Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: ok, so FreeBSD release is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software. yes. It is even so that the ports work on all 'current' FreeBSD versions but not the packages.

Re: about unattended installation

2012-12-20 Thread Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre
Good morning, El 19/12/2012, a las 19:59, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com escribió: On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Good afternoon, One little question… I'm trying to have ready our new unattended FreeBSD installation system. Until now, I have

Sound lag in Wine

2012-12-20 Thread Ross
Hello. I installed David Naylor's wine-fbsd64-1.5.18. Installed Steam, bought Counter-Strike 1.6 and CS: CZ. However, when I run these games I experience a sound lag (maybe a half-second — second). I googled the topic, the soultion is to switch to Alsa, which is not supported in

How to Make Customized Boot-able DVD or USB

2012-12-20 Thread Hooman Oroojeni
Hi People, I was wondering if I could make a FreeBSD boot-able USB or DVD with pre-installed software and services such as DHCP Client/Server. I would be pleased if you could help me. Thanks Hooman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD 8 or 9 on HP ML350 G8

2012-12-20 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience running 8 or 9 on the ML350 G8. Is there anything that should be taken into consideration while using these chassis' such as having 2 or more of the built-in RAID controllers activated? Potential issues with disk volumes of varying sizes

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook? At the moment I've got plenty of time, unfortunately not in front of my desktop computer. Some time ago I won an iPad2, it's a dust catcher,

Re: Can't get start_precmd to do *anything*

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 19, 2012 11:07:27 PM + Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the current invocation: start_precmd=pads_agent_ck4fifo() Lose the parentheses in the above line (this isn't C :) ) Well, doh! I'll figure out how to read some day. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Kraus
On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook? You can get it as a PDF at

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 15:52 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: The author of the snd_hdspe driver for FreeBSD seems to need testers. I never have heard of this driver. It's a new driver for FreeBSD for some cards of the vendor RME, AFAIK they only sell really professional audio cards, used for

Re: about unattended installation

2012-12-20 Thread Devin Teske
On Dec 20, 2012, at 3:34 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Good morning, El 19/12/2012, a las 19:59, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com escribió: On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Good afternoon, One little question… I'm trying to have ready

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook? You can get it

about unattended installation

2012-12-20 Thread grarpamp
Though I do have a need for completely unattended and/or network installs, I don't have a need to continue with sysinstall.cfg. Whatever is done, be sure not to hobble any new installer out of some perceived need to be backwards compatible, or invest much time in being so. Writing and using a

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 07:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the