Sed, shell and hexadecimal character codes
There's a tip in the FreeBSD fortunes database that says: Want to strip UTF-8 BOM(Bye Order Mark) from given files? sed -e '1s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' bomfile newfile I can't make it work, and I can't find any other method to work with hexa codes in scripts or on the command line so I'm kind-a depressed :) I help myself with xxd now, but if it is possible to avoid it, I'd like to hear about it. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?
This is in my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, except for the asterisks: # Connect to *** over IrDA and GSM phone. First install birda and # create connection over IrDA: #ircomm -d /dev/cuad0 -m 115200 -y /dev/ptypf -v 2 # then connect with: ppp -background gsm. gsm: set log Phase tun command set speed 115200 set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \ \\ AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT set timeout 60 set phone *** set authname *** set authkey *** set device /dev/ttypf set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.255 add default HISADDR resolv readonly set dns *.*.*.* *.*.*.* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make package-recursive
1. This is not possible since files may be generated or modified on the fly during the installation process. 2. Don't know exactly what you mean, but... a. you don't have to install under /usr/local b. man jail c. cat /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/tinderbox/pkg-descr There are some nice articles about this on the web. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
game advice
TuxRacer. MAME, DOSBox, MLDonkey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IE in FreeBSD?
Yuan Jue wrote: Does anybody successfully run Internet Explorer under Wine in FreeBSD? What should I do to get it run? Any suggestion will be appreciated. I recommend qemu emulator too. It's easy to install, you get native platform and it's not that slow (even usable on a 366MHz notebook). When you install your favourite OS on it, you can copy the image around as much as you like and share it with other users in snapshot mode as their changes won't be written back... could go on and on :) -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on Thinkpad and Networking questions
Lars Lindblad wrote: New problems with FreeBSD 5.4 on my IBM Thinkpad 600E: For questions regarding notebooks consider subscribing to the freebsd-mobile list. In the archives of the mobile list you can find some questions on TP 600E already answered. 1. I try to get the sound to work, but I never manage to make! I have tried to recompile the kernel, as described in the FreeBSD Handbook I chapter 8. First I found a website dedicated to Thinkpad600E and FreeBSD 4.7, but the lines presented there didn't work. Check out my kernel configuration (attached), it's for 5.4. Soundcard is enabled by these two lines at the end: device sound device snd_mss You must also have your hardware configured (hint: PS2). -- Regards, Karel Miklav # TP600E - IBM ThinkPad 600E kernel configuration file # Lino, 24. oktober 2004 2:32 # # cd /sys/i386/conf/ # config TP600E # cd ../compile/TP600E # make depend # make # make install # # or # # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=TP600E # make installkernel KERNCONF=TP600E machine i386 #cpuI486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident TP600E # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints GENERIC.hints # Default places to look for devices. options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options INET# InterNETworking options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server options NFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options SCSI_DELAY=15000# Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~128k to driver. options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~215k to driver. options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. #optionsVESA# To include support for VGA VESA video modes device apic# I/O APIC # Bus support. Do not remove isa, even if you have no isa slots device isa device eisa device pci # Floppy drives #device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives #device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives #device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering ## SCSI Controllers #device ahb # EISA AHA1742 family #device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices #device ahd # AHA39320/29320 and onboard AIC79xx devices #device amd # AMD 53C974 (Tekram DC-390(T)) #device isp # Qlogic family #device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion ##devicencr # NCR/Symbios Logic #device sym # NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets + those of `ncr') #device trm # Tekram DC395U/UW/F DC315U adapters # #device adv # Advansys SCSI adapters #device adw # Advansys wide SCSI adapters #device aha # Adaptec 154x SCSI adapters #device aic # Adaptec 15[012]x SCSI adapters, AIC-6[23]60. #device bt # Buslogic/Mylex MultiMaster
Re: grab video and sound bktr
Gunter Wambaugh wrote: With that, I can run motv and use sox to grab the audio from the VHS. But that still doesn't help me get both streams. I have tried transcode and nuvrec (as root) with absolutely NO AUDIO. I can't be the only one that has done this before! Just show me a working cmd, or point me to a mailing list where someone might actually knowPLEASE. I'm doing it (sort of) with mplayer/mencoder. If you're interested try something like: mplayer -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/vbi:input=1:norm=PAL:\ chanlist=europe-east:audioid=1 tv://S23 Help yourself with 'man mplayer' and when you have it working switch to mencoder. If nothing else works :) -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: undelete in FreeBSD?
Xu Qiang wrote: ... is the lack of a cyclin bin, from which you can restore anything you have mis-deleted before. Or, am I mis-informed on this issue? I scratched my head about it too and finally wrote a simple script which moves trashed items into auto made date-stamped directories. I can send it later, if there's interest. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: undelete in FreeBSD?
Peter wrote: this tip is taken from BSD hacks I do not believe this! This girl literally stole my script, traveled back through time to cover the tracks and made an article out of her shameless act :) Anyway, here's the original version of 'the trash': #! /bin/sh # Move files in a trash folder. trash_root=$HOME/.trash trash_stamp=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` trash_dest=$trash_root/$trash_stamp if [ ! -d $trash_root ]; then mkdir -p $trash_root fi if [ -e $trash_dest ]; then echo Ups, $trash_dest exists! else mkdir $trash_dest mv $@ $trash_dest/ echo Files trashed. fi -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote X client
Tony Shadwick wrote: Take this demon-spawn firefox and point it to this address: http//www.whatismyip.com Well, what is it? What is your local IP? Do they match? point it at a file in your remote filesystem. Does it work? Thanks for your time Tony. I don't have my computer handy, but I figured out I wasn't just lost in xterms after all. It is a Mozilla family feature (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html), but it can be easily disabled in startup scripts. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote X client
I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc. remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over ssh on remote machine?! Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's MPlayer not using GTK2
Thomas E. Zander wrote: Exactly. I still hope that the mplayer project moves towards a gtk2 default gui in a not-too-distant future. They have bigger problems at the moment. Check http://www.mplayerhq.hu. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TV application
I've set up FreeBSD on our home computer the other day; my intention was to get rid of an old Mandrake installation. It all worked well, except for the TV application. Neither fxtv nor xawtv can't hold a candle to tvtime on Linux; there's no deinterlacer, no fullsize fullscreen picture etc. Am I missing something or it just can't be done? -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Statistics
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=600h=500r=3yy=ru=freebsd.org/u=redhat.com/u=debian.org Pretty good, but check this apple stunt: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=600h=500r=3yy=ru=freebsd.org/u=apple.com/u=sun.com That's milking the cow! -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.
Benjamin Keating wrote: Either way, I'll be using / populating that thing with as much quality info as I can. Thanks! Are you in charge of this? No, you should talk to the Jimbo guy (Jimbo is a FreeBSD enthusiast / professional / zealot, depending on who you ask, and is the maintainer of this wiki.) For more information about him try your luck with 'whois freebsdwiki.net' -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing DCOM98 with Wine
Chris Hodgins wrote: I have the latest Wine and Winetools installed and I am now trying to install DCOM98 with the purpose of installing internet explorer 6 for my web development needs. Have you considered using QEMU? I have it installed on an old 300MHz notebook. It runs Win98 perfectly and applications like IE are usable on this hardware. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.
Benjamin Keating wrote: Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date. A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project like it yet, I'd like to propose we set one up. I can contribute quite a bit of time and resources towards this. Save me wiki.freebsd.org and I'll get a move on! What about http://www.freebsdwiki.net? It needs a better home page and some content, but it's there. Besides, I completely agree with you that wiki-kind software must replace all pointless hand-editing and mail shuffling. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem burning 5.3-RELEASE Disc 2 from iso
check http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+5.3-release-i386-disc2.iso+burn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating CA with CA.pl
Jeffery Fernandez wrote: I am following a tutorial on creating a CA on my FreeBSD 5.3 development box. The tutorial can be found at http://www.freebsddiary.org/openssl-client-authentication.php I had a problem on signing the certificate as explained in this forum thread: http://www.freebsddiary.org/phorum/read.php?f=1i=9702t=9694 Don't know about CA.pl, but try doing it manually. You should first edit the openssl.conf, make a directory structure for your CA, setup files... (man ca) then do something like this: openssl req -new -x509 -keyout ca.key -out ca.pem -days 3650 Look around; there are many tutorials, guides, a Linux HOWTO... on the net, it's not related to FreeBSD. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do i translate non-ascii chars???
Gary Kline wrote: I've got sseveral HTML files with O-aigu and O-grave and others (these files were composed on a Mac. Rather than display as ['] (apostrophes) or backticks, they are rendered in full 8859-1. How to I translate these 128 range characters? I'm wedged. What about 'man iconv'? You can also open such a file in Vim with ':e ++enc=macroman file.html' or something. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Personally, I wonder how FreeBSD survives based exclusively on volunteer efforts. It's a noble idea, but in the real world, things cost money, and people need to earn a living. Something that survives exclusively from the kindness of strangers leads a fragile existence. No, this is wrong - you're just piling up arguments for your case. If the case is money you should also care about positioning and not splitting the eyeballs. And if there'll ever be a really simple logo like red dot, red heart or plain FreeBSD name, where will you hide chuck from concernig citizens? -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem running openGL and glut based programs
Antoine Solomon wrote: I have a problem running glut and gl based programs. when compiling simple examples using GL and glut they appear to compile just fine. But when executing them, I just get a blank window that doesn't do anything. I am running glut libglut-6.0.1 Link with pthreads. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? IBM Thinkpads are fine also. But try before u buy, whatever your decision. Take a live cd (http://www.freesbie.org/) with you and test it as much as you can. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extended fat32 partition, how to mount ?
Have you: 1. tried mounting ad2s5 and ad2s6? 2. checked the http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists? 3. searched the web (extended logical fat ad0s5 freebsd...)? -- Be well, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to send output to another terminal?
