FreeBSD

Bootable installation on to existing zfs zraid tank?
I'm finally getting around to getting this machine going again . . . I want to boot purely from zfs, which I understand can now happen without a separate zfs partition. I have an existing zraid tank set up, which would supposedly boot if windows hadn't made its attack on one of the other disks (at the time, the ... 19 Jun 2010 15:39

/dev/dsp... how to target different dsp ?
i'm using xmms... and after doing a cvsup/rebuild from (8.0-release) to: FreeBSD elhdt.hoe 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #3: Sat Jun 12 15:39:04 PDT 2010 root(a)elhdt:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 xmms nolonger works... and i think that problem is that 8.1-pre- release can now see additional... 21 Jun 2010 16:55

acpi tmp value absurd message
I installed freebsd and have two immediate problems: 1. On the console the message acpi_tmp value absurd keeps appearing. It is not possible to login on TTY 1 as this message keeps appearing. Accordingly, I have to open a new console. How can I get rid of this message? 2. System only halts. It does not power off... 16 Jun 2010 14:22

NYC LOCAL: Thursday 17 June 2010 UNIGROUP: Charles Milo on the Intel Server Processor Roadmap
<blockquote what="official UNIGROUP announcement" rsvp="registration requested, see below" entrance-fee="yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html" location="The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below" info="http://www.unigroup.org" edits="some paragraphs removed so notice fits in mai... 16 Jun 2010 01:17

server in 1 time zone and web sites for different countries
Hello, For web sites using PHP and the now() function using the time on the server what would be the best way to input the correct time for a specific country knowing that the time on server is different? Would ntp (or other solution) be a solution? we have a server with several web sites runing in defferent t... 15 Jun 2010 23:07

codeblocks port?
Hi I'm planning on installing FreeBSD but need to be able to use my existing programs. Has anyone had experience with the codeblocks IDE port? Is it rock solid stable? ... 16 Jun 2010 17:42

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 16 June 2010 NYLUG: Rob Spectre on Open Source Television with Boxee
<blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement" edits=""> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:45:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 6/16 @ 6:30PM Rob Spectre on Open Source Television with Boxee Re... 14 Jun 2010 15:07

8.0 sysinstall crashes
I have a new 8.0 installation. When I try to use sysinstall to install packages from an FTP source, it crashes immediately after selecting "network is already configured". Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) (gdb) where #0 0x08060bfc in ?? () #1 0x2e707466 in ?? () #2 0x2838912f in ?? () #3 0x000000ff i... 14 Jun 2010 22:55

7.n/8.n on the Xeon --how kludgey is that, anyway?
A.Reader wrote: I need to get a higher-performance tame server for development, and it'd be quite nice to get one that uses the Xeon chip. But it looks like that'd be a kludge -- from what I can find on the site it seems to rely on the AMD64 build not noticing that the Xeon isn't an AMD chip. Hu... 14 Jun 2010 12:52

fatal trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode
After running freebsd-update and portmaster -av apparently successfuly, I rebooted and got this: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x4 fault code = supervisor read, page not present Subsequent boot attempts with acpi disabled, safe mode, and even... 22 Jun 2010 19:21