Re: Where is packages-6.2-release?

I think lack of disk space is a poor excuse for an organization distributing an OS. This isn't the 90's. 500GB drives are $99.00 at newegg and that's enough to hold the OS, ports, and packages for 50 releases (at least). Surely the decision not to keep older releases where pkg_add() can find

Smbfs hang when connection broken

Processes that access a share from a remote machine hang if the connection goes away. I'm using FBSD V5.4 and mount_smbfs. This can be replicated by the following sequence: 1) Share a file system from a remote Windows machine. 2) Mount the share using mount_smbfs 3) Start a tar() command to

Re: mkisofs on 5.4

Thanks for responding. Do you see the problem if you only use mkisofs? Yes. I just tried it and got the same problem with an iso image using mkisofs. This is starting to look like a timezone issue. The date/time difference between the date displayed via ISO and the date displayed via FFS

growisofs problem

Hello, I've got a curious problem using growisofs on FBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0. I'm using the following hardware (from dmesg): acd0: DVDR HP DVD Writer 530 at ata1-slave PIO4 cd0: HP DVD Writer 530r VPS8 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Using the cd0 device (through atapicam) I can write to

headless indicator light

I'm looking for a way to build an indicator light that shows when the OS is booted and ready on a headless system. Is there a way to do this and do you know of any documentation that explains how to do something like this? Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]