Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:04:41AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Crispy Beef writes: Was wondering on average how long building userland and the kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz Celeron machine with 128Mb RAM? Many hours. :-( For comparison: it takes ~1h45

Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# xxxxxx)

2006-01-02 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:15:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, On my screen, there were messages like the followings comeing up. I have to reboot mutiple times to get it boot up normally. Does this mean I have to replace the disk which is a relatively new disk (1-2 years)?

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created.. this is what I get from the console: umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? If you're referring to dot files, then the following will show them: ls -a If that is too tedious, then an alias in your shell's RC file can sort

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:43 AM Subject: Re: USB mice On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:01:00AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-25 09:13, Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight

sysctl kern.cp_time: calculating output

2005-12-22 Thread Russell J. Wood
Hi all, I have a question regarding the output from sysctl kern.cp_time. I know that the output is in the form of: user nice sys interrupt idle and that the numbers are incremental, but what I don't know is what these numbers and increments mean. If someone could explain this, it is greatly

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:41AM +0200, h.kriege wrote: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's in the ports collection (/usr/ports/editors). - Russell pgpUg00pRRJlt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: BSDForums registration ..

2004-08-07 Thread Russell J. Wood
Hello Joshua, Try http://forums.bsdnexus.org/. It's a forum for all BSD flavours. - Russell On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:39:33PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote: Has anyone tried to join/register at: http://www.freebsdforums.org/ I've joined and registered and I'm able to login, but after 24hrs I'm

Re: OT: BSDForums registration ..

2004-08-07 Thread Russell J. Wood
Yes, sorry. It's http://forums.bsdnexus.com/ (not .org). - Russell On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:06:55PM +0200, Gustaaf Wijnands wrote: Russell J. Wood wrote: http://forums.bsdnexus.org/ didn't work. I assume you meant http://forums.bsdnexus.com/ ? -- Gustaaf

Re: Can i make a CD of the Ports Collection

2004-08-03 Thread Russell J. Wood
Yes, this could be done. First, create an ISO image of the directory with `mkisofs' (included in /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools): mkisofs -A ports -allow-lowercase -allow-multidot -f -no-cache-inodes -D -l -J -o ports.iso -p peter -R -V ports /usr/ports Note: this will produce a non-standards

Amaya 8.4

2004-04-18 Thread Russell J. Wood
To whom it may concern; Is current Amaya release going to be ported soon? - Russell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]