Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). Well, you know that i386 is Intel, do you? It

Re: GUI

Monty Pyth schrieb: I am running a Freebsd 6.2 server. How do I get a GUI going? Either GNOME or KDE. I know I have to startx and then I am a little confused. I want to be able to view phpmyadmin in a GUI. Thanks. Hi! Create a .xinitrc in your /home/username and fill it with exec startkde.

Problems with module cx88

Hi, folks! Having installed a TV-card (WinTV HVR-1100) I now want to use it. there are currently two problems: 1. When I boot into KDE 3.5.10, my artsd is not starting giving the message: Can't open /dev/dsp - operation not permitted This is happening till I installed and loaded (via

Re: What should be backed up?

John Almberg schrieb: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think... Question: am I missing anything crucial? Thanks: John

Re: server was hacked

Brent wrote: , HOw excatly are they getting in ? what are the things I can do to prevent this. On FBSD how do you checksum binaries on the system to ensure someone hasnt replaced one with there own binary. Do yourself a favor and buy the book BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne O'Reilly Media ISBN

Errors at make installworld

Hi all! After a successful make buildworld, make buildkernel and make installkernel I tried to make installworld, but it fails with the following error: Installing everything -- cd /usr/src; /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make -f

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 and FreeBSD

Hello all! I just got a new computer with the above mentioned card in it. What I want to know is if anybody has experience in making it work under FreeBSD. Googling around has brought no results but it should work under Linux and obviously under Windows. But who wants this if it will work

Re: Question re reducing a file system in FreeBSD 6.2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question re reducing a filesystem in FreeBSD 6.2 - I am new to FreeBSD - I am use to AIX We have FreeBSD installed on a dell 1950 - I would like to reduce the size of /usr in case I want to added the space to another file system. We currently have

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

It may be that you configured securelevel on startup. Try with sysctl kern.securelevel to find out which is your securelevel. It may be 1 or greater. Then try to change it either with sysinstall or directly at the command prompt with sysctl -w kern.securelevel=-1. This should work. Greetings

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it will work. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

Well, I think if you boot your computer from a cdrom and edit with bsdlabel you get into an editor where you can change the d into an a. That must be the solution you want. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: port updates

Did you clean your /usr/ports-directory before and did you then make a cvs co ports? Or how did you do it? Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Error with make buildworld

Hello all! I'm having serious trouble with getting my system up to date. I installed FreeBSD 6.2 as of January 13, 2007 and cvsup'ed it to the newest sources. When running make buildworld I got the error message which you can see below. This happened two or three times and always came the