Installation difficulties
Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version installer, which it did on an Intel 64 bit processor. The 64 bit version is marked 'AMD64'. I would have gotten a laptop with AMD but this particular seller (Linux Certified) did not have one available when I was ready to buy. So now I am at it because the warrantee on the laptop has expired. So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. I also tried MySQL. The first time it also failed to install. But did sysinstall and tried a different version than originally selected, and it did install. Since I wanted the GUI, I ran xinit when I got a shell prompt and xwindows failed to load and run, the error is failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist). Perhaps this is not an issue that can be addressed practically, here, which is alright with me. But short of getting another DVD and trying to install from that is there a way to deal, at least with the fbdev complaint? My experience with FreeBSD goes back to 6.0, setting up and running servers, specifically web servers. This is going to be a development server, as it had been when it had Ubuntu Linux. Thank you for time and attention; JK ___ 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
First time for everything
Hello; How is a usb device accessed on Freebsd. I installed an SATA drive in a usb enclosure and plugged in into usb port on the machine. Console message indicated detection of the device when the power switch for the usb enclosure was set to on. When I did mount -w /dev/usb (or usbN) I got special device unknown. Or mount -w /dev/usb (or usbN) /mnt needs block device. There is a first time for everything. man usb does not tell me. and Absolute BSD (M. Lucas) does not say anything about usb devices let alone how to access them. Thank you for patience and guidance Jeff K. ___ 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
salvaging hard drive contents
Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with /var. Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I best go about this? response to above query--- There will be no conflict. All the magic as to 'wher to mout what' is in the /etc/fstab file. because it doesn't know about the disk you're adding, ther won'tbe any conflicts. Simply use the long form of mount(1), to wit: mount devicename mountpoint, and mount it on any convenient location, say '/mnt'. -- Now I have the hard disk I want to recover mounted but please for give me for being in the learning phase, but how to I cd on to this drive? I mounted it using the suggested 'mount -r (in this case ad12s1d) /var' now how do I actually read it? I tried cd ad12s1d/var and I got the 'file does not exist' response. If I do cd /; ls -la I do not see an added entry. Thanks for suggestions, info, etc Jeff K ___ 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
Salvage files from harddrive
Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with /var. Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I best go about this? system is FreeBSD v6.2 Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions. JK ___ 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
