So it seems that probably all block devices have this bug. I haven't
tried it with an ATA or SCSI hard drive, tape drive, or any flash RAM
type stuff. The problem does occur on standard floppy disks and on my
parallel port zip drives.
If/when I do mess with it, I think I'll stick with
Do you mean getting FreeBSD ported to the Handspring, or do you mean
using FreeBSD to sync with it? As for porting FreeBSD to it it sounds
like Brooks knows what he's talking about. As far as syncing a
Handspring Visor with FreeBSD - dunno. Tried using the coldsync program
which was meant for
There's this little problem with FreeBSD that has been bugging me a bit
for a while now. There have been a couple times I've tried to mount Zip
disks or floppy drives in FreeBSD, and had the /etc/fstab set up to
mount read/write, and didn't realize that I had write protect turned
on. However, I
I fail to see how you can read anything bad into this announcement. If
you're really concerned, you have just as much right to the code as any
one else, feel free to take the 4.0 code base and create your own system.
BSDidier has a nice ring to it.
Personally, I've been running
I was actually planning a near-complete rewrite of sysinstall anyway! How
about everyone throwing in whatever suggestions you would like ( about
anything regarding sysinstall ), and I will try to incorporate them!?
It has already been re-written, complete with the new packaging system.
The trick to fsck is that you don't want more inodes than you really need.
Once you get past that, fsck flies. The previous generation of binaries
server, worked on 27 36GB drives split into 10 partitions, designed for
parallelism. Hit RESET and the news filesystems take ~30 seconds to
I have a question that I really don't know where to send, but since I'm
just subscribed to hackers
Anyway, the other day I had a directory I wanted to move to my
home directory. I did "mv dirname ~" Well, I didn't realize it till later,
but what it did was make a directory named ~ in
A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under
all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use
it, is grab a bunch of stuff you want to backup/record and use mkisofs and
cdrecord to dump it onto a CD. Everything I read seemed to indicate that
The trade rags here insist it has already happened: M$ stopped 64 bit Alpha
NT. Beats me if it is true or not.
Here's the confusing part: they say M$ stopped making 64 bit Alpha
NT, but some say they are actually developing Win2000 64 bit for Alpha's.
Since 2000 is NT based, you'd think
Actually, I was reading in a newsgroup, the VMS newsgroup I think it was,
that the PA-RISC chip is on the Merced chip. Basically, Intel will sell
Merced's with the chip disabled (kind of like the math co-processor on the
486 SX's) and HP will sell it with the PA-RISC chip enabled so it can run
Well, hobbyists and savvy bang-for-the-buck may take 32 over 64 if the
bang isn't there, but nowadays that is far from the entire market of
purchasers. You're overlooking the status symbol buyers who just have to
have the latest/greatest and/or something better than the guy next door.
I
The trade rags here insist it has already happened: M$ stopped 64 bit Alpha
NT. Beats me if it is true or not.
Here's the confusing part: they say M$ stopped making 64 bit Alpha
NT, but some say they are actually developing Win2000 64 bit for Alpha's.
Since 2000 is NT based, you'd
First - let me point out that FreeBSD already runs on the Alpha,
so there's some 64-bit experience.
I knew that already :-)
But - for Intel to hit it big - they need Merced to become
the next consumer architecture. Since they are continuing with
plans for the IA32 line
Actually, I was reading in a newsgroup, the VMS newsgroup I think it was,
that the PA-RISC chip is on the Merced chip. Basically, Intel will sell
Merced's with the chip disabled (kind of like the math co-processor on the
486 SX's) and HP will sell it with the PA-RISC chip enabled so it can run
Well, hobbyists and savvy bang-for-the-buck may take 32 over 64 if the
bang isn't there, but nowadays that is far from the entire market of
purchasers. You're overlooking the status symbol buyers who just have to
have the latest/greatest and/or something better than the guy next door.
I
Lately i have seen a lot of speculation as to what will happen when the
Intel Merced comes out. Will people wait 12-18 months for a 64 bit
Windows (that's the amount of time I keep hearing it will take them to get
Win2000 running on it) or will they just buy it and pop Linux onto it
right away?
Lately i have seen a lot of speculation as to what will happen when the
Intel Merced comes out. Will people wait 12-18 months for a 64 bit
Windows (that's the amount of time I keep hearing it will take them to get
Win2000 running on it) or will they just buy it and pop Linux onto it
right away?
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