Re: sysinstall.8 update to reflect "improved" use of netDev for scripted installs

2010-05-24 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:33:14PM -0400, David Boyd wrote: >> Would it be possible to update the man page for sysinstall to reflect the >> new and improved usage for the netDev variable.  This functionality is >> important (to me and my u

Re: Mouse appears on screen but does not move.

2010-06-23 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Nathan Maier wrote: > >> Hi again, >>    I am pretty sure that Adam is right about the version mismatch.  I used >> sysinstall to update the ports tree and had to change options from >> 8.0-RELEASE-p3 to 8.0

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: >  8. >     I tried to do an install on one of the systems via netbooting >     (pxeload) the disk1-image. It booted, but the sysinstall had to be >     started manually and, once started, did not act the same as when >     booted off of CD-ROM. S

Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges)

2010-07-07 Thread Randi Harper
2010/7/7 Mikhail T. : > 07.07.2010 14:30, Randi Harper написав(ла): > >  8. >>     I tried to do an install on one of the systems via netbooting >>     (pxeload) the disk1-image. It booted, but the sysinstall had to be >>     started manually and, once started, d

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Mikhail T. wrote: > 07.07.2010 14:59, Jeremy Chadwick ???(??): >>> >>>      FREEBSD_COMPAT7 kernel option is, apparently, a requirement (and >>>      thus not an "option") -- the kernel-config files, that worked with >>>      7.x, break without this option in th

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Mikhail T. wrote: > Your "telling" me this is just as valid as warning me against using > computer-cases of a particular color. It is a silly requirement. My > expecting things, that worked for 7, to work in 8 is reasonable. There may > be (documented!) exceptions,

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Stuart Barkley wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 at 20:07 -, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >> Virtual Media / Virtual Console from all vendors is paint in the >> a... >> >> I have iLO card in HP ML110 G5 and Virtual Media doesn't work at >> all. Virtual device is not dete

Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

2010-02-02 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi All, > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:21:56 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just noticed somthing: I setup an 8.0-RELEASE amd64 box, / is default >> 512M. First step after setup was to csup to RELENG_8 and buildkernel and >>

Re: 7.3-RELEASE sysinstall netDev feature

2010-03-23 Thread Randi Harper
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Rink Springer wrote: > Hi David, > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:19:11PM -0400, David Boyd wrote: >> Is this the code committed by Rink Springer last October? > > The code I committed (revision 198317) added support for 'netDev=ANY'; > this would select the first de

Re: 7.3-RELEASE sysinstall netDev feature

2010-03-23 Thread Randi Harper
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Boyd wrote: > Randi, > > Sorry for taking so long to reply. > > I won't be able to retry this today. > > But I looked at the code in tcpip.c and the support for the comma separated > list of interface names (or netDev=ALL) is just not there in 7.3-RELEASE. >

Re: install touching mbr

2010-04-05 Thread Randi Harper
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Saturday 03 April 2010 21:58:56 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:48:12PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: >> > I just installed a 8.0R amd64 from memstick. when asked, I said to >> > leave mbr untouched. when I rebooted, it was

Re: Re[2]: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Randi Harper
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