I need help
Hello. My name is mohsen,I'm a student in software engineering.I'm from Iran. I see Non-English Mailing lists in FreeBSD web site,and i understand FreeBSD not have mailing list for my countery. FrreBSD is popular distro in my country,I want know for create new mailing list for my country what should i do? I thankful If you guide me. Thanks. Best Regards. ___ 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
Re: I need help
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar mohsenjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. My name is mohsen,I'm a student in software engineering.I'm from Iran. I see Non-English Mailing lists in FreeBSD web site,and i understand FreeBSD not have mailing list for my countery. FrreBSD is popular distro in my country,I want know for create new mailing list for my country what should i do? I thankful If you guide me. Hi Mohsen, Look at the statement at the bottom of the non-English mailing list bullets: If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, let us know about them. The link points to here: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html You would need to round-up local FBSD user groups to see if they can contribute to the maintenance of your server and Internet/Hosting costs. Probably your best bet is a University that is willing to host the server for you. Once you have firgured out who and how you are going to cover the costs of your mailing list and tie a domain to it. A domain like FreeBSD would almost certainly be taken, in your case, Mr. Mehdi Halataei has registered FreeBSD.ir but FreeBSD.org.ir is free so the first thing I would do is go to http://www.nic.ir/ before some else takes it. I would also contact Mr. Halataei to see what his intentions are with that domain and maybe work together. Once you have solved the issues above, get yourself some hardware and set-up Mailman for your list. Once the list is ___working and active___, contact the FBSD people to see if they can add it to the non-English list. There may be some legal issues here because of the export controls to Iran, in fact, there are probably even legal issues downloading FBSD to Iran in the first place, although I think that most components and ports qualify for exception of category 5 part II of EAR, but I'm not an expert and this issue has come up several times here so check the archives for more information. A cheaper and fast alternative is to use Google Groups but I don't know if it's legal or not, because as you probably know Google has no direct presence in Iran. Check out with them first before you use that option so later you won't lose your list archives if they shut down the list. -- Alejandro Imass ___ 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
I need help on installation
I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have, how do I go about that because I virtually cannot install any operating system. Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2? If so How do I go about that? Since I have found no iso image of GRUB2 to burn into a live cd. ___ 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
Re: I need help on installation
now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have - are you sure that you have burned the 1st CD as a bootable ISO image? - have you checked the boot sequence in your BIOS and labeled to try your CD drive before your HD? - what type of an Intel chip is it? Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2? - actually this shouldn't be necessary since the 1st FBSD CD is bootable Oliver ___ 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
Re: I need help on installation
Roger Agraviador wrote: I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have, how do I go about that because I virtually cannot install any operating system. Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2? If so How do I go about that? Since I have found no iso image of GRUB2 to burn into a live cd. ___ 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 you have to change your bios boot options to boot from cd instead of the hard drive. after the freebsd install is complete then change it back or if your bios allow a boot order change it to first look at cd drive and then hard drive to boot from ___ 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
Re: I need help on installation
Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 01:27 -0800 schrieb Roger Agraviador: I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have, how do I go about that because I virtually cannot install any operating system. Did you enable booting from CD in your BIOS? Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2? No. If so How do I go about that? Since I have found no iso image of GRUB2 to burn into a live cd. Greetings Uli. ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: I need help with external USB DVD writer.
FreeBSD User Giacomo wrote: Hi. I have bought recently an external USB DVD writer Samsung Super (model SE-S184M/EUBN). I do not succeed in to burn DVD (only CD). The system (FreeBSD 6,1) recognizes masterizzatore like: umass0: TSST corp USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 3 cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB02 device Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers cd0: Device Attempt to query size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray close What does usbdevs -v show? If I use the comand whith a dvd+rw : dvd+rw- format /dev/cd0 I obtain * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED] chalmers.se, version 6.0. :-( (unable to GET CONFIGURATION: Input/output error and on the consul: umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46. Your drive probably isn't MMC-capable. Try updating the firmware. For a Samsung go here: http://www.samsungoms-europe.com/samsung.php?section=download and get the firmware updating tool (it's called LiveUpdate or something). It only works in Windows, so hope that isn't a problem. If there's a firmware upgrade for your drive, it might fix this error and allow the FreeBSD dvd-tools to read your burner's configuration. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with external USB DVD writer.
