Re: Uninstall sos

2007-11-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:05:18 -0800 Greg M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much for your response! I don't have the bsd cd. It comes up to the boot options 1-8, I think, so how would I get to the bsd version of a dos console or single mode you speak of? Thanks again, Greg hi greg, -

Part Time Available(Work From Home)

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Re: Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

2007-11-07 Thread Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:29 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: large. this is pretty close to twice the correct size. Also, tar The exact mksiofs(8)/mkhyrbid(8)/cdrtools flags are in a shell script burried in src/release/* somewhere. Its probably a matter of not-following-symlinks or crossing

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:36:03PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: On Nov 07, 2007, at 5:59 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If you compare for example the daemon on the CD cover of the version 1.1 release, pictured here: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/bsd4_3.html Note the fine shading

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 07), Andrea Venturoli said: Doug Clements ha scritto: gstat, iostat, and systat -vm are the tools I use for this. Thanks for the fast answer. A couple more questions: gstat gives percentage values: what are these and how are they computed? In the man page I can

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 7, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: iostat is also expecially interesting, since it can run non- interactively and I could poll it through cacti... However this monitors only raw da devices. Is there a way to get gmirrors monitored? If they are visible as drive devices,

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:26 AM 11/7/2007, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:39:55AM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:39:55AM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems to be working fine. The machine is:

Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a couple of servers which I'd like to keep an eye on in order to check wether their storage subsection is providing enough throughput or wether disk i/o is their bottleneck. I know how to check this wrt cpu usage, memory size, network throughput, but I'm totally lost when it

Re: Congratulations

2007-11-07 Thread Chris
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:11:52 + (UTC) James Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:15:50 +0100 (CET) UK NATIONAL e-LOTTERY, ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT, HOME OFFICE: 105 FULHAM PALACE RD., W6 8JB, UNITED KINGDOM.

Re: TCP/IP questions

2007-11-07 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bram wrote: Hi all, Can you change the timeout for a tcp connection ? Yes and no... Yes in that you can do it but no in that it will not have the effect your seeking... all you have to do is raise the default TTL value on IP. I need to do the

Re: problems with old SSH client and

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:53 -0800, Juri Mianovich wrote: I have a machine with an older SSH client on it and I am trying to connect to my 6.2-RELEASE system. What operating system is the older machine running (I assume FreeBSD, and I assume 6.2 stable, but want to be sure). What version of

TCP/IP questions

2007-11-07 Thread Bram
Hi all, Can you change the timeout for a tcp connection ? I need to do the following: start a tcp connection , unplug the network cable (it's actually wifi but the effect is the same),send some data over the connection,wait 20 seconds , reinsert the network cable and just keep working. When

problems with old SSH client and

2007-11-07 Thread Juri Mianovich
I have a machine with an older SSH client on it and I am trying to connect to my 6.2-RELEASE system. I have changed the default line of: Protocol 2 to: Protocol 2,1 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and now, from another modern FreeBSD system, I can successfully log in with this command: ssh -1 -c

Re: X screen film recording

2007-11-07 Thread Vince
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I once used vnc2swf on Linux. It looks like it's in ports, so I'm well i would like to convert OUT OF flash movie to something like animated gif or just frames. vnc2pnm or vnc2avi or vnc2gif would be nice. but there's no such things. ffmpeg appears to have the

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:39 AM 11/7/2007, Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems to be working fine. The machine is: -- FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 10

Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Mario Lobo
Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems to be working fine. The machine is: -- FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 10 14:15:16 BRT 2007 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:39:55AM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems to be working fine. The machine is: -- FreeBSD

Re: X screen film recording

2007-11-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I once used vnc2swf on Linux. It looks like it's in ports, so I'm well i would like to convert OUT OF flash movie to something like animated gif or just frames. vnc2pnm or vnc2avi or vnc2gif would be nice. but there's no such things. ___

