Kris Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm getting off cable (Comcast and 6 megabits) and
Good move.
Their fine print -
Don't forget the finer print. Invisible print might be a better
term; good luck even finding it before committing yourself. More
below.
home phone pac kage ($24.99
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What are the possible causes of spontaneous reboots? And what artifacts
would be left behind that might indicate the
I had an old EISA 486 do that several times a week when the external
RAM cache went flakey. I don't recall the error logs, except a
/usr/ports/sysutils/eject/
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Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where does HPA(Host protected Area) sit in all this? is this the
'boot sector' trick?
I don't know. I just heard that some computer makers are somehow
reserving as much as half the HDD for a full copy of the OS to recover
from when the normal one
Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
#vipw root returns- usage: vipw [-d directory]
See that usage msg? Compare it with your commands.
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If you're really serious (to borrow a phrase), you'll do backup to
several different media and maybe different formats. With RAID or
backup to an always-powered second HDD, you can loose all of your
disks if the case power supply or MB fails in certain ways. (I know
someone who lost a disk when
Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Any idea where this info could be stored?
The obvious place is the end of the first track between the boot
sector(s) and the first partition. But that's probably too easy and
well-known. As others have noted, Unix (eg, dd) has easy access to
Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CCL is fine for contributed docs and artwork. Everyone seems to do it.
There's no license issue.
At least one CCL allows no derivation under any terms, which would at
least raise an issue, I'd hope. I'm not aware of any CCLs in FreeBSD
other than the
I've had a few more thoughts on the matter.
If core wants the music and the only question is licensing, maybe
core and you could agree on a custom license which allows anyone to
copy it unmodified (which must include being copied as a single file
from any web site) or including it unmodified in a
On FreeBSD 5.4-R, I did a backup using 4 dump/restores and each
dump (-0L) gave two scary-looking lines like those that stick out here:
...
DUMP: estimated 71239 tape blocks.
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
warning: ./.snap: File exists
Radek Válko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm little bit new in FreeBSD and I would like to know more about
buildworld process. I really tryed to find this information but I
wasn't successful. My question is what everything is exactly build
during this process.
The entire base OS, excepting the
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# flame:/usr/src$ find . -type f | egrep -e '\.(man|[0-9]+)$' | xargs grep
'\.Ft[[:space:]]*$'
A Bourne script which egreps installed manual directories:
find $(manpath|sed s/:/\ /g) | xargs grep -EZH $@
Jorge Mario G. Mazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to hear what books are good for newbies like me!
Some good reading to get exposed to some history and culture as well
as some high-level discussion of programming is The Art of UNIX
Programming by Eric S. Raymond 2004 Addison Wesley
K Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If anyone could add to this I would be interested.
I suppose that you say
Even if you choose not to alter the MBR.
because of the last install menu item below
{ { BootMgr, Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager,
{ Standard, Install a standard
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0
boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2
I don't remember who asked what before, but you should also try:
boot0cfg -B -s 5 -o packet ad0
boot0cfg -B -s 2 -o packet ad2
fdisk /dev/ad0
fdisk /dev/ad2
bsdlabel /dev/ad0
I wouldn't bother if you don't
Yuri van Overmeeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Depends on the filesystem you use, FAT16 has a 2GB limit, FAT32 (in theory)
supports very large partitions but I think
you could get in trouble at 127GB or 137GB with MS-Dos. Newer MS-Dos (or
other doses) support FAT32.
Old is relative, huh? I
John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
fdisk, etc, looked good.
boot0cfg -v /dev/ad0
# flag | start chs | type| end chs
| offset | size
1 0x80 0: 1:10x07 1023 254:63 63
40001787
OK.
boot0cfg -v /dev/ad2
# flag |
John Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Linux GRUB is simple and intuitive to use and BSD
loader has me lost after weeks :(
I know both enough to say that BSD's is way more intuitive
and much simpler to configure and install.
I even installed GRUB into MBR and the BSD bootloader
won't go away! :(
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In order for grub to work as a menu, it requires a stage 2 loader
that resides somewhere on your hardrive outside of the MBR. It's my
understanding that grub was too big to fit just in the MBR and that
necessitated this arrangement. If you don't mind manually
Valerio daelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it preferable to use another partition?
At least because /boot.config only works on a, it has been
recommened that a be used, and maybe because almost every one uses
it, I've never learned what bad things happen if you don't use a.
You're unlikely to
Joel Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# E.g. use `env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make'
However, and at this risk of exposing my inexperience and just plain old
sounding foolish, how does this method of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX differ
from:
setenv
Joel Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm a little confused about the Bourne shell, however. Do you mean that
(1) 'MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make' is equivalent to (2) 'setenv
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX /somewhere/obj' or (3) 'env
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make'? Can (1) be substituted for
Rogelio Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have Phoenix Award BIOS v6.00PG (as it seems to identify
itself) and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus (ST3120026A) and they
don't seem to like each other. When partitioning, it's suggested
that the harddrive geometry seems unlikely though the
Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Make the changes in rc.conf so that the box will be configured correctly
then next time it is rebooted. To change the address without rebooting,
you'll have to use ifconfig. Do
For some of the variables in rc.conf, you can reactivate changes
using scripts in
Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. What did/do I need to do to completely fix the Master Boot Record?
(Short of reinstalling FreeBSD!)
I like what the other guy said about -o packet.
2. Was the disk label on the FreeBSD slice ad1s2 really corrupted? If
Unlikely, at least until you
legalois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But that does not explain when, how or why?
It was earlier than 20'jun'93, the oldest master.passwd in CVS
which says that it was imported from 386BSD 0.1.
It's easier to guess an explanation for this orignal entry:
daemon:*:1:31::0:0:The devil
David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any suggestions?
See what manpath command gives you. If bad, read it's manpage.
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Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to be able to setup a system so that on power up I can choose
weather to boot into either i386 or amd64.
Is this possible or would I some how have to install the two releases on
their own?
I'm fairly sure it could be done, but you'd have to have
Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So without wanting to offend (whilst secretly being
pretty frustrated with the corner I find myself in) I
would like to know, hopefully from someone responsible
for the subsystem, if ucom/ftdi is likely to be fixed
in the next six months.
You can
bob self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
xxd scripttest:
000: 2321 2f62 696e 2f73 680d 0a65 6368 6f20 #!/bin/sh..echo
^^-- BAD NEWS
It doesn't work on 5.4, either, or probably any Unixy OS.
BTW, the base OS comes with hd for a similar display.
N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Normally, that doesn't matter because most Unix utilities are
multi-eol-format aware, but you can't have it in the shebang line
because the OS interprets the extra carriage as part of the command, so
it is looking for /bin/sh^M, which doesn't exist.
Know
Robin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dump -0 -f - /dev/yourfilesystem |bzip2 -c dump.bz
I compressed a filesystem dump (on Athlon 64/3200+, i386 OS) and
bzip2 compressed to 50% of 2 GB in 1118 sec
gzip compressed to 52% of 2 GB in 306 sec
But bzip2 can compress much better than
Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In this context, by bzip did you actually meant bzip2? (There
is a archivers/bzip port.)
No, I presented bzip2-labeled test results and then made statements
about archivers/bzip. But I suppose they're true about bzip2 too.
Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2) The font size in the xterm window is quite small. How do I change the
font size?
A quick but temporary way not yet mentioned is to press ctrl
and then drag pointer-button-1 to select a new size.
Try the other two buttons too.
That is, what event created it and, if it is a changing thing,
what event will cause it to stop changing?
I'm guessing from the announcement which says that one can get it from
from the RELENG_6 CVS branch, that it is a generic name for any OS
made from RELENG_6 between its announcement and the
bob self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to set up FreeBSD 5.4 Release to fully use 2 80 gig hard drives. I'm
not sure how I
should set these up in disklabel editor. I just want to use this as a general
purpose machine.
I've been happy giving my two 80 GB disks 4 equal-sized primary
Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, two things that are important: ease of configuration and
flexibility. You want those small tweaks to be painless, but you also
want the WM to be able to do what you want it to. So far, I've not
found anything I wanted that FVWM2 couldn't do.
Miguel Cárdenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried to setup PATH in ~/.profile and now is updated but how can I setup
this variable system wide? specifically want to add the Qt and MySQL binary
directories to the PATH...
Yeah, man login.conf, but it's heavy reading which I suspect many
Isaac Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Once I had FreeBSD 5.4 set up, I put the RHLinux drive in the FreeBSD
machine as primary slave. Manually mounting the drive didn't seem to
work since I could find which /dev/ entry the RHLinux drive ended up
on, and of course fdisk wouldn't help for the
Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Have I a bad configuration?
You might need these in your /etc/rc.conf (and a re-boot):
moused_enable=YES
moused_flags=-z 4 5
##moused_flags=-m 1=3 -m 3=1 -z 4 5 ## I'll try un-swapped buttons for a
while.
moused_port=/dev/psm0
moused_type=auto
manish jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i want my console's delete key to work as forward
delete and not as backspace. can anyone help me out
with this small problem ?
Copy one of /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* to /etc/keymaps,
edit it, and put this in /etc/rc.conf: keymap=/etc/keymap
Unless you
Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks, I tried to look at the options in the BIOS. I can enable or disable
the SATA disks.
Look where you can tell it to boot off a CDROM and ensure that it can't
also be configured to boot off second hard disk.
So, it appears that I have to install
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ModulePath /usr/X11R6/libexec/fvwm/2.4.19/
If you're just using the default (which that looks like), just
comment it out; I've never had one in my config file and never
had an upgrade problem. Or use the + feature described in
the ModulePath description
Robert G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not talking about SUPFILE= in /etc/make.conf to change which CVS server I
download all the ports, I'm talking about
when I download/install individual ports it seems to pick a random server.
Sometimes the server is one in another
country, and I
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot.
You might get better help if you include details like what you installed.
Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the
following example from the handbook
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's looking in the
wrong place for the third stage loader
you'll see exactly the problem you have.
Where it's probably refers to boot code, not to the MBR, which
doesn't look for anything except
Mattia Popolla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and sorry for my bad english!
I noticed nothing unusual about it, for e-mail.
I'm trying to install FreeBSD/i386 5.3-RELEASE
FROM A DOS PARTITION.
Fine English, but I don't understand. I'm sorry if there
is some standard install method like this I'm
David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The advantage of dump/restore is that only the necessary data is
written. With dd all the unused blocks on the media are also written,
including the filesystem, which will probably work on the larger card.
If you don't mind educating me further for no
Joel Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Before I go crazy and change my RELENG_5 to 6 and resync my sources, can
someone point me at a README/UPDATING for upgraders? I'm sure I'll find
one _after_ I cvsup, but I'd like to read it first.
Do locate UPDATING if you don't know where it's kept
Robin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I intend to do this by the appropriate ugly mess of cp -pRP commands
I can't comment on vinum issues, but cp -pR (-P is default) doesn't
handle stuff like file attributes, AFAIK. Check, but I think 4.11 has
the new FreeBSD tar (not gtar) which is the think
Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So let me ask you:
If I delete the XP partition (i.e. with the fbsd fdisk progam) and write
the partition table back to disk, will this ruin my third fbsd part?
If you want to be real careful, save off a copy of the MBR (to
floppy?) with something
Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Im useing the emu10k1 driver and have sound comming out of all my speakers
(includeing the sub) is there a way to adjust each channel? Maybe some sort
of advanced mixer??
Try: sh -c 'less $(ls -d /usr/ports/audio/*mix*/pkg-descr)'
(See next file with
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
Which drive should I install the FreeBSD Boot Manager?
Thank you.
Your primary 1st channel IDE drive-the one you have devoted for Windows
use-unless you plan on using a bootdisk to
startup FreeBSD :).
If you have or can
Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?
PicoBSD is almost certainly not what you're looking for.
All of the useful PicoBSD documentation is pretty-much in the manpage
and in a few files under /usr/src/release/picobsd/; it's just a
way of building
Marcel Lautenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/usr/ports and did make search lsof
Current handbook says make search name=lsof or
make search name=lsof.
I get a notcie that says something of generating INDEX, please
wait.
Looks like it just did make which is make index.
Ricky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks in advance for any help regarding this.
This isn't the short-cut you were probably hoping for, but this should
explain how to make a CD like the Project did:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html
There's also a release(7)
And
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html
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Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
Mozilla apparently doesn't even use my local DNS as it still hangs.
(I must admit that I've never checked my caching DNS's cache.)
Mozilla will use resolve.conf, if it is there. It will also cache answers
for a long time
Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I run squid on my freebsd box and i need to know the free memory.
In redhat exist a nice command #free to show the free memory. In
$ top | grep Mem:
Mem: 91M Active, 271M Inact, 91M Wired, 232K Cache, 60M Buf, 45M Free
$ top | awk '/Mem:/ { print $12
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However none of them have an effect! Please help!
Adding to what others have said..
You can learn a lot by looking at (something like): /var/log/Xorg.0.log
If your monitor and controller are fairly new, you should find info
about their possible (and actual)
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that the resolver will treat lookups of localhost. and localhost
differently if you have a domain or search
directive specified in /etc/resolv.conf. You could and perhaps should ensure
that the one ending in a period exists in
a zone file on the
Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
what version of freebsd do u recomand for a stable server?
The Handbook recommends against using a stable branch (RELENG_5
or RELENG_4, which might not even compile)
without first thoroughly testing the code in your development
environment.
But
Chris Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
starts all normally until the boot from CD:.
I would first boot another unixy OS off HDD or Live CD and compute the
md5 checksum of the CD (maybe using dd bs=2k ... once to size
the CD and once to exclude that last two blocks) and compare with
the
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that. There must be something wrong with the boot
records that fdisk is not correcting.
I know friends who have had unuseable boot records as
well and have to boot from floppies, Its not really a
big inconvenience.
Spend some time with the boot,
Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Others have said this already, but to clarify: adjusting the monitor
parameters may enable you to get higher resolution or less flicker,
but they're unlikely to make it sharper unless they were previously
out of the operating range. Nowadays
Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think that the problems is in fBSD that it doesn't able to communicate
with IDE banks, it raise the errors:
...
if the motherboard's controller isn't supported by fBSD, what could I do,
should I send to garbage the motherboard?
If you're
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course it won't work for nslookup(1); it's not supposed to.
nslookup is specifically intended for querying a name server. The
documentation for host(1) isn't as clear on the subject, but my
reading of it seems to indicate the same thing.
Well that
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to try to boot the system on the hard
driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something wrong
with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know if
this is possible and how I can do that?
Sure, but you've left us in the dark as to what you have to
I think I followed the bind manual and poked around /var/named and it
has been working OK for a few weeks until I pointed my browser to
localhost and then I tried host localhost. It can resolve
127.0.0.1 back to localhost.localhost. fine, but if I try
my name localhost or localhost.localhost, I
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Like what?
Like the indemnification clause in
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html
One can limit their exposure to such risks by accessing such services
as read-only services, except for their normal SMTP services which,
AFAIK, are
Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not sure how safe it is. Is it safe to use a HDD partitioned and
formatted by one version of FreeBSD with a newer version? I know there
I recently ran into the problem of not being able to access 5.x file
systems and 5.x backups from a 4.x system.
William Manley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. My
problems started when I enabled XDM for a
graphical logon into Gnome. When I logged in as root the system just looped
back to the logon screen. I then assumed I
had configured
Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mounting /dev/ad0s1a showed what was my root partition before. I tried
mounting ad0s1b, and it gave Incorrect Super
Block. I went on to guess ad0s1f, mounted it, and it was /usr. Appears like
/usr/home/myuser/ exists and my files are
there.
b is almost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and then press CR it just repeats the dialog, and refuses
to find the installation images on the very same CD that
it just booted from in the first place?! And, there is
The method of accessing the CD's boot code is very different than the
method of accessing the
Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a brand new motherboard. Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro. FreeBSD
5.4-RELEASE (amd64).
I was also doing some searching around and found a list post about
FreeBSD 5 and DMA write problems:
I've got a GA-K8NSC-939 running 5.4-R (i386) with two 80GB using
Björn König [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert S wrote:
A freebsd n00b question. How do I set ports up to use ccache [...]
Presumably I put something into /etc/make.conf.
Yes, add the following lines to /etc/make.conf
CC=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/cc
CXX=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/c++
Björn König [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because these are compilers, not compiler caches. I suppose it's not the task
of a compiler to speed up the build
process, but rather producing good binaries from source code. I think of the
Unix dogma one task, one tool.
GCC violates that one almost
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# disklabel -Brw da1 auto
what did the -r option do, why is it used in this example when
bsdlabel doesn't support it.
It enabled the labeling of an unlabeled disk. It's used because the
handbook is still in transition from the old disklabel. My copy
Michael Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Is there any equivalent to nextboot(8) for the boot manager such that a
boot selection can be made prior to the boot
sequence so that the choice can be made remotely instead of only at the
console?
Read about boot0cfg's -s. And please shorten
Michael Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x...
I forget where you got that from.
