ServeRaid 4L support ?

2001-06-25 Thread Dimuthu Bandara
Hi, I tried to install Freebsd 4.3 Release on IBM Netfinity 5000 with ServeRaid 4L. And it doesn't even detect the drives. Is there anyway to install Freebsd this server with RAID 5. Are there drivers for servRaid? I know it's not listed in HARDWARE.TXT Please help me. Regards dimuthu _

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-25 Thread Joe Kelsey
Mike Porter writes: > [Lots of rambling ideas ...] First of all Mike, quite an interesting post. Unfortuantely, either the author of the book didn't understand or didn't explain the CMM well enough for you to be able to use it. I have worked as a Software Quality Engineer (really doing Quality,

Problems with Ports

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, I synced the ports tree yesturday, but am having problems with 3 ports: 1) Mozilla 2) Minicom 3) Netscape Navigator Here we go: 1) Mozilla: Building deps for nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp c++ -o nsCSSFrameConstructor.o -c -DOSTYPE=\"FreeBSD4\" -DOSARCH=\"FreeBSD\" -DOJI -D_IMPL_NS_HTML -D

Re: -stable weird panics

2001-06-25 Thread Matt Dillon
:% vmstat -m -M /var/qmail/crash/vmcore.6 :Memory Totals: In UseFreeRequests :17408K137K 7909365 :% vmstat -z -M /var/qmail/crash/vmcore.6 : :ZONEusedtotal mem-use :PIPE55 4088/63K :SWAPMETA0 0 0/0K

Re: XFree86-4.1.0+mga+dri+FreeBSD-4.3-stable == hang

2001-06-25 Thread Coleman Kane
I thought that dfr was supposed to be taking care of this...maybe not anymore. On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Rasputin wrote, and it was proclaimed: > * Glenn Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010614 20:27]: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:36:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > S

Best time to cvsup -STABLE

2001-06-25 Thread steve . d . meacham
I'd like to know if there is a time window where -STABLE is most likely to not be getting updated. This should allow us to avoid grabbing and building source that by chance has some changes only partially checked in and then getting strange behaviour or build errors. I heard mention on this l

RE: Still getting "Checksum mismatch" etc.

2001-06-25 Thread Jason Watkins
I also was getting these errors, along with some odd behaviour in the ports tree. I ended up simply blasting out my src and cvs files and pulling everything down from scratch. Certainly a case of useing a broadswoard for a letter opener, but it worked. If you're getting these errors, be aware tha

Re: Still getting "Checksum mismatch" etc.

2001-06-25 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Scott Lambert wrote: > It should have been cleared up by now with a nightly cvsup. Mine boxes just > had the two instances where they downloaded all the libpam stuff. After that, > it was business as usual. > > So, are you saying you get to download those files each time yo

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-25 Thread Jason Watkins
I think it's become clear in this discussion that some people reguard -stable as the secure, regularly updated moving release canidate. Other people view -stable as a just stable enough branch for developers to coordinate building new functionality. If the 2nd view is the official one, then a new

Re: Still getting "Checksum mismatch" etc.

2001-06-25 Thread Scott Lambert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:59:03AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Scott Lambert wrote: > > > But how many CVSups on each machine. > > I run a daily cvsup cron job (well, it's nightly, really). I get the error > messages if I do 'make update' in /usr/src as well. > > > > The

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-25 Thread Jason Watkins
JK> All of your problems can be traced back to old hardware or inexperience with the latest thinking in BSD land. Because you have not upgraded your 2.x system, you are essentially stuck. Either get newer hardware to work with or go through the upgrade based on your subscription disks. While th

Re: Still getting "Checksum mismatch" etc.

2001-06-25 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Scott Lambert wrote: > But how many CVSups on each machine. I run a daily cvsup cron job (well, it's nightly, really). I get the error messages if I do 'make update' in /usr/src as well. > There was a commit of libpam stuff that > didn't work. Some time later the commit w

Re: Still getting "Checksum mismatch" etc.

2001-06-25 Thread Scott Lambert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:36:18AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, John Polstra wrote: > > > No fix is needed. The message is telling you that CVSup has noticed > > a problem and is fixing it itself. CVSup _will_not_ give you a bad > > update unless your underlying hardware (

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-25 Thread Jason Watkins
JW> I react rather badly to some of your comments concerning the usability of JW> FreeBSD. Our goal *should* be a simple and turnkey system, or at the least, SH> That would be a RELEASE. They are usually pretty good at being just that IMHO. No, usability follows from design and functionality. T