thanks much for the hint. I think I'm going this way since the installation runs perfectly to right after formatting the partitions on the HD is done. Best regards, -ewald ___ 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: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On 04/23/2010 06:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off the CD/DVD then during installation goes south - shouldn't it be either I recognize this drive or I don't recognize this drive? During boot, the loader uses the bios-supplied routines to load the kernel, modules, and md root. One would hope the bios knows how to communicate with its hardware. By the time sysinstall is running (from the preloaded memory disk), the kernel has mapped all the hardware it knows, and no longer utilizes the bios routines for I/O. Thus, if FreeBSD knows not of the hardware connecting the CD drive, it will not be able to present it as an option. Fortunately, once you get this far, you need not actually use the CD to install; network installation works quite well. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ 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: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald I'm a new hire to HP (not supporting ProLiants), but BSD is not a supported OS. That's completely beside the point because I want to play with proliants myself and see what I can get working. Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. The acd0 is an ATAPI/IDE device. Here's what I'd try. Two options... 1) Boot the livefs ISO and do a ftp/http install 2) Download Martin Matuška's mfsbsd and boot it. Connect by SSH and perform either a cd-rom install with the install iso mounted or via ftp/http install. I would anxiously try anything if anybody were to give me access to a proliant. dmesg and model numbers with bios, bmc versions, etc would be greatly appreciated. ___ 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: installation problem
I guess I have the same problem. I trying to install 7.2-RELEASE on server with Supermicro X8DTU-Fhttp://market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=4633058MB. BIOS is the newest. Just in time I boot from CD I get such errors after detecting CPU: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (0 retry left) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out And boot fails. But if I eject CD from CD-ROM after FreeBSD kernel loads, all going OK. But in this way I unable to continue installation from CD, course even I insert CD during sysinstall, it cannot mount it and copy distributions to my machine. I have tried to boot through choosing 6 in loader menu and type - set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 - boot But it doesn't give any effect. Situation was recalled on two X8DTU-F motherboards, so it isn't hardware problem. CD-ROM is SATA, TEAC DV-28S. Photo: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3809/rc5hack.22/0_3aa92_84133e96_orig ___ 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: installation problem
I cannot tell for sure, but the installation seems to be failing at the point where it must install/read from the cdrom; is that correct? If so, it may be that your cdrom drive has a DMA conflict; I believe that Toshiba ATAPI drives have such problems. Provided you have a broadband connection, you may want to try and do the ftp/network installation using the boot only ISO. Good luck-- Richard 2010/4/13 Александров Иван jetana...@yandex.ru Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi HDS721016LA386(0A39261)8MB SATA-II Codegen Q3337-A2 ATX 400W CD-ROM TOSHIBA (don't know 3 years old , HHD) problem: In various places errors occur when installing 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz and FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso everywhere timeout in 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz for example: ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out I would like to begin the study with nix feeBSD very disappointing Help please,bootable flash don't work too. can you help me? thanks ___ 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 ___ 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: installation problem
Александров Иван wrote: Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi HDS721016LA386(0A39261)8MB SATA-II Codegen Q3337-A2 ATX 400W CD-ROM TOSHIBA (don't know 3 years old , HHD) problem: In various places errors occur when installing 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz and FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso everywhere timeout in 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz for example: ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out I would like to begin the study with nix feeBSD very disappointing Help please,bootable flash don't work too. can you help me? thanks Make sure the cdrom drive in cabled on the second motherboard ata port as master with nothing on the slave nipple. Your sata drive should be on the first motherboard port as master and the slave nipple empty. ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per se, and it saves some partition out of space trouble when using UFS partitioning. You don't have this with ZFS. :-) Anyway, FreeBSD should keep all its partitions within one slice, or do I fail to see some hidden advantage of distributing the system into several slices? If the OP cares to share his /etc/fstab, it will become obvious if this is the case. That would answer this question. If there are already separate partitions inside the slice, I'd agree there is no compelling reason to move to a multiple slice system. An idea would be, for example, to remove the /usr partition and create two new partitions, one for /usr and one for /usr/local, which would move out /usr/local contents from the partition holding /usr - which I think is what the OP originally intended. This could be done relatively easily (in regards of SSH for the command connection). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per se, and it saves some partition out of space trouble when using UFS partitioning. You don't have this with ZFS. :-) Anyway, FreeBSD should keep all its partitions within one slice, or do I fail to see some hidden advantage of distributing the system into several slices? snip UFS: I usually setup a ~10G slice for the OS [ad0s1] and in that slice I have a /tmp /var /usr...and then use the rest of the disk for another slice containing all my data and home directories - This way if I ever need extra space for base, I can create symlinks, but makes reloading the base OS easier/being able to change partitions around without worrying about data [ad0s2]. If I plug this disk into another system, s1 can be repartitioned for whatever and s2 still has all my data instead of having to have the old partitions left [/var, /tmp, /usr] and can't combine them into one huge one because your /home is on the same slice. ]Peter[ ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:38:40 -0700 (MST), Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: UFS: I usually setup a ~10G slice for the OS [ad0s1] and in that slice I have a /tmp /var /usr...and then use the rest of the disk for another slice containing all my data and home directories - This way if I ever need extra space for base, I can create symlinks, but makes reloading the base OS easier/being able to change partitions around without worrying about data [ad0s2]. If I plug this disk into another system, s1 can be repartitioned for whatever and s2 still has all my data instead of having to have the old partitions left [/var, /tmp, /usr] and can't combine them into one huge one because your /home is on the same slice. Hmmm... that's a valid point and a good idea in certain cases, such as you mentioned (having OS and applications completely separated from data - slice-wise). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have FreeBSD 7.2-p4 I wonder if maybe there is an easier way. The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. Any input, advice, tips etc would be very welcomed. (trying to be prepared before attempting anything) Thank you, -r ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
Roger rno...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have FreeBSD 7.2-p4 I wonder if maybe there is an easier way. The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. Any input, advice, tips etc would be very welcomed. (trying to be prepared before attempting anything) Thank you, -r ___ 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 AFAIK, it's not possible to install a BSD system from a linux system. I searched some time, and it does not seem to be possible. Finally, I used mfsBSD to install. I booted on a rescue disk (Linux), then, I did : dd if=mfsBSD.img | ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/sda Then, a reboot, and I accessed the system via ssh. Julien Gormotte This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have FreeBSD 7.2-p4 I wonder if maybe there is an easier way. The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. Any input, advice, tips etc would be very welcomed. (trying to be prepared before attempting anything) AFAIK, it's not possible to install a BSD system from a linux system. I searched some time, and it does not seem to be possible. Finally, I used mfsBSD to install. I booted on a rescue disk (Linux), then, I did : dd if=mfsBSD.img | ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/sda Then, a reboot, and I accessed the system via ssh. Actually is qasi possible http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html But the OP question isn't resolved by that. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have FreeBSD 7.2-p4 I wonder if maybe there is an easier way. Well, you say a dedicated server, but you do not say it is remote. The article is for a remote install - that is, one where you cannot put your hands on the actual machine. The article also assumes you are making a raid with gmirror. With just one drive, you can ignore that stuff. If it is really a remote machine, then you will have to go through that stuff about building an mfs and running from it. But, not if you have direct access to the machine. If you can get to it and shut it down and put CDs in it, the process is much more simple. In that case you just do good backups and check them out to make sure they are readable, put the install CD in and boot the machine. That will bring up Sysinstall which will do everything for the main install. Then you will probably want to csup(1) both the base system and the ports tree and rebuild the base according to the handbook. Then install your ports. Finally restore your backups. Or, if you are completely happy with what is currently on the machine and you just want to reorder the partition sizes, then you don't even have to really do any install. Just do the backups, use the 'fixit' disk to run bsdlabel to make the partitions. Newfs(8) the new partitions. Then restore the backups over the top of things. The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. Really in a separate slice?? Or do you mean a separate partition. It is possible that you used only a slice and no partitions, but it is not the usual thing. That is kind of halfway to what they call a 'dangerously dedicated' disk in the handbook. Maybe you could call it a dangerously dedicates slice. It isn't really dangerous, but it limits some things you can do and for the disk, makes it so some types of things (that you most likely would never run in to) could not access it. So, Remember, in FreeBSD slices are the primary divisions (identified as 1..4) of the disk and partitions (identified as a..h) are subdivisions of slices. Presuming you are using SATA or IDE disk, the drive is ad0, or if you are using SCSI or SAS disk, the drive is da0. The first single slice is either ad0s1 (or da0s1 for SCSI) thus the 's' in 's1'. Then in s1 you can have partitions a..h except c is reserved, b is best used for swap and a needs to be root. If you have a single slice and no partition, then you would be mounting all of /dev/ad0s1 as /. If you have partitions, then you would be mounting /dev/ad0s1a as /. In any case, it is easy to modify. The only reason you might want a separate second slice on a machine that is only running one version of FreeBSD is if you have used up all the partitions available in slice 1. Do a df -k to see what slices and partitions are in use. If you have partitions use bsdlabel to look at the label in more detail. From root, do:bsdlabel ad0s1 (or da0s1 for SCSI or SAS) Think about how you want the disk divided before you get into the middle of it. If the new /usr/local partition would be too big to fit in the new /usr partition along with the regular /usr stuff, then you will have to split them up before doing the backups. In that case, use tar(1) to make a file that contains all of /usr/local, then rm(1) the contents of /usr/local, then do the backups and go from there - use the bsdlabel from the fixit to rebuild the partitions (and newfs each of them), restore everything over the top, mount that new /usr/local (make sure you still have a /usr/local mount point and that you fix up /etc/fstab for it) and untar that ball you make of /usr/local. If there is plenty of room for it to be in the new /usr temporarily, then just do the backups and then use bsdlabel from the fixit to rebuild the partitions, newfs them and restore them from backups. Then rename the current /usr/local to get it out of the way, remake the /usr/local mountpoint, mount it and then use tar to copy everything from the old /usr/local to the new one. Check it out and then rm the old /usr/local. Again, presuming you have direct access to the machine, Make your backups and put them somewhere away from what you are doing - on tape, or a big USB drive or another machine's disk, etc. I vote for a big cheap USB drive if your machine supports it. Once you have readable backup -- and that /usr/local split out in a separate tar file, if it would be too big, then put in the CD with the fixit. There is a menu item
Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:12:06PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have FreeBSD 7.2-p4 I wonder if maybe there is an easier way. Well, you say a dedicated server, but you do not say it is remote. The article is for a remote install - that is, one where you cannot put your hands on the actual machine. I just noticed your subject line. You should really put all relevant information in the body of your post and not depend on the subject line doing any more than filtering. Anyway, if it is really remote, then take that article seriously but for only one disk, forget the gmirror raid stuff. jerry ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. In most cases, you set up one slice covering the whole disk, and then partition it, giving functional parts an own partition, such as /, /var, /tmp, /usr (including or intendedly excluding /usr/local) and /home. Those are partitions, not slices. As far as I know, there's no advantage in adding additional slices to that concept. A slice is a DOS primary partition, while a partition is just a subdivision (i. e. an own file system) inside a slice. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
Polytropon wrote: A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. In most cases, you set up one slice covering the whole disk, and then partition it, giving functional parts an own partition, such as /, /var, /tmp, /usr (including or intendedly excluding /usr/local) and /home. Those are partitions, not slices. As far as I know, there's no advantage in adding additional slices to that concept. A slice is a DOS primary partition, while a partition is just a subdivision (i. e. an own file system) inside a slice. It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. I was once administering a server setup in this way - the hosting company would only perform this kind of install (they probably had a ready image or dump and would not change it). If the OP cares to share his /etc/fstab, it will become obvious if this is the case. If there are already separate partitions inside the slice, I'd agree there is no compelling reason to move to a multiple slice system. ___ 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: installation
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, levent basar eagleu...@hotmail.com wrote: hi freebsd is one of the good ones but its hard to install why dont you make the installation user friendly like pc bsd and also there are so many ati graphic card users can you add some new ati drives to new freebsd ? It's really not that hard to install. Of all the BSDs (including NetBSD and OpenBSD), I find it the easiest. I try various Linux installs every so often and always seem to have weird problems. I like FreeBSD because it's simple once you get the hang of it, and it's very well documented. The FreeBSD Handbook has detailed documentation on how to install the system, and it's head and shoulders above anything else out there for other systems. Once you've done an install it will get easier the second time and you can do it in a few minutes. Hang in there, it's worth the effort. ___ 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: installation
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:10:49 +0100, levent basar eagleu...@hotmail.com wrote: hi freebsd is one of the good ones but its hard to install It's not hard to install. Just follow the instructions on screen. Because FreeBSD isn't restricted to a particular field of use (such as most other operating systems are, by their own definition), installation can lead into many various directions. There is no default for this. FreeBSD can be used as a simple name server, a mail server, a multimedia workstation, an embedded system, a corporate storage controller or a mobile diagnostics system on a netbook - and many others. How should an installer handle this? why dont you make the installation user friendly like pc bsd Then use PC-BSD. In my opinion, user-friendly and mades lots of use of GUI effects is often confused. For starters, maybe PC-BSD is the best solution. Personally, I had no problems installing FreeBSD without additional education prior to putting in the install CD. It shouldn't be any problem for a person who is able to read the english language (which, by the way, isn't my native one). :-) An installation tool that requires a recent graphics card isn't user friendly. It *limits* the use of the OS, e. g. when you want to install it on a server that doesn't have a graphics card at all. and also there are so many ati graphic card users can you add some new ati drives to new freebsd ? You should ask ATI for this, not FreeBSD. The developers don't have X-ray eyes and therefore cannot look into the devices ATI sells. :-) Seriously: If you are interested for improved hardware support, write to the hardware manufacturers. They are the responsible party. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: installation sequence
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:29:26AM +, b. f. typed: Lane Holcombe wrote: Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be ready when you need it. It's good advice to make sure that you are using a base system and ports tree that are up-to-date, or at least contemporaneous and from a stable snapshot. But it seems to me to be overkill to ask someone who is having trouble installing ports to mirror the FreeBSD repository. Snapshots downloaded per the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook ought to be enough for most people. Besides, an uptodate portstree is no guarantee at all that all ports will compile and/or all dependencies will work. That's why there are periods of ports freeze before every RELEASE. On a desktop system, I tend to use binary packages only, coming with the release. Ruben ___ 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: installation sequence
PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that, been there, and still looking for some rationality to this world. Thanks for any ideas... ___ Not entirely sure this is totally relevant, but I wouldn't install any packages or third party apps when first installing a fresh system. The packages built at the time the release CD was created are already out of date and the ports tree has moved forward. It's OK to go ahead and install the ports tree as part of the fresh install, however do not use it! The first thing I do after a fresh install is to csup the ports tree to '*default release=cvs tag=.'. (I know it's silly but don't confuse the tag=. with the end of sentence.) You have the best chance now for dependency tracking to be dead on, but the chance always remains that at any one given point in time there may be errors. The ports tree is fluid and changes constantly. Usually if there is a problem and the port(s) maintainers are made aware they get it fixed fairly quick and a quick csup after they repair will make it all good again. Also realize that the previously mentioned tag if applied to src-all will pull down the sources for -CURRENT/HEAD. I have two separate sup files for each collection, one for source and one for ports. You can put them both in the same supfile if you want and there have been recent examples posted, you just have to make sure to get it right or you'll have a real mess. In other words, be aware of the different tags between tracking src-all and ports- all. Should you use the wrong tag to track ports-all you may experience inconsistent problems. On another note, should you find yourself in a position where you have two perfectly identical machines sitting next to each other, e.g., you know positively for a fact that everything is the same such as ports tree freshly csup'ed, etc, and one machine is barfing during compiling you may have a marginally bad hardware memory problem. Compiling (especially make world/kernel) really hits the memory hard. I once had a machine whose memory would 'sing' with an audible tone only during compilation. Such a noise in chip circuitry is an oscillation which should not happen and if you continue to operate the chip under that set of conditions it will fry. About the only thing you could try in this scenario would be to add latency clocks to the RAM in the mainboard BIOS. Whether this actually helps would really only be test of the hypothesis and not a true fix. Most memory should just auto time itself by SPD and shouldn't need to be 'slowed down'. If I saw this I'd replace the memory with new, as if it can't operate correctly at the SPD timings it is of substandard quality. -Mike ___ 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: installation sequence
Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that, been there, and still looking for some rationality to this world. Thanks for any ideas... Again, not to be rude (to you or fBSD) . . . but why stick with something that is giving you soo much trouble? There are a bunch of open source distros out there. I can appreciate that you do not want to f'around with another distro for another week . . . but . . . From other posts, it sounded like you have recovered the essential files. Rationality may dictate you moving on. The only thing I can suggest that may help those who know better, is to post the demsg's of the two machines (the one that works and the pain in the ass), given that they are different machines. What happened to the faulty hardware idea? I dunno . . . good luck! First, the problem is not FreeBSD... it is the idiots who think they know how to deal with a lot of stuff and then post all sorts of stuff that just confuses the hell out of simpletons like me. I made the mistake of thinking some jerk had written a little script that would do an update of ports with csup... well, I did post looking for an explanation of why the damned thing didn't work... and the responses I got were rather cryptic and din't explain anything even though a good programmer would have understood it would not work... :-) I'm certainly not a programmer in the professional sense at all... so in thinking about the problem I saw that the ports were not being correctly updated... once I got that right, everything worked fine. I even fixed that little script and updates are a cinch. As for faulty hardware... haven't found any up to now... I hae just 1 drive left to check and I'll know for sure... ;-) ___ 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 ___ 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: installation sequence
Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be ready when you need it. Next, when ever you do a fresh install of FreeBSD whatever, the first thing you do after the install is update your source and ports try by creating a cvsupfile, (I always keep one in /usr/local/etc/cvsupfile) like this: begin cvsupfile *default host=IP.OF.YOUR.LOCAL.CVS.MIRROR *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_7 *default compress src-all src-contrib ports-all tag=. /end cvsupfile Note that the begin and /end tags are put in the email for clarity, but should NOT appear in your cvsup file. I think src-contrib is overkill, but I've not bothered to find out because I'm pretty lazy. Note, also that RELENG_7 is just what I'm using now. You should adjust to the FreeBSD whatever that you just installed. So after you put the cvsupfile in place, run this on your new install: csup -g -L2 /path/to/cvsupfile Note, again, that csup does *not* get installed with *base before like 6.3 or something ... can't remember which. Did I mention lazy? If you are going back that far you have to install csup from ports or install cvsup from ports. (Which may likely put you back at square one where you have to work through the build failures - it ain't perfect, but it's nearly there!) Anyway, the point is you should always, always, always update your ports tree after a new install so you don't have build failures to stump you. And you still might get those :) So you should consider REBUILDING WORLD immediately after you do a new install. And THEN build/install whatever ports you need ... Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. I really only have problems when some extraneous garbage comes along and I'm suckere in to try it. Here's the script (I modified it and it seems to work just fine) but I sure would like to hear if that makes sense. I called it update.ports and it runs from any directory. It can be changed to update source and docs if so desired or all could be done from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? == #!/bin/sh # # Update source, docs and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup csup ports-supfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u /usr//local/sbin/pkgdb -uvF cd $LOCAL_DIR === Good Luck! lane On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:12 -0400, PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that, been there, and still looking for some rationality to this world. Thanks for any ideas... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
Re: installation sequence
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be ready when you need it. Next, when ever you do a fresh install of FreeBSD whatever, the first thing you do after the install is update your source and ports try by creating a cvsupfile, (I always keep one in /usr/local/etc/cvsupfile) like this: begin cvsupfile *default host=IP.OF.YOUR.LOCAL.CVS.MIRROR *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_7 *default compress src-all src-contrib ports-all tag=. /end cvsupfile Note that the begin and /end tags are put in the email for clarity, but should NOT appear in your cvsup file. I think src-contrib is overkill, but I've not bothered to find out because I'm pretty lazy. Note, also that RELENG_7 is just what I'm using now. You should adjust to the FreeBSD whatever that you just installed. So after you put the cvsupfile in place, run this on your new install: csup -g -L2 /path/to/cvsupfile Note, again, that csup does *not* get installed with *base before like 6.3 or something ... can't remember which. Did I mention lazy? If you are going back that far you have to install csup from ports or install cvsup from ports. (Which may likely put you back at square one where you have to work through the build failures - it ain't perfect, but it's nearly there!) Anyway, the point is you should always, always, always update your ports tree after a new install so you don't have build failures to stump you. And you still might get those :) So you should consider REBUILDING WORLD immediately after you do a new install. And THEN build/install whatever ports you need ... Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. I really only have problems when some extraneous garbage comes along and I'm suckere in to try it. Here's the script (I modified it and it seems to work just fine) but I sure would like to hear if that makes sense. I called it update.ports and it runs from any directory. It can be changed to update source and docs if so desired or all could be done from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? == #!/bin/sh # # Update source, docs and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup csup ports-supfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u /usr//local/sbin/pkgdb -uvF cd $LOCAL_DIR === Good Luck! lane On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:12 -0400, PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that,
Re: Installation sequence
from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? Well, not quite. == #!/bin/sh # # Update source, docs and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) You don't need to change directories if you change some of the commands slightly, so the above line and the last line are unnecessary. cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup csup ports-supfile The example scripts shouldn't be run as-is: you need to edit them first, or issue more flags on the command-line. For instance, for the ports-supfile you need at least to either change the *default host ... line to use the server of your choice, or issue a -h flag with the right server in your script. (The choice of the right server can make a substantial difference in how long this process takes -- you can experiment with different servers, and/or use the sysutils/fastest_cvsup port to find one that works well for you. Not every server is updated at the same interval.) Also, you can avoid changing directories by just using a full path to the cvsup script file. So, for example, you should replace the above two lines in the script with something like: csup -L 2 -h cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile I prefer to increase the verbosity with the -L switch, so that I have a better idea of what's happening if something goes wrong. All of this is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook. Also, you need not use csup(1) at all if you prefer to use portsnap(8) instead. cd /usr/ports make fetchindex /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u You don't need all of the three previous lines: you can just run 'portsdb -F' or 'portsdb -Fu' instead. Also, these lines and the line below require one of the portupgrade ports to be installed, but I guess you know that. If you're not planning on using portupgrade, then don't use the portsdb or pkgdb commands, but just run: 'make -C /usr/ports fetchindex' instead. /usr//local/sbin/pkgdb -uvF cd $LOCAL_DIR As I mentioned, you don't need this last line. b. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installation sequence
