Slow boot initialisation

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Mazerski
I'm considering replacing Linux with FreeBSD and have just made a test installation on my desktop machine. This is an unspectacular KMD K6 with two IDE drives and no exotic hardware. The installation seems to have been successful. I installed 4.6-RELEASE on a free primary partition (ca. 1 GB)

(minor) install partitioning bug?

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Mazerski
Synopsis: FreeBSD interactive install tool unable to repartition a slice with a non-FreeBSD file system and system id. Description: I've just installed FreeBSD (4.6-RELEASE) on a Linux machine for the first time on that particular machine. My plan was to use a redundant primary partition on

Re: Slow boot initialisation

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Mazerski
Here's some further information: On Saturday 13 July 2002 23:01, Steve Mazerski wrote: (...) Every time the waiting symbols (i.e. the ASCII chars |/-\ ) appears, the system seems to be doing a series of seeks to each hard disks alternatively, but nothing else apart from keeping the waiting

/cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-17 Thread Steve Mazerski
Is it the done thing in FreeBSD for normal users to mount CD-ROMs in a local directory rather than /cdrom? As a normal user all I get is this: localuser mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted despite changing the permissions on both the CD-ROM device and /cdrom to

Re: /cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto

Re: /cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
/cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted Am I missing something, or is something missing me? ;-) S.Mazerski (07.18.2002 @ 1154 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 2.1K: On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote

Re: /cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Friday 19 July 2002 00:15, Adam Weinberger wrote: user localhost doesn't have access to read from /dev/acd0c. -Adam user localhost is in group operator, and /dev/acd0c is readable by group operator: localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14

A: How big /var ? Or: too small for the xemacs package?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
Me again.. Just had a call from the RTFM daemon: To answer my own questions... I moved /var to a larger partition (see http://www.freebsddiary.org/file-system-full.php for a HOW-TO) Questions: - I presume pkg_add puts temporary files in /var. Is this normal / sensible? pkg_add uses

Re: PHP Apache Assistance ~ like a moron

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 23:21, Steve Mazerski wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:48, MET wrote: ee /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf I then append the line:AddType application/x-httpd-php .php does Apache know about the PHP module? Somewhere in the httpd.conf there should

Re: freebsd plugins?

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Thursday 25 July 2002 00:51, Ed Yu wrote: I tried search online but all I find is linux plugins. I made these work by installing linux-mozilla. But since there is no linux-galeon port and I'd rather run freebsd galeon, is there a way to make them work? This article: