freebsd along with debian

2010-08-06 Thread Umut Tabak
Dear all, As a potential user of FreeBsd, I would like to install FreeBsd along with Debian testing. I did a googling on how to install both on the same machine, however I also would like to make a post here, in case some better, easier to follow sites might be provided. As far as I can

Re: copyright for man pages

2010-08-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:58:00 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: As I understand it, most man pages and other FreeBSD documentation is distributed under the terms of the FreeBSD Documentation License: I wonder if we should be trying to update the copyright notice in the man pages

Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Depo Catcher
I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are nice) xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command line GUIs). eterm is nice, but again, requires a ton of libs and looks funny on

Re: freebsd along with debian

2010-08-06 Thread tomasz dereszynski
Dear all, As a potential user of FreeBsd, I would like to install FreeBsd along with Debian testing. I did a googling on how to install both on the same machine, however I also would like to make a post here, in case some better, easier to follow sites might be provided. As far as I can

Re: freebsd along with debian

2010-08-06 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
As far as I can read from the installation manual, FreeBsd's partitioning scheme is different than linux, this is the 1st difference I know for now. I would appreciate if you could direct me to web pages(if any) where these differences are pointed out. Consult the HANDBOOK[1] Crashcourse for

Re: REG:SAP server not starting -own laptop

2010-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2010 05:00, Anton Shibu wrote: Installed SAP in my lab top two years before from bangalore private institute . After a long time , trying to start it .It is not working. Is there any settings , i to update ..Any body can help me ...? Unfortunately we aren't mind-readers; nor do we

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are nice) xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command line GUIs). Try

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Re: freebsd along with debian

2010-08-06 Thread me
If you already have Debian installed, with GRUB on MBR and you have a free primary partition lying around then you can install FreeBSD normally using the free primary partition as your BSD slice and making BSD partitions over it. When FreeBSD ask you about Bootloader chose to leave the MBR

Re: freebsd along with debian

2010-08-06 Thread Umut Tabak
On 08/06/2010 12:48 PM, me wrote: and you have a free primary partition lying around then you can install FreeBSD normally using the free primary partition as your BSD slice and making BSD partitions over it. When FreeBSD ask you about Bootloader chose to leave the MBR untouched. Once FreeBSD

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 06, 2010 a las 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith escribió: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are nice)

installworld via NFS with FreeBSD 8

2010-08-06 Thread thc
Hello I have a concern with the deployment of FreeBSD 8.1. I usually compile on a server and deploy the result by NFS. It works fine with FreeBSD 6 and 7, but curiously, I just can not get the same result with FreeBSD 8.1 (or with 8.0). Here is the df of the source: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used

Re: installworld via NFS with FreeBSD 8

2010-08-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:06:37PM +0200, thc wrote: Hello I have a concern with the deployment of FreeBSD 8.1. I usually compile on a server and deploy the result by NFS. It works fine with FreeBSD 6 and 7, but curiously, I just can not get the same result with FreeBSD 8.1 (or with 8.0).

gigabit LAN switching to 100Mb lan

2010-08-06 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I have a 8.0-release system with 1 gigabit LAN and 1x 100Mb lan card. They are working fine until I add a second gigabit lancard. After I insert the second one, the first gigabit lan card drops to 100Mb. If I remove the second one, the first one goes back to gigabit. The network

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-06 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Adam Vande More on Thursday, 05 August 2010: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:17 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: awesome... i will. i'm basically intending to use it for production servers. i'll give it try... was reading something about not supporting usb... how about serial

Bind9.7.1 Package

2010-08-06 Thread Martin McCormick
In the /usr/ports/dns/bind9 ports there is a bind97 port that I had no trouble at all installing on a 8.0 system. If I do a pkg_add -r bind97, however, pkg_add reports that it is unavailable. I will be building several FreeBSD boxes with bind9.7.1 on them so a package would be faster. Am

Fw: monitoring

2010-08-06 Thread Dánielisz László
Or, do you have idea how to completely reinstall munin? :-) Subject: monitoring Hi, What program do you use monitoring your system? I used munin but after upgrading to 1.4 it stops working properly, I tried to fix bout with no success. Any idea? thank you! Laszlo

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Roland Smith on Friday, 06 August 2010: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are nice) xterm does display some things

monitoring

2010-08-06 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, What program do you use monitoring your system? I used munin but after upgrading to 1.4 it stops working properly, I tried to fix bout with no success. Any idea? thank you! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Anonymous
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: Quoth Roland Smith on Friday, 06 August 2010: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are

Re: Bind9.7.1 Package

2010-08-06 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: In the /usr/ports/dns/bind9 ports there is a bind97 port that I had no trouble at all installing on a 8.0 system. If I do a pkg_add -r bind97, however, pkg_add reports that it is unavailable. I will be building several

Re: Bind9.7.1 Package

2010-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2010 16:15, Martin McCormick wrote: In the /usr/ports/dns/bind9 ports there is a bind97 port that I had no trouble at all installing on a 8.0 system. If I do a pkg_add -r bind97, however, pkg_add reports that it is unavailable. I will be building several FreeBSD boxes with

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-06 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Very powerfull, indeed too bad vrdp doesn't work on OSE... Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 Allée de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ... Xorg.conf(5) On Fri, Aug 6,

Re: how to find my memory size?

2010-08-06 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:03 +0800 at Jason lisen1...@gmail.com wrote: hi,all: which one is the memory size?And what's the meaning of these three variable? hw.physmem: 2138476544 hw.usermem: 1886236672 hw.realmem: 2147430400 ___

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Redirected to the -questions. Paul eb30...@gmail.com wrote: What about matching the ' marks in this section? I get a command error. # XXX: put extraction in its own function MAGIC_NUMBER=`od -An -t u4 -N 4 -j $MAGIC_OFFSET $file | tr -d ' '` That command works fine for me: $

Re: how to find my memory size?

2010-08-06 Thread beni brinckman
On Friday 06 August 2010 18:48:30 Daniel C. Dowse wrote: On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:03 +0800 at Jason lisen1...@gmail.com wrote: hi,all: which one is the memory size?And what's the meaning of these three variable? hw.physmem: 2138476544 hw.usermem: 1886236672 hw.realmem: 2147430400

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are nice) xterm does display

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-06 Thread Paul Lambert
Oliver, Thanks for the reply. I am attaching the bash output from the shell script. This script implements RPMs so I am sure that I need the linux module. I had previously found a guide on how to install RPMs on FreeBSD. I have a printer that has an RPM that allows it to work on Linus. So I

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-06 Thread Paul Lambert
Oliver, Looks like the Linux emulator is only 32 bit. Here is the error I get after installing the emulator and running the /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash shell. This is a x64 bundle and does not match that of the current architecture. Please download the x86 bundle. I would like to see if I can

MacIP Gateway Solution for FreeBSD?

2010-08-06 Thread Keith Seyffarth
I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 (FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sat Oct 31 16:21:25 MDT 2009 ch...@janet.weif.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/JANET i386) with netatalk installed so I can connect my old Macintosh Quadra 605 to the FreeBSD machine to share files. I would like to

nscd perform-actual-lookups not working

2010-08-06 Thread Andri Piik
Hi, Has anyone tried to use nss_ldap and nscd with perform-actual-lookups in nscd.conf? My problem is that when I try to getent passwd or getent group it seems like ldap query is not made and getent does not return ldap users. Without nscd cache in nsswitch.conf or disabling

mercurial port broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Chip Camden
I just pulled mercurial, and the build nowfails: for f in bash_completion convert-repo dumprevlog hg-ssh hgdiff hgk logo-droplets.svg memory.py mercurial.el mergetools.hgrc mq.el perf.py pylintrc python-hook-examples.py rewrite-log sample.hgrc shrink-revlog.py simplemerge

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-06 Thread Noah Pratt
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com wrote: Very powerfull, indeed too bad vrdp doesn't work on OSE... True, but a VNC server was recently added to the OSE edition instead: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6020 -Noah

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/2/10, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed the first 8.1-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com At the moment only the 64bit version is