[g4u-help] Fwd: Help compiling from source Hubert Feyrer

2018-03-17 Thread Hubert Feyrer
This may be of interest here… - Hubert > Hi, > > I have played though the „rebuilding“ steps, and got things going with a few > minor changes. > First the result: > > ls -l `pwd`/g4u*fs > -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27 >

[g4u-help] g4u 2.6 released

2017-06-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
After a five-year period for beta-testing and updating, I have finally released g4u 2.6. With its origins in 1999, I'd like to say: Happy 18th Birthday, g4u! About g4u: g4u ("ghosting for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a

Re: [g4u-help] Driver injection

2017-03-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi, On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Jesse Fenn wrote: > Is it possible to add storage drivers to the G4U image? Or to build a > release of G4U with the IBM Serveraid 6i SCSI drivers? Sure - the g4u website has instructions on how to rebuild g4u. If you have any patches/updates, let me know. I should

Re: [g4u-help] User seeking help

2016-05-17 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi Rich, On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rich wrote: > I misunderstood the original instructions. > Am I now sending this to someone who can help me? > > Reviewing prior posts, I'm not seeing anything past October, 2015. > Am I missing something? You hav successfully reached the g4u-help mailing list.

Re: [g4u-help] g4u automation - any experience?

2014-03-14 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Am 14.03.2014 um 10:39 schrieb Mateusz Viste: Now, I don't see any scripting feature integrated into g4u, but maybe I'm missing something. Where should I look? Where would I need to start? Use the source, luke - it's all scripts, what else would you need? In particular: * Rebuilding from

Re: [g4u-help] Problem with g4u 2.5 reading sata disk with vol groups

2014-02-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi, I can't make any sense out of that error - other than broken disk. dmesg output would of course help here. of course you can always copy to a different local disk (wd2?), assuming the target disk is empty / can be erased, and that disk access itself works at all... - Hubert Am

Re: [g4u-help] Your G4U Opinion: kernel with embedded RAMdisk vs. miniroot?

2013-11-10 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi, On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Hubert Feyrer wrote: Looking forward for your opinions! Thanks for your input - 100% of the feedback was to put the ramdisk back in the kernel, with no objections. As such here you go: I have release g4u version 2.6beta1. Important changes are an update to recent

[g4u-help] Your G4U Opinion: kernel with embedded RAMdisk vs. miniroot?

2013-10-26 Thread Hubert Feyrer
My dear g4u community, I've found little time to hack on g4u in the recent past. Yet, I've managed to setup my development and test environment for g4u (crosscompiling NetBSD from Mac OS X, getting recent Qemu to compile), and also got g4u built from recent NetBSD-current sources. As such,

Re: [g4u-help] G4U 2.5

2013-06-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi Tim, I'll take the liberty to CC the g4u-help list, as this may come up again: Am 18.06.2013 um 20:08 schrieb Tim Burks: Something about 2.5s netbsd file not like the one before. Ive extracted it from the floppies and uploaded to my pxe server. Doing so with the latest 2.5 file pxe

Re: [g4u-help] 2.5beta1 uploaddisk to IIS FTP 7.5 (WHS 2011)

2012-05-19 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi, g4u just runs a put command on ftp, no delete... I haven't heared of any such effect, either with IIS or any other FTP server software. Can you try another FTP server? (No, sftp won't work with g4u) Good luck! - Hubert Am 19.05.2012 um 14:33 schrieb Jo L: Hello, I download the

[g4u-help] g4u 2.5beta1 supports handling of partition tables and bad disk sectors

2012-01-14 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Dear g4u user community, after some absence (job-related) and technical problems (building of NetBSD failing for me from Mac OS X), I'm very happy to release a beta version of g4u with some long-overdue changes. Those include being able to backup/restore the MBR, which includes the partition

Re: [g4u-help] Using G4U in Parallel on a Mac

2010-08-31 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Am 20.08.2010 um Fr. 20.08.2010 06:17 schrieb Steve Hammond: I'm trying to boot the ISO image on a Parallels Desktop virtual machine, but the boot process stop in the middle. I'm suspecting a problem with the network card, but cannot figure out what it is. Anyone can help on this one?

Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4 problem with via rhine driver?

2010-07-17 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, andreas scherrer wrote: g4u 2.3 does not seem to exist for downloading anymore Use the 2.4 URLs and replace 2.4 with 2.3. - Hubert -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do

Re: [g4u-help] alternative image save method

2010-06-04 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Willie wrote: Is is possible to achive this? not with g4u. use your nearest netbsd/unix/linux/whatever live cd - Hubert -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's

Re: [g4u-help] Autostart Diskimage creation?

2010-03-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, mika.kilpelai...@holmenpaper.com wrote: Is there anyway to autostart a image creation to the ftp server? The only input from the user should be the image name... Not right now. You can put it into the right startup file and rebuild g4u, but there's nothing ready-made right

Re: [g4u-help] disable wireless interface

2010-02-01 Thread Hubert Feyrer
In the bootloader, try boot -c, then disable xxx, where xxx' is your wifi driver name. E.g. for iwi0 it's just iwi/ - Hubert -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with

Re: [g4u-help] [g4U] : how to know the manufacturer behind each sdxx

2010-01-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
disks On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Yann DABY-SEESARAM wrote: hi, I bought 2 years ago a WD NAS (My book World Edition : WDG1NC5000) with one 500GB SATA disk. I would like to clone that disk so as to have a spare one just in case. I figured out to open it and fixed it on my PC , which has 2 SATA

Re: [g4u-help] copy disk with enabled SMART

2010-01-14 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Kucharski, Rafal wrote: Could I do it? Not with g4u. I still have to find time to make sure dd(1) is compiled in full in g4u, not in a cut-down version that omits the skip-bad-sectors option (exact name forgotten). Just boot your favourite Linux/NetBSD Live CD and do it

Re: [g4u-help] panic: trap problem with g4u

2010-01-12 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Arek Odrowaz wrote: any can help me? What g4u version is this with? (Someone send me a patch to include those firmware files and enable them by default ;-) - Hubert -- This SF.Net email is

Re: [g4u-help] some notes (was: Re: g4u with GPT enabled, stuck)

2009-12-14 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Torsten Harenberg wrote: 1.) At least on my system, sysinst was not built, but is needed later. So this does the trick cd /usr/src/distrib/utils/sysinst TOOLDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/tooldir/ OBJDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/ \ DESTDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/destdir/ \

Re: [g4u-help] Shrinking image size

2009-12-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Sorin Srbu wrote: Same as for file systems: fill RAM with spaces. :-) perl -e '$s=; while(1){ $s.= x 1000;}' Really? That simple?? It won't crash the machine when RAM is filled? That depends if your OS is good enough. It shouldn't, but what do I know. - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] g4u with GPT enabled, stuck

2009-12-05 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Torsten Harenberg wrote: Some of my machines have RAID systems (these ones have a Dell Perc 5/i SCSI controller) with GPT partition tables. So the NetBSD kernel stops at sd0: fabricating a geometry (the next device should be sd1 and this has a GPT table). So I tried to

Re: [g4u-help] How can I ...

2009-10-26 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Kenneth Lee wrote: I used upload disk to create a backup image called backup.gz. What I would like to do is copy this file to a flash drive, then use the program to use this file on the flash drive to image the drive on the PC/Laptop. This way, with one flash drive, I

Re: [g4u-help] alpha 4 worked well on Dell Optiplex 760

2009-10-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: Just wanted to report a success with g4u alpha 4 on these Dell Optiplex systems. Last semester, I reported here that g4u did not work because the ethernet card was not found by alpha 3, but now it is! It appears as device wm0. Thanks for the report -

Re: [g4u-help] Help compiling from source

2009-10-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Nathaniel Pitcher wrote: Is there a more recent version of the instructions? Ok, let's try, see instructions below. I'm asking you to report back on me any success or failure. In case of failure, there's a logfile called log.i386 (or so) in /usr/src, please make that file

Re: [g4u-help] [SPAM] Need network help

2009-09-17 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Dave Carter wrote: I don't know where I got that old version # from. I actually have V2.3. Latest is 2.4alpha4. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#history - Hubert -- Come build with us! The

Re: [g4u-help] [SPAM] Need network help

2009-09-16 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Dave Carter wrote: How do I get past this? Please try a recent version. - Hubert -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to

Re: [g4u-help] grub error after restore

2009-09-13 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, grieve wrote: I tried cloning an Ubuntu 9.04 system with g4u 2.1 using Try the latest, which is 2.4alpha4 - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008