I'm playing with functional languages and I'd like to send text selections from vim to another xterm running language interpreter. Echoing from one terminal to another via /dev/tty* gets the message through, but it's invisible to the interpreter. Could you please give me some hints as to what knowledge do I miss to make it happen and if I'm on the right track at all? -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BlackBox slow
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: You may want to look into openbox. It's like all the other boxes only with no slit... Thanks man. I just threw my eyballs on hackedbox and wmi; we'll se what will become of it. Hackedbox doesn't have nor slit neither toolbar, that's what I was looking for. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BlackBox slow
I have an older ThinkPad notebook with FreeBSD 5.3. I use BlackBox window manager, which is great, but it takes it around 40 seconds to start up. TWM starts in 15 seconds and Gnome in 40 too. I have something like this in .xinitrc: xsetroot ... xhost ... bbkeys ... blackbox and it doesn't change much if I add or remove a line. What is your experience with BlackBox? Is there a BB clone without slit and taskbar or something like that? -- Regards, Karel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems compiling sample OpenGL apps .
John Murphy wrote: IANAD but there's a game called cube in the ports which seems to use a good 3D engine that may interest you. http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/ Thanks John, it looks interesting. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems compiling sample OpenGL apps .
Karel Miklav wrote: Some example apps. that work perfectly under Mandrake are not built properly in FreeBSD 5.3 RC1 / X.Org. All I get is a window filled with whatever was behind it. I should have linked with -pthread. Anybody here doing OpenGL development on FreeBSD? I need a 3D engine and there's nothing in the Ports. It looks like I'll have to port Irrlicht or Ogre, if none comes with a better idea :) Flowers, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-release-i386-disc2.iso will not burn
jkcooke wrote: I have downloaded both of the 5.3 i386 isos and the miniinstall iso, disc1 and the miniinstall burn an image, disc 2 does not. I downloaded disc2 from two additional ftp sites with the same result. There's probably nothing wrong with the image, I had the same issue with Nero. Check signature with some utility (md5, gpg...) just to be sure than burn with cdrecord (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/ glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html): cdrecord -help cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord dev=1,1,0 5.3-release-i386-disc2.iso Put the value returned by -scanbus in the dev parameter upthere. I'd still like to know what is the problem with this ISO as I didn't find a Windows utility to handle it sucessfuly. Beside cdrecord :) Regards, Karel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re bittorrent
I don't believe in democracy but in this case it could come handy. Somebody could propose like: let's get this fuck off the list and we'd say ... well ... I say YES! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS problems
I have a FreeBSD 5.3RC1 and Mandrake 10 Connected over NFS. Server is on Mandrake and FreeBSD is only client. Transfer rate for files is great, but scanning folders on the NFS mount is ubearably slow. CPU usage on both machines is close to 0%, on Mandrake I can see a nfsd daemon or two fired up from time to time, client is waiting in the loop. What could be wrong? Regards, Karel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems compiling sample OpenGL apps .
Some example apps. that work perfectly under Mandrake are not built
properly in FreeBSD 5.3 RC1 / X.Org. All I get is a window filled with
whatever was behind it.
Glxgears run well, everything is compiled and linked without any
problem. If I play with the order of GL libraries linked, there is some
improvement, but the display is garbled and there's no animation.
Anybody have any idea what am I doing wrong?
--
Regards,
Karel
--
cat hello.c
#include GL/glut.h
void display(void)
{
// clear all pixels
glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
//draw white polygon
glColor3f (1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glVertex3f (0.25, 0.25, 0.0);
glVertex3f (0.75, 0.25, 0.0);
glVertex3f (0.75, 0.75, 0.0);
glVertex3f (0.25, 0.75, 0.0);
glEnd();
// don't wait, start processing buffered OpenGL routines
glFlush ();
}
void init (void)
{
// select clearing color
glClearColor (0.8, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
// initialize viewing values
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glOrtho(0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0);
}
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
glutInit(argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode (GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGB);
glutInitWindowSize (250, 250);
glutInitWindowPosition (100, 100);
glutCreateWindow (hello);
init ();
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}
cat makefile
CC = gcc
INCLUDES = -I/usr/include
LLDLIBS = -lglut -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib
TARGETS = hello
all: default
default: $(TARGETS)
.c.o:
$(CC) -c $(INCLUDES) $
$(TARGETS): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$(CC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] $(LLDLIBS) -o $@
clean:
-rm -f *.o *~ $(TARGETS)
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Re: IBM Thinkpad R51 FreeBSD 4.10???
Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: I recently purchased an IBM Thinkpad R51 and I was looking to install FreeBSD 4.10. Has anyone ever done this? Should I anticipate any problems? Lastly I have never installed FreeBSD on a laptop before are there things that I should know before I get started? Thanks in advance for you help. I think you should be careful while partitioning the hard drive with newer models. You better check reports of Linux instalations and sites like http://forum.thinkpads.com and http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops. Regards, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
