Trouble mounting the root filesystem

2002-10-03 Thread Nick Tonkin
up with that? Any advice on how to get the system to automatically mount the filesystems we defined greatly appreciated. Thanks, - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Trouble mounting the root filesystem

2002-10-04 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:02:24PM -0700, Nick Tonkin typed: Just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a shiny new box with a Promise Fasttrack 100 onboard ATA RAID controller. [ snip ] Oct 3 23:00:17 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory

Re: dma

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Tonkin
FreeBSD is an operating system, as is, maybe, Windows To use FreeBSD, you must either quit using Windows, or set up a dual boot arrangement. You cannot use one OS on top of another operating system. Wrong, wrong, wrong. You can run FreeBSD on Windows or Windows on FreeBSD, using

'wrong' version of perl for ports??

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Tonkin
binaries on the system made with 5.005 or something? - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: vmware

2002-10-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on freebsd? - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^) On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon The highest OS I've

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon [ snip ] Excuse me, but did you get

options PNPBIOS unrecognized in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Tonkin
on the subject; but as usual no solved message), I added options PNPBIOS to my kernel conf file. The resulting error when I try to reconfig the kernel is: TELTRON: unknown option PNPBIOS thanks for any help. -- - nick Nick Tonkin {|8

Re: options PNPBIOS unrecognized in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Tonkin
was primarily to point out what appears to be a failure in the documentation. -- - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
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Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
, and rely on the ports for other stuff. OTOH, as someone pointed out, the ports-installed perl _does_ play nice with CPAN, so you can use CPAN to get perl modules as well as use the p5-* ports. -- ___ Nick Tonkin {|8^) ___ [EMAIL

Re: problem with perl when installing port dvdrip

2003-12-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
from source. - nick -- Nick Tonkin {|8^) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup Server

2003-12-27 Thread Nick Tonkin
that runs FreeBSD internally. Also worth noting is that the support we got from Coyote Point was exemplary. HTH, -nick -- _ Nick Tonkin {|8^) information management systems and custom software development http://www.tonkinresolutions.com

Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Nick Tonkin
+ and a GeForce II card with 128Mb RAM ... there is fuzziness and also visible 'trembling' in the corners. Is there a commercial X driver for FBSD 5.x ? Or, is the problem with KDE or something else? Anyone have similar experience? Thanks, - nick -- _ Nick Tonkin

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:25:29 -0600, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:07 pm, Nick Tonkin wrote: Hi list, I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x I called XIG and they do

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-08 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:47:37 +, Robert Downes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Tonkin wrote: Andrew, thanks for the pointer. The XFree86 nv driver is what I have been using. I'm going to try to install and use Nvidia's own one. Really? I'm using a GeForce 2 MX 400 (64Mb) RAM, and I get

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-08 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:47:37 +, Robert Downes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Tonkin wrote: Andrew, thanks for the pointer. The XFree86 nv driver is what I have been using. I'm going to try to install and use Nvidia's own one. Really? I'm using a GeForce 2 MX 400 (64Mb) RAM, and I get