From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 16:53:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20FE4106566C for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:53:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0348FC08 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:52:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from [220.237.26.25] (c220-237-26-25.farfl2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.237.26.25]) (authenticated sender horst.burkhardt) by mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mBUGqtfD012735 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:52:56 +1100 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-EHelZawjhC7sebs6r/ZO" Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:54:09 +1100 Message-Id: <1230656049.24576.22.camel@horst-tla> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Subject: Re: gjournal on powerpc ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:53:01 -0000 --=-EHelZawjhC7sebs6r/ZO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =20 > before getting ntpdate/ntpd running... all dates on the filesystems =20 > 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 =20 > having set the date properly, which forces "named" to flunk out =20 > 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 =20 > 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 =20 > updatedb produces gibberish... and have tried to re-create the locate =20 > db database... but still no luck.... > 5. How do make a recovery CD for PowerPC ??? (it would have made my =20 > life a lot easier, having dump/restore easily available.... and =20 > 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 =20 > having gpart, but pdisk is easier to use.... ;-) > There are probably quite a number of PR's that needs/could be created =20 > by this... but I honestly do not know how do this.... >=20 > kind regards >=20 > nse >=20 > "Ach, crivens, what a wee snotter....." >=20 > Quote from "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett --=-EHelZawjhC7sebs6r/ZO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklaUjAACgkQRtTtv0BbTe6yRgCeLMI4RvWpaB39w5ktqYrTKFjh MmcAnjnDf0byhMNC9PqcHu+1/Rct0i6+ =GZx6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-EHelZawjhC7sebs6r/ZO--