Installing 5.1 on laptop causes CD-ROM to hang

2003-10-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on an older IBM thinkpad 770 laptop. This is a Pentium-233 MHz vintage model, with 256MB RAM. I chose 5.1 because I have a Cardbus 3com 575 Ethernet apaptor and it looks like there's no support for Cardbus at all in -stable. So I boot the laptop

Re: Samba over SSH

2003-09-20 Thread Brian Dessent
FreeBSD MAIL wrote: I guess the problem I am having is with PuTTY, I am forcing ssh 2 and putting in the ports and addresses for the client and server as best I can, I have been able to get VPN to work over pptp, which is cool but I would prefer using ssh. If you have a copy of putty

Re: question on cvsup

2003-09-20 Thread Brian Dessent
ALIAS wrote: i read the manual that came with my freebsd4 package. and i see on the website that there's a freebsd5, i want to use cvsup to update my system to version 5, and i don't know how to do that, the manual doesn't explain it well. can someone help me? In the supfile that you use