Re: booting freebsd and openbsd

2003-11-23 Thread Jud
On 23 Nov 2003 17:59:46 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paulo Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I

Re: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Jud
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:01:19 -0500, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fbsd_user wrote: Read the FBSD handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.ht Also, you might want to try kppp from the KDE project. It's a graphical front end to Kernal PPP (pppd), and

Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 17:02:09 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic. I have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols. After the crash I use the 'gdb -k' command but get the following output:

Re: Boot manager clarification

2003-11-23 Thread Jud
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:49:21 -0800, Craig Caughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have 2 hard disks, each on their own channel. I have XOSL installed as my boot manager, in Drive 1, Partition 1. I have Windows 2000-Pro on Drive 1, Partition 2. I want to install FreeBSD 5.0 on Drive 2,

Re: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Allan Bowhill
On 0, Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :The best tutorial I've seen on this remains URL: :http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/14/FreeBSD_Basics.html. 3 years :ago as a newbie it was far easier for me to understand than the Handbook. :One thing has changed in those 3 years: The user

Re: Novice needs advice building new kernel: UPG 4.7-RELEASE --- 4.9-RELEASE

2003-11-23 Thread Eric F Crist
On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:52 pm, Jeff Bogari wrote: Thanks in advance for the expert assistance: I'm *halfway* knowledgeable with my 4.7-RELEASE system. Built it on a 486/66 (16MB RAM) about a year ago. It's time to upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE. Here's what I've got so far: 1. Set the

USB disks on FreeBSD 4.7

2003-11-23 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a 4.7 system, and have trouble with an Apacer Flash Memory 64 MB disk. I can read and write the FAT system on it if it is plugged in at boot time, but I cannot remount it if I unmount it, unplug it, and then plug it in again. Is this a known problem in 4.7 that is fixed in later versions,

Re: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Jud
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 07:30:05 -0800, Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 0, Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :The best tutorial I've seen on this remains URL: :http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/14/FreeBSD_Basics.html. 3 years :ago as a newbie it was far easier for me to understand

Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Kent Kuriyama
Greg, Thanks. Regarding the suspected corrupt dump file. In the syslog I can see the dump file being created (actually 'vmcore') and there are no error messages. Are you saying that the corruption occurs during the writing of the file or is the data resident in memory corrupt? I suspect that

dns question

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
have dns working perfectly on one system copied the files over to another system made the necessary domain changes but when bind is invoked i cannot ping remote hosts #ping google.ca ping: cannot resolve google.ca: No address associated with name when i do a nslook up i get this it does not

Re: USB disks on FreeBSD 4.7

2003-11-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:56 pm, Mike Jeays wrote: I have a 4.7 system, and have trouble with an Apacer Flash Memory 64 MB disk. I can read and write the FAT system on it if it is plugged in at boot time, but I cannot remount it if I unmount it, unplug it, and then plug it in again. Is this a

Re: make vs. pkg_add

2003-11-23 Thread Eric F Crist
On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:00 pm, Patrick Burnett wrote: Hi all, Not that I expect to be swayed one way or the other here, but... I'm curious to see what other users think of using either the 'make' commands or 'pkg_add' for compiling and installing software. I'm admittedly a bit of a

config(8), kernel coda_fbsd.c

2003-11-23 Thread Earl Larsen
When I try to build my personel kernel I get the fallowing: ../../conf/files: coda/coda_fbsd.c must be optional, mandatory or standard ( I do not know whare to go to check this) Your version of config(8) is out of sync with your kernel source. I got my kernel source

Re: config(8), kernel coda_fbsd.c

2003-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:52:49PM -0600, Earl Larsen wrote: When I try to build my personel kernel I get the fallowing: ../../conf/files: coda/coda_fbsd.c must be optional, mandatory or standard ( I do not know whare to go to check this) Your version of config(8)

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:11:39 +0100 Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Dear Will, I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readable for other. On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote: On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Nov

wireless networking

2003-11-23 Thread William O'Higgins
After much effort I found a wireless PCMCIA card that is supported by FreeBSD. Now I have to get connected to a wireless network, and I need some help. I have read man wi, and the Handbook, but I'm still missing something. When I stick in the card in it is recognized and here is the output of

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-23 Thread Robert Neumann
Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:53:06 +0100 From: Robert Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is the problem: I had a machine running FreeBSD 4.7-Stable. There I added a 80GB harddisk. This harddrive I wanted to install on my other machine running FreeBSD

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