Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:07:35 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: willvito@niia.net (Bill Vitaniemi) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD questions.... Message-ID: <199604240337.NAA14720@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604240208.VAA11942@silver.niia.net> from "Bill Vitaniemi" at Apr 23, 96 09:08:31 pm
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Bill Vitaniemi stands accused of saying: > > To the people with the answers... Hmm, lots of questions 8) > DOS or UNIX. (Discovered that the unix partion must be below 1M or it just > won't boot to Unix. Didn't see anything about this in the documentation > anywhere.) As far as Unix, everything I've learned has been from one of two Believe so. It's common PC knowledge at any rate. (512M, not 1M 8) > books (Unix Administration by Garth, Nemeth, etc. and the other book is the > O'reilly book with the armadillo on the cover) or by trial and fire. Neither > of the books are very BSD specific though. There isn't a whole lot about > initially configuring a new machine in any documentation I've seen. Mostly because every vendor has their own ideas about that aspect. > One > problem I have is on booting my experimental machine is I see some lines > that say something like.. > > myname.my.domain: bad value Your 'hostname=' setting in /etc/sysconfig is bad. > starting routing daemons: > standard daemons:cron, printer, sendmail (myname...) does not seem to exist!: sendmail can't find any reference to an address associate with "myname...". You will have to fix /etc/sysconfig and /etc/hosts. > Even so, I still need to understand why the error. The is also another error > that says something about the router value being bad just before the above > lines. After getting BSD configured, then it's off to configuring x-windows. Possibly also name-resolution based. > Another problem I have (on my online machine) is that it appears that the > hard drive is going to sleep after awhile. If the machine has been sitting > awhile and I then go to do something on it, I hear the hard drive wind up. > Have been getting "seek errors" at the same time. I'm assuming they are > related. Yes. You have a 'green' HDD. There was a workaround for this discussed a little while back - Brett Glass sorted it out. (Brett, want to talk this guy through it?) > Just yesterday, when I exited x-windows, my monitor just went blank. If I > blindly typed in startx, x-windows would start up. But same blank screen > everytime I exited x-windows. The only way I found out of it was to just > crash the machine. Any ideas on this one. Sounds like the X server failed to correctly restore the video settings. You wouldn't be using an ET4000-based video card, now would you? > On my experimental machine, I attempted to put another small hard drive > on it just so I could do some playing with file systems and multiple hard > drives under BSD. However, I can't seem to get BSD to give me usable space > on it when I go and create a partition on it. Both of my books discuss > adding hard drives but only SCSI and not IDE. Same principles. Adding a disk to a FreeBSD is unhappily painful at the moment - I believe that you can generally get away with using /stand/sysinstall and the 'write' options in the slice and partition editors. > Bill -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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