How to make the boot menu just like I want?

2004-10-11 Thread Frederick
Dear FreeBSD Team: This is Frederick. Is there any table to list the partition number(subtype) or sysid? I have two hard disks. The first one install windows, and the second one install freebsd. I first install windows, then install freebsd. I use boot manager to manage my boot. The menu shows

via vt1616 ac97 onboard sound

2004-05-03 Thread Frederick Thomas
shalom, I haven't found any docs to tell me how to get this up and running yet. I have a Abit VA-10 mobo with via graphics and sound onboard. I found that Xfree86.org had updated to 4.4.0 and was able to install binaries without too much trouble, so I have X/Kde up. So does anyone know how

natd translating ip and udp packets but not tcp..

2004-06-20 Thread Frederick Polsky
Greetings and salutations; I am having a puzzling issue with natd under FreeBSD 5.2, in which it will translate icmp and udp packets just fine, but tcp connections from the inside network to the outside world cannot be established. I can lookup hostnames, ping etc. from the internal client box,

Pentium 120 reboots after loading mfsroot floppy.

2003-10-15 Thread Frederick Bowes
Hi, I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the mfsroot floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then reboots. What might cause this problem? Fred

Re: Pentium 120 reboots after loading mfsroot floppy.

2003-10-19 Thread Frederick Bowes
Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the mfsroot floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then reboots

freebsd 5.1 and devfs

2004-01-13 Thread Frederick Thomas
shalom, I read the manpage on devfs and can't make heads or tails of it. I've a cs4236 onboard pnp sound card that took 2 months to finally get running and I'm gonna wait that long this time. My box is a dell optiplex gx1 and using old school rules catted dmesg.boot and found pcm0my card

regarding devfs ...

2004-01-16 Thread Frederick Thomas
Hi, is there anyone who has documentation other than the manpage for freebsd's implementation of devfs? I have researched all the websites that I know of and have been unable to find any comprehensive doc on the subject. I've been trying to set a pnp onboard soundcard cs4236 crystal and

hello again, devfs, hello

2004-01-17 Thread Frederick Thomas
hi I just wondering if anyone is still out there who cn actually help me with the problem I'm having with devfs and my sound card. devfs did'nt automatically create any node I would normally expect to find , [/dev/snd/;/dev/dsp(although it did create dsp0.0 and 0.1); /dev/audio(for the

Formatting an email for this list using vi

2003-11-17 Thread Frederick Bowes
Hi, I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? Thanks, Fred ___

Using freebsd to analyse ip usage?

2003-11-19 Thread Frederick Bowes
Hello Everyone, At work there are some unused ip addresses but we dont know which ones they are (because there are alot of computers) is there a port which could be used to ping the subnet over a few days to work out which ip addresses are actually coming online? Thanks Fred

ipfw log popup in X

2003-11-26 Thread Frederick Bowes
This is slightly off topic, but I have just setup ipfw and was wondering if there was a way to get the log messgaes popup in a window (ie so if someone attempts to connect, you get notified)? Some /usr/ports perhaps? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Frederick Bowes
now, i cant get the system to boot off the disk, i have even tried eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd and dos versions). Does anyone know how I can save it? I have tried everything and dont know where else to ask. Frederick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Frederick Bowes
Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do now, i cant get the system to boot off the disk, i have even tried eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd and dos versions). Does anyone know how I can save it? I

RE: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-09 Thread Frederick Bowes
Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do I had the same problem back in 4.5. I worked around the problem by formating the hard drive with a Win98(Oh Boy) recovery floppy then ...

cs4236b crystal onboard sound help

2003-12-15 Thread Frederick Thomas
Shalom, I have been trying to avoid contacting you since I know that your engaged, however I have come to the end of my resources. I have a dual boot with win98 and freebsd 4.8 on a Dell Optiplex GX1(tower). I have attempted to configure the sound [crystalcs4236b onboard audio controller]

trouble installing rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

2003-12-29 Thread Frederick Thomas
shalom, I have a question which I hope that you can help me with. I just tried to intstall rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz on my system[freebsd 4.8] and have not been able to get it to ./configure let alone make. Is there a special dir, ( /usr/compat/linux?), or dependencies that are required to

once again rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

2004-01-02 Thread Frederick Thomas
Hello, I'm trying to get some help installing the tarball in the subject line because I do not have an internet connection at home, and every time I have tried to build a binary from source I've have been unable to because of some missing dependencies. I'm new to asking for help but I would

Kernel Panic on 9.0-RELEASE When Attempting to Remove Files

2012-02-10 Thread Ryan Frederick
I'm attempting to remove a number of old files within a directory that was rsynced over from another box. However a number of files (old symlinks and regular files in this instance) cause a kernel panic when attempting to remove them using rm or unlink. This is the panic message output: Fatal

Re: Kernel Panic on 9.0-RELEASE When Attempting to Remove Files

2012-02-10 Thread Ryan Frederick
via Linux results in `rm` either being killed or hanging. Ryan On 02/10/2012 10:43 AM, Ryan Frederick wrote: I'm attempting to remove a number of old files within a directory that was rsynced over from another box. However a number of files (old symlinks and regular files in this instance) cause

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpcre.so.0 not found, required by libxfsm-4.6.so.0 amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-15 Thread Ryan Frederick
You can recompile all ports that depend on pcre so that they'll use the new shared library. You can do so with: # portmaster -r pcre-8.30 Ryan On 02/15/2012 08:42 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I updated ports and one failed, gimp-app. I checked /usr/src/UPDATING and I followed

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpcre.so.0 not found, required by libxfsm-4.6.so.0 amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-16 Thread Ryan Frederick
It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as well: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html A cursory search shows that uninstalling avahi-app then reinstalling should take care of the compilation failure. Afterward you should be able to run

unable to mount secondary hard disks now

2005-04-06 Thread Shea Frederick
Im running FreeBSD 5.3, its an almost fresh install. Its been running for about 7 days now. I have an internal IDE drive that the OS runs from, then I have two external firewire drives (da0, da1) that are only used as Samba shares. This morning i found that one of the firewire drives are no

freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Frederick
I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, and rebooting with the custom kernels subsequent update checks using freebsd-update

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Frederick
, Ryan Frederick wrote: I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, and rebooting with the custom kernels subsequent update checks

Re: Building a Headless FreeBSD Virtual System

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Frederick
When you define the virtual serial port in VirtualBox for the guest VM one of the options available for connection of the port to the host system is a named pipe (I believe it's called Host Pipe in the configuration). You can then specify whatever named pipe on the host system you wish to

Re: Virtual FreeBSD9.0 ISO Image Won't Mount Root FS

2012-09-05 Thread Ryan Frederick
What option argument did you specify for the -V (volume ID) option when you created the ISO with the `mkisofs` command? I believe that the root filesystem lies under /dev/iso9660/volumeID for which the ISO loader's default configuration specifies as /dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL. Thus you'll

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-24 Thread Ryan Frederick
Forgot to cc the list. On 04/24/2013 04:47 PM, Ryan Frederick wrote: I believe mimencode is in ports as converters/mmencode. It is also included as part of mail/metamail. Ryan On 04/24/2013 04:07 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which base64

freesbd-update Continuously Wants to Update linker.hints

2013-04-30 Thread Ryan Frederick
I have a number of boxes running 9.1-RELEASE (amd64) that I updated to p3 yesterday via freebsd-update. However freebsd-update still indicates that linker.hints needs to be updated. Running `freebsd-update install` appears to install a new linker.hints file but still doesn't appear to satisfy

Re: update from apache22 to apache24

2013-05-03 Thread Ryan Frederick
The Apache site has documentation on upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4 -- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html The main change for me was the new allow/deny syntax. I've updated almost all of my Apache installs from 2.2 to 2.4 with no issues. The only installs I haven't updated yet are

Re: Curl -7.24.0_4 heap corruption

2013-07-02 Thread Ryan Frederick
Update your ports vulnerability database before attempting to compile curl. `portaudit -Fda` should do the trick. Ryan On 07/02/2013 08:49 AM, Reggie Euser wrote: We're running FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 and portaudit says: Affected package: curl-7.24.0_2 Type of problem: cURL library -- heap

Re: What's wrong here? Can't reinstall graphics/lcms2

2013-08-20 Thread Ryan Frederick
There was an entry in vuxml for lcms2 2.5 earlier this week that initially included 2.5 accidentally. It's been corrected now, so an update of your ports vulnerability database should allow you to install/update lcms2. Ryan On 08/20/2013 01:15 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at

sysinstall in a jail

2004-06-28 Thread Frederick N. Brier
you for any suggestions. Frederick N. Brier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysinstall in a jail

2004-06-28 Thread Frederick N. Brier
Packages, and it worked. Fred. Frederick N. Brier wrote: I am running into a problem installing packages via sysinstall within a jail using the CD media. I did a minimal install, but added the /usr/src directory. I followed the directions to setup a jail and copied /stand/sysinstall into the jail

Multiple IP addresses in a Jail

2004-09-08 Thread Frederick N. Brier
. Is this not the case? Is there a patch? Is there another way to do this? Thank you. Frederick N. Brier Multideck Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

How do I diagnose and fix a boot problem?

2005-09-02 Thread Frederick N. Brier
appreciated. Thank you. Frederick N. Brier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-03 Thread Frederick N. Brier
How do I reinstall just the standard MBR/Boot Manager without effecting anything else or accidentally doing a reinstall? Frederick N. Brier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Repairing kernel not found

2005-09-06 Thread Frederick N. Brier
in the correct directory on the correct slice. Please point me to a howto or docs on how to repair an installation without wiping out all the files and packages I have already installed/loaded/configured on this system. Thank you. Frederick N. Brier

Re: Repairing kernel not found

2005-09-06 Thread Frederick N. Brier
? The loaddev and currdev variables are both set to disk1s1a: Thank you again. Fred. Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-09-06 11:13, Frederick N. Brier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas was kind enough to point me at the boot0cfg command and I had already tried the disklabel command, but my

Re: Repairing kernel not found

2005-09-07 Thread Frederick N. Brier
Keramidas wrote: On 2005-09-06 19:34, Frederick N. Brier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More info. If I ls either before or after setting the bootpath or module_path environment variables, the response is: open '/' failed: no such file or directory. The load kernel command returns: can't file 'kernel