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Yea, that game is probalby the reason its going so slow, not doing anything much at school though so I dont know if that helps or not.

 

EDIT: Didn't see that, no I don't mind at all reminds me to read your post =D

EDIT2: Check it out =D

Buttons

EDIT3 :blink:

Would this work???

Got the hard drive for the server in my current computer. Could I install freeBSD on it then when I get the server just plug it in and run it?

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Those buttons are pretty cool!!

 

And yeah it should work like that, providing it'll install on your current computer :rolleyes:

 

If you try that route, make sure you take your current hard disk out and just have the server hard disk in though, otherwise it'll drop you to single user mode when you move it to another computer as primary master and you'll have to be messing about with /etc/fstab changing drive numbers and stuff.

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So if I unplug the others it will work, can I not disable them somehow instead?

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Well, how do I explain this one?

 

FreeBSD names it's hard drives by their configuration in your computer. Like:

 

Primary Master = ad0

Primary Slave = ad1

Secondary Master = ad2

Secondary Slave = ad3

 

When you install it'll write mount points to a file /etc/fstab, which get mounted on startup. So if you install in your computer on PS (ad1) and move it to your server as PM (ad0) ... it's going to throw a fit at you because ad1 doesn't exist on the server computer. You'll be thrown to a prompt asking where the root mount point is, then you'll have to edit /etc/fstab from there and correct all the mount points to ad0.

 

Soo.. so long as you install the disk on your machine as primary master, and move it over to the server as primary master you'll be ok. I think that's pretty much the only thing you'll have to look out for... I think :rolleyes:

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I think I'll just find my VMware disk and practise then do the real install when I get the case on Saturday.

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Sounds like a plan :)

 

I'm right here if you have any install issues. Just shoot me a PM or something..

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Well I seem to have messed it up so I'll try after a while on KO =P

EDIT

Well I got it installed but it seems to get to

Starting standard daemons: cron sshd usbd sendmail

and stop.

:bah:

Help Please!! :blink::D

EDIT2

it just added

sendmail-clientmqueue

then stopped again

should it take that long, one of the tuts turns them off right?

EDIT3 :blink: (done it again)

Markie I just looked on your profile and noticed you have the DVDR drive that I'm having delivered tomorrow. :P :thumbs-up:

EDIT4 :bah:

 

Okay I dont think I have set the networking up right :S

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Well I seem to have messed it up so I'll try after a while on KO =P

EDIT

Well I got it installed but it seems to get to

Starting standard daemons: cron sshd usbd sendmail

and stop.

:bah:

Help Please!! :blink:  :D

EDIT2

it just added

sendmail-clientmqueue

then stopped again

should it take that long, one of the tuts turns them off right?

EDIT3  :blink:  (done it again)

Markie I just looked on your profile and noticed you have the DVDR drive that I'm having delivered tomorrow. :P :thumbs-up:

EDIT4 :bah:

 

Okay I dont think I have set the networking up right :S

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Hmm so it hangs for a long time trying to start sendmail? Thats a new one!

 

Try pressing ctrl+c whenever it stops and see if you can get to the login prompt so we can try sort it out lol.

 

It's a pretty good drive. If you need the tools to flash the firmware to the XL drive I can send them to you :)

 

Sorry I took so long to reply lol... I fell asleep!

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I can get past all that if I leave it but then when I try and install ports updates the downloading times out =S where can I find the numbers for the network setup?

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You can "see" them by typing `ifconfig`.

 

You can change them with that too:

 

`ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0` for instance. Network settings are in /etc/rc.conf for start up too.

 

If you want to get back to the installer thing and do it that way then run `/stand/sysinstall`

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