Re: Does small bsd cd exsit?
Freesbie http://www.freesbie.org is still available, though I have never used it myself and cannot say what, if any, GUI it provides. Note that if your software reports that the ISO files you have been trying to burn to DVD are too large, it may be that you are trying to burn them as files, rather than burning them as disk images. Make sure your software is set to do the latter. Good luck. Richard DeLaurell On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:28 AM, 丁少衡 dshbusin...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/13 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com ??? wrote: Hello, everyone, I want to try a bsd distribution. However, after downloading the PC-bsd (DVD, over 3GB) from the web through all night, my download tool gave me an error signal... Then I found it may too much big to some extent. Does a small one exsit, with a full GUI destop? I want use it on my laptop. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Try http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ It doesn't install a fully working GUI desktop like PCBSD, it is more like the tools for you to set up your own system using XFCE. The DVD is about 1.5GB and XCFE is a lot lighter than KDE (used by PCBSD). Chris Thanks a lot. It also seems a little larger than I had expected. My dvd driver can not burn a dvd image. I would prefer a single cd image just like ubuntu. Now, I'm tring to install a pcbsd with a bootonly image, on my virtualbox. I had failed to install once. It seems that the space of virutal disk is too small (10GB). Now, I creat a new virtual machine with 30GB harddisk. I hope it would be OK this time. I would install it on my laptop later if everything were OK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installation problem
I cannot tell for sure, but the installation seems to be failing at the point where it must install/read from the cdrom; is that correct? If so, it may be that your cdrom drive has a DMA conflict; I believe that Toshiba ATAPI drives have such problems. Provided you have a broadband connection, you may want to try and do the ftp/network installation using the boot only ISO. Good luck-- Richard 2010/4/13 Александров Иван jetana...@yandex.ru Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi HDS721016LA386(0A39261)8MB SATA-II Codegen Q3337-A2 ATX 400W CD-ROM TOSHIBA (don't know 3 years old , HHD) problem: In various places errors occur when installing 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz and FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso everywhere timeout in 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz for example: ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out I would like to begin the study with nix feeBSD very disappointing Help please,bootable flash don't work too. can you help me? thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been no problem. My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps even something in the bios. Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? Sorry this is not more help to you. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown to startup with a menu of 6 selections)? One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get that far. Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop.kn@ gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same thing. http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been no problem. My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps even something in the bios. Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system that can result in such a problem. Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the installed version (Once its been installed). I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this affect the system boot up in anyway ? Sorry this is not more help to you. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems w/ touching all files?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. maybe try a portnsnap fetch extract, touch -m should help on /usr/ports/distfiles/ Wouldn't the portsnap fetch extract reset the modified dates without a touch? But I think your way is probably a good idea nonetheless. Thanks for the suggestion. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems w/ touching all files?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Richard DeLaurell wrote: I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. Which date, where? Modification date? What is the wrong value they have now? Modification date. It is correct except the year is '11 rather than '10. As a result, I get a lot of failures when trying to install from ports. I have been unable to recreate the error today for some reason. I installed a few small ports (xminesweeper, e.g.), but those went in smoothly. I haven't tested it, but it may be that the error occurs only when upgrading a port; make complains that the new port is older than the existing. I will try a few more installs to see which throw the error and try to relate same on the list for future interest. I think it might be best just to wait until the next backup, upgrade, restore cycle, like maybe when 8.1 or 8.2 comes out to fix it more permanently. In any event, thanks for the help. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
problems w/ touching all files?
I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. As a result, I get a lot of failures when trying to install from ports. I can get around it by temporarily setting the date, building the port, then resetting the date, but it is still inconvenient. I would rather not do a clean install at this point, but am wondering if touching all of the files on my system would solve this problem WITHOUT creating any new ones? If it would, what might those new complications be? As I say, it is not mission-critical at this point, but it would be helpful to fix this. Thanks for any help. Richard DeLaurell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: disklabel output format ? How to see in G M ..