PJ wrote: [snip] Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. I really only have problems when some extraneous garbage comes along and I'm suckere in to try it. Here's the script (I modified it and it seems to work just fine) but I sure would like to hear if that makes sense. I called it update.ports and it runs from any directory. It can be changed to update source and docs if so desired or all could be done from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? == #!/bin/sh # # Update source, docs and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup csup ports-supfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u /usr//local/sbin/pkgdb -uvF cd $LOCAL_DIR === I essentially do something very similar. About once a week I do this: csup -L 2 ports portsdb -uF pkgdb -u portversion This pretty much does the same thing as the script. I keep intending to make it a cron job and email me the output, but until I get 'round to it I just take a quick gander at the output and if needed issue a portupgrade -a. 9.8 times out of 10 this is all I ever need. Every once in a while I have to manually fix something, but that isn't all that often, maybe once or twice a year. Another thing is to read UPDATING religiously as this can help sidestep boo boos before they happen. [snip] -Mike ___ 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: installation sequence
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that, been there, and still looking for some rationality to this world. Thanks for any ideas... Again, not to be rude (to you or fBSD) . . . but why stick with something that is giving you soo much trouble? There are a bunch of open source distros out there. I can appreciate that you do not want to f'around with another distro for another week . . . but . . . From other posts, it sounded like you have recovered the essential files. Rationality may dictate you moving on. The only thing I can suggest that may help those who know better, is to post the demsg's of the two machines (the one that works and the pain in the ass), given that they are different machines. What happened to the faulty hardware idea? I dunno . . . good luck! ___ 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 ___ 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: installation sequence
I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be ready when you need it. Next, when ever you do a fresh install of FreeBSD whatever, the first thing you do after the install is update your source and ports try by creating a cvsupfile, (I always keep one in /usr/local/etc/cvsupfile) like this: begin cvsupfile *default host=IP.OF.YOUR.LOCAL.CVS.MIRROR *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_7 *default compress src-all src-contrib ports-all tag=. /end cvsupfile Note that the begin and /end tags are put in the email for clarity, but should NOT appear in your cvsup file. I think src-contrib is overkill, but I've not bothered to find out because I'm pretty lazy. Note, also that RELENG_7 is just what I'm using now. You should adjust to the FreeBSD whatever that you just installed. So after you put the cvsupfile in place, run this on your new install: csup -g -L2 /path/to/cvsupfile Note, again, that csup does *not* get installed with *base before like 6.3 or something ... can't remember which. Did I mention lazy? If you are going back that far you have to install csup from ports or install cvsup from ports. (Which may likely put you back at square one where you have to work through the build failures - it ain't perfect, but it's nearly there!) Anyway, the point is you should always, always, always update your ports tree after a new install so you don't have build failures to stump you. And you still might get those :) So you should consider REBUILDING WORLD immediately after you do a new install. And THEN build/install whatever ports you need ... Good Luck! lane On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:12 -0400, PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that, been there, and still looking for some rationality to this world. Thanks for any ideas... ___ 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 ___ 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: installation sequence
Lane Holcombe wrote: Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be ready when you need it. It's good advice to make sure that you are using a base system and ports tree that are up-to-date, or at least contemporaneous and from a stable snapshot. But it seems to me to be overkill to ask someone who is having trouble installing ports to mirror the FreeBSD repository. Snapshots downloaded per the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook ought to be enough for most people. b. ___ 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: installation sequence
Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? This is supposed to be automated, but of course things can sometimes go wrong, either through hardware problems, user-error, or an error in Ports. I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap...util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. It sounds like a missing header, but you need to tell us more before we can attempt to figure out why. Don't spend a lot of time and energy paraphrasing what happened, but rather include the end of a build transcript with your message, beginning a few lines above where the first error appeared. You can cut-and-paste, or use script1) to capture the output, or whatever -- but we need to see the _exact_ output. Also include a list of the ports that you have installed now, and the OPTIONS settings, if any, of the port and the ports that it depends upon. Also check to see when you are installing a new port that: 1) you are using a up-to-date ports tree and INDEX file (or at least a snapshot that has no known errors), and an up-to-date portsdb and pkgdb if you are using portupgrade; 2) all of your currently installed ports are up-to-date (or at least consistent with your ports tree); 3) you are starting with clean work directories for the port that you want to build and install, and all ports that will also need to be build and installed as missing dependencies; 4) your installed ports and base system have not been corrupted; 5) you have no known hardware problems, like bad memory or a malfunctioning hard drive. And you know, you don't have to build from source -- you could just download and install prebuilt binary packages, either from FreeBSD Ports or some other packaging system... b. ___ 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: Installation - VT4
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.comwrote: When you install freeBSD via sysinstall you could switch to VT2 which displays what files it is currently installing and you could switch to VT4 which displays some kind of prompt. What exactly is that prompt? sh? What utilities does it have access to? When would you want to use it? -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ttyv4 is the holographic shell otherwise mentioned. It only has access to built-in commands (such as echo, cd, etc) It's really limited and so far, haven't found a use for it yet. I think it was a new thing when sysinstall was out and was useful back then. Since then, we've kept it and just haven't done much to it. If you find a use, share it. ___ 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: installation on Acer 4220
In response to abedini abedini.erics...@gmail.com: Hi all dear I have laptop acer 4220 and I need to install FreeBSD. This laptop have sata HDD how can install FreeBSD in this system. Are you having difficulty? What have you tried. Quite honestly, I don't understand the question. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ 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: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805
On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Tim Judd wrote: 1: PERC6 is not listed as supported, last time I checked. 2: Dells are notorious for not working very well with !Windows, ! Linux (haven't tried something like Open Solaris) I have a new PE2950's at the office, FreeBSD sees everything, including the PERC6i controller, but the motherboard NICs are suffering horribly bad for performance. Ping flood from the console to it's own IP address bound to the NIC looses 30% of it's packets. Also, what's NIC2 on the motherboard/case labeling, is the first NIC FreeBSD finds. NIC1 is the 2nd nic FreeBSD finds. Just oddities. Thanks, Tim. The R805 RAID is actually an LSI controller, supported by the mpt driver. The 7.1 version has some updates that make it work on this box. We're just down the road from Dell, so it's hard to avoid them :-) Agreed on the bce NIC. That NIC seems to be complete junk. It gives me fits no matter what OS drives it. In any case, for the archives, if you have an October 2008 or later production PE R805, you need to use FreeBSD 7.1 for an out of the box installation. --Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chris Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue installing FreeBSD 7 AMD64 on a Dell Poweredge R805. The system starts to boot, throws several mpt_cam_event 0x12 and 0x16 errors, presents the boot menu, and then crashes with a Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode and then wants to reboot. This is a dual CPU, quad core Opteron 2352 system with 8GB RAM and dual SAS on a PERC6 controller. I've tried various memory and BIOS settings to see if I can get it to boot, but it either does the bits describe above, or hangs hard. Any and all suggestions appreciated. --Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1: PERC6 is not listed as supported, last time I checked. 2: Dells are notorious for not working very well with !Windows, !Linux (haven't tried something like Open Solaris) I have a new PE2950's at the office, FreeBSD sees everything, including the PERC6i controller, but the motherboard NICs are suffering horribly bad for performance. Ping flood from the console to it's own IP address bound to the NIC looses 30% of it's packets. Also, what's NIC2 on the motherboard/case labeling, is the first NIC FreeBSD finds. NIC1 is the 2nd nic FreeBSD finds. Just oddities. Honestly, I would either stick with IBM or iXsystems branded machines. Others may have success, but those two just seem the best I've seen. Custom builds are always an option too, and the warranties for custom builds are often equal, or longer, than a brand-name machine, but you have to talk to each device vendor, instead of Dell for example. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation
Niyi Christ wrote: Hi, I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. I'll appreciate your help as soon as possible. Thanks in anticipation. Yours, Niyi NiyiChrist Are you using the network install disc? I've had a similar issue on a few machines. It was fixed by using Disc 1 instead. -Steve signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Installation
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:02:40PM -0800, Niyi Christ wrote: Hi, I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. I'll appreciate your help as soon as possible. Thanks in anticipation. Hmmm. I was able to clean out two of those once using the fixit CD boot. But, if you can't get it to boot at all, it will be a problem. Did you try to just bot normally, but look at the BIOS on the way up? You may have to set something in the BIOS. I don't know the key combination to hit on a VIO to get in to BIOS, but it should tell somewhere. jerry Yours, Niyi NiyiChrist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation
I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. I am acquainted with the scrolling digits problem. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 onto a server machine which did not have a built-in CDROM drive. Instead, I hooked up a USB CDROM drive and tried to boot from it. This is when I got the scrolling digits problem. After asking about this problem on the forums, if I remember correctly, the answer seemed to be that booting from USB CDROM drive is not supported. My fix was to temporarily hook up an IDE CDROM drive and boot from that. I'm not sure what the situation with your laptop is. By the way, if you are installing a dual boot, wouldn't it make sense to shrink the Windows partition first to make more room on the hard drive, then add a new partition? There are tools that can shrink a Windows partition easily. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:35:19PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. I am acquainted with the scrolling digits problem. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 onto a server machine which did not have a built-in CDROM drive. Instead, I hooked up a USB CDROM drive and tried to boot from it. This is when I got the scrolling digits problem. After asking about this problem on the forums, if I remember correctly, the answer seemed to be that booting from USB CDROM drive is not supported. My fix was to temporarily hook up an IDE CDROM drive and boot from that. I'm not sure what the situation with your laptop is. By the way, if you are installing a dual boot, wouldn't it make sense to shrink the Windows partition first to make more room on the hard drive, then add a new partition? There are tools that can shrink a Windows partition easily. I wondered about that too. But, I figured that if the OP couldn't even get something to boot, he had to get past that first. Partition Magic (version 7.0 only, - version 8.0 is junk) will do fine except for USB devices/disk. But, I would suggest downloading and burning the gparted CD image and using that to shring the MS slice. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:35:37PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Something tells me that if you were to enable USB Legacy Support and run Linux or Windows, you'd have a functioning mouse. This could simply be a BIOS bug (would not surprise me), or (more likely) a bug in FreeBSD's initialisation of the USB chip. FreeBSD's USB stack is under a great amount of (justified) scrutiny as of late, and there are efforts under CURRENT to replace the stack with a complete brand-new written-from-the ground-up stack (patches are available). It would be beneficial if someone with this sort of configuration oddity could run CURRENT with the new USB stack patches applied and see if things behave as expected. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked the biosno where does it address USB Legacy Supportonly options are to turn on or off support for the USB controller. My system is a Dell E310 (a few years old). Motherboard is an Intelnot sure of the model. I am currently running Linux (CentOS) with no problems. I have ran many other Linux distros with no problems. I am going to attempt to try to boot up and plug in keyboard after initialization...without mouse. see ya on the other side. ton80 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-Hangs-tp19944068p19958656.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). An MSI motherboard did the same thing, only with a USB mouse. The BIOS defaulted to legacy emulation. The mouse would be briefly enabled during boot, then disabled as FreeBSD started. I found a message explaining it, disabled BIOS emulation, had no further problems, and... didn't investigate further. Now I can't find the exact post, but did find a thread that is similar: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1607862+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080224.freebsd-questions -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add to that--same situation, but the mouse would work if it was disconnected and reconnected. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
ton80 wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked the biosno where does it address USB Legacy Supportonly options are to turn on or off support for the USB controller. My system is a Dell E310 (a few years old). Motherboard is an Intelnot sure of the model. I am currently running Linux (CentOS) with no problems. I have ran many other Linux distros with no problems. I am going to attempt to try to boot up and plug in keyboard after initialization...without mouse. see ya on the other side. ton80 OK, I tried several different methods and two other keyboards...no luck. During bootup, it sees the USB ports...then it halts them. What is SIOS? ton80 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-Hangs-tp19944068p19959001.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:19:40AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Set USB Legacy Support to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the country select screen. I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. As I understand it, USB Legacy Support is intended for operating systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers are fully loaded (including the USB stack). An MSI motherboard did the same thing, only with a USB mouse. The BIOS defaulted to legacy emulation. The mouse would be briefly enabled during boot, then disabled as FreeBSD started. I found a message explaining it, disabled BIOS emulation, had no further problems, and... didn't investigate further. Now I can't find the exact post, but did find a thread that is similar: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1607862+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080224.freebsd-questions Ahh, right. But now we're talking about keyboards, when before we were talking strictly about mice. Then I remembered that the PS/2 interface actually handles both keyboards *and* mice during initialisation, which means the translation/emulation layer does the same thing. The problem in that thread is partially documented in the ukbd(4) man page; see the paragraph starting with If you want to use a USB keyboard as your default. The hint commands shown should do the right thing. However, *do not* add them to device.hints -- add them to /boot/loader.conf. device.hints can be overwritten when changes occur in it (I forget if installkernel or mergemaster does this), and you will lose your changes. You can also type the hint commands into the loader section prior to booting. The OP might want to try doing this: at the FreeBSD Beastie/loader menu, hit 6 to go to the Loader prompt. At the prompt, type in: set hint.atkbd.0.disable=1 set hint.atkbdc.0.disable=1 boot And then tell us if your keyboard works during sysinstall. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add to that--same situation, but the mouse would work if it was disconnected and reconnected. Yes, it is. But I used to my radio mouse and don't like to walk to the computer each time it freezes. The computer is used for FreeBSD-current testing and may freeze many times a day. Esp. if I test radeon drivers. :-( WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? I'm inclined to believe the installation isn't hung, but rather that FreeBSD isn't properly working with your USB keyboard (this is very likely, given the state of USB on FreeBSD -- work is underway on CURRENT to fix these problems), so you think the installation is hung, but in reality it's just waiting for a keypress. The only workaround I can think of would be to get a PS/2 keyboard and use that. Chances are even if you get the OS installed, you probably won't be able to type at the console (with the USB keyboard). :-) And please remember that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? I'm inclined to believe the installation isn't hung, but rather that FreeBSD isn't properly working with your USB keyboard (this is very likely, given the state of USB on FreeBSD -- work is underway on CURRENT to fix these problems), so you think the installation is hung, but in reality it's just waiting for a keypress. The only workaround I can think of would be to get a PS/2 keyboard and use that. Chances are even if you get the OS installed, you probably won't be able to type at the console (with the USB keyboard). :-) And please remember that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah...if only it were that easy! My system does not have PS2 connectors...only USB. So if I cannot get the USB workingI cannot use FreeBSD. Would OpenBSD give me the same problems I wonder? Thanks, ton80 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-Hangs-tp19944068p19944188.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:50AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? I'm inclined to believe the installation isn't hung, but rather that FreeBSD isn't properly working with your USB keyboard (this is very likely, given the state of USB on FreeBSD -- work is underway on CURRENT to fix these problems), so you think the installation is hung, but in reality it's just waiting for a keypress. The only workaround I can think of would be to get a PS/2 keyboard and use that. Chances are even if you get the OS installed, you probably won't be able to type at the console (with the USB keyboard). :-) And please remember that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah...if only it were that easy! My system does not have PS2 connectors...only USB. So if I cannot get the USB workingI cannot use FreeBSD. In this case, correct. Would OpenBSD give me the same problems I wonder? I don't know what the state of OpenBSD's USB stack is, and the last time I encountered NetBSD's USB stack was 7 years ago (not so pleasant results). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation Hangs
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ton80 Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:54 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Hangs Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Yes, you can remove the hard disk, put it in a different machine, install FreeBSD on it, then move the disk back. You could always try installing with JUST the USB keyboard or with a -different- USB keyboard. I would suspect that if you stick in a Linux Ubuntu install CD and it also fails to detect keyboard and mouse, that you will get more traction with your machine hardware manufacturer when reporting a problem. Hopefully your system is a new one within the 30 day return window and you can return it and get a different one. One last thing - it might be possible that your machine motherboard has a port for a standard keyboard, with a header on the motherboard, and it just isn't brought out the back of the machine. Please also post the make and model of the motherboard in use so we know what to avoid here. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation Hangs
