Re: kernel

2004-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hii!! In the chapter 9.3 Building and installing a custom kernel of the freebsd handbook it's written that MYKERNEL is an example but I don't know how I can find that. In fact I don't know what MYKERNEL represents. OK. MYKERNEL represents an example of a name you could use for

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Sir, I'm totally a beginner and I'm glad cause it seems to me that I always get response to every question that I send to freebsd mailing list. And not just one, but I always receive more than what I really need!(isn't it cool!) Welcome to FreeBSD. I'm just wondrin' who

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
It is my understanding that there are - or were - a very small number of people who work directly for FreeBSD. (Jordan Hubard (now with Apple) and Kirk McCusick come to mind.) Well, they can answer for themselves if they choose. I don't know their details. Anyway there is no

Re: Is it Possible to shrink a FBSD Partition?

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello Is there any easy way to shrink a freebsd partition? When I created the slice (I think it is called) I used the complete drive. In general, no. I need some space to create another partition and do not wish to reinstall FBSD. This machine has been up and running for sometime and

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Aloha I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister wrote: Aloha I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. When logged

Re: remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
hi everybody, i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might sound a little stupid the problem i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group (they had their own group and where in no other groups) the users are still

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
, 26 May 13 09:10 /dev/ad0s9 It shows ad0s10 but I'm not sure that it can be mounted. Has anyone ever done it? Thanks for all of the responses. Robert - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:02 am Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs

Re: How to abtain FreeBSD source code

2004-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi FreeBSD, I'm a software engineer in the networking industry. I'm very intersted in the the implementation of IP routing in FreeBSD. Two questions here: 1. Can I get FreeBSD source code without any charge? Yes. 2. If so, how can I get them? This is all very well documented on the

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list.= =20 I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD Disaster Recovery Guide

2004-05-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Thanks to the people who responded to my recent post regarding the failed boot, etc. It ended up being a bad SCSI LVD cable. During this time, and while researching the net for different solutions, I'm surprised there isn't a FreeBSD Disaster Recovery Guide of sorts. Not in the

Re: Question for the list about install BSD4.9 from FTP over CD

2004-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
If I were to install FreeBSD by doing FTP rather than from a disc, will I get updated sources EG: install 4.9 release, which doesn't support my nic right off, but there is an update driver that does For the base system and source you would get whatever it was at the time it was made in

Re: Disk full / NFS, df, and du

2004-05-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:04, Eric Anderson wrote: The problem I'm having is, after they do the rm's, it doesn't free the disk space. df shows it still being used, but du claims their directories are empty. Please see

Re: startx kde

2004-05-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
hi all im pretty new to bsd so sorry if this is a stupid question on my linux system i use kde as default desktop and as such when i type startx kde starts on bsd i get an xterm the have to type startkde after startx is there a way to do it in one command? Yes, put exec

Re: Disk full / NFS, df, and du

2004-05-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister wrote: Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:04, Eric Anderson wrote: The problem I'm having is, after they do the rm's, it doesn't free the disk space. df shows it still being used, but du claims their directories are empty. Please see http

Re: Boot laoder display ans comma problem (FreeBSD 5.1)

2004-05-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, I am a newbie about FreeBSD but I like this gorgeous OS, elegant and powerful. But FreeBSD is again mysterious for me. I have two problems. First problem : I have two partitions on my hard disk (Western Digital 20GB) with FreeBSD 5.1 and Windows Server 2003. At

Re: internet connection software

2004-05-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
my computer has ethernet internet connection. i use linksys lan card. if i reinstall system i have to reinstall the lan software. but it says its designed for windows only. and i want to remove windows because 1 it has virus, 2 it has only total of 2 gb. and i relly really liked freebsd

Re: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hi, I have a personal server with 400Gb of hard disks in various shapes and sizes. I don't have enough money for redundant disks, and I would like to know what the most efficient way of making sure my data doesn't get lost, in case of a hard drive failure. The best would be for some

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi, Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. is not

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: man disklabel is pretty comprehensive. =20 Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.= =20 They could both use

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
(`-''-/).___..--''`-._ -- | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) -- | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' -- | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' -- | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' -- Jerry McAllister wrote: Jason Dusek wrote: Hi, Through a combination of this list's

Re: config is out of sinc

2004-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am a little confused on the differen= ce of=20 RELENG_4_9 and RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE. Is the first one for stable systems,= and=20 the later one for current systems? Think of it like this: RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE marks the *beginning* of the

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? Do not correct it. It is not at all the same thing as fragmentation in Microsloth systems and is not a problem.

