On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think sysinstall? got it wrong here and I get the complaint in the
> subject line on boot. This is amd64 if that matters. Nothing edited by hand.
>
> I must admit I don't fully understand what is going on here, "foun
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:25:30PM -0700, Benjamin Lee wrote:
> On 10/22/08 19:55, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my
> > box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root
> > logins disabled via SSH. This is a r
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:43:47PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>group, and root login is disabled in SSH.
> >>
> >>Thanks for any help/advice.
> >
> >You'll need to reboot in single-user mode.
> >E.g.,
> >http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#SU-WHEEL-GROUP
>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:50:29AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another option would be if that umprivileged user is in sudoers
> with permission to run the root shell (sudo -s). It doesn't need to be
> in wheel to do that.
Of course, it would take root to be put in.
jerr
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:55:19PM -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my
> box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root
> logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH
> access.
>
> I
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:23:10AM -1000, Al Plant wrote:
> Valentin Bud wrote:
> >hello,
> >what do you know about this site: http://www.metricamerica.com/.
> >i don't remember where i have read that America is going to apply the SI
> >(ess eye)
> >unit system.
> >so things are going to change ma
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My laptop "died" recently and to get back to work as quickly as
> possible I simply took the laptop ide drive and put it into an old
> desktop using a 2.5" -> 3.5" ide adapter. After loading a few new
> drivers into the ker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 02:12:19AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> Mauricio L?pez wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote:
> I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:34:42AM +0100, LennyCZ wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to try FreeBSD on my machine, but I did not find any
> information regarding the ISO files on FreeBSD FTP sites.
>
> For example, in ISO directory for 7.0 release, I found these files:
>
> 7.0-RELEASE-i
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> > Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >>> Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste
> >>> 3 CDs
> >&g
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:40:28PM -0200, User Lenzi wrote:
> Em Ter, 2008-10-28 às 07:41 -0700, Dánielisz László escreveu:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without
> > success.
> > I remaing curios about any solution.
> >
> > Laci
> >
>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote:
> immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be
> performed by order
> 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel
> 2 - The Cutting Edge
> 3 - Updating FreeBSD
>
> Is this the proper order?
I would say, first update FreeBSD src a
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote:
> Jerry McAllister escreveu:
> >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote:
> >
> >
> >>immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be
> >>performed by order
> >&g
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:39:16PM +, pwn wrote:
> Jerry McAllister escreveu:
> >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Jerry McAllister escreveu:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrot
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> Eduardo Meyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to write a cgi script which will print the output from ps(1) in
> > a table (html), so the average-operator can click on a KILL link and
>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm considering using a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD to perform a
> backup of my notebooks'
> 500 GB hard disk to a physically identical (same make, same type, same
> size) hard disk attached to USB.
>
> Wha
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:48:32PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> Jerry McAllister schrieb:
> >On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi list,
> >>
> >>I'm considering using a bootable USB stick
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:38:07PM +0800, joeb wrote:
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>
> FBSD1 wrote:
> > What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop
> environment?
> > I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one.
> > Thanks in adva
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote:
> Dear Support:
>
> I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me
> know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now?
>
> And let me know how to subscribe the Q&A list that I prefer.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote:
> >
> >>Dear Support:
> >> I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let
>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:38:28PM -0800, David Allen wrote:
> I'd like to move to using csup(1) and there's an error in the manpage
> that's raising some questions for me:
>
> OPTIONS
> base=base The default base directory is /usr/local/etc/csup.
>
> FILES
> /usr/local
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I
> may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono
> on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea.
>
> To pose my questions to the d
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:09:25PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >I partitioned my Seagate 500 GB Sata drive under the FreeBSD 7.1
> >sysinstall (booted from the install CD while having the drive attached to
> >USB on my notebook). When creating the filesystems I chose 472 G for the /
> >par
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:45:07PM -0500, SAM HAYNES wrote:
> Greetings, O Learned Ones
> from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008
>
> I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list,
> other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or
> either something to
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:08:05PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've PATH problem with a perl package (I don't knwon anything about
> perl).