Re: [g4u-help] About broken pipes and PXE booting

2009-09-13 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Michael Landers wrote: I work at a school and use g4u 2.3 via pxe boot which works amazingly well. I am wondering if version 2.4 will be compatable with pxe boot. I've never used PXE with g4u, so I'm afraid you're left out in the dark... maybe do whatever you did for 2.3

Re: [g4u-help] wd0: mbr partition exceeds disk size

2009-09-09 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, jon jon wrote: Hi Hubert, when you set the ip manually do you have to also set the default gateway also? if so what is the command for it. That depends where your FTP server is - basic TCP/IP knowledge assumed. :) The command is route add default 1.2.3.4. About the

Re: [g4u-help] creating image

2009-09-04 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, bb271 wrote: Personally, I find comopressing 40GB of data (OK, of which only 6.5GB is used) down to 3.2GB pretty good. I didn't explain myself very well. Yes I agree Hubert that it is very good. There does not seem to be a downside to GZIP=1 and that is what I was

Re: [g4u-help] reduce image size

2009-08-24 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, jon jon wrote: I beleive I do this command at the g4u command prompt uploaddisk (ipaddress) (nameichoose.gz0) wd0 and that will upload my image of my hard drive. I seen something about reducing image size after it is done. How do I do that this image is going to a network

Re: [g4u-help] funky username

2009-08-12 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Try user%40dom...@ftphost ... or get a decent FTP server w/o funny logins :) - Hubert -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration

Re: [g4u-help] Can't connect to FTP server

2009-08-04 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Jerry Weinstein wrote: My network system configuration: PCMandriva Linux 2009 Laptopsame Proftpd server is running okay on PC. I can ftp into it from the command line using the correct username and password. When booting from g4u, however, when I issue the

Re: [g4u-help] g4u stops reading HHD at about 50000 MB

2009-06-25 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Manuel Beltrandelrio wrote: Does anyone know what is going on here? No idea here. It shouldn't hang. I've only really used the FTP servers that come with Solaris and NetBSD, though. Maybe run ktrace on the FreeBSD machine as soon as the transfer hangs, and see what happens?

Re: [g4u-help] problem cloning from floppy disk set

2009-06-20 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Willie wrote: g4u version: 2.3 (floppy disks) http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20081122_1744.html - Hubert -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge

Re: [g4u-help] Cloning an Seagate ST34573W Hard Drive

2009-06-19 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: To get the drive cloned, it looks like my best bet will be to boot from g4u floppy images. This assumes that the floppy drive will work. My question is, do the floppy images of G4U provide the same functionality as booting from the iso version?

Re: [g4u-help] g4u problem

2009-06-17 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, John Richards wrote: I have tried 2.3 and 2.4alpha3 from CD. The CD works OK in an older Compaq machine. With 2.4 alpha3 I have tried all three boot options. I'm afraid I cannot help you right now. The way to go right now would be to adjust g4u to latest NetBSD-current

Re: [g4u-help] problem with defect sector

2009-06-12 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Norbert Kanter wrote: Is there a solution to this? Any trick or hint would be appreciated! Unfortunately not. I never got around to enable the proper code in the 'dd' command used in g4u. (-DSMALL needs to be removed...) - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] Recovering Very Old SCO OpenServer 5 System

2009-06-12 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: Can G4U work with so little system memory? Sure, 64MB is plenty. Can it also detect this rather old hard drive? SCSI is not rather old. Question is if your SCSI controller is recognized, but why don't you just bootup g4u and see what happens?

[g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha3 is available for testing

2008-11-22 Thread Hubert Feyrer
that this version is (another...) attempt to switch to ACPI, which is on by default in NetBSD now. Let me hear if it works, or if it hangs for you! - Hubert Feyrer - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [g4u-help] No Disks Detected ?