If I use the comand whith a dvd+rw : dvd+rw- format /dev/cd0 I obtain * DVD?RW/-RAM format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED] chalmers.se, version 6.0. :-( (unable to GET CONFIGURATION: Input/output error and on the consul: umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46. Your drive probably isn't MMC-capable. Try updating the firmware. For a umass.c patch (6.2-RELEASE): --- umass.c.old Mon Mar 19 15:32:09 2007 +++ umass.c Mon Mar 19 15:33:04 2007 @@ -3072,46 +3072,12 @@ (*rcmd)[4] = SSS_START; return 1; } - /* fallthrough */ - case REZERO_UNIT: - case REQUEST_SENSE: - case START_STOP_UNIT: - case SEND_DIAGNOSTIC: - case PREVENT_ALLOW: - case READ_CAPACITY: - case READ_10: - case WRITE_10: - case POSITION_TO_ELEMENT: /* SEEK_10 */ - case SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE: - case MODE_SELECT_10: - case MODE_SENSE_10: - case READ_BUFFER: - case 0x42: /* READ_SUBCHANNEL */ - case 0x43: /* READ_TOC */ - case 0x44: /* READ_HEADER */ - case 0x47: /* PLAY_MSF (Play Minute/Second/Frame) */ - case 0x48: /* PLAY_TRACK */ - case 0x49: /* PLAY_TRACK_REL */ - case 0x4b: /* PAUSE */ - case 0x51: /* READ_DISK_INFO */ - case 0x52: /* READ_TRACK_INFO */ - case 0x54: /* SEND_OPC */ - case 0x59: /* READ_MASTER_CUE */ - case 0x5b: /* CLOSE_TR_SESSION */ - case 0x5c: /* READ_BUFFER_CAP */ - case 0x5d: /* SEND_CUE_SHEET */ - case 0xa1: /* BLANK */ - case 0xa5: /* PLAY_12 */ - case 0xa6: /* EXCHANGE_MEDIUM */ - case 0xad: /* READ_DVD_STRUCTURE */ - case 0xbb: /* SET_CD_SPEED */ - case 0xe5: /* READ_TRACK_INFO_PHILIPS */ + default: memcpy(*rcmd, cmd, cmdlen); return 1; case READ_12: case WRITE_12: - default: printf(%s: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x%02x - trying anyway\n, USBDEVNAME(sc-sc_dev), cmd[0]); everything works. i think umass driver is simply too restrictive ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with external USB DVD writer.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:56:20AM +0100, Mike wrote: What does usbdevs -v show? Your drive probably isn't MMC-capable. Try updating the firmware. For a Samsung go here: http://www.samsungoms-europe.com/samsung.php?section=download and get the firmware updating tool (it's called LiveUpdate or something). It only works in Windows, so hope that isn't a problem. If there's a firmware upgrade for your drive, it might fix this error and allow the FreeBSD dvd-tools to read your burner's configuration. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I try to upgrade the firmware (on Windows) but the problem remains. usbdevs -v show: Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x), NEC(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered port 3 powered Controller /dev/usb3: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x), NEC(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb4: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x), NEC(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered port 3 powered port 4 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, CanoScan(0x221c), Canon(0x04a9), rev 3.06 port 5 addr 3: high speed, self powered, config 1, USB Mass Storage Device(0x0840), TSST corp(0x0409), rev 0.00 Thanks for your help. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with external USB DVD writer.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:34:40PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: umass.c patch (6.2-RELEASE): everything works. i think umass driver is simply too restrictive ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. How to apply this patch on FreeBSD 6.1? I must recompile the kernel? Thank for your help. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help with external USB DVD writer.
Hi. I have bought recently an external USB DVD writer Samsung Super (model SE-S184M/EUBN). I do not succeed in to burn DVD (only CD). The system (FreeBSD 6,1) recognizes masterizzatore like: umass0: TSST corp USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 3 cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB02 device Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers cd0: Device Attempt to query size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray close If I use the comand whith a dvd+rw : dvd+rw- format /dev/cd0 I obtain * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED] chalmers.se, version 6.0. :-( (unable to GET CONFIGURATION: Input/output error and on the consul: umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46. With another external drive LG this is OK. I don't know that what happens. Some suggestions? Thanks. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with intallation relatd issue
Lou Gordon wrote: Hi my 2U server rack has 2-250 gig hard drives and we can only see one of them. I had my upgrade store do a diagnostic and in Windows it sees both 250 Gig drives. I am in San Francisco, CA and I don't know any tech that has experience with this kind of OS issue. Please help if you can. I can be reached at the number below. Not enough information, I'm afraid. Try posting the contents of dmesg and pciconf -lv, along with at least a basic description of what your hardware is and what version of FreeBSD you are using. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help with intallation relatd issue
Hi my 2U server rack has 2-250 gig hard drives and we can only see one of them. I had my upgrade store do a diagnostic and in Windows it sees both 250 Gig drives. I am in San Francisco, CA and I don't know any tech that has experience with this kind of OS issue. Please help if you can. I can be reached at the number below. Lou Gordon D1 Music PO Box 280480 San Francisco, CA 94128-0480 415-552-2882 415-552-8444 Fax Aim: d1musicinfo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.myspace.com/d1music ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with intallation relatd issue
Chuck Swiger wrote: Lou Gordon wrote: Hi my 2U server rack has 2-250 gig hard drives and we can only see one of them. I had my upgrade store do a diagnostic and in Windows it sees both 250 Gig drives. I am in San Francisco, CA and I don't know any tech that has experience with this kind of OS issue. Please help if you can. I can be reached at the number below. Not enough information, I'm afraid. Try posting the contents of dmesg and pciconf -lv, along with at least a basic description of what your hardware is and what version of FreeBSD you are using. Or, as an alternative to the above, see: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/ and ask for some help from a vendor/consultant. I'd think there'd be a lot of FBSD gurus in the SF area, though not as many as, perhaps, Berkeley? ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help to install
Hi. I want to install FreeBSD in my toshiba satellite A80-117 laptop, but when im in the first menu when i choose the option default, start to loading the kernel and the computer hang up, with the option of no ACPI too. The laptop has: Celeron M 1.4Ghz 256MB of RAM 40GB of Hard Drive. Atheros wireless Realtek LAN 10/100 ATI 9002 graphic card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: I need help to install
There is a laptop question list which you should post at. I think its called mobile. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Moises Castellanos Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 7:00 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I need help to install Hi. I want to install FreeBSD in my toshiba satellite A80-117 laptop, but when im in the first menu when i choose the option default, start to loading the kernel and the computer hang up, with the option of no ACPI too. The laptop has: Celeron M 1.4Ghz 256MB of RAM 40GB of Hard Drive. Atheros wireless Realtek LAN 10/100 ATI 9002 graphic card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help!!
Walt Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need help installing FreeBSD 5.3 as the second OS on my workstation. I have a 501 Mhz Pentium processor with Windows XP Professional and a 28Ghz hard drive that's divided into four equal sized primary partitions. I also have boot manager Boot-US 2.0.6 installed. How do I Install FreeBSD 5.3 into another of the primary partitions ? I have the I386 boot only disk and I386 - disks 1 and 2. I also have four primary partitions defined and two of them are available to receive the FreeBSD code. Sounds like a perfectly normal installation scenario; just look over the installation directions at http://www.freebsd.org/ and boot up the Disk 1 CD. Just make sure not to tell it to install a new boot manager. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help!!
I need help installing FreeBSD 5.3 as the second OS on my workstation. I have a 501 Mhz Pentium processor with Windows XP Professional and a 28Ghz hard drive that's divided into four equal sized primary partitions. I also have boot manager Boot-US 2.0.6 installed. How do I Install FreeBSD 5.3 into another of the primary partitions ? I have the I386 boot only disk and I386 - disks 1 and 2. I also have four primary partitions defined and two of them are available to receive the FreeBSD code. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help with Xfree86
Hi I installed FreeBSD and everything works fine but now I need to install Xfree86. Is that the only thing I need to install to be able to get into FreeBSD? Please help me out by telling me how to get Xfree86 and where to install it to so I can get it when Im trying to install it. I have FreeBSD on another partition but now when I go into My Computer, it doesnt show the partition with FreeBSD on it. How will I do it then? I have the I386 platform. PLEASE HELP ME OUT! - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with Xfree86
Steven Soria wrote: Is that the only thing I need to install to be able to get into FreeBSD? Well, no, actually. :-) You don't need to install XFree86 to get into FreeBSD. Please help me out by telling me how to get Xfree86 and where to install it to so I can get it when Im trying to install it. I have FreeBSD on another partition but now when I go into My Computer, it doesnt show the partition with FreeBSD on it. How will I do it then? I have the I386 platform. PLEASE HELP ME OUT! As you've noticed, Windows doesn't understand the filesystem FreeBSD uses. Don't boot into Windows, boot into the FreeBSD partition. It's probably easier to use /stand/sysinstall to install X11 via prebuilt packages (either via FTP or from the installation CD), but you can also do something like: cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 make install ...and build and install X yourself (but this will take quite a bit of time). -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with Xfree86
Hi I installed FreeBSD and everything works fine but now I need to install Xfree86. Is that the only thing I need to install to be able to get into FreeBSD? Please help me out by telling me how to get Xfree86 and where to install it to so I can get it when Im trying to install it. I have FreeBSD on another partition but now when I go into My Computer, it doesnt show the partition with FreeBSD on it. How will I do it then? I have the I386 platform. PLEASE HELP ME OUT! First, please break your line at around 70 characters length. It makes it much easier for people using a text based Email reader to read your question and to respond to it. I normally select X as one of the things to install when I am select the things to install on the selection screen during the regular FreeBSD installation. (I also select ports and source, etc too, but that's another issue).Then it gets installed right when the other stuff gets installed. Then, there is a screen of post installation things to do and on that I have to select a couple of things: setting up the console, setting time zone, etc and one of those things is configuring X. I just do it from there. That is the easiest - in fact so much so that I suggest you go back and try it that way. When you choose configuring X, it offers a list of methods. I think the one I have the best luck with is the ncurses one. When it configures X, it also lets you choose one or more window managers. I normally choose AfterStep and KDE and don't bother with the others. But that is up to you. I think you can stick the CD back in and boot and work your way through menus to where it asks if there is anything else you want to install and get your X installed that way. But since I always have it already done, I have never had to experiment with that feature. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with Xfree86
On Sunday 04 April 2004 02:12 pm, Steven Soria wrote: Hi I installed FreeBSD and everything works fine but now I need to install Xfree86. Is that the only thing I need to install to be able to get into FreeBSD? Please help me out by telling me how to get Xfree86 and where to install it to so I can get it when Im trying to install it. I have FreeBSD on another partition but now when I go into My Computer, it doesnt show the partition with FreeBSD on it. How will I do it then? I have the I386 platform. PLEASE HELP ME OUT! This is a recommendation only, but here's what I think you should do: Get on eBay, and buy yourself a used PC, 500 MHz - 1 GHz, 128 MB RAM, a 40 GB HDD, an Ethernet card and a cd-rom drive. Spend maybe $150. While you're online, order a copy of the FreeBSD 5.2 (or 4.9) CD set. Spend another $40. Once you get your PC and CD set, install FreeBSD - it's pretty simple, even if you don't know shit from butterbeans. This may cost a bit more, but avoids the risk of breaking your trusty Windows box, while giving you an opportunity to experiment make mistakes while you learn FreeBSD/Unix. And you will learn... -- Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help badly with freebsd
Hi , I really need help getting FreeBSD. I cant seem to figure out how to get FreeBSD. I really want and need this but I need to know how to get it. My platform is I386 and please email me witha solution. Go to the FreeBSD web site. http://www.freebsd.org/ Click on the Installation Guide item in the list on the right. You will find lots of information on obtaining and installing FreeBSD. Whether you choose to buy a CD set from one of the sites that burn them and package them with a handbook or download the ISO and burn it yourself and install via FTP primarily depends on two things. 1- the quality/speed of your internet connection. If you have a slow connection or if it is unreliable, it can be a long tedius task to do it all by download. But with a good connection, it is easy and quick. 2- If you are able to financially support the FreeBSD project. Most of the companies that package installation CD sets contribute some of the money to the FreeBSD project. jerry Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help badly with freebsd
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Steven Soria wrote: I really need help getting FreeBSD. I cant seem to figure out how to get FreeBSD. I really want and need this but I need to know how to get it. My platform is I386 and please email me witha solution. There are several ways to get it, depending on what hardware you have. If you have a machine equipped with a CD burner, you can download the ISO images for the current FreeBSD i386 distribution, burn them onto CDs (total of 4 for the most recent 5.2 release), and install from that. Make sure your CD writer software recognizes that the files you downloaded are ISO images and not regular data files. If you don't have a CD burner, your best bet may be to either order the CDs from freebsdmall.com, or make an appropriate boot/install set on floppies, then complete the actual installation by downloading the packages you need from the net. Instructions for getting and installing FreeBSD are on the website at www.freebsd.org. jms ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help badly with freebsd
Hi , I really need help getting FreeBSD. I cant seem to figure out how to get FreeBSD. I really want and need this but I need to know how to get it. My platform is I386 and please email me witha solution. Thanks - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: I need help badly with freebsd
You can get FreeBSD from : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html Tells you various ways to get freebsd from.If you want to download it, you should try the mirrors. ..akshay. Original Message: - From: Steven Soria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:12:14 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I need help badly with freebsd Hi , I really need help getting FreeBSD. I cant seem to figure out how to get FreeBSD. I really want and need this but I need to know how to get it. My platform is I386 and please email me witha solution. Thanks - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help mounting a floppy
Gentlemen, This note is a continuation of a thread which started last week ... and actually, the problem is almost resolved. The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0 -- Yes ... here it is: ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory Stephen Liu wrote: Please try ls -l /dev | grep fd0 -- My PC output is: # Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /mnt created. Please try # ls -l / | grep mnt -- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 10 21:44 mnt Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /floppy created. Try # ls / | grep floppy -- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 16 03:53 floppy Kevin Kinsey wrote: What do you see when you type this from the console? $grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today -- My PC output mentions fdc0 several times. For example: pci0: display, VGA at device 10.0 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 12.0 (no driver attached) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) : : psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID/0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/0 port range (1 ports) : : orm0: Option ROMS at iomem 0xc8000-0xc8fff, 0xc000-0xc7fff on isa0 ptimer on isa0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) Odhiambo Washington wrote: If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, do you see entries like these: fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fdc0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 -- No. My PC output mentions fdc0 several times, and I think the lines are identical to the lines that came from /var/log/dmesg.today For example: fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) Later, I installed FreeBSD version 5.2.1 There were no improvements in my symptoms ... I still could not mount a floppy disk. Still later (since JJ Barbish warned me that I might have to go back a version or two), I installed FreeBSD version 4.7 which was the one that came in the SAM's Book that I bought. Now, /var/run/dmesg.boot has lines which read: pci0: S3 ViRGE graphics accelerator at 10.0 irq 10 pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5000) at 12.0 irq 9 orm0: Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff on isa0 fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 And now, I can mount the floppy disk ( and now I can provide the boot-log if anyone wants to see it ) * So now that we know that FreeBSD previously had a feature that has since been disabled, is there anything I can do to make FreeBSD version 5.2.1 work on my computer ? If not, I assume that I will have to stick with version 4.9 for now ? Willy Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0 -- Yes ... here it is: ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory cd /dev sh MAKEDEV fd0 because it looks like the fd0 floppy device doesn't exist. Maybe when you installed the downrev'd version, it created the /dev/fd0 when it didn't find it. If you look in the booting system, is /dev/fd0 there now? Regards, Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0 -- Yes ... here it is: ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory cd /dev sh MAKEDEV fd0 because it looks like the fd0 floppy device doesn't exist. Maybe when you installed the downrev'd version, it created the /dev/fd0 when it didn't find it. If you look in the booting system, is /dev/fd0 there now? Unfortunately that won't help the OP at all: he has the floppy working correctly under 4.9, but his aim was to be able to use the floppy drive under 5.2.1, and your instructions won't work because: * MAKEDEV is gone from 5.x, which now uses devfs stuff instead to dynamically create all the device nodes corresponding to the available hardware. * fdc0 wasn't being probed successfully on the OP's machine under 5.x, so the kernel has no way to access the floppy drive. Unfortunately that is a bug in the system, for which there appears to be no satisfactory fix yet available. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/56257 A work-around is to disable ACPI (as described in that PR), which will prevent you automatically controlling the power on your system and various other similar things, but should let you access the floppy drive. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
At 12:28 22/03/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0 -- Yes ... here it is: ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory cd /dev sh MAKEDEV fd0 because it looks like the fd0 floppy device doesn't exist. Maybe when you installed the downrev'd version, it created the /dev/fd0 when it didn't find it. If you look in the booting system, is /dev/fd0 there now? Unfortunately that won't help the OP at all: he has the floppy working correctly under 4.9, but his aim was to be able to use the floppy drive under 5.2.1, and your instructions won't work because: * MAKEDEV is gone from 5.x, which now uses devfs stuff instead to dynamically create all the device nodes corresponding to the available hardware. Ah. My bad. I shut up now. Actually, it looks like I blindly ignored/missed the original 5.x reference. My brain is stuck on 4.8. rip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help mounting a floppy
Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running into brick-walls. My most recent failure came after down-loading and installing FreeBSD version 5.2 I have been unable to mount the floppy-disk. I have tried typing various commands that I found in different books, and also some that I found in the Help-files (that I down-loaded from the FreeBSD Web-site). Here are some examples (none of which work): # fdformat /dev/fd0 fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory #mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy mount_msdos: command not found Or, if you would rather that I take the fstab approach ... yes, I have tried that too ... and failed. Here are some examples (none of which work): I edited the fstab-file by inserting the following lines (each one, in turn): /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw 0 0 No matter what lines I tried, the result was always similar to this: # mount /floppy msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory If it looks like I do not know what I am doing ... that is exactly right. If I type something-in and it does not work ... I do not have any idea why ... and I have no idea how to invent some new words to type. Can some-one help me ? (And remember ... before you ask for my boot-log ... I cannot mount the floppy ... so I don't know how to get a text-file out of that machine). Willy Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
Willy Dingledorf wrote: Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running into brick-walls. You ought to stop that ... pain hurts. :D My most recent failure came after down-loading and installing FreeBSD version 5.2 I have been unable to mount the floppy-disk. I have tried typing various commands that I found in different books, and also some that I found in the Help-files (that I down-loaded from the FreeBSD Web-site). Here are some examples (none of which work): # fdformat /dev/fd0 fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory #mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy mount_msdos: command not found Or, if you would rather that I take the fstab approach ... yes, I have tried that too ... and failed. Here are some examples (none of which work): I edited the fstab-file by inserting the following lines (each one, in turn): /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw 0 0 No matter what lines I tried, the result was always similar to this: # mount /floppy msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory If it looks like I do not know what I am doing ... that is exactly right. If I type something-in and it does not work ... I do not have any idea why ... and I have no idea how to invent some new words to type. Can some-one help me ? (And remember ... before you ask for my boot-log ... I cannot mount the floppy ... so I don't know how to get a text-file out of that machine). Willy Well, let's do an optical diff then ... what do you see when you do this from the console? $grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today Should be something like: Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fdf10 fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0 x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 and what about: $ls / | grep mnt That should say: mnt/ Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
Willy Dingledorf wrote: fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory I'd try Occam... Can you give us the output of $ls /dev/fd0 regards, rip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help mounting a floppy
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Re: I need help mounting a floppy
From the FAQ document: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#REMOVABLE-DRIVES ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very importand i need help !
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ~From RFC on netiquette... Mail should have a subject heading which reflects the content of the message. http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Maybe FreeBSD CD labels ? would be better subject if you were to ask this again? :) Quintin Constantin (Cry-Kee) wrote: | Hy . i downloaded from internet FreeBSD 5.2 CDs and i | wanna burnt it . And i wanna add covers.I try | google.com and alot of search engines but no covers | for FreeBSD 5.2 apears. | | If you wanna help me pls send me that covers i need it | ! | | Have a nice day! | | __ | Do you Yahoo!? | Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. | http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html | ___ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAMzFCkt6kXuDr+LcRAr4gAKDb3z1OsvAYwXnUGO6wg1KS9sY2RwCeNlNv Dzl+enYrFOg8HdfTgr/3DSo= =iiK/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very importand i need help !
On 2/18/2004, Quintin Riis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ~From RFC on netiquette... Mail should have a subject heading which reflects the content of the message. http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Maybe FreeBSD CD labels ? would be better subject if you were to ask this again? :) I agree on that one. What's so important about CD labels anyway?? If I read very important, then I'm thinking about an important production server having problems or something. I guess people do it to draw attention, and it look likes it works too Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very importand i need help !
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perhaps it does. His reply to me is as follows: yes i need FreeBSD CD labels :) can you help me with that ! :-/ Perhaps we should refuse to acknoweledge anyone who uses importand to describe trivial problems. Quintin Jorn Argelo wrote: | On 2/18/2004, Quintin Riis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |Hash: SHA1 | |~From RFC on netiquette... Mail should have a subject heading which |reflects the content of the message. | |http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html | |Maybe FreeBSD CD labels ? would be better subject if you were to ask |this again? :) | | | I agree on that one. What's so important about CD labels anyway?? If I | read very important, then I'm thinking about an important production | server having problems or something. I guess people do it to draw | attention, and it look likes it works too | | Jorn. | | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAM1Zukt6kXuDr+LcRAlK+AKCOmngk3dTo2v3ktTcgowV+BKvTnQCgrdCy mDJ8WB28g1d/eb3Cv5rmNvQ= =MsIi -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very importand i need help !
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Constantin (Cry-Kee) wrote: Hy . i downloaded from internet FreeBSD 5.2 CDs and i wanna burnt it . And i wanna add covers.I try google.com and alot of search engines but no covers for FreeBSD 5.2 apears. If you wanna help me pls send me that covers i need it ! By a cover i assume you mean some printed picture to slide in the cd jewel case. Everyone just makes up their own covers when selling FreeBSD on CD. Soak up some creative juices and make one. m Have a nice day! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need Help Please.
Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Fowler___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need Help Please.
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:15, darkstarmaster21 wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much Hmm, you can download iso. There's no need to do them yourself. trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which This is a bit intricate. You can use a bootloader for that job. FreeBSD has one very basic included but I suggest you have a look at http://gag.sourceforge.net/ took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my That's correct. You can have a complete BSD OS without X on a 250MB CD iso display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I Try the nvidia drivers. Just cd into /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and type make install. You need to have the ports tree installed. For more info see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html For tuning your resolution the relevant lines from XF86Config are: Section Screen Identifier YourScreen Device Your nvidia card MonitorYourMonitor DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection The order of the resolutions listed is determinig the resolution which X starts with. See http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/ for details looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. It isn't harder. It's a complete operating system, not just a kernel with assorted ingredients arround. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. Well, thats not enough info to help you. Basically you need two interfaces on the FreeBSD box, depending on your DSL hardware you need either mpd (or any other way you like to handle ppp (pppoE or pptp, depending on your DSL-line)) and on the second card a private IP with a correct subnetmask, lets say 192.168.0.1/24. The /24 means 24bits of the address are network bits and the rest 8 bits are host bits wich is a network mask of 255.255.255.0! Now you have to assign your XP box a address from the same subnet named 192.168.0.0/24. The .1 is occupied by your FreeBSD box, .255 is for broadcasts reserved so you can choose between 2 and 254. Lets take 2. Sou you assign you XP bos the address 192.168.0.2 and the netmask 255.255.255.0. If you connected your network cards correctly (x-cable or hub or switch) you can now ping the 192.168.0.1 from the XP box and the 192.168.0.2 from the FreeBSD box. You can edit your file /etc/hosts and enter a name for 192.168.0.2 (e.g. xpbox) so you can ping xpbox. For details see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ advanced-networking.html -Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Fowler pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: I need Help Please.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:15:28 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) darkstarmaster21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. To get a working XF86Config use XFree86 -configure. Then move that file to /etc/X11/XF86Config Then to config the file use xf86cfg -textmode to configure it. Note: on some systems you may have to go in and comment out the dri line on some gfx cards. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. Uhm, having a error message to go by would be really useful. Hmm, if this is your first time trying stuff like this, don't worry about it, some of the finer parts of unix take awhile to learn. Here are some good starting places... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi Generally the best way to get help on a specific command is to use man... do a mam man to find more out about the man program. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. Lets make this part simple... use the freebsd box for nat and not the win2k machine. Check out the nat page in the handbook(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd .html and if you have not done so, read the rest of the handbook. Just put on of the nics in the bsd box on dhcp for the dsl adapter and the other to something like 192.168.0.1. Now plug your win2k machine into the second one and give it something like 192.168.0.2 and tell it to use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway. Hope this has been of help. If you have any other questions feel free to ask :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help restoring my /usr partition!
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some urgent help! Trying to restore my /usr partition (FreeBSD 4.7R), I get the following errors: % restore -N -rf ./usr.back expected next file 1125, got 7 expected next file 1125, got 8 expected next file 1125, got 529 expected next file 1125, got 530 expected next file 6995, got 6872 expected next file 6995, got 6873 expected next file 8502, got 8483 expected next file 8502, got 8484 expected next file 8828, got 8736 expected next file 8828, got 8737 expected next file 22844, got 9619 Sounds like problems with the backup, not the disk you're restoring to. Etc. This is the result of the fsck: % fsck /usr ** /dev/ad0s1g (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on /usr ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts UNREF FILE I=7 OWNER=nobody MODE=100644 SIZE=1744 MTIME=Nov 3 14:33 2003 CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=8 OWNER=nobody MODE=100644 SIZE=6952 MTIME=Nov 4 10:52 2003 CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=529 OWNER=root MODE=100660 SIZE=0 MTIME=Nov 3 00:08 2003 CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=530 OWNER=root MODE=100660 SIZE=1521 MTIME=Nov 3 09:13 2003 CLEAR? no I have no idea what these file are, or how to get rid of them. Somebody, please help! Looks like you're doing your fsck while the filesystem is mounted read-write. Don't do that. Unmount it first (single-user mode is good for this), and *then* fsck it. You probably won't find any problems at that time, though -- the unreferenced file handles may just be normal open handles that will be cleaned up when the filesystem is umounted and flushed to disk. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help restoring my /usr partition!
I need some urgent help! Trying to restore my /usr partition (FreeBSD 4.7R), I get the following errors: % restore -N -rf ./usr.back expected next file 1125, got 7 expected next file 1125, got 8 expected next file 1125, got 529 expected next file 1125, got 530 expected next file 6995, got 6872 expected next file 6995, got 6873 expected next file 8502, got 8483 expected next file 8502, got 8484 expected next file 8828, got 8736 expected next file 8828, got 8737 expected next file 22844, got 9619 Etc. This is the result of the fsck: % fsck /usr ** /dev/ad0s1g (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on /usr ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts UNREF FILE I=7 OWNER=nobody MODE=100644 SIZE=1744 MTIME=Nov 3 14:33 2003 CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=8 OWNER=nobody MODE=100644 SIZE=6952 MTIME=Nov 4 10:52 2003 CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=529 OWNER=root MODE=100660 SIZE=0 MTIME=Nov 3 00:08 2003 CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=530 OWNER=root MODE=100660 SIZE=1521 MTIME=Nov 3 09:13 2003 CLEAR? no I have no idea what these file are, or how to get rid of them. Somebody, please help! - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help getting a desktop working.
Dear Freebsd, I have installed freebsd 4.4 (the ones that came with the manual.) I got it all installed correctly but when i log in freebsd it leaves me at a dos like screen with a $. I want to know how to get a desktop working (the quickest way.) Thank you for your time. -Mike D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help getting a desktop working.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:49:51PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Freebsd, I have installed freebsd 4.4 (the ones that came with the manual.) I Which manual is that? There's a paper version of the handbook, but that doesn't come with a CD. I know that FreeBSD Unleashed comes with a copy of 4.4, but that is not the manual. got it all installed correctly but when i log in freebsd it leaves me at a dos like screen with a $. I want to know how to get a desktop working (the quickest way.) Thank you for your time. If you haven't installed X-windows, install it. If you don't know how to install it, su to root (type su at the $ prompt, and enter the root password), and type /stand/sysinstall. Follow the instructions. By default, X-windows is installed with the twm window manager. At the $ prompt, type startx. That's the quickest route to a working desktop. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help getting a desktop working.
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:31:19 -0400, Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:49:51PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Freebsd, I have installed freebsd 4.4 (the ones that came with the manual.) I Which manual is that? There's a paper version of the handbook, but that doesn't come with a CD. I know that FreeBSD Unleashed comes with a copy of 4.4, but that is not the manual. got it all installed correctly but when i log in freebsd it leaves me at a dos like screen with a $. I want to know how to get a desktop working (the quickest way.) Thank you for your time. If you haven't installed X-windows, install it. If you don't know how to install it, su to root (type su at the $ prompt, and enter the root password), and type /stand/sysinstall. Follow the instructions. By default, X-windows is installed with the twm window manager. At the $ prompt, type startx. That's the quickest route to a working desktop. - though with twm, that'll be a *barely* working desktop. :) You may want to install a window manager that's a bit more intuitive - Windowmaker might be a good one to start off with. A good tutorial on installing a window manager can be found here: URL: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/21/FreeBSD_Basics.html Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I NEED HELP.
Hi, I need your help. I am student-programmer from Ukraine. In Internet I read, that it is possible to download FreeBSD 5.0 How can I do it?? In FTP needs login and pasword, (anonymous don`t work). Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: I NEED HELP.
Whitewoolf wrote: Hi, I need your help. I am student-programmer from Ukraine. In Internet I read, that it is possible to download FreeBSD 5.0 How can I do it?? In FTP needs login and pasword, (anonymous don`t work). That is the correct method. If anonymous didn't work, then you either are typing it wrong, your ftp client is broken, or (most likely) the ftp server you're trying to use is too busy to log into at the moment. FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE was released recently, and the ftp server have been pretty busy. Try a local mirror, it will probably be less overwhelmed: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
