On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:06 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > I use the amd64 install DVD.
> >
> > With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to
> > ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy
> > to /dev/sda, th
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012
On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht
wrote:
> It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page,
> whether I need this device in the kernel or not.
> The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012
> On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht
wrote:
>> It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page,
>> whether I need this device in the kernel or not.
>> The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to
This is what I've got:
# gpart show ada0
=> 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683 - free - (57G)
[snip]
IIUC I now have to do:
# gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0
# gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 256k -l root0 ada0
--On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon wrote:
I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent
way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'?
No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow
the RELEASE branch, plus the security updates (RELEASE-pN).
Following
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:28 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 00:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > I meant the "really manual mode" (CLI) as to be seen in
> > Fig. 3-10, named "Shell" (that's why the confusion, sorry).
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbo
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:19 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> How does "doesn't work" appear?
My apologies that I didn't wrote all error messages, they were about
non-bootable and other things. I guess it'
s better to ignore this and to continue with ...
> Maybe it's because you have a totally non-stand
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:26:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> This is what I've got:
>
> # gpart show ada0
> => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
> 63 121274683 - free - (57G)
> [snip]
>
> IIUC I now have to do:
>
> # gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0
> # gpart add -s 8G -t
On 2012.11.25 12:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 *
> size of the RAM?
It depends on use patterns and the amount of RAM in your computer. 1.5*
to 2* installed memory is a traditional "works for most" value, but I
feel it's outdated for
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:06:06 +, Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
>
> --On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon wrote:
>
> >> I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent
> >> way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'?
> >
> > No. The freebsd-update program can only be used t
Hi Everybody,
I have all of my music on my BSD server at home, and I would like to listen
that music on my iPhone, when I'm home.
Any ideas?
Thx!
Laszlo
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On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:26:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > This is what I've got:
> >
> > # gpart show ada0
> > => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
> > 63 121274683 - free - (57G)
> > [snip]
> >
> > IIUC I now have to do:
> >
>
I'm reading http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html at
the moment.
Seemingly there are many outdated howtos first hits for searching with
Google. I frst read 64k for boot and now 512k.
IIUC "Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition" has to be done
and is independent of the
Install the firefly media server (in audio/*firefly-1696_8) *on your server
and the simple daap client on you iphone (
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-daap-client/id369605270?mt=8).
Connect your iphone to the ip-address of the server and you're done.
I'm using it with a nas4free server and a
On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> IIUC "Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition" has to be done
> and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR.
Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR,
and the Linux partition where the bulk of it is installed).
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At the moment I still have:
This is what I've got:
# gpart show ada0
=> 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683 - free - (57G)
[snip]
Regarding to http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
for my set up it should be ok to run:
# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l boot -
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:13 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > IIUC "Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition" has to be done
> > and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR.
> Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR,
>
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:43:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> I'll read this. I want to test what's possible and/or impossible
> regarding to MIDI and audio productions using FreeBSD.
Will be interesting. I know there is some good support for this
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:30:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> At the moment I still have:
> This is what I've got:
> # gpart show ada0
> => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
> 63 121274683 - free - (57G)
> [snip]
>
> Regarding to http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
> fo
On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency
> scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work?
I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it
wouldn't do any hamr either. The /boot/gptboot code to be written weigh
On 25/11/2012 12:29, Polytropon wrote:
Won't be wrong; my understanding of the rule was "2 * size of
_possible_ RAM in the machine". But disk space is cheap, so
8 G should be fine. But again, the requirement for the swap
partition depends on what you're doing with the machine and
what you're expe
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 15:10 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency
> > scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work?
> I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it
> woul
Dánielisz László writes:
> I have all of my music on my BSD server at home, and I would like to
> listen that music on my iPhone, when I'm home.
> Any ideas?
I've got Samba, gnump3d, and vlc all serving off my music machine, and
have played with dlnc a bit as well. My phone is an Android, but my
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:37 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> BTW, I still have some Atari ST hardware here. Impressive what has
> been possible with this (quite limited) machines, but with _efficient_
> programs...
I still have the C64 in some cartons and the Atari ST is still beside my
PC, but I don't
Polytropon, I'll use journaling.
