On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
On Mon, 14 oct 2013, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
What errors, exactly?
Well, for example:
portmaster -Faf
it starts to fetch a bunch of files
it finds a port which has been deleted, such as
linux-base-fc4
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and
reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the
past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step
involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how to dea
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, O. Hartmann wrote:
FF is in my case 24, too:
pkg info firefox
firefox-24.0,1
Have you done updating the ports regarding
20130929
in /usr/ports/UPDATING? I did on all boxes and on all boxes I did the
tab-stickyness is present.
Firefox 24 allows tab moves for me on both
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
Yes. The installer
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Hi,
I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and
reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the
past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step
involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how t
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing partitions.
The file system characteristica will be kept, possible conten
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Carmel wrote:
I have the opportunity to replace an aging UPS with a new APC BE750G
Power Saving Battery Back-UPS one. My question is if anyone here has
ever used this device under FreeBSD. APC does not have, or at least I
couldn't find any, software for a FreeBSD system. Wit
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote:
At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote:
Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line.
Very limited commands: "ls: not found".
Why? What good are these disks if they don't have
the most basic of
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, aurfalien wrote:
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:
Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS?
I would use find+cpio. This handles hard links, permissions, and in case
of later runs, will
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, aurfalien wrote:
Hi,
I've a Seagate constellation ES.2 which supports 4K sectors but diskinfo shows
it as 512bytes;
da0 512 3000592982016 5860533168 0 0 364801 255
63
I understand that Seagate ships these drives to be compatible with 512b
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote:
# gpart show ada0s1
gpart: No such geom: ada0s1
By the way, this is after a restart of the machine.
There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one
drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote:
Thanks very much. Please could I make a suggestion that this be included in the
handbook page?
Please do not top-post, it makes replies more difficult.
I have added a warning about SUJ to the top of the gmirror section in
the Handbook.
___
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote:
This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user
mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the
following:
#tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a
Clearing journal flags from inode 4
tunefs: Failed to writ
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote:
Hi,
I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my
particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB
drive was left for /usr
I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump +
restore
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote:
echo "CTRL-V CTRL-G" should do the trick
Or, more easily, printf "\a".
Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've
tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and spe
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote:
Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line.
Very limited commands: "ls: not found".
Why? What good are these disks if they don't have
the most basic of commands?
The "emergency holographic shell" was always very limited. I suspect a
path thing, with
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Have tried that, but it rebuilds pixman, but then X bombs out blurting
out messages that libpixman.so is missing :(
I have tried to remove print/texlive-scheme-full; removed it, but then
run portmaster -R pixman, and portmaster -r pixman and the r
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Robert Simmons wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Polytropon wrote:
With GPT, there is no reason to use BSD disklabels at all.
And most modern computers do not have any problem booting it.
The old MBR approach (as well as dedicated) will probably only
be needed in n
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, atar wrote:
During the reading of the FreeBSD handbook, I've encountered at the term
'dangerously dedicated' regarding physical disks and the author of this
chapter in the FreeBSD handbook didn't think this term need more clarity. so
for newbies like me in the FreeBSD worl
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 09/12/13 17:52, Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote:
I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I
need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system. Is
it possible, or do I have to f
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Gary Aitken wrote:
I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages.
I need to initialize a usb memory stick with an msdos file system.
Is it possible, or do I have to find a windoze system?
Sure, it's possible. For maximum compatibility, I'd suggest creat
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Gmail (tzoi516) wrote:
The FreeBSD Handbook is a great source. Will section 4.5 be updated to reflect
and amplify on the information in 2.7? I didn't realize 4.5 was MBR specific
initially. Thanks.
The MBR-specific information in that section and the rest of the
Handboo
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Olivier Nicole wrote:
My printing system is archaic, based on lpr(8), but it works fine for
centralizing printing from Windows (with Samba), Mac and Linux
clients. Plus it includes a printing quota system, so I am reluctant
to change.
Don't apologize, many people use lpd a
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, David Demelier wrote:
2013/9/6 Warren Block :
asciidoc \
-a data-uri \
-a icons \
-a iconsdir=/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/images/icons \
-d article \
-a stylesheet=~/docs/stylesheets/wb-html.css \
-a toc \
-a revdate="2013-09-05" \
-a year="2
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, David Demelier wrote:
Hi,
I've been using asciidoc for a while, I've updating it to
asciidoc-8.6.8_1. But now I can't generate any correct documentation.
It does not even add :toc: field.
For instance the following example should generate a HTML with its
popular blue theme
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, David Demelier wrote:
Hi,
I've been using asciidoc for a while, I've updating it to
asciidoc-8.6.8_1. But now I can't generate any correct documentation.
It does not even add :toc: field.
For instance the following
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Patrick Dung writes:
Do you know what is this logo means, or the story behind it?
I thought the BSD daemon (logo) has been around for many years in the past.
It's a movie reference ("Die Hard").
The Beastie logo is still there, in the /boot directo
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, JC wrote:
Under Section: 29.6.7.2. DHCP Server Installation
There is a error where the file name reads "/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf.sample".
"dhcpd.conf.sample" should read "dhcpd.conf.example".
Fixed! In the future, reporting this type of problem with a PR is the
best w
On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 August 2013 12:05, Gary Aitken wrote:
If I have a core file that implicates a library:
#0 0x00080525cab0 in wxWindow::DoSetSize () from
/usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
and
#16 0x0008056bf720 in wxAuiManager::Update () from
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Gary Aitken wrote:
Is anyone using the current port of hugin successfully on 9.1?
I've never used it before but an attempt to start it crashes:
$ hugin
/usr/local/share/hugin/data/plugins/top_five.py
CAT:Control Points
NAM:keep 5 CPs per image pair
/usr/local/share/hugi
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
finally my printer responds with this command:
nc 192.168.1.105 9100 < output.xqx
Okay, that's a good start.
but I have no idea how to get it running through the normal LPD spooling
system. output.xqx file I generate first with the foo2xqx-wrapper
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Mark Felder wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 1:46, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:
Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS?
I would use find+cpio. This handles hard links, permissions, and in case
of later runs, will
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
ok I realised the problem was that i sent plain text to filter instead a
postscript.
when I run now:
lpr test.ps
no error messages appear anymore except that in the /var/spool/hp which is
my spooling directory in the status file I have Sending to 19
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
Yes indeed, i corrected, but i have still the problem
Please don't top-post, it makes responding more difficult.
lpd will restart a queue when it gets an error from a filter. Manually
test the filter before trying to use it with lpd.
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Walter Hurry wrote:
This is 9.2-RC1 on amd64 (upgraded from 9.2-BETA1 by refetching the
source from releng/9.2 and rebuilding kernel and world).
The kernel compiles and runs fine using the supplied GENERIC, but when I
try to use my custom kenel config file, on reboot I get
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, r_oliva...@juno.com wrote:
D.) Is there a site that I can download a complete copy of the documentation
for Free-BSD, as one file and not a series/set of separate files?
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
has the Handbook in compressed
On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
2013. gada 6. aug. 23:17 "Warren Block" rakst?ja:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
after several trials and errors and reading through FreeBSD
handbook I am
at dead end on how to proceed further, ho
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote:
after several trials and errors and reading through FreeBSD handbook I am
at dead end on how to proceed further, hope someone can guide me.
Are you sure about that model number? I can't find specs for a Laserjet
1120M. There is a Laserjet M1120. I
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, David Noel wrote:
Ok great, thanks Matthew. I tried a different search query and
actually found a similar question on the forums:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=35014
That is an outdated thread. Ignore it.
Your solution looks a bit cleaner than the one propos
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Conny Andersson wrote:
Hi Warren and Polytropon,
A few minutes ago I booted up from a FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
to experience that it is sysinstall that is used in that release.
Next, I did a 'dummy' custom installation. And, as I supposed sysinstall
recogn
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote:
A very important question is if sysinstall's option "Install the Fr
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote:
A very important question is if sysinstall's option "Install the FreeBSD
Boot Manager" detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3 and detect it as slice 2 on
disk 1?
I'm not sure I'm following you
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
So it boils down to:
a) Leave is is, as it can detect when the kernel has trashed its vnode table;
or
b) It's probably caused by "expected" FS corruption, so handle it gracefully.
It would be good to log a system error message like "filesystem ma
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, David Noel wrote:
Perhaps make buildkernel was compiled with -j >1, it's known to create a
buggy kernel. Check your make configuration. Adding a -B, like make -B -j N
buildkernel may work and is fast if -j is set to number or processors, but
it's safer do a make -j 1 buildke
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Michel Behr wrote:
Hi
I'm considering learning how to build drivers, so I can make my Lenovo S400
wireless card get detected by FreeBSD.
The Architecture Handbook cites these "Bill Paul's network drivers".
9.5 Network Drivers: Drivers for network devices do not use device
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote:
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien wrote:
Upon doing;
gpart destroy da0
I get;
gpart: Device busy
crude but effective:
DISK=da0
offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
d
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:05:19 -0700, Charles Swiger wrote:
Hi--
On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Walter Hurry wrote:
What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?
It holds old versions of shared libraries which were once used by
installed ports.
A
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote:
On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Shane Ambler wrote:
I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as
you will already be using zfs chances are that non-zfs drives would only
increase ram usage by adding a second cache. zfs uses it's own
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote:
... thats the question :)
At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS.
However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated pair
of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this system just
came w
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Eduardo Morras wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:40:38 -0500
David Noel wrote:
I didn't include the make buildworld or make buildkernel for the sake
of brevity but yes, I executed them prior to installworld and
installkernel.
Perhaps make buildkernel was compiled with -j >1
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
I am looking for a program that watches login attempts (mail and ssh login)
and blocks the ip address after xx failed attempts.
Currently I am using ipfw - might be great if that program works with ipw
too...
security/sshguard. There are subports for
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Simon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 19:43:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
I booted the 9.1 install CD, executed "gpart destroy -F ada0", and
installed. After completing the install, boot fails with:
ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed.
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James Pace wrote:
You, sir, are a wizard. You magical incantations worked, and I now have a bootable FreeBSD 9.1 system.
?
?> Use 'gpart destroy' again, and set up an MBR partitioning scheme:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210&postcount=13
I really, really ap
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your trying to help me.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote:
I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core
i5-3330, with a
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote:
I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core
i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and 12 GB of memory, shipped with
Windows 8.
I have disabled Secure Boot and enabled Legacy device booting.
That says the disk is GPT par
Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS
drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented
here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt
So far, it's giving me a new appreciation for modern installers.
Julian, you are listed in the
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory,
but reports "no cdrom found".
I managed to find a Pentium 4 system w
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, David Demelier wrote:
2013/6/26 Mike Jeays :
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000
julius wrote:
Which BSD for a user desktop ??!.
I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have
use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try t
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Mark Felder wrote:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 11:23, Stephen Burke wrote:
Does anyone know how I could push serial output to an IP port that I
could SSH to?
You want something like a Portmaster or Lantronix device that will
provide serial consoles over SSH
http://www.lant
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to
reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from
ufs:/dev/ada0p2
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice.
How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that.
You ne
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice.
How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that.
You need to install the GPT boot code, e. g.
# gpart add
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried
to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount
from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work.
The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have the
There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a
quick point:
Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of
trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on FreeBSD and
get to the files with rsync or scp or some FUSE module on the othe
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, david coder wrote:
i need a mini express wifi card for a thinkpad laptop. does anybody know of
one that is supported by freebsd? the aironet card i have is too fat.
Thinkpads have a BIOS blacklist that only allows approved cards to be
used. The approved cards likely var
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote:
First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable
wireless? Is it on?
There is no physical switch to enable wireless there.
Notebooks also have function-key combinations to enable and
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
On 06/09/13 01:24, Warren Block wrote:
First, check the easy things: is there a physical switch to enable
wireless? Is it on?
There is no physical switch to enable wireless there.
Notebooks also have function-key combinations to enable and
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote:
I am running the GENERIC kernel. I can see that the wlan and ath pieces are
compiled into the kernel, so I removed the ath lines from /boot/loader.conf.
I seem to have done everything right, but it still doesn't work.
'ifconfig wlan0 create
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote:
On 06/08/2013 09:03 PM, Warren Block wrote:
Howdy,
Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card
running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE.
Been following the instructions given in the handbook.
Running 'ifconfig wla
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk wrote:
Howdy,
Been trying to setup wireless on a laptop with an Atheros 5424/2424 card
running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE.
Been following the instructions given in the handbook.
Running 'ifconfig wlan0 up scan' does not seem to return anything. What am I
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Joseph Mays wrote:
Tried several iterations, though it?s clearly a fat32 formatted USB drive.
Shown below are the results of fdisk and the mount_msdosfs command.
root@warehouse:/root # fdisk /dev/da2
*** Working on device /dev/da2 ***
parameters extracted from in-
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 06/04/2013 04:51 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 4 June 2013, at 08:47, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I am seeing login dictionary attacks on a FreeBSD mail server being
reported. Is there a way to determine the IPs that are doing this
so they can be blocked at t
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
thanks Carl,
i tried your your manual step by steps on FreeBSD8.2 but error happened.
this is what i've done:
gpart create -s MBR ad3
ad3 created
gpart add -t freebsd ad3
ad3s1 added
gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ad3s1
gpart: geom 'ad3s1': File Exists
if
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote:
my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for
example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...).