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Ashley Moran
On Nov 07, 2007, at 6:54 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is really a small thing. The OS still works and mostly better than anything else out

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Marc Fromm wrote: I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a program like firefox. I did sudo pkg_add -r firefox as explained in chapter 4 of the handbook and received

Re: Autoattach geli device but not at startup

2007-11-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 07:13:45 am Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, I have here a setup where some backup directories are mounted encrypted (using geli). rc.conf: geli_devices=ad3 geli_ad3_flags=-k /root/backup1.key ... But if the system must be rebooted it asks for the password before

Re: Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

2007-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) writes: The exact mksiofs(8)/mkhyrbid(8)/cdrtools flags are in a shell script burried in src/release/* somewhere. Its probably a matter of not-following-symlinks or crossing filesystem mount-points, etc. Most definitely. It obviously can be done as the image is

Re: X screen film recording

2007-11-07 Thread Gueven Bay
2007/11/7, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I once used vnc2swf on Linux. It looks like it's in ports, so I'm well i would like to convert OUT OF flash movie to something like animated gif or just frames. vnc2pnm or vnc2avi or vnc2gif would be nice. but there's no such things. You

Re: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-11-07 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:19:28 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rod Person wrote: /usr/bin/ld cannot find -lgcc_s ls /lib/gcc* You should have: ls libgcc* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 43K Nov 4 01:23:20 2007 libgcc_s.so.1

Re: Congratulations

2007-11-07 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On Nov 7, 2007 4:20 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:11:52 + (UTC) James Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:15:50 +0100 (CET) UK NATIONAL e-LOTTERY, ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT, HOME OFFICE:

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Ashley Moran
On Nov 07, 2007, at 5:59 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You probably won't find any. One of the (many) problems with the new logo is the large color variation. This makes it look real kewel when it's displayed on the cover of a CD case, or a poster or a book. But shrinking it down would remove

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Doug Clements ha scritto: gstat, iostat, and systat -vm are the tools I use for this. Thanks for the fast answer. A couple more questions: gstat gives percentage values: what are these and how are they computed? In the man page I can find no answer. iostat is also expecially interesting,

Re: slow data transfer from smba share, where to start

2007-11-07 Thread Ray
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 1:10:11 pm Ray wrote: Hello, I am having a problem with slow data transfer. Source is a samba share mounted as a local drive. destination is the local hard-drive. Can anybody give me some hints on where to start looking? Thanks, Ray any info that seems relevant

Re: Congratulations

2007-11-07 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Federico Lorenzi wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 4:20 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:11:52 + (UTC) James Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:15:50 +0100 (CET) UK NATIONAL e-LOTTERY, ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT, HOME

installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread Marc Fromm
I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a program like firefox. I did sudo pkg_add -r firefox as explained in chapter 4 of the handbook and received the message: pkg_add: package

Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

2007-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
I think I have boiled this problem down to one point of failure. I need to modify a file in the 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso CD. The image is 601229312 bytes in size. Following instructions from a list member, I did the following: mdconfig -a -f

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-11-07 Thread David Robillard
On Oct 29, 2007 10:45 AM, Andrew Wasilczuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:12AM -0400, David Robillard wrote: We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We haven't had any problems, the machines

Autoattach geli device but not at startup

2007-11-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here a setup where some backup directories are mounted encrypted (using geli). rc.conf: geli_devices=ad3 geli_ad3_flags=-k /root/backup1.key ... But if the system must be rebooted it asks for the password before a network connection is available. The computer has no keyboard via

Re: ipv6 confusion

2007-11-07 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Wojciech, On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:03 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: AFAIK, IPv6 setup is much more difficult than IPv4 setup. Still i don't i don't think so. it is no more difficult, or even easier. more difficult is to put rev-dns entries but still not a problem You won! Because you

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:16 -0600, Eric Crist wrote: On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Marc Fromm wrote: I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a program like firefox. I did sudo pkg_add

