Robert Wall wrote:
I've got a Serial ATA setup, nice shiny new Dell machine here. I'm
attemptiong to do a floppy-based FreeBSD install.
I get through loading the kern disk, and it prompts me to insert the
mfsroot disk. When I insert the mfsroot disk, it does a hardware probe,
and chokes. It tell
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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of laziness. In my case I unfortunately decided it might be a good thing
to use a Microsoft client mail program to handle e-mail. This was a
decade ago. I now have around ten thousand archived e-mail messages
accumulated in a massive *.pst file that I really want to k
Ajax Munroe wrote:
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Please, if you could just tell me of one of your systems thats a little more user friendly I would
love to use it, and tell all my friends about it too so that they can spread the word about the new
operating system thats fun and
Todd Stephens wrote:
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote:
Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat
compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger
with FreeBSD and its tarballs.
Not sure what you mean by that "its tarballs". Linux distribu
JacobRhoden wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:32 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
both freeBSD and linux distros (most of them at least) give you
choice what you install. Just because it's on CD does not mean it's
Yes, but RedHat installs piles more junk which you dont use (At least last
tim
Todd Stephens wrote:
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:26 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
wrote:
I imagine you'll correct me if I'm wrong, but when you install
RH you get KDE and Apache, automagically, right? This
makes it a complete OS, but it's a little more structured
in that some choices are
Todd Stephens wrote:
On Thursday 02 October 2003 03:13 am, Erik Steffl wrote:
I just don't think that your fairly general statement about linux
distros pushing kitchen sink on you while freeBSD being more
traditional unix is true...
I have tried RH, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware
SoloCDM wrote:
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When RedHat started out, it had some conveniences, but it quickly
become so bizarre and discombobulated that I am feed-up, a voodoo act
and standing on one's head is involved. Most of the so-called-experts
in RPMs don't know what they're doing from one minute to the next.
Usua
Robert G. Waycott wrote:
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undeniably human character, a inexplicably spectral quality of
being 'alive,' that is far more apt to aid a user solve a problem
or resolve a conflict or learn something new than sending a not to
Redhat, use FreeBSD. Whoa, that turned a bit proselytic. Sorry.
religi
R. Zoontjens wrote:
SoloCDM wrote:
Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html :-)
A more serious link:
http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html
it's quite outdated... interesting for indiana jones maybe... ignores
many new features of linux and freeB
Jerry McAllister wrote:
SoloCDM wrote:
Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared
to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD
and its tarballs.
Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs?
There are some packages which are on
M.D. DeWar wrote:
What is the difference between x11r6 and xfree86 ?
I went to xfree site and ended up at x.org and the d/l are not the same.
X11R6 is specification
xfree86 is implementation of the specs
x.org provideS another implementation, that's what you can download
from x.org (I don'
M.D. DeWar wrote:
Thanks.
Now for a more stupider question.
What is the purpose of them exactly. I have read the sites but being alien
to the unix world it confuses me.
Do they just make unix a windows type enviroment ?
X Windows System is a windowing system, but not complete GUI
solution, it pr
David Bear wrote:
I have a 100 mg zip drive that I'm writing to as a raw device -- no
file system -- just 'tar cvf /dev/afd0 stuff'. I am curious if there
is a way to find out how big the tarball is on this kind of thing.
I'm guessing maybe some kind of seek to EOF but not sure how it might
be acc
Martin Vana wrote:
Hi,
I would like to do some more advanced editing of my C programs in Vim,
like to go through program step by step or to have 'watch' on some of
variables. All I've achieved now is syntax highlighting and Quickfix with
you need a debugger for this, probably gdb with some gui fr
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