Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-09 Thread Da Rock
On 01/08/12 09:05, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Normally,

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 12:32:25AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net > wrote: > > (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the > > motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with > > "HP" followed by a eleven dig

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-01-07 15:05:55 UTC-0800, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net (leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net) wrote: > (5) What device driver must be installed for the sound board to be > able to receive a m.i.d.i. over u.s.b. signal? This signal would be > generated by a musician's keyboard, and wou

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Polytropon writes: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net > wrote: >> (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the >> motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with >> "HP" followed by a eleven digits, and is given in Windows >> XP as "Full

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the > motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with > "HP" followed by a eleven digits, and is given in Windows > XP as "Full Computer Name" on the "Comput

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 01/08/2012 01:05 AM, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Norma

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:37 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, > and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. Excellent choice of OS. > After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. > I

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/31/11 14:45, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I want my system to include an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound c

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 9/25/2011 5:16 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: > Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found > and the little rotor started running in the beginning of the line. >>From that moment on there was absolutely no progress. > > Any hints and pointers about what to try next wou

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 25/09/2011 17:04, Mark Felder wrote: > I have an Opteron machine that on both 7.x and 8.x it displays this > behavior. The only fix was to boot from USB and it would get past it. > Weird. Was it also an LSI controller? I had the same problem a month ago. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread Mark Felder
I have an Opteron machine that on both 7.x and 8.x it displays this behavior. The only fix was to boot from USB and it would get past it. Weird. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, I installed FreeBSD8.2 amd64 the other day on a 98GB RAM machine with 24 CPU's (a supermicro 2U server). Due to this alone, I doubt that the bootloader is limited in any way by the amount of RAM the machine has. However, I experienced the same behavior on several "small" machines (normal PC's

Re: installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

2011-03-18 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alokat wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver > problems. > > Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and > the wlan card? The sound card should be snd_hda(4): http://www.freebsd.org/

Re: installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

2011-03-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Alokat, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alokat wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver > problems. > > Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and > the wlan card? For the sound^{1}, try loading the $ su - passwd: # k

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
I could solve the boot problem of the USB key in the older laptop of my wife by inserting into /boot/loader.conf the line kern.cam.scsi_delay="1" (note: set kern.cam.boot_delay did not help) matthias -- Matthias Apitz «...una sola vez, que es cuanto basta si se trata de verdades de

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
I wrote a small howTo for such a migration for others in the same situation. Comments/Impromvements are welcome; Thanks matthias $Id: moveFreeBSDintoVM.txt,v 1.2 2010/09/02 10:55:29 guru Exp $ How to move a complete FreeBSD installation into a VM Matthias Apitz

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, August 31, 2010 a las 03:13:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > Now I have already again my 'old' root partition booting to single user > mode and I'm filling in the 120 GByte dump of the /usr ... The 1st try > crashed the Win7 to blue screen over the night :-( The 2nd try was

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 30, 2010 a las 11:31:13AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias > escribió: > > > On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > > > Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? > > I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... > > > > Will p

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 04:20:41PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Try recreating, preferably newfs the key first. Don't be surprised if > you find out you need a new USB key. newfs(8) did not worked; a format in Win7 lies that it was fine and stops later writing to it after 2 GBy

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 27/08/2010 3:17 μ.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias > escribió: > >> On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? >>> I'm wondering why the system

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? > > I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... > > > > Will p

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 27/08/2010 10:24 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? > I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... > > Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have... > > matthias > I've heard of sto

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > Christer Solskogen wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd wrote: >> >>> And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his >>> MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he >>> should look int

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not u

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd wrote: > And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his > MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he > should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their real name, po

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/15/10, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: > >> http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm >> > > Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? > Without even clicking his link, I've had past experience with a "legit" website b

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe you should be asking t

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: > http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm > Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: (SOLVED) Re: installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-17 Thread Ronald Klop
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:57:03 +0100, Dan Naumov wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced to

(SOLVED) Re: installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: > >> For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a >> 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced >> to stick with UFS2 for the root partition (the actu

Re: Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: For the future, it's often helpful to identify the notebook you're using. And now I see it was in the subject all along... -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Ed Lerner wrote: Hello, I have been wanting to put FreeBSD on my laptop for some time now. I backed up all of my files to a separate HD. I burned 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso to a DVD and installed it on my laptop, removing all partitions so FreeBSD is my sole OS. I also used t

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/outputerror)

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Rees
[lines broken in quote] 2009/3/31 ajeesh joseph : >  hello,I have tried the way how you suggested. But unfortunately iam getting > same error.today > i tried to install by plugging HDD as primary master and cdrom and primary > slave.I tried > to install.During install a new problem of /dev/ad0s1

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/outputerror)

2009-03-31 Thread ajeesh joseph
hello,I have tried the way how you suggested. But unfortunately iam getting same error.today i tried to install by plugging HDD as primary master and cdrom and primary slave.I tried to install.During install a new problem of /dev/ad0s1a on /mnt : input/output error appears,,can you help me in s

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
CD/DVD DMA problems are common try set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 boot after getting to bootloader prompt (6) On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Kevin Kinsey wrote: ajeesh joseph wrote: Hello,I was installing freebsd 7.0/7.1to my Ampro RB700,celeron processor,usb hdd 80gb using my CD drive.during the time of in

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ajeesh joseph wrote: Hello,I was installing freebsd 7.0/7.1to my Ampro RB700,celeron processor,usb hdd 80gb using my CD drive.during the time of installation i get error "error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error" could any one tell me how to solve this and how can i install the OS..regards

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to > install on windows like ubuntu does. Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an "operating system", just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different operating systems.

Heller-Johnson syndrome (Re: installing freebsd on windows)

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
> Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. > > Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere > within the organization. Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the organization, that person must be fi

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Jerry wrote: > If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell, > if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so > I am most definitely not using the machine. So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other than a local power failure? Astonishi

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Harold Hartley
Wojciech Puchar wrote: got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows support list etc.

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows support list etc. ___ freebsd-question

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:49:48 + Frank Shute wrote: >> Virtual desktops. What are you referring to? Visit the power toys URL >> for further information. >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx > >Thanks for that. Did they use to be called PowerTools? I do

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:39:32AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + > Frank Shute wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + > >> Frank Shute wrote: > >> > >> >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + Frank Shute wrote: >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + >> Frank Shute wrote: >> >> >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> >> >> >It's certainly not slow and messy her

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread michael
have any of you flamers stopped to try and help the OP? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Adam Vandemore
Tim Judd wrote: I'm looking for an OS with a sane file hierarchy and a shell I can use to manage the files therein. An editor better than Notepad would be a bonus too. I see the sense in C:\Users I see the sense in C:\Documents and Settings I see the sense in C:\WINDOWS I see the sense

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:09:52AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + > > > Frank Shute wrote: > > > > > > >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + > > Frank Shute wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >> > > >> >It's certainly not slow and mess

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + > Frank Shute wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > >> >It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple > >> >of months ago after a few ye

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute wrote: >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> >It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple >> >of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I >> >love it. On reasonable spec har

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of > >months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On > >reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an > >ex

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent job of course. windows vista runs well too on overmuscled hardware. J

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: PC-BSD===>http://www.pcbsd.org/ DesktopBSD===>http://www.desktopbsd.net/ And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes "Windows" users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, then click "next, next, next, finish" and have an ap

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread michael
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also r

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: > No affence here but if you want to just click, click, next, finish, stick to > mtfk ubuntu we dnt need u No offence. But please read before sending the email. -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kell

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:22:31PM +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I don't know what Ubuntu does. > > What ubuntu does is > 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program > 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer > 3) Ubuntu is inst

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > I don't know what Ubuntu does. What ubuntu does is 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer 3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition 4) Use windows bootloader So, you install

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to > install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also runs MS-Win. The traditional way

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400 Harold Hartley wrote: >I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd >to install on windows like ubuntu does. > >I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I >live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
PC-BSD ===> http://www.pcbsd.org/ DesktopBSD ===> http://www.desktopbsd.net/ And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes "Windows" users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, then click "next, next, next, finish" and have an application installed. :-)

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Or does freebsd offer a choice to install without messing anything up. It's a professional operating system, of course it does. :-) (FreeBSD exactly does what you tell it to do, nothing more and nothing less.) maybe that's why it's told to be so difficult for most people ;) _

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
install on windows like ubuntu does. FreeBSD is separate independent OS. it simply doesn't make sense. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I what a problem to create partiti

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler wrote: > As long as you have enough ram ( I'd say at least a gig) try VMware Server > 1.1/2.0. I have production machines (including two freebsd 7.1 vm's) running > on a VMware Server 2.0 working very well with the host having 3 gigs of ram,

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ruben de Groot wrote: > What worked for me was enabling VT-x/AMD-V in Virtualbox. No more panics > since. If I am correct, that requires hardware with virtualisation support. That's not the case with my old P4. -- Am I SHOPLIFTING?

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30:31AM +0530, Mehul Ved typed: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under > > Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first > > impression on how it works.

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-24 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: > For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under > Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first > impression on how it works. There are some settings that you must keep in > mind, disk size ca

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-24 Thread Leslie Jensen
Harold Hartley skrev: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I want

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:30:58 -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: > Some may be running windows and may want to try freebsd and doesn't want > to rid windows. > But if something could be done to make it easy enough for those that > doesn't know how to install freebsd or something of that sort. I thi

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-24 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to > install on windows like ubuntu does. > > In www.microsoft.com , search Virtual PC in Search Microsoft.com . There will be a result among many others : http://win

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:59:40 -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: > Ubuntu uses "wubi > installer" like an application and can be uninstalled if anyone didn't > like it. And it sets it up at the boot up time a list to choose from. > > That is about what I was talking about. Okay, I do understand. I ha

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to > install on windows like ubuntu does. I'm not sure I do understand "install FreeBSD on 'Windows'" - what does "on" refer to? a) Start an installer from w

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:53:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > why don't simply use unix tools. for same-sized harddrives simply use dd Or dump / restore, as described in the handbook. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Another idea is to make one installation and make an image of it. With clonezilla it will be able to use pxe to install it on many hosts. http://clonezilla.org/ After you install your image, you must, how Wojciech Puchar told you, change ip (or you use dhcp), hostname and other stuff like this.

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Lokadamus
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. Another idea is to make one installation and make an image of it. With clonezilla it will be able to use pxe to instal

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well - and if need just to power on server and say it to boot at PXE and go away for 30 min. And then I came back - I have a typical preconfigured server. I need full automatisation. so make simple PXE bootable system and write script to make disklabels, do newfs, install (copy/untar) your syste

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Wojciech Puchar пишет: Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. forgot - you have to of course make disklabel, newfs and make disk bootable (bsdlabel -B disk) Well - and if need

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. forgot - you have to of course make disklabel, newfs and make disk bootable (bsdlabel -B disk) __

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. no. just make PXE able to boot ANY FreeBSD install (single user is enough, or boot from CD/DVD) and then copy all files from one host to another. then jus

Re: Installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530s - HELP!

2009-01-19 Thread patrick
Booting in safe-mode doesn't have the TIMEOUT - READ_BIG messages, but instead I get an interrupt storm detected. The LiveCD didn't work because when I boot with ACPI disabled, no disks are detected which means that I cannot mount the LiveCD. :( On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, patrick wrote: >

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP in

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > > > > > >>Jerry, > > >> > > >>You read my mind. That was going to be my next qu

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > > > >>Jerry, > >> > >>You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get > >>around > >>the proprietary recovery section HP inst

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basicall

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > Jerry, > > You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around > the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the > nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:45AM -0800, tsai wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has > Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both. The FreeBSD Handbook - free online at the FreeBSD web site - has a whole section on that.

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Neal Hogan
I used gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ) to move the XP partition to make room for fBSD. You make a bootable CD and I found it to be quite simple. Make sure that your XP partition is defragmented before using gparted. Otherwise, gparted will not let you manipulate the partition. Once you

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-11-27 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Rommel Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dear Sir/Madam: > Pleasant day! > First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn't be directed to you, please > help me direct to the right person. > Few months ago I've purchase a FreeBSD b

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-11-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:11:56PM -0800, Rommel Tan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dear Sir/Madam: > Pleasant day! > First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn’t be directed to you, > please help me direct to the right person. The questions mailing list is OK. > Few months ago

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Telpiz Sorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >  tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my > friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by > Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, > nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! That is fine.

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread DA Forsyth
On 12 Jun 2008 , Telpiz Sorin entreated about "Installing FreeBSD": >  tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my > friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by > Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, > nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognize

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
 tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! what do you expect to be recognized as? it's OK The tex

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:45:43PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Huu Daud wrote: > >Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and > >configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for > >i386. > >and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Huu Daud wrote: Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-06-09 12:10:01 UTC-0500, Shelby Cain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote: > > > Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both > > Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically > > set up correctly t

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Filippo Moretti wrote: > Jerry McAllister ha scritto: > >On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > >>Greetings, > >>Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and > >>configure freeBSD on my des

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Shelby Cain
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote: > Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both Roxio > and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically set up > correctly to burn the contents of the ISO just by double-clicking on the > ISO image. As will

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread D Hill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 at 18:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have do

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Filippo Moretti
Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem i

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: > Hello, > Greetings, > Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and > configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. > and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD

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