port does not seem to have changed since FreeBSD release 8.1
when it was still working correctly.
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On Fri, 4 Dec 2010, Warren Block responded to my previous email:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Dan Strick wrote:
I tried /usr/ports/www/firefox which installs as firefox3, a native
FreeBSD Firefox program. It will print via lpr, but It won't
do flash.
Actually, it will.
I tried
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I tried printing to a file, but both the Linux and FreeBSD Firefox
programs create slightly strange postscript and pdf files which seem
to display
problem. There are sometimes when I just
*have* to be able to save a postscript image (e.g. a map) and print
it later.
My sister tells me that I should be using MS Windows because that always
works correctly. I don't know how to prove her wrong.
Help!
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in an
obvious place but have not found any. Where should I have looked?
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. At least fetchmail is now happy.
Thanks for the help,
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81.106.49.69.in-addr.arpa. 21124 IN PTR
mail871.carrierinternetsolutions.com.
Is this a temporary condition?
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is now a new www/rt-3.4.4 port. I would guess that the new ports install
in pretty much the same was as www/rt32.
Dan Strick
P.S.:
On several occasions I tried to install RT-3.4 on RH Fedora Core 4 with
Apache 2.0 and on Core 2 with Apache 1.3 (because the RT-3.4 installation
docs said Apache
.
These issues are a bit subtle. If you really care about them, you should
ask a lawyer who works with intellectual property rights law.
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:36:00 +0200, Arno wrote:
hello,
why is the colouization lost in:
ls -alhG | more
Educated guess: | more is not a tty.
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seem to work quite well under FreeBSD if you can somehow manage
to avoid ATA controller and cable misconfigurations that drive I/O rates
way down.)
Does anyone know if there are online records of discussions of such
issues?
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time', using the same time server
(time.nist.gov), I get a difference of about 8 1/2 hours!
Anyone have a similar issue?
See the man page for adjkerntz.
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anyone want 5 GB on a single spindle?)
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, especially since you are probably
not very familiar with the fdisk -u command and might possibly make a
fatal mistake.
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experience, release 5.x won't recognize
FreeBSD disk labels in non FreeBSD slices and won't create special
files for the partitions in /dev. This suggests that your MBR partition
type code is actually correct. I dunno ... but it should be worth
checking anyway.)
Dan Strick
the fixit CD you
can't really do an installation (because the bytes to install are not
there) and when you go into fixit mode you don't have to change the CD
in the drive.
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it didn't complain! Why is that?
I pass on this question. BIOS geometry confusion is hard to resolve.
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) Reissue the boot0cfg command.
You will need a fixit diskette or a live filesystem cd-rom.
See the file floppies/README.TXT in your FreeBSD installation medium.
Dan Strick
P.S. The usual master bootstrap program is no longer BootEasy.
It is called boot0. The source is in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0
the SiI 3112 SATA controller, but I have not yet dug up any spare
SATA drives to test with the controller. Note that these modifications
will not support the RAID features of your controller.
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, which is *not* the bootstrap program
you want to use, may be found in the tools subdirectory of any recent
FreeBSD release: .../X.X-RELEASE/tools/srcs/bteasy.
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the previous
run of this security script had gone away. The next time this script
runs it may well report that these files have reappeared.
This is probably not evidence that your system was hacked.
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is unsigned) on a single hard disk.
If you try to make a single file system that large, you may find
that things like fsck don't scale very well.
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understand obscure sendmail documentation.
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as option specifiable with the
-o flag. The -w flag (which is not an option) is listed on the
mount man page but not on mount_cd9660 man page. I was under the
impression that the mount_cd9660 command only mounted file systems
read-only.
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. (long story)
In particular, AGP devices have PCI device addresses.
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need much swap space. Creating a dependency of one OS on another's
installation could create a painful long term maintenance problem.
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ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
I want the ICH5 SATA150 channels to be ata2 and ata3.
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I don't recall seeing an announcement about 5.2.1-RC (presumably RC1)
anywhere (I am subscribed to freebsd-announce).
It was announced in freebsd-current. Here is a copy of the announcement
of the second release candidate:
From
and the middle connector is plugged into a
drive, the host thinks the cable is a low speed 40 conductor cable.
Another possible problem is that the slave drive cannot correctly
pass the results of its power-on-self-test to the master drive.
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found simplified instructions on rebuilding sendmail to use SASL on
FreeBSD at this url:
http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html
It worked for me. (eventually)
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(not sure of the ascq) when any of my CD drives
(both ATA and SCSI) try to read the first blank sector at the end of
a CD-R (should be a short read or EOF).
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from /boot/mbr. Be sure to set the desired active partition so that
the bootstrap program knows which partition to boot.
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Have you put this up as a FAQ somewhere? It seems like a good idea
to do so.
I don't have a place to put it. I would gladly offer it to anyone
who does.
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if all bootstrap programs use the extended int13
functions.
