FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread chael
Hello, I read somewhere before that there were partition or boot problems after installing 5.1 beside winXP. Has anyone been able to do this successfully? Is there something not obvious that I need to set/tweak while during sysinstall? This partition has seen several versions of Mandrake and

Re: Security question

2003-11-20 Thread Kevin McKay
Thanks Bryan, Two other questions, if I do a pkg_add -r openssh today and then the same command in 6 months will it always be the same precompiled binary sitting on the server? Or are they updated with patches from time to time? how does the openssh port binary differ from the oepnssh system

Re: SCO going after BSD???

2003-11-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and they said the issue came up a few years ago. According to them (one being my father), it has to do with security and virus protection. Again, this is

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Terribile
[This reply is tardy, I know; please accept my apologies] Next is ... a mother board. I am wanting a ASUS just because I hear alot of people talking about it on the forums, ... ... Take a look a ABIT's motherboard, some of them are really good. I had a very bad experience with an ABIT

Re: Using freebsd to analyse ip usage?

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Gray
Hello Everyone, At work there are some unused ip addresses but we dont know which ones they are (because there are alot of computers) is there a port which could be used to ping the subnet over a few days to work out which ip addresses are actually coming online? Thanks You could use nmap

Re: Security question

2003-11-20 Thread Bryan Cassidy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I personally use the ports tree for installing software. To update the whole ports tree you could run cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to get the latest ports *with* the patches for that port. You can also use cvsup to update

Re: Can I bakup like this...?? --user mode Reuben?

2003-11-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:35PM +1100, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, thanks to all replying. I just spent many hours finding out my bakup strategy was useless (didn't know what I was doing I guess) Now I need to do it properly. Ruben (and others) Can I do the tarring of filesystems in a

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Gray
Take a look a ABIT's motherboard, some of them are really good. I had a very bad experience with an ABIT motherboard. When FreeBSD started, it saw three NICs instead of one; when it tried to initialize one, it wiped the field-upgradeable BIOS. The machine wouldn't even POST. I destroyed

Vinum configuration problem (RAID-1)

2003-11-20 Thread Jani Reinikainen
Greetings, I'm trying to setup Vinum on a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE box, according to the instructions at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.txt, pages 236-240, where the idea is to create one big Vinum partition which overlaps all other partitions. Basically, what I've done so far: In disklabel,

Re: Vinum configuration problem (RAID-1)

2003-11-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:53:52AM +0200, Jani Reinikainen wrote: Created a new partition 'h': - size = 12715857 ('c' partition) - 265 = 12715592 - offset 16 Why isn't that: - size = 12715857 ('c' partition) - 16 = 12715841 - offset 16? I'm no Vinum guru but afaik the 265 at the beginning

migrating from 5.1 to 4.9

2003-11-20 Thread Martin Va
Hi, I would like to format my disk with 5.1 and install 4.9. I don't care about system wide settings, installed appz and so on. All I want is to save mail and X/fluxbox settings. Do you think that If I just copy home dir this will do? thank you Martin

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread Jud
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:59:29 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I read somewhere before that there were partition or boot problems after installing 5.1 beside winXP. Has anyone been able to do this successfully? Is there something not obvious that I need to set/tweak while during

Re: Security question

2003-11-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Kevin McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You normally need to run the sysinstall from the version you're updating to. You could configure your system's sysinstall to load in the later version, and it should be compatible, but I don't know the syntax for that offhand... For reference,

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread ogautherot
As far as I am concerned, I tend to have 1 partition for the system and a separate one for user data - this way, you don't wipe everything out if your system crashes. This saved my life a couple of times. What do you need the 10GB FAT32 partition for? (I suspect the same purpose but with respect

about streaming audio video

2003-11-20 Thread EF EMBEEN - The Business Network
To whom it may concern, We own a FreeBSD (version 4.4, Apache) dedicated server with 40GB capacity. We want to know which is the appropriate software for media server for it. We'd like to streaming audio video so we need a media server for FreeBSD platform. We looking forward to hearing to

Yahoo! groups

2003-11-20 Thread info
Can anyone tell me the application being used by Yahoo! to manager their groups? Campbell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO going after BSD???

2003-11-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Gregory Sutter wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline These headers show that the part is not an attachment but should be displayed inline, and that it contains pure text that doesn't need a special handler to be displayed. Why Outlook Express

Re: SCO going after BSD???

