jsha wrote:
Hello.
I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts
on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes
and users to the rest of the world.
I am new to FreeBSD, only one month of use or so. I come from Debian
GNU/Linux world and only
Nick Wilson wrote:
Hi
I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the
three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the
FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a
daemon). Taking the default option 1 just starts the boot from
Nick Wilson wrote:
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Nick Wilson wrote:
Hi
I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the
the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get
the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing
of a daemon). Taking
Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript
to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port.
The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson
language
that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so
Graham Bentley wrote:
Hello All,
I admit, I am a lazy admin and like clicking with a mouse
whilst talking on the phone, drinking tea and eating toast.
I got used to XFE from using Linux and have enjoyed it in
FreeBSD - until I installed it under 5.3
I am also an XFE fan, I love the command line
Chris Hill wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Roland Smith wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote:
I've tried to download a few pics from my Canon Ixus v2 camera with
libgphoto2 (frontends: kamera and gphoto2) without success. The
camera is
supported though, I even
Katsuki Hirata wrote:
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to
run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot,
and after loginging with both root and/or another
username, I don't know what to do from there on. How
do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a
graphical thing
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From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 3:40 PM
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Katsuki Hirata wrote
I would add the BSD-like linux gentoo to the list, perhaps before debian:
it has a complete repository of packages and above all, what I found more
appealing with respect to debian, a wonderful managemente of ports allowing
you to compile your own system from scratch just like the ports of
Hello Olivier
I have a Canon D-30 that works out of the box with gphoto2.
Just
#gphoto2 -P
is enough for downloading the pictures.
But I have a Canon A80 that refuses to do it without commandline tweaking.
#gphoto2 --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (PTP) --port usb: -P
If I use the simple command
FreeBSD MailingLists wrote:
I have the following ~/.vimrc
syn on
set incsearch
set ignorecase
set smartcase
set scrolloff=2
set wildmode=longest,list
I want to set this up as the default settings for my system.
under linux i think there was a way to set global vimrc settings by writing to
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Leonard Zettel writes:
My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
going with the binary packages. I get the impression that many
port maintainers who are fairly careful about
Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:42:48PM -0500, Parv wrote:
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Loren M. Lang thusly...
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap.
Yesterday I entered the command
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello FreeBSD friends:
I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap.
Yesterday I entered the command:
# grep -R something /
and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact
messages as I am on a winbugs at the University. The error
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
John writes:
I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it
by hand.
It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
How much space have you got to play with?
About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up
a
Hello FreeBSD friends:
I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap.
Yesterday I entered the command:
# grep -R something /
and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact
messages as I am on a winbugs at the University. The error was about
Hello again.
Browsing the freebsd list, I have found this interesting link that
explains it great:
http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html
Thank you very much.
Ramiro.
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Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello FreeBSD friends
I have a question about ports. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a AMD 400
MHz machine with 64 MB RAM, so it is not a fast machine for compiling
big programs! :-). The problem I am going to tell you, happened to me
several weeks ago into another slower
- Original Message -
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Questions about ports
If you are going to mess around with those, it's probably easier to go
directly
I must have missed the first message. Easy to do when there are
several hundred per day.
ok, yes, this mailing list is high traffic and that also happens to me. :-)
I would cvsup the latest ports collection. (There is no 5-stable ports
collection, the same set of ports works for all
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From: Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Questions about ports
On Monday 21 February 2005 06:15 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello FreeBSD
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From: Wouter van Rooij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Questions about ports
I think the best you can do is install linux-mozillafirebird. I'm
using it for a couple of months now, because I
Hello FreeBSD friends
I have a question about ports. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a AMD 400
MHz machine with 64 MB RAM, so it is not a fast machine for compiling
big programs! :-). The problem I am going to tell you, happened to me
several weeks ago into another slower machine (Pentium 75 in
Rob wrote:
--- Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob wrote:
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
I have read that others had this problem before. I
just write this report for you to know.
When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors
like this, but I could end the install:
ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA
Hello FreeBSD friends.
I have read that others had this problem before. I just write this
report for you to know.
I received yesterday two old computers retired from a school and finally
I was able to build a decent machine mixing the best parts of each
one. The machine is an AMD K6 400 MHz
Rob wrote:
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
I have read that others had this problem before. I
just write this report for you to know.
When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors
like this, but I could end the install:
ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying
request) LBA=5313599
ad0
Peter Risdon wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 06:31 -0800, Rob wrote:
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
I have read that others had this problem before. I
just write this report for you to know.
When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors
like this, but I could end the install:
ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA
Hello,
Have a look at http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ , I have not
found your model, but perhaps you can take some hints from other HP laptops.
Good Luck
Ramiro
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
There are not a myth, they are a fact. I have seen bluescreens
frecuently in win95 and winMillenium.
Neither of these is based on NT, and both are dead products.
How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes? My girlfriend
has got
Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello Anthony
Thanks for your reply.
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
snip
I use my computer for my engineering calculations, surfing the net and
e-mailing, and for fun and hobbies
Loren M. Lang wrote:
I although have observed that in this list, some of you hate Linux.
I have never seen insults to FreeBSD in the Debian e-mail lists. They
some times talk about some experiences about FreeBSD, but never say
things like such crap FreeBSD .. as I have heard here many
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
darren kirby writes:
I think your interpretation here is a tad glib.
I think it's right on the money. The entire Linux movement is fueled by
hatred for Microsoft. And the ultimate goal of the Linux movement is to
build an OS that walks, talks, and quacks like Microsoft
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
darren kirby writes:
That is just not right. Perhaps for Redhat, SuSe et al this may be the case,
but what do you expect? MS is their primary (only?) competition.
Whatever happened to UNIX _servers_?
There are a million different reasons to run Linux, and a million
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes?
Most companies that write operating systems don't do a very good job of
it on the first few tries. The older Mac OS (the one that preceded Mac
OS X) was of the same generation as 16-bit
Len Zettel wrote:
I am looking for a desktop environment to run
with freebsd. I will be the sole user.
Just what I prefer:
Must-have:
graphical ftp client
gftp if you like GUIs, wget if you prefer commandline apps.
spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files
gnumeric or openoffice
word
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
[...]
Still another reason why I prefer FreeBSD is that it places far less
emphasis on the desktop. Linux has been moving more and more towards a
desktop because that's where the hype and money is perceived to be.
[...]
Hello Anthony and FreeBSD fans
I use Debian as my
Hello Anthony
Thanks for your reply.
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
I use Debian as my main system and I do not agree with you. I do not
think that Linux distributions I use are doing more enphasis on the
desktop. At least on Debian or Gentoo (the distros I know) you always
have
Erik Norgaard wrote:
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
I although have observed that in this list, some of you hate Linux.
I have never seen insults to FreeBSD in the Debian e-mail lists. They
some times talk about some experiences about FreeBSD, but never say
things like such crap FreeBSD .. as I have
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
Yes, but some OSes are famous for their blue screens
None that I'm aware of. Blue screens are more of a popular myth
invented by people who hate Microsoft than a reality. I saw occasional
BSODs long ago when there were driver problems or hardware
I think it is a bug because there are some boneheaded older systems
that have broken BIOSes where FreeBSD can only detect 16MB of ram
without recompiling the kernel.
I have just submitted a bug report. I am wainting for the confirmation.
Thanks.
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Regards
Ramiro
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Sounds like memory is indeed the issue then - is the original poster
able to confirm this? If so, one of you should submit a PR requesting
that the docs be updated.
Kris
Hello Kris. I posted my experiences in the thread Confirmed: 5.3
installation do not work with 16 MB RAM on
John wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:41:07AM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:22:09AM -0500, Aperez wrote:
Yes, I am sorry I made a mistake. I meant 64 MB
Any idea what is the problem?
It's possible that it's faulty hardware. A system that old could very
well have its
Hello FreeBSD friends.
I have been learning 5.3 FreeBSD on an old pentium 75 box on the last weeks.
The main target for this system is to have a light weight window manager to
surf the Internet and read emails. I have even compiled the kernel to
include
sound drivers. The system works pretty well
Jorn Argelo wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote
Hello friends.
I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not
been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have
compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine
Hello friends.
I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not
been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have
compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include the
driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel
memory banks not supported by the motherboard. (Have you ran a
memtest?)
Ramiro Aceves.
EA1ABZ
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Lyn Robie wrote:
Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure. It's
obvious you guys are hard put to find anyone competent in the user
interfaces. And after such snobbishly rave reviews for FreeBSD on the
web I was expecting better. I installed on an HP533 I386 with the X
, BSD code is on
Linux OSes, and GNU software is on FreeBSD ports.. etc...
Thank you very much and sorry for my bad english.
Just my 2 euro cents.
