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Mail*Link(r) SMTP questions-digest V1 #503 questions-digest Sunday, 11 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 503 In this issue: Re: need help on freebsd installation IDE CDROM question Ethernet card support Re: Netscape...tar.gz and .Z odd question about data transfer/PPP Re: NIS slave server Re: Multiple swap partitions Hybrid configuration: named problem Sun monitor Postgres95 1.0 Re: Sun monitor help can't mount /usr or /var adaptec SCSI on Free BSD on 2.0.5 R2 Re: IDE CDROM question Nevermind: Can't mount /usr or /var boot manager More Qs Re: Postgres95 1.0 Re: need help on freebsd installation Re: Sun monitors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sergio de Almeida lenzi <lenzi@bsi.com.br> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:20:17 +0000 () Subject: Re: need help on freebsd installation Hello, I have some trouble too in installing from a cdrom (mitsumi) the problem was in the cdrom circuitry (it reads bad data and does not report to the sofware). I fixed the driver, and installed OK. I didn't underestand,is your cdrom is scsi or IDE? I have troubles with IDE cdroms too. Some brands work some not. I have an IDE CDrom that works ok on an SOYO Mother-board or on a compaq machine but does not works on an asian made MB. Hope this will help. ------------------------------ From: mironov@tu-varna.bg (Miroslav Mironov) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 21:54:40 EET Subject: IDE CDROM question Dear sirs, I obtain Walnut Creek CDROM of FreeBSD 2.0.5, and install it successful from MSDOS partition, but I want to mount my IDE CDROM for some non-critical data operations. I read, that there a device wcd? for such CDROM, but I can't find a sample for it in LINT - kernel configuration file. Explanation in FreeBSD Handbook is too short. This is my system configuration: 486DX /33MHz 8MB - RAM QUANTUM HD ( wd0 on wdc0 ) CONNER HD ( wd1 on wdc0 ) AdLib, Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro Compatible - Sound Blaster with IDE (,Panasonic,Mitsumi & Sony ) CDROM interface Port: 0x170, IRQ: 15 IDE CDROM connected to Sound Blaster interface All it works good under MSDOS. Please send me some sample or explanation how to config my kernel and devices to mount CDROM. My address is: Miroslav Mironov 9 Vurba Str. Varna 9000, Bulgaria tel: 359/52/446539 fax: 359/52/651068 --------------------------- e-mail: mironov@tu-varna.bg --------------------------- Sincerely, Miroslav Mironov ------------------------------ From: Julius Oklamcak <julius@interlog.com> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:45:05 -0500 Subject: Ethernet card support I was going through the list of supported Ethernet cards, under SMC, the following cards are listed: "SMC Elite 16 WD8013 Ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported." I have an SMC 8416 that I would like to use instead of an NE2000 compatible. Will the 8416 work with the existing SMC driver? Are there any special settings for the 8416? Thanks in advance... - - Julius @ MGI ------------------------------ From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:48:54 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: Netscape...tar.gz and .Z > > > Hello. i notice that there are 2 files for each Unix-vesrion Netscape, tar.gz > and .Z. I understand that they are the same, just because of the different > sizes of compress and gzip. Am I correct? Thanks, Correct. .Z is for those who don't have gnu gzip installed. Nearly every commercial unix comes with compress/uncompress. It's just for convenience. > > Binh. > - --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de ------------------------------ From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 17:06:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: odd question about data transfer/PPP Hi... I'm just curious, but on a per day basis, how many Meg should I be able to expect to transfer through a 14.4 modem using PPP? Considering a continuous flow, we figure that probably about 4Meg/hr or 96Meg/day... Does this sound optimistic? Thanks... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc ------------------------------ From: jlrobins@zappa.cs.uncc.edu (James Robinson) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 17:07:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: NIS slave server Here's how I run a NIS slave server, with a SGI as the master: The freebsd box was a client of the SGI. I then started the server on the bsd box, then told the SGI that it had a slave server (read the yp / nis man pages on the platform of the master server -- you need to add the new server's name to a file within /var/yp/). I then had the SGI force update the maps, so that it updated the (empty) maps on the bsd box. Keep no NIS source datafiles on the bsd box. The pertinant parts of my /etc/sysconfig: nis_clientflags="-ypset" nis_ypsetflags="localhost" nis_serverflags="" Don't run yppasswd on the slave. When you reboot the box, you should see that it is ypbound to itself, and all should be cool. James James Robinson Phone: (704) 547-4876 Department of Computer Science FAX: (704) 547-3516 UNC Charlotte email: jlrobins@uncc.edu Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 System Administrator ------------------------------ From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 09:20:21 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Multiple