clobbered boot block

-- FreeBSD tomato.local 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue. Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse buffalo.edu: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Hearty thanks to all, Chuck Bacon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Jabber mode

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 MoBo M7A475-TC-(?) 5% jabber. Successful boot until RE0 (ethernet) hits switch, then jabber. UnPlugging,Replugging, then boot continues. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Building 9.0 failure

Running 9.0 on host, bsdinstall from CD or ftp. Fatal message: Error while extracting base.txz: Can't set user=0/group=0 for /var/empty Can't update time for /var/empty Chuck Bacon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

9.0-R boots with undesirable utf

MoBo: ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO uname -a: FreeBSD tomato.local 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Boots up with an ungainly utf which presents 4-digit stuff where a single is wanted. Aging admin needs a

where is linux-f10-flashplugin ?

lp, please? Chuck Bacon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Build options built by dialog(1)

Thank you for a very complete way of saying "RTFM" - I confess a distaste for heavy lit, but man pages! I thank you again! Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:15:01 -0500 (E

Re: Build options built by dialog(1)

Bingo! The make {,rm}config looks like it. There's hope for 9.0-R* after all! On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/15/11 7:15 PM, Chuck Bacon wrote: I stumbled into a problem trying to get xorg up on my current 9.0-RC1. I select

Build options built by dialog(1)

where are the various build variables kept? Once again, this old 650-704-7070-PDP4-KA/KI/KL/KS-CTSS- Convex-IBMPC-3B1 warrior needs help :-} Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

9.0-RC1 Perl tests fail

th so little info as to which feature my 98 or so failed tests comes from! CPAN shows its latest release as perl5-0.08 ! I suspect the Perl versions I've tried may be uniquely numbered for FreeBSD. Any help? Thanks for any help! Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com ABH

Still stalls on xpt_config

provide? Very thankful for previous help. Hope somebody here can help. Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

BSD_10_2011.pdf - typical problem

SUS MB and AMD64 4x CPU. Any ideas? As a retired sysadmin from the 1950s, I'm over my head but can't let go :-) So I need help sometimes :-( Many thanks - Chuck Bacon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

hould have done freebsd-update ! Chuck Bacon - c...@cape.com > I downloaded it yesterday. Here's the facts: > > 1. md5 matches CHECKSUM.MD5 > > 2. When I boot off the BIOS, it takes a half minute or so, and > then: voila! PC-DOS boots, and for all the world look

Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

the hypothesis: The FreeBSD-8.3-RC3 boot loader doesn't satisfy my BIOS, and the BIOS looks through the dvd until it finds one of the DOS boot loaders provided by some fdisk variant. Any ideas why? If nothing else, I'll download disc1. Praps that'll work! Many thanks,

apsfilter - hpijs dependence

In all FreeBSD-8.* so far, apsfilter can't be installed because of a dependenct on hpijs, apparently through foomatic. Is there a fix? I have no HP printer, so... a workaround? I find cups to be opaque, at my level at least :-( Thanks for previous help and present hope! c

More on strange 8.0 issues

. Could I have boot FreeBSD if I had installed grub? Perhaps I should ask a Linux forum :-| Many Thanks for previous help through the years, and to Polytropon, whose suggestion about buffering some text and testing the "esc [ 2 0 ~" behavior, didn't work, but may lead som

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ember what that does, but I can't find anything changed in X. Avid hobbyist fan of FreeBSD since 386BSD Chuck Bacon - c...@cape.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

burncd

BSD! I've used it as a retired sysadmin since 386BSD. Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u