Hi, all
The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
swap paritition to system. My questions are: Does
it mean adding another swap to disk or to slice ?
The disk structure:
ad0s1 -- ad0s1a / (boot from
My box has six IDE drives two on primary, two on
secondary and two connected via IDE controller.
TIA,
pjn
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, all
The documents on freebsd's website suggest that,
as a system grows, it's recommended for adding more
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:47:29 -0500, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In the last episode (Oct 13), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi there + happy turkey day,
Thanksgiving is in November :)
Not in Canada. I remember wondering years back why Western Canadians
waited until late
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can
speed things up.
Right.
But, generally I think that swap is used in
a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the
next one is started, etc
can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it?
ral
Looks like you have a lot of reading to do.
Go to the FreeBSD web page and start reading.
http://www.freebsd.org/
Click on the links and follow their trails for complete information.
Start with the link For Newbies under
I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD.
Which would be better to buy?
This doesn't answer your C++ part of the question, but you should have
the Kernighan Ritchie The C Programming Language and then
get something like C A Reference Manual (Latest edition is 5th I think)
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 20:13, Kevin R. Lee wrote:
Sorry, one more question, what does DEC Alpha stand for?
Digital Electric Corporation. (or did before Compaq bought them, before
being bought themselves, by HP)
Actually, I think it was Digital Equipment Corporation. DEC was
a major vendor
Hello, I was wondering what BSD stands for? Also what does AMD
and Ultra SPARC stand for? Any information would be very helpful.
Check out this web page:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
This set of pages seems to be either mirrored or cross referenced
in a number of
Hello,
I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP
installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first
drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot.
What's the easiest way?
When I installed, I made a slice on the 3rd disk
FreeBSD-
Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid
of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code
by using sed. They said to execute sed s//^m^m index.html
index.html or something like that. This got rid of everything in the
file.
Morning everyone.
I'm having a major brain freeze this morning. I dont recall how to find the
reverse for an IP address?
I need to do some testing with a few IP addresses, to ensure they have
valid reverse's set, but dont recall how to check them.
If I remember, you could do it
Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back
with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK.
Try man nslookup for more possibilities.
Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent explanation why.
Kind of
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent
explanation why.
Kind of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not
registered on that site. Anyway, is that being
[nslookup being deprecated]
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
I don't mean to ask about the meaning of the word deprecated, but
rather, is nslookup being deprecated a LINUXy thing, or is that
going to happen in FreeBSD too?
No, it's neither Linux
and the BIND9 documentation includes this statement:
Due to its arcane user interface and frequently inconsistent
behavior, we do not recommend the use of nslookup. Use dig
instead.
=20
These notices will no doubt appear in the base system when
What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver,
I usually use vi.
But, generally, the consultants here recommend Dreamweaver.
jerry
but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run
Dreamweaver on FreeBSD.
TIA
Eric F Crist
AdTech
Hello all,
My Name Is Allen Jaworski and I am starting a small blog to show friends and family
how to take better care of the computers. I have always been facinated in open
source programing. I am asking permission so I can include a link in my blog to your
website. Currently I am
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 17:26, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:52:25 +0100
Juan Rodriguez Hervella [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote:
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:53, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:26:25 +0100
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Just dump(8) it to a tape or other disk, create a new UFS2 file system
where the UFS2 now lives and then restore(8) the dump.
i'm sure you meant create a new UFS1 file system where the UFS2 now
lives. :)
Yup. My typing teacher would
or partitions or something. Hopefully someone out there can
offer some more useful suggestions.
jerry
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday
Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard
MBR).
I just thought of one more awful thing which has happened to me
on a number of occasions, way embarrassingly too many times.
You don't happen to have a floppy disk in the floppy drive or possibly
a non-bootable
Hi, my name is Claude, and I'm new to FreeBSD. I've installed it on a hard
drive by itself, and I get it to boot. The install seemed to have completed
without a glitch.
My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the graphical
user interface. Instead, it stops at a
how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i used the
arguments '-w'
but what about in vi?
Those are extra carriage return characters generally displayed
as CR or ^M or \r depending on which programmers convention is
being used.
There are lots of ways to strip then
Wow,
Have you put this up as a FAQ somewhere? It seems like a good idea
to do so.
jerry
I find most of the BIOS/MBR/FDISK disk geometry gospel that has recently
appeared in freebsd-questions to be confusing if not actually incorrect.
In the interest of world peace of mind, I feel
Hello,
FreeBSD from Scratch describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system
entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system.
But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT
running FreeBSD. How can I do this?
I'm used to doing this with Gentoo
Have you put this up as a FAQ somewhere? It seems like a good idea
to do so.
I don't have a place to put it. I would gladly offer it to anyone
who does.
Hmmm. I don't know how to add it to the FAQ list on the FreeBSD site.
Maybe it can be submitted to the DOC project in some
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET)
Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
FreeBSD from Scratch describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system
entirely from sources, starting
Hello,
I recently installed Free BSD. I have two hard drives. I put it on the
second one. I took it of the drive because of some problems. Now when I boot
up a dos message comes up saying the following:
F1 ???
F2 Disk 1
Boot:F1
This is your MBR talking.
The last part I
Hi,
I've been using Linux for about 7 years. At the
beginning the Linux community was still very small and
...
All these years I've seen Linux grow. I helped people
on IRC while more and more users were coming with
their questions. Yesterday I decided to go back to the
IRC channel, after
[apparently the first message didn't get through; this is a repost]
Your previous post got through.
Probably the presumed answer is that no-one who saw it has
tried this or feels competent to respond.
You might some response if you could find a way to break the
problem down a little more and
When I try from to mount ntfs partition via commands: mount_ntfs
/dev/ad0s1 / mnt or mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt I get a messege:
mount_ntfs: vfsload(ntfs): File exists
What does this mean, and what i'll do next? How I can to get access to
NTFS partition my hard drive?
It's a
I just want to ask (i'm sorry if it's a silly
question),why freebsd logo use devil character?
There are several web pages that explain this quite well.
Start with the FreeBSD.org page and look at its links and
then do some searching - on the FreeBSD site and on Google.
Try looking for
I'm sorry but..
hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
It's IRC. You expected something different?
Love,
Randi Harper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://freebsdgirl.com
On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:06 PM, lorink wrote:
To whom it may concern,
I just want to let the bsd team know this has been a
I'am interesing in becoming BSD tester or alfa tester, how I can get
information about job positions in BSD development.
FreeBSD is created and developed by volunteers rather than paid staff.
To get a job in BSD development, you would have to get a job in a
company that is using FreeBSD (or
I thank you for your display of considerable arrogance and unwillingness to
cooperte on a socdial or business level.
I didn't notice anyone displaying arrogance or unwillingness to
cooperate. What I see is someone completely misunderstanding
what they were doing and then trying to blame
Herbert Wolverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the
server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why
this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to
avoid ever
Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using
SSH. No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying.
I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box. Uncommented inetd.conf line, and
verified that the services line was in place. I tried to
Isnt this a freebsd Mailing List? try the Solaris lists please.
That doesn't make any sense. He is asking a question about BSD.
He is asking for something to use on BSD that would do something
similar to the trace utility he had been using on Solaris.
Why would you expect a Solaris list to
Hi,
I have a hard disk, on which I would like to merge two slices
into one single slice. The disk slices are as follows:
First, in the df output I see below, there is only one slice
showing. That would be slice 1 of the /dev/ad1 disk eg. /dev/ad1s1.
Second, it would be more useful in
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their
proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed
into the source tree.
That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor supports UNIX
permissions on their hard drives. File permissions are
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:43:22PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their
proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed
into the source tree.
That doesn't make any sense. No hard
Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the
true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate
things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's powerful and easy
to use. What might help me decide which tool would be best for the
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
:
:
: Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the
: true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate
: things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's
hello,
im using FBSD 4.9 ... IS there a way to check the checksum on binairies
like ls , ps etc.. to check for rootkits ?
On Solaris you can run md5 on a binary and compare it against a utility on
SUNS website that will cehck the finger print to see whether the binary is
part of a
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:19, Rob wrote:
Malcolm,
Thank you for your detailed answer to my question.
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote:
Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically
follow 'f' on the disk then this is
I've gotten into a wierd situation where the best course seems
to be wipe a (BSD) partition - without chnaging the size or location
- and then restoring from backup.
Based on the Handbook (sec. 12.3.2) the correct would seem to
be:
make backup
cd /
dd
Jerry McAllister wrote:
In any case, do not use /stand/sysinstall for this. You need more direct
control and should use disklabel directly. As mentioned in my previous
posting use the command
'disklabel -e -r asd1s1'
and then edit the tmp file
I was wondering. What is an easy, and good programe to use. To network
my FreeBSD and Win98box.
Depends on what you mean to network. To just hook them together
you don't need anything on the FreeBSD side. If you want to be able
to mount a network drive on the win box, then run Samba on
Am running a free server of shells in freeBSD 4.9, the amount of
people solicitading new accounts has been too much that i can not
handle them by me, so i wrote this .sh program to do it for me, my
code its secure as much i can tell, i understand the risk involve and
decide to do it
Hi
We have here in the office two new server maschines.
IBM x Server 345 with a Raid Controller: ServeRaid 6i
I have download the latest FreeBSD Version 5.2.1 RC2 12.2.04
But the Kernel doen't find the Raid Controller, it's say: No driver attached
When i read the doc's it must be
Hi
I'm having problems with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE getting
the proper disk geometry.
When I was installing I passed the correct info and
installed, but once I rebooted the info is wiped off
and again it has the wrong geometry what makes my
system very crashy
Time for you to do some
Hello list,
How would I install/obtain a compatible binary for OpenOffice 1.1. I don't=
=20
have 4+GB for a ports build of it. Either that, or how would I go about=20
merging my /usr and /home partitions so that they're one and the same (like=
I=20
should have done from install).
Hello FreeBSD people.
Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask such an elemental question...
I'm trying to feed a text file into a script.
Script is suppose to take relevant parts and output them to a new
file...
Script is marked executable...
less textfile | script.pl
Firstly, the abuse of 'cat' as I suggested is quite wonky, indeed.
I still sometimes do it like that though, for no reason other than typing
quicker than I think at times.
Sounds like you don't have . in your path or haven't rehashed
since you created the file 'script.pl'.
Hello Support !
I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son
for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version.
Good choice. Get him started right.
When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select.
I have
I've followed the manual on FreeBsd 5.1. Recompiled the kernel with quota
options. It is on the /usr file system. everything appears to be running
correctly.
I've made entries to fstab by the manual also.
mail# cat /etc/fstab
# DeviceMountpoint FStype Options
Bonjour,
je vien d'apprendre que linux à un OS 64bit -- freeBSD 64.
Je n'ai jamais utilisé linux aupartavant et j'aimerai bien savoir
comment pourrais je le télécharger et l'installé sur mon AMD 64.
Je vous remercie d'avance.
Want to give it a try!
OK. Good idea.
Very experienced with all versions of windows, have been building
computers for 15 years..
Sick of the windows restrictions.
What am I in for??
Some learning work and then some good times with a actual working system.
Have
List,
My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so
fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now
its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root
partition?
Run
du -sk *
at the base of the file system (root in
You've got /dev/da0s1f listed twice. I'm not sure what mount does in that
case, but it's probably worth fixing.
It probably takes the first one and ignores the second one.
Sorry I missed that before.
jerry
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 15:10, Joel Eddy wrote:
I've followed the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Error message trying to open soffice.cfg file???
Tom Karnes
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Hello All,
I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive.
I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
30 GB HD total
First 24 GB = XP
Last 6 GB = 4.9
Installed XP first, then 4.9, said NONE at the
hi,
is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs?
or to view it under Freebsd?
Install Openoffice. It has a presenter that can open Powerpoint
files to show them or incorporate them in to presentations.
You might have to tinker around to get things like you are used
to,
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello All,
I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive.
I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
30
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello All,
I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive.
I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
30
I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the
same drive. I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist
to no avail. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
30 GB HD total
First 24 GB = XP
Last 6 GB = 4.9
Installed XP first, then 4.9, said NONE at the boot
I would not delete them. A normal user, e.g., has to
be member of the group staff to su to root, etc.
It is group wheel they need to be in. I suppose someone
might have made staff work too, but wheel is the biggie.
jerry
Cheers Tom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:51:03PM +0800,
Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard
drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to
simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating
the new drive) and have my system back up and running, or do I need to
reinstall
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
hi,
is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs?
or to view it under Freebsd?
Install Openoffice. It has a presenter that can open Powerpoint
files to show them or incorporate them
hi im a freebsd user and i live in istanbul and im trying to get people
to use freebsd and stuff like this. i would love to help in a part of
freebsd an some kind of way. is there anything i could help with? i dont
mind maybe translating a few docs to turkish and stuff like that.
Good
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a web based system to check mail on a freebsd
system.I wanted to setup a mail system for all users on the intranet.I have
successfully installed sendmail and can send and receive mail on the
system.(using pine).But how do i go about setting up a system for
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for Giving FreeBSD for free.
Basically I would like to ask you about a problem I have with the sound hardware
which I wasn't able to resolve. And I also have some suggestions to make!
After Installation when writing #startx, at the prompt KDE loads and I get a
We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a
USB external drive in and then doing
cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0
This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1).
Is this the best way to do it, or can someone suggest a better way. We'd
rather not have the server offline while
You would need to use piping to restore the backup, though and that can
get tricky if your new system that you need to restore the data to isn't
sized the same as the old and isn't using the same version of dump.
Woha, timeout. Are you saying 'dump' produces files in a format *not*
Hi Andrew,
5.2
==
The network changes might not releated to the issues w/ KDE. I would
first verify that no other program is trashing your resources.
I suspect whether 'vi editor' having problem because each time when I
boot the PC, the screen pauses on;-
What has happened in
I need mount a fat32 partition in two diferent places.
when i try to do it the second time the system says device busy..
What can i do?
Why would you need to mount it in two different places (I presume
you mean at the same time)?
If you want to use it as a different file path string, then
hi
I having an error on create a new slice.
well, I trying to install freebsd 5.1 on my
primary(master) hard drive, which already contain 2 os
which are Linux RH 9.0 and windows 2000 pro
I try to create a new slice on the unused partion and
the partion name should be
Hello. Been trying to download 4.9 so I can put it on my other box but
when downloading the iso (from any mirror) I get a error saying there
isnt enough space to download 49ebcty7.exe to /tmp. Whats going on? I
have the space. Here is the output from df -H
Just what it says. The file is
I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had
WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP
installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and
had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still
My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding
directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound
solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know
rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid, non-active
archive
Hi
I am an Account Manager for Westwood Associates Ltd, an IT Reseller in
the UK.
One of my customers has asked for pricing on your products, but I do not
know who your UK Distributor(s) is (are).
Can you help?
Probably a lot of people who install FreeBSD just download the free
-Original Message-
From: Mark Weisman
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:59 PM
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Boot and MBR.
You are right, I have them setup originally under WinXP as partitions,
then added FreeBSD to the second partition where
Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't
working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded.
I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and
applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read
all
I have installed FreeBSD before, but it has been a while since I've
messed around with it. I am attempting to install on my secondary
desktop machine which also runs Linux.
ad0s1-ad0s3 are linux partitions as well as ad0s4 which is an extended
partition (containing more linux
Thanks for you pointers, they helped me to move further
on into different problem.
I added the addhandler statement and ExecCGI
There are no Limit/Limit at all
The httpd-error.log has these messages now
(2)No such file or directory: exec of /usr/local/www/data/sim.pl
failed
Hi,
This is probably a simple problem, but can someone please tell me what's
happening here?
$ ./soffice
.: Can't open
/usr/home/eamon/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/freebsd-local.sh: No such
file or directory
$
I got that too and noticed that, sure enough, there was no such
file
I wanna know if it's possible to install FreeBSD 4.9 on DELL PowerEdge 2300?
My install failed when the install CD search for Hard Drive, can I have help
please?
Sure. We have a several of 2300-s running FreeBSD and most have been
upgraded to 4.9 (or reinstalled as 4.9).They have also
Hi all folks,
Where can I find this small program 'md5sum'. I could not find it on CD1
which is the only CD in my possession.
Is that different from plain ole md5(1) ??
That comes included in the base install.
It is what is used to generate the checksums in the file that
goes along
Hi all folks,
Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for
FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty
directory together with its content
I have never tried anything called midnight commander, but you might
check in the
fbsd_user wrote:
And you think that, that's ok?
Somebody messed up big time removing all the LINT comments.
That's totally unacceptable.
Aren't you going to submit an problem report about that.
That's just so stupid it could not have been done with official
approval.
There
Hash: SHA1
Try `man tar', then reply if you still have questions.
Quintin
Stephen Liu wrote:
| Hi all folks,
|
| I have following packages download from OpenOffice site to a folder in
'user'
| directory;
|
| /home/user/download/
| en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz
|
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 13:01, ÀîÓî wrote:
Hi Stephen Liu,
The simple way is to use PORT to install OpenOffice.
For most things the simplest way if to install from ports, because most
things are relatively small and the build easy and the author makes a
version for whatever
Hi Jerry,
Tks for your advice.
- snip -
I am presuming you have downloaded the appropriate binary install
from Openoffice.
Put the file in /usr/local
Do not unroll the file with tar
and run psk-add on itpkg-add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
During the process it will ask
Anyway, my 4.9 LINT has comments.
I certainly hope to see them when I get to 5.xxx.
You will see them, as Kris noted already, in NOTES. If you want to see
them in LINT, do something like
$ cd /usr/src/sys cat conf/NOTES i386/conf/NOTES i386/conf/LINT
:)
...
I feel like
See subject. :)
A note: That is impolite and unhelpful. You should put your
information including the auestion in the body of the message.
Without that, the question does not show up in the edit file
for a response unless the person responding qoes way out of
their way to grab it.
I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid.
I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's.
it happened to be 5.1.
I, a neophyte, assumed it was kosher.
I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far.
Now I've been reading about the STABLE
listed. Under each
there is a link for Hardware Notes. Check those.
When it comes to video cards and mouse, you need to check the XFree86
web site for those compatibilities. That is: http://www.xfree86.org/
jerry
tks.
lee
Jerry McAllister wrote:
I hesitate to ask
Hi Jerry,
Tks for your 2 emails and detail advice.
- snip -
/home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/
en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz
openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
- snip -
Suggest:
cd /home/user/Download
cp openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz /usr/local/.
cd /usr/local
pkg_add
Good Morning,
I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first
foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So
far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find
an answer in the handbook or by searching through
Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each
using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for
example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be
able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable.
I don't think you
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