RE: Install boggle (4.4)

2001-10-18 Thread Johansson Jan
Yeah, unless I'm misunderstanding you it's *supposed* to do that, once you've written the info you have to just 'q' along and not worry about it. Or do you mean that you still get the errors? Same errors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the

Re: serial console

2001-10-18 Thread Doug Hardie
At 9:24 +1000 10/18/01, Gregory Bond wrote: If this is an old machine that was installed with an old version and has been upgraded, then you will probably be running the original boot blocks. Try installing the latest boot blocks with disklabel. I see in the source that boot2 reads the

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2001-10-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
I asked this a couple of days ago and got no answer, so I'm gonna give it another try. Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask these questions... I received my 4.4-RELEASE CD set from my subscription. The subscription had been vectored through BSDcentral. I want to clone the first (install)

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can the diprefs code have a useful effect on an individual subtree of a file system if just that tree was deleted and recreated? Well, it depends on how much free space there is on the filesystem, and how fragmented it is. If the filesystem is 90% used,

Re: serial console

2001-10-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:36:35PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something else you might want to try: put -P in /boot.config and disconnect your keyboard during the BIOS-blabla /boot.config is obsolete and doesn't work with loader(8). I'd

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Robert Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A related question that I was wondering, Does my /kernel have the new dirpref code? If you've build kernel and userland from the same date (which is always recommended), then it is sufficient to look at the newfs(8) manpage. If it has the -g and -h

Recovering from clobbered boot manager?

2001-10-18 Thread Lamont Granquist
So, whats the easist way to recover from a clobbered boot manager in FreeBSD? I kind of naively assumed that this would be easy to do from an installation CDROM (4.3-RELEASE) but I failed to get it to work. Going Configure-Fdisk in sysinstall didn't work for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager?

2001-10-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
Lamont Granquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, whats the easist way to recover from a clobbered boot manager in FreeBSD? I kind of naively assumed that this would be easy to do from an installation CDROM (4.3-RELEASE) but I failed to get it to work. Going Configure-Fdisk in sysinstall

Re: AFS for FreeBSD?

2001-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:11 AM -0700 10/18/01, Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: see www.openafs.org. I read that somebody has successfully ported the server. I haven't tried it yet but I hope it's working. AFS is THE solution for many problems. /usr/ports/net/arla is

Re: Loads on a Web/Shell Server

2001-10-18 Thread Ryan Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have a shell/web hosting company (4EverMail Hosting Services) and I have a little bit of a problem with the loads on my machine. I am hosting a few IRC servers, eggdrop bots and a few apache websites (mainly my own), and the loads

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:32:22PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: If it's a UFS, and you're running a new enough kernel, it's getting done. Of course, it can only be smart about stuff written to the disk after you built the new kernel. If your disk is mostly empty, you're cool. If it's

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:26:00PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: Can the diprefs code have a useful effect on an individual subtree of a file system if just that tree was deleted and recreated? Sure. Do a rm -rf /usr/ports/* and then re-sup the damn thing. You'll be impressed. -crl -- Chad

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Re: serial console

2001-10-18 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something else you might want to try: put -P in /boot.config and disconnect your keyboard during the BIOS-blabla /boot.config is obsolete No, it isn't obsolete, and it works. And I see no immediate need/plan to make it obsolete. and doesn't work

Re: How does FreeBSD performs in server tasks? [off-topic]

2001-10-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Conrado Vardanega wrote: I would like to hear from Athlon-based server owners/admins how does it performs with server tasks. My aim is to find out how good is a Pentium III chip for a server instead a low-cost, high-performance Athlon CPU. I would consider, for

Re: cable modem choices

2001-10-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Dennis Mathiasen wrote: I haven't been able to locate information on how these things actually work. Apparently the ISP just uses DHCP, but what about any authentication? My ISP expects a certain MAC address. Are the modems themselves all functionally the same?

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:57 AM -0500 10/18/01, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: Must one supply any other arguments to newfs in order to enable dirpref? A quick look at man newfs didn't make any mention of dirpref. No, it's on by default in kernels that include the new code. Is there a way to check

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Rasputin wrote: * Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011018 14:40]: On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:43:53PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:20:02PM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:12:46 -0700 Kris

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
Dirpref is not something which is enabled or disabled, not in the same sense as softupdates is enabled. Dirpref is a smarter layout of information in a partition. You need a version of the system which knows HOW to do that smarter layout, and then you just rebuild the partition. There is