First off susbscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Second, there are a number of books out there for complete newbies and
even for seasond professionals. I personally recommand AbsoluteBSD by
Michael Lucas.
Cheers
-chris
Hi,
I am new to this, just wandering if I could get some pointers in right
Hello Chintan:
In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at
FreeBSD basics:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15
I also find Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD to be a very good
reference book.
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I now have Internet up and working.
Great! One less mass mailing drone on the Inet! :o)
Next problem is to learn handling the ports!
Ask away...
Steve
cheers
jobse
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Well, do an ifconfig -a and post it so that we have some more information.
Please post your /etc/rc.conf as well
Non of the ISP's I know of support anything other then Windows and Mac OS.
But, we should be able to make it work!
Michael Clark
Nemschoff Chairs Inc
mclark at nemschoff dot com
Hey Jobse,
jobse wrote:
Hello!
Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD
5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora.
Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt
with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to
any Internet site. My
Thanks for answering! I'm unable to
give you the whole thing 'cause FreeBSD is on the other partion.
//ifconfig
vr0:flags=...UP,BROADCASTING,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
//some lines
Status active
plip0:flags=...POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST Mtu 1500
Hello!
Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use
mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps
a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow?
ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder:
Hey Jobse,
jobse
Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use
mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps
a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow?
I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up
ppp, PPPoE
Inc
mclark at nemschoff dot com
CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP
Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294
Fax: (920) 453 6594
-Original Message-
From: jobse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:45 PM
To: Michael Clark; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: newbie trouble - Internet
Hello Steve!
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure.
Pinging looked fine.
netstat -rn gave (briefly).
destination: Gateway:
default 213.64.3.1 vr0
213.64.3 ...
... ...
213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0
Thanks
jobse
ons 2004-06-16 klockan 20.18 skrev Steve
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure.
Pinging looked fine.
netstat -rn gave (briefly).
destination: Gateway:
default 213.64.3.1 vr0
213.64.3 ...
... ...
213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0
Good. It appears as though DHCP is working (hence having a default
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure.
Pinging looked fine.
Better yet, don't bother calling the ISP. Here are the name server
addresses for your ISP:
194.22.190.10
194.22.194.14
Regards,
Steve
netstat -rn gave (briefly).
destination: Gateway:
default
Thanks Steve!
And Michael and Remko!
C'ya later.
Regards
Jobse(www.tintin.kau.se/users/03jobse)
ons 2004-06-16 klockan 21.40 skrev Steve Bertrand:
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure.
Pinging looked fine.
Better yet, don't bother calling the ISP. Here
On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote:
My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH
timeout set to
the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on
the same
100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication
(password). I went
in and
Thanks for the response,
turns out Speakeasy (ISP) had... ahem.. reprovisioned my IP Address when I
made some changes to my service.. figured this out by putting rl0 on another IP
with the same settings.. its all fixed now.. and the IPFW issue is resolved
(thanks to the person who posted the
off the topic, if anybody could point me at how to build ipfw I would
appreciate it, i have seen the basic tutorials via google, but have no idea
where to get the kernel sources to do the install.
You don't need any additional stuff, it all comes with FreeBSD. Either you
load the
--- Jon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snipped stuff
The (main) problem -
My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I
had OpenSSH timeout set to
the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said
the connections (on the same
100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before
Daniela wrote:
On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space?
Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct
device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data.
If, for example, you have the Linux
cc'ed to questions: let's move it there?
Geoffrey Lane wrote:
I'm fairly familiar with linux and have been running redhat for a few years
now. I'm looking for something I have more control over and isn't bloated
with alot of stuff I don't need...
BSD is on the top of my list, there are only a
On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space?
Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct
device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data.
If, for example, you have the Linux swap on the second
David H. Ingham wrote:
Hopefully, a simple question.
I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client.
my system is:
FreeBSD Version 5.2
Apache Version 2.0.47
MySQL Version 4.0.16
On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
David H. Ingham wrote:
Hopefully, a simple question.
I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client.
my system is:
FreeBSD Version 5.2
Apache Version
mark wrote:
On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
David H. Ingham wrote:
Hopefully, a simple question.
I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client.
my system is:
FreeBSD Version 5.2
Apache
* Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]:
The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in
console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked
fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used
This could
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote:
* Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]:
The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in
console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked
fine. so far startx
I would run portversion -v | grep and make sure everything was upgraded
to start with. If all the gnome and X11 related stuff appears to be
upgraded, it might be hard to track down which build was at fault. I think
the gnome upgrade script made a logfile in tmp. I would check to see if
there
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote:
I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4
installed and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile,
and ran the gnome_upgrade.sh file.
Maybe dumb question: Did you upgrade ruby as instructed in
will jump
out in the logfile.
From: Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Ian Bowers' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:44:22 -0400
I would run portversion -v | grep and make sure everything was upgraded
to start
From: Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ian Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:16:14 +0200
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote:
I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had
The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in
console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked
fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used
to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update
Hello All,
How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days
trying to find this info.
pkg_info |grep -i snmp
Check which snmpd you have installed.
then do pkg_delete $return_information_from_pkg_info_command
HTH!,
Thank you.
Jeff
--
Kind regards,
Remko
Hello All,
How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days
trying to find this info.
Thank you.
Jeff
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Lisa wrote:
Greetings all,
It has been a long time since I worked with any unix, and I had a spare pc
laying around that hadn't been on in months, so I decided to toss freebsd
onto it.
The installation went smoothly and I've got it up and running. My next goal
is to get it's internet access
create that?
Thank you for your help so far!
-Original Message-
From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:29 PM
To: Lisa
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.
Lisa wrote:
Greetings all
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:38:03 -0400
Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do not currently have a /etc/resolve.conf - is it safe for me to
just create that?
without a valid /etc/resolv.conf no internet (surfing) is possible
(unless you use ip-addresses by heart e.g.)
if you want to surf the internet
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:18:34 +0300 (EEST)
Radu MOLNAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope this is the right place to post this.Sorry if it isn't
Just some stupid newbie questions:
1) I have an alias made in my .profile alias vi='/usr/local/bin/vim' but
the alias is not made when i log in X. If a
David Jones wrote:
Hello. Im struggling with my first install of FreeBSD
(4.9 from CDROM).
I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli)
but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my
keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I
have tried to supply as much
Responses inline. I just tried an lsdev at the console and
it dies when accessing the disk;
cd@ 0xff5c
disk@ 0xef68
disk0: BIOS drive A:
disk0a: FFS
disk0c: FFS
disk1: BIOS drive B
disk2: BIOS drive C
Any ideas?
--- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL
reading comprehension...thanks.
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Stewart Yaxley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie install goes well until...
Date: 11 Mar 2004 09:30:33 -0500
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My lan has dialup through 192.168.0.1 [delliver] which shares using ics on
xp. Works fine for my rh9, debian woody, and w98 boxes and used to work
fine on this too till I started over again.
Try
route add default 192.168.0.1
Looks you don't have a default route set, so your packets never
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:53:09PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Sorry, I have looked around and also am going to d/l
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/ later today so once I run htdig on my local
doc site these sorts of things may be easier for me look up.
Meantime I reinstalled fbsd 4.8 rel
At 01:01 PM 2/16/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
route add default 192.168.0.1
Looks you don't have a default route set, so your packets never get routed
outside.
Thanks Jan. That worked and the worst part is that the cmd rings a bell iow
I did this before but didn't find it in browsing the
Marty Landman wrote:
Any advice on what to do here?
# cd ../../mail/fetchmail
# make build make install rehash which fetchmail
fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/.
Receiving
On Monday 16 February 2004 11:10 am, Marty Landman wrote:
Any advice on what to do here?
# cd ../../mail/fetchmail
# make build make install rehash which fetchmail
fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in
/usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:39 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Marty Landman wrote:
Any advice on what to do here?
# cd ../../mail/fetchmail
# make build make install rehash which fetchmail
fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any advice on what to do here?
# cd ../../mail/fetchmail
# make build make install rehash which fetchmail
fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/.
At 03:05 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote:
The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to update
everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it without upgrading to
one of the current system releases. I would think that it is obvious that
you haven't updated your port
At 02:39 PM 2/16/2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
1. You should just try to install gettext first,and you will get
more insight into the issue.
I did (sorry for not posting that) and the results looked identical.
2. You could re-cvsup the ports tree and try again and it
Marty Landman wrote:
At 02:39 PM 2/16/2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
3. You could issue
#touch
/usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info
as root and see what happens next ;-)
if we wait around a while, somebody smarter will likely pipe up
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:10:11PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Any advice on what to do here?
=== Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1
That's an ancient version of gettext -- are you using a copy of the
ports tree you got from the installation CDs? At a guess, you're
running FreeBSD 4.7...
On Monday 16 February 2004 12:39 pm, Marty Landman wrote:
At 03:05 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote:
The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to
update everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it
without upgrading to one of the current system releases. I would
At 04:04 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote:
You could try the pkg_add -r feature which will fetch the proper version
for your current system.
I did, but couldn't find the port -- guess I'm mixing agp slots and eide's?
So I'm make'ing it from the tar.gz already had.
hehehe - my way of looking at
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:20:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question # 1:
When I type 'su' and subsequently type in my password, I am taken to the
root. However, certain programs; i.e., 'portupgrade' will not run. If I then
subsequently type 'su' I a, presented with a new prompt
Gilbert
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM
To: Jez Hancock
Cc: Richard Beyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote:
Thanks Jez,
Here's
.
Anyone else ever seen this?
Cheers,
Richard
-Original Message-
From: Jez Hancock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jez Hancock
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 9:53 PM
To: richard
Cc: FreeBSD Questions List
Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote:
I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a
filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled
up. (No panic - doing it off a mirror).
My question is - obviously the CDROM
Thanks Jez,
Here's my df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/
/dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr
/dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var
procfs4.0K 4.0K
Hi Richard,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote:
Thanks Jez,
Here's my df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/
/dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 10:10, Richard Beyer wrote:
Thanks Jez,
Here's my df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/
/dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr
/dev/ad0s1e
Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote:
Thanks Jez,
Here's my df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/
/dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp
an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9?
Cheers,
Richard
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Lowell Gilbert
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM
To: Jez Hancock
Cc: Richard Beyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance
in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around?
No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and
recreate the
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than
insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep
them around?
No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove
and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to
reinstall a
On Friday 06 February 2004 5:28 pm, Jez Hancock wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than
insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them
around?
No, you can safely delete
config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error
This means you have an error on line 274 of your kernel configuration file.
Since line 274 is options PNPBIOS, I'm guessing that this option is
deprecated and/or unavailable in 5.X.
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On Thursday 05 February 2004 03:15 am, Nicolas wrote:
Hello.
I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the
handbook step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied
GENERIC and did some changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it
into /root/kernels and typed:
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:15, Nicolas wrote:
Hello.
I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook
step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied GENERIC and did some
changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it into /root/kernels and typed:
ln -s
whoops, I misread your error, scratch my message...sorry.
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:38, Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:15, Nicolas wrote:
Hello.
I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook
step by step but I still do something wrong. I
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:15:16 +0100
Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook
step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied GENERIC and did some
changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it into
Thank you all for answering. I tried all your solutions and I got one step
further. I tried to:
ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK
and got the answer that the file exists.
I changed settings in MOAK.
Then i ran:
make installkernel KERNCONF=MOAK
and it worked. But then I ran:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:13:50 +0100
Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello again. Sorry to bother you with this but I really dont know what went
wrong this time. Ive done it on my old computer with 4,9 and it went smothe.
This is the sequence that I followed:
cd /usr/obj
rm -Rf *
cd
Vikash Badal - PCS wrote:
Greetings,
-Original Message-
From: Nicolas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 February 2004 12:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie firewall
SNIP
/SNIP
Hope that somebody wants to waste some time on my question.
Many thanks Nicolas.
If you
Thank you again. Now it works fine.
Nicolas
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:15:46 +0100
Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I
am trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a
everything I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a
LAN connection.So
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:15:46 +0100
Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am
trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a
everything I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN
connection.So
Nicolas wrote:
I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am
trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a everything
I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN connection.So
my question(s) is: is there a difference between a firewall for
meimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have tried to add Perl module Imager using CPAN. However, it failed.
Then, I find a p5-Imager port. I think they are the same thing, isn't it?
The port includes, but is a bit more than the CPAN module;
it also includes solutions to the problems you had
On Monday 26 January 2004 11:53 pm, Tommy wrote:
this is very new to me-- I am now a Mac OS X user and extremely happy
with it. I am also tinkering with Linux Red Hat for now. I really
would like to know more about FreeBSD. Hardware compatibility and such!
Here's a link to the hardware
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:23:31 +0100
Gafgo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I am trying to install v 5.2 on my new computer. I have done
succesful installations on my old computer where everything worked
perfect. My problem now is that I can´t find my graphic card when I am
conf Xfree86. I
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote:
Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks.
I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to
practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and
wanted to install 4.9 for
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote:
Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks.
I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to
practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported
under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 --
caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is
turning out nicely.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported
under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 --
caveats about early
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone
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forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample
message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks
:##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:##
:# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:#
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote:
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample
message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks
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Subject: Re: newbie question
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote:
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample
message, i want to change my motd default
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Donald Turnbull wrote:
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already
installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly
in the future?
cd /usr/ports
make search name=kde
cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3
make install
wait..
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote:
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already
installed?
Already installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their
servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome
GUI already
installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more
user friendly
in the future?
Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the handbook under
the documentation section of www.freebsd.org . I
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote:
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already
installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly
in the future?
Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA
KDE and Gnome are on the
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-12-03 17:46:49 -0500:
AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway.
Hmm, I failed to find your question in the message.
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At 06:56 AM 12/6/2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-12-03 17:46:49 -0500:
AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway.
Hmm, I failed to find your question in the message.
Woops, Eudora's been acting funny that way; this isn't the first time.
Thanks for following
you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install
the src that way, or you can use cvsup.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
btw heres a tutorial on cvsup if the handbooks to confusing(it isn't):
http://tutorials.snaphat.com
-aaron[EMAIL
Marty Landman wrote:
I installed the 4.8 mini iso w/o the source and would like to now
install the source code too. How is this done, and is there a beginner's
tutorial on working with gcc (I assume that's the standard compiler?) on
fbsd?
Chapter 21 of the FreeBSD handbook covers most of this.
At 12:03 PM 11/29/2003, Aaron Myles Landwehr wrote:
you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install
the src that way
Where on the sysinstall menu is this option?
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Make a
/stand/sysinstall
configure
Distributions
then select src
after that all the sources are in there. Just select what you want.
-aaron[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:03 PM 11/29/2003, Aaron Myles Landwehr wrote:
you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install
the src that way
Where
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server
from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to
d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org
and install from there. How is this done?
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server
from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to
d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from
Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then
gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the
distfiles methods is easiest.
It also means you can't use the package tools on the program should
you want to
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then
gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the
distfiles methods is easiest.
It also means you can't use the
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