Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:54:09 +1100 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gjournal on powerpc ? Message-ID: <1230656049.24576.22.camel@horst-tla> In-Reply-To: <9B79B417-E320-4CCA-A86E-1C1F5B2E5640@delfi-konsult.com> References: <20081217074545.ENB16009@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <9B79B417-E320-4CCA-A86E-1C1F5B2E5640@delfi-konsult.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 13:39 +0100, Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > 1. how do you set the hardware clock on PowerPC ?? (dead-annoying that > before getting ntpdate/ntpd running... all dates on the filesystems > defaults to something in 1904 !!!) Heh, mine default to 1976 ;) I believe this is in ofw, but don't know where. > 2. speaking of ntpdate/ntpd.... "named" would like to start before > having set the date properly, which forces "named" to flunk out > because of the date.... how to circumvent this ? change the order of execution, procedure should be the same as on i386. Unfortunately once again I don't know specifics. > 3. 7.1-BETA2 complains on the logfiles in "/var/log" and they do not > created correctly... and have to be "touch"'ed accordingly... you could perhaps set /etc/rc.local to touch them on startup? > 4. I have a problem with the "locate" command... it appears that the > updatedb produces gibberish... and have tried to re-create the locate > db database... but still no luck.... > 5. How do make a recovery CD for PowerPC ??? (it would have made my > life a lot easier, having dump/restore easily available.... and > principally the rest of the FreeBSD available) There is a set of tools called FreeSBIE, I believe there was some work towards powerpc on this, but if you can get it working that will be the easiest way to make a FreeBSD LiveCD or recovery CD. > 6. Is there a "gpart" howto somewhere ? I understand the reason for > having gpart, but pdisk is easier to use.... ;-) > There are probably quite a number of PR's that needs/could be created > by this... but I honestly do not know how do this.... > > kind regards > > nse > > "Ach, crivens, what a wee snotter....." > > Quote from "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklaUjAACgkQRtTtv0BbTe6yRgCeLMI4RvWpaB39w5ktqYrTKFjh MmcAnjnDf0byhMNC9PqcHu+1/Rct0i6+ =GZx6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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