Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Richard Coleman
OpenLDAP would also be interesting. Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Long wrote: All, This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people t

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 23:26, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >[...] > It should work both on 4.x and 5.x branch as well. > The work is still in progress and we think to assimilate later (when it > will be finished) in the freesbie project (www.freebsdie.org) . > > Btw also in this first stage of

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 17:32, Robert Watson wrote: > As has been mentioned, the FreeBSD source tree as shipped isn't configured > for minimization without a fair amount of effort. However, there are a Hi all, we are developing a small set of scripts that are based on minibsd (http://neon1.n

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
[moving to -threads] > This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the > release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and > stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people > to volunteer to go out and put some of the thread-capable enterpri

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Fred Clift
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, John Birrell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:28:14PM -0500, Tyler Kellen wrote: > > What I'd really like to know is how to strip down a working system. If ... > > One way to do this initially is to install a full FreeBSD system on one > disk partition and use a second par

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:05:28AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > All, > > This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the > release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and > stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people > to volunteer to go

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 27-Aug-2003 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: >> Hello James and Ken, >> >> Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you >> have a Dell 8500. >> >> This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very simil

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread James Nobis
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:27, James Nobis wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > > > Hello James and Ken, > > > > > > > > Both of you are having real proble

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Scott Long
Daniel Eischen wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Scott Long wrote: All, This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people to volunteer to go out and

Re: Looking for detailed documentation: Install toexistingfilesystem

2003-08-27 Thread Montaro
During the installation It loads a holographic terminal on ttyv4 i think? I can't remember off hand if this is before or after the medium has started copying I'm hoping (for your sake) it is before... Anyway, that is where I mean't for you to mount the file system, it will be mounted for the dura

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Scott Long wrote: > All, > > This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the > release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and > stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people > to volunteer to go out and put some of

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:26:10AM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > > One way to do this initially is to install a full FreeBSD system on one > > disk partition and use a second partition for a trial install. FreeBSD's > > boot manager will let you boot in

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Bill Vermillion
While humming that old rock song Yackety Yacc - Dont Awk Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] sang or SED something like this: > -- > Message: 10 > Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:53:38 +1000 > From: Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 > To: Diomidis Spine

RE: Looking for detailed documentation: Install toexistingfilesystem

2003-08-27 Thread Charles Howse
> If you mounted ad3s1e on /disk2 > and on /disk2 was freebsd/ with the distrobution files in it, I am > suspecting you would be telling sysinstall to look to > /disk2/freebsd rather > than /dev/ad3s1e/freebsd since /dev/ad3s1e/ is just the > device not the acual > mounted file system. > > Hope

Re: Looking for detailed documentation: Install toexistingfilesystem

2003-08-27 Thread Montaro
Oh excuse me I didn't properly read the whole message.. Assuming that /dev/ad3s1e is ufs (freebsd file system) You would mount device pathtomount for example: # mkdir /disk2 # mount /dev/ad3s1e /disk2 and then just direct sysinstall to /disk2 or /disk2/freebsd depending on where the files are.

Re: Whats the state of SCHED_ULE 5.1

2003-08-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:02:19PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > Whats the state of SCHED_ULE in 5.1 we are using 5.1-RELEASE > for running game servers and Im considering looking at using > SCHED_ULE but wanted to know if anyone had any feedback > on its current state e.g. whats its good at wha

Re: Looking for detailed documentation: Install toexistingfilesystem

2003-08-27 Thread Montaro
If you mounted ad3s1e on /disk2 and on /disk2 was freebsd/ with the distrobution files in it, I am suspecting you would be telling sysinstall to look to /disk2/freebsd rather than /dev/ad3s1e/freebsd since /dev/ad3s1e/ is just the device not the acual mounted file system. Hope this helps. -- Che

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:26:10AM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > One way to do this initially is to install a full FreeBSD system on one > disk partition and use a second partition for a trial install. FreeBSD's > boot manager will let you boot into each. As I'm pursuing these matters as well, I've

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Scott Long wrote: > Packages that I would most like to see are: > [...] > Others? Wine? (ports/emulators/wine) Though I'm currently fighting to get the CVS version cooperate on 4-STABLE, given recent changes to the threading support in Wine. > The questions that I would like

Call for thread testers

2003-08-27 Thread Scott Long
All, This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people to volunteer to go out and put some of the thread-capable enterprise and desktop packages

Whats the state of SCHED_ULE 5.1

2003-08-27 Thread Steven Hartland
Whats the state of SCHED_ULE in 5.1 we are using 5.1-RELEASE for running game servers and Im considering looking at using SCHED_ULE but wanted to know if anyone had any feedback on its current state e.g. whats its good at what its not good at / any issues? Steve / K _

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:27, James Nobis wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > > Hello James and Ken, > > > > > > Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you > > > have a Dell 8500.

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Watson
As has been mentioned, the FreeBSD source tree as shipped isn't configured for minimization without a fair amount of effort. However, there are a number of larger components, typically maintained by third parties, that are build-time removable, and are typically arguments to the build specified in

RE: Looking for detailed documentation: Install to existingfilesystem

2003-08-27 Thread Charles Howse
> This is fairly easy. What you do it copy the files to a directory > on a second disk drive on the machine, and point sysinstall to that > partition/directory during the install. > > 8-). (tongue in cheek) Thank you! ;-) OK, here's what I did. Remember, I just want to install from scratch, n

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread James Nobis
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > Hello James and Ken, > > > > Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you > > have a Dell 8500. > > > > This is James' dmesg output, which from memory look

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Hello James and Ken, > > Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you > have a Dell 8500. > > This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very similar to your > Ken? > > > bcm0: mem 0xfaffe000-0

latest fujitsu-siemens boxes and keyboards

2003-08-27 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
Is possible that the keyboards that are shipping with the latest fujitsu-siemens pc/servers don't want to work with FreeBSD ? They (pc or servers) work fine with older keyboard but not with the new ones ? Any tips ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: Looking for detailed documentation: Install to existingfilesystem

2003-08-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Charles Howse wrote: > I'm a hobbyist, and for my personal education, I would like to learn how > to install FBSD from an existing filesystem, rather than from FTP or CD. > > My intention is to copy the files to a directory on the second HDD of my > present FBSD system, and point sysinstall to tha

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:02:16PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:53:38AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > >On 2003-08-26, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > >> You can use the system the way you intent to for two weeks, and then run > >> > >> find / -atime +2w -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:53:38AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: >On 2003-08-26, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: >> You can use the system the way you intent to for two weeks, and then run >> >> find / -atime +2w -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f >> >> This command will delete all files that have not been accessed w

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hello James and Ken, Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you have a Dell 8500. This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very similar to your Ken? > bcm0: mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaff irq 11 > at device 0.0 on pci2 > bcm0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:f

Re: [despammed] Re: Looking for detailed documentation: Install toexisting filesystem

2003-08-27 Thread denisz
here's something you might get interested (see live-install section) http://www.the-labs.com/FreeBSD/ -denisz- On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:52:54 -0700, Avleen Vig wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:36:41PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I've posted this request to 'questions' with no response, so n

Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-08-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > On 26-Aug-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding > > FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook. > > Running a dual-

Re: Bug FreeBSD 4.8 ATA driver

2003-08-27 Thread soralx
> > I am reading FreeBSD ATA drivers because I want to use them as base for > > my ATA driver and I found a total nonsence: in ata-dma.c in FreeBSD 4.8, > > there is line > > > > if (!((pci_read_config(parent,0x40,4)>>(ch->unit<<8))&0x4000)) { > > > > if ch->unit is 1, config word is shifted by 25

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Louis A. Mamakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : able to get a running system for that application on an 8MB CF card. I had one experimental version that compressed this onto a MFS and gzip'd the thing and made it fit into a 4MB DiskOnChip part with a co

Re: Bug FreeBSD 4.8 ATA driver

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Lukes
Mikulas Patocka napsal/wrote, On 08/20/03 01:39: I am reading FreeBSD ATA drivers because I want to use them as base for my ATA driver and I found a total nonsence: in ata-dma.c in FreeBSD 4.8, there is line if (!((pci_read_config(parent,0x40,4)>>(ch->unit<<8))&0x4000)) { if ch->unit is 1, config

Re: Bug FreeBSD 4.8 ATA driver

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Lukes
Mikulas Patocka napsal/wrote, On 08/20/03 01:39: I am reading FreeBSD ATA drivers because I want to use them as base for my ATA driver and I found a total nonsence: in ata-dma.c in FreeBSD 4.8, there is line if (!((pci_read_config(parent,0x40,4)>>(ch->unit<<8))&0x4000)) { if ch->unit is 1, config

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> Actually, I have a small script that does something like this. Here's > a breif sketch. > > # prepare /cf > make buildworld > > ${chroot} /bin/sh -${e}c "(cd $srcdir > env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=$objdir make -m ${srcdir}/share/mk -f \ > Makefile.inc1 hierarchy DESTDIR=$dstdir

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
Actually, I have a small script that does something like this. Here's a breif sketch. # prepare /cf make buildworld ${chroot} /bin/sh -${e}c "(cd $srcdir env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=$objdir make -m ${srcdir}/share/mk -f \ Makefile.inc1 hierarchy DESTDIR=$dstdir NOMAN=yes

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Greg Black
On 2003-08-26, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > Tyler Kellen wrote: > > The information I'm looking to aquire is the absolute minimum files > > required to boot FreeBSD 4.8 into multi-user mode. If this involves > > deleting a massive amount of directories and files, or setting up a > > new drive and co