Re: PCBSD9.0-x64-DVD and Intel HD Graphics 2000

2012-07-23 Thread David Christensen
On 07/23/2012 03:37 AM, Vladislav wrote: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU Okay. I wrote: I've installed PCBSD9.0-x64-DVD on the following hardware: On 07/23/2012 06:30 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: this where the problem starts. If nothing changed since I used this, it only supports VESA

PCBSD9.0-x64-DVD and Intel HD Graphics 2000

2012-07-20 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I've installed PCBSD9.0-x64-DVD on the following hardware: Intel DQ67SW motherboard Intel i7-2600S processor Corsair CMV8GX3M2A1333C9 memory (DDR3, 1333 MHz, 2@4 GB dual) Intel SSDSC2CW060A310 solid-state drive (520 series, 60 GB) Nokia

encrypted ZFS root and encrypted swap OOTB?

2012-07-09 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: It is possible to install FreeBSD with an encrypted ZFS root and encrypted swap using FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1? I'm looking for something similar to the Debian installer, which provides disk partitioning, file system creation, mounts, LUKS, LVM, etc.. TIA, David

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-08 Thread David Christensen
On 06/07/2012 06:40 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: On 06/08/2012 01:07 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Thanks for the replies. :-) David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-07 Thread David Christensen
On 06/06/2012 08:33 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: This looks like the processor I have, I think you would use amd64. Almost certainly your system is 64-bit as opposed to 32-bit. Thanks for the reply. :-) Yes, definitely 64-bit. For a new computer, I wouldn't go with anything earlier than

Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-06 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3 motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host, desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC). Can this be done with FreeBSD; if so, which distribution and ports/packages do I need?

LUKS/ dm-crypt/ ext4 appears to be single threaded

2012-03-25 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: Thread moved from debian-user and dm-crypt. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/03/msg01154.html http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5724 I seem to recall FreeBSD having encrypted disks/ filesystems/ whatever. Is there one that

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

2009-01-04 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=miscportname=amand a-server Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I would prefer using the Bash shell, but the default FreeBSD shell for root

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I am attempting to build a desktop machine using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) and am having trouble building firefox3: 20081026-104652 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/firefox3 # make === firefox-3.0.3,1 depends on package: nspr=4.7 - found === firefox-3.0.3,1 depends

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread David Christensen
mdh wrote: The answer is to upgrade your devel/glib20 port to the latest version, then try to install or upgrade libgiofam, then install the other software. Thank you for your response. :-) Here's my attempt to carry out your suggestions: 20081026-122203 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # portsnap

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread David Christensen
Sahil Tandon wrote: Do these ellipses include a 'make install'? Otherwise, that is likely your problem; devel/glib20 is not actually installed. Michael Powell wrote: If you previously had glib20-2.14.6 installed, you will need to do a 'make deinstall' prior to 'make reinstall'. ... then

RE: mysql-server-5.1.22 system administration docsonFreeBSD7.0-RELEASE-i386 ?

2008-08-29 Thread David Christensen
Reordered for clarity -- David. I used pkg_add (rather than sysinstall) to install MySQL 5.1 server on another machine. While the port is called 'mysql-server-5.1.22', the package is called 'mysql51-server': # cd /usr/ports/ # make search mysql ... Port: mysql-server-5.1.22

RE: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-27 Thread David Christensen
Mark Busby wrote: Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with linux. Has anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to waste time and money, even with the option of resale on eslay.  Thanks for your time. I've had good luck with my IOGear Miniview GCS 78 -- 8-port

RE: mysql-server-5.1.22 system administration docs on FreeBSD7.0-RELEASE-i386 ?

2008-08-27 Thread David Christensen
Fraser Tweedale wrote: put the following line in /etc/rc.conf: mysql_enable=YES and run (as root): /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start # echo 'mysql_enable=YES' /etc/rc.conf # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start Starting mysql. # mysql Welcome to the MySQL

mysql-server-5.1.22 system administration docs on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 ?

2008-08-26 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I am a FreeBSB noob who has read http://nostarch.com/abs_bsd2.htm and is attempting to build a FreeBSD 7.0 box for Apache/ MySQL/ Perl applications. I've installed mysql-server-5.1.22 via sysinstall from ftp1.us.freebsd.org, but I am unable to figure out how to start it.

RE: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-07 Thread David Christensen
Krishna Mohan Gundu wrote: I feel that time has come for me to move away from Fedora. PS: I am considering Debian as another alternative. I've done both Red Hat and Debian, and prefer FreeBSD. I suggest that you get yourself some 7.0-RELEASE CD's, buy this book, and go for it:

PCI Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC) recommendations

2008-07-31 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE i386 computer, category 5E cabling, and a Netgear GS108 Gigabit switch. The machine currently hosts CVS, and I plan to add FTP and mirroring eventually. I would like to add a PCI Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC) to the computer and

RE: Testing RAM

2008-06-14 Thread David Christensen
Ryan Coleman wrote: How would I go about slamming the RAM in testing? I use Memtest86 to test memory: http://www.memtest86.com/ HTH, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: system programming

2008-01-10 Thread David Christensen
Michael wrote: I am a computer science student taking the operating systems course. All of our assignments are supposed run on Linux and I don't have a Linux machine. I've taken programming classes and learned the hard way that the only way to ensure that my software worked correctly on the

RE: Install FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows XP prof in the same computer

2007-10-17 Thread David Christensen
williamkow wrote off-list: May I know what is mobile docks ? how does it look, where can I find more information on it ? Be sure to hit Reply to All, as Reply will reply to the poster, not the list. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Regarding mobile docks, I use these:

RE: Install FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows XP prof in the same computer

2007-10-16 Thread David Christensen
williamkow wrote: Please provide me more advices on installing multi operating system in a computer. Don't. Get the VMware free player or server and download the virtual machines. Or, get two hard drives, put them into mobile docks, and do a power down/ swap/ power up cycle when you want to

RE: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread David Christensen
Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. ... I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal. Any help out there? Buy Learning Perl, Fourth Edition, read it, and do the exercises:

RE: Which versioning system is the simplest to use??

2007-09-11 Thread David Christensen
Agus wrote: I am doing a little bit of security and log watching with sec.pl and was trying to mantain de secconf files organized... So whenever one is changed it keeps track of the change and can rollback O that is what i am going to use de versioning sytem for... If you only have a

RE: CGI with html

2007-09-06 Thread David Christensen
Olivier Regnier wrote: I try to write CGI scripts but i have a problem on my screen. You might want to try looking/asking for help on the following newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi HTH, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: Regular Freezes

2007-06-25 Thread David Christensen
SigmaX wrote: My FreeBSD 6.1 gateway box keeps freezing totally. It seems to happen when there's a large burst of network traffic on my internal interface (i.e. download, flash movie, I-radio). I've already done a memtest, and it came out clean. Any ideas as to what logs might help me

RE: 6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken?

2006-07-13 Thread David Christensen
Matthew Seaman wrote: What are the contents of /etc/manpath.config ? $ cat /etc/manpath.config | egrep -v '^#' MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/openssl/man OPTIONAL_MANPATH/usr/local/man OPTIONAL_MANPATH/usr/X11R6/man

RE: 6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken?

2006-07-13 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: Nick Withers wrote: Unfortunately (or at least as I understand it), the contents of /etc/manpath.config don't matter if you have the MANPATH environment variable set. Did you happen to set this yourself (i.e., explicitly)? Yes: 2006-07-13 13:09:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

6.1-RELEASE-i386, sysinstall, installing packages from CD -- won't eject CD 1

2006-07-12 Thread David Christensen
hello, world! I'm a FreeBSD newbie who is fumbling his way through FreeBSD 6.1. I am trying to install software from CD using sysinstall, but can't figure out how to eject CD 1 when it wants a package that's on CD 2. Pressing the button on the drive has no effect. STFW I found a page

6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken?

2006-07-12 Thread David Christensen
hello, world! I'm a FreeBSD newbie who has installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-i386 using the developer with X option. man doesn't seem to work: 2006-07-12 21:59:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # man man No manual entry for man 2006-07-12 22:12:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # echo $MANPATH

RE: FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

2005-09-14 Thread David Christensen
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Sure, they are *now*. But a flaky power supply may well have pushed them over the edge. And checking the power supply isn't that hard; it's well worth the couple of minutes it takes. The computer has been, and is once again, operating flawlessly using a Western Digital

RE: FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

2005-09-13 Thread David Christensen
Lowell Gilbert wrote: It is quite a coincidence, though. Not really. Those drives must be 10 years old. If I were you, I would be suspicious of the power supply. Verified in second computer -- the drives are toast. Thanks, David ___

RE: FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

2005-09-12 Thread David Christensen
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: See what manpath command gives you. If bad, read it's manpage. Thanks for your reply. :-) The machine has been acting flaky, so I downloaded and burned the hard drive diagnostic ISO and found out that *both* of my Quantum LPS 240's are bad. That would explain the

FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

2005-09-11 Thread David Christensen
FreeBSD-questions: I'm an FreeBSD newbie who just did a minimal install of FreeBSD 4.11 on some vintage hardware, only to discover that the man pages seem to be missing. So I STFW, found the following: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-01/0568.htm l ran

RE: FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

2005-09-11 Thread David Christensen
Beecher Rintoul wrote: Boot off the install disk. Choose Do a post install configuration. Choose Additional Distribution Sets - Man Install. Thank you for your reply. :-) Why is that any different than running /stand/sysinstall and choosing the same? That's what I did, I feed it my CD1, and