Re: Boot and Install from USB?

On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much > chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in > production. Why can&

Re: Boot and Install from USB?

On 7/28/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much > > chassis

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

On 7/28/06, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, > since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be > losing not buying their pro

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/28/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out > there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to > >http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes > > register all of y

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/28/06, Xiao-Yong Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/28/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Towards t

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

On 7/10/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am running 5.4-STABLE and I would like to have better resolution (more lines and columns) when I boot into console. I used to be able to issue a command once there but I have forgotten that command. I remember trying to allude to it via rc.conf

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/29/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/28/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal >> use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/29/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > You might think this sounds harmless but folks have done this kind of > thing in the past with other products and wreaked havoc on the Internet. > You can start by referencing "dlink ntp fiasco" in

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/29/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: > > > My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal > > use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing > >

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/29/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: > > > > > My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/31/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who >> are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees. > > Also, I would guess

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

trigger on the first of the month within 5 minutes of each other (10^6 per minute). This equates to 16706 clients per second. We would need 326KB/s or 2610Kbit/s to handle this load. This is a problem, even half of that is a problem. On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: O

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

On 7/31/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Born, Clinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" ; "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 7/31/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >>> Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing >>> sent from local host - will count systems from any ve

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/1/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: User Freebsd writes: > Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as > soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need > to do something like: > > ifconfig | grep ether | sha256 | md5 > > s

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/1/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not just add in the patch in kern/65627 and run the CPU serial number through your hash? Because you can still fake the dam thing, making the whole idea useless!!! Am I the only one that can see this ... what the hell people! I just sho

SATA Cables Suck!

The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also... what can we do with the old cables to fix them... super

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

On 8/1/06, jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 > times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other > stupid problem with

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: > The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 > times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other > stupid problem wi

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/1/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/1/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> User Freebsd writes: >> > Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as >>

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/1/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness? We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per host, how are you going to know whether to updat

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

On 8/1/06, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server > > to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

On 8/2/06, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am actually not looking for a Windows look alike. I am simply replacing my XP system with a BSD solution. I am looking for a fast easy to configure and fun WM. I am absolutely looking for something new to use. not Windows like. Tha

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Atom Powers wrote: > > It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the > base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and > get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get > numbers now wi

Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the charact

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out >> of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thoug

Re: 17" or 19"

On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19" one. I'm not

Re: Intel 82563EB + Blackford on v6.1

On 6/16/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that most of the new MBs with the Blackford chipset use the 82563EB dual gig intel controller. Is there support forthcoming for the controller? Has anyone tested with a blackford MB yet? Ditto... Supermicro X7DBE. Where is the driver?

Fastest disk in the west or bad iozone numbers?

Anyone have a clue why iozone reports disk read rates of 688MegaBytes/s on a 1GB test file? Am I doing something stupid, like not converting the numbers correctly? I've attached the iozone report, It's from a single 400GB Seagate SATA drive. infomatic# iozone -az -g 1g -b ~/seagate.xls Io

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

n and each color depth? Should there be only one? If I add one for each resolution and color depth combo is there a way to switch the resolution in the WM? Thanks for the input. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis Original Message Subject: Re: Replacing windows XP at home. From:

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/08/2006 4:58 AM, User Freebsd wrote: > Getting a list of devices is actually pretty easy, and I've tried this > on my 4.x machines also, so it isn't something that will be a problem on > older versions: > > # pciconf -l > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0

Re: vidcontrol

On 8/3/06, Jeff Molofee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've noticed an odd problem when I set allscreens_flags="MODE_282". If I set this in rc.conf, when I reboot my machine, the minute GDM comes up, I can see black on the top half of my screen, overwriting everything else on the screen. As I move th

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/08/2006 11:44 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 899 bytes * (10^7) = 8.37258995 gigabytes... Remember... Once this > code is pushed out to hosts you can't change it. 10 years from now > we'll still have hosts sending

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

On 8/1/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA

Re: Supermicro X6DVL-EG-2 Compatibility

On 8/6/06, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone. Quick hardware question here... We're looking to move a dedicated server to a new datacenter with new hardware. The Dual Xeon boards in the new datacenter are the Supermicro X6DVL-EG-2 with the Intel E7320 chipset. I see the E7320 list

How do I set Mixer settings in stone.

