Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

> i'm not entirely sure i understand. "pnp o/s = no" causes the bios > to assign an irq to the pcic controller, meaning the pcic controller > raises that interrupt on insertions/removals, but the driver, > operating in polling mode, never clears the interrupt so the machine > wedges trying to ser

Re: New US CVSup mirrors

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:17:02 +1100, Zero Sum wrote: >If you are going to try a second mirror within a short timeframe, it has to >be further up the food chain. > >If the server you select is not available, then an automatic switch to the >next one up the CVS mirror food chain might work. It ma

RE: lnc0 and AT1500 NICs

[please, do not trim the CC list : other people in the list may hvae the same problem] you may want to wait just a little for the newest and greatest 4.2. release to come out : the problem should be solved. TfH (you may also want to try one of the latest snapshots from

Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean

{cc's trimmed} On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:24:01PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > It would be even better if the ports system could look in two places > for distfiles ... so I could build up local repository on the NFS > server that clients would use directly, and still allow clients >

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system on a > > > > machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of course, > > > > that artifact has some useful feature(s) or functionality. If it does, I'm > > > > all ears

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Lehey writes: > On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 23:57:25 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:53:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> If it shows valid partitions, you're using a Microsoft partition table. > >

Re: Vinum versus abit

> But then we recently saw this discussion regarding IDE RAID's go > by as well that I saw some adds for e.g. abit's KT7-RAID. Hi, I have just installed 4.2-RC2 on a Abit BX133-RAID with two IBM 20GB drives in a mirror. > So now I'm wondering. Given that I care about 1. security without > back

Re: how to get sendmail to handle hyphenated names

Cy, >> How do I get sendmail v.8.9.3 to accept names of the type first_name or my.na >> me? I think I just need to adjust a rule in sendmail.cf, but am not certain >> which rule or how specifically to adjust it. Can someone point me in the cor >> rect direction ?? > >Userdb. Take a look at pag

Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zero Sum writes: > : Does this allow multiple partitions on a zip? > > Yes, but fdisk is awkward to use for editing. How about fdisk -e in similar vein as disklabel -e? As the PC architecture requires, just us

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

> As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires > an fdisk

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 23:57:25 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:53:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> If it shows valid partitions, you're using a Microsoft partition table. > > ^

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Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: > > :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James writes: > :: If I understand it correctly, there is a limit to the maximum number > :: of command line arguments that a program can have. > : > :Yes, but unless you've built all the ports, you won't eve

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes: > > As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > > entirely. I think that

Re: Removal of Disklabel

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:03:56PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > I'd like to see FreeBSD do the same as Linux on the i386 - use only > the partition table, along with extended partitions. Do away with disklabel > *on that platform*. This would be a bad idea IMNSHO. Remember that you can only have

Re: Removal of Disklabel

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600, FreeBSD wrote: > > The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ... > disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't. > > I've never been a fan of this. May I make a recommendation (flame away, > boys): r

make depend fails

Trying to make depend I got @ -> /usr/src/sys machine -> /usr/src/sys/i386/include make: don't know how to make agp_if.c. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/NOVEMBER. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to build world, as was sug

Re: make depend fails

If your source is newer than July, you need to use the new buildkernel/installkernel targets (from /usr/src/UPDATING)... 2706: Binutils were updated. In order to build a kernel after this date, you must follow the updating procedure for building kernels exactly as pre

Re: make depend fails

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Igor Khavin writes: : Trying to make depend I got : : @ -> /usr/src/sys : machine -> /usr/src/sys/i386/include : make: don't know how to make agp_if.c. Stop : *** Error code 2 : Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. : *** Error code 1 : Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/NOVEMBER

Re: Vinum versus abit

Martin Nilsson wrote: > > ... > I tried to remove one IDE cable from my motherboard and then starting the > computer. Result: THE HPT370 BIOS HUNG, when detecting drives and the machine > never even tried to boot. Nice! Vinum would do way much better than that! > As usual Taiwanese hardware prove

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

On 19-Nov-00 Brandon Fosdick wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:32:16PM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: >> > So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only >> > run >> > FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. >> >> Can you tell why?? Just because

Re: Problems with ports

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:48:05PM -, Pedro Almeida wrote: > Hi all! This belongs in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please ask this there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Problems with ports

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Pedro Almeida wrote: > > Hi all! > > I've just update my system to 4.2-BETA. > After this upgrade many ports doesn't install because they say that > bsd.port.mk is too old. > How can this be if I've just upgrade the whole source, ports and system? > Any ideas? You have to

Re: RC1 install size

Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > ... > Erm, well, let's just get one thing straight first: There's only one > release candidate currently under test and that's RC2. It's only > available on ONE place and in ONE form, an ISO image, so there's > really only: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/release

FBSD src/version info.

Greetings, I am wondering where I can look at /usr/src and find out what version of the src I have (4.1.1-STABLE 4.2-BETA, 4.2-RELEASE) etc. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: FBSD src/version info.

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jason Neumann writes: : I am wondering where I can look at /usr/src and find out what version of : the src I have (4.1.1-STABLE 4.2-BETA, 4.2-RELEASE) etc. Assuming that it was all checked out at the same time, which you cannot easily devine, you can look at /usr/sr

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandon Fosdick writes: > : So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run > : FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. > > First, these aren't MS style partitions. They are part of the PC > spec. FreeBSD is lying to the BIOS with the MBR

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandon Fosdick writes: > : Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system > : on a machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of > : course, that artifact has some useful feature(s) or > : functionality. If it does, I'm all ear

Re: Cannot make buildworld

Hi! David O'Brien wrote: > > My 'make buildworld' stops with error: > ... > > Any hints? > > cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/csu > rm *.[ch] Is this documented ? Why should we do that ? Anyway, thanks a lot. -- __ José Luis Arbona IBM GLOBAL SERVICES, S.A. Avda. Arag

Re: Removal of Disklabel

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: > I know of no Unix variant with more than 8 partitions/ disk OpenBSD has 16 / disk. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr