Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel?

2003-02-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 2:23:01 -0500, Ben Williams wrote: > Monday, February 3, 2003, 1:59:52 AM, you wrote: > > GgL> On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 1:34:02 -0500, Ben Williams wrote: >>> Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:50:20 PM, you wrote: >>> >>> P> Hello... I have three hard drives in my s

Re: kernel message -- a prank?

2003-02-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[redirected to -current] On Tuesday, 4 February 2003 at 17:55:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > with last hour, cvsup current, rebuild everything,... immediately > after kernel mount msg for / > kernel cranks out msg > Be nice to each other, mmmkay? > system otherwise fine. Is this a kno

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 0:44:36 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: > > Can anyone suggest an inexpensive 16-bit PC card NIC (non-Cardbus) for use > with FreeBSD, and where I might find one? > > I _REALLY_ want to get FreeBSD installed on my laptop, and I'm > willing to bite the bullet and jus

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 21:35:32 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 0:44:36 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: >>> I _REALLY_ want to get FreeBSD installed on my la

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 22:18:50 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I wish it were so. I have an NE2K compatible NIC >> >> Heh. I was going to suggest exactly that. > > :) Yeah, NE2K compatible NIC

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 22:56:27 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Hmm, this could be a simple problem to solve. What version of FreeBSD >> are you using? > > None yet :( That makes it difficult to get the

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 23:23:59 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> You might possibly find 4.7 easier in this case. 5.0 has completely >> rewritten PC Card drivers, and it may be more difficult to ge

Re: Panic out of dqget() (was: What caused this Panic)

2003-02-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 6 February 2003 at 19:21:18 -0500, Simon wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:16:39 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 22:29:15 -0500, Simon wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just had a server panic due to somethi

Appropriate use of FreeBSD mailing lists (was: Wireless(if_wi): supported card attachment problems)

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 8 February 2003 at 14:01:17 +0100, Andrea Franceschini wrote: > Hi All! > > I bought a card that, according to the man page of wi driver, should have been >supported. > The card is a Sohoware/NCP 130 and this is the output of 'man wi': On Saturday, 8 February 2003 at 14:01:34 +0100

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Daniela wrote: >> On Sunday 09 February 2003 19:15, Mike Meyer wrote: >> >>> You can get everything to build with debug symbols by adding >>> "CFLAGS=-g" to /etc/make.conf. However, the system will strip the >>> binaries when it ins

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>> I guess if you don't mind them eating up RAM, then go ahead. Keep >>> in mind that it can

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 0:14:04 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:32:14AM +1030 I heard the voice of > Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: >> On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>> >&g

Re: PDP-11 (with RSTS/E) emulator for FreeBSD

2003-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 16:24:15 -0500, Dan Delaney wrote: > Since we're on the subject of archaic software, does anyone know of a > good PDP-11 emulator that will run on FreeBSD? I'd like one that can > run the RSTS/E operating system. This is strictly for nostalgic > purposes :-) I learned

Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel?

2003-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 23:11:02 -0500, Pete wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Pete wrote: > >> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 13:50:20 -0500, Pete wrote: >>>> What does this mean?

Re: Wireless and FreeBsd

2002-07-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 22 July 2002 at 23:51:16 -0700, Ken wrote: > Hello, > Has anybody tried any of the wireless network cards with FreeBsd ? Yes. > I'm considering one of the Dlink wireless setups for home. I have 1 > windows box and 1 freebsd box. I'm sure the windows box would have no > problems. I'm

Re: SONY CD-RW CRX10U don't work with FreeBSD cdrtools

2002-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 September 2002 at 10:13:20 +0259, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a trouble trying to force my Sony CD-RW work on FreeBSD =) > > ... > Revision : '2.0b' > Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM. > ^^ > Uh-oh, what is going o

Re: Silly vinum question

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 10:49:34 -0400, Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > I have 2 disks on separate SCSI busses that are > striped to form a single vinum volume. They are recognized as > da0 and da1 > > I want to add 1 more disk to each SCSI buss and create > another striped

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it > is gmplayer but I cannot find a single reference to it on my > system. Thanks. Works fine for me, for a recent installation: $ pkg_info -L

Re: lost vinum config

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 25 September 2002 at 9:48:22 +1000, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote: > hi all, > > i'm running 4.3 on partition ad0s3. i tried to install 4.6.2 on ad3s2 and > when i booted back up on ad0s3 i lost my vinum partition which lives in > ad3s4a ( i did not note down the error message :( so

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote: >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Weston M. Price wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it >>> is gmplayer b

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:10:12 -0400, Dru wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +, Weston M. Price wrote: >>> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote: >>>> On Tues

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:37:42 -0400, Dru wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:10:12 -0400, Dru wrote: >>> Did you have to do any special magic to install mplayer in the first >>

Re: An old sparc 50mhz 64bit workstation - can it run *bsd?

2002-09-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 25 September 2002 at 22:03:20 -0400, Administrator wrote: > I do believe there is a port of NetBSD for sparc cpu's, but does anyone > know if it will run on open or freebsd? NetBSD doesn't run on OpenBSD or FreeBSD. OpenBSD does run on SPARC. > With preference for freebsd obvious

Re: Writing to tape drive produces invalid requests

2002-09-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 28 September 2002 at 23:02:54 +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > >>> In the last episode (Sep 28), Hartmann, O. said: Hello. While writing to a tape drive unit I get this kernel log: (sa0:sym1:0:5:0): Invalid request. Fixed

Re: Vinum Raid5 Recovery Problem

2002-10-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 3 October 2002 at 17:00:36 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem recovering a Vinum raid5 stripeset, and it was > recommended that I post the problem here. > > ... > > I am at a loss for what to do next. Take a look at the man page vinum(4), heading DEBUGGING

Re: What is the best IDE for C++programming in FreeBSD4.4?

2002-10-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 October 2002 at 14:08:09 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > On Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:03 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: (10.08.2002 @ 1149 PST): alireza mahini said, in 0.5K: << >>> I am Alireza and i am a young c++ developer in >>> freebsd. >>> I am working with freebsd4.4

Re: Corrupt data with vinum in 4.6.2-RELEASE

2002-10-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 October 2002 at 21:44:53 -0700, Jack Twilley wrote: > I had a bad experience this weekend with vinum, SCSI and new disks, > and I'm not sure which part's at fault. Well, you're getting mulitple error messages from the SCSI subsystem, and none from Vinum. > I installed ten new 4G d

Re: Corrupt data with vinum in 4.6.2-RELEASE

2002-10-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 17:40:31 -0700, Jack Twilley wrote: >> "Greg" == Greg Lehey writes: > >>> I had a bad experience this weekend with vinum, SCSI and new >>> disks, and I'm not sure which part's at fault. > >> Well, you're getting mulitple error messages from the SCSI >> subsyst

Re: Is ther any debugger for c and c++ programs in freebsd4.4?

2002-10-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 13:36:07 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Please put your question in the body of your message and limit the >> subject to jsut a title for your posting. >> It will make it much easier for people to read your ques

Using grep (was: Please help me)

2002-10-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 23:08:52 -0400, Toby Irvine wrote: > I have one question for you. I have been looking to find out what the > command/utility "grep" actually means or stands for. I have searched the > net and keep finding the same answer, which I have been told is wrong. > Could

Re: Errors in FreeBSD 5

2002-10-10 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 10 October 2002 at 9:32:57 +0100, G D McKee wrote: > Hi > > Been running 5 fine since DP1 and have done a cvsup and a buildworld > every week or so since. Last week the kernel kept panicing so I > cvsup and makeworld yesterday and I get the following error when I > boot up. I don't

Re: 802.11a Question (fwd)

2002-10-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at 9:36:56 +0930, Alex Wilkinson wrote: > Hi all, To update a reply I made on this subject in a different mailing list, > Can anyone recommend a Wireless Access Point and Wireless Access > Cards that will work with FreeBSD ? No. > Do all wireless cards these days c

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 20:47:08 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it. I added another and >>> would like to

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 21 October 2002 at 10:07:46 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > [Missing attribution to Kirk Strauser] >> >> At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>> I have one 80G archive drive and have f

Re: "Super-Server"?

