man 1 as

dear list yesterday evening i fliped through the developers handbook x86 assenbler section. it states that an assembler compile is part of the base system (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x86-the-tools.html). i can't find it on 5.1-R. the FreeBSD web site

Samtron SC-431VS

dear list, i'm in the progress of building a little box (P200MMX, 64MB, ...) as my home DHCP/DNS/...-server. since i have an old Samtron SC-431VS i'd like to use. unfortunatelly i don't have the manual and therefore don't know the specs i'd need to get X up and running (horizontal refresh,

PIII SMP

dear list, buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay attention to (besides the requirements of the M/B)? aka ... are all PIII SMP capable? thanks -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1

Tyan Tiger 230T

Dear list, does anyone has had experience with this M/B and cam tell me how it is supported under 4.8 and/or 5.1. thanks -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Jetzt ein- oder umsteigen und USB-Speicheruhr als Prämie sichern!

RE: RE: cvs co CVSROOT

Dear list Dear Mr Mills There certainly are some files in CVSROOT that 'co' does not give you: those such as 'passwd' that are restricted to administrative use. You have to login to the server and edit those files manually. I am not talking about password files or alike. I mean files mentioned

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Dear list dear mr samuel i used anoncvs2.de.freebsd.org and counterchecked at anoncvs.freebsd.org and the webinterface (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/) the procedure i followed was exactly that described in the handbook

cvs co CVSROOT

dear list i just tried to cvs co CVSROOT in order to try out setting up a CVS repository - the FreeBSD way as described in the article of the same name in the docs section but there seem to be a few file missing in the CVSROOT i got trying modules as access got me an error message that the file

$FreeBSD$

Dear list, When I looked at the source of the FreeBSD system I noticed the $FreeBSD$ tag (and $NetBSD$, $OpenBSD$, and $XFree$) which seem to expand relative to $CVSROOT. How does one create/define own tags like this? Thanks Helge -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more

HDD does not work up to capacity

this might be an incredible stupid question but since i am not that familiar with disk geometry i ask it anyway: I just bought an Hitachi DeskStar 180GXP HDD (it's the same as IBM) which is supposed to have a capacity of 61.4 GB but i can only get approx 58 to 59 out of it. why? is there a way

VINUM disk types

i am building a db server which has 1 IDE (40GB) and 2 SCSI (18GB each) HDD each disk has 1/2 phys ram swap the rest of the scsi's is in RAID 1 and holds the data (/data) the sytem is on the 40 GB IDE my question now is: since i am left with approx 2x the size /data can i create two spare

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PAE -- Physical Address Extension (PAE) X86 allows software using the Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) API set and running on a computer with an Intel Pentium Pro processor or later, more than 4 gigabytes (GB) of physical memory ... -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++

PAE

FORGOT THE SUBJECT LINE PAE -- Physical Address Extension (PAE) X86 allows software using the Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) API set and running on a computer with an Intel Pentium Pro processor or later, more than 4 gigabytes (GB) of physical memory... By the way it's comming up in

someting@ in /etc/login.conf

dear list this weekend when i edited /etc/login.conf i noticed a few sample entries like: :requirehome@:\ (line 102) :ignoretime@:\ (line 131) :accounted@:\ (line 158) ... reading the corresponding manpage i could not find out what it mean or how it is used. it seems to substitute a lot of

Program able to open MS Visio file

Hello all, A friend sent me a MS Visio (*.vsd) file. Is there any program running on FreeBSD able to open MS Visio files? Thanks! Zheyu -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!