geli boot password + aesni

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Toth
Hi there, Before filing a bug report (and to confirm my sanity) thought will share my experiences with AESNI and GELI. Also, hopefully this will save someone else a couple of days of running in a circle... I was trying to set up an encrypted root zpool on a laptop (core i7) with AESNI enabled an

Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread Bret Busby
hello. Some time ago, I asked on this list, about installing FreeBSD, and it was then confirmed that FreeBSD requires to be installed in a primary partition. That is consistent with the current FreeBSD Handbook, which states "FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition." However, in t

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/06/2011 08:18, Bret Busby wrote: > Some time ago, I asked on this list, about installing FreeBSD, and it > was then confirmed that FreeBSD requires to be installed in a primary > partition. > > That is consistent with the current FreeBSD Handbook, which states > "FreeBSD must be installed in

System stop

2011-06-11 Thread Janos Dohanics
Last night one of my systems stopped, it's FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE, i386. In /var/log/messages I found this: Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 acpi: resumed at 20110610 23:11:59 Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/postfix-script[50651]: stopping the Postfix mail system Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/master[92051]: termi

Re: System stop

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Powell
Janos Dohanics wrote: > Last night one of my systems stopped, it's FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE, i386. > In /var/log/messages I found this: > > Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 acpi: resumed at 20110610 23:11:59 > Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/postfix-script[50651]: stopping the Postfix > mail system Jun 10 23:11:59

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, David Banning wrote: I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and store each on portable hard drive as a single file - so that in the end I have a large, say 2TB drive with a number

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 11/06/2011 08:18, Bret Busby wrote: > > the current FreeBSD Handbook ... states > > "FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition." > > > > However, in the last couple of days, I have been advised that > > FreeBSD can be installed in, and, quite happily runs in,

ftp installation

2011-06-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on the console always being: DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file. This happens with several d

Boot from SD card is slow

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Toth
Hi everyone, Recently converted an SD card for booting FreeBSD 8.2 (amd64). The card sits in the internal SD card slot of a laptop, The boot loader part takes ages to load, just loading 1 module take around 20 seconds. To pass the whole boot loader takes 3 minutes! I've tested the SD card for r/w

some help still needed....

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, This is both an ACK of thanks to the many listmembers who helped with the last problejm , and a request for further help. There are at least a couple thing that plague me when I try to get back to where things were before I _finally_ tracked the named/bin problem to it being a bad switch.

Re: ftp installation

2011-06-11 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both > 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds > for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on the console > always being: > >

Re: some help still needed....

2011-06-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
Always on php the latest.. So php5. On Jun 11, 2011, at 18:11, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > This is both an ACK of thanks to the many listmembers who helped > with the last problejm , and a request for further help. There are > at least a couple thing that plague me when I try to get bac

Re: some help still needed....

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 06:22:57PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:22:57 -0500 > From: Ryan Coleman > Subject: Re: some help still needed > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > X-Mailer: iPad Mail (8J3) > > > Always on php the latest.. So php5. And,

Re: ftp installation

2011-06-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last m

Re: System stop

2011-06-11 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:25:53 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: > Janos Dohanics wrote: > > > Last night one of my systems stopped, it's FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE, i386. > > In /var/log/messages I found this: > > > > Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 acpi: resumed at 20110610 23:11:59 > > Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/p

hmph, one lesson self-caught...

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Kline
About a minute ago I learned that you cannot have a ### comment _following_ the LoadModule lines in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf They screw up the sanity checker that parses the lines in that vonfig file. After a week, plus more than a few hours today, things are back. . -- Gary Kline k