2003-11-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and they said the issue came up a few years ago. According to them (one being my father), it has to do with security and virus

Re: DNS/Webhosting question

2003-11-20 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-11-14 16:43:54 -0600: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:23, Darryl Hoar wrote: What tools exist in Freebsd to determine the primary dsn server for a domain Heh.. . everyone seems to be responding with 'nslookup -type=ns foo.com' or 'host -t ns foo.com', but those queries

tcp wrappers getaddrinfo

2003-11-20 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I get a lot of those warning messages in my logs. Is there any way I could tell inetd / tcp wrappers to turn those off ? inetd[93598]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(.imaginet.fr, AF_INET) failed I know what it means, the only thing I don't

pkg_delete

2003-11-20 Thread Olga Zenkova
Hi, all. FreeBSD 4.2. Can't delete rrdtool-1.0.45 after installation. Get: pkg_delete: rrdtool-1.0.45 doesn't have a prefix. What should I do? That is a question. Thanks, Olga __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip typed: I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to read the file rc.firewall. In rc.firewall the first line is add divert natd etc etc. that is followed by pass all from any to any etc etc. Then nothing after that is

Re: Can I bakup like this...?? --user mode Reuben?

2003-11-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just spent many hours finding out my bakup strategy was useless (didn't know what I was doing I guess) You don't really have a backup strategy unless you have tested it. I just finished building myself a new backup system, and I had to run it through

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip wrote: I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to read the file rc.firewall. In rc.firewall the first line is add divert natd etc etc. that is followed by pass all from any to any etc etc. Then nothing after that is

5.1-ReleaseWNIC problem

2003-11-20 Thread Socketd
Hi all System: FreeBSD 5.1 Release Arch: 386 laptop (Compaq Presario 1200) WNIC: ZyAir B-100 (from Zyxel) Once my friend had a ZyAir B-100 and I tested it on my FreeBSD laptop. I was able to get a sniffer going and see some traffic. Now I have a ZyAir B-100 myself and I'm trying to get it to

NEC PD72874GC FireWire controller on ASUS P4B533-E

2003-11-20 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC with ASUS P4B533-E motherboard, which includes the NEC PD72874GC FireWire controller. As I'm looking for a not-too-expensive backup solution for this machine, I was thinking of external HDD. Since FreeBSD 4.8 supports only USB 1.0, USB HDDs are too slow

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-20 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, Case Outlet*, and perhaps others by now, have the Travla Flex ATX / mini ITX case that will accomodate two PCI cards. I have an 933MHz EPIA board with two 3c905TX-C NICs, and have seen a substantial improvement in performance over my old Netgear router. Trust me, the onboard NIC's are

Re: DNS/Webhosting question

2003-11-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 07:25, Roman Neuhauser wrote: which of my servers is primary and which secondary if I can edit the data on either and have it synchronized to the other? The one you list as primary in the Start Of Authority :P Frank signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: usb v1.1 external 2.0 hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I just bought a generic USB 1.1/2.0/firewire external drive enclosure for my 32gb Travelstar 12.5mm hard drive. The device shows up like this: Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: umass0: Acer Labs USB 2.0 Storage

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-20 Thread Bryan Cassidy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's the current setup that I have came up with. I think I would be pretty happy with it as long as I don't have any problems in FreeBSD. If I have problems I want them to beable to be fixed ya know? Antec PLUSVIEW1000AMG Chassis AMD Tyan S2466

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Gray
Here's the current setup that I have came up with. I think I would be pretty happy with it as long as I don't have any problems in FreeBSD. If I have problems I want them to beable to be fixed ya know? Looks good to me, quick look in google didn't find any major problems. S

website inquiry

2003-11-20 Thread Gary Nichols
Dear FreeBSD Team, I represent Artvertex, Inc. We are well known in the web design industry. We direct and manage several successful Internet web design projects including: http://www.TemplateMonster.com http://www.Site2You.com http://www.TemplateTuning.com and several others. Our company

Ethereal 0.9.16?

2003-11-20 Thread a
Hi, Has anybody out there had success in getting Ethereal-0.9.16 uprunning? The ports collection for 4.9 still lists 0.9.14. Any clean way to upgrade this to 0.9.16? TIA for your help, -ewald ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Using freebsd to analyse ip usage?

2003-11-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 20, 2003, at 1:26 AM, Frederick Bowes wrote: At work there are some unused ip addresses but we dont know which ones they are (because there are alot of computers) is there a port which could be used to ping the subnet over a few days to work out which ip addresses are actually coming

anoncvs.freebsd.org down?

2003-11-20 Thread Anthony Chavez
Been getting Connection refused for the last couple of days when trying to use anoncvs. Anyone know why? -- Anthony Chavez http://www.anthonychavez.org/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: burncd ``only wrote -1...'' coasting discs.

2003-11-20 Thread jens thys
I had the same problem before on a 5.1 version and wiped of the src tree and downloded the sources from scratch. Made the kernel compiling according to the instructions regarding the new way ( see the handbook ) and it worked out perfectly. Ps check as well if you are using a rw cdrom and

Re: about streaming audio video

2003-11-20 Thread Peter Risdon
EF EMBEEN - The Business Network wrote: To whom it may concern, We own a FreeBSD (version 4.4, Apache) dedicated server with 40GB capacity. We want to know which is the appropriate software for media server for it. We'd like to streaming audio video so we need a media server for FreeBSD

Re: SCO going after BSD???

2003-11-20 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Gregory Sutter wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline These headers show that the part is not an attachment but should be displayed inline, and that it contains pure text that doesn't need a special

Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware)

2003-11-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:33:08 -0800 (PST) Mark Terribile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This reply is tardy, I know; please accept my apologies] Next is ... a mother board. I am wanting a ASUS just because I hear alot of people talking about it on the forums, ... ... Take a look a ABIT's

need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread fbsd_user
During the install you are asked for the host name which adds the following line to rc.conf. hostname=gateway.homepc.com What does FBSD use this for? Did I use the correct format for the host name? What are the rules for creating the hostname name? Are the rules published anywhere?

Re: anoncvs.freebsd.org down?

2003-11-20 Thread Sergey Sysoev
Hello Anthony, AC Been getting Connection refused for the last couple of days when AC trying to use anoncvs. Anyone know why? I don't know why but you may use any mirror, for example anoncvs.de.freebsd.org if it is acceptable to you. You may change Root files using following

Re: about streaming audio video

2003-11-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:58:43 +0200 EF EMBEEN - The Business Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern, We own a FreeBSD (version 4.4, Apache) dedicated server with 40GB capacity. We want to know which is the appropriate software for media server for it. We'd like to streaming

Re: anoncvs.freebsd.org down?

2003-11-20 Thread Anthony Chavez
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:33:39 +0600 Sergey Sysoev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Anthony, AC Been getting Connection refused for the last couple of days when AC trying to use anoncvs. Anyone know why? I don't know why but you may use any mirror, for example

Automatically encrypting data files in a partition.

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I need a way to store different directory trees and files with different encryption keys, i.e.. /data/mars /data/mars/one /data/mars/two etc all are encrypted with one key and /data/venus /data/venus/one /data/venus/two etc, would have a different key. Ideally, the directory

DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Meyers
So I'm trying to burn daily data backups to a dvd+rw in FreeBSD 5.1 and I'm having no end of problems. The dvd drive is a Memorex IDE internal which is brand new. I've googled until my fingers were cramped and everyone seems to say Here's a bunch of extra stuff you have to do for 4.x insert kernel

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: You can also get CF and similar solid stat memory chips to IDE connection adaptors for around AU$30... URL? Sounds like an interesting option for a Firewall I need to do myself very soon. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-20 Thread lists
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, J. Seth Henry wrote: Guys, Case Outlet*, and perhaps others by now, have the Travla Flex ATX / mini ITX case that will accomodate two PCI cards. I have an 933MHz EPIA board with two 3c905TX-C NICs, and have seen a substantial improvement in performance over my old

Re: website inquiry

2003-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear FreeBSD Team, I represent Artvertex, Inc. We are well known in the web design industry. We direct and manage several successful Internet web design projects including: http://www.TemplateMonster.com http://www.Site2You.com http://www.TemplateTuning.com and several others.

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: I have a bunch of these (8000s actually) for a testbed network. work like a treat... go fanless if you can... Where did you get them from? How much? I did have some hassles with the onboard via network connection not coping with long vlan

Re: website inquiry

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 20 November 2003 18:25, Jerry McAllister wrote: Don't know anything about this shop, but I don't see the need either. It's spam, ignore it. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

Contribution mechanism

2003-11-20 Thread Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
Hello, First, I apologize if my question is directed to the inappropriate mailing list or has already been answered (in this case, could someone redirect me with the answer). I am giving a lecture about software project management and I thought it would be interesting for my student to

Re: Weird Problem...

2003-11-20 Thread mike bueide
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:08:55PM -0700, mike bueide wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:26:02PM -0600, Peter Elsner wrote: Thanks, that's my next attempt. I don't have NAT running right now, but didn't think it was required unless I have the firewall enabled. I usually enable that after I

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-20 Thread J. Seth Henry
The C137 (in my case, black with a 90W PSU). It wil accomodate a flex ATX board, as well as the smaller Mini ITX board. If you order the dual riser card, they will throw in an extra extender with it (since they assume you will be running an ITX board in it) Case Outlet doesn't appear to carry

Re: need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
During the install you are asked for the host name which adds the following line to rc.conf. hostname=gateway.homepc.com This is a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the computer following the standards of the DNS system. What does FBSD use this for? Locating your computer by it's name

Re: Contribution mechanism

2003-11-20 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:34:10PM -0500, Yann-Ga?l Gu?h?neuc wrote: [...] So, I would like to know more about the processus to contribute to FreeBSD code? Let assume I downloaded source from CVS, and I wrote a patch for some part of the system, how do I submit my patch, to whom

Arplookup error.

2003-11-20 Thread Sorin Chiorean
Hi, I installed a new FreeBSD 4.9 box and is running as a Firewall/NAT device for a small network. I am getting this error twice per day : /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network Everything works ok without any problems for all our workstations behind this Firewall/NAT

dos2unixtime(): month value out of range

2003-11-20 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Hi, I get a lot of entries like those below on a 5.1R-p10 machine with a fat32 mounted. I rember seeing something like this a log time ago 2.something but I haven't seen them since. Any hints ? Nov 20 19:06:59 it kernel: deget(): . entry at clust 1365522 != 1869768035 Nov 20 19:06:59 it kernel:

USB Question: unable to open /dev/ugen0 more than once

2003-11-20 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Hello peoples, Question: Should I be able to open /dev/ugen0 more than once? I am using FreeBSD 4.9-Stable, libusb-0.1.7. From reading the libusb docs, you must open the device for each interface you want to acquire. However, once it is opened once, it can't be opened again. Furthermore, calls

Slow restores FreeBSD with NetBackup

2003-11-20 Thread Marco Greene (Home)
Hi all, I have a server that I am restoring and it seems to be going really slow. Backup performance...I was able to backup the server in under 15 minutesthe restore has been going for over an hour nowand it isn't even halfway done. Basically what I am doingInstalled

Re: DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi, Chris-- On Nov 20, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Chris Meyers wrote: I am at a loss. Does anybody have any suggestions about what I need to do to make this work? Is there some other way to burn dvds? Do I need to do some kernel recompilation? I have installed dvd+rw-tools but haven't found any good

Re: website inquiry

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Stewart
On 20/11/03 18:32 +, Chris Howells wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 20 November 2003 18:25, Jerry McAllister wrote: Don't know anything about this shop, but I don't see the need either. It's spam, ignore it. Yup, the first thing I noticed is

Selecting a Window Manager at X Startup

2003-11-20 Thread Barry Skidmore
I have both Gnome and KDE installed on my 4.9-RELEASE system, and would like to be able to choose between them at X startup. I found a port called 'wmanager' that sounds like it will do what I need. However, there is no man page or other documentation available on the web, so I have not been

Re: need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Quid pro quo: I'm not an expert, and don't play one on TV. fbsd_user wrote: During the install you are asked for the host name which adds the following line to rc.conf. hostname=gateway.homepc.com What does FBSD use this for? DNS? Same stuff as any other system, with the possible exception

dmesg.today-dmesg.yesterday

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, How does dmesg.today get rotated to dmesg.yesterday? I suspect my dmesg.today of being corrupted by old info. I have gotten the following message in my security output for the last four days: pid 4062 (clamd), uid 3848: exited on signal 11 It appears in different places, but what

Re: Selecting a Window Manager at X Startup

2003-11-20 Thread Charles Howse
On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:56 pm, Barry Skidmore wrote: I have both Gnome and KDE installed on my 4.9-RELEASE system, and would like to be able to choose between them at X startup. I found a port called 'wmanager' that sounds like it will do what I need. However, there is no man page or

200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi I have installed a new hard drive to my FreeBSD system. Hard drive is 200gb but when I fdisk and disklabel the output of df -h is something like that: /dev/ad1s1e 183G 2.0K 169G 0%/disk2 Here as you can see I can only use 169GB of it. Bios has seen my harddrive as 190GB

Create Boot Disk Like mkbootdisk in Linux ....

2003-11-20 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , Everybody I'm looking for How can I create boot disk in FreeBSD . I'm not talking about installation FreeBSD ... I mean When some problems occur I want to boot FreeBSD from floppy disk ... like Linux mkbootdisk ... At this moment I checked kernel file it's too big (

Re: DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:18 PM, Chris Meyers wrote: I did check out the docs at /usr/local/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools/index.html and they pretty much re-enforce what you said. Any other ideas?? Double-check what's going on with your devices, what does camcontrol devlist give you? Maybe try using

Sendmail/'host name lookup failure'

2003-11-20 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... The other day I rebooted my FreeBSD machine. Ever since then, messages to hotmail.com and yahoogroups.com are not going through - the mail logs report that there is a 'host name lookup failure' to the specific MX hosts (eg 'mx1.hotmail.com'). The thing is though, I can run

Re: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread David van Geyn
Omer, this is because a percentage of your disk space is reserved automatically by FreeBSD. I believe that it automatically reserves 8% of your disk space. You can adjust this by using 'tunefs'. Try 'man tunefs' to find out how to use tunefs. David van Geyn - Original Message - From:

Re: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Jason
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Hi I have installed a new hard drive to my FreeBSD system. Hard drive is 200gb but when I fdisk and disklabel the output of df -h is something like that: /dev/ad1s1e 183G 2.0K 169G 0%/disk2 Here as you can see I can only use 169GB of it. Bios has seen my

Re: DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Meyers
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:35, Charles Swiger wrote: On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:18 PM, Chris Meyers wrote: I did check out the docs at /usr/local/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools/index.html and they pretty much re-enforce what you said. Any other ideas?? Double-check what's going on with your

compiling ext2fs into a kernel

2003-11-20 Thread DG
Greetings, I compiled a kernel from a standard 5.1-RELEASE installation yestreen to include support for ext2fs, but couldn't find any documentation about what option to set to include support for ext2fs. Grepping the handbook and all files in the .../i386/conf directory did not reveal any

RE: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Derrick Ryalls
I have installed a new hard drive to my FreeBSD system. Hard drive is 200gb but when I fdisk and disklabel the output of df -h is something like that: /dev/ad1s1e 183G 2.0K 169G 0%/disk2 Here as you can see I can only use 169GB of it. Bios has seen my harddrive as

Re: DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:52:22PM -0600, Chris Meyers wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:35, Charles Swiger wrote: On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:18 PM, Chris Meyers wrote: I did check out the docs at /usr/local/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools/index.html and they pretty much re-enforce what you said.

Re: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Omer, this is because a percentage of your disk space is reserved automatically by FreeBSD. I believe that it automatically reserves 8% of your disk space. You can adjust this by using 'tunefs'. Try 'man tunefs' to find out how to use tunefs. Partly true for the second part of the question

Re: DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Chris Meyers wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:35, Charles Swiger wrote: Double-check what's going on with your devices, what does camcontrol devlist give you? Maybe try using /dev/cd0c rather than /dev/acd0c? Here's what camcontrol had to say: # camcontrol devlist -v

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I am concerned, I tend to have 1 partition for the system and a separate one for user data - this way, you don't wipe everything out if your system crashes. This saved my life a couple of times. What do you need the

RE: need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread fbsd_user
Thanks for your reply, but you missed the meaning of my question. I am not interested in how hostname is used on the public internet and DNS stuff, I know that stuff. I want to know what the FBSD operating system does with it. More explicatively during the install of FBSD when asked to fill in

Re: Ethereal 0.9.16?

2003-11-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 20), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has anybody out there had success in getting Ethereal-0.9.16 uprunning? The ports collection for 4.9 still lists 0.9.14. Any clean way to upgrade this to 0.9.16? Try just editing the version number in the Makefile, run make makesum, then

Re: need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:34 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Thanks for your reply, but you missed the meaning of my question. I am not interested in how hostname is used on the public internet and DNS stuff, I know that stuff. I want to know what the FBSD operating system does with it. Nothing, particularly.

RE: need info on hostname

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
I want to know what the FBSD operating system does with it. FBSD uses the name for network related functions, such as using it in mail related functions when communicating with foreign mail servers, offering the name to services your computer offers, and listening on certain network sockets for

Question

2003-11-20 Thread VastNET
Hello! Do you know what's the reason of it? My machine is rebooting few times a day. If answer is YES, what should I do? savecore: reboot after panic: page fault 118savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0 || mb 0xc1818500 || mbcnt 2304 118Nov 20 17:21:10 gateway savecore: reboot after

Re: DVD Burning

2003-11-20 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:15:30AM -0600, Chris Meyers wrote: So I'm trying to burn daily data backups to a dvd+rw in FreeBSD 5.1 and I'm having no end of problems. The dvd drive is a Memorex IDE internal which is brand new. I've googled until my fingers were cramped and everyone seems to say

Re: website inquiry

2003-11-20 Thread Gary Hodder
It's spam, ignore it. Well after I do this I can ignore it :) Edit mailer /etc/postfix/access file *.TemplateMonster.com REJECT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I read somewhere before that there were partition or boot problems after installing 5.1 beside winXP. Has anyone been able to do this successfully? Is there something not obvious that I need to set/tweak while during sysinstall? This partition has seen

RE: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:56, Derrick Ryalls wrote: When manufacturers talk about drive size, they use base 10. When computer report drive size, they use base 2. So, if you divide 200,000,000 bytes by ( 1024 * 1024 ), you get roughly 190gig in binary, so off the bat you lose 10gigs of space

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2003-11-20 Thread Rahul Fernandez
Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to the packages in my release? Thanks, Rahul

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-20 Thread Chip
Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:38:34PM -0800, Chip wrote: I noticed my firewall rules are not being read. I have rc.conf set to read the file rc.firewall. In rc.firewall the first line is add divert natd etc etc. that is followed by pass all from any to any etc etc. Then

hardware ITX for firewalls etc.

2003-11-20 Thread paul van den bergen
email 1 On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:22 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: You can also get CF and similar solid stat memory chips to IDE connection adaptors for around AU$30... URL? Sounds like an interesting option for a Firewall I need to do myself very

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread chael
Thanks for all the replies. And yes, that's what my FAT32 is for... sort of a mediator for the different OSes which also contains important files but no directories for working applications. Ok, let me get this in short. You basically recommend me to follow this

samba help

2003-11-20 Thread Jason
Is there a command to list all windows shared resources. I want to have a list of nodes to come up to make it easy to choose with to mount. Thanks, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-20 Thread Rahul Fernandez
Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to the packages in my release? Thanks, Rahul

hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-20 Thread paul van den bergen
hey all, I first encountered networking in CISCO land... where IP addresses and host names seem to be associated... what is the freeBSD way? AFAICS, a machine has a defined name regardless of howmany interfaces it has. if one splits the world up into hosts (one interface) and routers

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-20 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:06 pm, Rahul Fernandez wrote: Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-20 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:17 PM 11/20/2003, paul van den bergen wrote: to expand on this, there is a potential many to many relationship here between host names and IP addresses (strickly speaking that is what dns etc sees?) how dose BSD define this? how does one define this using BSD? Hey, sounds like you

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 20 November 2003 04:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the replies. And yes, that's what my FAT32 is for... sort of a mediator for the different OSes which also contains important files but no directories for working applications. Ok, let me get this in short. You

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-20 Thread paul beard
On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:06 PM, Rahul Fernandez wrote: Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread Jud
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:49:49 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the replies. And yes, that's what my FAT32 is for... sort of a mediator for the different OSes which also contains important files but no directories for working applications. Ok, let me get this in short. You

PALM and USB?

2003-11-20 Thread fbsd-questions
After spending all afternoon struggling with google, usbdevs, usbd, and a palm zire I've got to ask: Has anyone got a palm syncing over USB? I was ready to buy a new palm that synced over a serial port, but it doesn't appear they make them. Google led me to lots of people having problems, and

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