Re: FreeBSD.org e-mail addresses

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello All! I have a strange question and I couldn't answer it myself in any documentation. Can I get some e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I can, what should I do or who should I be? I need this for working with FreeBSD people and mailing lists. My understanding is that you have to

Re: fstab

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out there? # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options

Re: Ernesto Ortiz

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have been doing some research on FreeBSD and I want to use it as my OS but i have no idea on what files I need to download from the ftp sites. If anyone can help with my problem I would appreciate it a lot. I have a really good computer and I am sure that is more than capable of running

Re: fstab

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
asuming that you have done the whole fdisk/disklabel/newfs you can list the contents of /dev thus, ls /dev to find out. It will be ad1s1d oassume something like that I do have several ad1* devices in /dev but I can not mount them. So I asume they are just there to be there? Why

Problem: cannot install on Dell 400SC

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am hoping someone can give us some clues about this problem. A couple of us have done some searching, but found nothing that bears directly on it. Maybe some different search clues might also help. I am hoping for more than just it won't work, because... but, even a conclusive one of

Re: logo rip-off?

2004-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Did you give permission to this site to use the Free BSD devil guy logo? http://www.coverz.com/ Permission requirements are pretty loose. But, that site sure doesn't look relevant to FreeBSD in any way. Maybe they use it on their server. Maybe Kirk McKusick may want to look at it.

Re: fstab

2004-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
It would be whatever you used in the disklabel run (or the one done for you if you use sysinstall). 'd' is unlikely and so is 'c' d is highly likely and is what you get if you use sysinstall in 5.x. I have about 25 drives with a d partition. d certainly is unlikely in 4.x c will

Re: Problem: cannot install on Dell 400SC

2004-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jerry McAllister Subject: Problem: cannot install on Dell 400SC Hi, I am hoping someone can give us some clues about this problem. A couple of us have done some searching, but found

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? FreeBSD will defragment

Re: freebsd 4.5 partitioning

2004-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hope someone out there can help me. I have been charged with looking after a freebsd 4.5 server and have come across a problem I am not sure how to resolve. Basically, the /var filesystem is 108% full. I have free space on another filesystem (/usr) and would like to transfer some

Re: resizeing partion

2004-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
i have fbsd 4.10 and i need to find out if theres a way to resize a partion and shrink a different one to gain some room .. see what it is is im fairley new to fbsd and i whent with the default err the auto setting for partion sizeing durring sysinstall and now after a few months i found

Re: plz?

2004-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi uhmm i cant seen to be able to download bsd can anyone tell me how to download from the ftp server because everytime i try to download the files it fr3zz3$ My computer First, on your local host that will be receiving the files, make sure you are in some place that has enough room

Re: Problem: cannot install on Dell 400SC

2004-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Looks to me as if the SCSI controller card is buggy. Try disabling search other LUNS. OK. I did that with no noticable difference. I did notice, though, in monkeying around that the fdisk did appear to write the boot block. When I let it go on and boot without any CD or floppy in it, the

Re: XFree86 Config (continued)

2004-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote: OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close. I have a config file that works fineonly as long as I am signed in as root. KDE-Lite loads and works fine... However If I sign in as a user, I get a grey-green screen with some

Re: New Question

2004-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
The depth of my unix ignorance is showing... I kept getting a glitch, probably from my bad install attempt. I wiped my HD and re-installed FreeBSD with what I have learned. I have configured my xserver and it seems to be working ok. I read the the FreeBSD Handbook and found little about

Re: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, My name is Bryan and I am interested in using FreeBSD on my computer. Before I do so, I have a couple of questions I was wondering you could answer. OK. First, because many people on these lists use text based Email readers, please set your Email program to break lines at about

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On 6/13/2004 at 5:02 PM Edward Hendrie wrote: | |Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in |harmless butterfly costumes. = Looks more like a mosquito to me. I don't know about that, but it probably tracks disease all over. And if that thing

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing Ed, it's obvious you've hit a nerve. Many list subscribers who have never contributed before, feel compelled to reply, repeating the same explanations

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
happen then!!! Nah, then we'd just get sued by Union Crabride for stealing their battery bunny. That would set things back a lot more than suits from ATT (or SCO) over content. jerry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 11:19 am, Randy Pratt wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:57 -0400 Mi A. Llort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:02:49PM -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing ... The FreeBSD

Re: Should gcc be accessable by others?

2004-06-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi: I see that gcc, g++, and other tools are usable by world (others). I was wondering if that is a bad idea as I read here: http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_sec/09242002/pf_index.html that the slapper worm used gcc to compile it's exploit. Excerpt: The worm requires gcc to compile

Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Graham Bentley wrote: Thanks for that Jorn :) I am still elarning (guess I'll never stop :) I did a minimal config of FreeBSD and wanted to use Midnight Commander (I know this isnt that secure and its a bit of a crutch but its good for noobs like me) Anyway, there was 7 porgs

Re: Shared Partition?

2004-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. I also believe that you need a fat32 slice.It would be accessable by both systems.

Re: Sendmail and /var/spool/mqueue

2004-06-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
What does it mean when I have a lot of files in /var/spool/mqueue? I don't really understand what that particular queue is for. I believe the q is for messages that have failed, but have not yet expired...don't quote me though. Pretty close. All Email messages seem to go their first

Re: [FreeBSD] pkg_add help

2004-06-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Can someone point me in the right direction. I have a package I downloaded from FreeBSD.org thru Konqueor. It ends with .tbz I could not find this package in the ports collection thru stand/sysinstall My two questions are I need to extract this file Where And then how do I install,

Re: copy or listing problem

2004-06-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello I use freebsd4.9 I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; /bin/cp: Argument list too long. You didn't include the command you used, but I it was something like:cp *

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard disk. According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. However, both the User and (retried) Minimal distributions left me with no space in /usr I used the default partitioning (entire

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions. I've been seeing this quite a bit lately. I don't

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? Not those, but you should set yourself up a nice backup script/routine and dump(8) everything to something that

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard disk. According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. However, both the User and (retried) Minimal

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions. I've been seeing this quite a bit lately. I don't know if it's just one person, of if multiple folks have picked up on it. opinion This is not an answer to the question. It does not

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:14, Remko Lodder wrote: When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that but... Those pretty errors are always the most forgivable ones

Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Howdy, hi all is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine The entire ports collection would not fit on a CD or even a boxful of CDs. Someone counted a little while ago and found there were more than 10,000 ports available in the system. I think

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? Unless you made a checksum of everything before doing the dump and made absolutely no changes, there is no way

Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after

2004-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? snip the potential problems with dump/md5

Re: A few questions not mentioned in the Manuals

2004-06-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'd like to have answered the following, for which i looked in the manuals and documentations but i couldn't find: 1.FreeBSD's Structure as O.S. 2.FreeBSD's Methodology as O.S. 3.Kernel or Core and O.S. Levels for FreeBSD(User, Kernel, hardware, etc.). 4.Processes management:

Re: newuser

2004-06-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =20 On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0400, James Bell wrote: =20 I have BSD UNIX. =20 What commands should I use from the root to create a new user. =20 Essentially:

Re: what types of network cards work with thinkpads?

2004-06-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
Well, I'm seeing some promising thinkpads over on ebay. Some with 10/100 netword card, most without. Cann nybody clue me in on what types of laptop NICs work with FBSD? Go to: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html for V 4.10 on i386 or:

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 01:07 pm, Bill Moran wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When editing php files, via the command line, there is a newline character after the closing ? Im looking for a command that would trim files, so that I can append it to the find command.

Re: RDP

2004-07-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to set FreeBSD up to replace a Windows 2000 server. The company I work for uses terminal services client to connect to the WIN2K server. When users connect they can log in and create documents, spreadsheets, etc. Currently I use rdesktop on FreeBSD

Re: mounting

2004-07-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
Greetings: Currently i have 2 drives ad1 (10 gig) and ad2 (10gig) on my bsd system that I would like to use for file storage. I want to create a mounting point, /files_area, that could treat the two drives as one. So when I add files to /files_area it treats it like one big 20 gig

Re: Graphics

2004-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Sir, I am FreeBSD fan. I was looking for some kinda graphics for FreeBSD like Powered By FreeBSD or such. Can you provide me with some such links. Check here:http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html and here: http://www.freebsd.org/art.html and here:

Re: Quantum DLT4000 on 4.5-R: Device busy

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Greetings, (Apologies in advance if this is not the correct list for this question) I am attemping to get a new tape drive (Quantum DLT4000, external) working on my FreeBSD (4.5-R, i386) machine. The kernel detects the drive during boot: ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter port

Re: user-ppp faster then pppd ?

