unable to access NTFS 500 GB usb HDD:GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary ?

2010-11-27 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi LIST, I am trying to access a western digital USB hard disk. It seems to recognize it , KDE pops up with the autorun actions but if i open the folder it is empty. the logs show the error GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary . please advice...thanks [ad...@pcbsd-8681

Help with USB Card Reader

2010-11-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a hama branded USB 2.0 Card Reader 19 in 1, which I'd like to use with 8.1/i386. This thing has four slots, only one of which I'd like to populate with an SD card. However I've had no luck so far. If I insert the card and then plug the reader into an USB port, I get: root:

Re: Help with USB Card Reader

2010-11-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/27/10 14:42, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I've got a hama branded USB 2.0 Card Reader 19 in 1, which I'd like to use with 8.1/i386. Sorry, my fault. It seems this reader cannot work with SDHCs; in fact it works with MMCs. bye av.

BUG: freebsd.org/ru/releases

2010-11-27 Thread Коньков Евгений
HI, Freebsd-questions. http://www.freebsd.org/ru/releases/ on this page is wrong information about releases. Old release is 6.0 and last is 8.1 on march 2006!! year. -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___

next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 12:11, Arthur Chance wrote: -- Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like. -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ Hmm.. A Wombat... That's a recoilless anti-tank gun if I

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 9:53, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ You need to add

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 22:18, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows although I've never been

missing digest mail?

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
I just noticed, that I seem to have missed some digest mails, Vol 338, issues 4 to 7. (No list mail between the 24th and 27th November, only direct mails from list members.) Nothing in the spam bucket here either. Hopefully nothing useful to me passed by. Regards. Dave B.

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
Hi. As I now have ssh working, I can indeed have multiple logins running in indipendant windows on another box. (because I have it) I'm using PuTTY on Win2k. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/ It appears to work well.

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year (April if memory serves.) I find now, that Sysinstall's

Re: BUG: freebsd.org/ru/releases

2010-11-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= kes-...@yandex.ru Reply-to: =?windows-1251?B?yu7t/Oru4iDF4uPl7ejp?= kes-...@yandex.ru Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:38:03 +0200 Message-id: 1071667463.20101127183...@yandex.ru

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 27 Nov 2010 at 12:06, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:06:06 -, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year (April if memory serves.) Use this: # pkg_add -r screen Precompiled packaes work

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.netwrote: No need to specify the full path w/ portmaster ... just portmaster --no-confirm -D sysutils/tmux is sufficient, portsnap is the best/easiest way to get the latest snapshot of ports. No real reason not to unless your

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 13:18, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:53:51 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: There are two options that I know of that could make this part easier for you 1) screen (tried and true) can do split windows/multiple windows

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:53, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:   Yes, I found that, good info.  I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 26 Nov 2010 at 14:31:23 PST Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Friday, 26 November 2010: FIVE! Using a tiling window manager like xmonad, just open another xterm. Either share a workspace between them, or put one of them in a different workspace, depending on whether you like to be

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Polytropon
For a standard installation, there's also the base console functionality: ALT+F(n) key combo - each one, F1 up to (IIRC) F12, gets a different console. This depends on how many virtual consoles have been defined in the /etc/ttys file. I think the default is 0 up to 7, and 8 (corresponds to

Re: missing digest mail?

2010-11-27 Thread perryh
Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: I just noticed, that I seem to have missed some digest mails, Vol 338, issues 4 to 7. (No list mail between the 24th and 27th November, only direct mails from list members.) Nothing in the spam bucket here either. Hopefully nothing useful to me passed

Re: Memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2010 18:24, Jack Raats wrote: It looks like that there may be a memory leak of my swap space with one of the processes that is running. Big question: How can I determine which process is responsible. Any suggestions? Look for a process with a really big SIZE in top(1) ? Look for

Console Messages

2010-11-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am using FreeBSD 8.0 and am getting lots of these: negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 any ideas what it means or how to cure it? -Grant

Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from packages or ports. P.s. I think I asked this before but it got lost in some other hubbub. So appologies if I did ask already. ___

Re: Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from packages or ports. There are a few applications, such as opera, that can phone home and check for newer versions.

Re: Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from packages or ports. There are a few applications, such as opera, that can phone

Re: Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steven Susbauer ste...@too1337.com wrote: On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-27 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list I have a digital camera, Canon powershoot sx130 is. That I wish to mount. The camera contains an sd-card that I wish to extract the photos from. ugen2.2: canon inc. at usbus2 %uname -a FreeBSD testbox.fqdn 8.1-STABLE

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Bernt Hansson wrote: I have a digital camera, Canon powershoot sx130 is. That I wish to mount. The camera contains an sd-card that I wish to extract the photos from. ugen2.2: canon inc. at usbus2 I have a Canon Powershot S5IS that behaves similarly. I have found that

zpool won't mount as dataset stuck

2010-11-27 Thread Geoff Roberts
Hi, In a slight panic here as my main ZFS pool tank won't mount. I have two ZFS pools on two different drives - a system pool on a single disk called data and a mirrored pool on two disks called tank. The tank zpool contains all my jails and non-system boot type data. I was wanting to