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:54:03 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is really a small thing. The OS still works and mostly better

Re: X screen film recording

2007-11-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 09:25:19 Wojciech Puchar wrote: is there any app for this. to simply record what's going on X server as movie file (like .mov, .avi) or animated .gif? Yes, sysutils/xvidcap. Don't really remember what are the outputs that it supports. It works, the only negative

syslog time resolution

2007-11-07 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, I would like to increase the number of decimals reported in logfiles by syslogd(8), anyone knows if it is possible and perhaps a hint on how to do it? tcpdump for instance, has six decimals: 21:25:20.160833 whereas the standard syslog has zero decimal secs. I am only referring to

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:14:10PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: On Nov 07, 2007, at 6:54 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: So, I still put BSDie stickers on things and don't worry about it. Is that what it's called? I've always called it Beastie. I can't even tell you why. Prounced the

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread icantthinkofone
Marc Fromm wrote: I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a program like firefox. I did sudo pkg_add -r firefox as explained in chapter 4 of the handbook and received the message: pkg_add:

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Doug Clements
On 11/7/07, Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I've got a couple of servers which I'd like to keep an eye on in order to check wether their storage subsection is providing enough throughput or wether disk i/o is their bottleneck. I know how to check this wrt cpu usage, memory

IP packet with options

2007-11-07 Thread Malcolm Clarke
I have configured a machine with 2 NIC and IPFW in a rather simplistic way as we are using it to emulate different link characteristics rather than as an actual firewall. 00100 4 355 pipe 1 ip from any to any via de0 in 00200 1 56 pipe 2 ip from any to any via de0 out 00300 0 0 pipe 3 ip

Re: pci serial card issues

2007-11-07 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
Hello. At Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:15:59 +0100, chris.scott wrote: Hi i'm running freebsd stable (last build 28th) and am having a few issues with 2 pci serial cards. Basically I'm trying to build a serial server. However the driver doesn't seem to work correctly. Sep 28 22:18:56 boxster

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
It's just coincidence, but the many rack-mounted servers I've put a Beastie sticker on tend to run much smoother and reliably LOL, I thought there was a trick to it! I'll take about three dozen ;) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:50 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:54:03 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is

Re: Autoattach geli device but not at startup

2007-11-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:25:35 -0600 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 07:13:45 am Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, I have here a setup where some backup directories are mounted encrypted (using geli). rc.conf: geli_devices=ad3 geli_ad3_flags=-k

make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread tethys ocean
When I am rebuilding world FreeBSD 6.2 I have take error that is shown below. What can I do!? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make buildworld [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305

Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:01 +0200, tethys ocean wrote: When I am rebuilding world FreeBSD 6.2 I have take error that is shown below. What can I do!? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make buildworld [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system

Concerning Your Wellsfargo Account

2007-11-07 Thread Wellsfargo Online
Dear Wells Fargo Customer, During our regular update and verification of the Wells Fargo ATM ServiceĀ®, we could not verify your current information. Either your information has been changed or incomplete, as a result your access to use our services has been limited. Please update

Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:01:21PM +0200, tethys ocean wrote: When I am rebuilding world FreeBSD 6.2 I have take error that is shown below. What can I do!? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make buildworld In function `yylex':

Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:42:58 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:01 +0200, tethys ocean wrote: When I am rebuilding world FreeBSD 6.2 I have take error that is shown below. What can I do!? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make buildworld [EMAIL

How can I use the Windows loader to boot FreeBSD

2007-11-07 Thread Alou Dialy
I read this FAQ but I am still confused. How does it work if you have windows on ad0 and freebsd on ad1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: term: Undefined variable emitted after startup scripts

2007-11-07 Thread Mark McConnell
On 1 Nov 2007 at 22:00, Andy Harrison wrote: {Re: term: Undefined variable emit...}: On 11/1/07, Mark McConnell wrote: On bootup, I see the message repeated several times, term: Undefined variable. Were any of the shell rc files change recently? Like root's .profile or .bashrc, or the

Portsnap and freebsd-update don't work behind transparent proxy?

