From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 7:38:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B819B37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.corp.shaw.ca (mail.corp.shaw.ca [204.209.208.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD53643F85 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Darren.Gamble@sjrb.ca) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.MAIL3.SJRB.CA by MAIL3.SJRB.CA (PMDF V6.2 #30522) id <01KTMI91DCI8000DGW@MAIL3.SJRB.CA> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:38:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shawmailims.shaw.ca ("port 4944"@shawmail.shaw.ca [10.0.4.20]) by MAIL3.SJRB.CA (PMDF V6.2 #30522) with ESMTP id <01KTMI90YUWK000DWG@MAIL3.SJRB.CA>; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:38:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: by shawmail.shaw.ca with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:38:15 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:38:14 -0700 From: Darren Gamble Subject: RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960? To: 'Toomas Aas' , questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day, > Hi Darren! Thanks for your reply! Sorry for not checking my messages over the weekend. > > My only other thought was to install from 4.X and upgrade > to 5.0, but I > > think that would be far too messy considering their > differences. We also > > have other machines of varying hardware to install on, but > they all use > > DAC960 RAID controllers too. > > Is there a specific reason why you *have* to run 5.0? I > assume that you have > read the Early Adopter's Guide. Yes, and yes. Specifically, it's a dual-proc machine, and we'd like to see how well SMB support has advanced in 5.0 . We'd just like to run some benchmarking programs on it, and also for our team to play around with the newest FreeBSD (most of our group has grown up on Linux, but like to try out new things). I've also read that the 5.0 kernel still has some debugging code put into it for help with troubleshooting various things- thus slowing it down a bit- which we'll be taking into consideration. > FWIW, I'm happily running 4.7-RELEASE-p6 on DAC960PG (yes, > mlx driver). Yeah, the 5.0 release notes mentioned that this was a problem introduced in 5.0 . Anyway, again, could anyone give me some information on how I could actually do this install? I should also mention that I tried the install by changing "5.0-RELEASE" into "5.0-CURRENT" in the install configuration menu, but the installer isn't able to retrieve any packages. I presume this is because the packages are kept in a "packages" subdirectory in the "5.0-CURRENT" directory on the FTP server, unlike the "5.0-RELEASE" packages, so I'm guessing that probably isn't really designed as an installation method. Maybe if I set up my own FTP server with the packages in the right location... ? Thanks in advance, ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message