Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:46:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: or get freebsd loadable from linuxbios (http://www.linuxbios.org). We load plan 9 and WinCE, so how much does freebsd need? Anyone looked at OpenBIOS? The line has to be drawn somewhere... as regards supporting multiple

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:32:40PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: How about updating Alpine (alpine.cs.washington.edu) and fixing a lot of its lousy hacks (i.e. the sysinit stuff)? Nice idea, but a lot of people will/are use/using Bochs or VMware for this. Mind you, the Alpine approach doesn't

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:50, Bruce M Simpson wrote: Port the Linux Rockwell/Conexant winmodem support to freebsd? (Tons of laptops have this chipset). http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ I had a brief look at this last month. I should warn you that the Linux driver is simply a wrapper.

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Julian Stacey
when the time to write my final thesis in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some way the FreeBSD group. Nice, Thanks ! -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i would like to develop my own fs with journaling, but right now i could even drop the dream of my own fs and

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote: Anyone looked at OpenBIOS? The line has to be drawn somewhere... as regards supporting multiple chipsets/CPUs. Personally I like the idea of being able to do PXE-like booting on non-Intel platforms. sure, and it will probably run on top of

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 25), Julian Stacey said: -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i would like to develop my own fs with journaling, but right now i could even drop the dream of my own fs and JUST port the xfs/jfs for FreeBSD.. Journaling would support user level Undelete I

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: You don't need journaling for undelete capability. When you delete a file on Netware, the file is simply marked deleted but the filename stays in the directory, and duplicate deleted filenames are allowed. When true free disk space gets low, deleted files are purged in the

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Nate Lawson
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:32:40PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: How about updating Alpine (alpine.cs.washington.edu) and fixing a lot of its lousy hacks (i.e. the sysinit stuff)? Nice idea, but a lot of people will/are use/using Bochs or VMware for

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 25), Terry Lambert said: Dan Nelson wrote: You might be able to misuse the Whiteout file type in FFS to present a similar user interface. unlink(2) would rename the file to filename.timestamp and whiteoute it. ls -W, rm -W, and rm would list, salvage, and

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: The NetWare undelete functionality, in particular, the ability to delete multiple files of the same name, required that globbing take place in the kernel, and that the deleted files be marked not only in the inode, but in the directory space as well. The ability to

Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Paolo Pisati
Hi guys, as I said in the subject i'm a newbies of the kernel, but i used FreeBSD for years, so when the time to write my final thesis in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some way the FreeBSD group. Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Maxime Henrion
Paolo Pisati wrote: Hi guys, as I said in the subject i'm a newbies of the kernel, but i used FreeBSD for years, so when the time to write my final thesis in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some way the FreeBSD group. Here there's a mini list of things i would

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me which one is available and fell free to add any other project you think could help the FreeBSD community in general. -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me which one is available and fell free to add any other project you think could help the FreeBSD community in

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I still wish somebody would do a bproc port for freebsd (see http://www.clustermatic.org) or get freebsd loadable from linuxbios (http://www.linuxbios.org). We load plan 9 and WinCE, so how much does freebsd need? ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2002-09-24 10:57 +, Maxime Henrion wrote: [snip] -kgi: is it dead or what? No idea :-). I believe Nicolas Souchu is still working on it. Last I heard he outlined an integration plan/roadmap deal, I'm not sure what's been happening since then. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe: