Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread John Adams
-Original Message- From: Josh Ockert [EMAIL PROTECTED] There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. It was particularly funny to see it directed against someone whose

First cvsup in sometime, and now I'm hosed

2004-10-24 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I ran a cvsup against my supfile, then a portupgrade -a, and now I'm hosed. For starts, ruby is complaining about an insecure version of OpenSSL, and will not install, leaving me without, well, portupgrade. What have I done to myself, and how do I recover? Is this, by Hobson's

accessibility/atk-1.4.0 port won't install/deinstall on 4.9

2004-10-23 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I'm having trouble with accessibility/atk-1.4.0 on a 4.9 installation. Both portinstall and portupgrade tell me that make: don't know how to make all-depends-list. Stop ** Makefile of 'accessibility/atk' is possibly broken: make: no target to make. ** The following packages

Re: accessibility/atk-1.4.0 port won't install/deinstall on 4.9

2004-10-23 Thread John Adams
On Oct 23, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 15:07, John Adams wrote: I'm having trouble with accessibility/atk-1.4.0 on a 4.9 installation. Make sure you're cvsup'ing ports-all, and that you do not have a refuse file excluding the accessibility category. Aha! My

Starting MySQL

2004-02-04 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I added MySQL with portupgrade today, but don't find mysqld anywhere on the machine. How do I start this silly thing? Thanks, John A ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Setting up X with an unknown monitor and video adapter

2004-01-28 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I've moved on up to 4.9 and, along with my continuing mouse problems, am a bit scared of setting up X. I've got an older monitor, an Apple Multiple Scan 1705, and a video adapter that doesn't appear to be in the supported list, an Intel 82810. (There's an Intel 810, but not an

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, All these very intelligent, well-reasoned, sometimes philosophical answers--mine is nothing like that. A company for which I want to work uses FreeBSD extensively, so I'm learning something about it at home. That simple, John A see me fulminate at

Re: Upgrade procedure question

2004-01-21 Thread John Adams
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: What install do you mean? Upgrading a la: a. cvsup new source b. make buildworld c. make buildkernel d. make installkernel e. reboot and make installworld doesn't touch /etc. You give me far too much credit--I'm

Upgrade procedure question

2004-01-20 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I decided my minor problems (a couple I've posted, a couple I haven't) might be solved by doing what I should've already done, namely, upgrading from 4.6 to 4.9. I'm looking at the text of INSTALL.TXT right now, and I've got a question which, if it weren't so basic, would

mouse and curl problems

2004-01-18 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I've gotten my modem problems straightened out--and thanks for the help! Now, I've got two other oddities going on. (By the way, I've yet to upgrade to 4.9--that'll be soon, but not today--and I'm still on 4.6 for now.) First, my mouse--a very vanilla two-button PS/2--is not

Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: How are you trying to mount your floppy? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt? Well, I was just naively trying mount /dev/fd0 /mnt, but now I've tried it as you suggest, and again gotten Device not configured. This is also what fdformat

Fwd: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: I presume you get sio lines for all of your serial ports? My original point still stands, are you sure you're using the right one for where your modem is plugged in? Yes, I'm pretty sure--I mistakenly used cuaa1 in my earliest

New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
I love detailed questions! On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 01:05 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Why don't you start at the beginning and tell us about the PC you installed 4.6 on? It's an eMachines etower 600is Is this an pre Y2K box? Shouldn't be--I bought it new at Frye's in early 2001. What

Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:57 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Try this command to mount the cd drive. First load the 4.6 install cd in cd drive mount /cdrom cd /cdrom ls cd / umount /cdrom Success! look at the etc/fstab to see how cd drive is configured

New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-12 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I've got a brand-new installation of FreeBSD and the next thing I want to do is upgrade from 4.6 (the CD I had) to 4.9 or 5.1. However, first I need to dial out, and there I'm having a problem. I've followed the instructions (I hope!) in Chapter 18 of the handbook, and whatever