Ramiro Aceves. (Spain)
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martin hudec wrote:
MH Hello,
MH
MH On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100 or thereabouts, RAmiro
Aceves wrote:
MH
RAIf you argue that, you do not know Linux well. When I speak about
Linux,
RAI mean Debian or Gentoo. I do not think that they are chaothic or
RAintended for desktop. Debian put
snip
i two had the same issues of not getting freebsd 4.9 , 4.10 or 5.3
installed and running with 16 meg of ram on an old 233 box that i
whanted to use as a firewall/router .. so i put 32 in it and it works
just fine with 5.3-stable ___
Thanks for
post to the list.
Thanks
Ramiro Aceves
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, and compiling the kernel is not a quick
test and error method :-( with this ultraspeed machine.
I attach the following files:
*dmesg* *pciconf -lv* *uname -a* *Xorg.0.log* *xorg.conf*
Thank you very much in advance.
Ramiro Aceves.
*** Xorg.0.log ***
Release
It works now!!!
I fixed the problem telling where PCI card is on the xorg.conf file. I
do not understand it cause I suposed that Xorg searched for it :
BusID PCI:0:8:0
Thank you very much.
Ramiro Aceves
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Hello Ted
Many thanks for your response.
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Have you heard of the KISS principle?
no :-(
CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine
and makes it harder to troubleshoot. I don't personally care much
for this.
I understand now. I agree with you.
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Why in heavens name are you bothering with CUPS?
Hello Ted and people there.
I have working my Epson C84 in FreeBSD 5.3 perfectly with CUPS and gimp
-print.
Just curious. ¿What is the matter with CUPS?. I do not understand well
what GPL-crutch means. I seems that you
messmate wrote:
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:31:26 -0800
Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make
a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and
then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way?
I come from
Scott I. Remick wrote:
Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old
Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get through
install, borrowed some and then could then back off to default 16MB after
5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I accidentally
Scott I. Remick wrote:
I'm trying to breathe some life into some old hardware by giving it a
task
of a server. I've burnt the full 5.3 ISO to CD. I can get it to read
the CD
fine and start to boot. I get as far as the Welcome to FreeBSD menu
(with
the ASCII daemon). No matter what option I
Christian Hiris wrote:
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 10:05, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
[...]
I have an older 486 with 24 MB RAM and it runs freebsd 5.3 installation
process very well, but unfortunately, its memory does not fit on the
pentium.
Did you try to move the harddisk of the 16MB box over
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello dear FreeBSD friends.
I am having trouble to get SVGALIB running. I need it for running LINRAD
amateur radio software from the ports. I cvsuped the ports collection
and installed LINRAD and SVGALIB with the make and make install comands
as usual, no problem at all
Hello dear FreeBSD friends.
I am having trouble to get SVGALIB running. I need it for running LINRAD
amateur radio software from the ports. I cvsuped the ports collection
and installed LINRAD and SVGALIB with the make and make install comands
as usual, no problem at all. The problem arises
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Keep in mind that the way this bug works is when you have a hard disk
on the first IDE controller and a CDROM on the second (as you do here)
when they are both transferring data at the same time the CMD 640 chip
corrupts the data. You can fix it by moving the CD to the
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:18 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
You are right Ted, when I had Linux installed on that pentium machine it
worked even slower than a 486
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Ramiro,
Don't I qualify as a guru, I did after all write a book on it:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/
Thanks Ted for your mail. I am very happy of beeing able to speak with
people that knows well the FreeBSD system.
Also, as for your problem with the CMD640, I
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and
search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD
640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I
think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions
slatvick wrote:
Hello People,
I have Notebook Toshiba A40-231. I've tried to install FreeBSD 5.3
on it and had failure.
CD plays, then I see menu, choose anyone(default, acpi disabled,...)
and then after several lines Computer is stopped. Also I've tried
to install with disabled
Brian Bobowski wrote:
Well, salvage any hardware that you can; you never know, you just
might find a compatible motherboard without a CPU, and then you'll be
able to mix and match. (Speaking as someone who's missed too many
scrounging opportunities, here.)
Dear Brian:
Thanks for answering. I
key for the command prompt then turn off acpi.
If this doesen't work, try loading FreeBSD 4.10
Ted
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Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 3:04 AM
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Subject: I can not install FreeBSD
working well there.
Thanks.
Ramiro.
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello Ted:
Thanks for your help. I tried that before without success. I am going to
download 4.10 floppies and I will tell you the result.
Thanks.
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Hello dear FreeBSD friends.
I am Ramiro from Spain.This is my first post to the list. I am a regular
Debian GNU/Linux user, but I have been tempted to try FreeBSD. I have
installed it successfully on my 1200 MHz Athlon computer booting from
the CDROM drive and I like it, but I can not install
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