Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Original Message- From: ygb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD How can i install FreeBSD on in? It has

server crash: ad0: hard error cmd

2005-01-16 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi Guys, I have a SOHO file server that's become rather grumpy during a move [office to office] it's a 5.1 system with 4 x Western Digital [WD800] hard drives [non RAID] and it's giving me this error: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 86662543 of 86662574 status=51 error =40 Jan 17 18:00:00 init

Intel® ICH5-R SATA controllers

2004-09-30 Thread Anthony Carmody
has anyone managed to test or use Intel® ICH5-R SATA controllers? (RAID 0 and 1)?? i see they are unsupported, but do they work anyhow? Intel® ICH5-R SATA controllers -- /carmoda /carmoda at gmail dot com /carmoda at jabber dot org /wuh wuh wuh carmoda dot com

ADSL connection woes

2004-07-15 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, i have an interesting problem i would like some insight into. i have a freeBSD server acting as a proxy firewall for an ADSL connection into my office. PPP is set in ddial mode, but every so often the link goes down and a simple invocation of the ppp dialer script doesn't seem to help.

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

2004-04-17 Thread Anthony carmody
Peter Risdon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of problems with the

Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi Guys, I just got handed a job to do that involves me mailing 6000 people. I was wondering if there was a way i could use my FreeBSD server to do this that wont upset my ISP.. LDAP? Scripts? -- Regards, Carmoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, I have been having a trouble getting various things to work on my new 5.1 workstation with gnome 2.x. tonight i was attemtping to get 'gtoaster' [cd buring s/w] working as i couldnt see any drives, and when i tried adding them i encountered a few errors muttering about permissions. so i

anyone suggest a good PIM for gnome 2.x?

2003-10-17 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, can anyone suggest a good PIM [personal information manager] to use with Gnome..? perferably something that has scope for conectivity to bluetooth devices. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Sony CDRW drive on 5.1

2003-10-17 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, anyone got any tips on enabling testing a CDRW drive on 5.1? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot view network servers, no sound

2003-10-16 Thread Anthony Carmody
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anthony Carmody [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running FreeBSD 5.1 on an Intel D45PESV mainboard. [onboard sound AC97 AC1981B] Sounds fine. It's a technology preview release, remember, but it should be pretty solid for your purposes. sure. and it's the 5th 5.1 machine i have

Re: Mozilla weirdness

2003-10-16 Thread Anthony Carmody
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:54:46AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I just upgraded my ports tree and I'm running gnome 2.4 with mozilla 1.4. I logged in as my username (not root) and double clicked my mozilla icon (which was pointing to /usr/X11R6/ bin/mozilla). 2 things I got

cannot view network servers, no sound

2003-10-15 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, I am new to using FreeBSD as a Workstation, although i have used FreeBSD for servers for various reasons for years. I have come into a few problems now i have pissed off M$ completely. [can't teach an old dog new tricks] Running FreeBSD 5.1 on an Intel D45PESV mainboard. [onboard sound

RE: FreeBSD 4.8 v/s 5.1

2003-09-29 Thread Anthony Carmody
ok, i am using 5.1 for 2 developemnt servers, 1 programming workstation. i.e: not production, internal network behind firewall. so, security and stability are not critical as far as i am concerened. there is another important reason, my hardware tends to require later versions of FreeBSD, for

Ethernet Drivers with 5.1 not happening

2003-09-28 Thread Anthony Carmody
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Ethernet Drivers with 5.1 not happening

2003-09-28 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hiya, I posted a question about this last week. I have done a little homework and I am resubmitting my question with more information and i hope someone can help this time around. I am building a FreeBSD 5.1 box for a client using a fairly new ASUS Mainboard, that SHOULD according to the

RE: Burn an ISO image

2003-09-27 Thread Anthony Carmody
I used roxio to make my 5.1 discs. windows had not associated .iso with roxio, but opening the image once in roxio using 'disc image or saved project' then browse to the .iso files using find 'all files, *.*' etc. it'll pick them up then. = -Original Message- = From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

NIC card not showing up during 5.1 install

2003-09-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
i am building a new server for a client and my hardware vendor changed my usual hardware profile to use an 800fsb ASUS Mainboard, it runs the Intel 865G chipset. I have tried installing 5.1 but it cannot see to onboard Ethernet and seems to get upset running the mouse when the XF86 server starts

RE: NIC card not showing up during 5.1 install [asus p4p800 MB]

2003-09-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
in the CD image i have for 5.1. [sorry about the email format. im using my thinkpad plagued by M$] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 6:53 PM To: Anthony Carmody Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

RE: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortablethan FBSD?

2003-09-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
yeah, right. i'll wait a week and i'll post some old crap about how Freebsd is no good because it wont run M$ office. 'helpful small pretty paperclip and puppy dog tell me what to do' 'pretty and nice coloured text for everyone' 'Bill gates is nice man and very generous, he help my sick sister'

RE: yahoo messenger

2003-09-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
well, i have not been able to connect for 24hrs myself. I have heard rumours [gasp] that MSN and Yahoo are on a crusade to block third party clients using their transport. i don't know the weight of this in truth, but i must say that everyone i know who uses IM uses a third party client