Afternoon All,
My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the screen where it
pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot options, and
then...nothing!
Choosing the default option shows a single line /boot/kernel/acpi.ko
text= etc,... then the next line shows |, and
Morning Everyone,
Having only a dial-up connection at home, I try to download most of the
large files I need for FreeBSD at work. To date I have to sit down in front
of the pc, run portupgrade with the fetch only option and then note down the
url's and file names of the needed files. Of course
Hi everyone,
I have just cvsupped successfully and tried to run portsdb -Uu. I received the
following error:
_
freebsd# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..fr-mozilla-flp-1.7:
Hello FreeBSDers,
Just installed e2fsprogs from ports and it gave some instructions for
vreating some links as follows:
--
To have your ext2 and ext3 filesystems fsck'ed
Hello Everyone,
I am multibooting FreeBSD with a few Linux distributions such as Mandrake,
Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat. (I'll reduce that list to a couple of favourites
eventually).
I have set up a primary partition with ext2 filesystem to act as a single
data partition accessable from all OSs.
Hi Everyone,
I'm currently using portupgrade to upgrade my ports (obviously). I'm getting
errors on some of my ports. Eg config error on gedit2, and KDE fails for
unknown reason.
How do I direct my output to a file so I can review it to find the reason or
at least post it to this forum? I want
March 2004 3:24 PM
To: Ron Joordens
Subject: Re: /root file system full
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:55 pm, you wrote:
Bob,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my query.
My filesystem setup is the default one as suggested during the
installation. IE. 128mb for /root, 512mb
.
That process stopped with an error message stating that a conflict between
xfmail and qt existed and that qt could not be upgraded untill xfmail was
deinstalled so there may be a lot of working data still on the system. Would
that be on root?
Thanks for your help,
Ron Joordens
Melbourne, Australia