I've to apologize for my broken English.
Regarding to the "comment" line my question is, if it's enough to us a #
at the beginning, or if it's needed to begin and to end with a #. I
suspect just a # at the beginning is needed.
_
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:42:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Polytropon, I'll use journaling.
That should give you additional "security in integrity",
especially on a "everything in one /" partition.
> I've to apologize for my broken English.
No understanding problem here.
> Regarding to the "
Thank you for the idea!
Tonight I tried to install firefly but I'm stuck with the following error:
===> Creating users and/or groups.
Using existing group `daapd'.
Creating user `daapd' with uid `337'.
pw: user 'daapd' already exists
*** Error code 74
And when if I try deleting daapd user:
# p
I managed to solve the issue by editing manually master.passwd file
then pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd.
Firefly is up&running ;)
From: Dánielisz László
To: Beni Brinckman
Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org"
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: M
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:19 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
How does "doesn't work" appear?
My apologies that I didn't wrote all error messages, they were about
non-bootable and other things. I guess it'
s better to ignore this and to continue with ...
Mayb
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
This is what I've got:
# gpart show ada0
=> 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683 - free - (57G)
[snip]
IIUC I now have to do:
# gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0
# gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0
# gpart
I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing
services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server
services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At
the time VPS looked like too many problems.
Now, however, it looks like there are qu
I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2
and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1.
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> Assuming the first slice has been deleted.
Correct.
> # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0
>
> Create a FreeBSD disklabel/bsdlabel part
grarpamp writes:
> Any of hundreds of committer and admin accounts could be compromised
> with the attacker silently editing the repo.
FUD. Committer accounts don't have direct access to the repo.
DES
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:09:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2
> and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1.
Per definition, that's just a copy, not a backup. :-)
> I would prefer to continue with the installer.
>
> However, I guess fo
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote:
I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing
services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server
services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At
the time VPS looked like too many proble
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2
and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1.
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
Assuming the first slice has been deleted.
Correct.
# gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0
C
Hello
While installing FreeBSD 9.0 i386 on a Soekris net6501 I ran into some
problems regarding the serial console. Those problems and their
workarounds are described below -- for the archives, in case someone
runs into them as well.
After having read section 27.6 "Setting Up the Serial Console"
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:49 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> Realize this multi-boot stuff is painful and inconvenient and install
> everything in a VM?
Unfortunately this is impossible.
I'll install FreeBSD, because there's a driver for my sound card, a RME
HDSPe AIO, that perhaps enables to use al
On 25/11/2012 21:08, Jim Flowers wrote:
Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of
having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good?
Bad? Indifferent?
What part of the world are you in? In the US there's RootBSD; in Europe
there are a few, in
Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin
Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version
of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition
running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI
with you, but you should try Col
After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded
to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the new
libraries and ... they're broken, marked as security hazards...
TIA,
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On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
> frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded
> to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the new
> libraries and ... they're broken, ma
On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded
to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the
On Sunday 25 November 2012 17:30:15 Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >> After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
> >> frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just
> >>
On 11/25/2012 06:56 PM, ajtiM wrote:
On Sunday 25 November 2012 17:30:15 Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
frozen. Does anyone know when it will agai
Hi Warren,
On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
> For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
> good.
Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
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On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 02:22 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> Hi Warren,
>
> On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
> > For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
> > good.
> Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
"Create a partition
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
good.
Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
The second only is only relevant to GPT.
We went over t
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded
to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the n
Hello,
By ignorance, I named the host: "machine0.example.com" (just following what
I saw.)
Every time I reboot, I get: machine0# Nov26 04:37:03 machine0
ntpd_initrest[2008]:host name not found: 0.freebsd.pool.org
I get this error, unless I enter my login info; and after I had entered my
login info
On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> I use portsnap fetch update and it works...
>
> Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well.
>
Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been
running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received
a
On 26/11/2012 05:44, emmanuel ilunga wrote:
> By ignorance, I named the host: "machine0.example.com" (just following what
> I saw.)
This is wrong -- example.com is a special purpose domain-name reserved
for documentation. You need to choose yourself a proper domain name or
use whatever your ISP p
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