Yes, you can remove the hard disk, put it in a different machine, install FreeBSD on it, then move the disk back. At that point, if you don't need a graphical console, then a serial console might be a good work-around option. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html for more info. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Hangs
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:54 -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the problem is here. Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? Thanks, ton80 I currently have to attach my USB k/b and mouse via a USB hub, rather than directly to the USB ports on this PC. I'm using a cheap no-name hub here at the moment and it has done the job so far. See if attaching via a hub improves things if you can. Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Question
Ray Madigan wrote: I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB, the drive geometry that I find on their website 16383/16/63 in FDisk. The disk was used for the Suse installation so the partitions are correct. So I press Q on the keyboard. I go through the installation until I get to DiskLabel and the drive doesn't show up on the top of the screen. The screen is blank except for the options section. Does anyone know what could be going wrong here. Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The partitions are not correct, you have to delete them and create a freebsd slice, after that you will be able to make the partitions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Question
Ray Madigan wrote: I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB, the drive geometry that I find on their website 16383/16/63 in FDisk. The disk was used for the Suse installation so the partitions are correct. So I press Q on the keyboard. I go through the installation until I get to DiskLabel and the drive doesn't show up on the top of the screen. The screen is blank except for the options section. Does anyone know what could be going wrong here. [snip] You need to completely wipe the disk of whatever was on it before. On machines with a floppy sometimes I boot from Dos and use it's fdisk, but really any fdisk will do this. Just delete and write back to the drive and start over. I have a WD800JB here and as far as specifying drive geometry that is generally not required. Just make sure you have LBA mode activated in the BIOS. A quick note about sysinstall: many times it will display an error screen complaining about CHS values being wrong immediately prior to going into fdisk. This is really an error in sysinstall and most people just totally ignore it. So don't pay that screen any attention, it is bogus. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
Thanks for help, guys. I'll try this way at the evening (GT +2). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:36:11PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the geometry. In reality, geometry is generally 'virtual' nowdays. I concur with Roland and Jerry about ignoring the geometry warning. I've been doing so for as long as I can remember and I've never had an issue. In fact, trying to set the geometry can mung up the installation. Someone should make some explicit changes - at least in messages and documentation in this regard. It has been a decade since this geometry thing has been obsolete. I don't know enough to make a completely accurate statement or I would submit something. jerry Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 09:58:05 Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Thanks for help, guys. I'll try this way at the evening (GT +2). I was trying, but witout success. Answer the same :( I don't know what is the strange problem... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. Have you tried _not speficying a geometry? In my experience it is best to let the install program figure it out. I have always ignored the warning at the beginning of the installation process without problems. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp4b60hC8d0a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. The same problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and another my HDD. But hardware looks good, because Linux and OpenBSD was installed without any problems. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the geometry. In reality, geometry is generally 'virtual' nowdays. jerry Thanks for help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the geometry. In reality, geometry is generally 'virtual' nowdays. I concur with Roland and Jerry about ignoring the geometry warning. I've been doing so for as long as I can remember and I've never had an issue. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
Hey Viacheslav, I always ignore that message every time I will install fresh FreeBSD It doesn't not create error or anything during the installation. Cheers... Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. The same problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and another my HDD. But hardware looks good, because Linux and OpenBSD was installed without any problems. Thanks for help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation of Python failed: ./python: Permission denied
* Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-17-2008]: ./python: Permission denied *** Error code 126 Anything in /etc/fstab being mounted with noexec,nosuid? -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation of Python failed: ./python: Permission denied
On 05/18/2008 12:08 AM, Sahil Tandon wrote: * Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-17-2008]: ./python: Permission denied *** Error code 126 Anything in /etc/fstab being mounted with noexec,nosuid? No nothing noexec or nosuid. Filesystems table is out-of-the-box. Thanks cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Installation with IP alias
On Saturday 10 May 2008, constantine wrote: Dear FreeBSD Aficionados, I am trying to install FreeBSD in my notebook through an external USB CD-ROM. While the installation manager runs fine, after choosing the installation media it says it cannot mount /dev/acd0 (which refers to the notebook's built-in broken cdrom). What could I do? As an alternative I tried installing through FTP. The problem is that my network configuration has to be as such (with ip aliasing and some static routes): defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 static_routes=beastie puffy route_beastie=-net 10.0.0.0/8 10.96.66.254 route_puffy=-net 10.96.66.253/32 10.96.66.2 hostname=payaso.costis.name ifconfig_rl0=inet 10.96.66.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 192.168.1.36 netmask 255.255.255.0 ... and the holographic emergency shell is somewhat hostile to running ifconfig/route: (command: not found) My DNS server is 10.96.66.1 Thank you very much in advance for any insights!... Yours, Constantine Tsardounis http://costis.name You could try the livefs CD, which should have everything you need to get the network working. I suppose you could then install from FTP using sysinstall. If that doesn't work you could install FreeBSD on a USB (flash?) disk, boot from it, then basically copy the whole USB disk to the HDD of your laptop, or something like that. Good Luck! Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