You cannot. You need to use the GPT partitioning approach
and repartition your disk. Wit
On Wed, 29 May 2013, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:
Normal dynamic wear leveling on a modern SSD will be better than
imposing an FS- backed swap for 4GB partion occupying a small fraction
of total drive space.
And you don't think the presence
On Tue, 28 May 2013, Polytropon wrote:
See this comparison:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html
There is a little information on the common types here, too
On Mon, 27 May 2013, Ed Flecko wrote:
Since I want to know the "correct" way (or one of I'm sure many correct
ways) of initially installing the OS and then getting it up to date (and
staying up to date), can you tell me what I did wrong and/or what I might
want to do differently?
A short overv
On Sun, 26 May 2013, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Warren Block wrote:
Another problem with SSDs is that they can have difficulty with wear
leveling. This is even worse with swap because there is no way to use TRIM
to tell the SSD about blocks that have been freed
On Sun, 26 May 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:09:06 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT)
"M. V." wrote:
I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive.
it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for
On Thu, 23 May 2013, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
you know i have a sensitive server and unfortunately it is located some where
that power outage happens much. so i want guarantee my data and avoid data lost
and file corruption in my
server.
i do not have any problem in RAM and hardware.
The lack
On Thu, 23 May 2013, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
hello every body
i have a question about fixing file corruption in freebsd.
now i have freebsd8.2 and some times file corruption happened on it. this
issue has a heavy cost for me and i want to avoid it or fixit it
completely. so my question is:
is
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Torsten Hantzsche wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2013, s m wrote:
thanks,
i do as you said, but after loading gjournal, dd says "operation not
permitted".
gjournal clear says "operation not permitted" too and therefore "gjournal
label" is not done and say previous error (gjournal
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Arthur Chance wrote:
On 05/21/13 15:46, Michael Sierchio wrote:
AFAIK Softupdates journaling still breaks snapshot functionality - which
makes it unusable for me. I wouldn't assume that the O.P. doesn't want we
he's asking for.
Good point, I'd forgotten that problem as I
On Tue, 14 May 2013, RW wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options
should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
I am unable to check the BIOS settings on that MB (wh
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Teske, Devin wrote:
In single user mode, the root filesystem will be the only one mounted, and
it will be mounted read-only.
If you need to make changes (Correcting a fat-fingered edit to /etc/fstab,
for example), you'll need to mount root rw.
mount -u -o rw /
or
mount
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which
base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow
procmailrc to do its work?
I use bogofilter to filter spam and it does a very good
job after one builds a core of sp
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
why, when I do "shutdown -h now" and then let the system come down to
the point where it says "Press any key to reboot" pressing the power
switch at that point no longer causes the
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This
has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos
display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered "To
render this video you need the Adobe Flash P
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:16:35 -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the
filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would
appreciate it!
Obtain a CD or DVD image, or a USB stick image,
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list,
because people are not required to subscribe to post.
That makes sense and does
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Please Cc responses to the mailing list
Actually, I had written that in a reply.
I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
lists nowadays it's comm
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several
people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made
significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the
boot loader. The handbook sa
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:48:22 +, Arthur Chance wrote:
On 03/13/13 21:56, Arthur Chance wrote:
I'm trying to get devel/arduino working.[snip]
I shouldn't work 13 hour days. Now I've had some sleep, I've spotted
what I missed last night. The underlying
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can
set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in
slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters.
Everything I have tried gives an error message. I want
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
Warren Block writes:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk,
but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use
partitions on a disk that any other part
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
Eduardo Morras writes:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on
a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can
this installation be >done? In particular
On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Zane C. B-H. wrote:
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:53:27 +0100
Erik Nørgaard wrote:
Hi!
What is your favorite mini/micro/nano/pico-itx platform for home
projects?
I currently run a home server on an Intel mini-itx board but was
looking around for something fun to play with with
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
So, um, I was reading about this last night, but I was sleepy and my eyes
glazed over... Please remind me, what is the exact procedire for turning
off the journaling? I boot to single user mode (from a live cd?) and
then what? Is it tunefs with s
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