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<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.15 1996/12/06 18:19:31 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.16 1996/12/14 18:12:17 joerg Exp $ -->
<article>
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<author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
<date>$Date: 1996/12/06 18:19:31 $
<date>$Date: 1996/12/14 18:12:17 $
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 2.0.5+, unless otherwise noted.
@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Any entries with a &lt;XXX&gt; are under construction.
The FreeBSD-commit list has been broken up into groups dealing
with different areas of interest. Please see the FreeBSD mailing
list FAQ in:
<url url="http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook/eresources:mail.html" name="Handbook entry on mailing-lists">
<url url="../handbook/eresources:mail.html" name="Handbook entry on mailing-lists">
<p>
<sect1>
<heading>How can I get on the mailing lists?</heading>
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<url url="http://www.freebsd.org/" name="Main FreeBSD page">
The FreeBSD handbook has a pretty complete
<url url="http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/How/handbook/bibliography.html" name="Bibliography">
<url url="../handbook/bibliography.html" name="Bibliography">
<sect>
<heading>Installation</heading>
@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ Any entries with a &lt;XXX&gt; are under construction.
tape or over a network via SLIP, PPP, NFS, PLIP and Ethernet.
For further information, please see
<url url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html"
<url url="../handbook/install.html"
name="Handbook entry on installing FreeBSD.">
<sect1>
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certain limitations in MSDOS) and the disk capacity is more than 1GB,
use M cylinders, 63 heads (*not* 64), and 255 sectors per track, where
'M' is the disk capacity in MB divided by 7.844238 (!). So our
example 2GB drive would have 261 cylinders, 63 heads and 32 sectors
example 2GB drive would have 261 cylinders, 63 heads and 255 sectors
per track.
If you are not sure about this, or FreeBSD fails to detect the
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this is usually to create a small DOS partition on the disk. The
correct geometry should then be detected (and you can always remove
the DOS partition in the partition editor if you don't want to keep
it).
it, or leave it around for programming network cards and the like).
Alternatively, there is a freely available utility distributed with
FreeBSD called ``<tt/pfdisk.exe/'' (located in the <tt>tools</tt>
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ESDI, RLL, and ST-506 drives normally do not do this.
<sect1>
<heading>I have 32MB of RAM. Will this cause any problems?<label id="bigram"></heading>
<heading>I have &gt;16MB of RAM. Will this cause any problems?<label id="bigram"></heading>
<p>
No. FreeBSD 2.X comes with bounce buffers which allows your bus
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<bf/better/ security, and with no export restrictions. FreeBSD
2.0's password default scrambler is now <bf/MD5/-based, and is
more CPU-intensive to crack with an automated password cracker
than DES.
than DES, and allows longer passwords as well.
Since the DES encryption algorithm cannot legally be exported
from the US, non-US users should not download this software (as
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AH-394x (Narrow/Twin/Wide)
<tag/Buslogic/
BT-445 Series &lt;VLB&gt; (but see section <ref id="bigram"
name="on 32 MB machines">) <newline>
name="on &gt;16 MB machines">) <newline>
BT-545 Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
BT-742 Series &lt;EISA&gt;<newline>
BT-747 Series &lt;EISA&gt;<newline>
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</verb>
<p>
See the <url url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html"
See the <url url="../handbook/kernelconfig.html"
name="Handbook entry on configuring the kernel">
if you've no experience with building kernels.
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drives. This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte) and DAT drives.
The QIC-40/80 drives are known to be slow.
Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible with
SCSI-2, and may not work well with FreeBSD.
<sect1>
<heading>What sound cards are supported by FreeBSD?</heading>
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we are incompatible with other versions, but we hope to correct
this in the near future.
<bf/NOTE/ Some of these cards require a DOS partition on your hard
drive to run the configuration software. Software configured cards
may also need to be hard-reset after running another operating
system that uses manufacturer-supplied drivers.
<sect1>
<heading>I don't have a math co-processor.</heading>
@ -1396,8 +1404,8 @@ options PSM_NO_RESET #don't reset mouse hardware (some laptops)
firmware for it, you will need to check the position of jumper W1
to B-C, the default is A-B.
The 742a EISA cards never had the ``> 16MB'' problem mentioned in
the section <ref id="bigram" name="on 32 MB machines">. This is a
The 742a EISA cards never had the ``&gt;16MB'' problem mentioned in
the section <ref id="bigram" name="on &gt;16 MB machines">. This is a
problem that occurs with the Vesa-Local Buslogic SCSI cards.
<sect1>
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<tt>/sys/i386/eisa/eisaconf.h</tt>. Look for a line defining the
macro <tt/EISA_SLOTS/, and bump the number it's defining to 12.
Configure and compile a kernel, as described in the
<url url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html"
<url url="../handbook/kernelconfig.html"
name="Handbook entry on configuring the kernel">.
Of course, this does present you a chicken-and-egg problem when
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<sect1>
<heading>How can I add more swap space?</heading>
<p>(by Werner Griessl)
<p>The best way is to increase the size of your swap partition, or
take advantage of this convenient excuse to add another disk, but
<bf/Werner Griessl/ has provided these instructions for setting FreeBSD
up for swapping to a file:
<p>Here is an example for 64Mb vn-swap (<tt>/usr/swap0</tt>)
<p>
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filesystem, and you do this by specifying the ``<tt/-t cd9660/''
option to <tt/mount(8)/. This does, of course, assume that the
CDROM contains an ISO 9660 filesystem, which is what most CDROMs
have. As of 1.1R, FreeBSD also understands the Rock Ridge
(long filename) extensions.
have. As of 1.1R, FreeBSD automatically understands the Rock Ridge
(long filename) extensions as well.
As an example, if you want to mount the CDROM device,
``<tt>/dev/cd0c</tt>'', under <tt>/mnt</tt>, you would execute:
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This generally means that there is no CDROM in the CDROM drive,
or the drive is not visible on the bus. Feed the drive
something, and/or check its master/slave status if it is
IDE (ATAPI).
IDE (ATAPI). It can take a couple of seconds for a CDROM drive
to notice that it's been fed, so be patient.
Sometimes a SCSI CD-ROM may be missed because it hadn't enough time
to answer the bus reset. In you have a SCSI CD-ROM please try to
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to pass all memory tests, yet fail under operating conditions
(such as during busmastering DMA from a SCSI controller like the
Adaptec 1542).
Often the guilty party is bad cache RAM or a bad on-board cache
controller. Try disabling the on-board (secondary) cache in the
BIOS setup and see if that solves the problem.
You may have to run with no on-board cache. This isn't a disaster,
but it's certainly less than ideal.
<sect1>
<heading>Help! X Window menus and dialog boxes don't work right!</heading>
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terminal, you use only the Alt- function key to switch to another
virtual terminal or back to X Window. You do not also press the
Ctrl key; the Ctrl-Alt-function key combination is used only when
switching from X Window to a virtual terminal.
switching from X Window to a virtual terminal. If you insist on
using the control key to switch back to X you can find your
text console stuck in ``control-lock'' mode. Tap the control
key to wake it up again.
<sect1>
<heading>How do I increase the number of virtual consoles?</heading>
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Next, the easiest (and cleanest) way to activate the virtual
consoles is to reboot. However, if you really don't want to
reboot, you can just shut down X Window and execute (as
reboot, you can just shut down the X Window system and execute (as
<tt/root/):
<verb>
kill -HUP 1
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<tt/xdm/ should be started without any arguments (i.e., as a
daemon).
The Xserver config file (default:
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers</tt>) should contain the
line:
<code>
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt08 -wm
</code>
Of course, you can omit the ``<tt/-wm/'' if you don't like it,
but the `<tt/`vt08/'' is quite important -- it must point to a vt
that won't be used by <tt/getty/'s about a second later.
<bf/NOTE:/ A previos version of this FAQ told you to add the
<tt/vt/ you want X to use to the
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers</tt> file. This is not necessary:
X will use the first free <tt/vt/ it finds.
<sect1>
<heading>What is this thing called ``<tt/sup/'', and how do I use it?</heading>
<p>
<p>
You should really be using CVSup, not sup, according to the latest
skinny. I'm going to bug the hackers for a section describing that.
In the meantime:
SUP stands for Software Update Protocol, and was developed by CMU
for keeping their development trees in sync. We use it to keep
remote sites in sync with our central development sources.
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messages printed by your old kernel, some of which may be quite
helpful in configuring the new one.
<bf/NOTE:/ I recommend making a dated snapshot of your kernel
in <tt/kernel.YYMMDD/ after you get it all working, that way if
you do something dire the next time you play with your configuration
you can boot that kernel instead of having to go all the way back
to <tt/kernel.GENERIC/. This is particularly important if you're
now booting off a controller that isn't supported in the GENERIC
kernel (yes, personal experience).
<sect1>
<heading>My kernel compiles fail because <tt/&lowbar;hw&lowbar;float/ is missing.</heading>
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A. The problem here is that FreeBSD has code built-in to keep the
kernel from getting trashed due to hardware or software
conflicts. The way to fix this is to leave out the IRQ settings
on other ports besides the first. Here is a example:
on all but one port. Here is a example:
<verb>
#
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Recompile and install.
<bf/NOTE:/ You may need to increase SHMMAXPGS to some
ridiculous number like 4096 (16M!) if you want to run
GIMP. 256Kb is plenty for X11R6 shared memory.
<sect1>
<heading>I have 128 MB of RAM but the system only uses 64 MB.</heading>
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There's a useful document available which explains how to set
FreeBSD up as a <url url="http://www.ssimicro.com/~jeremyc/ppp.html"
name="PPP Dialup Router">
<bf/NOTE:/ This requires having at least two fixed IP addresses
available, and possibly three or more, depending on how much
work you want to go through to set up the Windows box. As an
alternative, if you don't have a fixed IP, you can use one of
the private IP subnets and install <bf/proxies/ such as
<url url="http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/" name="SQUID"> and
<url url="http://www.tis.com/" name="the TIS firewall toolkit">
on your FreeBSD box.
<sect1>
<heading>Does FreeBSD support SLIP and PPP?</heading>