Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-26 Thread Robertsen A. Riehle
On Thursday 25 May 2006 19:03, John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's

Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread Robertsen A. Riehle
Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there any hope of rectifying this or is this workstation is a static ports

dual-boot winxp freebsd 5.1

2003-11-21 Thread Robertsen A. Riehle
I am trying to dual-boot winxp and freebsd 5.1-stable. I installed the went through the prescribed routine. 1. Installing windows first. 2. Installing freebsd next. 2. Copy /boot/boot1 to c:\bootsect.bsd 3. add the line C:\bootsect.bsd=FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE to c:\boot.ini At this