Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: > > Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone > > touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly > > rendered as much as good for a complete reinstall. It'

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:34 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: > > Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone > > touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly > > rendered as much as good for a complete rein

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 17:19, Michal Varga wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:28 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: PS: Whatever that means, please don't get your sources through "sysinstall", that monster shouldn't even be present in a seriously maintained FreeBSD installation. Get your sources "the proper way"

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: > Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone > touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly > rendered as much as good for a complete reinstall. It's just "one of > those things" that shouldn't be pres

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: > On 26/07/2011 16:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: >>> Actually it is Raid 10 of a sort. Three first halves of the three disk >>> concatenated and mirrored on the three second half of the same drives. >>

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:28 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > > PS: Whatever that means, please don't get your sources through > > "sysinstall", that monster shouldn't even be present in a seriously > > maintained FreeBSD installation. Get your sources "the proper way" with > > csup: > > > > http://ww

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 16:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: Actually it is Raid 10 of a sort. Three first halves of the three disk concatenated and mirrored on the three second half of the same drives. There's a significant problem right there. Not only will tha

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: > Actually it is Raid 10 of a sort. Three first halves of the three disk > concatenated and mirrored on the three second half of the same drives. There's a significant problem right there. Not only will that configuration badly degrade the perfo

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:25:38PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > On 26/07/2011 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > >>[very large snip] > >> > >>So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsck are not in > >>sync with my kernel.

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 15:01, Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Jerome Herman wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 13:58, Michal Varga wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 13:04 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to h

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: [very large snip] So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsck are not in sync with my kernel. I've never heard of either of these utilities (bsdlabel/disklabel, nor fsck) ha

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > [very large snip] > > So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsck are not in > sync with my kernel. I've never heard of either of these utilities (bsdlabel/disklabel, nor fsck) having to be "in sync with the kernel". M

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 13:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:04:04PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 13:04 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without > upgrading or even compiling the kernel. > > The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that > seems to have quite a lot of problem,

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-07-26 13:04, Jerome Herman wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably with fsck. I am starting to

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:04:04PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without > upgrading or even compiling the kernel. > > The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station > that seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably

Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably with fsck. I am starting to wonder whether this BSD station