2002-10-22 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 October 2002 at 17:42:21 -0700, Tony M. wrote: > Running verion 4.6-release. > I have installed Pure-FTP, but on boot-up it returns the following: > > Tony pure-ftpd: (?@?) (ERROR) Please run pure-ftpd within a super-server (like > tcpserver) > > I thought tcpserver was part of the i

Re: DLT Backup Questions

2002-10-22 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 October 2002 at 12:26:04 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 22), Chad Morland said: >> I am looking to create a multi-tape backup of close to 260G of data >> using a DLT-7000 with compression turned on. Does anyone have any >> recommendations for what to use to accom

Re: STR

2002-10-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at 23:29:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is STR (suspend to RAM) supported by FreeBSD any verrsion, Yes. > if it's supported by my BIOS? That may depend on your BIOS. > Seems like 'apm' in -stable doesn't support this function. It's very dependent on the mach

Re: STR

2002-10-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 19:55:30 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Is STR (suspend to RAM) supported by FreeBSD any verrsion, >> Yes. It's very dependent on the machine. You need to give more details. > Hardware: Gigabyte GA-8HXP i850E+ICH4 mainboard, Pent4, RDRAM. > BIOS: I can choose

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data - SOLVED

2002-10-25 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] This would be a lot more legible if you hadn't wrapped computer output. Also, your quoted text is broken. On Friday, 25 October 2002 at 1:48:15 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On Monday, October 21, 2002 7:39 AM, Drew Tomlinso

Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems

2002-10-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > This is the first time I have tried to do anything with Vinum. > This is on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. > I'm doing a "minimal" installation over the Internet using the two > floppy disk install method. > > I have several IDE volumes

Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems

2002-10-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
Please remove irrelevant quoted text. On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 21:43:27 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: >> >>> I get some other errors when I try to use the s

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 17:52:52 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated volume > using vinum or ccd, I will destroy whatever data I already have on the > disks. Is this correct? Sometimes. > Is there anyway to do it without destroyin

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotations. On Monday, 21 October 2002 at 7:39:01 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On Sunday, October 20, 2002 5:52 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated >> volu

Re: Vinum Error - No space left on drive

2002-10-24 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please don't wrap computer output. On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 17:06:01 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm sure the answer to my question is on the Net somewhere but after a > day and a half of searching, I've decided to ple

Re: Corrupt vinum concatenated drive -- Hardware?

2002-10-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 27 October 2002 at 22:21:34 -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: > I had something happen to my concatenated vinum drive. > Looking at /var/log/messages I think it may be calling out a hardware > problem on one of my drives. > > This configuration has been running for a week or so without complai

Re: Test

2002-11-02 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 2 November 2002 at 20:39:02 -0600, Kizer wrote: > Testing, thanks. Please don't send test messages to FreeBSD-questions. You inconvenience thousands of people. Use the FreeBSD-test mailing list instead: that's what it's there for. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy

Re: man 1 eject

2002-11-03 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 3 November 2002 at 13:39:46 -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > A question and a suggestion to improve the "eject(1)" manpage. > > Question: Why is there no "SEE ALSO" section for a command (if one exists) > to insert the CD tray using the command line? > > Suggestion: The manpage could be c

Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!)

2002-11-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 9 November 2002 at 17:25:54 -0800, joe wrote: > While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment > I did the following > cd /home/honza > mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.} > > cat /etc/passwd | grep honza >/etc/passwd > ^<==

Re: Load averages exceed 1 - but all seems well!

2002-11-10 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 10 November 2002 at 23:30:44 +1030, Brian Astill wrote: > Running "fvcool -e -i" works just fine for me in keeping my Athlon CPU cool, > BUT the output from TOP, shows: > > last pid: 2890; load averages: 1.10, 1.07, 1.00 > up 1+02:45:27 23:20:20 > 66 processes: 2 running, 64 sleep

Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager

2002-11-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 November 2002 at 21:08:56 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > >> I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, >> install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). >> Is this possible? > > It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to

Re: lukemftp in inetd.conf

2002-11-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] $Id$ string wrapped over two lines. On Wednesday, 13 November 2002 at 12:36:52 -0800, Dave McCammon wrote: > What happened to the lukemftpd option in inetd.conf? > (version below) > $FreeBSD: src/etc/inetd.conf,v 1.44.2.16 2002/

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 17 November 2002 at 16:08:14 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Hi! > > I 'm currently using SME (www.e-smith.org) as server at home. After > reading some docs on the net and having heavy troubles with Linux, I > decided to turn this server to a FreeBSD server. > > I've done a deep search

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 18 November 2002 at 9:44:55 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > >>> I'm aware there is an instant-server port but I'm not really >>> convinced! >> >> Why not? > > 'cos I need more ! > > Like a qmail mail server and stuff. OK, there's the basic problem: on the one hand, you want something

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 November 2002 at 9:07:25 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > >> Then don't enable one. A badly configured firewall is arguably worse >> than no firewall at all. > > wow no firewall is such a nice idea. > > just kidding.. your server is then open to anyone. > > don't you have a firewal

Re: HELP (or, now I've done it!) Vinum, RAID, and drivefailure...

2002-11-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 November 2002 at 9:05:19 -0500, Phillip Smith (3BAGSMEDIA) wrote: > > Hoping that the gods are with me and that you knowledgeable people can > assist me with this _really_ big screw up... > > FreeBSD4.6-stable > > I was setting up Vinum (rather successfully I might add) until last w

Re: Ports base?

2002-11-24 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: >> I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it >> started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is >> limited. > > I didn't t

Re: Ports base?

2002-11-24 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 16:51:07 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Lef

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-25 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 15:42:37 +, Adam Laurie wrote: > hi, > > who is the best person to talk to regarding vinum docco? I suppose I'm as good as any. > the reason i ask is because i recently had to recover a crashed > system with vinum runinng on it, and i had a recovery scenario wh

Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 13:41:58 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >>> ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr >>> partition. >>> >>> Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe >> dump to split >>> or something then reverse the process

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-26 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 November 2002 at 10:58:15 +, Adam Laurie wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 15:42:37 +, Adam Laurie wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> >>> who is the best person to talk to regarding vinum docco?

Re: increasing the size of a file system

2002-11-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 22 November 2002 at 18:38:31 -0700, Thomas Connolly wrote: > Hello all. I am having a problem installing a very large program. It wants > to extract itself to the /tmp directory but there is not enough space. I > have a 30 Gb hard drive that is only 20% full so there is plenty of free

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-28 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 10:06:24 +, Adam Laurie wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> >>> yep. like all the others i've found, this deals with fixing problems >>> within the raid itself, not moving a working raid onto a new s

Re: El Torito

2002-11-29 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 29 November 2002 at 10:02:45 -0700, Fixer Corp wrote: > I just pruchased FreeBSD 4.7. It requires a CDROM with El Torito > support. My computer was purchased in 1998 and the owners manual does > not say anything about El Torito. When I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, it > did not support my

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-29 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 29 November 2002 at 10:36:22 +, Adam Laurie wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 10:06:24 +, Adam Laurie wrote: >>> ok, i'm obviously not making myself clear... my problem wasn't >>> replacing

Re: vinum documentation

2002-12-04 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 30 November 2002 at 8:39:44 +, Adam Laurie wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> >>> describe the procedure for unplugging the external chassis from >>> machine A, and plugging it into machine B, and bringing up the vinum >>&

Re: vinum documentation

2002-12-04 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 December 2002 at 9:36:29 +, Adam Laurie wrote: > Adam Laurie wrote: >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>>> >>>> describe the procedure for unplugging the external chassis from >>>> machine A, and plugging it i

Re: vinum documentation

2002-12-04 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 December 2002 at 14:30:10 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Adam Laurie wrote: > >> .. having now digested what youve said so far, and re-read the docco >> several times, i'm guessing the final step would be: >> >>6. Run 'vinum makedev' >> >> in which case ou

Re: vinum and a BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

2002-12-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 5 December 2002 at 19:36:18 -0500, Jason Morgan wrote: > OK, I am installing vinum for the first time and have run into trouble. > > Setup: > > FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE > 2 WD 80GB IDE drives, ad0 and ad2 > > I used this page to help me through my setup: > > http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mi

Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wonderin

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 7 December 2002 at 20:47:29 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: > >> I was at a local installfext yesterday >> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were >> interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or >> reliability. I'm currently about to finish t

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:36:51 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >> I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and >> articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then >> discovered that the "picobsd" manpage told me

Re: vinum question - Is this possible?

2002-12-08 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 9:17:53 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: > This is my plan: > 1. Set up an empty 40G drive with vinum. > 2. Copy what I need from another 40G drive to it. > 3. Erase the second drive and set it up with vinum, > too, so that I have a mirrored set containing the > original data

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-08 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read > performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that ;-). > > I have two questions, one related to optimal stripe size and one to ga

Re: HELP: vinum and newfs on 5.0-RC1

2002-12-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 20:23:44 -0500, David Rhodus wrote: > I have also been having a few problems with vinum on 5.0-RC1. > I've been having a hard time making a striped or raid5 vinum with more > than 4 disk's. On the 5th+ disk's vinum will see and says "device is > not configured". That

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I was at a local installfext yesterday >> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were >> interested in doi

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 December 2002 at 7:08:15 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Monday 09 December 2002 12:45 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: >>> I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters pri

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-10 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 11:05:25 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > I recognize that picobsd doesn't suit everyone's needs, but probably > most. I'm not sure this is correct. > IIRC, it allows any number of modifications and additions to the > default configuration including installation

Re: Problems with X

2002-12-11 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 11 December 2002 at 11:04:22 -0500, Tyler Eaves wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:03, you wrote: >> After adding DefaultDepth you can remove all modes you >> don't need. >> >> ___ >> Mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> From Applied Math &

Re: vinum question - Is this possible?