2008-05-05 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Julien Berard wrote: dmesg desn't give me any output about my disk. 1) what g4u version 2) look for an unrecognized controller in dmesg output - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008

Re: [g4u-help] Ability to Post

2008-04-23 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Chris Hoffman wrote: I would like to be able to post to this list for a quick question or if you would like to answer through email that would be fine also. It seems you can post, at least I got your mail via the list address. Fire away! :) - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] Asus EEE PC Network Card

2008-04-11 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Simon Bowen wrote: I am having problems getting G4U to ran on the Asus EEE PC machine. I have been googling and get the feeling that the Atheros L2 driver (named Lii?!?) needs to be added to NetBSD? Is there anyway that I can get hold of this driver and add it to G4U

Re: [g4u-help] Booting g4u with isolinux

2008-04-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Kim Mik wrote: Can the NetBSD kernel in one of the next releases, be in the multiboot format? http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html?page=2 Julio M. Merino Vidal made the

Re: [g4u-help] Restricting the g4u-help list

2008-03-07 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Rob wrote: About time! Three cheers for Hubert! I hope it's better now... next time just holler earlier. :-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 hangs on Thinkpad T23

2008-01-31 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jeff wrote: Wondering if kernel just needs more of the GENERIC_LAPTOP stuff in it. I've run NetBSD-3.1 and 4.x liveCDs on this system w/o issues. good question... another guess I have is that ACPI is a problem. Can you boot -c, try to disable acpi (disable acpi or so), and

Re: [g4u-help] Restoring Whole Disk Image

2008-01-29 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jack Lucivero wrote: I am attempting to clone a whole harddisk and restore to a new unformatted disk. I am using the latest version of g4u. I successfully clone a 2.9GB image and compressed it to 292MB. I then restore the image using the slurpdisk command to a brand new

Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 is ok on my HP Pavillon zv5000 !

2008-01-22 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Fabien Toral wrote: I plan to use g4u over the net and i need to secure the transfert : is FTPS or SFTP implemented ? No. g4u is intended for an environment that's assumed to be under your control -- optimized for speed, not encryption. :) - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 is ok on my HP Pavillon zv5000 !

2008-01-22 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Kulick wrote: I plan to use g4u over the net and i need to secure the transfert : is FTPS or SFTP implemented ? The only suggestion I can offer is an SSH tunnel via port forwarding. How is that supposed to work? Mind you, g4u is a pretty tailored environment, with no ssh

Re: [g4u-help] g4u 2.3 and piix 4 ide controller

2008-01-21 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Dave wrote: I'm trying to evaluate g4u as an imaging tool for both Unix, i.e. Linux and FreeBSD, machines as well as Windows mostly XP boxes. I wanted something open source, that unlike ghost could work from a cd-rom and had support for multiple network cards and

Re: [g4u-help] g4u not configuring network connection

2008-01-21 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, SMITH, RANDY A, ATTSI wrote: g4u version 2.3 Can you please check 2.4alpha2, and check for dmesg output of the network card, if ifconfig -a doesn't show a network card? - Hubert - This SF.net email

[g4u-help] g4u 2.4alpha2 ready for testing

2008-01-19 Thread Hubert Feyrer
[This text is from my blog, see http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20080120_0523.html) I was asked to update g4u to a more recent version of NetBSD-current and here is g4u 2.4alpha2! What is g4u? ``g4u (ghosting for unix) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of

Re: [g4u-help] Regarding g4u problem

2008-01-04 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Saandiip Koturwwar wrote: test123.gz partition+disk_name, here my input is /dev/sdb3 then I am getting an error, dd: /dev/r/dev/sdb3 :No such file or directory if anything, it's sd3b, NetBSD is different from Linux here -- use the parts command to find out the partition

[g4u-help] Last month of NetBSD's fundraising campaign

2007-11-30 Thread Hubert Feyrer
NetBSD is the free, open source operating system that g4u is based upon. I'm sending this here as both a developer of the NetBSD project, and of someone who thinks that NetBSD is worth support. As volunteer project without commercial backing, NetBSD depends on donations to continue

Re: [g4u-help] g4u with amd64

2007-11-27 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dr Lawrence M Fox wrote: I tried to use g4u on a new HP dv9617nr notebook, and the live cd failed. I suspect it has to do with the 64-bit architecture. How does it fail? as far as I understand, you should be able to boot an i386 architecture cd on an amd64 machine... -

Re: [g4u-help] I messed up

2007-11-24 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Jeff Thornburg wrote: I was trying to copy disk sd0(old small drive) to sd1(new big drive). After Copydisk finished, the new big drive is now the same size as the old small drive. I basically lost 150GB, is there any way to rewrite the disk so that it thinks it is full

