Typical times installing from ports via 56k modem?

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Haney
Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD, choosing it about two months ago as my first venture into the open-source OS world. I installed 4.6.0 from CD, and have updated to 4.7 RELEASE via CVSUP. I also updated my ports collection from CVSUP, but haven't upgraded any of my installed ports yet. It took about 1.5 hr

Iomega external (USB) CD-RW

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Haney
Hi, I have an iomega "predator" external (usb) cd-rw drive. Has anyone had success using this or any other usb cd-rw drive with freebsd? (please include me on the reply, as I am not subscribed to the list) Thanks, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ques

Re: US Robotics Performance Pro modem won't work

2002-10-16 Thread Mark Haney
Hi, I have the exact same modem, and it worked with the generic kernel when I changed my device in ppp.conf to /dev/cuaa4. Mark >I just built a pc and bought the above modem for being >100% controller-based hardware modem but I can't get >it to work, it doesn't complain when I run the ppp >-ddi

Re: XFree86-4

2002-10-15 Thread Mark Haney
Bernardo wrote... >Upgraded from 4.3 to 4.7-RELEASE. >After some problems I decided to do a fresh installation (CD), but the new >XFree86-4 server won´t configure. (snip) >Any hints ? ... This is just a stab in the dark... but I think XFree86-4 looks for a configuration file called "XF86Config-4

Linux JDK 1.3 necessary to compile JDK 1.3.1 source from Sun?

2002-10-07 Thread Mark Haney
I'm learning Java, and would like to set up a Java development environment on FreeBSD. In the article "Java and Jakarta Tomcat on FreeBSD" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/index.html as well as one other article I came across, the instructions say to first install t

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread Mark Haney
>1) What is the BIG difference between FreeBSD and Linux? Is it truly a >'big' difference, or do people just exaggerate the truth? > >2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatibility' - will that allow me >to use programs that were written on and for a Red Hat version of Linux? Matthew, I fou