Re: Warning about installing DragonFly and FreeBSD to same disk

2005-08-25 Thread Freddie Cash
option in GRUB to /boot/loader. I used GRUB 0.9.5 to tripleboot FreeBSD 4.8-4.11 and 5.2.1-6.0B2, and Windows XP (using chainloader and makeactive for XP) without issues. Haven't tried with DragonFlyBSD, but it should work. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School

Re: recommend kvm switch

2005-11-30 Thread Freddie Cash
/5.4/6.0, and an early release of DFly (1.0 or 1.2). The only issue with BSD is that you either have to boot with the KVM set to that port, or add flags=0x100 to the keyboard driver (atkbd I think). Otherwise, the keyboard won't work for that boot session. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-1 CCNT CCLP

Re: recommend kvm switch

2005-12-02 Thread Freddie Cash
KVMs daisy-chained in the server room. All came with cables (early ones were nice, all three cables in one sheath, later ones were just extension cables twist-tied together). And only 1 died due to overheating under a desk. :) -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Freddie Cash
was faster than -j1 on a UP system. All higher -j settings were slower. And on a dual-Opteron sytem, -j4 and -j6 alternated between being the fastest. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 31, 2006 11:50 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er. Well, if I were talking about today I would be talking about today. I'm talking about the near-future, 2-3 years from now. It would be the height of stupidity to have programming goals that

Re: Sound question.

2006-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
/sndstat). Anyway, read through the snd(4) man page, and all the man pages referenced by it. Getting sound working on BSD is easy, if the chipset is supported. :) Freddie Cash, LPCI-1 CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73(250) 377-HELP [377-4357

Re: A mobile user's wishlist

2006-06-06 Thread Freddie Cash
. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-1 CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
binaries. Voila! Everyone can have their MTA and eat it too! Freddie Cash, LPCI-1 CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73(250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disk diagnostics

2006-07-25 Thread Freddie Cash
a single device on each IDE channel. And to have add-on IDE controller sitting on separate PCI buses from other devices (if possible). Freddie Cash, LPCI-1 CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73(250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-18 Thread Freddie Cash
. Basically, it boils down to whether you want a virtual OS or a virtual PC. Xen is the former, VMWare is the latter. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-22 Thread Freddie Cash
/HVM_Compatible_Processors Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73(250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-11 Thread Freddie Cash
7z support to that. Then you can remove compress, gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, 7z, etc, and just put in stub programs that call the library functions. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2

2008-05-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:46:38AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: Instead of pulling in another app, consider pulling in libarchive and friends from FreeBSD 6+, and then adding 7z support to that. You know that one

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-09 Thread Freddie Cash
://www.freshports.org/sysutils/sfdisk/ This is the fdisk tool used in sysinstall, and has a decent interface. It's similar to cfdisk from the Linux-world (but nicer to use IMO). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jost Tobias Springenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:27:49 -0700 Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Dillon We could probably use a new fdisk, I think this would be a good project. You may

Re: Hammer on snapshot cd's

2008-07-16 Thread Freddie Cash
, irrational fear of -O2 in the FreeBSD community, which I can't explain. I've heard something about -O2 and inline assembly, but that's probably old as well. The default CFLAGS for FreeBSD 7+ (possibly 6+) includes -O2. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-22 Thread Freddie Cash
moved / onto a 2 GB USB key. A simple iteration of zpool replace pool ad4s1 ad4 for each of the three drives, an export and import, and I had an extra 9 GB of space in my pool. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-22 Thread Freddie Cash
10.9T 3.90T 6.98T35% ONLINE - -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-22 Thread Freddie Cash
how much it can use. There are reports on the FreeBSD mailing lists of people using it on laptops (slow drives), and on systems with only 768 MB of RAM. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-22 Thread Freddie Cash
, these boxes cost under $10,000 CDN. We like to mention that when the storage vendors call with their $50,000 US budget storage systems with 5 TB of disk space. :D They tend to not call back. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-22 Thread Freddie Cash
in the servers. But that's all rsync usage, and limited by the ADSL links we use. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-23 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Robert Luciani rluci...@gmail.com wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: Booting FreeBSD 7.1 into a full KDE 4.2 desktop takes less than 5 minutes. This is using 3x 120 GB SATA drives in a single raidz1. Wow 5 minutes?! I don't think I'd be pushing it if I said

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-23 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:19:14PM +0100, Jasse Jansson wrote: On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Bill Hacker wrote: Robert Luciani wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: Booting FreeBSD 7.1 into a full KDE 4.2 desktop takes less than

Re: Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-23 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Csaba Henk csaba.h...@creo.hu wrote: I need to setup a backup machine, and I intend to utilize today's snapshotty filesystems (which boils down to Dfly+Hammer or FBSD

Re: nextboot(8)

2009-11-19 Thread Freddie Cash
. Or you can install a simple one like GAG. Or you can use GRUB, since you already have it installed on the Linux partition. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: SAS RAID controllers support

2010-02-01 Thread Freddie Cash
for mini-SAS connectors and do work with SAS drives: 4-port PCIe: LSI 3Ware 9650SE-4LPML 8-port PCIe: LSI 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML 4-port PCI-X: LSI 3Ware 9550SXU-4LP 8-port PCI-X: LSI 3Ware 9550SXU-8LP -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: enabling RGB output

2010-02-16 Thread Freddie Cash
the external port at startup, which usually requires the cable be plugged in before X starts. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

2010-05-06 Thread Freddie Cash
), then what's wrong with ping some.host.com? ;) Kills two birds with one stone: DNS lookups work, and Internet connection is live (if using a hostname on the Internet). No need for host, dig, nslookup, etc. ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: ctrl alt backspace does not exit X server

2010-11-05 Thread Freddie Cash
False Option DontZap False EndSection The first allows you to use CTRL+ALT+Function keys to switch between the console and X. The second allows you to use CTRL+ALT+Backspace to kill the X server. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Filesystems

2011-04-23 Thread Freddie Cash
spelt a bit wrong) aka p...@freebsd.org, who is most certainly still alive, and continuing work on ZFS, HAST, GEOM_GATE, and other interesting storage stuff. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Can DFly mount ext4?

2011-06-26 Thread Freddie Cash
At the grub prompt hit esc to get the grub menu. Then press the e key to edit the first entry. Add a 1 to the end of the line. Press enter to save the line then press b to boot. That will drop you into run-level 1 aka single user mode, with root access. You should be able to fix things from

Re: nice: Badly formed number

2011-12-06 Thread Freddie Cash
CET 2011 Here you are giving the full path to the nice binary, so you are always using that binary. Try the above using /usr/bin/nice for each test, and you'll get the same results. Read the man page for your shell to see if nice is a built-in function or not. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com