Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

> On 13.10.2013 12:16, CeDeROM wrote: > > On 13 Oct 2013 11:30, "David Demelier" > > wrote: > >> Hello there, > >> I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my > >> FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but some > >

Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? Idea is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just before bedtime. Doing "make config" ahead of time also gives the chance to re

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

from "Christoph Kukulies" : > Thanks to all. > Solved. > It was a multiple cause issue: > 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than 3.5 > which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured to me). > 2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined cable (3.5 "

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

>From "Elias Chrysocheris" : > If you are sure that the default configuration settings are OK for you, then > one way is to perform a portupgrade with the switches --batch --yes, like > portupgrade --batch --yes -a > This will assume that the default settings are those you like and will not ask

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

Thanks to all who responded, now I have several things to think about. I will want to look at "perl-after-upgrade" script. Even if I don't use it, it would likely be helpful to see what it does and guide me as to what I can do. I also find I have a burning desire to check out pkgsrc (under NetB

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

from "O. Hartmann" ; > Hello out there, > well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based > systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe > support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux > facility to ensure ha

Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard drive > 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive firmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can handle up to 2 TB; this limit is not just for BSD but Linux too. Western Digital

Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

Is there any intent to modify, hopefully improve, the installer program (sysinstall) for FreeBSD-9.0? I noticed something on the freebsd-questions emailing list about a pc-sysinstall, but downloaded a snapshot .iso of CURRENT-9.0 mainly to see what was there, not planning to install; am already

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:31:26 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > > There's a plan to replace sysinstall with pc-sysinstall, the > > PCBSD installer in 9.0. Currently the backend has been committed and > > people are working on a web interface frontend to allow people to do > > installations via a web browse

Re: FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE

--- On Tue, 12/7/10, Kazuhiro Satoyoshi wrote: >   Hi, I'm kazu from Japan. > I'd like to install [freebsd 3.5.1-RELEASE] into my PC. > (I have no idea wether this version(3.5.1) is proper for my > PC...) >   I browsed around Internet, but I could't find this > FILES. >   How can I do? > I need

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

> It's easy enough to find error-free floppy disks if you don't mind > paying for them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=430460031 :) > Bruce Cran Are you sure they're error-free? I think most users would prefer USB sticks. > The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r). H

Re: Broken link on your website

Snippet from Robert Bonomi regarding spam from Emma Haze : > Now, *PLEASE* stop bombarding the innocent users of the support mailing-list > with your ignorant, ill-informed, impossible-of-fullfilment nonsense. > Continued spamming off the mailing-list might well result in numerous people > decid

Questions on ndis for USB wireless adapter

I am having problems getting the Hiro USB wireless adapter to work and think I might possibly be missing something. Chip is Realtek RTL8191S. I read the man pages for ndisgen and ndiscvt and the FreeBSD Handbook online. Do I need options NDISAPI # and device ndis in the kernel config, even

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

Regarding the security of various methods of deleting data, I just saw in Office Depot's online ad for the coming week, which is the reason I couldn't post this any earlier: Need to discard an old PC but worried about protecting your identity? Let us securely erase your personal files and pictu

Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

from Gary Aitken : > Aargh... > So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... > it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general > even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. > X (screen was allowed to blank after

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

> So this statement in the WikiP is false? > systemd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as > cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due > to this issue.[7] > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. I read an a

Re: Upgrading 9.1-BETA1 -> 9.1-RC1

from Maarten Billemont : > I've installed a FreeBSD server using the BETA1 release because RC1 was > delayed. I notice the 9.1-RC1 is available now, so I thought I'd upgrade > ASAP. > The following command, however, fails me: > freebsd-update -r 9.1-RC1 upgrade > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

from Peter Wemm : > As a data point.. if you're talking about "stable/9", then that is > still available via cvs/csup/cvsup as RELENG_9. > If you track 9-stable, you're unaffected. > I got two private emails about this. > To be clear, yes, if you're tracking RELENG_9, you will get > "9.1-STABLE

Re: text editor

On getting vim text editor ("vi improved") for FreeBSD, you can either pkg_add or use the ports system, where you build from source code with a convenient setup. You can check http://www.freebsd.org/ and check the documentation, including the handbook and ports system. I've heard of Cygwin but

Re: Partitioning with gpart

from "Lynn Steven Killingsworth" : > I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. > The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and > another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr > disk with zfs and move everything from the

Re: svn and/or portsnap

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:37:03 + (UTC), Helmut Schneider wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a custom kernel so I (guess I) need svn in future to fetch > sources instead of cvsup. Should I still use portsnap then for ports or > also fetch them via svn? Polytropon responded: > Ports and system sources ar

Re: svn and/or portsnap

Regarding my question, How do you get the ports tree or svn in that case if not using portsnap? Helmut Schneider had two suggestions: > You install ports from CD/DVD. Or use pkg_add -r subversion. :) > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ I guess I could use the latter and then buil

fsck not working on messed-up file system

I have or had a problem with a file system (FreeBSD UFS2) messed up, either by errant software or system freeze/crash. I successfully cross-compiled, from FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, a NetBSD 5.1_STABLE i386 system to install on 8 GB USB stick. I have both the NetBSD system source as well as pkgsrc and

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

> * PLEASE RERUN FSCK * > > Script done on Wed Sep 19 04:17:27 2012 > > Would this indicate a software bug, or is my Western Digital Caviar Green > > 3 TB hard drive failing? > Either something was referencing sectors off the end of the disc, > or the drive is failing. I'd be in

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

from "David J. Weller-Fahy" : > svn update /usr/src/ When you use svn the first time, svn doesn't know where the repository is, and svn repository is not fully in sync with cvs or csup repository. So you might need, in a fresh directory, svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src Th

Problem upgrading misc/help2man: missing language files

I am unable to upgrade misc/help2man, required by autoconf and other ports that I want to upgrade that depend on perl and/or png. Currently installed version of help2man is 1.40.12 and new version is 1.40.13 I get a bundle of error messages like Extracting help2man (with variable substitution

Re: A problem with loader

from Zbigniew : > installed recently 9.0 - and I've got a little problem: while booting, > "loader" somehow gets incorrect currdevice value, stopping boot > process. It does get "disk1s6a", but it should be "disk1s7a". I can > boot system, when I set currdev "manually", then type "boot". > But h

Re: New User to FreeBSD

> Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other > than linux with enthusiasm. > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's licensing", "such > complex family of distributions which are so different from each other". > Which is when I came across FreeBSD. I fel

Re: yelp could not be built because of libxul dependency (10.0 vs. <2)

from Ewald Jenisch : > I'm trying to get my system up2date using portupgrade as usual. > However during the upgrade process I ran into a problem during upgrade > of yelp: > ===> yelp-2.30.2_4 depends on package: libxul<2 - not found > ===> Found libxul-10.0.10, but you need to upgrade to libx

Re: yelp could not be built because of libxul dependency (10.0 vs. <2)

from Ewald Jenisch : > I'm trying to get my system up2date using portupgrade as usual. > However during the upgrade process I ran into a problem during upgrade > of yelp: > ===> yelp-2.30.2_4 depends on package: libxul<2 - not found > ===> Found libxul-10.0.10, but you need to upgrade to libx

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

> Short version: Is it possible to group existing partitions into slices > without affecting data? > Long version: > I had a disk sliced/partitioned like this: > ad4s1 > ad4s1a > ad4s1b (swap) > ad4s1d > ad4s1e > ad4s1f > ad4s2 (storage) > ad4s3 > ad4s3a > ad4s3b (swap) > ad4s3d

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

> Thomas, thank you for reply! No, it wasn't dangerously dedicated disk. > However, what is the exact command to add ad4s1 and ad4s3 using > bsdlabel? Is it possible at all? I thought I should use fdisk or > gpart for that. > Thanks, > Sergi M You use fdisk to create what FreeBSD calls slices s

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

> Thomas, thank you very much for your mail, but that isn't what I asked. > Of course, I know that "bsdlabel -R ad0s1 new_label_file" writes new > labels to ad0s1. > My question is: what to do if I _lost_ s1, s2, and s3 - how to recover > _them_ first? Without that, all I can do is to write label

Re: Mounting SD card.

> >I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be > >to "wake" it up with the following incantation: > >dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > >That's what works here. See the thread starting with > >

dd command: BSD analog of conv=fsync?

What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? Command in question is dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is replaced by the actual device node; also I believe bs=8M, good for Linux, would be bs=8m in FreeBS

Re: dd command: BSD analog of conv=fsync?

> In the last episode (Nov 18), Thomas Mueller said: > > What is the (Free)BSD counterpart of conv=fsync in dd command? > > Command in question is > > dd if=GNOME-3.6.0.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync > > This is for writing to a USB stick, and of course DRIVE is

Re: i386 vs amd64

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > i386 will not see anything above 4 GB > Actually you *can* give access to >4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you > to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and supported till > Pentium Pro) but that is only for OS (32bit a

Re: SPAM-flag on FBSD list

FreeBSD emailing lists are not spammers, though they let some spams through that their filters miss. Insight Cable uses synacor.com spam-filtering (dis)service that the Insight Cable user can't turn off. This remedy is worse than the disease in my case because it causes bounces, and then my li

Re: Reading the handbook from console

On my now-older computer (from July 2001, 256 MB RAM), svgalib ran on FreeBSD but was very crash-prone. svgalib in Linux was erratic and caused color distortions when switching to an X window. So I decided I wanted no part of svgalib on the new computer, FreeBSD or Linux. Use ASCII art or fra

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

28.01.2013 01:57, james: >I have a 9.1 system with some SATA disks in RAIDZ, upgraded from 9.0. > >The disks are all the same type, and I formatted them for FreeBSD and >put ZFS in a slice covering most of them. > >I have seen suggestions for OpenIndiana etc that it is better to let ZFS >have the

Invalid or unrecognized AC97 codec in Creative/Ensoniq CT5880 sound

I have a problem with onboard sound on a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard, am trying to determine if the fault is with the software drivers, or if the AC97 codec is really dead or not there. I have Linux (Slackware 11.0) installed, also FreeBSD 6.2, have also made and run live CDs for NetBSD 2007 (v4

burncd and driveropts=burnfree?

I recently installed FreeBSD 6.2 release and see there are two programs for burning CDs: burncd and cdrtools (cdrecord). My CD-RW drive is ATAPI. I looked through the online manpage for burncd and saw nothing comparable to driveropts=burnfree, which I use in Linux with cdrecord. So how would I a

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

I had this problem trying to install FreeBSD on my old computer: Cx486DX2 CPU at 66 MHz; 20 MB RAM; 1.2 GB IDE hard drive; 2x Texel, now Plextor, CD-ROM on Trantor T130B SCSI (NCR5380 chip; no support in FreeBSD >= 3.0); Iomega Zip 250 on same SCSI card. That was in the days of FreeBSD 4.x. No

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

> Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every > other > OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check? I offered my admittedly cumbersome force-fitting suggestion. Maybe start with a minimal installation, possibly base and etc only, or as little a

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

Rich, if you can't get either the installation CD or live-file-system CD to boot (FreeBSD), maybe your computer is allergic to FreeBSD? I've had that problem with both FreeBSD and NetBSD on the older computer (Cx486DX-2 at 66 MHz; 1.2 GB hard drive). One thing that could possibly help is if you

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

> No I'm not going to start ripping my computer apart because FreeBSD can't deal > with my hard drive. I think the problem is a shortcoming in FreeBSD where it > can't deal with drives that have old stale RAID metadata on them. I'm just > going > to have to wait until they can. Until then no FreeB

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

> Should I be able to do a network install of 8.1 using a 7.3 boot > floppy set? (I'm not planning to set up zfs, at least initially.) > If not, are the 7.3 and 8.1 boot/loader files similar enough that > the boot/loader from a 7.3 boot floppy "should" work when all else > in the floppy set is fr

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

> > I once net-installed FreeBSD using a boot CD from an earlier > > version; I think it was a disk one rather than boot-only ... > > If you use boot floppies, use only the two (or is it three?) > > needed to boot the install system. > If I've understood the 7.3 set correctly it's now up to five:

Re: Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

> When installing from the 8.1-RELEASE memstick, what is the correct > selection for Installation Media? I'm not finding any mention of > memstick in the Handbook. I went to the handbook online, and in Section 2.8, Figure 2.27. Choose Installation Media Option 9 USB is Install from a USB Drive.

Building and running new package versions not yet in ports?

What do I do if I want to build and run a package where version in ports collection is not up-to-date, and I want to build and run the current release version of that package, like Abiword 2.8.6 for instance, when version in ports is behind? Or maybe I want to try a new alpha or beta developmen

Re: Building and running new package versions not yet in ports?

> Contact the port maintainers in the first instance -- they may well have > beta test versions of the ports you can download. Failing that, it is > perfectly feasible for you to update a port yourself. > Generally, you will want to work on a copy of the port directory > somewhere. You can check

Re: Xorg Problems

> I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed > a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing "startx" > they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that > I mean that there is no mouse, and no possibility of ent

Re: Xorg Problems

> Finally got motivated to put together a little writeup on this: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html This writeup will give me options to experiment with and see which works when I'm back in FreeBSD, am in Linux (Slackware 13.0) now. I think I tried other things besides "Allow

Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? With NetBSD through 5.1_RC3, I got "unsupported inode size" when trying to mount Linux ext2fs partition from NetBSD. With FreeBSD through 7.2, I could mount, but got "Bad file descr

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

>From "Samuel Martín Moro" : > the problem is not which version of mkfs (ext2fs) you use. > the problem is that BSD only handle ext2fs partitions with 128b inodes, while > default value is 256. > when running mkfs/newfs, be sure to specify -I 128 > also, I won't recommand ntfs. > but, ntfs "work

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

I see two more possibilities for such a lingua franca file system: xfs and zfs. I noticed, on http://distrowatch.com/ , that there was an update to xfsprogs package. xfsprogs is included in Linux (Slackware 13.0), and I see xfsprogs packages in NetBSD pkgsrc and freebsd ports. I saw an article

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