Re: Finding Dependencies

2009-03-17 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:16:19 + Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: [snip] man (1) pkg_info -r what the package depends on -R what depends on the package It does not list any package that depends on it. I have no idea why it is being installed. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Handel's

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-13 Thread Jerry
will be installing it later today; however, it should work fine. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The higher you climb, the more you show your ass. Alexander Pope, The Dunciad signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Jerry
. Is this a known problem with Bash-4? I have not been able to find anything about it on the Bash site. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread Jerry
: portmanager security/p5-Digest-HMAC -l -f -y See if that clears up your problem. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this-- no dog exchanges bones with another. Adam Smith signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Jerry
. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com OCEAN: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: problem rotating apache logs

2009-03-10 Thread Jerry
doing wrong? Have you checked out (depending on your Apache version) http://httpd.apache.docs/1.3/programs/rotatelogs.html http://httpd.apache.docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology

Re: Simple Sites Make Me 137.00 Daily!

2009-03-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
that the choice won't change now either. jerry ___ 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

Re: rc.conf and starting scripts

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
/etc/rc.conf if it needs constants set or needs to decide whether or not to start something. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
than where it will be installed. That is mostly because you build your disk filesystem as part of the installation. jerry Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list

Re: Root shell

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
to 'just say no' to the OP's question. Leave root's shell alone unless you know what you're doing and bash is built appropriately. Well put. jerry -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Root-shell-tp22274005p22293187.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install'

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
a sysinstall completely from memory. You would then pretty much need to do an install over the net - which you would probably do anyway. So, your big problem, if that works, is figuring out how to create that image booted in to the memory disk without some external media to start it with. jerry

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
done it from network and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots. jerry -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry
the MSDOS slice (I know MS calls it a primary partition) from the FreeBSD side of things. I can read and write the slice nicely from FreeBSD, but not dump/restore. I would appreciate any suggestions. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
follow prompts. You must put the id name on the passwd command or it will change root instead. I am not necessarily recommending all this, but it is better tham changing the actual root account's shell. jerry Regards, Jurif ___ freebsd

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-02-28 Thread Jerry
sign a contract with apple. That depends on where you are domiciled. Under certain scenarios, simply open the box, or installing the software constitutes acceptance of the EULA. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com According to my best recollection, I don't remember. Vincent Jimmy Blue Eyes Alo

Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive?

2009-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
to mounted disk space. I don't think that is your intent, so there should be no problem. Just be careful when you specifiy devices to write to. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
the install CD in to the machine anyway.You can do the rest. jerry I doubt you'll find anything suitable after getting accustomed to FreeBSD. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Jerry
if it is not complete? Would the documentation be cross indexed so a user could find more details on a particular subject? Personally, while perfectly plausible, it sounds like more work than it is worth. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Memory fault - where am I? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Jerry
degree, version dependent. You can get the scripts and other information here. Google for more if you need it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/324021 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691132.aspx -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The only way to get rid

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry
on the newly initialized disks... IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, mission critical system not employing one. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Your temporary

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
and then the hardware compatibility links. jerry ___ 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

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry
to insure the safety of data. In this case, the OP only referenced 'power outages'. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com People that can't find something to live for always seem to find something to die for. The problem is, they usually want the rest of us to die for it too. signature.asc Description

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
ifconfig might be correct, but either or both of resolv.conf or default router is wrong or dhclient is running and clobbering them. jerry br - N ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote: What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? How about fsck jerry thanks dn ___ freebsd

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
in the circumstance of a catastrophic failure like a power outage. jerry -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
of the impossible quest. jerry -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

Re: Samba 3.2 FreeBSD

2009-02-10 Thread Jerry
. Have you tried contacting the port maintainer? ti...@freebsd.org -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
stores. But, there are many other sites that input this stuff, mung it according to their interests and make it available on the net. jerry -Chris On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Constantin Stalzer constantinstal...@web.de wrote: Hello, can you please remove all search results

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:33:26PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:34PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: Damn, that is the funniest thing I have seen in years. You might try posting a helpful

Re: Shrink a Slice? FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
this, there is currently nothing to put in it. You will need to reboot and then you can split things up and move data as you see fit. jerry Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 49523222351%/ devfs 0 0 0 100%/dev

Re: Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console

2009-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Than sio0 for the Console Please don't hijack threads. Start a new one if you have something to ask. jerry Is that correct? Regards, Am Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:03:12PM +0100 Martin Schweizer schrieb: Probably I find the problem. I did not read care enough the article

Re: Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console

2009-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:01:46PM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Jerry don't edit d: 2097152 104857604.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 e: 394264576 125829124.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 f: 839234174 4068474884.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 My opinion is: bsdlabel

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
avenues of testing to work through. Later... Doing the dd has two nice possibilities. One, it might just clear the device up and two, it might give some information about the honest size.This is assuming, of course, that the problem is not the card reader. jerry Regards, web

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
here, it is true that gmirror is becoming very reliable and servicable. So, either will probably work. Your choice depends on what you want to accomplish. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Force use of 'gpg2'

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry
that. Is that possible? I cannot find any documentation regarding this. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Savage's Law of Expediency: You want it bad, you'll get it bad. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Force use of 'gpg2'

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry
I could be mistaken. However, I don't see how that would stop a port from installing 'gpg' rather than 'gpg2'. I don't need both versions installed and would rather just keep the newer 'gpg2' one. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:27:20PM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu on Mon, 02/02/09 at 14:12: I am a little lost here and haven't tried a lot on USB devices yet - though I haven't had these kind of problems. But, after doing the fdisk stuff

Re: ISOs

2009-01-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
the network, then all you really need is the ...disc1.iso CD. If your net connection is unreliable, then you might wan disc2 and disc3. jerry -- Very Respectfully, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR Las Vegas, NV / Beverly Hills, CA / Philadelphia, PA / Washington,DC

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-01-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
for him. Very easily.Just use restore -i Usually when I do that, I make a special direcory to receive things. (I usually call it 'unroll') That way I can put what I want there and then move it to where I want to, even if it is different from where it originally was. jerry Thanks

Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device

2009-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
call 'dangerously dedicated', then run bsdlabel on gm0 rather than gm0s1 (eg bsdlabel -e gm0). From your comments above, it sounds like you have made a slice on it. But, seeing fstab and the output of bsdlabel would help figure it out. jerry Thank you for any pointers! Vlad

Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device

2009-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:49:36PM -0500, Vladislav Sekulic wrote: Thanks, Wojciech and Jerry, for your help. Quoting Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu: First of all, you say that you have allocated 27GB of 238GB available. Is that 238GB in the existing slice - gm0s1 or is it outside

Re: Portmanager gives me an error message

2009-01-23 Thread Jerry
directory and then run: portsclean -CLP Prior to running portmanger. It cannot hurt and it might fix something. You might also consider doing a deinstall/reinstall of portmanger if you feel the program might have gotten damaged. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com FOR SALE: Parachute. Used

Re: Backup program on FreeBSD for DLT drive

2009-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:06:43AM +0100, bsd wrote: Yes, This is probably the one I'll go for? There is a good hack described in the O'Reilly BSD hacks to setup Bacula? I don't understand. Why hack when dump already works just right? jerry I'll consider this article

Re: Dell 2900 invalid partition table

2009-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
did manage to get it. There was a difference. The drives in the raid were SAS.It doesn't seem like that should matter, but... jerry Thanks, Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: change root pasword

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
control than you should do it for root. Good grief!! Otherwise, the first item, single user boot and set the root password is the correct answer. Note, you will have to remount / for writes. mount -u / jerry You can change the password by passwd command, which syntax you may find

Re: Dell 2900 invalid partition table

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
partition table We had RAID5, same problem, switch to RAID1. suggestions? Is your BIOS set to boot from the right device - the raid and not the one of the disks in it??? jerry Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Perl: Why not updated to latest version 5.10.0

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry
of Perl having been released over a year ago, it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to waste the time to port an older version. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. Elayne Boosler

Re: Perl: Why not updated to latest version 5.10.0

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry
...@. Check the archives. If this is important, you can always volunteer to help the Perl-porting team. I subscribe to the port@ list as well as this one obviously and I do not remember seeing that article. I will keep looking. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com To stay young requires unceasing

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:45:28AM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:34PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hello

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
. The mount points are not written in to the label. That comes after booting. If it boots, I wonder if it really is switched on the partitions or if it is just that the partitions are mounted backwards (probably due to editing /etc/fstab incorrectly). jerry Kind regards, Patrick

Re: slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
to? Just leave it. You will gain nothing by the change. jerry Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Is there an exact way to take a user account on my system, and add it to the wheel group? Just edit the /etc/group file and put that user in that group. That is the normal way of doing it. I would not suggest making wheel be the primary group for any other than root accounts. jerry

Re: Experience with DELL PowerEdge 2900

2009-01-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Anyway, the DRACs don't affect the operation of the rest of the machine as long as you leave them unplugged from the net. So, 2900 should run FreeBSD just fine. jerry Thanks alot! Tobias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought

2009-01-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
of salt or preferrably maybe something either mindnumbing or psychodelic. jerry - able to be easily embedded in a C++ application - real object-oriented with inheritance (preferably multiple inheritance) - able to implement object methods in C++ where needed - sandbox operation

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry
. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
and FreeBSD and it uses only the FreeBSD MBR with no problem. jerry I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:08:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
20080318. I have never used skype, (might try one of these days) but is it possible you have to set the Set-UID bit? eg chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/skype ?? That's a little nasty, but... jerry Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
check to make sure you didn't stash some large junk files in /root and forgot to get rid of them. Anyway, 256 MB should be plenty of space for / slash unless you are putting everything in it. jerry -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.fairtrade.net.pl

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
) F3 - FreeBSD If you make that extra file transfer FAT32 slice, do not mark that as bootable and it should not show up in the menu. But the maintenance slice will show up as F1 - ??? if you have one. Have fun, jerry Thanks, tsai -- tsai

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry
to be fixed? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
from the notion of doing an upgrade along the way. jerry Am I crazy to think this is the more logical, more straightforward way to perform this migration? If Grant has already done the job, more power to him, but I just found it a little confusing that one would label a drive, format

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
of the filesystem you want to restore, such as a particular directory or file. For that you will need -xf which will work for a full filesystem too in most cases. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
to be solved first. jerry ___ 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

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
a 3rd slice that is FAT32 and use it as a communication stash. FAT32 has its limitations, but it is quite usable under most circumstances if those limitations are not important. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
other partition letter? jerry Supposing ad2s1 is in fact the slice containing the filesystem in question, and the filesystem was originally made directly on that slice without partitioning it, it should be possible to run dump(8) against it and pipe the output to restore(8

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
(Rgad) when doing so or it will change the real root's password. jerry What I do is add the following lines to /root/.login : if ($?prompt) then if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then # echo Switching to bash setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash exec /usr/local/bin/bash

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Yes. jerry

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry When I run the recovery console, and do the fixmbr, I get messages about the current MBR not being standard, and that if I install a new one, I may loose the partitions. So far, that is not true. The windows partition is still there, but not being used to boot

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
. But, the FreeBSD MBR should boot XP just fine. The machine I am typing on is dual boot with FreeBSD and XP (plus a Dell maintenance slice).All boot with no problem using the FreeBSD MBR. So, using fdisk to reinstall the MBR might help. jerry Kurt

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
to boot up the fixit and use fdisk to restore it. jerry -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Cc: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:33 PM Subject: Re

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
, just try getting FreeBSD fixit to fix it. jerry THanks all, -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM Subject

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 Yup. But, as I said in a previous post, use fixit and fdisk. The F1 choice will probably say either DOS or ?? instead of Windows.DOS if it is a FAT or FAT32 file system, ?? if it is an NTSF file system. jerry -Grant

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
to change the mount option to 'rw' from 'ro'. jerry TIA... Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Sysinstall

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
. But you get used to that. Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures that are missing. jerry -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 05:26:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Jerry, I gave my head a shake (literally), and re-read you response. Please forgive the silly question about dd. I understand that you are getting me to wipe the disk first. I now understand pretty much everything you have

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
to the dump/restores. The big ones can take a while. Have fun, jerryJerry McAllisterjerr...@msu.edu -Grant. P.S. I AM reading all the manuals and handbooks, I just can't afford to mess this up :-) ___ freebsd-questions

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Jerry
and fix it. However I have been told that the issue should be resolved tommorrow, so I would recommend you to try tommorrow or a bit later. Thanks for the info. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Let's love each other slowly, reaching for a plane, of exquisite pleasure, and delicate pain. Adam

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Jerry
) at clientserver.c(124) [receiver=3.0.5] This has happened continually for the past few days. I am not sure if it is a temporary problem or or permanent one. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com A crow perched himself on a telephone wire. He was going to make a long-distance caw. signature.asc Description

Re: An Apache2 configuration question

2009-01-02 Thread Jerry
this? Have you checked out this URL: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html You might also consider posting your question on the Apache list. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com There seems no plan because it is all plan. C.S. Lewis signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:37:46AM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Jerry McAllister a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
almost all circumstances. jerry Martin ___ 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

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-26 Thread Jerry
there is a fundamental flaw in the ports system to start with. Perhaps you could list what the specific problems are so that others might start looking for solutions. This is really the first time that I have become aware of problems between Perl and the ports system. Just my 2¢. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [SPAM:##] Greater tool is easy to get AGJ81

2008-12-25 Thread Jerry
misconfigured OoO program. When will they ever learn? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Greater tool is easy to get CD

2008-12-25 Thread Jerry
of Jason Irwin jir...@ohns.stanford.edu by any chance? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of something. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-23 Thread Jerry
not bode well for the OS. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com When everything is coming your way, you are probably in the wrong lane. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
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Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Jerry
that vendors are not more interested in FreeBSD. How could any of them expect to reasonably work with a narrow minded, opinionated, buffoon like you? You concept of cooperation is: My way, or no way. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Speaking of purchasing a dog, never buy a watchdog that's on sale. After

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Jerry
. That's not censorship -- it's a nondisclosure agreement. There are users on this list who would love to see users of FBSD bound by an NDA so that they could not say anything these self appointed CENSORS consider verboten. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-14 Thread Jerry
this. Reminds me of a posting I recently saw on Slashdot: (paraphrased) Criticizing FreeBSD = Flame Bait; Criticizing MS Windows = Insightful -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. Hans Liepmann signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Jerry
will stop complaining Better yet, start your own list. Then you can play the roles of führer and Gestapo all to your own liking. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NEED HELP FOR SUITABLE VERSION

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
time, or reinstall after experimenting a while, go with 7.1. jerry -- * *Regards* Mohd Shamsi Hafiz Hi-Technology Resources Pekan Sungai Nibong 45400 Sekinchan Selangor, Malaysia ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry
. Maybe it is time to close it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Remember, drive defensively! And of course, the best defense is a good offense! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Double Posts

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry
Consider yourself lucky. I have been reading horror stories on the GMail forum regarding users losing email. In any event, if it just started and you did not change MUAs, it is almost guaranteed to be a Google (GMail) problem. By the way, are you using IMAP or POP? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Old

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