Switching from 32 to 64 bit with freebsd-update?

2008-07-16 Thread H. Wade Minter
I have a 64-bit system that had the 32-bit version of 6.3 installed on it. Is it possible to use freebsd-update (or another somewhat painless method) to switch the system to 64-bit? We're running into the 4GB memory limit. --Wade ___ freebsd-stabl

USB keyboard locking up on 7-RELEASE/amd64

2008-04-09 Thread H. Wade Minter
I have a Dell Optiplex 755, with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip. I have installed 7-RELEASE/amd64 on it. 2GB of RAM, 6GB of swap. The install went fine, but post-install I'm running into a problem where the USB keyboard will just lock up. I can still ping and SSH into the system, but after abo

Re: Intel ICH7R RAID controller working on 6.1/STABLE?

2006-07-14 Thread H. Wade Minter
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: H. Wade Minter wrote: I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them. Googling around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or they work, or

Intel ICH7R RAID controller working on 6.1/STABLE?

2006-07-14 Thread H. Wade Minter
I'm considering ordering some of these servers to run FreeBSD 6.1 or 6-STABLE on, but they have Intel ICH7R RAID controllers on them. Googling around, I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or they work, or work well enough to use in production. The server specs are here: http://st

Re: Odd "phantom MFS mountpoint" issue

2006-04-10 Thread H. Wade Minter
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Michael Proto wrote: Does /tmp exist and is writable when the system is started? Looking at the test in /etc/rc.d/tmp, it looks like /tmp will be mounted as a mfs if "/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/.diskless" fails. It should have been, but I went ahead and set tmpmfs="NO" in rc.conf,

Re: Odd "phantom MFS mountpoint" issue

2006-04-10 Thread H. Wade Minter
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Michael Proto wrote: How should I remove this mfs mountpoint permanently to get the disk-based /tmp back? --Wade Do you have tmpmfs defined in /etc/rc.conf? If tmpfs is enabled there it will create a /tmp mfs as you are indicating. Not that I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Odd "phantom MFS mountpoint" issue

2006-04-10 Thread H. Wade Minter
I've got a 5.4-RELEASE-p9 system that I was doing some memory filesystem testing on. I'm seeing something odd, though - a small MFS partition mounted over top of /tmp that I can't get rid of. Here's the system now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mrvoice]$ mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh question

2001-12-27 Thread H. Wade Minter
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Peter/Los Angeles, CA wrote: > I have some understanding of how the script works, but I'm not sure what > it's asking for. > > [09:37][root@interim:/usr/local/etc/rc.d]# ls > apache.sh* > [09:37][root@interim:/usr/local/etc/rc.d]# ./apache.sh start > ./apache.sh: Cannot deter

Parallel port CD Writer supported?

2001-02-04 Thread H. Wade Minter
Does anyone know if a parallel port CD writer, such as the HP 7200, is supported in 4.2-STABLE? I haven't found any documentation for getting it to work. --Wade To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message