Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-26 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 10:48 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote: > >> Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >> > Yes. MS-Windows doesn't have anything Unix doesn't in this regard. I >> > take it you're not familiar wit

Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-25 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 07:51 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote: > >> I am just wondering the only shortcoming of Unix clone, such as >> FreeBSD, in contrast to M$ Windows, is the lack of a cyclin bin, from >> which you can restore anything you have mis-d

Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-07-24 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PK wrote: > --- On Sun 07/24, Robert Slade < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > From: Robert Slade [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:41:16 + > Subject: Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ? > >

Re: First post

2005-07-22 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Friday 22 July 2005 18:22, Halldór Rúnar Hafliðason wrote: > >> I'm curious, why do you want to have so many operating systems on it, >> could as well just go with vmware if you are testing out some operationg >> systems. > > > VMWare

Re: join my freebsd box to windows domain?

2005-07-22 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 perikillo wrote: >Hi all. > I want to run freebsd 5.4 and join this machine to my windows > 2k3 domain, i just want to browse with my freebsd machine the others > windows clients and windows clients browse my box, i just want to be > another

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-21 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ross Kendall Axe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>>At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >>> >>> >>>>... I want

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> >> ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition >> at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall >

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Johnson wrote: > > On a 1 GB drive you aren't going to have room to do much learning no matter > how little you waste in /. Maybe I should just ship you a bigger hard drive. > > I'm pretty sure I have a 3 or 6 GB drive around that I have no u

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a >> BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS >> bugs/quirks?

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > > Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea > > of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a > > separate partition. >

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Being pragmatic, the problems you are facing are because you have such a > tiny disk in an ancient PC. This puts you in a very small minority of > FreeBSD users. True. > A separate /boot is new to 5.X and I doubt it was done >

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a. I'd love to be pr

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out >> on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to &

/boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive.