Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first impression on how it works. There are some settings that you must keep in mind,

Re: installing ports xorg

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Koinange
Tim, Looks like perhaps your ports tree is bad, I suggest you install the full ports tree and try and build from source k - Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 14:00 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport,

Re: xorg-server-1.5.3_7, /usr/ports/UPDATING, mouse

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 03:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:29:35 -0600, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: So I don't think the hal has the concept of joining the keyboard and mouse together to a single usb device. The pair works beautifully in the console... so I'm not sure

Re: installing ports xorg - Unknown solution

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Judd
Heh, there were too many factors as possible culprits in the system. Glen Barber's command started to run, until I cancelled it when my laptop battery died... :D I'm not 100% sure what the problem was, but here's what I did... . The PC has a msk ethernet device, which I wasn't 100% sold I'd use

ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp (CURRENT) failes on make install

2009-03-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi, # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp # cvs update ? work cvs update: Updating . cvs update: Updating files cvs update: Updating patches.aout # make install ... installing sysv.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system installing ultrix4.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system installing

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-25 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello. ! used to make wireless links too and my best experiences are: ADSL-MODEM (bridge mode) ==|switch| === Freebsd with pppoe,nat,ipfw || || wireless (--10km-) wireless switch |||||| users... Freebsd is a small machine (celeron, P2,

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30:31AM +0530, Mehul Ved typed: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first impression on how

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: What worked for me was enabling VT-x/AMD-V in Virtualbox. No more panics since. If I am correct, that requires hardware with virtualisation support. That's not the case with my old P4. -- Am I SHOPLIFTING?

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: As long as you have enough ram ( I'd say at least a gig) try VMware Server 1.1/2.0. I have production machines (including two freebsd 7.1 vm's) running on a VMware Server 2.0 working very well with the host having

mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-25 Thread Fbsd1
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD.

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
install on windows like ubuntu does. FreeBSD is separate independent OS. it simply doesn't make sense. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I what a problem to create

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Or does freebsd offer a choice to install without messing anything up. It's a professional operating system, of course it does. :-) (FreeBSD exactly does what you tell it to do, nothing more and nothing less.) maybe that's why it's told to be so difficult for most people ;)

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
PC-BSD === http://www.pcbsd.org/ DesktopBSD === http://www.desktopbsd.net/ And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes Windows users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, then click next, next, next, finish and have an application installed. :-) even

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400 Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to

3ware 8006-2lp hang with ACPI enabled on fbsd-6.4

2009-03-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I have something strange here. I had a pretty old (5 y.o) network server with mirror raid on 3WARE 8006-2LP running FreeBSD 5.3. memory or mb started to fail periodically, so the server was upgraded to Asus P5Q MB. Everything was fine. Then i decided to upgrade to 6.4-STABLE. After

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-25 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD.

Re: 3ware 8006-2lp hang with ACPI enabled on fbsd-6.4

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Can anyone explain, why everything worked fine on 5.4 and locks up on 6.4? I am upgrading the box to 7.1-STABLE now via cvs. and it will probably fix your problems as ACPI support is constantly improved == more workarounds are added for buggy ACPI bioses -- Regards, Artem

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
10km... You must try, I have one link in 7km here... with good performance.. in severel clients (10 clients)... about 3mbits... the radios costs about 45 dollars each, the pigtail is 5dollars, the antenna is about 5 dollars each it's really worth to spent at least 50$ for each antenna to be sure

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-25 Thread RW
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:50 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this

Re: ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp (CURRENT) failes on make install

2009-03-25 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hi, # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp # cvs update ? work cvs update: Updating . cvs update: Updating files cvs update: Updating patches.aout # make install ... installing sysv.h in

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-25 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Qua, 2009-03-25 às 13:32 +0100, Wojciech Puchar escreveu: it's really worth to spent at least 50$ for each antenna to be sure it will be stable at 10km with huge margins I agree with you... but here (in Brazil) the 24dbi antennas are so bad that using a can seems to work better... a 24db

WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63?

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Steele
I've created a GEOM mirrored file system and everything seems to be working, but I get the warning WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 when the mirror is being created. What is this referring to? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I agree with you... but here (in Brazil) the 24dbi antennas are so bad that using a can seems to work better... a 24db antenna here costs 24 dollars... looks like bad joke. you can make antenna from few copper wires and expanded polystyrene - getting 12-14dB isn't hard (i mean yagi). By

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also runs MS-Win. The traditional way

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I don't know what Ubuntu does. What ubuntu does is 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer 3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition 4) Use windows bootloader

Flash 9

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Maness
Is there now a cleaner way to install flash on FreeBSD, or do we still have to wade through this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51075+0+archive/2008/freebsd-emulation/20081102.freebsd-emulation Thanks, Chris ___

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:22:31PM +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I don't know what Ubuntu does. What ubuntu does is 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer 3) Ubuntu

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: No affence here but if you want to just click, click, next, finish, stick to mtfk ubuntu we dnt need u No offence. But please read before sending the email. -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better

how to configure xbiff

2009-03-25 Thread Pieter Donche
FreeBSD 7/KDE 3.5, /usr/local/bin/bash in /etc/passwd as login shell I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon being raised. What precise

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread michael
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also

Re: Flash 9

2009-03-25 Thread michael
Chris Maness wrote: Is there now a cleaner way to install flash on FreeBSD, or do we still have to wade through this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51075+0+archive/2008/freebsd-emulation/20081102.freebsd-emulation http://crnl.org/blog/2008/11/01/flash-9-for-freebsd-71 this

USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter

2009-03-25 Thread Bruce Anthony Grobler
Hi Everyone, I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 /var/log/messages: Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x4348 product

Re: USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.comwrote: Hi Everyone, I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0

Re: Flash 9

2009-03-25 Thread Leslie Jensen
michael skrev: Chris Maness wrote: Is there now a cleaner way to install flash on FreeBSD, or do we still have to wade through this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51075+0+archive/2008/freebsd-emulation/20081102.freebsd-emulation

Re: Flash 9

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Maness
Is this an Open Source alternative? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed

2009-03-25 Thread Kayven Riese
I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE

FreeBSD can't see OpenBSD slice

2009-03-25 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: I installed OpenBSD 3.5 in a 25GB slice on a 160GB SATA HDD. Now when i power up the system and boot into a FreeBSD instalation CD (8.x 200902 snapshot), the Fdisk partition editor shows the entire disk as unused. Are slices created with OpenBSD tools not seen in FreeBSD ? thanks Saifi.

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-25 Thread Espartano
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. (Nice, but

Re: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63?

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I've created a GEOM mirrored file system and everything seems to be working, but I get the warning WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 when the mirror is being created. What is this referring to? Are you

Re: Flash 9

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Vandemore
Chris Maness wrote: Is this an Open Source alternative? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No,

Re: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Vandemore
Kayven Riese wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD

Re: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Vandemore
Kayven Riese wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD

Re: USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter

2009-03-25 Thread Bruce Anthony Grobler
Ok does anybody know what this device might require to work? On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:40 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.comwrote: Hi Everyone, I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is

Re: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Vandemore
Kayven Riese wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? I have the following line in my ~/.xinitrc: xbiff -geometry 50x50+0+998 This is

Re: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed

2009-03-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:35:54 -0700, Kayven Riese kay...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device You cannot use growiso with the acd driver, you need the cd

Atheros 5424/2424 problem with scan

2009-03-25 Thread Bruce Anthony Grobler
Hi Just got my wireless card recognised (Atheros 5424/2424 ), dmesg: ath0: Atheros 5424/2424 mem 0xf600-0xf600 irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:e1:6a:98:4f ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio

Repairing a defective UFS 2 partition with another BSD's fsck

2009-03-25 Thread Polytropon
Dear -fs list, last night I had an idea how I could have a chance to repair my defective UFS partition. To remember, this is the whole story: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-fs/2008/11/2/3894714 Repairing a defective UFS 2 partition with fsck_ffs (or other means) I thought about the

Re: Atheros 5424/2424 problem with scan

2009-03-25 Thread Espartano
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: Hi Just got my wireless card recognised (Atheros 5424/2424 ), dmesg: ath0: Atheros 5424/2424 mem 0xf600-0xf600 irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog

Re: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63?

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Steele
Are you gmirror'ing the BSD slice? Wrong: /dev/ad0s1 /dev/ad2s1 Right: /dev/ad0 /dev/ad2 That's what it sounds like to me. I don't think that's the issue. I read many articles on how to mirror slices, including the BSD slice, and in earlier tests I never saw this error.

Re: Clicking on Terminal crashes XFCE4 - GIVING UP

2009-03-25 Thread Manish Jain
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Manish Jain wrote: Warren Block wrote: Install /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 to fill out the rest of the requirements, then do startxfce4. I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 too. The results are exactly the same. Interestingly, I can run gnome-terminal

Upgrade mysql50-server - mysql51-server

2009-03-25 Thread Titus Barik
Hello all, I currently have mysql50-server installed on my machine. I want to to upgrade it to mysql51-server. What is the best way to do this? I normally use portmanager, and I'm a novice to FreeBSD. Thanks in advance, Titus -- Titus Barik (ti...@barik.net)

Re: USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter

2009-03-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Bruce Anthony Grobler wrote: I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 grep 0x4348 /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/*

Re: Clicking on Terminal crashes XFCE4 - GIVING UP

2009-03-25 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Manish Jain wrote: I have done everything possible to rectify the problem : make deinstall clean install clean (in xfce4) make install clean (in hicolor-theme) portupgrade xfce4 pkgdb -aF The problem continues. Pasted below is the relevant output. It's a different

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon being raised. What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this

nmap as user works, root doesn't

2009-03-25 Thread Jimmie James
Can anyone make sense of this? Straight DSL connection, no router. using -e [any interface] results in the same errors nmap-4.76 As root: #nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.161.104.

Re: nmap as user works, root doesn't

2009-03-25 Thread Nerius Landys
Try compiling your kernel with bpf enabled. I had the same or at least a similar problem to what you're having and enabling device bpf in the kernel fixed the problem. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone make sense of this? Straight DSL

Re: nmap as user works, root doesn't

2009-03-25 Thread Nerius Landys
sorry about the top post. wish i could go back and fix it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Desktop environments

2009-03-25 Thread Jesse Feinman
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting. The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the system

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-25 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jesse Feinman jesse.fein...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:17:51 -0400, Jesse Feinman jesse.fein...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Vandemore
Jesse Feinman wrote: I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting. The primary purpose for this is to gain complete