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Anonymous tutor...@gawab.com wrote: Also, googling arround i found output showing the cylinder space occupied by a partition (like : # cyl* X - Y ). How do I see that ? I think that fdisk will show you this. Good luck-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
unable to completely remove directory during deinstall
This is undoubtedly a very newbie question, but I have seen this type of error a few times recently: pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/directory.name' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) It occurs at the end of a deinstall as a matter of updating a port by hand. What is the proper procedure to correct this? Run pkgdb -F? Rm the offending files/dirs by hand? Both? The updated packages seem to run okay afterward if I ignore these errors; however, I am certain that they are really just swept under the carpet for the time being and will reemerge in the future (at a moment of maximum inconvenience no doubt). Also, is make deinstall the same as uninstall? Sorry, I guess I had two newbie questions. Thanks for your help. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to completely remove directory during deinstall
What port are you referencing? The error has occurred with a few recently; the latest was compiz yesterday. I was going from 0.6.2_2 to 0.7.8_1--sorry, I did not save the exact output of the error. The new compiz ran okay until I logged out my x-session and then tried to log back in. X froze before getting to the black screen and I had to restart the system. I deinstalled compiz and startx ran normally again. I am wondering if those directories/files which could not be completely removed might be the cause of the freeze? I assume 'by hands' means that you are not using a port tool to manage updating a specific port. Is that correct? Yes, I meant to say that I cd into the given /usr/ports/ directory and run make from there. Thanks for your help. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mouse stopped working in X
Could you tell me please where the changes to the xorg.conf file which are necessitated by 7.4 are documented? Thank you. Richard On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: --On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 19:21:34 +0300 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: Schmehl, Paul L wrote: I ran the perl upgrade and portupgrade, and now my mouse doesn't work in Xorg running KDE. Works fine in the console, and I haven't changed anything in the xorg.conf file. I generated a new one, and the mouse section is identical to what I already have. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection For some reason I now have a PS2 mouse being detected (there's no PS2 port on this box and there's no PS2 mouse plugged in to it), and I think that's the cause of the mouse failure in X. # ls -l /dev/psm0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 64 Apr 14 09:33 /dev/psm0 But how do I track down what's causing this device to be loaded? I also have the usb mouse: # ls -l /dev/ums0 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator0, 42 Apr 14 09:29 /dev/ums0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse0 (==) RADEONHD(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) config/hal: Adding input device PS/2 Mouse (II) LoadModule: mouse (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so (II) Module mouse: vendor=X.Org Foundation (**) PS/2 Mouse: Device: /dev/psm0 (==) PS/2 Mouse: Protocol: Auto (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events (==) PS/2 Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) PS/2 Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) PS/2 Mouse: Buttons: 9 (**) PS/2 Mouse: Sensitivity: 1 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device PS/2 Mouse (type: MOUSE) (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00 (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) set acceleration profile 0 (II) PS/2 Mouse: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 3, hw.model is 0 (II) PS/2 Mouse: SetupAuto: protocol is PS/2 (II) PS/2 Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Dmesg shows the device being loaded: atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 But also shows the usb mouse being loaded: ukbd0: vendor 0x045e Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.07, addr 3 on uhub3 kbd2 at ukbd0 ums0: Logitech Optical USB Mouse, class 0/0, rev 2.00/3.40, addr 4 on uhub3 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. I have no idea where this PS2 mouse suddenly appeared from, but I think it's clearly the cause of the problem. Also, Ctrl-Alt-Bksp no longer restarts X, which is kind of weird. I can still switch to other ttys though. Paul Schmehl (pa...@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ The fact that CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE does not work indicates that you probably upgraded to Xorg 7.4 Try inserting the following in your xorg.conf to fix keyboard/mouse problems: Section ServerFlags Option AutoAddDevices false Option AllowEmptyInput false Option DontZap false EndSection (DontZap will restore the previous CTRL+ALT+BKSP behaviour) Thanks. I had already figured out that I needed to add AllowEmptyInput false, and the mouse is now working. But I'll add the other two as well. Apparently this is a change introduced by 7.4? -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** Check the headers before clicking on Reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall
Oliver Fromme wrote: PS: To check the consistency of your package database, you can use this small script (requires Python): http://www.secnetix.de/olli/scripts/pkg_check_dependencies If you get no output from pkg_check_dependencies -q, then your dependencies are good. Oliver, I've run your script with the '-q' switch and here is the result: ++ #python pkg_check_dependencies -q Traceback (most recent call last): File pkg_check_dependencies, line 55, in module if line.startswith(@pkgdep) IndexError: list index out of range ++ Portmaster list reports that python-2.5.2 is installed (/usr/local/bin/python). What have I missed? It is not an emergency so do not feel pressed to answer quickly. Thank you for your help and have a good day-- Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
py24-gobject won't deinstall
Sorry if this is more appropriate for the newbie list, but that one seems to be inactive since 2005. I am trying to install py25-gobject from ports (/usr/ports/devel/py-gobject), but make complains that an older version (py24-gobject) is already installed. Deinstalling from that same directory returns a simple Deinstalling for ... and nothing else. And then make reinstall/install starts the cycle all over again. I tried pkg_delete to see what depends on py24-gobject and it's a hefty list; is deinstalling that entire list and then installing py25-gobject the only option for me? Thanks for any help. uname -a = FreeBSD bighouse 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sat May 31 18:57:16 CDT 2008 r...@bighouse:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL7 i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall
I reveal my ignorance: why does this work to delete the package # pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/py24-gobject* while 'pkg_delete py24-gobject*' did not? Would the latter have done the trick if issued from the /var/db/pkg directory itself? In any event your solution does seem to have worked. Thank you for helping. Have a good day-- Richard and then install the updated version. As long as the update doesn't break any library version numbering, and the functionalities from the previous versions are still intact, there won't be a problem. Finally, if you're using portupgrade, make sure to correct the dependencies: # pkgdb -aF But note that if this procedure fails, you will usually have to deinstall the depending software and then start allover again, this will lead you finally to updated programs, as well as an updated py25-gobject (as a dependency). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
