Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I need to make work. Suggestions? What's the problem you

Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [deleted] Don't know but a dime is too much right now (I am personally living on $15/mo once the rent, food and connectivity is paid for [the wonders of a startup with no investors]). That is one reason why colo is not possible... yes I understand most of the hassles

/usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really need something that doesn't have a pkg available, I will not be using ports.

Re: ports collection background-fetch

Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Bahman M. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the background while other parts are being compiled? Wouldn't portupgrade --fetch-only work? Run this first to grab everything, then build. Not

Re: /usr/ports portupgrade when only using packages

Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 17:42:55 Michael C. Cambria wrote: I need to set up a system that can only use packages. I've always used ports, so I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing things properly. Should I (do I need to) use portsnap to populate /usr/ports? Unless I really

Re: Mass producing installs?

stan wrote: I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. [deleted] There must be a better way to do this. What have others been

5.1-Rel and COMPAT_OLDPCI

Hi, I use 4.8-Stable day to day, but setup a system to get my feet wet with 5.1-Release. A driver I need to use, lmc, is new to 5.1. On 4.x I use the driver from the support page of LanMedia (now SBEI). The lmc driver will not build. It needs COMPAT_OLDPCI defined in the kernel. This option

Re: Restoring /usr from a remote tape

Konrad Heuer wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael C. Cambria wrote: Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr from a remote tape? I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing the remote

Restoring /usr from a remote tape

Hi, Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr from a remote tape? I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing the remote tape from both single user mode or fixit with no luck. I can get the LAN

Can FreeBSD for Soekris be built this way?

Hi, I've been reading, and playing with various ways of setting up a soekris net4521. Nothing I've seen (or more likely, understood) in the archives seems to show building FreeBSD for the soekris from different sources than the one used on the build system (e.g. the PC running FreeBSD already.)

koffice-kde3 build problem

Hi, I having a problem building koffice via the kde3 metaport. KDE3 itself (seems to) be working fine. I cvsup'ed from 4.6-Stable to 4.7-Stable last night, including ports. I followed the instructions on freebsd.kde.org to remove kde2/qt/koffice. I also ran portsdb -Uu before trying to