Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread freebsd-lists-erik
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:20:19PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > I think that your statement here is fundamentally flawed and wrong, because > you have assumed that it is impossible for the OS to be able to be user > friendly and geek friendly at the same time. This is wrong. In fact, I have > outl

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread freebsd-lists-erik
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:28:28PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system. > I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it > should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be > convinced. > >

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-07 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Ian Smith wrote: Very long story short: googled for ages and found a forum thread about this very problem, in which someone suggested Options / Rescan Devices then trying again. The OP there said it didn't work for him, but it sure did for me! Options / Rescan Devices fixed it for me. May

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-01 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
For the archives, there's now a PR for this: bin/140972 - Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) <48225...@razorfever.net> wrote: It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get "No USB devices found!" when I go to the fixit/USB option. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the

8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get "No USB devices found!" when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my d

libspectre -> libgs >= 8.61 problem

2009-03-18 Thread FreeBSD Lists
Morning All: While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port insists that I must have libgs to compile it. After a little research, I found that this is a ghostscript library. So I installed the ghostscript-8.63 port. noe, libspectre insists that I have to have libgs versio

Unable to make new root filesystem

2003-11-14 Thread FreeBSD lists
Hi , I m trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Deskpro EP series PIII600 with 256Mb RAM 12Gb HDD . This is the message that I got : "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36". I tried to change in BIOS from UDMA to PIO-0 PIO-4 EDMA but without luck.

Unable

2003-11-14 Thread FreeBSD lists
Hi , I m trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Deskpro EP series PIII600 with 256Mb RAM 12Gb HDD . This is the message that I got : "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36". I tried to change in BIOS from UDMA to PIO-0 PIO-4 EDMA but without luck.