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:37:59AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference is too small to be meaningful. when you have 56k modem and ~4.5KB throughput 0.5KB can make a big difference I wonder if we're thinking of the same numbers. I've seen 56k modems run at 14,000 bps on

Re: freeBSD 4.8

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am a very-very new LINUX/UNIX user. After being convinced by friends that it is far better and stablethan windows architechture. So I bought the LINUX Format magazine because it offered a full OS called FREEBSD 4.8 I tried to install it and after a few a attempts I managed to

Re: Inquiry Into Japanese-English Translation Opportunities

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Good afternoon, I recently visited your website and was wondering if you might have occasional need of assistance. I am a Japanese-English interpreter/translator based in Las Vegas, NV. I am a court experienced interpreter with 30 years legal as well as technical translation

Re: Q's on dump(8) and restore(8)

2003-09-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I'm looking to improve and automate my primitive backups and I'm considering dump(8)/restore(8). But before I go this route, I'd like to be sure I can control their behavior. Unfortunately, the man pages don't seem to completely describe the interaction between the numerical

Re: mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am trying to learn the buildworld and mergemaster process from the Handbook. The handbook says: [...] To begin simply type mergemaster at your prompt, and watch it start going. [..] SO I did type mergemaster and all went well. Decided then to remove the temproot

Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

2003-09-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a workstation. The system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and swap, I have 70GB left. I'm wondering how to split these between /usr and /home. Ironically, it is more space than I seem to need. The box has only one user (me), I

Re: Backup router, new hard drive.

2003-09-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
How do I copy the whole harddrive to a larger drive than the one being copied? This is an router that cant go down for more than a few minutes. I want to replace whole system to the new harddirve old one has noisy bearings. I have no backup at all. First, find a way to make a

Re: LABEL (The FreeBSD Disklabel Editor)

2003-09-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have an existing FreeBSD v4.7 installation and want to delete a small filesystem that I had designated for email (/var/mail), and want to freeup that unused space to the '/usr/home' filesystem. If I use DISKLABEL to delete '/var/mail', and then re-write '/usr/home' to reflect the added

Re: ssh hole?

2003-09-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
so if i boot a new install from the floppy and install from ftp am i getting a patched or unpatched version of ssh? i am talking about 4.8. if it is unpatched is the patch in -current and can i force the ftp install to grab -current. You will have to upgrade your ports. thanks!

Re: fbsd fibre channel SANs

2003-09-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
In the last episode (Sep 17), Eric said: I'm trying set up a cluster of freebsd fileservers sharing a common set of volumes/drives/raids over netatalk to a bunch of OS 9 clients. Each fileserver has a Qlogic 2100 fibre channel card connected to a switch. Also connected to the switch are

Re: Free operating system for home pc

2003-09-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
I would like to find an open source operating system to use for a personal computer. I have WindowsXP now, but I feel I'd be at home with something at least a little in tune with my personal philosophy, which microsoft is not.. Can anybody tell me if there are any

Re: Free operating system for home pc

2003-09-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister wrote: I would like to find an open source operating system to use for a personal computer. I have WindowsXP now, but I feel I'd be at home with something at least a little in tune with my personal philosophy, which microsoft is not.. Can anybody

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why can't FreeBSD? See above. FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes. Try to run for example cat /bin in

Re: Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote: [...] which are all supported in for example GNU/Linux ls, except 10 and 11, but then they have an extra option to put different coloring on files with a special ending. So that archives, moviefiles, soundfiles etc. have a special

Re: Information needed

2003-09-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
To whom it may concern, What files and folders do I need to download from http://www.freebsd.org in order to have the latest and most complete version of BSD? It looks like you had better start with the documentation or you will be lost. It is all clearly detailed in the handbook and