Anyway, the boot(8) manpage makes it pretty clear that your /boot must
be on the a of whatever s you're booting, but I'm not as sure as
others
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm a bit confused about whcih options needs to be set where.
You're not alone.
I know i.e. that hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 needs to be set
in /boot/loader.conf while others are set in /etc/sysctl.conf. I need
to know where I can find info on the rules
Kun Niu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems that I should install the as program.
Can someone tell me where I can download the tbz ball?
An inet search for as? :) Or as.tgz or as.tbz.
The devel/bin86 port has a as86 program that _might_
be the same thing.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried every combination:
fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad3
fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad3
fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -I ad3
Assuming that you've got the rest of the file systems configured and
populated properly, as I think you said, and you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried every combination:
fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad3
fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad3
fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -I ad3
...
the disk doesn't boot.
So fdisk -B ad3 shouldn't work if you don't have a valid partition
table which also
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From dmesg:
ad0: 9541MB WDC WD100BA/16.13M16 [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
I think you just said that
vicbsd root# fdisk /dev/ad0
vicbsd root# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
work OK, but that your problem (from a prior msg) is:
# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0
fdisk:
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aymeric MUNTZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it possible to bind any action to combinated keys such as CTRL+ALT+DEL?
Yes.
In X, it's kind of tricky to apply modifiers to a particular
combination, so I'm not sure how to do that particular one,
The
Alexandre D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is the complete process I follow:
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${disk} bs=1k count=1
Shouldn't be needed, but if you're concerned, write enough sectors
to zero the start of {disk} and the start of {disk}s1 --
Alexandre D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I made several tests. the exact problem is to install the freebsd boot
manager.
But your fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 should have done that. I'm not
sure if it has defaults that would work for you though. boot0cfg
tells you what defaults it will use and lets
Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 01 Aug jdyke wrote:
If i `pkg_delete kdebase` will it delete all sub packages. or do those
have to go one at a time?
pkg_delete kde\* removes most if not all of kde* stuff.
Using -r should also get rid of packages that depend on the kde
stuff.
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only danger in not having the slice table is that if you use non
BSD tools, such as the ones that come with windows, they will
potentially write over things that that you don't want them to.
The FreeBSD FAQ mentions more serious dangers.
Also,
A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for
/dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted
It looks like it was trying to do something (swapon?) with the swap
device, but the devfs system never created a /dev/ad0s1b for it
(Badly formatted message omitted)
I suspect that you didn't follow the README's instructions and instead
tried to put the 2880k boot.flp on a 1440k floppy. You only need
the other two images if you have a 1440k drive. IIRC, the big one is
for a few special drives and for use on El Torito
zlatozar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a way to recover my db of all installed ports? How I can
reinstall all my ports? Will reinstall helps?
I think your ports (eg, /usr/ports/*/*) are still installed and most
of your package files (eg, /usr/local/bin/portinstall) are too, but
your
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH
Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now.
#!/bin/ksh -o posix
find /usr/ports -name Makefile | while () ; do
read DIR
cd ${DIR%Makefile}
BBB=$(make -V BROKEN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
only wrote -1 of 32768 bytes: Input/output error
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error
I got something like that on 5.4 (i386 or amd64, I forget) and cured
it by using cdrecord from cdrtools port after rebuilding kernel to
support it. That might tell you
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Drive:
Dangerously dedicated
/dev/da0s1
newfs -O2 -U
I think you're using dangerously dedicated wrongly. A DD disk is one
which has no standard partition table in the MBR; the disklabel
sectors (16) start at sector 0 (or with your
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But in FreeBSD your disk needs a slice otherwise it's not compatable
with fdisk / bsdlabel / growfs... I think.
One of the main reasons for using a DD disk is so you don't have to
mess with those things; they are of no use on a DD disk (assuming that
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
pp-p_fstype = FS_BSDFFS;
pp-p_fsize = sblock.fs_fsize;
pp-p_frag = sblock.fs_frag;
pp-p_cpg = sblock.fs_fpg;
}
The last line is the one that inserts that number.
Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a link to a thread that help me to understand
the in/out/recv/xmit stuff.
Thanks guys. I think I've got most of it now.
Incoming packets are those entering the OS kernel implementing the
ipfw firewall, but not necessarily those entering the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass#
/dev/ad1s2b noneswapsw 0 0
/dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1a /usr/local
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