Phoenix BIOS, hard disk data loss

2003-12-04 Thread sd
On the chance that this information might help someone else. Some months ago, just after buying a Tyan Tiger s2466 MPX dual processor motherboard and installing FreeBSD 5.0 on it, I experienced a lot of data loss (lost files and directories, unrecoverable by fsck). I thought the problem might b

Re: Phoenix BIOS, hard disk data loss

2003-12-05 Thread sd
First, sd wrote: > Some months ago, just after buying a Tyan Tiger s2466 MPX dual > processor motherboard and installing FreeBSD 5.0 on it, I > experienced a lot of data loss [...] > > However, after a couple months I decided to change just one setting > in the Phoenix BIOS:

Re: High pitch/wrong frequency audio on disc via burncd

2004-04-07 Thread sd
On Monday 29 March 2004 11:51 am, Ada Cheng wrote: > I have a series of wma files (speeches) which I convert to > wav via mplayer. The wav files played fine using both xmms > and Noatun. However when I burn them onto a cd via burncd: > burncd -f /dev/acd0c audio *.wav fixate > the resulting

USB mouse config, console & X, micro HOWTO

2004-04-08 Thread sd
I thought I would post the end results of my own struggle to get my USB trackball working as I prefer it to work, for the archives and for the benefit of anyone else struggling with this issue, although my particular configuration may be more, or less, relevant to someone else's hardware and pr

Re: openoffice menus

2004-05-02 Thread sd
On Friday 23 April 2004 09:27 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I recently installed openoffice1.1 [...] > I am using a high resolution > 1600x1200 display and the fonts used by the base UI are > are crisp and clear but rather too small for my aging eyes. > I'm refering here to the fonts used in the Menu ba

Re: openoffice menus (P.S. larger icons)

2004-05-02 Thread sd
For larger icons in OpenOffice.org: Tools menu-> Options...-> OpenOffice.org-> View-> Icon Size-> Large -Steve D NM US -- Whatever it is the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody el

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread SD
On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:10, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > relay=localhost.h

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-17 Thread SD
On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:56, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:34, you wrote: > > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > > > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > > > > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > > > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i

Re: dealing with deffective RAM

2004-08-17 Thread SD
On Sunday 15 August 2004 21:31, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > I was afraid this is what I'll be told, you're > probably right. I have two 128M modules, I'll try to > find the faulty one, by running the tests just with > one at a time. If it's one of them (could also be the > processor, or the mainbo

Making several custom boot configurations?

2005-08-23 Thread sd
I'm trying to make several different configurated systems on one FreeBSD box: different kernel parameters for each configuration, different hostname, startup scripts, network configurations, etc. Can it be done by adding some custom points to boot manager menu or altering existent ones? Thanks,

vmware on freebsd 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread sd
Hello World! I've tried several times to install vmware2 & 3 on my freebsd 5.4 box. No attempts were successfull with different errors. Especially, for vmware3 port the error was: ..404 Not Found. Why it still exists in ports collection if no sites keep it anymore? OK, I'll be glad to hear any

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-21 Thread sd
Try to parse /boot/beastie.4th Message: 30 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:37:07 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.

Re: Requesting advice on Jail technique.

2005-09-23 Thread sd
Hello, I use different jails for nearly each network service I have to privide: httpd, smtp/pop3, squid, log collector. It's quite difficult to build each particular jail with those programs and corresponding libraries which will be needed in it. That is why I made the following simple script

dvorak keyboard, single-user mode

2003-06-15 Thread sd
In single-user mode, such as when fsck detects errors at boot time, how does one enable the dvorak keyboard by default (so that the dvorak keyboard layout will be used whenever the system is in single-user mode) or manually? Thank you, Steve Doonan Portales, NM US -- -

LAN Internet

2004-06-25 Thread sd sdfg
Hello, I'm a newbie and please excuse for my poor language. I have FreeBSD 4.9 and my computer is in LAN with other people. One of our friends is the host of the internet. I have all the data required to connect to the internet, but I do not know how. My network interface card is correctly inst