Tracking for Multiple Machines

2006-11-16 Thread George Allan
The section in the Handbook presents a solution for a scenario in which all machines in a build set are more less identical, or sufficiently generic enough that each machine's make.conf is the same, the exception being the build machine's own make.conf (which can specify that multiple kernels are

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread George Allan
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote

Re: Automated installations

2006-10-19 Thread George Allan
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:15:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be considerate of others. Please don't top post. Quoting George Allan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just

Re: Automated installations

2006-10-16 Thread George Allan
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-10-13 Thread George Allan
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:03:31PM -0400, Richard McIntyre wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote: Since as you say everything is working, maybe it is a good idea to take a look and run the fsck command at least it may give you some

Re: Running Name Server

2006-10-02 Thread George Allan
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:04:48AM +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: Im wanting to run a name server server locally around my network on FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE ... Where abouts do i find the port to install so i can configure it ? /usr/ports/dns/bind9/ Read the Handbook for information on how

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread George Allan
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:47:56PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:46 AM, sean wrote: Can anyone recommend a pdf editor, hopefully one in ports? What you can do is use the command pdf2ps (should install with Ghostscript if

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-19 Thread George Allan
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:54:14PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want

Re: Calling setxkbmap when starting X

2006-09-16 Thread George Allan
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:30:37AM +0300, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: I am from Bulgaria and I use Bulgarian language on my FreeBSD machine. I use the following command $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us,bg -variant ,phonetic -option grp:alt_shift_toggle to enable both Bulgarian and

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread George Allan
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:34:01AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.