Re: [g4u-help] Sco uploaddisk error message

2007-11-19 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One error read something like, ld0: Error 0X0003 Device Failure Another error was, ld0d: error reading FSBN ... Any assistance is greatly appreciated. As with any backup, you can only be sure if it worked if you try to restore it. The latter error

Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script

2007-11-09 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: I'll try to explain better: i have a computer with 2 partitions... I'm trying to create a copy of the first partition and save it in the second... running the script in netbsd, the script runs good... when i boot the g4u kernel, firstly i mount the

Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script

2007-11-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: i removed the gzip command of the script, letting it run just the dd command, without compressing, and it gave me a 'good' transfer rate: about 6MBs running on netbsd ... then i rebuilt g4u kernel and booted it, but when booting this kernel and

Re: [g4u-help] Can it be done? Deploying a G4U image with dd?

2007-10-26 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Barneck, Jared wrote: I was wondering if the following was possible. If I boot to linux or windows could I use dd (the linux or the win32 version) to image the workstation? Yes. Just make sure to gunzip it first: cat foo.img | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda bs=1m - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] About savepart script

2007-10-04 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Fernando Witzke wrote: I've already tried to add GZIP=1 to the front and the result is the same...it stands around 100~160Kb/s i can't understand it because the uploadpart transfer rate stops arround 12MB/s (the maximum speed i can get at my network), so the local copy

Re: [g4u-help] 2.4a Hangs on Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 Motherboard (agp0 problem?)

2007-10-01 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: Meanwhile, does g4u have trouble with ULi or Nvidia chipsets? Not that I'm aware of. - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R)

Re: [g4u-help] nic ?

2007-09-28 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Elisabetta D'Aiutolo wrote: I am trying to run g4u ver 2.3 over Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V3505 Edition. I have tried g4u on other laptops and it works perfectly... however when I tried on Siemens AMILO Pro V3505, i think that it cannot detect the NIC. I I never obtined

Re: [g4u-help] 501 Invalid number of arguments error

2007-09-27 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Stephen Jarjoura wrote: this error and the slurpdisk immediately quit. Obviously this is being reported by my NAS, but I do not know what the g4u command was that caused this. Here are the particulars. I'm using g4u Harddisk Image Cloning V2.2 Please try g4u 2.3 or

Re: [g4u-help] Test Building g4u 2.4alpha1 from source

2007-09-26 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: Creating disk 1 to g4u1.fs Creating disk 2 to g4u2.fs Creating disk 3 to g4u3.fs 0+1 records in 1+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 0.005 secs (294912000 bytes/sec) Final result: -rw-r--r-- 1 aclapp wheel 1474560 Sep 25 15:20 g4u1.fs

Re: [g4u-help] USB NIC Support?

2007-09-25 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Gary Verhulp wrote: Does anyone have any experience with a USB NIC under g4u or NetBSD? I played with a USB1 ethernet adapter some years ago, it just worked. BTW g4U rocks! Thanks :) - Hubert -

Re: [g4u-help] Bad link on home page to mail archive

2007-09-23 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, David Balazic wrote: The correct source forge archive link is http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=g4u-help I've fixed both archive links (for the announce and help lists). Thanks! - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] Probleme beim Upload?

2007-09-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gummelt, Arne wrote: Nachdem ich nun das uploaddisk 192.168.0.100 test.gz mache und das Passwort für den Benutzer install eingebe, werden kurz Daten übers Netzwerk geschickt, jedoch nicht kontinuierlich sondern eher sporadisch. Die Datei auf dem FTP-Server ist dann bei ca.

Re: [g4u-help] (no subject)

2007-09-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gummelt, Arne wrote: Der FTP-Server läuft wie gesagt auf einem Windows XP System und funktioniert mit anderen Windows-System und einem Suse Linux System sehr gut, also ohne Beanstandungen. Wenn ich nun den diskupload Befehl eingebe kommt folgendes: Nach der Anmeldung

Re: [g4u-help] Dell Optiplex 2.4: USB keyboard problems

2007-09-10 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: Caveats from Hubert: This version doesn't have working keyboard for me in Parallels. That was actually just a one-time problem, it worked fine on second attempt. No idea what it was... - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] G4U ver. 2.3

2007-09-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Marcin Plichta wrote: I do have question to ask. recently i have been using your program for cloning UNIX Chorus drive (6GB) localy to the other drive 40GB by copydisks wd0 wd1. Everything went well no any errors interruptions etc during process after cloning Have

Re: [g4u-help] I still use the floppy version of g4u

2007-08-24 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: Have you given any thought to network booting them from a PXE server? Since its still in Alpha maybe Hubert can make a single floppy image for use with USB sticks (I have no idea whats involved with making a floppy image that is larger than a

[g4u-help] NetBSD Fundraising Campaign 2007 (fwd)

2007-08-15 Thread Hubert Feyrer
FYI, just in case someone feels like supporting the operating system that g4u is based on. :-) - Hubert -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:34:00 + (UTC) From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NetBSD Fundraising

[g4u-help] please test: 2.4alpha1

2007-08-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Please try: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.iso - ISO http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1.iso.zip - compressed ISO http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-1.fs - First floppy http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4u-2.4alpha1-2.fs - 2nd floppy

Re: [g4u-help] g4u local copy problem

2007-08-06 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Jam Talk wrote: Anyhow, when I do the copydisk wd0(55 gigs) sd0(160gigs) it copys upto around 700mb, beeps three times, and reboots to a black screen. Anyone know how to fix this? No idea, not by the amount of data. It shouldn't expose the behaviour you describe at any

Re: [g4u-help] Help adding mkdir

2007-08-02 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: I tried adding bin/mkdir to the file: /usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisks/ramdisk-g4u/list but that complains about not being able to know how to make mkdir. That sounds ok. Can you paste the exact error with some (5-50) lines of context? - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] Help adding mkdir

2007-08-02 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Clapp wrote: nbmake: don't know how to make mkidr. Stop ^ Pilot error. :-) - Hubert - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping

Re: [g4u-help] Broadcom, Dell, HP, IBM users: please test!

2007-07-31 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Lisa Schermerhorn wrote: Broadcom product 0v167a (ethernet network revision 0x02) at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured not configured means there's no driver for the card. fwip0 is IP over firewire - you don't want that. I'll try to get 21.4alpha1 out soonish,

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: What are the specs on your Laptop? The GZIP compression used by g4u is fairly processor intensive. You should try adding BEFORE the slurpdisk command GZIP=1 without the quotes. This will force GZIP to use the lightest compression possible, thus

Re: [g4u-help] I still use the floppy version of g4u

2007-07-18 Thread Hubert Feyrer
[I'll reply in english, should fit the audience better] On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Gehring, Stephan wrote: N?, brauch heute kein Mensch mehr. (Translation: nobody needs it = g4u floppy version) That sounds like a very liberal generalization, forcing me to pull out web stats. Let's see, downloads

Re: [g4u-help] Changing path on FTP server

2007-07-12 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Chris wrote: Is there an easy fix and i've just missed it, or am i going to have to start looking in another direction? Try using a path that's relative to /mnt. Or use a non-crappy FTP server (sorry). - Hubert

Re: [g4u-help] disks wd4 and higher supported?

2007-07-07 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Ethan Hall-Beyer wrote: Then I tried parts and determined that it only worked for disks wd0, wd1, wd2 and wd3. Is there a limit in g4u somewhere to supported only four IDE disks? The tool works properly on the disk I want to back up if I take wd0..wd7 offline (two Promise

Re: [g4u-help] frage

2007-07-03 Thread Hubert Feyrer
(www.feyrer.de/g4u/), konkrete Rueckfragen kann ich gerne versuchen zu beantworten. Linux/Fedora kann mit g4u selbstverstaendlich gesichert restored werden. MfG, Hubert Feyrer- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2

Re: [g4u-help] Network Problem

2007-05-23 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IFConfig -a : Re0 : flags = 8843 up, BROADCAST, RUNNING, Simplex, Multicast mtu 1500 Capabilities = 3f80TS04, IP4CSUM-RX, IP4CSUM-TX, TCP4CSUM-RX, TCP4CSUM-TX, UDP4CSUM-RX, UDP4CSUM-TX Enable=0

Re: [g4u-help] help

2007-05-23 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Christopher Thompson wrote: uploaddisk ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone ftp://1.1.1.237/windist/clone/dell_clone/dell.gz /dell.gz 0 0.00 KB/s ftp: ftp:1.1.1237/windist/clone/dell_clone: No address associated with hostname

Re: [g4u-help] Network driver

2007-05-09 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Martin Richard wrote: Info from dmesg: pci 4 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82573E IAMT, rev 3 PCI-Express Bus 256 word (8 address bits) SPI EEPROM makphys ... Marvell 88E Gigabit PHY rev 2 and for the second one pci 5 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82573L Gigabit Ethernet

Re: [g4u-help] g4u experience

2007-05-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
Hi Mike, On Mon, 7 May 2007, Mike M. Volokhov wrote: On the past week I have to reinstall machines in our training center (my new job). Well, all machines looks very common thus g4u is exactly the tool what I need. Although I've heard a lot about g4u before, this was my first time

Re: [g4u-help] help with booting g4u

2007-05-08 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 8 May 2007, deggs meister wrote: Press Return to boot now, any other key for boot menu booting fd0a:netbsd - starting in 0 1792369 + 2406984 + 150708 = 0x427290 NOTHING HAPPENS HERE That's pretty early... at that point the kernel was loaded into RAM, but not started yet. which is why

Re: [g4u-help] G4U Over USB

2007-03-13 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: I want to put a spare 2.5 inch hard drive into a USB hard drive enclosure and plug this into a laptop. Then I want to boot to g4u and `copydisk' from the laptop's hard drive to the spare hard drive in the USB enclosure. Will this work? Sure. Disk

Re: [g4u-help] Broadcom BCM5754 hardware wanted for driver development

2007-02-22 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Gary Verhulp wrote: maybe the fine folks over @ broadcom will want to kick one down... for a good cause ;) Do you have any contacts that can be asked? - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

Re: [g4u-help] Investigation g4u

2007-02-15 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ingo wrote: I´ve an image of a 40gig HDD with 4 Partitions. 1.NTFS 2. Freebsd, 3. Openbsd 4. NetBSD Could someone please explain how to get the data of the NetBSD slice on a Netbsd machine? gunzip image.gz vnconfig vnd0 image disklabel vnd0 This

Re: [g4u-help] g4u - device not configured when uploaddisk....

2007-02-01 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Paul Krater wrote: Yes, I can ftp, and the disks command shows id0. Upon trying to uploaddisk, it comes back with: dd: /dev/rwd0d: device not configured So a) what exact command did you run, and b) how does the corresponding output from dmesg / disks for id0 look like?

Re: [g4u-help] A disk read error occurred problem

2007-02-01 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jason Lewis wrote: A disk read error has occurred, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot. The image is 4 gig and I am dumping it onto a 20 gig drive. The image is good as I have used it previously, successfully on a different computer (with different hardware). I have tried with

Re: [g4u-help] Boot hangs on Thinkpad T23

2007-01-28 Thread Hubert Feyrer
What g4u version is this with? And: I presume the last line means isa0 instead of iso0? - Hubert On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, M. Fla Fla wrote: I want to image my Thinkpad T23 dual boot Win 2k/Suse 10.0. However, when I boot g4u from CD ROM, the machine hangs on startup. It only gets through a

Re: [g4u-help] G4u on a Dell Poweredge 1950 with broadcom BCM5708 error/support

2007-01-24 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill wrote: I'm trying to use G4u on a broadcom BCM5708 NetXtreme II 1000base-T adapter. The lan adapter does not show in ifconfig -a, there is one entry - lo0: flags=8048(loopback, running, multicast) mtu 33192, but no IP info. G4U version 2.3beta3 was the version I

Re: [g4u-help] network card issues.

2007-01-24 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Jeff Little wrote: g4u 2.2 There's a 2.3beta3 version out, please try that. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the

Re: [g4u-help] Help Dell Optiplex 320

2007-01-22 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nathaniel Hooten wrote: § If the system hangs during boot: what are the last five lines printed on the screen (again all three of them, verbatime): (six lines just in case) uhub0: ATI Technologie OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2

Re: [g4u-help] Drivers for Dell PowerEdge 1950

2007-01-15 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Bill Hase wrote: Is there anything else I can do? I'm afraid not at this point, sorry. - Hubert - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll

Re: [g4u-help] No write permission

2007-01-04 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, jt wrote: 425 Permission denied No write permission This is a message from your FTP server telling you that it can't write something. Check your permissions on the FTP server. Try uploading a file as the 'install' (= default for g4u) user. This is not a g4u issue. -

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