>
> I run rt (3.8) under apache22 + mod_perl2 and on some p5 librairie I've got
> message like
>
> Command 'dot' not found in /bin, /usr/bi
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:10:36AM -0500, chloe K wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have hundred files to tar
>
> How can I make tar the file but untar in different folder?
>
Just use cd. You can use cd in a script just like you would
at the command line.
cd /what/ever/the/source/directory/is
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:13:54PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> Glen Barber wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Pieter Donche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >>FreeBSD 7.0 comes with the user root with start up shell /bin/csh
> >>As normal user I use bash (/usr/local/bin/bash installed)
>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer
> any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
>
> What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
>
> FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, according to the sch
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time
> complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in
> question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from
> >>windows vista
> >>
> >>but i cannot understand which system to use
> >
> >maybe windows XP?
> >
> >>
> >>i am not sure if freebsd will
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote:
> > Dear sirs
> >
> > please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from
> > windows vista
> >
> > but i cannot understand which system to use
> >
> > i am not sure if
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:56:26PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> > Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>> please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from
> >>> windows vista
> >>>
> >>> but i cannot understand which syste
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:22:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >The OP asked advice on an OS alternative to Vista and asked about
> >FreeBSD. Telling him that FreeBSD is a good choice is not making
> >a religious statement. It is just answering his question in an
> >honest manner.
>
> no
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:21:04AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >
> >But why are we interested in "converting" people? That borders on
> >religious, which an operating system should not be.
>
> exactly.
>
> it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already
> using
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:18:07AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >FreeBSD is a very powerful and stable system, but that said it is also
> >very hands on - the opposite extreme of vista which is all hands off.
> >This means that you will have a very steep learning curve.
>
>
> simply readi
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:40:06AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:55:42AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on
> > > my
> > > computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Z
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD.
> >>
> >>But not from Windows.
> >
> >Come on, lose your thickness and let the guy be free from Vista.
>
> I DO NOT say "don't free from microsoft"!
>
> you may change Toyota to Nissan, an
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:21:27PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 16:39 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> >
> > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> > >
>
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:57:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>simply reading FreeBSD handbook will be the best move for the beginning.
> >>
> >>But it is NOT windoze replacement.
> >
> >It is if you put it on the system instead of MS-Win stuff.
> >It will totally replace it if you use fdisk
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:06:34AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>
> >>I strongly recommend all of You to stop this bad trend.
> >>
> >
> >Could you please stop trolling? You're not contributing to anything here.
> no - because i'm not trolling. simply ignore me if you don't understand
> what
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:39:48AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) )
>
> I've install many FreeBSD, but I always use the all disk.
>
> If I've a laptop come with winxp ? How can I shrink the
> WinNT partition ? Can the FreeBSD install
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>usage or need.
> >
> >You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here
>
> is someone that simply use unix an expert?
>
> no.
>
>
> >By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are
>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not
> >very powerful.
>
> as KDE and Gnome and others.
>
>
> >when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have
> >read even the user
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>All "nice GUI" for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will
> >>say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right.
> >
> >I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth,
>
> i exactly r
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54:48AM -0500, Dan wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100:
> >>
> >> Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at
> >> hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in
> >
> > for benchmarks d
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:29:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>so why it have a much smaller market share?
> >
> >Because MS wrote restrictive contracts with companies trying to
> >sell PCs saying that if they wanted to put MS on any of their
>
> Apple produces it's own computers. Actually
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:02:40PM -0800, Niyi Christ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a
> new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery
> partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:38:23PM -0330, Robert Anthony wrote:
> Hello dear Sir/ Madam;
>
> I have recently started work on a business plan for a small computer
> manufacturing plant. I have decided that I want to distribute my computers
> with a non windows OS such as Linux or free BSD or somet
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:35:19PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
> >
> > I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got
> > a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery
> > partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:03:58PM +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus wrote:
> Greetings,
> I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 on an old server earlier today and ran in to
> a number of issues related to slicing and labeling the disk using fdisk.
> The drive in the machine is a 40GB Seagate Barracude (ST34001A
t the standard
so it can work with all systems and limits itself to the one sector
MBR and bootblocks. I have heard some talk of making a FreeBSD
version of extended MBRs and bootblocks, but I don't know if anyone
is really doing it.
jerry
>
> Appreciate the clarification
&g
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:42:31AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to setup a test server that will be able to boot either
> FreeBSD to Windows Server 2003 R2. I have tried to use the BSD Boot
> manager and the Windows Boot manager. In either case I have run into
> problems. Wh
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:36:50PM -0500, Dan wrote:
> Kelly Jones([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.22 14:16:56 -0700:
> > What Unix program sends email directly, using the MX record of the
> > recipient, instead of using sendmail or an installed MTA?
>
> Sendmail/Sendwhale sucks for just about anythin
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > ad0 |---| the whole disk
> > ad0s1 \--/ one slice
> >ad0s1X \--/\---/\-/\-/\---/\--
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:56:44AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
> If one has a system with 7 500Gb SATA disks in a hardware RAID6
> (Areca Raid Controller), then (according to mail J.Chadwick 7
> Nov 2008) they will show up as da (following naming convention
> for scsi disks although they are not).
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk:
> > "A = Use Entire disk"), then will the BSD-partitions will show up as
> > ad
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:56:52PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> Fellas, I need opinions. Asus Eee PC, SSD storage, 512MB RAM, with GNOME
> and other desktop thingy (testing out of curiousity).
>
> Question is, swap or no swap? Remember, this is SSD, it is reasonable
> to have no swap. Howev
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:41:43PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> >> On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> >>
> >> On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before
> they
> >> can match Microsoft'
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:01:22PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >Yes, have some swap. The system uses this space for more than swapping
> >out processes. It uses it for paging and for crash dumping. The
> >rule of thumb is 2.2 times memory size.
>
> why not 2.17?
Sounds good to me.Tak
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:23:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >This is why I can easily justify teaching my elders FreeBSD -- they
> >unquestionably have more to learn, but they only learn it once, so the
> >investment pays off.
> but most people don't like to learn. even once.
You need to
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:47:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <[EMAIL
>
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> > Da Rock writes:
> >
> > > Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
> > >
> > > 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
> >
> > Yes. Can't re
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:00:09PM -0600, Tyson Boellstorff wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
>
> > I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger)
> > to replace it as it is quite old and slow -
> >
> > My question is when I clone
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to
> > participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba.
>
> I want to
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:40:41PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500
> > David Kelly wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored
> > > glasses.
> >
>
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows
> > display from the headless machine to a desktop X serv
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:22:54PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> >
> > > I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store
&g
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:01:22AM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal
> users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on
> other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are sugges
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:49:37AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:01:22AM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal
> > users (about 50 users). Currently we a
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:01:18PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
> NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
>
> I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue
> 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06:34PM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Scenario: 3 hds, 1 of them with a NTFS partition and loads of media on
> it, I was thinking to activate ntfs3g under Freebsd 7.2 STABLE, but
> since Im having this partition since a while... and i will no need to
> ha
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:32:52PM -0400, don carlos wrote:
> Hello and Good day,
>
> We are looking for a company that provides on-site services on installing
> FreeBSD mailserver. We currently have a FreeBSD based mailserver running and
> we need to upgrade it. We need all emails and addressbo
t and hard links on this partition... will be fine?
>
Are their subdirectories that need copying too.
If so, use the -R flag.
You might want to do
cp /media/DATAWIN/* /media/UFShd/.
jerry
> Thanks!
>
> 2009/9/28 Jerry McAllister :
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06:34P
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:44:38PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing
> up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer.
> I would like to do 2 things:
> 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installat
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:48:30PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote:
> >
> >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can
> >> it be dumped if its been formatted?
> >>
> > When you're working on this low level
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:08:05AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> Forgot to mention this:
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote:
> > 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f
> > and g slices or is it partitions?
>
> The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e,
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:58:36AM +0200, bsd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a FBSD 6.4p7 box that I use as a mail server - 1Go RAM - RAID1
> Works quite well.
>
> As I plan to put 100 more mail accounts soon on the server I was
> wondering if the memory & swap was ok on the server considering the
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:28:31PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, 06. Okt 2009, 07:05:23 -0400 schrieb Henry Olyer:
> > So I have a FreeBSD system.
> > Is their a way to install windoz? Say, XP-pro? Or whatever...
>
> Replace or dual boot? The standard FreeBSD boot manage
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:44:04PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
> My 2 cents, as far as I know 7.1 will be maintained longer than 7.2
> according to the freebsd.org website. That is, security fixes will be
> rolled out for 7.1 a while after 7.2 reaches End Of Life. That made
> me decide to go wit
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:29:42PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I believe that my problems arise out of subliminal refuse syndrome: the
> brain refuses to comprehend dump and restore TOs and FROMs.
> In other words, I'm beginning to see that
> dump -0af TO ( - or device/file) FROM (device or directory/file)
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:42:47PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
> My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I
> need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially
> /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup
> (and what I've done in
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:13:49PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:
>
> -- Original Message --
> From: "Len Conrad"
> Reply-To:
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:26 +0200
>
> the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:12:56AM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
You can do all this though it might be more than needed. Only
the level 0 dumps are needed.
> Thanks again guys. My final series of steps to take full backups:
>
> bsdlabel ad4s1| ssh -p 2 nlan...@localhos
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day
> these partitions, will I need 21 tapes?
>
> I ask because it seems it is not possible to place more than one dump on
> one tape, isn't it?
Y
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:54:23PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very,
> very confusing.
> Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many
> instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole
> system:
> for instance
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 08:43:26PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
> Replies inline
>
> On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> >
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> one example: If I have
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 06:49:02PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
> On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
>
> > You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time.
> > If you to that, you will get a second one at that location.
> >
> > You do not
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 08:09:22PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
> On 10/17/09, Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 18:49 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd:
> >> On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > You do not need to. du
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:26:45AM -0700, nicholas addei wrote:
> please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in as root
>
> would appreciate your help.
You will get more help if you first, use a meaningful subject line on
your post and then if you put some useful information
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:55:51AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > > > ... If you are refering to a kind of
> > > > hard disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you
> > > > are refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like
> > > > "CD = compact disc".
> > >
> > > An a
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:31:18AM +0100, Grünewald Michaël wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> after an incorrect power-off of my FreeBSD system, it does not boot
> any more, BTX stops even before showing the cute beastie menu.
> Starting the machine by other means, I found that the hard-drive is
> in
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote:
> > Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> > > Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of
> > > the base system, which MTA would you like to replace it with? Or
> >
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:45:59PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:31:34 pm Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote:
> > &g
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:16:27PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Jack L. wrote:
> >I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just
> >installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot
> >manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD
> >
>
> I
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am
> wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep
> "/home" from my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a
> separate p
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:00:04AM +1100, Alex R wrote:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ shows
> that there is an RC3 ISO image available for download? How many RC's
> until the final release?
Depends on what they find is needed to get the RELEASE ready to g
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote:
> Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box and i left a
> partition for freebsd, i finished install of freebsd and installed the boot
> mgr of freebsd but when i reboot only windows boots with f1 pressed? how can
>
monkeying around to get an MBR to handle it correctly, but I
don't know details and I do not (lucky me) have any Vista machines
to joust with.
jerry
>
> 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister
>
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote:
> >
> > &g
subdivisions in a slice, but I haven't
tried that yet.
In FreeBSD, to create a filesystem from a partition, you run newfs(8) on it.
jerry
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister
>
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:27:13PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wro
>
> 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister
>
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:12:22PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote:
> >
> > > so, then i need to create 2 slices with gparted, install windows on the
> > > first one, and install freebsd on the second one and label this pa
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