Bill Hacker wrote:
How are people playing with different versions of DBSD on the same
system?
Do you install them on separate disks? Separate slices? Separate
partitions?
If you want to avoid having separate /etc's, /var's, and /home's,
what's the most elegant
way to do it?
The most
Dave Hayes wrote:
Might I ask the exact model number of the 3ware card(s) you use for
RAID 5? If I do things this way I've got to buy two at the same time,
and I'd like to be accurate. ;)
I've used two 6400 and one 7800 and I can only recommend AGAINST them.
Out of those 3, two (one 6400 and the
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
[rant against 3ware]
To be fair, though, all other IDE RAID solutions I've tested (numerous
Promise and Highpoint and the odd Adaptec product, usually pseudo RAID
though) have their share of issues as well. I gotta admit, Linux' md
Driver suite so far has impressed me much
Joseph Garcia wrote:
ifconfig fxp0 add 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
instead of:
ifconfig fxp0 add 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255
Seconded. I fell into this trap more than once when working with FreeBSD.
Michel Talon wrote:
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
I have had very good luck with portupgrade, on multiple freebsd
systems on multiple platforms. I do avoid the biggies like KDE
or Gnome, which obviously helps.
Since half the ports i have on my machine, if not 3/4 require one or
the other
Raphael Marmier wrote:
In summary, this concept works best for distributing shrinkware like
Office programs, but is not such a good concept as general package
system.
You have a point. However, little research has gone into this kind of
system so its inherent difficulties haven't been
