Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 18:20, Avleen Vig wrote: I understand it is difficult to maintain the floppies. I wish I understood them better :-) Is it not possible to have ftp install floppies, which do nothing more than simple FTP installations? It wouldn't make it any

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 09 January 2004 17:32, Scott Long wrote: Scott also said stuff like SCSI cards won't get probed if a module is loaded but I can't see why that is true.. The module will load, the device get detected, and then sysinstall is told to reprobe the hardware, so it should pick it up.

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-09 00:02 -0700]: Well, except when mfsroot.gz becomes too large to fit on a single floppy. Right now it is about 90k away from that. What happens when mount_nfsv4 gets put on there? John Baldwin and I already spent a day over the holiday break making

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:50:59PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: I don't necessarily agree here - I think sysinstall is a better place because it's much much easier to write stuff for it than the loader. In the example you mention the only reason to use

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 17:32, Scott Long wrote: Scott also said stuff like SCSI cards won't get probed if a module is loaded but I can't see why that is true.. The module will load, the device get detected, and then sysinstall is told to reprobe the hardware, so it

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread YACINE GHANJAOUI
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Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 8

2004-01-09 Thread YACINE GHANJAOUI
I have a problem when recompiling my Unix Kernel. I want to enable ipchains modules. Besides this anyone can help me with a detailed docs to use Divert-Sockets to intercept and inject Packets? Thanks, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incorrect. Scanning SCSI buses is something that does not happen automatically. There is magic in the boot process that makes it happen near the end, right before the kernel looks for the root device. However, that is the exception to the rule. If you

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:48:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Daniel O'Connor wrote: BTW Does camcontrol rescan cause the devices to be detected? Perhaps sysinstall could be enhanced to perform this duty as part of it's reprobe machinations. See my

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Josef El-Rayes
YACINE GHANJAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone help me how to untar a file with this extention file.tar.bz2 ? tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 see man tar for details. greets, josef pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 8

2004-01-09 Thread Josef El-Rayes
YACINE GHANJAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem when recompiling my Unix Kernel. I want to enable ipchains modules. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html greets, josef pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: YACINE GHANJAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone help me how to untar a file with this extention file.tar.bz2 ? tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 tar xvjf regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Josef El-Rayes
Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 tar xvjf i do not think that the order of the parameters have any influence on the result. -josef pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-01-08 16:36:30 -0800: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: That might be technically true, but the precise semantics of (semi-)freeze aren't as widely known as you seem to think. E. g. yesterday or today I received an email

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Klein
On Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 10:33, Josef El-Rayes wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 tar xvjf i do not think that the order of the parameters have any influence on the result. No, but the filename has to be

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 09 January 2004 19:37, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported PCI devices, and load the appropriate module. You know, when I wrote the code in sysinstall to

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Paul Robinson
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:00:40PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: You still need the right drivers, ie which SCSI controller/network/... cards you have to get a minimal install is _more_ when you are doing FTP (you need a network). Out of around 300+ installs of FreeBSD I've done over the

New modem. Newbie need help.

2004-01-09 Thread Cristiano Deana
Sorry for my basic knownledge about freebsd hacking and english language. Problem: i need to use an internal PCI modem, 56k. I found USR (NO winmodem) pci 56k but it were not right detect by freebsd. test# uname -rs FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 I add all his id in: src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.01.08 21:39:07 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: : and the Copyright page has that plus a similar claim for : FreeBSD, Inc. (For 2004, even.) That should be changed. To? I have noticed FreeBSD,

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Samy Al Bahra
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:29:34 + Doug Rabson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: [...] 2. Support for $FreeBSD$ - user-specified keywords are not supported and won't be until after svn-1.0 by the looks of things. subversion

Re[2]: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Doug! Thursday, January 8, 2004, 8:29:34 PM, you wrote: DR 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the DRcurrent version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died DRpretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers DRare planning to fix

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Josef El-Rayes
Robert Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: i do not think that the order of the parameters have any influence on the result. No, but the filename has to be right after the f. The following commands work, and both have the same result: In this

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Markus Brueffer
On Friday 09 January 2004 11:27, Robert Klein wrote: On Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 10:33, Josef El-Rayes wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 tar xvjf i do not think that the order of the parameters have

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Harti Brandt
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Markus Brueffer wrote: MBOn Friday 09 January 2004 11:27, Robert Klein wrote: MB On Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 10:33, Josef El-Rayes wrote: MB Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MB On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: MBtar xvfj file.tar.bz2 MB MB tar xvjf

Re[2]: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Doug! Thursday, January 8, 2004, 8:29:34 PM, you wrote: DR 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the DRcurrent version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died DRpretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ryan Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Something like this might also jeopardize the : project's not for profit status. The project is not a legally incorporated entity at this time, and never has been in the past. And yet the Legal page carries a

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
Leo Bicknell wrote: I'm going to propose a different solution that was brought up about two years ago (although I can't find it now). You start with something like the CD boot image mentioned, that is a 3-5 Meg iso image that basically contains what is now on the floppies (perhaps with a

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: : : And yet the Legal page carries a claim of copyright for The FreeBSD : Project It is a psudonymous work by The FreeBSD Project. Are you saying that The

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Mark Murray
YACINE GHANJAOUI writes: Anyone help me how to untar a file with this extention file.tar.bz2 ? Thanks, This is really questions@ material, but... $ tar -y M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-01-09 15:32:53 +0300: On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:29:34 + Doug Rabson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: [...] 2. Support for $FreeBSD$ - user-specified keywords are not supported and won't be

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: : M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: : : : : And yet the Legal page carries a claim of copyright for

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon L. Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On 2004.01.08 21:39:07 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: : : : and the Copyright page has that plus a similar claim for

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI :IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported PCI :devices, and load the appropriate module. There's some

Re[3]: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Narvi! Friday, January 9, 2004, 4:28:57 PM, you wrote: DR 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the DRcurrent version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died DRpretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers DRare planning to

Re: New modem. Newbie need help.

2004-01-09 Thread Q
This particular card is a controllerless modem (ie. it is a winmodem), and has no UART. Seeya...Q On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 21:33, Cristiano Deana wrote: Sorry for my basic knownledge about freebsd hacking and english language. Problem: i need to use an internal PCI modem, 56k. I found USR (NO

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI :IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported PCI :devices, and load the appropriate module. There's some

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread YACINE GHANJAOUI
Hi, when trying to intercept UDP packet after changing the protocol number from 17 to a user one (99) in the ip_input.c file. when trying to regenrate the packet after inserting some bit errors an error message appears in the reciever telling that The udp checksum is incorrect even if i just

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
There are several documents linked off of http://www.freebsd.org/releng that describe how to build a release. It's not nearly as arcane of a process as it used to be 5 years ago. The biggest barrier to entry is probably disk space. You'll need a good 5GB free to hold the CVS repo,

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Klein
On Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 14:04, Josef El-Rayes wrote: Robert Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you noticed that i am _not_ using the '-'? tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 - if you leave the '-' away then tar does not care about the order of the parameters. when you are using the dash before the

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Sean Farley
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: I've been re-evaluating the current subversion over the last couple of weeks and its holding up pretty well so far. It still misses the repeated merge thing that p4 does so well but in practice, merging does seem to be a lot easier than with CVS due to

Re[3]: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Narvi! Friday, January 9, 2004, 4:28:57 PM, you wrote: DR 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the DRcurrent version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died DRpretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty

Large Filesystem Woes

2004-01-09 Thread Tom Arnold
I previously posted this on -fs but got no responce so I'm trying -hackers. Building a box thats going to house many billions of small files. Think innd circa 1998 or someone trying to house AOLs mail system on cyrus or something. To this end I've hung a 3.3TB hardware raid off a BSD box broken

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Jason Slagle
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: I presume the above means a PXE *client*. This would be cool, but by no means trivial. I looked at this in the past when I wanted to network boot FreeBSD on a couple of machines that did not support a boot ROM and reached a dead end; I ended up