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random access and favor contiguous
files. (However, I do see a small environmental niche for UFS on CD.)
Given all these nagging little software issues, we may be stuck with
mkisofs/burncd/cdrecord for the near future even with CD-RW.
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file system
that would wear out very quickly.
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Hat makes to the basic Linux in the Enterprise product.
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your installation media and run these commands in fixit
mode (or whatever it is called these days). You will need either the fixit
floppy or the live file system CD (...disc2.iso).
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that marginal operation may not be quite obvious.
Sometimes it seems that the technology was designed to be frustrating.
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. (Assuming of
course that the bug has not already been fixed.)
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to have much interest in producing them, perhaps because
the primary effect of such software is to increase the number of
requests for technical assistance and warranty repairs. You don't
want to know. Just cross your fingers and pray. You'll be happier
that way. :-)
Dan Strick
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(or if the bugs will be fixed in 5.2).
Note that the HARDWARE.TXT files in FreeBSD releases still do not claim
any particular support for Intel 875/865 (ICH5) ATA controllers.
I don't know if this is policy or an oversight.
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The author of the following email apparently had difficulty sending this
to freebsd-questions, so I am forwarding it to the mailing list without
comment.
DRS
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 12 14:11:27 2003
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Subject: FreeBSD 4.8 will not boot on
busy.
You can't unmount the root file system. Even the mere notion makes
me feel a little queasy.
I have to give you big points for originality. :-)
(Why did you *want* to unmount the root? To fsck it or dump it?)
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the magic debug key combination
(usually ctl-alt-esc) at the system console driver but you didn't have
options DDB in youer kernel configuration. This is not anything serious.
Do man ddb for more information.
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unless you were also
using a non-FreeBSD OS on the same disk and it inadvertently did disk
writes through the BIOS to wrong disk locations.
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this is supposed to work help me out?
Is there an SMTP authentication protocol that protects the
authentication information from network snoopers?
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partition with
the fdisk program. If nothing else changes that, boot1 will correctly
boot ad0s4.
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program were you using for the master
bootstrap? Do you know which slice had the active partition flag?
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use /fs for the mount point directory, /fs/fd for my primary floppy
drive, and /fs/cd for my primary cd (rom) drive. I chose the name /fs
because anything you can mount is almost by definition a file system.
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of specific partitions in the bootstrap
menu. See the boot0cfg command and its -m option.
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bearings may be very quiet. Slower cpu/memory/motherboard
devices tend to consume less power, require less fan and are cheaper.
You can't avoid tradeoffs.
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program.)
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on FreeBSD 5.x).
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http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
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Can anyone suggest a PCP ATA host adapter card that supports booting
off CD-ROM drives (and is supported by FreeBSD)?
I can't find any PCI cards that do that.
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Can anyone suggest a PCI ATA host adapter card that supports booting
off CD-ROM drives (and is supported by FreeBSD)?
I can't find any PCI cards that really support ATAPI devices.
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huge file systems require a lot
of main memory for support. For example, fsck memory requirements
increase with file system size. I don't think you will have a problem
at only 1000 GB, but I am not certain. This issue was discussed recently
on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists.
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packet option and don't
know for sure that it works. I also wonder how the boot0 program worked
for you before you installed XP. I gather that it did and that suggests
your problem is something else. Still, it is worth a try.
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are using.
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when reading an ATAPI CD on both FreeBSD-4.8 and FreeBSD-5.1.
It also slows down if I use a larger buffer size, though not to
such a ridiculous extent.
Can someone explain what is happening? How should I go about making
a copy of a CD?
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that
when the system is in the press any key to continue halted state
it seems to ignore the power button. So I press any key and let it
reset and start to reboot. Then the power button works. This is
indeed a little annoying. I would like to understand why it does this.
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think anything else I can
write would do you much good. You have to learn about Wine yourself
(mostly the hard way).
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How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing
that data.
I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find
information
for this scenario.
The system in question is running 4.8
The disk is coming from a 5.1 system and uses ufs with softupdates.
The
in the
partition table instead of the physical C/H/S disk addresses.
For an alternative discussion of BIOS geometry,
see http://www.ata-atapi.com.
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of text. I broke it up at blanks
into three lines to make it more readable.)
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that it works ok when running multiuser. The man page is sysinstall.
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something relevant into the freebsd-stable mailing list.
The subject is, FreeBSD STABLE support for new motherboards.
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those problems have been fixed.
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of something newer.
XFree86 ought to support the Radeon 9800 as a generic SVGA card anyway.
See also http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
and http://www.xfree86.org/current/ati.html.
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trying to use the main VGA
connector. Am I even using the right device for the 9800pro ?
(Oops.) I guess my previous observation that the 9800 is not fully
supported may be irrelevant.
You can verify the PCI address of your video card by doing pciconf -lv.
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to be supported by the FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.2 releases, please
let me know.
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FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE dd command and discovered a new option that avoids
this problem. Specify conv=noerror,sync if you use the dd command.
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