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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
But that was under NT I understand, using NT drivers, right?
Yes.
I wouldn't put it past the NT driver author of your SCSI card, in an
effort to avoid problems, to have written the NT driver so that ALL
transactions on the SCSI bus are
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I have an Adaptec AAA-131 Ultra 2 card here that is just jumping up and
down to prove you wrong.
This is an AIC7880. When you have one of those, let me know.
However, I CAN tell you how to go about finding out what you need to
change. Do you want to do this? It
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I have an Adaptec AAA-131 Ultra 2 card here that is just jumping up and
down to prove you wrong.
This is an AIC7880. When you have one of those, let me know.
However, I CAN tell you how to go about finding out what you need to
change. Do you
Chris Hodgins writes:
I might have missed it but I can't find any information about what SCSI
errors you are receiving. Why don't you post the errors you are seeing
and/or perhaps your dmesg output as well and maybe someone can help
you. Without more information noone can do more than
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Chris Hodgins writes:
I might have missed it but I can't find any information
about what
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Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I have an Adaptec
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
It appears you have a narrow-SCSI max 10MB sync disk drive and a
ultra -3 20MB sync disk drive on the same adapter card.
Such a combination is iffy at best.
The configuration was the one recommended by HP. I bought the second
drive from HP directly. They both have
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
The AIC7880 stuff is in the good category of stuff from Adaptec,
not the junk category.
Well, that's nice to hear. I guess my $9000 wasn't entirely wasted.
The people that can answer questions don't always respond.
Remember what I said about problems with FreeBSD
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Atkielski
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:53 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
...ummm this is rather like a windows admin
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Leonard Zettel writes:
My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
going with the binary packages. I get the impression that many
port maintainers who are fairly careful about
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:33 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Anthony, I understand your frustration. I think
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
One of the several techs that work for that company has your
attitude. He's been burned a few times when he's installed patches
that broke existing software at a customer.
However, the customers that he cares for have the highest percentage
of broken-into servers.
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I agree Ramiro, I've setup dozens and dozens of different SCSI setups,
and I think that his problem is hardware, such as incorrect
termination, a bad scsi cable, bad connectors on the cable, or an
incompatible SCSI/disk combination (which is rare, but it does happen)
Ramiro Aceves writes:
Anthony, I understand your frustration. I think you should fix the SCSI
problems before doing anything.
If I could find out what is causing them, I would. The only thing I
know right now is that it's not hardware.
--
Anthony
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I agree Ramiro, I've setup dozens and dozens of different SCSI setups,
and I think that his problem is hardware, such as incorrect
termination, a bad scsi cable, bad connectors on the cable, or an
incompatible SCSI/disk
RacerX writes:
The hardware has ran for over 8 years - you don't think that after 8 years
its going to show wear and tear? I do/would.
It's not going to suddenly fail on the very day and hour that I install
FreeBSD.
We as humans are not perfect - so that means the things we make can't be
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
RacerX writes:
The hardware has ran for over 8 years - you don't think that after 8 years
its going to show wear and tear? I do/would.
It's not going to suddenly fail on the very day and hour that I install
FreeBSD.
Sounds like the perfect time for them to go wrong.
Chris Hodgins writes:
Sounds like the perfect time for them to go wrong. They have been doing
the same thing for 8 years without problem.
They are still doing the same thing today. There is no additional
stress in changing operating systems.
Suddenly you come along and give them a good old
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:35:54 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
Chris Hodgins writes:
Sounds like the perfect time for them to go wrong. They have been doing
the same thing for 8 years without problem.
They are still doing the same thing today. There is no additional
stress in changing
John writes:
Have you considered the possibility that windows just didn't
report the error?
Yes. If that's true, and if no actual data loss is occurring, then I'm
not worried about the error ... although I'd like to know how to remove
the error messages, in that case.
FreeBSD actually stalls
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
The chance of these drives both failing _on the same day_ that I install
FreeBSD is less than one in 70 million. So that's not it.
Umm, I think the odds were greater then that when you think of how we
all got here - yanno, all the right elements at the right place, at
Chris writes:
So - it could be it. Never dismiss anything when it comes to hardware.
Even the littlest thing can cause the greatest catastrophes.
It's illogical to dismiss the extremely high probability of a software
bug or configuration error while embracing the extremely low probability
of
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
So - it could be it. Never dismiss anything when it comes to hardware.
Even the littlest thing can cause the greatest catastrophes.
It's illogical to dismiss the extremely high probability of a software
bug or configuration error while embracing the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I agree Ramiro, I've setup dozens and dozens of different SCSI
setups, and I think that his problem is hardware, such as incorrect
termination, a bad scsi cable, bad connectors on the cable, or an
incompatible SCSI/disk combination (which is
Robert Marella writes:
Perhaps you could try a live CD. Knoppix or Freesbie and see if the
trouble is gone.
This machine won't boot from a CD.
--
Anthony
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
But that was under NT I understand, using NT drivers, right?
Yes.
I wouldn't put it past the NT driver author of your SCSI card, in an
effort to avoid problems, to have written the NT driver so that ALL
transactions on the SCSI bus are asynchronous.
I don't know.
John writes:
I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it
by hand.
It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
How much space have you got to play with?
About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up
a few hundred megabytes,
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it
by hand.
It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
How much space have you got to play with?
About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up
a
On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:01 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running
it by hand.
It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
How much space have you got to play with?
About 2 GB total remaining on
Ramiro Aceves writes:
If you have 2 GB remaining in /usr, install the ports tree, it will eat
about 350 MB.
I tried it. The system generates so many SCSI errors that it panics
before the entire tree is installed.
--
Anthony
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Leonard Zettel writes:
My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
going with the binary packages. I get the impression that many
port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port
Dru Lavigne's book BSD Hacks has a hack called Build a Port Without the Ports Tree
which might be useful to you... and -- lucky you -- it's one of the sample hacks on
O'Reilly's site:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/hack82.pdf
Ben
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
If
Leonard Zettel wrote:
On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:01 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
If space is tight, running make
distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the
contents of /usr/ports/distfiles
Does pkg_add do this?
There's no need for [one
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled
up a few hundred megabytes, it seems.
[ I said]
If space is tight, running make
distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the
John writes:
1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs
mount it?
I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas!
2. As others have mentioned, firebird is a fast-moving target. You *need* a
cvsupped ports in order to keep up with it. So why not install
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can
you nfs
mount it?
I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas!
It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and
install the new kernel. Remember to reboot
Chris Hodgins writes:
It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and
install the new kernel. Remember to reboot when you are done.
It's trivial in principle, but this is a production server. The golden
rule for production servers is never to change anything unless you have
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris Hodgins writes:
It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and
install the new kernel. Remember to reboot when you are done.
It's trivial in principle, but this is a production server. The golden
rule for production servers is never to change
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
John writes:
1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you
nfs mount it?
I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas!
well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the
John wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
John writes:
1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you
nfs mount it?
I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas!
well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the
Chris Hodgins writes:
Well if you are doing all this you will carry out the updates to your
test machine first and validate everything works fine. Once you are
happy build a package from it and add it to your production server. I
am not sure how you would verify a package as big as firefox
John writes:
well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the
small-harddrive machine of course. Is it also stripped out of the server?
Yes. I saw it as an unnecessary overhead and a security risk.
I extended the usable lifetime of a p90 laptop like this. It was short
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Updating. yes you are constantly updating on a production server,
unless your idea of fun is somebody compromising your machine.
Unless the OS is a Swiss cheese of bugs, constant updating is not
necessary. If the OS is so insecure that you must constantly update
just to
Chris wrote:
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Updating. yes you are constantly updating on a production server,
unless your idea of fun is somebody compromising your machine.
Unless the OS is a Swiss cheese of bugs, constant updating is not
necessary. If the OS is so insecure that you must constantly
Chris writes:
Hmmm, what exactly are Windows Updates?
Unnecessary.
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:53:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
Unless the OS is a Swiss cheese of bugs, constant updating is not
necessary. If the OS is so insecure that you must constantly update
just to stay ahead of the kiddies, it's time to think of installing a
different OS.
