maillist> So, do I need to vnconfig the boot.flp and put my own custom
maillist> loader in it or what? I don't want to be puting -C in every
maillist> time I boot. Also, when I put in -C, the kernel will load,
maillist> but then can't find the CD device
Which FreeBSD version you are using,
maillist> 4.2-20010119-STABLE
My sample ISO image (using latest 4-stable) works very fine, booting
from CD and mount CD as root partition. It works pretty well.
If you have enough bandwidth to fetch 160MB ISO image file, try:
ftp://current.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/li
maillist> What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy
maillist> image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as
maillist> /usr on top of that?
Simply 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /usr' (or whatever CD device) after
booting a kernel is not enough for you? I've not tried y
dave> $ cd /usr/src
dave> $ make installworld DESTDIR=/vol1/FreeBSD
dave> will install the entire OS into /vol1/FreeBSD?
Yes (or it should be).
dave> Has anyone ever tried this? ;)
You should have already seen the result that uses "make installworld
DESTDIR=/what/ever" -- FreeBSD distribution
tlambert2> FWIW: This breaks if you have updated your C++ compiler,
tlambert2> since the .mk files incorrectly override the paths for
tlambert2> thing like the RTTI header files and the CRT0 stuff...
We have chroot(8) already, no problems:) Perhaps the original poster
assume that /vol1/FreeBSD i
tlambert2> It still breaks. See bsd.orig.mk; you _can't_ use a
tlambert2> compiler other than one installed in the default location,
tlambert2> or it will override the compiler defaults which tell it
tlambert2> where the correct header and crt0 files live. Really.
???
If you run 'chroot /vol1
and you can easily checks '5-current kernel doesn't work with
CD9660 filesystem as root' with live-current.iso. I've already
reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no helps.
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So have I (in fact that's how I started using FreeBSD 5.0). However the drivers
required for their emulated graphics card are only supplied for FreeBSD 4.x with
VMWare 4.5.
You can use graphic driver modules (${X11}/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.o)
that is bundled with recent Xorg/XFree86, an
For FreeBSD kernel hackers...
current.jp.FreeBSD.org, yet another SNAPSHOTs server in Japan, begins
to provide a compilation logfile of 'LINT' kernel. Kernel compilation
runs everyday for both 4-stable (0600JST) and 5-current (1400JST) branches.
If you have intersted, check: http://current.jp.F
Gimme one more time to announce...
matusita> current.jp.FreeBSD.org, yet another SNAPSHOTs server in
matusita> Japan, begins to provide a compilation logfile of 'LINT'
matusita> kernel. Kernel compilation runs everyday for both 4-stable
matusita> (0600JST) and 5-current (1400JST) branches.
And,
molter> what am I missing?
It seems that you forget to set PATH environment variable. As you
know, "env -i" does not pass any environment variable to child process
if any other variables are explicitly set.
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brian> Can anybody tell me if it's possbile to tell a given interface
brian> not to do DAD ?
There is a kernel MIB, 'net.inet6.ip6.dad_count'. See inet6(4)
manpage for more detail.
However, there is no way to stop DAD for any given interfaces; only
we have two choices, 'do DAD to any interface
brian> Would it be worth bringing up the subject of adding an IFF_ flag that
brian> can be SIOCSIFFLAGS'd into the interface with the kame team ?
I cannot tell it's good and/or standard-compliant things or not... but,
brian> If you think it's worth bringing up with the kame guys, can you tell
raff> Yes, I am running FreeBSD 4.3 in a win2k vmware will everything
raff> working including the network (to outside world). No special
raff> configurations were required other than the obvious.
FreeBSD 5-current guest also works fine here (W2k host). I'm happy
with ports/emulators/vmware-tool
anderson> Where can I find the kernel config for the kern.flp disk?
anderson> Also, is there a decent how-to or faq about the boot.flp
anderson> disk, and how to rebuild your own (using basically theirs,
anderson> just with an install.cfg thrown in and no userconfig options
anderson> in the kern
iedowse> Someone mentioned on a list somewhere that vmware takes forever to
iedowse> emulate the cmpxchg instruction, and that using the I386_CPU version
iedowse> of atomic_cmpset_int() helps a lot.
I really know I'm doing a stupid thing, but here is benchmark results
of both "plain" and "patche
iedowse> ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-)
That's right :-)
iedowse> On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can
iedowse> soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity
iedowse> without the patch. I suspect this effect is respon
glenngombert> I could not even get 'Current' to boot at all under
glenngombert> VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned
glenngombert> a couple weeks ago under Win2K...
What goes wrong to you? Unable to boot with boot floppies?
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You may want to mention that which branch (5-current, 4-stable, etc)
you wanna try. Also you may want to clear that when you sup your code.
kerberus> ===> share/doc/usd/13.viref
kerberus> make: don't know how to make ref.so. Stop
kerberus> *** Error code 2
src/contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/vi.ref/r
Repeat again.
kerberus> it builds a tree, cvs's the src goes into its build stage, and again,
kerberus> fails with a fresh cvsup from today, which did a complete make world
kerberus> kernel from the standard /usr/src, now can some one tell me what im
kerberus> missing or doing wrong ?? and yes i
kerberus> There is not a
kerberus> /usr/release/usr/src/contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/vi.ref/ref.so?
kerberus> in the directory.
That file should be there. It's your local problem if it is not
extracted from your CVS repository copy.
kerberus> i modified the usr/src/release/Makefile to use the
kerb
larse> Is there a mirror somewhere?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend :-) There are 4 servers listed.
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john> Could someone please explain rc.sendmail to me?
Is rc.sendmail(8) not enough for you?
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dp> *confused*
Read http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/answerman.html#ptys>, "I'm
always running out of xterms because I have too many pseduo-ttys
open. How can I increase my number of ptys?" article at DaemonNews.
You may find an example to create more ptys with MAKEDEV.
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vladimirt> where can I find a manual/reference for/to a BootFORTH
vladimirt> language?
BootFORTH is a derived work of ficl 2.05. You may want to check Ficl
documentation at http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ficl.html>.
And src/sys/boot is a good reference for you :-)
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ume> I wish to add max-child-per-ip option to inetd. This enables us to
ume> restrict maximum number of simultaneous invocations of each service
ume> from a single IP address.
FYI: This patch is already tested at snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org, and it
seems fine to me. Thank you, ume-san!
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I found a strange behavior of cvs (see sample session below).
Checking out the source codes seems OK, but when I update the codes with
-r and -D options, source codes are disappeared. cvs update with -r
option only is OK for me.
Is it a bug, or just my misunderstandings of cvs behavior?
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scott> I've noticed this, and it's annoying. If you do 'cvs update -r TAG -r
scott> TAG', you get updated with the changes between the two tags.
Ah, I've just forgotten this...
scott> You could simply pop up a couple directories and checkout the
scott> given tag and date over your existing che
scott> You could simply pop up a couple directories and checkout the
scott> given tag and date over your existing checkout. CVS is smart
scott> enough to notice that you've already got something checked out,
scott> and it will just update things.
matusita> It would be fine to me. Thank you.
H
keramida> So, the proper steps to get the files of a branch other than HEAD, in
keramida> the revisions they had at a certain point in time would be:
keramida> + Checkout using the branch as a sticky tag.
keramida> + Update using both -D DATE and -r BRANCH_TAG.
No, it doesn't work a
src/release/Makefile assumes that src/release directory is actually
/usr/src/release. It seems that your source code location is /home/src.
reichert> /usr/bin/time make release \
reichert> CHROOTDIR=/home/release \
reichert> BUILDNAME=4.5-RELEASE \
reichert> CVSROOT=/home/ncvs \
reichert> It was rather disappointing that I couldn't run 'make release' in
reichert> parallel via the '-j' option, though. :/
WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work for you?
reichert> How disparate can the host OS version be from the version
reichert> I'm trying to make a release of?
Sam
> WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work for you?
reichert> 'make -j 10 release' didn't work.
Again, WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work for you?
Yes, it would be better that whole release procedure works with make
-jN, but most of the time spent is "make buildworld/buildkernel" dur
reichert> Unfortunately, I had to delve into other bits of mystery and wonder:
reichert> - The Makefile in usr/src/release; that's where KERNEL_FLAGS and
reichert> WORLD_FLAGS are mentioned.
Ya, it should be documented in release(7) IMO...
reichert> Now, if only I could automate a relationshi
reichert> How to I transform a RELEASETAG into a BUILDNAME? I suspect
reichert> I really need some meta-knowledge about what tags are in the
reichert> CVS tree...
I used to check src/sys/conf/newvers.sh.
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tlambert2> FWIW, I think a floppy image is great. I have a number of
tlambert2> older systems from which I cannot boot from the CDROM.
That's true, but this project (FreeBSD To Go) employs CD-ROM as their
root filesystem. It is natual to boot from CD-ROM :-)
tlambert2> It's also desirable fro
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