Re: Custom boot disks

2000-03-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:08:06 -0800 > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have several systems with broken PCI chipsets that I need to upgrade to > > 3.4-R from 2.2.7-R. I've patched 'pcibus.c' to fix the problem on these > > systems (reversed the

Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?

2000-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kiril Mitev wrote: > In other words "2.2 is our most stable version" I hope you realise that no single person speaks for FreeBSD, especially people who aren't committers. That said, a lot of people found 2.2 to be a very stable branch. A lot of people found the same thing ab

Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?

2000-03-30 Thread Kiril Mitev
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > In other words "2.2 is our most stable version" > > I hope you realise that no single person speaks for FreeBSD, especially > people who aren't committers. That said, a lot of people found 2.2 to be a *sigh* yes i do, a "newbie" wont > This i

Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?

2000-03-30 Thread The Unicorn
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Didier Derny wrote: > > > freebsd seems running version after version and not stability... > > > in 1999 (3.x) I was not so sure at all, no stability too many problems. > > hmmm > > # uptime > 1:44AM up 46 days, 22:

Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?

2000-03-30 Thread Fabrizio Poggi
At 17.34 30/03/00 +, you wrote: >next time I shall remember to put SARCASM somewhere in BIG letters .. >(my fault, yes) Yes Kiril, Let's do a little joke huh? Stay in tune and prepare your flames:) I tried 2.2.8, maybe was stable but was also the most ignorant system ever seen. Rude and pur

Is 3.x stable with a small s ? ummm yes... (was Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?)

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:13 PM 3/30/00 +0200, The Unicorn wrote: >On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Didier Derny wrote: >> >> > freebsd seems running version after version and not stability... >> >> > in 1999 (3.x) I was not so sure at all, no stability too many problems. >

Re: 3.4-RELEASE; panic while paging

2000-03-30 Thread Marinos J . Yannikos
Thanks for all the useful suggestions! I exchanged the board for a Gigabyte GA-7IXE and the DIMMs for 2 x 256MB PC100 6ns with 5 year warranty, i.e. supposedly quality parts and I also got a (newer) 650 MHz Athlon. So far this combination seems to be absolutely stable, not a single process has die

Re: 3.4-RELEASE; panic while paging

2000-03-30 Thread J McKitrick
Just general question about these types of hardware problems. Do they occur often under NT or windows as well? Or does FreeBSD just seem to push hardware to its limits more? jm -- Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The spice must flow

RE: Let 3.x die ASAP?

2000-03-30 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 30-Mar-00 C J Michaels wrote: > Judging the stability of 3.x by the postings in this list is inaccurate. > The purpose of this list is to help with problems/questions/etc... Of > course people aren't going to post daily "my 3.x system works great, > thanks!". My 3.4-STABLE system works great

Re: Custom boot disks

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > I have several systems with broken PCI chipsets that I need to upgrade to > > 3.4-R from 2.2.7-R. I've patched 'pcibus.c' to fix the problem on these > > systems (reversed the config mode probe order) but now I need to build > > boot/install stiffies to get these machines up and running. Is th

Atapi CDRW

2000-03-30 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, I'm using freebsd 3.4-RELEASE with CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E: /kernel: wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, accel, dma, iordis /kernel: acd0: drive speed 4125KB/sec, 1860KB cache /kernel: acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track /kernel: acd0: supported write types: CD-R, CD-R

Re: 4.0 stable upgrade trouble

2000-03-30 Thread Coleman Kane
For anyone who'd like to know, I was able to successfully upgrade to 4.0-RELEASE by downloading the source tarballs, and unpacking them in my /usr/src directory. I cleared it out of the old 3.4 sources beforehand, and found that you must first compile a 4.0 kernel and reboot before attempting a ma

Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?

2000-03-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Steve O'Hara-Smith" writes: : to be at least as good as 2.x'. ... if not better... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message