Were we
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From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:53:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
Unless the OS is a Swiss cheese of bugs
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:48:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there.
I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use
so rarely.
Is there no machine you can nfs mount a ports tree
On Saturday 26 February 2005 03:41 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to
install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've
looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the
product on FreeBSD (or any
I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to
install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've
looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the
product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently). Is there a page
somewhere that
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:41:52 +0100
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to
install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've
looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the
product on
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Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:41:52 +0100
markzero writes:
# pkg-add -r firefox
I tried that, and it works, but the version installed is a preview
version that's well behind the current 1.0.1. And even after installing
it from the ports, I still can't install the most recent version; it
keeps complaining about that missing module.
Kent Stewart writes:
It appears to be built as a compat lib. Locate places it in
/usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
It's not there on my system. I did install Linux compatibility, and the
directory is there and filled with files, but that specific file is not
present. How do I put
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff.
I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the FTP
server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up to date
in that case?
The only Firefox version I see is 0.9, even though
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff.
I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the FTP
server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up to date
in that case?
The only Firefox version I
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:14:19 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff.
I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the
FTP server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up
to
Chris writes:
This is simple. As someone has pointed out before, you need cvsup the
ports tree then a portupgrade. Yes, after the cvsup and portupgrade you
will have 1.0.1
There is no ports tree on the machine, so it cannot be out of date.
Isn't the index downloaded from the FTP site each
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
This is simple. As someone has pointed out before, you need cvsup the
ports tree then a portupgrade. Yes, after the cvsup and portupgrade you
will have 1.0.1
There is no ports tree on the machine, so it cannot be out of date.
Isn't the index downloaded from
John writes:
It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup
it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave
been able to do like I have just done:
But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, it's
guaranteed to be
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup
it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave
been able to do like I have just done:
But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site,
Chris writes:
If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there.
I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use
so rarely.
What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run
sysinstall? Seems to me that it would guarantee that the
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there.
I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use
so rarely.
What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run
sysinstall? Seems to me that it
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup
it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave
been able to do like I have just done:
But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site,
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there.
I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use
so rarely.
What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run
sysinstall? Seems to me that
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Well, I've been under the impression for a while that sysinstall
is not necessarily reliable ...
big snip
I need to add, in order that my previous post not go into the archives
as absolute fact, and that I not be considered by the general public
as more of an idiot than I might
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:41:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote
But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, it's
guaranteed to be up to date. Isn't that true?
It guarantees that the index will be up-to-date [0]. The index is not the port
skeleton.
To be honest, I don't know
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris writes:
This is simple. As someone has pointed out before, you need cvsup the
ports tree then a portupgrade. Yes, after the cvsup and portupgrade
you will have 1.0.1
There is no ports tree on the machine, so it cannot be out of date.
Isn't the index
from this list:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Arne Engø wrote:
/ I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release.
// The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy, while
the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one disk
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Arne Engø wrote:
/ I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release.
// The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy,
while the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one
disk each. What are
Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as
how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were a
bit confusing. I can't get the software to open after installation so I know
that we are doing something wrong. Thanks.
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On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as
how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were
a bit confusing. I can't get the
At 10:07 11/21/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as
how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were a
bit confusing. I can't get the software to open after installation so I know
that we are doing
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]
Tom Moyer wrote:
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.
In theory, one could cd /usr/ports make fetch. In practice,
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
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
My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He installed
the disks and then entered his username and password. Then when he needs to
sign
in he again enters his username and password and nothing happens. He can't
get into the program. Do you have any information to help
Hi,
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Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation Problems
My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He installed
the disks
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 05:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He
installed the disks and then entered his username and password. Then
when he needs to sign in he again enters his username and password
and nothing happens. He can't
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:06 -0600, Jeff Hobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machine
to FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose use all
the disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what to
Well this is really odd, But what you can try to do is, not go for the
automatic install. Instead first manually clean up the slices (partitions
whatever) and then go back to the automatic install. Although personally, I
would anyday prefer a custom install than a default one.
Regards
S.