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whatever. I've consulted lawyers on this who assure me that it is legal. You've admitted to not knowing US Copyright law and are aguing emotion, which is why I didn't reply to the rest of your

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this CD format, please take in to account: And, further, some of us

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:38:11PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI :IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Here's the question perhaps more appropriate for hackers@: I looked into ripping the ascii-art out, but am quite scared. However, forth looks like it's an interesting (love/hate kind of thing) language, and I'd like to get my hands on it. Can anyone recommend good (or just

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The (conceptually) simplest approach would be for all drivers to advertise the PCI IDs that they can support (together with a priority) in a manner that would allow such a list to be generated automatically. yes, we need something like struct

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:30:17PM -0800, Avleen Vig wrote: A simple website which lets you choose what drivers you want (anyone seen the .muttrc config page? :) That should be really easy to do with a little perl CGI. I might take a crack at this in the next week or so. FWIW, Plan-9 (

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Daniel Lang wrote: Matthew D. Fuller wrote on Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:11AM -0600: [..] And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to install an OS,

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keep in mind that older systems probably won't boot over the network without a netboot ROM or similar. The netboot ROM images are (or were) in the distribution but aren't much use without an EPROM burner. I believe that in most cases you can dd the ROM

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The (conceptually) simplest approach would be for all drivers to advertise the PCI IDs that they can support (together with a priority) in a manner that would allow such a list to be generated automatically. yes, we need

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Julian Elischer wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this CD format, please take in to account: And, further, some

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, re the question from Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 9 Jan 2004: forth looks like it's an interesting .. language. Can anyone recommend good (or just any, really) introductory material? --- If you do want to get into Forth, you can probably find some of the following in a

Re: Where is FreeBSD going? the never-ending thread

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Freitag
Narvi wrote: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whatever. I've consulted lawyers on this who assure me that it is legal. You've admitted to not knowing US Copyright law and are aguing emotion, which is why I didn't reply to the rest of your message. It is not clear that

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Martin Nilsson
This is getting stupid! This discussion is just like when the i386 support was removed from the GENERIC kernel, a lot of noise about old systems that wouldn't be able to run (or benefit) from FreeBSD 5 anyway. And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had

beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many replies :). I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer something that *

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 09), Roman Neuhauser said: I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many replies :). I dislike the

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Scott Long wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Here at Vicor, we have over a thousand machines spread over about 20 sites. About 10 of those machines have cdrom drives. Our plans call for moving from 4.x to 5.x, probably at the end of 2004, maybe early 2005.

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Martin Nilsson wrote: This is getting stupid! Here at Vicor, we have over a thousand machines spread over about 20 sites. About 10 of those machines have cdrom drives. Our plans call for moving from 4.x to 5.x, probably at the end of 2004, maybe early 2005.

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:57:56PM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote: This discussion is just like when the i386 support was removed from the GENERIC kernel, a lot of noise about old systems that wouldn't be able to run (or benefit) from FreeBSD 5 anyway. No, this is nothing like that. And,

Re: Where is FreeBSD going? the never-ending thread

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Matt Freitag wrote: Narvi wrote: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whatever. I've consulted lawyers on this who assure me that it is legal. You've admitted to not knowing US Copyright law and are aguing emotion, which is why I didn't reply to the rest of

Re: tar's unusual argument handling

2004-01-09 Thread Tim Kientzle
Markus Brueffer wondered why: tar xvfj file.tar.bz2 is not the same as tar -xvfj file.tar.bz2 What I'm asking me, is why the - makes a difference, though I haven't looked at the sources, yet. The manpage states, that the - is only optional, so tar -jxfv and tar jxvf should be equivalent,

UNIX / BSD parallel port programming documentation

2004-01-09 Thread Vladimir Terziev
Hi hackers, I have to develop small server which has to manage custom microcontroller via parallel port interface. Does anyone know good manual/documentation about UNIX / BSD parallel port programming ? Thanks in advance! Vladimir

Re: Where is FreeBSD going

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Partin
Sorry to jump in the conversation so late, and without reading the entire thread to date, but has anyone considered tla as an scm, it handles merging and branching much more sanely than cvs or svn, not to mention the benefits of distributed development and the dumb server model. and there are

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whatever. I've consulted lawyers on this who assure me that it is legal. You've admitted to not knowing US Copyright law and are aguing emotion, which is why I didn't reply to the rest of your message. You obviously don't want to discuss this, and

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread
Quoting Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matthew Dillon wrote: interdisciplinary people left in the project. The SMP interactions that John mentions are not trivial... they would challenge *ME* and regardless of what people think about my social mores I think most

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:23:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: yes, we need something like struct pci_device_info { uint32_tpciid; charbrand[64]; charmodel[64]; }

Copyrights (was: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-09 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Narvi wrote: We can all be glad that it hasn't mattered and might never matter that the FreeBSD IP situation is so shabby, I suppose because it sends the message that it's all essentially a Gentlemen's Agreement, with only a few violators who are more-or-less tolerated. It is not

Re: Copyrights (was: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: Narvi wrote: We can all be glad that it hasn't mattered and might never matter that the FreeBSD IP situation is so shabby, I suppose because it sends the message that it's all essentially a Gentlemen's Agreement, with only a few violators

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: DR I've been re-evaluating the current subversion over the last couple of DR weeks and its holding up pretty well so far. It still misses the DR repeated merge thing that p4 does so well but in practice, merging does DR seem to be a lot easier than with CVS

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Patrick Gardella
I go through the love/why am I spending my time learning an obscure language kind of relationship. :) If you want to buy books, good ones are: http://www.forth.com/Content/Handbook/Handbook.html http://www.forth.com/Content/fat/fat.html You can get PDF versions if you download the trial version

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Coleman
Scott Long wrote: All, Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install floppy problems. This is becoming more and more of a burden on the Release Engineering Team, as we simply do not have the resources to constantly battle the floppies. FreeBSD/i386 is the only port

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2004-01-09 11:38 -0600, Sean Farley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit to having not tried it, but I wonder how well OpenCM (http://www.opencm.org/) would compare. I think it would have a smaller footprint than Subversion. I have prepared a port of OpenCM, but didn't have time to test it,

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Coleman
Richard Coleman wrote: Scott Long wrote: All, Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install floppy problems. This is becoming more and more of a burden on the Release Engineering Team, as we simply do not have the resources to constantly battle the floppies.

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
Somewhere around Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 17:11 , the world stopped and listened as [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced us with this profound tidbit of wisdom that would fulfill the enjoyment of future generations: -- Message: 16 Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:57:56 +0100 From:

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:08:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: PXE boot against an automated backup/restore service would be much more useful for this. Assuming they have PXE and a supported card.. One point that hasn't been made here against PXE (well, not against it, but not in favour

help with linking please

2004-01-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
This is driving me insane... I would like to provide a client with a .o file so that he can link static against my library. Unfortunatly I need to hide nearly all the symbols in my object file. For a shared object this works out super easy, all I do is generate the .so file, then run strip -N

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote: And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the LAN from a local FTP mirror,

SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-09 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; There is a comparison here: http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html I think there are compelling reasons to try subversion, but we have to wait for a 1.0 Release, and this would be something that should be done gradually.. for example moving the ports tree first. cheers,

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Roman Neuhauser wrote: I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many replies :). I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700: Roman Neuhauser wrote: I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many replies

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700: Roman Neuhauser wrote: I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't

Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Scott Long
Scott Long wrote: Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700: Roman Neuhauser wrote: I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I

Re: Copyrights

2004-01-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rahul Siddharthan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : As for the copyright (C) the FreeBSD project bit: As I understand, : editors/publishers who compile anthologies can claim copyright on the : anthologies (the act of anthologisation itself being a creative :

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:26:54PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:23:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: yes, we need something like struct pci_device_info { uint32_tpciid; char