Archive for the ‘www.bsdimp.blogspot.com’ Category
Canon Rebel Xt and 32GB CF
Posted on May 30th, 2011 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Just thought I'd mention that I've been using a 32GB CF card with no special formatting in the Canon Rebel Xt. It has been working great for years.
Canon Rebel Xt and 32GB CF
Posted on May 30th, 2011 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Just thought I'd mention that I've been using a 32GB CF card with no special formatting in the Canon Rebel Xt. It has been working great for years.
How to run something other than login on a tty
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Sometimes you don't want to run login on the console or other terminal. The reasons for this vary. Some appliances want to boot to a shell prompt on the console for debugging purposes (this console typically isn't exposed, so no security problems there). Sometimes you want to use init's restart feature to keep critical daemons alive. I've developed several control
How to run something other than login on a tty
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Sometimes you don't want to run login on the console or other terminal. The reasons for this vary. Some appliances want to boot to a shell prompt on the console for debugging purposes (this console typically isn't exposed, so no security problems there). Sometimes you want to use init's restart feature to keep critical daemons alive. I've developed several control
FreeBSD/mips for Cavium Octeon
Posted on January 18th, 2011 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
I've recently improved the ABI selection in FreeBSD/mips. Now it is all handled via MACHINE_ARCH or TARGET_ARCH. mipsel and mipseb are the o32 32-bit versions. mips64eb and mips64el are for n64 64-bit versions.
I've knocked together a script for building an image for the Cavium Octeon eval boards that have CF that can boot using uboot from SDK 1.9.0 and
I've knocked together a script for building an image for the Cavium Octeon eval boards that have CF that can boot using uboot from SDK 1.9.0 and
FreeBSD/mips for Cavium Octeon
Posted on January 18th, 2011 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
I've recently improved the ABI selection in FreeBSD/mips. Now it is all handled via MACHINE_ARCH or TARGET_ARCH. mipsel and mipseb are the o32 32-bit versions. mips64eb and mips64el are for n64 64-bit versions.
I've knocked together a script for building an image for the Cavium Octeon eval boards that have CF that can boot using uboot from SDK 1.9.0 and
I've knocked together a script for building an image for the Cavium Octeon eval boards that have CF that can boot using uboot from SDK 1.9.0 and
New FreeNAS beta snapshot released (r5648)
Posted on December 2nd, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
We've released the next beta snapshot of FreeNAS.
You can read the release notes for all the details.
Here's a highlight of the issues that we've fixed since the last beta (r5606):
- Upgrades from prior FreeNAS 8 beta releases are now supported.
- zfs creation failures have been fixed. The gui would indicate it succeeded, but you couldn't share it.
- ufs
New FreeNAS beta snapshot released (r5648)
Posted on December 2nd, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
We've released the next beta snapshot of FreeNAS.
You can read the release notes for all the details.
Here's a highlight of the issues that we've fixed since the last beta (r5606):
- Upgrades from prior FreeNAS 8 beta releases are now supported.
- zfs creation failures have been fixed. The gui would indicate it succeeded, but you couldn't share it.
- ufs
New FreeNAS Beta (r5606)
Posted on November 20th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Just after the release of the first beta, a couple of serious problems came to life. As such, we've respun the release to fix these issues.
- gmirror error displayed bogusly
- the extremely long write times for disks
- The lack of feedback during the installation (although with the significantly faster imaging, this is much less of an issue).
- Default ownership and
New FreeNAS Beta (r5606)
Posted on November 20th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Just after the release of the first beta, a couple of serious problems came to life. As such, we've respun the release to fix these issues.
- gmirror error displayed bogusly
- the extremely long write times for disks
- The lack of feedback during the installation (although with the significantly faster imaging, this is much less of an issue).
- Default ownership and
FreeNAS 8 Beta released
Posted on November 19th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
iXsystems is pleased to announced FreeNAS 8.0 Beta. FreeNAS 8.0 has undergone a complete rewrite. We've redesigned the GUI to be easier to use and extend. We've upgraded many technologies in the system for improved hardware support, faster I/O, better modularity, and easier upgrades. We trust that you'll find the system easier to use and, in time, much more feature
FreeNAS 8 Beta released
Posted on November 19th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
iXsystems is pleased to announced FreeNAS 8.0 Beta. FreeNAS 8.0 has undergone a complete rewrite. We've redesigned the GUI to be easier to use and extend. We've upgraded many technologies in the system for improved hardware support, faster I/O, better modularity, and easier upgrades. We trust that you'll find the system easier to use and, in time, much more feature
Using devfs.conf as a porting aide
Posted on October 29th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
I've recently been given the task of moving some software from FreeBSD 4.x to FreeBSD 6.x on a consulting basis. This move was very simple and easy, except for one area: serial device names.
In the great tty-rewrite to make it MP safe that was done, there were a number of name changes that were unavoidable when making the tty
In the great tty-rewrite to make it MP safe that was done, there were a number of name changes that were unavoidable when making the tty
Using devfs.conf as a porting aide
Posted on October 29th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
I've recently been given the task of moving some software from FreeBSD 4.x to FreeBSD 6.x on a consulting basis. This move was very simple and easy, except for one area: serial device names.
In the great tty-rewrite to make it MP safe that was done, there were a number of name changes that were unavoidable when making the tty
In the great tty-rewrite to make it MP safe that was done, there were a number of name changes that were unavoidable when making the tty
New FreeNAS alpha
Posted on October 1st, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
After a few unforeseen delays, we have a new FreeNAS snapshot available over at source forge. As an experiment, we are distributing these snapshots using xz as well as bzip2 compressed images. It makes a big difference.
What's new?
First and foremost, we have a completely new GUI look and feel. We've imported dojango into the GUI to take
What's new?
First and foremost, we have a completely new GUI look and feel. We've imported dojango into the GUI to take
New FreeNAS alpha
Posted on October 1st, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
After a few unforeseen delays, we have a new FreeNAS snapshot available over at source forge. As an experiment, we are distributing these snapshots using xz as well as bzip2 compressed images. It makes a big difference.
What's new?
First and foremost, we have a completely new GUI look and feel. We've imported dojango into the GUI to take
What's new?
First and foremost, we have a completely new GUI look and feel. We've imported dojango into the GUI to take
PC-BSD install without a bootable DVD
Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Recently, I tried to get PC-BSD onto an older system. This system didn't support booting off of USB, nor did it support swapping in a DVD player for the CD player that was shipped with the system. The computer seemed to be fast enough to support PC-BSD. Since all I really wanted was something that could play some games that
PC-BSD install without a bootable DVD
Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Recently, I tried to get PC-BSD onto an older system. This system didn't support booting off of USB, nor did it support swapping in a DVD player for the CD player that was shipped with the system. The computer seemed to be fast enough to support PC-BSD. Since all I really wanted was something that could play some games that
FreeNAS 8 — Update
Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
If you are following the commit messages to FreeNAS, you'll already know that FreeNAS 8 is shaping up nicely. If not, allow me to summarize some of the progress here.
In the past two weeks we've managed to break the gui completely, and put it back together. In the process, we've moved from a fairly static system to a more
In the past two weeks we've managed to break the gui completely, and put it back together. In the process, we've moved from a fairly static system to a more
FreeNAS 8 — Update
Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
If you are following the commit messages to FreeNAS, you'll already know that FreeNAS 8 is shaping up nicely. If not, allow me to summarize some of the progress here.
In the past two weeks we've managed to break the gui completely, and put it back together. In the process, we've moved from a fairly static system to a more
In the past two weeks we've managed to break the gui completely, and put it back together. In the process, we've moved from a fairly static system to a more