Subhro
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:29:47AM -0600, Dean Pohlabel wrote:
Hi there,
I'm trying to upgrade my version of SSH from 3.5p1 to 3.8.1p1 on a FreeBSD
4.10 machine. SSH 3.5p1 is working just fine, but I don't see it listed in
either /var/db/pkg or /var/db/ports so I don't have a good way of
Gary Aitken wrote:
Hello all,
Searches on freebsd.org, google and sendmail.org didn't really resolve
this to my satisfaction; probably my lack of brain cells...
Trying to install milter-greylist.
After configuring sendmail, and without the milter-greylist daemon
running, maillog contains messages
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:56:45PM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
Trying to install milter-greylist.
After configuring sendmail, and without the milter-greylist daemon
running, maillog contains messages of the type:
sm-mta[59533]: i9H12H4P059533: Milter (greylist): local socket name
Setting followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the freebsd sistem give me that error when install :
the disk in your drive looks more like an audio disk than a freebsd release
...the server is a CompaQ professional workstation 5000 dual processor...
i have
So nobody has ever had this situation, ever? I find that hard to
believe. It's been said that sometimes the best way to get support is
to exclaim that $FOO can do this but $BAR can't, $BAR sucks! at
which point you will have people tripping over each other to offer
help, however that leaves a bad
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:48:43 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try and find a specific USB keyboard BIOS entry and see if that works
Unfortunately, the legacy keyboard emulation option in the BIOS that I
mentioned is the only thing there that looks promising, and it
Hello sergey,
Monday, September 6, 2004, 2:20:09 PM, you wrote:
ss message to questions.
ss , FREEBSD ,
ss ,,
ss - .
ss CDROM ?
, -.
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... :)
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On Sep 6, 2004, at 10:17 PM, David Aquilina wrote:
Finally, I tried the above both with USB Legacy Emulation both enabled
and disabled in the BIOS, with seemingly no effect.
I have an older Abit system that has PS2 ports but does not have a PS2
keyboard plugged in, only a USB keyboard. It has a
I don't own a dell power edge but I seem to remember another thread with this same
problem
and I think the problem seemed to be how the dell found the cdrom and harddrives, I
think
if you look at how the ide/ata cables are run, this may be the problem, but my memory
is flakky
hope this points
Spumonti wrote:
snip
The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I
interrupt the boot process at:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:
and enter:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel
the machine will boot properly.
jam man disturbed my sleep to write:
I've been trying to load up this laptop (with 4.9 if
it matters) which only has 750megs of storage...I
thought this should be enough, but I get errors while
installing: /usr: files system full.I hope I dont have
install skack (lol)! I have /usr partitioned
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:34:19PM +0100, Kenneth Christie wrote:
I cannot get past the attached message when trying to install Free BSD 4.10 stable.
Can you give me an indication as to what the problem might be ? (I am totally new to
Unix, and was wanting to install Free BSD to learn about
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From: Jeff Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:59 PM
Subject: Installation/Boot-up help please...
Dear Group,
I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded Disk 1 and 2
of version 4.10 and go through the
Jeff Erickson wrote:
Dear Group,
I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded Disk 1 and 2
of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems
to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel
or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Brownsea (pb) writes:
pb ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
pb ata0: resetting devices ..
pb And then it just hangs.
This one is getting popular.
There is at least one disk controller chipset out there which FBSD 4.X
doesn't understand. If
OK, I was going to try turning off DMA, but it won't. There isn't an actual
setting in the CMOS setup for it. After consulting the manual it tells me
to disable PCI IDE busmaster, so I did. But DMA is still enabled so it
still does the same. Should I just give up or is there anything else to
Hello,
The problem is your motherboard has a junk ide controller that FreeBSD
does not support DMA on properly. If you disable DMA in the BIOS, FreeBSD
will boot and install properly.
Sincerely,
Scott Kupferschmidt
ISPrime, Inc.
866.502.4678 ext. 3
AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249
On Thu,
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On Sat, 1 May 2004 20:28:37 +0930
Guy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to trouble you
I am pretty much a N00b with FreeBSD, and my previous experience with
it consisted of a Squid proxy server running on FreeBSD at work. This
system has been extremely
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