Re: Project Ideas and a question

2007-10-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- David Naylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The question first: init does allow a chroot before booting the system > however > does it allow the first device to be unmounted and use the new chroot as the > root device. If it does how can that be achieved. > > My motivation for th

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread soralx
> I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to > upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its > implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl > wrapper for an iterative "pkg_delete -f" followed by "pkg_add -f", > which made it problematic to upgr

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:05:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to > > upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its > > implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl > > wrapper for an iterative

A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl wrapper for an iterative "pkg_delete -f" followed by "pkg_add -f", which made it problematic to upgrade either

Creating install CD with custom ports - how to massage INDEX file?

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
I've been building my own install CDs for a planned multi-server upgrade to 6.2Rp8 and ran into one last stumbling block this week. I understand the process a lot better now than I did a few years back when I was doing it for 4.8, but I'm still having trouble pieceing together how I get my own p

Re: Project Ideas and a question

2007-10-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting David Naylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:59:45 +0200): > I have some project ideas (due to lack of technical skills I can not pursue > them at this time but that is no reason not to share :-). If someone thinks > an idea is a good one could you please add it to the appropri

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Achim Patzner wrote: Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin: Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin: Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not today. Have the anybody

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Alexander Motin
Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not today. Have the anybody ever seen ECC video RAM? Video RAM usually works on