Re: Information needed

2003-09-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry, Thanks for the information. I planned on reading the documentation before actually downloading the image or installing it. However, to prevent myself from downloading the wrong image, I thought I would ask the question and learn without having to experience doing it the wrong

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable

2003-09-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi All!!! I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People all over the world know what is Windows but don't know what is FreeBSD. More programs is written work on Windows Windows more comfortable in work with graph... If windows more popular and more

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
However, the purpose of cat is to write the contents of a file to STDOUT. And yes, in UNIX pretty much everything is considered a file. But that does not change the fact that people do not experience a directory as a file, and in their use of language also clearly differentiate between the

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
Now, either contribute something or be done with it. I contributed a few clear, well-argumented reasons in favor of my position ^^^ wrong reasons that cat should change its default behavior. You, otoh, have only demonstrated that you are a

Re: Installing and setting FreeBSD

2003-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
I went through the intalltion instuction and I am still unable to run BSD the instuction are a little to disired as in it is not helpfull at all and as far as i can tell FreeBSD still stinks unless i can get some serious help in getting it fully setup Im trying to set it up on a Dell

Re: dump, tar or pax?

2003-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Up 'till now I used dump/restore to make a backup of my system. Someone pointed out to me however that this was not the wisest thing to do, given the fact that is is a level-0 dump so it needs to be restored onto a clean (newfs) filesystem. Somebody is confused or confusing you. The man

Re: INSTALLATIONM ON A HP PAVILION 8670C

2003-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am haviing the worst time trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Pavilion 8670C.It has ATAPI CD-ROMS and when I attempted to do an installation of FreeBSD with version 4.7 of the software it failed. I attempted to do an installation from a MS-DOS partition and thatb also failed. The

Re: tape drive recommendation

2003-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
can somebody recommend a good tape drive manufacturer? I am Looking to back up about 50GBs weekly. By that do you mean on one tape? Or across several tapes. Do you mean a total of about 50GB per week including full and change dumps or a 50GB filesystem once per week or ??? If you need to

Re: Comprehensive list of error codes?

2003-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:45 am, Dr.Smoke wrote: Is there a comprehensive list of error codes for FreeBSD? I can find nothing related to this in the Handbook or other online documentation. If you are looking for the signal codes, they are in /usr/include/sys/signal.h I

Re: SCSI DAT tape drive

2003-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
At 03:40 PM 9/30/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my box. My machine has an adaptec SCSI host adapter and a SCSI Dat tape drive. I expected to access my tape drive through the /dev/rmt device, but instead must use /dev/sa0 (I think this is

Re: FreeBSD download

2003-10-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear Sir or Madam, I'm interested in using FreeBSD as part of rearrengement of my professional skills. I'm currently studing Linux but I'd like to feel a bit of a true UNIX system. I noticed FreeBSD is presented in a 4 CD set case by FreeBSD Mall, for example. However, the

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
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 only

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
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? Well, sort of. FreeBSD itself does not offer any CDs. It has some

Re: AFS

2003-10-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am wondering how I might go about connecting to an AFS cell on my FreeBSD 4.8 system. Any input would be helpful. Currently, as far as I know, there is no version of AFS client available for FreeBSD although I keep hearing about openAFS coming.I wish it would. We use AFS here and

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
FreeBSD is a child of System V, so UNIX. Linux was written from scratch by Linus with the GNU Public License, as opposed to FreeBSD which originated from BSD, which originated from System V. No doubt you will hear a lot of corrections to your statement. That is because it is

Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi ! Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ? I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my first drive. So, I

Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi ! Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ? I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my first drive.

Re: FreeBSD won't work on Toshiba Satellite 3000

2003-10-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
What output does it produce? Do the bootfloppies work? Peschmä Am Mon, 06 Oct 2003 20:25:15 +0200 schrieb ATM: Dear Sir or Madame, I can't install FreeBSD 5.1 on my laptop (toshiba satellite 3000). The boot/installation CD stops during initiation. I am very willing to work on

Re: packages

2003-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
hi i would like to know when will FreeBSD crew update packages.. for example: flashplugin for mozilla is still version 4, linux allready has 6; mozilla 1.4b is beta?? there is gnome 2.4 out.. getta move on guys... ^^ Have

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