5.1 harware

2003-08-07 Thread pippo
I have been unable to install 5.1, 5 or 4.8 releases on MSI 875P-NEO-FIS2R motherboard. I am led to believe, from reading the documentation, that the Intel ICH5R chipset and the Intel 82547EI (CSA interface) for Lan are not supported. They are rather recent... Is there a foreseeable future when

Re: Disaster recovery planning

2003-06-24 Thread pippo
. Things are more complicated yet, as the new system is on an MSI 875P motherboard with on-board Gigabit ethernet and serial ata; they are not listed under hardware compatibility. Any help is appreciated. Pippo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: changing setup

2003-06-23 Thread pippo
chip. :)) The Fasttrack is 20378. There is also an Intel ICH5/ICH5R chipset - I don't know if this needs some special configuration? Pippo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

changing setup

2003-06-23 Thread pippo
bout serial ATA and Promise Fasttrack 378? Any help would be appreciated... Thanks in advance, Pippo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: portupgrade mess

2003-03-13 Thread pippo
At 11:22 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, you wrote: I forced the portugrade of imake. That also rebuilt kde-3. I have found that if you don't force, it only updates the ports that have changed. It doesn't take care of the full b-dep dependancy list. Hmmm... now, that's interesting. I did portupgrade of imake

portupgrade mess

2003-03-13 Thread pippo
I just upgrade XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3 using portupgrade on 2 different machines. On one portupgrade seems to have worked ok, except that XFree86 does not function quite correctly - I shall assume it is an XFree86 problem. The second machine is totally screwed up - even though the upgrade did no

how to mount windows filesystems over lan

2003-02-08 Thread pippo
Does anyone understand how to mount windows filesystems over a local area network? I can certainly mount windows file systems on other disks and/or partitions on a computer that is running FreeBSD. But how can this be done over a Lan? From what I can see, the smbmount and smbutil are either for L

Re: Win files from *nix?

2003-02-07 Thread pippo
At 02:42 AM 2/8/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:05:54 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I browse Windows from Unix? > I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, Samba, and KDE3. I'd like to be able to browse > also from command line. > I have not found instructions on use of smbclient-win32 and

Win files from *nix?

2003-02-07 Thread pippo
How can I browse Windows from Unix? I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, Samba, and KDE3. I'd like to be able to browse also from command line. I have not found instructions on use of smbclient-win32 and do not want to use sharity. smbclien-win32 comes with and exe file and cygwin dll's - but what are you sup

Re: CUPS problems

2003-02-06 Thread pippo
At 06:41 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:36:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 03:26 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >I cvsup'd main & ports this weekend, and now my CUPS printing is broken :-( > > > >Looking in the logfiles it appears that it's not finding somehti

Re: ports changes?

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
At 01:21 PM 2/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: Boy, talk about making an ass of yourself. kKSomebody has to shoot me in the head. I just checked my ports-supfile - an guess what? Dumbhead, here, had commented out # the audio and the games files as I never use the stuff. What I can't figure out is how th

Re: ports changes?

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
At 12:47 PM 2/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 11:56 AM 2/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > At 06:35 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > > >On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:19:40 -050

Re: CUPS problems

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
At 03:26 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: I cvsup'd main & ports this weekend, and now my CUPS printing is broken :-( Looking in the logfiles it appears that it's not finding somehting called "EPS" Ghostscript. What is this, and how do I fix the problem? Well, I don't know how you had CUPS set up

Re: ports changes?

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
At 11:56 AM 2/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 06:35 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, you wrote: > >On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:19:40 -0500 > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does anyone know or understand what is going on in the ports > > > collection

Re: ports changes?

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
At 10:51 AM 2/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:19:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know or understand what is going on in the ports collection - > at this moment, there seems to be a problem with the kdegames3 port - it > just doesn't seem to be there, thus prev

Re: ports changes?

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
At 06:35 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:19:40 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know or understand what is going on in the ports > collection - at this moment, there seems to be a problem with the > kdegames3 port - it just doesn't seem to be there, thus preventin

ports changes?

2003-02-05 Thread pippo
Does anyone know or understand what is going on in the ports collection - at this moment, there seems to be a problem with the kdegames3 port - it just doesn't seem to be there, thus preventing the update of the kde3 group of programs. I have noticed this a number of times with different program

Re: portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread pippo
At 07:48 AM 2/4/2003 -0800, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 07:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some time ago I chose FreeBSD over all other *nix systems because I > found the system better managed, easier to administrate, better > supported and simpler to update and upgrade both the OS an

RE: portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread pippo
At 11:14 AM 2/4/2003 -0900, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toomas Aas Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: portupgrading problems > Can someone explain the best way to deal with the upd

Re: portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread pippo
At 10:06 PM 2/4/2003 +0200, you wrote: > Can someone explain the best way to deal with the updating process? How to > minimize updating problems? If it ain't broken, don't upgrade it ;-) What, an miss all the fun? :)) -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Lif

Re: portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread pippo
At 09:30 AM 2/4/2003 -0700, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:00:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some time ago I chose FreeBSD over all other *nix systems because I found > the system better managed, easier to administrate, better supported and > simpler to update and upgrade both the OS and

Re: portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread pippo
At 07:48 AM 2/4/2003 -0800, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 07:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some time ago I chose FreeBSD over all other *nix systems because I > found the system better managed, easier to administrate, better > supported and simpler to update and upgrade both the OS an

portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread pippo
Some time ago I chose FreeBSD over all other *nix systems because I found the system better managed, easier to administrate, better supported and simpler to update and upgrade both the OS and the programs - especially through portupgrade. Several times I have encountered glitches in the update p

