Why no dvd isos?

Why is freebsd still only available on cdrom images? Particularly with the way the packages make wear your arm out swapping them back and forth, it would be really nice to have the entire distribution in one image. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Why no dvd isos?

m...@sentex.net wrote: There are DVD versions available ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz That's the only version that seems to, but thanks! It looks like they're coming... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

loading kernel module from floppy?

disk0a:filename, it's not found. neither is /disk0a/filename or /dev/disk0a/filename. Neither does the odd syntax the earlier stage uses of 0:fd(0,a)/filename. My next step is to head for the source I guess... -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.orgMe alan

mysql-style client for odbc?

recommendations? -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.orgMe alan at batie.org\/www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A\ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 \/ spamassassin.taint.org

Re: usbdevs

disk before, so both the new controller, and adding the /dev node were needed for usbdevs. The mouse daemon came up on its own with the new controller, so things are looking good... Now to figure out how to get the disk and serial port devices going... -- Alan Batie

USB 2 umass

, this: aggie92.batie.org [95] $ time cat k8 /dev/null real0m51.805s ...which, at about 1+MB/s implies the 10MB/s above was a cache effect, and thus the question: why is this thing running at USB 1 speeds? -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.orgMe alan at batie.org

Re: usbdevs

device_probe_and_attach: uhci2 attach returned 6 pci0: USB controller at 9.2 irq 11 -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.orgMe alan at batie.org\/www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A\ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5

Re: restoring mysql databases from mysqldump was Re: upgrading mysql

, but it sounds like the simple solution is to 'mysqladmin create database name' first. Though the -A does seem to put create database commands in the dump file. You might look at the sql and find out what's broken... I tried dumping all mine, and got a client out of memory error. Weird. -- Alan

Re: Necessary code or trash?

, libraries were constructed so that only the modules you were actually using got included, even static ones. Or so I was given to understand... Since libc is 1.2Meg, there still seems to be a little bit of that going on, but sheesh! -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.org

Re: usbdevs

. It is optical, I don't recall any force feedback. Never heard of that in a mouse. It was only $20. Nope, don't see anything about force feedback. I will try an OHCI controller; need to get one anyhow to really use the disk drive, I just wanted to see if I could get it to work first. -- Alan

Re: quotas not staying updates

: options QUOTA #enable disk quotas -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.orgMe alan at batie.org\/www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A\ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA

quotas not staying updates

reflected. That no longer seems to be the case. I've taken to running quotacheck hourly. Any ideas? Thanks... -- Alan Batie __alan.batie.orgMe alan at batie.org\/www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A