2002-12-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 18:10:37 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 9:17:53 -0800, Matt &

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 11:44:16 +0100, Muller Petr wrote: > Hi, > Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file > system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage > have only sector by sector cloning for Unix system, but I need somethi

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 11:44:16 +0100, Muller Petr wrote: >>> Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 19:16:26 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>&

Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 22:07:19 -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: > > Hi People, > Before I (potentially) throw aay some bills, I thought I'd > ask the hardware-savvy if there is any appreciable difference > between makes of hubs. > > After 5 years I am getting read

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 21:48:50 -0600, Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch >> instead. They'll give you better performance, and

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 23:05:57 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:48:50PM -0600, Tillman wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-14 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at 5:43:54 -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch >> instead. They'll give you better performance, and t

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-14 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at 18:07:33 -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure you meant to write what you did, but I'm not 100% I >> understand. But yes, latency isn't an issue. Even

Re: moving 'vinum start' forward

2002-12-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 20:48:03 +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: > Hello > > Does anybody know a way to get vinum to load its configuration > before root is mounted? Yes. > I've been hacking away at vinum_attach() in sys/dev/vinum/vinum.c > but I can't seen to get it to work properly (yet) It

Re: number of network interfaces supported

2002-12-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 22:23:09 +0300, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Hello, > > Are there any restrictions on the number of network interfaces supported > by kernel? I need at least 6. I don't know of any hard limit, but it would be pretty high. There have been more than 6 by default in th

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 23:56:18 +0100, Raphal Ding wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've the following configuration : > - an ASUS mini-pc with FreeBSD on it, 900 MHz, 256 MBytes, > connected on an ethernet local network. > - 2 PC running Windows with X server via cygwin (each with > 1,4GHz Athlon

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 2:30:15 +0100, Raphal Ding wrote: >> One common problem is when your NIC is set to half-duplex operation >> and everything else is set to full duplex. > > I've done an ifconfig as mentioned in the handbook, and it says > that my card (rl0) : > media: Ethernet autosel

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 2:51:10 +0100, Raphal Ding wrote: >> Using compression flag on the ssh client ? > > No. But I've just tried. It slows down a little, but not much. I > would say that pictures do not takes 2 seconds but 2.5 seconds. > Well. But it's quite far from 1/4 ;) Hmm, I seem

Re: moving 'vinum start' forward

2002-12-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 10:30:42 +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:39:28AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 20:48:03 +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: >> >>> I've been hacking away at vinum_attach() i

Re: XFS

2002-12-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:05:05 -0500, Black Dragon wrote: > After a bit of Googling and a search of the list archives, have I > correctly come to the conclusion that there isn't any, as of yet, > support for XFS in FreeBSD? Yes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the ori

Re: XFS

2002-12-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:45:33 -0500, Black Dragon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:41:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:05:05 -0500, Black Dragon wrote: >>> After a bit of Googling and a search of the list

Re: moving 'vinum start' forward

2002-12-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 December 2002 at 17:49:40 +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:13:52AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 10:30:42 +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:39:28AM +1030, Greg &

Re: Q on vinum HOWTO org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored

2002-12-22 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 22 December 2002 at 12:31:41 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to follow the HOWTO at > http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html > It says under "Fresh installation of FreeBSD" > section, second line, > > "Then install the bootmanager only for the first disk" > > why i

Re: newfs -i and -f options with vinum

2002-12-23 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 22 December 2002 at 18:41:13 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > I need to create a partition that will be used to > store large number of small files (qmail Maildir) > I normally (without vinum in the picture) do this via > > newfs -i 2048 -f 512 /dev/... > > So when using newfs to c

Re: newfs -i and -f options with vinum

2002-12-23 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 23 December 2002 at 21:46:43 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:14:16AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> information in the disk label is not binding. I'd strongly advise >> against a 2048 byte block size, though; it buys yo

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-24 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 December 2002 at 17:25:23 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. > This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can > I get a count of this?) > Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that > the www.php.net's se

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