Re: switch languages

2002-10-31 Thread pippo
At 04:18 PM 10/31/2002 +, you wrote: I have to slap my own hands - dumb. I was not clear - When I say I have to switch languages, I am using OpenOffice (trying to replace MS Ofc) and have to use text and graphics in the same document. So, I don't think that I could use emacs since it is a t

Re: openoffice install

2002-10-27 Thread pippo
At 01:45 PM 10/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages which won't require those 4GB :-) Thanks for the tip, Daniel. I kind-of liked using portupgrade. It seems silly to need that much space for and installation. And I thought that MicroSlop wa

Re: 2 active partitions

2002-10-26 Thread pippo
At 02:42 PM 10/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > Somehow, fdisk has created 2 active slices on my disk, making it > unbootable. Was that the FreeBSD fdisk or the Microsloth one? I have never seen that happen with the FreeBSD version. It did. And I am sure that I even went back to /stand/sysinstall

Re: how to add space

2002-10-26 Thread pippo
At 05:14 PM 10/26/2002 +0100, you wrote: > Perhaps I have to install a boot manager - but which & how? I don't think it would be that much trouble to use Partition Magic, delete slice1 and then reo the fdisk and the rest of the mounting process - but I should then install the boot manager - b

Re: how to add space

2002-10-26 Thread pippo
At 05:14 PM 10/26/2002 +0100, you wrote: Yes, that is precisely what you need to do. Can you follow the instructions in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=419047+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20021006.freebsd-questions to get your system booted from ad0s2a? Strange r

2 active partitions

2002-10-26 Thread pippo
Somehow, fdisk has created 2 active slices on my disk, making it unbootable. Slice 1 only has data & config files (/usr/local) while slice 2 has the boot partition. How can I deactivate slice 1 wihout deleting it? Since fdisk screwed it up, I hesitate to try it. Should I use the install floppies

Re: how to add space

2002-10-26 Thread pippo
At 03:21 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote: Big problem after settin up - now there are 2 active partitions - how do I de-activate slice 1? /stand/sysinstall (Fdisk) refused to mark just slice 2 as active even though I checked and set it two times... :(( I think there is something that doesn't clic

Re: how to add space

2002-10-25 Thread pippo
At 11:14 AM 10/25/2002 -0400, you wrote: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's the difference between 'shutdown now' or doing what I was > thinking of, which is to reboot, hit the any key during the ten second > count down and issue 'boot -s' at the boot manager prompt. Years of >

Re: Xfree86 Setup problem continued with changes

2002-10-25 Thread pippo
At 10:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: For what it's worth, I had a similar problem. First, I think you need the vertical and horizontal frequencies in the Monitor section- Mine is: HorizSync 30.0 - 95.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 This is specific to my kSony Trinitron MultiscanE500 -

Re: how to add space

2002-10-24 Thread pippo
At 11:07 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote: In single user mode, what you get is very bare bones. A lot of stuff like enviroment variables that would normally get setup for you won't have been. Your modifications to the console video settings won't have happened by that point in the boot sequence e

Re: Xfree 4.x.x and Intel i810 revisited

2002-10-24 Thread pippo
At 12:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: PJ, What changes did you have to make? I also have the i810 chipset on board the mobo. (Dell GX-110) I aasume these changes are to the Xf86config file? The problem, basically, was to find the right configuration. They say just the defaults should work...

Re: how to add space

2002-10-24 Thread pippo
At 09:05 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote: vi isn't my favourite editor either, but it's well worth persevering with it to the extent that you can make simple edits without too much difficulty. This is not a problem. Only, in single user mode it gave me a blank screen and then I could not naviga

Re: xfree question not answered on the xfree lists, maybe here?

2002-10-24 Thread pippo
At 06:41 AM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: Hi Chip, I had a very similar problem on a rather simplistic mother board that had a buil-in video card; I was trying to use a card in a pci slot and the problem was in the configuration. I suspect that what you have to do is just try diffrent configurati

Re: Still going in circles on RELENG_4_5 -> RELENG_4_6

2002-10-24 Thread pippo
At 09:37 AM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hi John, I just updated 2 machines to 4.7. I am not sure you (or I) completely understand the RELENG thing, but the easiest way to upgrade is to run cvsup with the standard-supfile and then follow the instructions in the Handbook on Using make world - se

Re: mergemaster problem

2002-10-23 Thread pippo
At 01:43 PM 10/23/2002 +0300, you wrote: Hi! > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:57:44 -0700 > From: Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: mergemaster problem [... about upgrading the world ...] > If they fix a security related buffer overflow problem in one of the > sy

Re: mergemaster problem

2002-10-22 Thread pippo
I chanced it and it looks like it all worked. mergemaster seems to have worked ok. I was too lazy to do things manually. V. 4.7 booted up ok. Now to see if there are any quirks I have to fix. Thanks very much for your help. PJ. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: mergemaster problem

2002-10-22 Thread pippo
At 10:01 AM 10/22/2002 -0700, you wrote: I must say, as I often have remarked, that the handbook is rather foggy - you often have to read a whole slew of things that are urelated before you get to the main point - I was trying to follow the manual, step by step - but it sure doesn't seem to work

mergemaster problem

2002-10-22 Thread pippo
I want to upgrade FreeBSD from 4.62 to 4.7 so I can use openoffice. I find the instructions in the handbook incomplete: 21.4 Using make world In trying to use mergemaster, I find it incomprehensible as to what the program actually does and what I am supposed to direct it to do. It is not clear as