2007-11-07 Thread Joe S
I have a 2 fresh installs of FreeBSD 6.2 on i386 box and on a vmware host. Both hosts are behind a transparent proxy. Both tools, which use phttp, fail. # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.

Re: compile ports and base using both cores

2007-11-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is there some way I can get higher cpu usage? /usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried installing

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-07 Thread Chad Gross
On Nov 7, 2007 7:44 PM, Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2007 3:38 PM, Jon Drukman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am

Duplicate existing FreeBSD Server in VM

2007-11-07 Thread Terry Sposato
Hi, I have just installed a machine and have it setup running a web based CRM solution. I want to have an exact duplicate of this machine running as a VM for redundancy reasons. What is the best way to go about getting this exact machine transferred to the VM? Both machines exist on the

Re: compile ports and base using both cores

2007-11-07 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is there some way I can get higher cpu usage? /usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried

Re: portsnap question

2007-11-07 Thread Colin Percival
Novembre wrote: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Fri Oct 5 16:39:29 CDT 2007 to Wed Nov 7 17:22:07 CST 2007. Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. Applying

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-07 13:49, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know for sure. We shall rue the day beastie was ever demoted to mere mascot. RUE I TELL YOU The beastie is here[1] to stay, no worries... [1] 'Here' as in anywhere I can attach a sticker :-) ...and now I'll

FreeBSD procfs: fd information is missing?

2007-11-07 Thread Yuri
In Linux /proc/PID/fd/FD is a link to the file corresponding to FD opened by process with process id PID. But in FreeBSD I don't see /proc/PID/fd at all. How can I get the corresponding to FD file? Thanks, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-07 13:49, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know for sure. We shall rue the day beastie was ever demoted to mere mascot. RUE I TELL YOU The beastie is here[1] to stay, no worries... [1] 'Here' as in anywhere I can attach a sticker :-) ___

getting down to the last items

2007-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
How do I configure ssh so that I can run xmodmap, for instance? I've got X11 forwarding set to yes in /etc/ssh in the config files. It doesn't seem to work, and my keys aren't remapped. Is this another Gnome gotcha? tia, gary xmodmap

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-07 Thread Chad Gross
On Nov 3, 2007 3:38 PM, Jon Drukman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am unable to mount the vnconfig'd device. any ideas? i made the

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-07 Thread Jon Drukman
On Nov 7, 2007 4:52 PM, Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mount /dev/vn0s1a /mnt mount: /dev/vn0s1a on /mnt: incorrect super block You have to mount the device with 'mount -t cd9660' because it is an ISO which is a cd9660 format. Never mind I saw imagine and thought ISO. I

portsnap question

2007-11-07 Thread Novembre
Hi, This is the result of running 'portsnap fetch' tonight: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Fri Oct 5 16:39:29 CDT 2007 to Wed Nov 7 17:22:07 CST 2007.

Re: How can I use the Windows loader to boot FreeBSD

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-07 15:19, Alou Dialy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read this FAQ but I am still confused. How does it work if you have windows on ad0 and freebsd on ad1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER AFAICT, the 'explicit' list of steps missing from the

Re: portsnap question

2007-11-07 Thread Novembre
On Nov 7, 2007 7:36 PM, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novembre wrote: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Fri Oct 5 16:39:29 CDT 2007 to Wed Nov

Re: How can I use the Windows loader to boot FreeBSD

2007-11-07 Thread Alou Dialy
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-07 15:19, Alou Dialy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read this FAQ but I am still confused. How does it work if you have windows on ad0 and freebsd on ad1.

Re: compile ports and base using both cores

2007-11-07 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is there some way I can get higher cpu usage? /usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried