I have never paid too much attention to DVD burners before now.
The price in last Sunday's Comp-USA add caught my eye ($150 after
rebates works for me. :-)
I have a few questions I hope someone can answer for me:
1) I've seen DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD-R floating around. What does
the plus
arden wrote:
hi all
I've been trying to re-use some old pcs i have kicking around i really
amazed at how much you can do with a k6/2 400 if you tweak it right
one of these pcs has an 16 meg voodoo 2 card is it possible to use the
3d functions of this card in bsd ?
been looking around without mu
Michael Clark wrote:
I have 2 fxp Intel 100mb cards in this machine that work fine. I have ran
it with 3 fxp
cards in the past. I added an em0, Intel gigabit this morning. The card
displays a
non active status during the boot process. RC.conf is processed and the
card
does not get an ip addre
Lonnie Santella wrote:
FreBSD 4.10 Release
CVSUP-MIRROR v. 1.3_2 freshly installed.
I got the cvsup-mirror port installed without any errors. The CVSUPD
daemon is running. I can connect to my mirror from another server. When
I try to update a ports collection (i.e. ports-editors) is will spit ou
Lonnie Santella wrote:
This all checks out correctly. I'm basically using almost entirely
defaults here. My supfile on my mirror server looks identical to yours.
This is driving me crazy.
The one thing I wonder is, how does my cvsup mirror server know how to
"share" it's full ports tree? None o
I was wandering through Comp-USA this morning and I noticed a floppy
drive on the shelf that had sockets for other memory devices. e.g.
secure digital cards. I found it on their web site at:
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=311195&pfp=BROWSE
It appears to be made
Matin Tamizi wrote:
I'm using a FreeBSD box as a router in a test network. For the tests that I am
running, I need to be able to drop random packets and observe the effects
(responsiveness).
What utilities in FreeBSD or C will allow me to perform the function of dropping a
random packet?
Thank
Hi.
I'm running 5.3-R with a custom kernel on a dual processor athlon.
I've recently started getting "Bus error" showing up as a reason for
various failures. e.g. setiathome, make buildworld.
I've also gotten some panics (there are only about 5 messages that
didn't tell me anything and (sorry) I
Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
Hi all,
I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much
since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of
something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate
firewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it
Hi.
I've been playing with gnupg trying to get comfortable with it.
I've looked at the man pages and I have also read the O'Reilly PGP book.
I searched the FreeBSD mailing lists and I didn't find anything.
I'm trying to create multiple public key rings because of statements in
the PGP book about p
Hi.
I was looking at the Sunday ads and I found a LEXAR JumpDrive at a price
that I could swallow.
I looked at umass and it talks about supporting a couple of models of
SanDisk "dongles" in flash mode.
I do not know too much about these. If my terms are incorrect, please
correct me.
The questi
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any repliees.
I'm trying to set up remote printing for the first time.
These are both FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT machines.
I have an HP2000 USB connected to the "remote" host. It is lp on P3R-272.
I'm using apsfilter on P3R-272 as th
printer idle
P3R-272#
Taking the messages at face value, it appears "lp" is enabled on P3R-272.
The searches I did not the message in the archives did not turn up anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks...
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 2:17 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote:
I'm tryi
Gerard,
Which version of Samba are you using?
I am by no means an "expert" but I I have been reading the O'Reilly
Samba book. I understand that XP security is basedon Kerberos 5.
I believe you have to start with Samba V3.
All I have is a couple of Win98 boxes. No XP. You now know everything
I
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sword of digest mode. TIA...
I'm trying to build Java and I ran into the problem where linprocfs has
to be running/mounted.
I found the suggestions but it is not wo
Tsampros Leonidas wrote:
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protocol but sometimes it does not happen. The double edged
sword of digest mode. TIA...
I'm trying to build Java and I ra
I'm currently running 5-CURRENT but I'm heading for 5-STABLE.
I've noticed the new DVD burners that support "multi-layer" (at least
that is what today's Best Buy ad calls them) DVDs.
Since it doubles the capacity, and my first application would be to back
machines up, I've been watching the mail
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This is a 4.7-STABLE system built in the last couple of days.
When I start Mozilla, it complains that it cannot open
"/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so". This
led me to believe I had to install jdk 1.3.1. This is where I'm st
Joe (and the list),
Your suggestion fixed my problem.
(I'm not sure if my first reply made it. Sorry if you received
duplicate responses.)
Cheers...
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 22:39, Tom Parquette wrote:
Please CC me on any replies. Thanks...
This is a 4.7-S
Mike,
I have a similar configuration to yours: RR cable modem, SMC Baracade,
FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and Mozilla.
I just called up WWW.CNN.COM and the first page came up in just a couple
of seconds.
From your description, the only possible differences are:
I'm running 4.7-STABLE
and Mozilla 1.1
Fo
I'm starting to look at adding a basic sound card to my machine.
I'm looking at Sound Blaster since it seems to be the least common
denominator.
The motherboard does not have any ISA slots. (PCI only).
The man page on the web site indicates the sound blaster support is for
ISA.
The hardware s
I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card.
At boot, I get the following messages.
pcm0: irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2
pcm0: unable to map register space
devide_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
Searching the questions archive didn't turn up anything helpful.
C
Stacey Roberts wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:22, Tom Parquette wrote:
I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card.
At boot, I get the following messages.
pcm0: irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2
pcm0: unable to map register space
devide_probe_and_attach:
Stacey Roberts wrote:
Hi Tom,
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 01:47, Tom Parquette wrote:
Stacey Roberts wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:22, Tom Parquette wrote:
I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card.
At boot, I get the following messages.
I'm getting an "Out of memory!" message from the mirror
(/usr/ports/ftp/mirror-2.9) port trying to update a large archive. I've
tried a number of things but I can't resolve this.
Any suggestions?
TIA
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Tom Parquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm getting an "Out of memory!" message from the mirror
(/usr/ports/ftp/mirror-2.9) port trying to update a large archive.
I've tried a number of things but I can't resolve this.
Any suggestion
Michael J Ruhl wrote:
Howdy,
I forgot to install some distribution sets when I did my original
install, so I am trying to do so now.
Going to /stand/sysinstal I selected the post install, add distrubtion
sets, selected the stuff, and then tried to do the FTP.
However, when I do that I get:
"Ca
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Tom Parquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Tom Parquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm getting an "Out of memory!" message from the mirror
(/usr/ports/ftp/mirror-2.9) port trying to update a large archive.
I'v
Hi!
I had a problem 3 weeks ago where my Gnome2 desktop disappeared and took
email and most of my stuff with it. I have finished rebuilding and I'm
back on the air.
Below is the email I tried to send to the questions list to see if
someone could help me. It was thrown back at me. I guess som
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:28, Tom Parquette wrote:
Hi!
I had a problem 3 weeks ago where my Gnome2 desktop disappeared and took
email and most of my stuff with it. I have finished rebuilding and I'm
back on the air.
Below is the email I tried to send t
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:13, Tom Parquette wrote:
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:28, Tom Parquette wrote:
Hi!
I had a problem 3 weeks ago where my Gnome2 desktop disappeared and took
email and most of my stuff with it. I have
Gary D Kline wrote:
Hi People,
I built jdk13 on a spare machine and installed the results
on this platform. Following is output when I launch the
newest mozilla. Looks like I'm missing something from
gettext.
Have any of you bumped into this snafu? Ideas on howto
resolve?
thanks
This is the first time I have tried to do anything with Vinum.
This is on a 4.7-RELEASE machine.
I'm doing a "minimal" installation over the Internet using the two
floppy disk install method.
I have several IDE volumes that I am trying to concatenate.
After I complete the install I'm editing rc.c
ad5s1e.
TIA for any help.
Cheers...
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote:
This is the first time I have tried to do anything with Vinum.
This is on a 4.7-RELEASE machine.
I'm doing a "minimal" installation over th
Greg,
Thank you. I got it running and I was able to mount /dev/vinum/public
on /mnt. df -H shows 97Gig which is very close to what I was expecting.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
There are no "-v values". -v says "be verbose".
Stupid user error #1.
I've seen a couple of different things in th
I had something happen to my concatenated vinum drive.
Looking at /var/log/messages I think it may be calling out a hardware
problem on one of my drives.
This configuration has been running for a week or so without complaining.
I call myself VERY green with vinum and I would appreciate someone
lo
Please CC me on any replies. I'm not currently subscribed to
freebsd-questions. TIA...
I'm trying to install the jdk13 to make mozilla happy. By trial and
error (trial and download? ;-) I've gotten to the point of the following
error. I cannot find anything that gets me around this.
Than
Hi all. I'm playing with GDM2 and I'm getting the error messages
included below. (Gnome2 itself (gnome2-2.0_6) seems to be working OK.)
Other than the error messages, GDM2 also appears to be working without
incident.
I can't seem to identify any man pages for GDM or GDM2 and the XFree86
book
I'm trying to build Gnome2 2.2.0 from ports on a 5.0-RELEASE system.
The build for Gnome2 died trying to build gedit2. If I try to build
just gedit2, I get the same problem. Below is the script capture of the
errors. I updated ports-all right before I started the build. Any ideas?
TIA
Script
I'm rebuilding gnome2 at the V2.2 level.
Gnome2 installed from ports OK but when I try to build gnome2-fifth-toe
from ports (cvsuped Monday) I get the following:
Atlas# pwd
/usr/ports/x11/gnome2-fifth-toe
Atlas# make && make install
===> Installing for gnome2-fifth-toe-2.2.0_3
===> gnome2-fift
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:47, Tom Parquette wrote:
I'm rebuilding gnome2 at the V2.2 level.
Gnome2 installed from ports OK but when I try to build gnome2-fifth-toe
from ports (cvsuped Monday) I get the following:
Atlas# pwd
/usr/ports/x11/gnome2-fifth-toe
I've been automating some routine stuff on my machine and one of them is
cvsuping ports-all and pulling the distfiles overnight (while everybody
is asleep.) Keeping portupgrade right up to date feels like the right
thing to do and I was thinking about adding this to the shell script I'm
writin
Hi.
I've been trying to install misc/instant-server on my 5.0-CURRENT system
and I'm running into, I think, a postfix problem.
I've been looking at this and I cannot figure out where -ldes should be.
For some reason, Gnome2 will not let me copy and paste the actual
command but it's complaining "
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:23:03AM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote:
Hi.
I've been trying to install misc/instant-server on my 5.0-CURRENT system
and I'm running into, I think, a postfix problem.
I've been looking at this and I cannot figure out where -ldes shoul
I have cvsup-mirror installed (using the desfault paths) and I recently
installed svsweb.
I was looking at the cvsweb conf file and I started wondering if
accepting the cvsup-mirror defaults was the right thing to do.
Playing with the cvsweb config file, the examples showed "local",
FreeBSD, Op
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:08:45AM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote:
This is due to the upgrade of openssl. Have you tried cvsupping and
retying? Most of the problems have already been fixed. If it
persists, then please report which port was building when it failed
(not
Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
The postfix port had a stale reference to libdes. I have corrected
it.
Cheers,
I cvsuped ports-all and reran the make.
It worked without complaints.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers...
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I'm setting up DHCP for the first time on 5.0-CURRENT.
In the end, I would like to get DDNS working.
I set up the dhcpd.conf and it appears to be issuing addresses correctly.
My old W98 laptop appears to have gotten the right information.
I do not have DNS set up yet and that may be part of my prob
Nicholas Basila wrote:
On Monday 10 March 2003 04:59 pm, Tom Parquette wrote:
I'm setting up DHCP for the first time on 5.0-CURRENT.
In the end, I would like to get DDNS working.
I set up the dhcpd.conf and it appears to be issuing addresses
correctly. My old W98 laptop appears to have g
NOEL BALANSAG wrote:
hello.
pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the
command "ee" or "vi"? i recently removed partition no.
2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so
now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and =
fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the
sys
I've been looking through some basic shell books, and some online
resources, that I have but I'm not finding the answer.
Or maybe I just don't recognize the answer when I see it...
I'm building a schell script that will backup my systems to CD-ROM. Or
DVD when I can talk my wife into a burner.
Hi.
I've got printing set up and I have been able to generate the test print
from 5.0-CURRENT to my Laserjet 2200dse via USB cabling.
My wife wants to get her Lexmark 3200 off of her desk and "somewhere
else". So, I migrated my Laserjet to USB and I'm planning to plug her
printer into the paral
I posted the following a month ago and got no responses.
Let's try this one more time, before I give up...
TIA and Cheers...
--- Begin Message ---
I have cvsup-mirror installed (using the desfault paths) and I recently
installed svsweb.
I was looking at the cvsweb conf file and I started wondering
I was installing an additional hard disk and I believe I commented out
the wrong line in fstab or typo'ed something. The /usr filesystem is
not mounted. The machine will not boot to a command prompt so I can
repair it. It complains bitterly at boot time about not finding things
in the /usr/.
I installed an additional disk in a machine and expanded the space
allocated to /var.
I run this desktop with XFree86 and GDM.
root can logon without complaints but if a non--superuser tries to
logon, the session fails immediately.
The following appears in .xsession-errors. I'm concluding I did
I have a bind8 DNS running that I'm getting the following messages out of.
It appears I have permissions set wrong somewhere but I do not know
where because it does not give me a path name.
AFAIK, /etc/named has always been owned by root:wheel. Thus, I'm
assuming these files are supposed to go s
Hi. This is a little off topic but I'm hoping someone can provide some
guidance and answer a few questions. TIA.
I'm trying to learn ANSI C using a book circa 1994. It is written from
a DOS perspective.
Someone at work, who knows a little C, told me that the book was "close
enough".
I'm havi
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I would like to get bugzilla running on my home network for a couple of
reasons:
1) I have had a number of learnings from getting my network running that
I keep having to relearn because I forget or lose/recycle th
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I'm working on Proof-of Concept for a project at work that requires
cryptographic support (PGP).
I'm trying to test with my FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT system at home. The
other end is is PGP 2.6.3i running under UNIX System Servcies
I do not believe this is related to 5.1-CURRENT. I think I've done
something wrong with my configuration.
Please CC me on any replies. I subscribe to the digest form. TIA.
I want to set up my house server to be an internal mail host.
"Internal mail host" means it will collect all the Email fro
I have amd running, after I figured out I had been misunderstanding the
man pages, but I have some questions. I'm looking for some best
practices insights. I looked for a howto and searched the questions
archive but I didn't turn up what I was looking for.
1) I would like to remove /usr/src,
Hi all.
I'm trying to turn on swap encryption on a 6.1-S machine.
I ran into problems trying to write the random data over the swap space.
I get the following messages:
Script started on Sun Aug 13 20:48:28 2006
P3R-233# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/ad4s1b bs=1m
dd: /dev/ad4s1b: Operation not permit
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