swap partitions On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Scott Donovan wrote: > Are there any problems with multipl swap partitions on seperate disks under freebsd? > I run swap on two separate disks without any problems at all.. in fact the second swap partition for me is actually the windows swap file from my DOS partition.. works wonderfully cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: wcp@luppolo.lpds.sublink.org (Walter C. Pelissero) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 21:25:34 +0100 Subject: Hybrid configuration: named problem I'm trying to configure my FreeBSD box as a gateway to an ISP but I don't want to depend on that ppp link for mail and news. I already have a fast uucp link with another provider. In other words I need to be able to use my LAN, resolving my internal names as usual, forwarding all my mail through my uucp link and sometime be able to surf the Internet resolving names outside my domain. The iijppp link is set up properly and filtering is done such as DNS packets don't make the daemon dial. What is difficult to me is how to configure named. The root.cache file points to three DNS hosts on the provider domain. If I start named without the -r option all my mail gets queued forever and some services become slow (very slow), but all works well when the ppp link with my ISP is up. If I start named with the -r option my LAN works well but I'm unable to resolve any host name outside my domain also if the ppp link is up. Then, how can I make my LAN and my Internet link live together? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:50:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sun monitor This is a followup to my own posting. I finally got the monitor up to my apartment, and I have a model number: GDM-1962B. It's a Sony (theoutside says Sun, but markings on the PC boards say Sony). If anyone knows more about this model, I'd appreciate any info at all. Thanks to everyone who has responded so far, rather more than I expected. - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Andrew Herdman <andrew@whine.com> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:02:45 -0500 Subject: Postgres95 1.0 Not really a freebsd question, but it is. Has anyone successfully compiled postgres95 1.0 on freebsd stable? I'm afraid i'm not getting very far and my programming skills are a little weak for this one. TIA Andrew ------------------------------ From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:43:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Sun monitor On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > This is a followup to my own posting. I finally got the monitor up to my > apartment, and I have a model number: GDM-1962B. It's a Sony (theoutside > says Sun, but markings on the PC boards say Sony). If anyone knows more > about this model, I'd appreciate any info at all. Thats one of the best you'd likely find on the used market IMHO. If you dont hear anything soon just post to comp.sys.sun.hardware you'll get a quick response. kim ------------------------------ From: ddouglas@netnet.net (Douglas) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:45:57 -0500 Subject: help i have a 386 comp with 1 DOS partition and 56mb of hd left. i need to download freebsd from the family mac(with dos disk formatting and file "tolerance") because it has a 28.8 connection. needless to say the 386 has no cd drive. ------------------------------ From: "Jason Gilbert" <jason@scott.net> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 01:26:34 +0000 Subject: can't mount /usr or /var Hello all, I've been running freebsd 2.1 for several months now and have had few problems until now. I really don't know what I've done. I shutdown the system and then turned off the power. The next time I tried booting, I could only mount the root partition. I have a Gateway P5-90 with two Western Digital IDE hard drives. One has dos/win and the other is solely FreeBSD. I wonder if some kind soul could give me a hand. So far this is what I can find: 1. when I run fsck it prints assorted normal stuff and then. /dev/wd1s1f: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/wd1s1f /dev/wd1s1e: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/wd1s1f 2. The swap partition is not mounted either (/dev/wd1s1b) 3. When I run disklabel -r /dev/wd1 (Freebsd is the second harddrive) I get: Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) This looked to be bad. Is there anyone that can give me a hand? Thanks in Advance, Jason Jason Gilbert jason@scott.net/jason@homewood.net http://www.homewood.net/ ------------------------------ From: chris_brent@mail.orix.com.au (chris brent) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 12:36:38 EST Subject: adaptec SCSI on Free BSD on 2.0.5 R2 Hi, I'm trying to install Free BSD 2.0.5 on a clone 486 using an Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller. I have the SCSI Card a CD om and a 2GB Segate drive on the chain, its all terminated correctly. When I boot with the Adaptec SCSI enabled I get the following aha0: Unknown board-VD.0 aha0: reading board settings, dma=5 int=11 (bus speed defaulted) aha0: aha_cmd,cmd/data port full aha0 at 0x0333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa aha0 waiting for scsi device to settle (aha0:0:0): timeout adapter not taking commands...frozen? Debugger ("aha1542") called (aha0:0:0): timeout adapter not taking commands...frozen? Debugger ("aha1542") called AGAIN aha0 MBO 02 and not 00 (free) ad nauseum If I turn off the BIOS on the scsi card it works but I don't really want to do this as it means I can't boot from the scsi drive. Any ideas. Thanks in advance Chris (Chris_Brent@mail.orix.com.au) ------------------------------ From: Sergio de Almeida lenzi <lenzi@bsi.com.br> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:38:18 +0000 () Subject: Re: IDE CDROM question Hello Miroslav, You must install the sources of the system from the CDROM. 