After every reboot I need to run 'mixer ogain 85'. I'd like to never have to do this again. How do I tell this to FreeBSD? I've tried yelling at him, for example: FreeBSD! Stop resetting the mixer ogain! damit! But this never works. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebs

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/6/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've now committed v2.0 of the 300.statistics periodic script ... this one adds the device reporting that we'd talked about previously, and the summary reports now reflect the driver(s) in use for those deciding to report ... This Phase of

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/8/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/6/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've now committed v2.0 of the 300.statistics periodic script ... this >> one >> adds the device reporting that we&#

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/8/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Anyhow, how about the following little enhancement. This lists the CPUs > on the system pretending they are CPU0, CPU1, ... devices. The URI > escape stuff should be automatically decoded by PHP

Re: Changing root's shell

On 8/8/06, Ross Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/8/06, Pete Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ross Penner wrote: > > > how do you drop to single user mode? I just know how to get there at > > boot time. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On 8/8/06, *Pete Slagle* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/9/06, Igor Robul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be using the > IPs to do is: > > SELECT ip, count(1) FROM systems GROUP BY ip ORDER BY count DESC; > > to look for any 'abnormal

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/9/06, Igor Robul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be using the > > IPs to do is: >

Re: Large File System?

On 8/8/06, Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/8/06, Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling > file system as I would use it on every box. > > Softupdates are the FreeBSD equivalent. From my point of v

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Igor Robul wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:30:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Could create problems long term .. one thing I will be u

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Igor Robul wrote: > >> > >>> On T

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/10/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/9/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: &

Re: Large File System?

or the google summer of code project etc for this when we have softupdates But I guess I must be missing something -- martin On 8/9/06, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > You've never had to fsck a 2TB+ array, have y

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

hosts... perhaps my earlier example: ifconfig |md5. If not please remove my entries in the database. I've attached the script used to make the hashes. On 8/10/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/9/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/9/06,

Re: iCal Server

On 8/9/06, Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anybody working on porting this Apple product to FreeBSD? The source code can be downloaded here: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration/wiki I'm really interested in a product like this, and Chandler looks like a pretty decent client.

Re: USB Media Keys

On 8/11/06, Jeff Molofee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to get USB media keys to work in FreeBSD 6.x? I can't get anything to even see the keys, I would like to get my volume keys working on a Saitek Eclipse keyboard. What on earth are you talking about? USB keyboards, USB mass stor

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On 8/11/06, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Ok... With my new script it took only 158 minutes to compute ALL >> TCP/IP address hashes. I'll repeat that... I have an md5 hash for >

Re: USB Media Keys

On 8/11/06, Jeff Molofee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: do you know of any usb keys that have volume keys? No I don't know of any USB keyboards with volume control... I'm picky about my keyboards... Most of them are old DEC, Compaq, and IBM keyboards with the standard key layout... I think the key

lang/php4 defaults to cgi build?

lang/php4 defaults to cgi build. When did we decide this? AFAIK it always built the apache module in the past... isn't that standard procedure for building a LAMP stack? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/

Re: GCC - Optimal Optimization

On 8/18/06, Sean M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With GCC 3.4.4, what are the best CFLAGS to use for an AMD Duron ~1000 MHz? By "best" I mean creating the fastest programs that exploit fully all of the architecture's features, without creating a "noticible" increase in size. To date I've been using

Re: AMD 64 3000

On 8/18/06, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web server? We > are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm hesitant > to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD? What are you doing that woul

Re: GCC - Optimal Optimization

basis, that's what the .if block is for. Also note that I don't set CXXFLAGS. Why? because CXXFLAGS is set to whatever CFLAGS is set to. Also note the use of += and ?=, and the creative use of -mtune= to optimize the parts of the kernel, world, and ports that ignore CPUTYPE... BTW never put

Add colored border around console?

How do I do this: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/IMG_5496-2.jpg What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night to generate interrupt load as part of a system stress test. -- BSD P

Re: Add colored border around console?

On 8/21/06, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have > > no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see

Re: Add colored border around console?

On 8/21/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/21/06, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > What I want is the colored border around the console window.

Re: When will KDE4 be in the ports tree?

On 8/26/06, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steven Lake wrote: > Just curious when to start expecting to see KDE4 in the ports tree > for Freebsd. From the reports I've been seeing, it's pretty close to > being released soon. So the curiosity bug bit me and I decided to ask > here.

Re: Commercial Software

On 8/26/06, shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I quote you from your page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html "Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also encouraged to contact us. " I am a software writer, my website is http:

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

On 8/26/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... > > Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choi

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

On 8/27/06, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 > on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. > Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd, or something else,

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

On 8/27/06, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz > processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type > of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept.

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem:

FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem:

Force UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4?

How do you force a UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4 mode in FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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