I tried to boot FreeBSD versions 5.0 , 5.3 , and 5.4 ; all were
unsuccessful. I was told that something basic in the boot stuff was
changed and my micro-processor (or BIOS , or whatever) may be
out-of-date vis-a-vis the new boot process. My system's uname -a is
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEAS
I've gotten 3 copies of FreeBSD 5.3 (I don't know if they are
identical,
and I'm not really interested). When booting each of them I get
essentially the
same messages, which I will list here:
Verifying DMI Pool Data .
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:
CD Loader 1.2
Building the boot load
From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Stable version of FreeBSD 5.0
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:04:36 -0500
In the last episode (Aug 25), Gerald S. Stoller said:
>I have the impression fro
I have the impression from reading the McGraw Hill book on this version
("The Complete Reference FreeBSD") that the 1024 cylinder limit (in the
boot loader) may have gone away with this release. Is that true, and if so,
what is the new limit? Any other significant changes? Also, about wh
I executed the following printf (in a Korn shell command-line)
printf 't %2$s .\n' 3 55
and got the following response
printf: illegal format character $
The following is an excerpt from the man-3 page for printf .
Each conversion specifi
In freeBSD 4.3 & 4.7 (& others), the chown command only works
for root , for other users the command responds (if one actually tries
to change the ownership) "chown: : Operation not permitted"
where "" is the first file name in the argument-list. This
command does work in a version of
From: Quintin Riis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xterm
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 03:59:50 -0600
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`man xterm' `man xfontsel' :)
Read man xterm
From: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xterm
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:49:34 -0500 (EST)
>I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to
&g
I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to
tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional
action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because
it requires that I use both hands, one on the mouse and one on
the keyboard) after the window is opened. Is the
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:27:44 +1300 Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Gerald S Stoller wrote:
> > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49
> GMT 2001
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/s
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
I received this message on my FreeBSD system in root
windows:
sendmail[897]: h9V0K0r00897: forward /home/sstoller/.forward: Group
writable director
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
I run XFree86 on my system. Each process has an environment
variable named WINDOWID . What purpose does this variable serve? How
is it used? What can I
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
I tried out the -inum option of the find command and find
that it didn't work. I got a valid inode number from 'ls -i' and fed
that to 'find dir -in
I have read some stuff stating that there is code to handle a
relational data base in FreeBSD . Where can I find some documentation
for this? What do I call to use this feature and how do I pass it a
(sql) program? How do I receive the results? Maybe there is a package
group (or port g
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 + Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote:
> > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49
> GMT 2001
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/s
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am using
Xwindows ). One place where I found mention of color is in the manual
page of the ls comma
From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: set user-id
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:23:05 -0500
(snip)
> > Well, why don't you just chmod 4755 /bin/ksh,
I purchased the book "The Complete Reference FreeBSD " (published by
McGraw Hill Osborne) which contained a CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0 . I read a
few of the text files on it and then tried to boot it. Shortly after
starting this, it wrote (to the screen) "
CD loader 1.01
Building the boot
From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: set user-id
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:23:05 -0500
In the last episode (Jul 23), Gerald S. Stoller said:
>
>
&
From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
FreeBSD Questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: set user-id
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:37:29 -0500
In the last ep
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
As root, I made a text file (named t ) that did something like
echo $USER | tee xx
and then had it set user-id (I did 'chmod 4755
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
When working in a Unix system, I like to work with several windows (if
possible) and organize my work among them. I use xterm (as on the line
'xterm &') to open ne
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