Question about Ports and Packages

2005-04-11 Thread Tom Moyer
I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to 5-STABLE on Friday. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build dependancies missing for packages that I installed from packages. I assumed

Possibly OT: ports question/suggestion

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Moyer
Maybe this is not the best place for this (I'm not really sure) but would there be a way to setup the ports tree so that when a particular package is deinstalled that it's dependancies would be deinstalled if they were only installed becasue of the port in the first place. For example Package X

Dealing with ports installations

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Moyer
I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and

Moving/Removing Filesystems

2005-01-26 Thread Tom Moyer
I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting the entire hard drive. I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have installed many ports and

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Moyer
I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that. I would like to be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies as well. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:22:22 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Moyer
Fortunately, you can still use the ports collection for your offline machine, by using a machine which is connected and doing the make package-recursive or make fetch-recursive commands to grab all of the dependencies as well. Is there any way I can force it to fetch packages when they exist

Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Tom Moyer
I have the 5.3-RELEASE CD which I have used to install 5.3 on a laptop I have. I would like to add packages/ports now but have a slight issue. The laptop doesn't have internet access. Nor is there any easy way to put it on the internet. How can I go about installing both packages and ports on

5.2.1 Install Problems

2004-06-25 Thread Tom Moyer
I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a new computer. The motherboard is an Asus P4P800-E with a P4 2.4 GHz. If i boot with ACPI it gets to the point where it says Writing partition information to drive ... and just hangs no messages or anything. If I disable ACPI it panics during hardware

Audio?

2004-06-21 Thread Tom Moyer
I am setting up a new computer and the motherboard I am using has integrated audio. It says it is Realtek ALC850 does anyone know if it is supported by FreeBSD? If so, what driver should I use? The motherboard is the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. ___ [EMAIL

Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Tom Moyer
I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP