Re: expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:12:49PM +0200, Deian Popov wrote: Hello, I would like to expand /usr of FreeBSD 6.2. I plan to get a new HDD, format it and create slices. But how to proceed after that? Do I just mount it over the existing /usr or is there any additional steps that must be

Re: Question about restore

2008-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:28:37PM +0700, Fira wrote: Hi list, I want to migrate one of my server (machine A) into another (machine B). My choice is using 'dump' and 'restore'. I've dumped all of my filesystem into third machine (machine C) over ssh. All went fine. Then, I want to restore

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:44:10PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bnw CmpRpr wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it

Re: how to enable the quota on

2008-02-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:42:39PM +0200, Giotis Eugen wrote: hello, im trying to enable quota on and i recieve the following error: fstab: /etc/fstab:2: Inappropriate file type or format and i typed: /etc/rc.conf and i recieve the error: /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied. I don't know

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: Hi, Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 Well, I

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: ifconfig em0 up also doesnt help ping my LAN. the ifconfig -a output now reads the IP I just added, as well as the net-mask the 100 Mbps active linnk. quick question : I did an ifconfig em0 1.1.1.2 yday.should

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
, but you do have to have the correct IP address and netmask and default router configured. You can't just pick numbers out of the air. I just used your example numbers in my response. jerry On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
:51 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: ifconfig em0 up also doesnt help ping my LAN. the ifconfig -a output now reads the IP I just added, as well as the net-mask the 100 Mbps active linnk. quick

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
:51 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: ifconfig em0 up also doesnt help ping my LAN. the ifconfig -a output now reads the IP I just added, as well as the net-mask the 100 Mbps active

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
-mask I'm reading to make it work and ping my LAN successfully ( which it doesn't now) before I put them in the rc.conf script. On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: strangely my /etc has no resolv.conf file at all ! It will only have one if you make one by setting up networking. sysinstall makes one if you set up a static IP. I think DHCP makes it if you do dynamic, but I don't have

Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible? -- SOLVED

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:36:41PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008 15:50:21 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Mel wrote: man restore: -r Restore (rebuild a file system). This will recreate the filesystem, meaning, the files extracted will have identical inode numbers as on the

Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible? -- SOLVED

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:29:49PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008 10:23:29 cpghost wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:25:32PM -0500, C Thala wrote: However, I don't have an actual live filesystem available to test this oncan I just restore to a directory on an existing

Re: How to backup the users

2008-01-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:59:18PM +0200, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: Hello, I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please advise me

Re: suggested size of /var/mail

2008-01-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:56:39PM +0800, FreeBSD Daemon wrote: Dear list, I am currently setting up a server which should include email service. Are there any smart ways to decide how to size /var/mail. I plan to put it on a seperate partition ... or shouldn't I? It depends totally on

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. I think my system is not connected to the

Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

2008-01-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:48:26AM +, David Larkin wrote: It is a fairly old machine I am trying to use. One that has been switched off and gathering dust for some time. ROM PCI/ISA BIOS 2A5LHL1A Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, AnEnergy Star Ally Copyright(c) 1984-99 Award

Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

2008-01-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:48:07PM +, David Larkin wrote: Hi Guys, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.3 on an old PC. I have bought a new Maxtor DiamondMax 80Gig disk, to replace the old one. I will have only one disk in the PC. I am looking to build using boot floppies and

Re: What version of Freebsd to run

2008-01-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:04:57PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, Just received my Dell PowerEdge SC 1435. Going to be a webserver for me. What version of Freebsd should I run on this box ? I want rock solid stability. Use FreeBSD 6.3 and Apache 2.xxx jerry thanks, Darryl

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:11:04AM +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I need to know which is the latest stable FreeBSD release(6.2 ?) and does it goes well with Dell 2950 ? I am presuming you are using the word 'stable' in a generic sense and not the official STABLE version sense -

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:11:04AM +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I need to know which is the latest stable FreeBSD release(6.2 ?) and does it goes well with Dell 2950 ? I forgot to mention. Yes, 6.3 RELEASE (or even 6.2, but why bother with that now that 6.3 is out) will work

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:19:54PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: It is possible, but not as daX. Use the

Re: 6.3 REL or not

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:56:32PM -0800, Jon wrote: Ok I was wondering around, Then found the 6.3 ISO's are these the real 6.3 release's ? They are not release unless they say RELEASE. Having said that, they are very much the same thing at this point. Can I use these ISO's as the

Re: external hard drive for mobile pc

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 07:55:20PM -0800, Eric LaVoie wrote: Will FreeBSD work if I install it on an external hard drive, connected to a mobile PC via USB or FireWire, as a partition ( the two partitions being the mobile PC's internal Hardrive and this external hard drive which I am asking

Re: how to be *nix programmer

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:30:53PM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:42:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:48:47PM -0500, Radheshyam Bhatt wrote: Hello People, How's it going?I am interested in to developing drivers

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM. According to dmesg... installing database on RAID-5 or asking if to add swap (when almost none is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote? That is not a

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I just install two machine with FreeBSD amd64 version

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:28:06AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 16), Albert Shih said: Hi all I known it's classic question. Long time ago when I install a FreeBSD x86 32 bits when I have N Go of Ram the installer take 2xN Go for the swap partition. Now I

Re: how to be *nix programmer

2008-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:48:47PM -0500, Radheshyam Bhatt wrote: Hello People, How's it going?I am interested in to developing drivers for FreeBSD. How do I go about start learning program for that? What books resources I should look in to. I know C, and I am

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

2008-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:34:24AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Hi ... I recently started working for a company that is using AFS to mirror their data between various data centers, in the US, Asia and the EU ... the idea is that the several thousand servers that are being run have

Re: Which environment variable?

2008-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Matiss wrote: Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell? I think what you are referring to is the

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2008-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:02:29AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:53:38AM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm wondering if I need to format the USB drive for use with FreeBSD? I think you will have to use something to divide the disk in to more than one slice

Re: Problem with Groups

2008-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:28:17PM +, Andrew Stevens wrote: Hi everybody Freebsd 6.2 sorry this question is a bit thick I know but after getting the usb and cdrom open as root I tried as user and got the following message A security policy in place prevents this sender from

Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

2008-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:00:04AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:01:34PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista

Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

2008-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... after some research I found that vista

Re: Fortune

2008-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:44:40PM +0100, Willem Hendriks wrote: Is there a port for the game fortune? I recently installed 6.2 AMD64 and I can't find it when I do a 'pkg_add -rv fortune' or 'pkg_add -rv fortune-mod' The ones I find I am not interested in; such as: zh-fortunetw-1.3

Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

2008-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:08:15PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista

Re: Updating was fortune

2008-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
=. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - jerry Thanks for you assistance. Jon. On Jan 8, 2008 1:27 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:44:40PM +0100, Willem Hendriks wrote: Is there a port for the game

Re: Paging Matthew Seaman

2008-01-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:03:51PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, January 04, 2008 17:18:51 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Schmehl wrote: I figure if anyone knows the answer to this off the top of their head,

Re: Paging Matthew Seaman

2008-01-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:03:18AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:00 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Nope. You understood. Thanks to everyone that responded. I'll tweak the suggestions until I get what I want or some near

Re: Swap partition

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:13:28PM -0800, Eugen Udma wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on my desktop, with 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB swap partition and this swap partition is very seldom touched by the system and then only 2-3% used. I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:14:57PM +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, First of all, Happy New Year. I have a question about porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD. The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I

Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:17:51AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after reinstalling xp and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd and run fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 it restored it but when I boot I get the mountroot prompt, it

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 or 7.0 Release?

2007-12-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:51:29PM -0430, Julian Bolivar wrote: Hi everyone, Mi question is because checking the FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 Release schedule, I note that version 6.3 is upcoming and few days later 7.0 will be releaced, anyone know if this schedule is updated or is in time? or

Re: BIND9 won't start

2007-12-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:45:58PM +0100, QADMOS wrote: Gelsema, P (Patrick) a écrit : On Sun, December 23, 2007 23:04, QADMOS wrote: Jonathan Horne a écrit : On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:52:43 pm QADMOS wrote: Hi everyone, i'm having a hard time with bind9. I'm

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:34:30PM -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: Thank all of you for really helpful answers. I am thinking about this configuration (might be helpful for someone in the future) a: / (root) 256 MB b: /swap 4096 MB d: /tmp768 MB e: /usr

Re: /var growing too fast

2007-12-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:09:01AM +0100, zbigniew szalbot wrote: Hello, I thought I would ask your advice. I only have a 2 GB /var slice and space is shrinking fast. I see that most space is taken by /var/db. $ du -hs /var/db 1.4G/var/db $ du -hs /var 1.7G/var $ df

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:17:50PM -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: Hi all I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music,

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:40:46PM -0700, James Harrison wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: Nikola, Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don???t know how big

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. Your better bet is to move your /usr/ports to your largest

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:31:05PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the

Re: Installation CD

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:41:50PM -0500, Zeeshan Ahmad wrote: Hi, I want to ask which iso image i have to download from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ that will install FreeBSD from CD ROM direclty because there are bootonly iso, disc1 and

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:09:36AM -0500, DAve wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any command for knowning it. # du -s

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:37:10AM -0600, W. D. wrote: At 09:50 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: Dang! When will this be fixed? Soon, there are patches available, we just need to make sure that it doesn't bite anything while we are in a ports-slush, hence the FORBIDDEN

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:08:08AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: You should add something like this to your sendmail.mc config: define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl ...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is willing to accept. The recommended max size in

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:53:38AM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Yi Wang wrote: Try mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt some usb disk doesn't have s1 postfix. I get: webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument I'm wondering if I need to format the USB

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:33AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: Huh??? Where else would you put it? In /etc/mail/sendmail.cf I think you want to put it in sendmail.mc and then run the make in /ec/sendmail rather than modify sendmail.cf directly. jerry

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:12:32PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: On December 13, 2007 08:05:42 pm Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:08:50PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Cesar Amaya writes: napstats# fstat | grep /tmp www httpd 1739 15 /tmp 4 -rw--- 0 rw Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:11:24PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - maybe trying to receive a huge file. Killing the process could get that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show how much space it is

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:56:23PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: Apparently someone out there keeps trying to resend that awful huge mail file, so whenever you restart, it gets stuck in that same condition. If you can track down the source of the file, either nuke it or block it.

Re: does freebsd support Vostro 1400 notebook?

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:19:56AM +, lveax wrote: hey all, i want to buy a dell vostro 1400 http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/vostronb_1400?c=uscs=04l=ens=bsd~tab=bundlestab does freebsd support it? That is pretty new. I wonder if anyone has had a chance to

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 02:41:08AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... But how are you getting your source? What definition is it in? The back of the disc says: Aprox 117 minutes; so evidently it was mastered in SP.If there are *32* defs, man, I miht as well throw in the towel and

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition.

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop

Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data

2007-12-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:10:28PM +1100, David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:20AM -0700, James Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:04PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 23:40:07 +0100 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Huh? The figure for PC-BSD in November was 6551. When I

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: James Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x (do not cross filesystems) was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k blocks in /, and rsync

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:46:53AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: dump 0af - / | restore -rf - Jerry - thanks a million. I was pouring over the dump/restore and 'backup basics' in the handbook, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get it to go to a filesystem instead of a

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:33:10AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:35:02 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: looking for online text editor On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:11:31PM -0500, David Banning wrote: Often I have to maintain my fbsd

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:11:31PM -0500, David Banning wrote: Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:09:11PM -0500, David Banning wrote: mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You can't just SSH into your box and use vim? Let's

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:14:05PM -0500, David Banning wrote: running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0 and

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have

Re: Terabyte drive

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:20:51AM -0600, Caleb Collins wrote: So I just installed a new terabyte WD drive and I am showing 902GB on the new drive, which I expect thank to the fact they use 1000 instead of 1024. However the problem I am seeing is that I am losing 72Gb from the start on the

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:12:40AM -0500, Gerard wrote: On November 30, 2007 at 02:37AM Erich Dollansky wrote: [ snip ] sensorship starts in the mind of the people. ^ censorship Well, maybe not if you are referring to the aesthetic appreciation of the item in question... Then

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:05:45AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:26:11 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: the hitler example remain with it because it establishes a very strong case-in-point example. Yep, shoot someone and then say -- hey, that's the best example

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:13:21PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Hitler was a good facist, he did his job well.

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:38:55AM +0100, Peo Nilsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 18:13 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: it was the fascism that lost the war. He discarded his country for his fascism. *No* humans *win* any kind of war. They *all* loose... So obviously true that

Re: BSDs support for NTFS read-write (using ntfs-3g)

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:33:24PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am newbie of FreeBSD and I have been trying to learn other O/S and I have chosen OpenSUSE and using it for quite some time, would like to try others, example FreeBSD, PC-BSD or DesktopBSD. Before anythings, I do some reading

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:23:56PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: All I have to say is WTF is wrong with whomever wrote this page. http://www.freebsd.org/internal/fortunes.html == Examples of entries that should not usually be declared 'offensive': * Hitler quotes.

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:20:22PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I might consider the man to be a maniac but he did utter some truths, Should we automatically disqualify them? Even the devil is right sometimes does that mean we should

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:01:42PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:12:36PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: PS. What should be abolished on the grounds of decency is top posting rehashing topics that have been gone on about ad nauseum, on the wrong mailing list.

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:58:08AM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:23:56PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: All I have to say is WTF is wrong with whomever wrote this page. http://www.freebsd.org/internal/fortunes.html == Examples of entries

Re: Partition to be shared over OSes

2007-11-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:11:25AM -0200, Caio Figueiredo Abecia wrote: Hi I have some operation systems installed on a hd in some partitions. I'd like to know if could I have a partition FAT32 in my hd and let my linux/bsd/windows read/write any file there. Yes. Anyway, FreeBSD and

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:11:28AM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2007, tusar kumar wrote: hi i want to know how can i assembly laptop. i want a video copy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:02:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:11:28AM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2007, tusar kumar wrote: hi i want to know how can i assembly laptop. i want

Re: Build Frustrations

2007-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:17:18PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: All, I'm of the realization that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but there's a recent issue

Re: FreeBSD, 160GB HD, and a Bios limitation

2007-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:18:15AM -0700, Christoper Tucker wrote: Hi there I have a 600mhz PIII computer with an older BIOS that will not recognize my 160GB new HD that I installed for use with FreeBSD. I can install FBSD if I limit the drive to 32GB, but before I settle with that,

Re: Website

2007-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:40:27AM -0600, Chris wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:34:56 + Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:41:51AM -0600, Chris wrote: ... seems to be going bonkers?! -- Best regards, Chris Your post is a little

Re: Build Frustrations

2007-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: All, I'm of the realization that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but there's a recent issue I've hit, and I've contacted nearly EVERYONE I can think of about it to try and fix, and the response I've gotten has been

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:12:59PM -0800, kev sadasda wrote: I am trying to install freebsd over ftp but it always says, cannot resolve ftp.freebsd.org I told it to use dchp but it didnt do anything even though my router's dhcp server was on. it kept on saying dhcpdiscover on dc0 to

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:50:36AM -0800, kev sadasda wrote: I forgot to explain that my computer is behind a home router connected to the cable modem. The dhcp server is working on the router it gives me an ip address in windows. So I think the problem is that freebsd isnt finding the

Re: Installing ports to /usr

2007-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Matt Fioravante wrote: Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do? You break the 'standard'

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