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Comment on How To Dual Boot FreeBSD and Windows XP using GRUB by Randy

Randy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:06:51 +0000

Does FreeBSD do this automagically these days, or does this still have to be done manually?

Comment on Dell Openmanage on Linux Debian by StefanK

StefanK — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:39:25 +0000

Hi, i have a weird problem.
It’s a Dell R300 with Debian 6.
The perc 6/i controller isn’t found, so i run “modprobe mptctl”
Now mpt-status shows up the harddisks.

But when I restart with “/etc/init.d/dataeng restart” I can’t reach the server anymore. Ping, Webmin, OSMA. nothing works.

Has anyone a hint?
How can I start the “modprobe mptctl” before starting “dataeng”?

greetings
Stefan

Comment on Streaming Media with Firefox on FreeBSD by Richard Baker

Richard Baker — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:56:30 +0000

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Comment on How To Dual Boot FreeBSD and Windows XP using GRUB by Ted Mittelstaedt

Ted Mittelstaedt — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:06:24 +0000

One more update,

The plppart32 program works fine but you have to run it twice, once to remove the active flag from the windows partition and the second time to add the active flag to the FreeBSD partition.

Also under FreeBSD the command is

fdisk -a

not fdisk -B, and also you must run the sysctl kern.geom command to set the MBR writable.

Comment on How To Dual Boot FreeBSD and Windows XP using GRUB by Ted Mittelstaedt

Ted Mittelstaedt — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:38:54 +0000

Quick update to the last post:

The Linux distro is PLoP, not PLoS

The tool isnt’ 3parted.exe it is plppart32 and it can be separately downloaded
from http://www.plop.at/en/windowstools.html

There’s also a free trialware partition manager called Paragon partition Manager that while it has a lot of features disabled it does allow you to “set active” different partitions.

Comment on OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP by Joni Wilmoth

Joni Wilmoth — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:56:21 +0000

Thanks for this post, answers a bunch of questions I was having.

Comment on OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP by OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP | Csatpk! CS & IT Solutions

OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP | Csatpk! CS & IT Solutions — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:09:38 +0000

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Comment on Dell Openmanage on Linux Debian by Chris W.

Chris W. — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:01:34 +0000

I got it installed properly and I can view the open manage on the server. The issue that I am running into is that my dell it assistant isn’t seeing it. Any thoughts on why not? It can connect with snmp through the dell ita troubleshooting.

Comment on OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP by Terry

Terry — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:01:36 +0000

works a treat thanks for taking the time to do this
Thanks
Terry

Comment on Dell Openmanage on Linux Debian by John P

John P — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:31:53 +0000

For those with login probs… it took me a while to realize this was all hooked-up to PAM so I just used the root login/pwd. I think the “admin” account parms are ignored.