Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:03:02PM +0100, edward wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK. May I ask how you got this to work and which FreeBSD version you are using? On my FreeBSD 6.0 system the hfs-freebsd-03p2 port fails to build after printing some

File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY.

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev

Re: The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-04-23 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi, Excellent book, by the way. Gives a different perspective from the handbook (ever noticed how two cameras give you a better account on what happens on the race track, even if they are filming the same thing ?). Also of great use when your system isn't up and running yet and you actually don't

KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit

2005-04-16 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi all, I just installed FreeBSD (using a CD burned from the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso image) on a NEC machine with a Celeron D335. I have xorg 6.8.2 (upgraded via portupgrade) and KDE 3.3.0 (installed via Internet as binaries, with pkg_add, after upgrading xorg). I then created an .xinitrc

Re: Where are the Xorg config files ?

2005-02-25 Thread Edward Lichtner
On Thursday, 24 February 2005 at 22:59:54 +0100, Edward Lichtner wrote: Hi all, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 along with Xorg 6.7.0-9 and KDE 3.3.0-4. I started KDE by creating an .xinitrc file in my home directory containing the line : exec startkde I then run startx and KDE starts up and works

How do I get KDM to launch KDE ?

2005-02-24 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi, I selected KDM to run at startup by editing /etc/ttys : ttyv8 ³/usr/local/bin/kdm ­nodaemon² xterm on secure I also created a .xsession file both in /root and in my home directory with the line : exec startkde When I reboot, KDM starts up but when I login (correct password), the login

Where are the Xorg config files ?

2005-02-24 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi all, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 along with Xorg 6.7.0-9 and KDE 3.3.0-4. I started KDE by creating an .xinitrc file in my home directory containing the line : exec startkde I then run startx and KDE starts up and works fine. However, there is no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 or in /usr/X11R6/etc/X11,