Re: newb questions

2008-11-19 Thread Ricardo Jesus
configuration. maybe I was looking in the wrong documentation, if any/all of this is in the docs, which one? the handbook? Yes. Paul, Regarding question #1 just take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook, namely Chapter 5 The X Window System under section 5.7.1.2. Regards, Ricardo Jesus

Re: Upgrade from FreeBsd 6.3 to 6.4 freebsd-update

2008-12-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Renat wrote: Yes. I try . But not worked!! - webarchive# freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata files...

Re: freebsd-update killed my /var

2008-12-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Mel wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008 15:28:16 FuLLBLaSTstorm wrote: Hey all, Recently I've run freebsd-update on my desktop machine, but it failed saying that it cannot save its files anymore to /var because the filesystem is full. now df shows something like this: # df /dev/ad0s1d253678

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Ricardo Jesus
RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: ( decompress to /usr/ports ) # portsnap extract ( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. ) You need the extract so that the tree is

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-07 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Steve Bertrand wrote: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb drive, but every time I

Re: Best torrent client/server available for FreeBSD?

2009-01-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:09:23 pm Nerius Landys wrote: rtorrent is very good, have been using it on my server for many months. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-09 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Brian McCann wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió: I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the thumb drive (such as it was a new disk right from the

Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread Ricardo Jesus
luizbcampos wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. ad4s1a

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of

Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest

2009-01-15 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Sebastian Setzer wrote: Reading the handbook and several pages on the web, i got the impression that ports are always compiled from source. I should have read the handbook more thorougly, sorry. It mentions portupgrade -P. -Original Message- From: Erik Osterholm

Re: Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-29 Thread Ricardo Jesus
the errata ou the stable branch so little heads up: tag=RELENG_7_1 to follow the errata branch tag=RELENG_7 to follow stable Regards, Ricardo Jesus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Have fun, Ricardo Jesus. ___ 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: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over ftp. If that's what you want I definitely misunderstood.

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:02:25AM -0800, new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). That is called md (memory disk) in FreeBSD land. Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-03-03 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello Jerry, For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly the rsync manual page. I was having a problem reaching that URL; however, I found that this one: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/docsnap.html did seem to work. In any case, I am unable to get the

Re: How to use portmanager/portmaster?

2009-03-03 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Da Rock wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 23:33 +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 22:39:26 schrieb Roland Smith: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 21:42:35 schrieb Roland Smith: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100,

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Josh Carroll wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks.

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and camcontrol to list SCSI devices, as well as atacontrol for ATA devices. And finally, dmesg

Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
manish jain wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is

Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Remorque wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.comwrote: manish jain wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP server. Until the times of static

Re: Fluxbox problem..

2009-03-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Fabian Krook wrote: Hello, when i type startx it doesn't start with Fluxbox only X i been set in .xintrc exec fluxbox. When it's in X and type fluxbox it comes: -- Failed to read: session.ingoreBorder Setting default value Failed to

Re: Need help for acroread8

2009-03-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
and no compiling) but don't mix ports and packages if possible. Regards, Ricardo Jesus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Linux Compatability

2009-03-18 Thread Ricardo Jesus
rasz wrote: hi i have 2 distinct questions, and first is, i installed a linux app (binaries) and it failed when run complaining that it needs a CPU with SSE instuctions enabled. does anyone know what this is and related too? i am running 7.2-prerelease i386 with linux_base-fc4. the only

Re: Jail limits

2009-03-18 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Espartano wrote: Hi folk, sorry for my bat english, i have a question: there is any initiative to implements limits (like cpu limits, memory limits) inside a jail ? or already exists anything to do it ? thanks a lot. You can check sysctl MIB entries for security.jail.* Using

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-25 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD.

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-26 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Fbsd1 wrote: Ricardo Jesus wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices

Re: Portsnap question

2009-04-07 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Leslie Jensen wrote: I used to use csup and in my /root/ports-supfile I changed the default host line to a server near me. *default host=cvsup.se.FreeBSD.org Now I've been using portsnap for a while and when installing a new system I got to question if portsnap look in this file for an

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Rajeev Sharma wrote: Sir, I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. I want to shift to Graphical Mode. Kindly advice me what to do. Thanks Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com rajb3...@rediffmail.com

Re: Loading sound drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Ricardo Jesus
af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on board, according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset. The hardware notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this chipset but does list several Intel type HDA chipsets including

Re: Loading sound drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Ricardo Jesus
kyanh wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:47:15 + af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on board, according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset. The hardware notes, linked from the handbook, does not list this chipset but does

Re: Loading sound drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Ricardo Jesus wrote: kyanh wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:47:15 + af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My motherboard, an ASUS K8V-X, has a generic type sound chip on board, according to ASUS' specifications, it is an AD1980 chipset. The hardware notes, linked from the handbook, does not list

Re: Console mode scrolling

2009-04-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi, Is there a way to scroll the screen in console mode? Something like I do in Linux with Ctrl + Page Up? I find it specially useful, but I don't know how to do it in FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12 Thanks in advance.

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Ricardo Jesus
be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/hardware.html Also, FreeBSD has a friendly forum at http://forums.freebsd.org/index.php. Regards, Ricardo Jesus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle

2010-03-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 08/03/2010 15:39, mailinglist wrote: I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 09/03/2010 17:58, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: * RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote: that should be RELENG_8_0 Sorry for typo, but actually I only appended to the existing supfile. Thing goes well. Stable is a stable development branch, if you want to use freebsd-update you need to use a

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

2010-03-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 17/03/2010 14:45, Антон Клесс wrote: That is what I suspected for. What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is production server and I have to keep it working properly? 6.2-RC1 - 6.2 RELEASE - 7.2 RELEASE - 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in this style? 2010/3/17 Bas

Re: VirtualBox from the command line

2010-03-19 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 19/03/2010 03:45, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical

Re: X Window - how to get the standard font

2009-04-29 Thread Ricardo Jesus
herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, a little question: I open a shell and invoke: #xmessage 'hello world' - it opens the window, but a rather tiny font. So I invoke: #xmessage -fn -*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* 'hello world' - the same appears in the fontsize I like. Now the

Re: 64-Bit Linux Applications

2009-05-13 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Konrad Heuer wrote: Hello, can I run 64 bit Linux applications on FreeBSD/amd64? Or is Linux emulation 32 bit only? Thanks and best regards Konrad Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.de ___

Re: 7.2 don't set xorg.conf

2009-05-29 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Tony wrote: hi, i re-install standar (recommended) way 7.2 version, and finish setp when i reboot.. i set Xorg -configure and failed,... this works when i select the packages to install to by group (*) User % X-Interfaces before when i install 1st time i select one-by-one and when i

Re: rtorrent refuses to open bittorrent file

2008-07-24 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:20:05 -0300 luizbcampos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am a new user to rtorrent I would like to know how to set it up properly. After I had configured .rc.rtorrent when I type --anyfile.torrent -- I got the answer that rtorrent is unable

Re: Automatically starting user programs on boot

2008-09-05 Thread Ricardo Jesus
David Collins wrote: | Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:06:54 +0200 (CEST) | From: Sa?a Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Automatically starting user programs on boot | To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | Message-ID: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-2 | | Hi! | |

Re: ethernet statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, try systat and :ifstat bye On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 04:39:35PM +0200, Vonarburg, David wrote: Hi, I am using Intel PRO/1000PT Server adaptor with freeBSD 7.0. How can I read out

Re: ethernet statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: - Original Message From: Ricardo Jesus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:50:59 PM Subject: Re: ethernet statistics Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, try systat and :ifstat bye On Thu, Sep

Re: What is a recommended soundcard for FreeBSD?

2008-10-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Aniruddha wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 23:46 +0200, Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Le Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:42:43 +0200, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Because of the problems with my onboard Intel HDA audio chip I plan to buy a soundcard that is supported by FreeBSD. There is

Re: Punkbuster

2009-08-24 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Jeff Molofee wrote: Can anyone tell me how to update punkbuster ... seems pbweb.x86 doesn't work anymore (302 errors) and I'm unable to run pbsetup.run it gives me a float point error, even after unpacking it with upx -d Specifically for enemy territory.

Re: View font selection

2009-10-14 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Question: What command should I issue to see what each of my installed x11 fonts looks like? Thank you, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: nvidia GeForce 9300/730i on 7.2, Core 2 Quad, ASUS P5N7A-VM

2009-11-23 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Mark Terribile wrote: Hi, I've recently put FreeBSD 7.2 on an ASUS P5N7A-VM. This is a uATX (Intel) with an integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9300/730i; I have a Core 2 Quad 2.33 on it. I've installed the latest NVIDIA FreeBSD driver (NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-190.42.tar.gz) and the machine crashes when I

Re: Wireless network control

2009-12-04 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this. currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any real connections. My home network uses WPA2 encryption so i use the

Re: How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 10/12/2009 10:36, Dimitar Trandov wrote: Hi list, Yesterday I decided to upgrade my server, which currently running 7.1rel. p8. Do I have to first upgrade to 7.2 release and then to 8.0, or instead of this, directly do a safe step to 8.0 release ? Thanks in advance Dimitar,

Re: How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 10/12/2009 15:50, Alexandre L. wrote: I think you wrong. I read the Official Announce for FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html You can find this sentence : Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade as follows: You can

Re: ifdown/ifup under FreeBSD?

2009-12-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 17/12/2009 14:19, Bas Smeelen wrote: Bas Smeelen wrote: Sandra Kachelmann wrote: Under RedHat Linux I can configure an interface, routes and so on in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/routes-eth1 then simply run: $ ifup eth1 and it will set all the