1) boot from dos 2) copy the ssys* from the d:/dists/src to c:/src for example 3) boot from BSD, mount dos file system... 4) do a cat ssys* | tar xvzf - -C /usr/src (unpack the distribution) 5) go to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and see the file GENERIC. there is 2 lines about IDE/ATAPI cdrom. uncomment the lines. 6) do a config GENERIC, go to directory ../../compile/GENERIC 7) do a make depend all install. (30min to 2 hours later) the system is ready. and installed. 8) see the file /etc/fstab, there should be a line in the form /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0. 9) boot the system, login as root, do a mount /cdrom That's it. Sergio Lenzi. ------------------------------ From: Jason Gilbert <jason@scott.net> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:41:13 -0600 Subject: Nevermind: Can't mount /usr or /var Sorry to waste the bandwidth. I fixed the problem. I guess I should think more first rather than jumping to ask for help. I found that the /dev/wd1s1f, etc. did not in fact exist. I believe I created the problem by doing a MAKEDEV all. This is not a thing to do. Besides, messing up everything, I now have a plethera of unnecessary devices. Is there a good way to clean that sort of thing up?? Sorry, jason ------------------------------ From: gentile@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Elizabeth J Gentile) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:44:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: boot manager Is there a way to install the boot manager after you've already installed FreeBSD ? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 20:22:45 -0600 Subject: More Qs Well, I have my networkability operational. I guess it pays to disable the plug-n-play feature with the 3COM 3c509 cards. I now have some more questions... I recompiled my kernel...well, ok, I tried to recompile my kernel...I'm using an IBM Personal Computer 350-P75 w/ 16MB RAM. Anyway, I thought that, since I will be working with several machines locally, I would try and use the PCVT console instead of the SCO console. So, I did, and the result was that I couldn't get anything to work much at all. So, I guess I'm wondering if the PCVT console works anything like the SCO console? Does it support the ALT-F? multi-terminals? My big problem right now is that I need to have my TERM set to vt??? in order to connect nicely with other machines. This does not work, however, as the console is set to cons25. Now, I know I can change this in the /etc/ttys files, but when I just do a TERM=vt220 from the command line, I get garbage and have troubles doing much of anything. In any case, if anybody could give me a couple pointers on this, or point me towards the right documentation area, I'd be grateful. Second, I got X-Windows up and running (*big sigh of relief*). However, I would like to a) save my settings when I end an Xsession and b) would like to be able to switch out of X-Windows to the command-line mode. Is this possible? I currently have my kernel compiled for Xserver and I have the xdm -nodaemon line in my /etc/ttys file for ttyv4. Also, do I have to customize the X environment manually, or is there a pop-up program for doing that? Also, what other features are handy? Again, even if someone could point me to soe good documentation (and I apologize for not reading the online docs, but I'm to that frustrated, burn-out point right now). Finally, I would like to use the sysinstall package in order to read the online help, etc. However, when I cd to the /stand directory and try to execute the sysinstall program, I end up with an error saying that there is a '(' missing somewhere. Any ideas on what this error is referring to? Thank you for your sufferance and help! Sincerely, Benjamin Tomhave Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu (and, as soon as I can get an mx record setup, falcon@defiant.luther.edu) ------------------------------ From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 21:29:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Postgres95 1.0 On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Andrew Herdman wrote: > Not really a freebsd question, but it is. Has anyone successfully > compiled postgres95 1.0 on freebsd stable? I'm afraid i'm not getting > very far and my programming skills are a little weak for this one. Yes, with a few makefile tweaks it works fine. I just put the two relevant makefiles on ftp://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/pub. Note: I have it setup to be linked with gnumalloc because without it, postgres sucked up all my swap (64MB) when generating an rtree index on a large (310,000 tuples) table. With gnumalloc it did just fine. I expect it would work fine with phkmalloc (which I'm using in my libc now) but I have not tried it. And whatever you do, don't run postgres as root! - -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============ ------------------------------ From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:01:44 +1030 (CST) Subject: Re: need help on freebsd installation Lih-Sin The stands accused of saying: > > Thanks for your respond and accusing me of :) > > > Try with caches disabled and let us know how you go. > > > ok, i tried your suggestion shown below in the AMIBIOS 1993 "ADVANCE CMOS > SETUP" : > > External Cache Memory : Disabled > Internal Cache Memory : Disabled > > and this does not solve the problem above. > > >-- > after Information Dialog of : > Copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem, > i type alt-f2 to show more complete diagnostic, and it shows: > > . > . > warning calculated sectors per cylinder (2633) disagress with > disklabel (2048) > /mnt/dev/rsd0s3f 8142560 sectors in 320 cylinders of 1 tracks, > 2633 sectors. > 411.4 MB in 20 cylinders (16c/g, 20.57MB/g, 2496 i/g) > superblock backup (for fsck -b #) at > ......, 800464, > warning calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with > disklabel (2048). > . > . > /mnt/stand/etc/services > 1146 bclosk > /mnt: bad dir ino 2 at offset 256: mangled entry > . > sometime it went further to > . > . > /mnt: bad dir ino 181 at offset 639: mangled entry These communication problems are always with the SCSI disk. The Micropolis 4110 you are using is a very fast & agressive driver of the SCSI bus, so you should check your SCSI termination and make sure that you are using active termination at both ends, and that your cables and connectors are all up to snuff. You should also make sure that you don't have too much termination on the bus (ie. the 4110 and the SCSI controller should be at the ends of the bus, and the CDROM should be between them with its termination OFF). Also make sure that you have SCSI parity enabled on all of the devices. > my guess it may be related to disk geometry, but i do not know what > disk geometry should be used. during novice installation, disk geometry > shown as: 1002 cyl/64hd/32sect. > When i checked micropolis web site, for hp workstation the disktab > shown 1052 MB 512 bytes/secto, 5400 rpm, ns=93, nt=9, nc=1226 > and for SUN workstation, ncyl=1998,nhead=9,nsect=114. > is the problem above due to disk geometry? No, the above problem would not be caused by incorrect disk geometry. You have a hardware problem somewhere, most likely in the SCSI chain, although I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a bad SIMM. - -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[ ------------------------------ From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:10:00 +1030 (CST) Subject: Re: Sun monitors Chuck Robey stands accused of saying: > > I just got hold of a Sun monitor. It's a _huge_ thing, and I want to > swap out my present MAG-17F for it. I have a couple of problems, and I'm > looking for assistance. One thing is the cable that came with it. One > end is a perfectly normal 15 pin VGA, the other end has been hacked, and > just ends in 5 wires. You're going to have a lot of trouble with this monitor. In particular, you won't be able to run any of the VGA text modes on it, so you won't be able to see your system booting (or failing to boot 8). > What I need it the kind of connector that the Sun monitor seems to want, > which is a very strange one: sort of a 25 pin D connector, with several > of the pins being replaced with larger coax connectors. Like a This is a 13W3. A fully assembled connector will run you about $50, and several hundred more for the tooling to assemble it. You can buy Dsub15 to 13W3 cables, but expect to pay over $100 for them. > D-connector on steroids. Does anyone know where I might get one of these > beasts, and maybe how to wire it? I doubt I could even count pins right > on it (unless maybe it comes labeled). You'd be better piggybacking a Dsub15 off the connector inside and hacking a hole for it in the case. There are some details in various of the XFree documents about driving these monitors; basically they're a fixed-scan unit that you will have to tickle your card to pander to, in particular see the modeDB.txt file. If your monitor is one of the 19" Sonys (GDM 19xx) you're going to need a fairly decent video card to drive it above 1024x768. > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data - -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[ ------------------------------ End of questions-digest V1 #503 ******************************* ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by denitqm.ecte.uswc.uswest.com with SMTP;11 Feb 1996 20:14:59 -0700 Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [192.216.222.4]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA16128 for <onewnan@denitqm.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:11:12 -0700 (MST) From: owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01015 for freebsd-questions-digest-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:39:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:39:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602120239.SAA01015@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions-digest@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: questions-digest V1 #503 Reply-To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Errors-To: owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org Precedence: bulk
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