I have read about a patch for Intel video that might make it into
Release 9.0, is there any way to know if it is in 9.0-current? I
installed the 9 beta 2 snapshot, but I don't think the video support
was there. (Next time I will check the compatibility list!)
The patch is for Intel laptop video
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 May 2011 04:19, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello. I wrote a script to install FreeBSD 8.2 on to a real machine,
or a 64-bit Virtualbox VM. It has a modular approach where you can
pick which functions will be run
kldload snd_driver
will load the sound driver that it thinks would be the best, but then
I considered using the auto-detect driver, I probably should in a
script used by many people. I did not know if there were any
disadvantages to using it.
I see the following code could do the job, but it
Hello. I wrote a script to install FreeBSD 8.2 on to a real machine,
or a 64-bit Virtualbox VM. It has a modular approach where you can
pick which functions will be run on a different target system. It can
be tweaked easily. I wrote it so that I could do a quick plain
vanilla install, and then
# portsnap fetch update
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
# make install
# portmaster --check-depends
# portmaster www/firefox
Thanks!, that worked, though I had to do a 'rehash' after the 'make install'.
There is work going on to change this situation -- search the list
HowtoForge has a lot of good examples of how to install and configure
a desktop system using various Linux distributions, but there are none
on how to create a FreeBSD desktop. Would someone will be willing to
put one together?
I envision this more of a how-to than just providing an appliance.
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:17:50 -0400, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote:
HowtoForge has a lot of good examples of how to install and configure
a desktop system using various Linux distributions, but there are none
on how to create
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote:
# portsnap fetch update
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
# make install
# portmaster --check-depends
# portmaster www/firefox
Thanks!, that worked, though I had to do a 'rehash' after the 'make install
I'm a struggling nooby. I am trying to install firefox 4 on a fresh
8.2 installation. I want to the core system to track the errata
branch, and get binary packages from 8-stable (which has firefox 4).
I installed FreeBSD 8.2 release.
# freebsd-update fetch install
rebooted
# portsnap fetch
Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least
resistance ;-)
I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database. If all these
tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that.
I have tried PC-BSD, and look forward to version 9.0. I really don't
like
It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with
ports and packages. I was trying to set up a 64bit 8.2 machine as a
desktop environment, with Firefox 4 and Flash installed. It looked
like I was going to need to track the 8.x stable branch in order to
get a Firefox package,
I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD
desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10
desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and
webrowsing seem to be about perfect (albeit green). The Gnome UI is
very smooth to interact with,
Thanks for the replies, good to know I'm not missing any issues.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri 18 Feb 2011 at 08:13:19 PST MFV wrote:
Hello,
I've been downloading BSD Mag since it first came out and your list is
identical to mine.
Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out
your other articles too. Thanks!
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote:
I downloaded the alternative testing ubuntu-based version of
Clonezilla
Is there a place where I can download all the BSD Magazine PDF back
issues? I have got a lot of them from the BSD Magazine site, and a
few other sites, but I think I am missing some. For example, I only
have 2 from 2008, and 4 from 2009. I was able to get most of them
from http://bsdmag.org
I
I downloaded the alternative testing ubuntu-based version of
Clonezilla, and it appeared to backup my FreeBSD machine. It
identified my filesystem as UFS. I will wipe the drive and try a
restore later tonight. It said it was backing up 30GB of files,
which seemed odd for a fresh install. The
I get about a 30 second delay during boot for each hard-drive
connected to my PC. I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 AMD64 on an ASUS
Sabertooth X58 motherboard.
atapci0: [ITHREAD]
ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0
Is there something I can define or disable to
problem when I had 6 drives in it. It almost seems to be
pausing when it finds a drive, I have a CDROM and one HD in it now.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Mon Feb 14 11, Xn Nooby wrote:
I get about a 30 second delay during boot for each hard-drive
On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and
it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB).
On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then
delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzip on the
entire drive.
I like to make
Thanks, the Wiki and Howto page are just what I was looking for! I
had only used the mailing lists so far.
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I wanted to watch some videos about FreeBSD, so I went to Youtube and
searched on FreeBSD. Then I sorted by Date Uploaded, and almost
all the videos uploaded recently are about hacking MSN. I went to the
people's profiles, and they had no videos available. I am guessing
that people are creating
If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there
a good place to post it, or a link to it?
Something like how to edit a video in FreeBSD, not official documentation.
I usually have to google things to find them, and often find the
answer on stackoverflow or howtoforge.
I installed FreeBSD 8.1, and the xorg package automatically detected
my video-card and monitor. I did not have to create an xorg.conf
file.
If I want to webpages to look better in Firefox, I think I need to
install the webfonts package. Section 5.5.2 of the Handbook seems
to say I need to
The wiki page seems to say that wine is a 32-bit port, and 32-bit
ports do not work well on amd64. This would imply that 32-bit Windows
programs would not run on 32-bit wine on a FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 system.
Is this a correct interpretation?
Does anyone know if there are any plans to get 32 or 64
I have a new computer that has VT (Virtualization Technology), so I am
able to virtualize other OS's when running Linux and their KVM. Does
FreeBSD have a method of using VT to virtualize other OS's? Jails are
really cool, especially since they do not need VT - but I was
wondering if there was
I hope this helps you in your investigation(s).
Yes, thank you and the previous poster. It sounds like my outer box
needs to be the router, and everything else should be a jail. I will
do some more reading up on jails. Thanks!
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Hello. Is it possible to use FreeBSD to create three jails on one
box, so that one jail can be a router to the internet, and the other
two can be webservers? I wanted to create an environment where if one
webserver got compromised, the other webserver would be unaffected. I
have old hardware, so
I've been able to get 6.3-R3 and 7.0-RC1 to install from SATA DVD, but
not any previous versions.
On Jan 9, 2008 6:50 PM, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 3:08 PM, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone successful in installing FreeBSD from a SATA DVD Drive?
I have an old zv5445us HP Pavillion laptop, essentially the zv5000
model, which pauses at the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko message during boot.
It hangs there, with a non-spinning ASCII character, for about 2
minutes - then it boots. I tried entering the following commands in
to the loader.conf to no
Why not just use gnash to watch youtube videos? It works fine for me,
with my user account.
However, if I use Firefox+gnash as root, it makes my system unstable,
I lose /dev/null, and the system gets weird. I guess gnash will kill
your system if you run it as root.
On Jan 3, 2008 8:23 PM,
I am having trouble getting X to use a screen resolution that is less
than the maximum. When I edit my xorg.conf to add a DefaultDepth and
a Mode of 1024x768, it still comes up at 1280x1024. I did not
create any modeline entries yet, since I'm not sure how to do that.
My GUI (icewm) works, but
On Jan 1, 2008 10:11 AM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Xn I am having trouble getting X to use a screen resolution that is less
Xn than the maximum. When I edit my xorg.conf to add a DefaultDepth and
Xn a Mode
Here are the values I am experimenting with:
The Monitor Section:
Section Monitor
Identifier Monitor0
VendorName Monitor Vendor
ModelNameMonitor Model
# Option PreferredMode 1024x768
# HorizSync 24-80
# VertRefresh 56-75
# Option
To make things obvious you will have to take a look at your xorg.conf file
Please do change dir to its parent folder (cd /etx/X11/) and run
cat xorg.conf | tr -s \n | grep -v #
that should make your xorg.conf look simple and clear.
Here is mine, which still wont go in to 1024x768 mode:
an
effect.
On Jan 1, 2008 12:09 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To make things obvious you will have to take a look at your xorg.conf
file
Please do change dir to its parent folder (cd /etx/X11/) and run
cat
Hmm..., this is strange. BtW, after adding modeline, you need to
restart Xorg. Anyways to get modeline for 1024x768 you can try
switching to 'vesa' driver temporarily, extract modeline for 1024x768
From there, and then enter that modeline in xorg.conf. I tried this
method when I'm having
On Jan 1, 2008 3:23 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Xn Using the vesa driver worked - I am able to get 1024x768, though the
Xn fonts are a little weird. I tried to use the modeline from the vesa
Xn driver with nv
I posted about this a few months ago, and emailed the guy at Microsoft who
has the blog about VPC7. I never got anywhere, and eventually gave up. His
blogchart says FreeBSD works with VPC7, which seemed wrong to me.
On 3/20/06, Rocco Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The good news is that
I like this idea. It's not fun when you try to update your system, then
have to spend time fixing things.
On 3/15/06, Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:24:08PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
Is there a stable ports tree?
No.
However you
Is there a stable ports tree?
I think I read somewhere that RELEASE/STABLE/SECURITY/CURRENT is for the
core OS, and that the ports tree is always CURRENT. Is this true?
I would like to be able to update my ports with the best chance of not
hitting any snags, so I was curious.
thx!
I fixed most of the errors from my upgrade from 6.1 p#1 to 6.1 p#2, and in
the process apparently upgraded to 6.1 p#3. I am still getting a libtool
error.
Earlier, I did a make deinstall clean on all ports that were using
libtool, and after removing about 10, I thought I had it fixed. It
That port no longer exists. You can delete it and that is it.
I did a pkg_delete on the libtool package, and that seemed to work. I was
able to re-install most of the packages that I had to remove when fixing
libtool, for example xine abd vlc. I am having a problem with rox-filer
though, I
Have you tried /sysutils/portmanager yet? If not, you could try
installing it and then running it, as root obviously, as thus:
I'm trying to avoid portsnap and portmanager for now, since I don't really
understand them - and they don't seem to be the official way (yet). I
actually wish there
, everything I needed to know was in the UPDATING files -
had I been looking at the right one, lol.
I learned a lot about FreeBSD today, thanks for all the help!
On 2/26/06, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:10, Xn Nooby wrote:
That port no longer exists. You
I havent't been able to build ogle-gui. It complains about 'liba52', which
I believe is already installed. I deftly checked the UPDATING files, and
did not see any mention about issues with liba52. I also tried Google to no
avail. This failed about a week ago, and I was hoping it would be
Oops. Never mind.
I was running the install on a machine I was shelled in to.
Sorry about that. I'm going to step away from the computer for a while.
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I was trying to update my system from FreeBSD 6.1 P#1 to FreeBSD 6.1 P#2,
and after I did a portupgrade -arR, the following text was in the output:
snip
--- Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries
[Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 196 packages
found
(-0 +1) . done]
---
Thanks, that indeed had the answer. I guess I will reinstall.
On 2/26/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:55:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
I was trying to update my system from FreeBSD 6.1 P#1 to FreeBSD 6.1P#2,
and after I did a portupgrade -arR
,
the problem will go away, too.
thanks!
On 2/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/20/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For about a year I have noticed that whenever my Windows boxes talk to
my
Unix boxes, they communicate at about 1/10 normal speed. I copy lots
(300GB
will go away, too.
thanks!
On 2/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/20/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For about a year I have noticed that whenever my Windows boxes talk
to
my
Unix boxes, they communicate at about 1/10 normal speed. I copy lots
(300GB
Maybe try this download manager:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org
On 2/20/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Developers:
I have been trying (FOR A LONGTIME) to download a FreeBSD Unix OS (i.e.
5.4,
6.0-RELEASE iso.i386). But it has never worked. I was
, but I gotta agree.
I did the same file transfer using cygwin's scp and winscp and cygwin
was
about 10x faster.
On 2/20/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For about a year I have noticed that whenever my Windows boxes talk
to my
Unix boxes, they communicate at about 1/10 normal
PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD, but is easier to install. Maybe demo that.
On 2/19/06, Kris Wieschhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a college student at HLG college. I am a Computer Information
Systems major and I have chosen to present FreeBSD to my class as a
final project. I
, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2006 12:08, Xn Nooby wrote:
its depressing when a fresh install fails
i followed my normal fail-proof slow method of updating a fresh
install, and it fails to update xterm, some of the messages are:
== xterm-206_1
For about a year I have noticed that whenever my Windows boxes talk to my
Unix boxes, they communicate at about 1/10 normal speed. I copy lots (300GB)
of large files back and forth between machines as I try different OS's, and
I always see this.
Specifically, if I copy from FreeBSD to FreeBSD,
its depressing when a fresh install fails
i followed my normal fail-proof slow method of updating a fresh install, and
it fails to update xterm, some of the messages are:
== xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed packages:
xorg-clients-6.8.2
*** Error code 1
** Listing the failed
I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x,
ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I
can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast,
though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive in it later.
2 years ago
an
external USB keyboard, I will be very happy.
thanks!
On 2/17/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn Nooby wrote:
I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x,
ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so
I
can do OpenGL stuff. Any
thats an awesome website! I will check it out more thoroughly over the
weekend, they had a lot of used thinkpads
thanks!
On 2/17/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x
I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or
Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using
webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also
were not realistic to do (I'm not complaining).
Some of the things that
11, 2006 at 01:11:22AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
Do you know what the URL is? I'm looking around here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ (as 10 seconds with google would have shown
you ;-)
Kris
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That also works on closing the fbdesk menu, thanks!
On 2/11/06, ajm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:45:47AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
I'm trying to figure out fbdesk, but there is amazingly little to go on.
Does anyone have any sample config files?
Or should I
I was trying to find out if the keyboard on my zv5445us HP Pavillion laptop
will work, but I can't find the list of bugs fixed. My laptop only works
with an external USB keyboard.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-February/015418.html
A lot of bugfixes havebeen made, some
Do you know what the URL is? I'm looking around here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
On 2/10/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
I was trying to find out if the keyboard on my zv5445us HP Pavillion
laptop
will work
I'm trying to figure out fbdesk, but there is amazingly little to go on.
Does anyone have any sample config files?
Or should I be using idesk?
I have fluxbox 0.9.14 on FreeBSD 6.0.
I also sometimes can't get rid of the fluxbox menu, which is highly
annoying.
thanks!
On 2/5/06, Evgeny Solovyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I play quake3, quake4, doomIII
linux-quake3-demo
linux-quake4
linux-doom3-demo
I tried quakeforge, but when I get a missing WAD error when I try
nq-glx. Are these games you mentioned complete? It will be great if so!
I want to ask you: how long does it take you to cvsup your ports, run
'portsdb
-Uu', and finish with 'portversion -l '? To run 'portsnap fetch
update',
then 'portversion -v | grep needs', it took less then 55 seconds and I was
off upgrading ports. The procedure I used had no errors.
I
On 2/5/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn Nooby writes:
Everyone that knows what they are doing never seem to have a problem.
Respectfully, rubbish.
I use portupgrade; where it seems applicable I am careful to
mention one ought to read the manual completely
portmanager -u -f -l -y
will rebuild all of the installed ports in a logical manner as well as
creating a log file for the user to examine if necessary.
I will try that, thx!
I will also look in to:
portmanager
portsclean
portsnap
portversion
(any others?)
By the looks of it when you cvsup you get everything (src-all,
ports-all, etc) all at once. I think it might be better if you split
that into two sup-files where you would have one for the system,
src-all, and the other one for ports. This way you don't have to
rebuild the system every time
I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver. I'm
currently installing 'linux-enemyterritory' which I think will work. I
didn't know if there were any other good ones. Is flightgear or gl117 any
good?
I also have wine on my system, is it difficult to get windows
I will try the games you guys mentioned, though I did not see Americas Army
in the ports tree. Here are some I found (their homepages)
http://www.flightgear.org/Gallery-v0.9.9/
http://www.quakeforge.net/about.php
http://adonthell.linuxgames.com/art_gallery/index.shtml
On 2/4/06, Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:06, Xn Nooby wrote:
I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver.
I'm currently installing 'linux-enemyterritory' which I think will
work. I
didn't know if there were any other
I'm looking for a way to compress about 20GB of ASCII data in to a read-only
file that is as small as possible. I found 'cloop' and 'zisofs', though I
could not find anything on the net where FreeBSD people were using them.
They are in the ports tree, so I figure somebody is. Is there a
It just does, after you cvsup new ports cd into /usr/ports and type
make fetchindex. what way is the old foolproof way?
Here is how I update my system (without using a 'make fetchindex')
cvsup -g -L 2 /root/stable-supfile
less UPDATING
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make
I fixed this problem by killing moused and setting the device to /dev/psm0.
I thought it was just me!
On 2/2/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can always tell xmodmap that you've got 11
buttons (or whatever xorg tells you in its log). Just
add ... 8 9 10 11 to the map and
Since I've gone back to the old foolproof way of updating my system, I'm
doing a portsdb -Uu again - which has always taken forever to run on my
various machines. Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), or
has anyone looked at it to see if it needs rewriting?
I worked at a place
Is there a suggested method for updating a newly installed FreeBSD
6.0system? I have found several websites with similar but differing
methods,
often somehow specific to the author's configuration. What I usually do
first is install from a CD and get a bare-bones system bootable. What I
would
I'd like to automate the 40+ ports I always make install clean on, and
always take the defaults.
Is there a way to make it not prompt, and just take the defaults?
thanks!
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I bought a fancy Quickcam (face-tracking), though I have no idea how to make
it work with FreeBSD. I installed qcamview, but when I run it as root, it
says Not found Quickcam, or Permission denied.
Anyone know anything about Quickcams on FreeBSD? I don't expect it to work,
but it would be cool
On 1/28/06, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com a try.
What you call add-ons is what FreeBSD calls the port/package
environment.
A very simple command of pkg_add -r flash will download and install
it.
That's a very good website, it is
There are several websites people have put together for Ubuntu that show
every little step for configuring Ubuntu, is there such a page for FreeBSD?
For example, tonight I installed Firefox, and wanted to install Acrobat,
Flash, Realplayer, and Java. I was able to find Acrobat and Flash by using
I have had a lot of frustration in learning Unix, but I stick to it because
I know it is the last OS I will ever need to learn. Unix doesn't change, so
the effort you put in to learning it will never be wasted. If you stick
with commerical OS's, they are going to drag you through every release
Hi,
I installed QEMU from /usr/ports/emulation/qemu on my FreeBSD 6.0 box. Next
I installed /usr/ports/emulation/kqemu-qmod. When I run QEMU, I enter info
kqemu in the monitor, and it says kqemu support is not compiled.
Is there an easy way to activate kqemu?
thanks!
Awesome, so I could either deinstall both and re-install kqemu, or just
rebuild qemu with the knob set? (I don't know what a knob is, but I think I
can find out.)
thanks!
On 26 Jan 2006 14:17:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I
Are these 2 books for sale here:
http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdhandbk3.set?id=7kmQYrZGmv_pc=284
the same as the online Handbook here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
?
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I also prefer printed books, so I will probably get them.
thanks!
On 1/26/06, Mick Charles Beaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, they are. I purchased the user book and
read it cover to cover because it was more convenient that staring at
web pages.
The online docs
think it is
working!
So far, I cannot really tell if it is faster, but I am assuming it is. I
will do some benchmarks and check it out.
thanks!
On 1/26/06, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:29:26 -0500
Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Awesome, so I could
] wrote:
Xn Nooby writes:
I assume the available packages are a subset of the available
ports, probably just the most popular ones. Or are they all
supposed to be available?
Some ports are unavailable as packages due to licensing
restrictions, most notably many versions
On 1/24/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to tell which are available as packages? I would have
guessed gqview would have been, but apparently it is not. I'm also not
certain I am doing the commands right, though I was able to install
subversion successfully via packages
packages are available? I assume the
available packages are a subset of the available ports, probably just the
most popular ones. Or are they all supposed to be available?
thanks!
On 1/23/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xn Nooby wrote:
Hi Kevin,
Thank your for the thoughtful
After installing FreeBSD, I would like to follow some simple steps to get it
fully up-to-date. The Handbook and other online instructions seem a bit
overwhelming. I developed some instructions when I was experiementing with
5.x, and I'm not sure if the are still valid for 6.x. Do these
I notice VMWare 5.5 worked with Redhat 8, and FreeBSD 6 uses Redhat 8 for
its linux emulation.
Does the Linux version of VMWare 5.5 work on FreeBSD 6.x ?
I saw the VM 5.5 toolbox and some kind of guest daemon in the ports tree,
but it didn't look like VMWare 5.5 itself was in there.
I bought
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