Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread gore
On Monday 23 January 2012 05:18:01 pm B. Kyle Adkins wrote: I'm very new to FreeBSD but it seems to me that the installer is pretty much ok. My only wish is that there might be a little more info upfront somewhere, preferably in the installer somewhere, about setting up for a dual boot. I

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread gore
On Monday 23 January 2012 12:17:33 pm Mark Felder wrote: I've recently been presented with new information: namely that RC3 had sysinstall as an option (I did not know this, and I've been reading the lists) and that it was taken away for -RELEASE even though it was agreed upon that would not

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread gore
On Monday 23 January 2012 01:29:23 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: because, well, I LOVE FreeBSD. Basically, I've tried out NetBSD ONCE, actually i used NetBSD BEFORE switching to FreeBSD, short time after they released 2.0 and following versions. Got slower, unstable and bloated. Switched to

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread gore
On Monday 23 January 2012 08:45:21 pm Da Rock wrote: *snip* Instead of crawling under a Rock, how about everyone here, ALL of the people I've seen in this thread trashing each other; ALL of you, just take 60 seconds, take a DEEP breath, and realize we ARE a Community, which is a lot like a

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-21 Thread gore
On Saturday 21 January 2012 12:52:31 am Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 21 Jan 2012, at 05:47, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1, and IMHO, the 9.0 installer SUX! It blow chunks. It's a POS. It's crap. It is a joke. I hope I made myself

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread gore
I've been sort of keeping track of this particular thread, because it interested me, and after reading through, I'd like to share my personal opinions. Now, before I go any further, let me just state here and now; This is my personal opinion, so, please, don't take this in a bad way, or in the

ipfw rules for all interfaces not working ...

2007-12-17 Thread Gore Jarold
My main goal is to lock down my ipfw rules so that when I run nmap, all I see is: Interesting ports on 192.168.0.10: Not shown: 1677 closed ports PORTSTATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh MAC Address: 00:12:D8:A2:23:C2 Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 9.791 seconds So that

TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread Gore Jarold
I own a Dell Latitude X1. I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on it. All is well. No problems. Have a nice day. However, suddenly, when I boot the system, I get a message: WARNING: The TPM could not be initialized I didn't know what TPM was, I didn't care, and I just booted up. Not my

freebsd version of 'data' for getting epoch time ... ?

2007-06-20 Thread Gore Jarold
If I have a arbitrary date/time and I want to convert that to epoch time, I do this with GNU date: date --date='1970-01-01 00:02:00 +' +%s Easy. Can someone tell me what the syntax is for FreeBSD date command ?

Append only directory ? Is this possible with unix permissions ?

2007-04-10 Thread Gore Jarold
Hello, I have a user whose home directory I would like to make append only. That is to say, they cannot delete files, or delete information from files, but they _can_ create new files or append information to existing files. Or, if that is not possible, at the very least I wouldlike the ability