Re: so for kicks, i just ...

2006-08-07 Thread backyard
--- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 August 2006 02:57, Jonathan Horne wrote: i just decided to take a box, and installworld, without going to single user mode. from what i can see, the update was completely successful. of course, other then myself (su'd to root), there

Re: /etc/fstab error and I can't start the system normally

2006-08-07 Thread backyard
--- micman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. PROBLEM I tried and configured FreeBSD 6.1 for many days and I mounted my FAT extended partition to exchange my files between Windows and my new Operating System. That was OK. After I tried to mount automatically at boot this partition and I

Re: Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk?

2006-08-08 Thread backyard
Windows 2000+ can boot on an extended partition as can linux, the BSDs, I think OS/2 warp+ can as well. So you can still only have 4 primary partitions, but you probably only need one that has a bootloader like GRUB on it marked active and the OSs installed all on extended partitions. I've even

Re: Re: /etc/fstab error and I can't start the system normally

2006-08-08 Thread backyard
--- micman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 7, 2006, at 1:26 PM, micman wrote: Hello. PROBLEM I tried and configured FreeBSD 6.1 for many days and I mounted my FAT extended partition to exchange my files between Windows and my new

Re: Using putty as a ssh client on FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread backyard
--- Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use putty on my FBSD 6.1-R box to access another FreeBSD box. I can get in fine using the command line ssh client but when I attempt to use putty I get the following error: Unable to use key file /usr/home/jpaetzel/.ssh/id_rsa

Cinelerra for *BSD ??? or something similar in Ports?

2006-08-14 Thread backyard
Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of a port of cinelerra to FreeBSD. Or if anyone knows of any comperable video editting software for FreeBSD available in Ports. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cinelerra for *BSD ??? or something similar in Ports?

2006-08-14 Thread backyard
--- Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of a port of cinelerra to FreeBSD. Not until we port alsa. ok, well then if I got through the trouble of setting up my gentoo base install with all

Re: Cinelerra for *BSD ??? or something similar in Ports?

2006-08-14 Thread backyard
--- Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of a port of cinelerra to FreeBSD

Re: Hangs during dump with 6.0 and current ports

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
I've had problems with dump and restore on machines lacking memory before. Perhaps the dump is just running the system out of memory? I know I've had issues restoring my /usr filesystem with 512M RAM unless I had a swapfile active. I also find it helps to make sure /tmp has got enough space on it

GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-22 Thread backyard
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote: --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread backyard
--- Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perry Hutchison wrote: Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown. acpi: bad RSDP

Re: More newbie questions

2006-08-23 Thread backyard
--- E. Gad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for understanding how ports work. For most people

Re: More newbie questions-again?

2006-08-23 Thread backyard
--- E. Gad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- E. Gad wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Subhro wrote: yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start using it to get the required software. Refer

Re: fdisk: ERROR: failed to adjust; setting sysid to 0

2006-08-24 Thread backyard
--- mark burdett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering what is the proper procedure for using fdisk to setup slices on large disks/arrays? I seem to be getting an ERROR when fdisk tries to adjust the partition to start on a head boundary and end on a cylinder boundary. Should

Re: fdisk: ERROR: failed to adjust; setting sysid to 0

2006-08-24 Thread backyard
--- mark burdett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: should be ok. Any particular reason you are partitioning multiple partitions for FreeBSD? this For some reason, when we ordered the server w/ freebsd pre-installed, the vendor created a slice which was less than half the size of the full raid

XML transformation and processing with Zope -- or something better suggestions welcome

2006-08-25 Thread backyard
I have a client who wishes to automate their order processing system for their online business. presently they download reports from their business frontend and upload them manually to their shipper. Both systems can use XML and a precursory look at the document tags suggests a simple XSLT

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-30 Thread backyard
--- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance issues (I did not know that before installing freebsd). I have a P4 3GHz with hyperthreading technology. I have the SMP-GENERIC kernel and it only launches one cpu. So, I've decided to

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-30 Thread backyard
--- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance issues (I did not know that before installing freebsd). I have a P4 3GHz

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Skylar Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance issues (I did not know that before installing freebsd). I have a P4

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance issues (I did not know that before

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ added freebsd-questios@ ] On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote: Hello In this emails http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=244762+0+current/cvs-src you wrote that you don't install freebsd with

Re: shared cache -- Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:12 PM, backyard wrote: with HT disabling in FreeBSD is more for the security issues about a potential exploit whereby one process in one pipe can access the priveledged information of a process

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:53:28AM -0700, backyard wrote: Out of curiosity... So If I made a custom boot cd I could boot a dead box, setup the drives and slices, CVSUP the system I want to build, tweak the build environment

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/8/31, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: SMP detection

2006-09-01 Thread backyard
--- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/8/31, Skylar Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michal Mertl wrote: No! Kernel threads (e.g. handling interrupts) aren't that much different to normal processes. Logical CPUs on a single HTT capable CPU share most of the CPU logic,

Re: Is the new version going to be easier to get working?

2006-09-02 Thread backyard
--- David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having 21 computers here I figured I would finally be rid of MSwindows, and have a complete LAN system that was more reliable. Why would you want to make things reliable? With Windows your career is secure knowing you will have to be

Re: ACPI lock in the last halt process

2006-09-02 Thread backyard
--- bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have configured with a 6.1 RELEASE FreeBSD. When I am trying to shut down the computer - I reach the prompt - all processes seems to halt correctly - then the server seems to be stucked with the ACPI process indefinitely ?? First of

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread backyard
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? ? wrote: Hello. I have a question I can't deal myself. And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. Problem: I have a hand-made device, I want to control from FreeBSD 6.1 (I am porting

Fwd: Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-03 Thread backyard
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:49:51 -0400 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A question about programming RS-232 On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:39:00PM -0700, backyard wrote: --- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread backyard
--- Bill-S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC composed: On Sep 4, 2006, at 8:57 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition.

Re: solaris

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-09-04 15:52, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend the second drive option. Me too. Not for the same reasons though. I have attempted installing Solaris 10 on multiple computers and all if ever seems to do

Re: Device Drivers and Kernel Modules

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Wassman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to figure out which would be best, to load all the device drivers through compiling them into the kernel or to load them at boot through loader.conf. I would think that loader.conf

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are stalling. I see that I am coming from an IP address that does not have Reverse mapping. So I added the lines below to /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh is sym linked to /usr/local/etc/ssh

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: --- Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are stalling. I see that I am coming from an IP address that does not have Reverse mapping. So I added the lines below to /usr/local/etc

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread backyard
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-09-05 22:50, Bill-Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If just a relatively small handful of dedicated FreeBSD coders can produce an OS that will install on damm near ANYTHING I always found it troubling that SUN Microsystems,

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread backyard
--- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. yeah cause most

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread backyard
--- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the lack of documentation is a shame. In Windows, yes. In FreeBSD I can't see a lack. You are kidding right. I can find vastly more documentation available for a win32 machine than for FBSD. In fact, the lact of documentation is one of

Re: OpenOffice build crashes the compiler

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone seen this and know how to get past it? Configuring out the failing component would be fine, if possible, since I really only need the word processor. Making: ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj g++-ooo -fmessage-length=0

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Lasse Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff but to any program that wants double input... I wanna do

Re: Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is

Clevo D900K and 64 bit FreeBSD support???

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
I've been looking into replacing my current laptop/desktop with a Clevo D900K, AMD-64 machine. I'm just curious if anyone out there has any experience getting FreeBSD up and running on this machine and at what capacity (card reader, 8.1 sound card, WLAN+Bluetooth, Hardware RAID, etc.) I was going

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day everyone, I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be used by non-technical people. I'm sure some will ask why would I need that -

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see what the

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative OS) among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple requirements (i.e.,

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard writes: --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-12 Thread backyard
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003, version 4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and Debian were the simplicity of the installation and good manual. The install process

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-12 Thread backyard
{expunged the old, typ} I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4 myself, and found during installs that sysinstall would get confused if you changed your mind and went backwards through the menus to reconfigure options. it seems like the one in 6.1 is a lot better,

Re: Suggestions for embedded systems... ?

2006-09-17 Thread backyard
--- Brian J. McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I've been browsing the FreeBSD site looking for a system I can embed in the car. Optimally, it will do video output via a RCA cable (ala your VCR) so I can plug it in to one of the new Alpine radios with an AUX in. Input will

Re: Suggestions for embedded systems... ?

2006-09-17 Thread backyard
--- Brian J. McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I've been browsing the FreeBSD site looking for a system I can embed in the car. Optimally, it will do video output via a RCA cable (ala your VCR) so I can plug it in to one of the new Alpine radios with an AUX in. Input will

Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-17 Thread backyard
--- Ahmad Arafat Abdullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to apply a patch set Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:48:32 +0200 Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-17 Thread backyard
--- Ahmad Arafat Abdullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:49:34 +0200 Daniel Gerzo

Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-17 Thread backyard
--- Ahmad Arafat Abdullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ahmad Arafat Abdullah [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to apply a patch set Date: Sun, 17

Re: quick question regarding /usr/obj

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Migs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:06:09PM +0800, Migs wrote: I just did a rebuild recently, and saw in the handbook that i can take out /usr/obj with no problems... and seeing as its taking up 500mb, I do want to trim it out...

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:51, backyard wrote: modems are relatively cheap. And, if you put it into call-back mode, it becomes one of the most secure methods of doing a remote serial console; plus you have the added advantage of the remote

Re: which xorg file??

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:20:20AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:52:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Which ports file do I build to fill the standard /usr/X11R6/bin file? I have 6.1-RELEASE

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 13:51, backyard wrote: By call-back mode do you mean log into the system via network and have it call your local system for administration No modems like the US Robotics V.Everything can be programmed with a call

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread backyard
--- Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt will be to get this:

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-20 Thread backyard
--- Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, backyard wrote: In reality using passwords with SSH kinda defeats the purpose of SSH. Keeping passwords from being sent across the network as cleartext? -Dan ssh will encrypt them of course

Re: mail to root

2006-09-21 Thread backyard
--- Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello again; I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail

Re: How real time is FreeBSD?

2006-09-21 Thread backyard
--- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:12, Walt Pawley wrote: At 11:47 PM -0500 9/20/06, W. D. wrote: Just reading this about Linux on ZDNet and was wondering: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6117479.html?part=rsstag=feedsubj=zd nn Cybernetic

Re: How real time is FreeBSD?

2006-09-21 Thread backyard
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:21:10AM -0700, backyard wrote: --- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:12, Walt Pawley wrote: At 11:47 PM -0500 9/20/06, W. D. wrote: Just reading this about Linux on ZDNet

TCL84 Build error Socket Tests Hang FreeBSD 6.1-Stable #6

2006-09-21 Thread backyard
Hello, I'm having trouble building tcl84. These issues did not seem to exist until I updated the ports tree and world the other day Heres the basic stuff: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #6 Sun Sept 17 22:03:38 is what uname -a spits out ports were updated right before the system source update. make.conf

Re: TCL84 Build error Socket Tests Hang FreeBSD 6.1-Stable #6

2006-09-21 Thread backyard
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:11:52PM -0700, backyard wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble building tcl84. These issues did not seem to exist until I updated the ports tree and world the other day Heres the basic stuff: FreeBSD 6.1

Re: TCL84 Build error Socket Tests Hang FreeBSD 6.1-Stable #6

2006-09-21 Thread backyard
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:29:52PM -0700, backyard wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:11:52PM -0700, backyard wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble building tcl84. These issues

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread backyard
--- Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like the way I have my stuff setup within FreeBSD and would hate to have to recreate a lot of it as well as install applications over again. Could I do a dump of my current FreeBSD partition, reformat and partition the whole drive,

Re: freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs

2006-09-24 Thread backyard
--- Vo¹tenák Vladimír [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have an old HP NETSERVER PRO 2xpentium pro, 256 MB ram, and I tried to install the actual FREEBSD 6.1 there. I made 3 floppies: boot, kernel1 and kernel2. When it starts booting from the boot floppy, the loader show I only have

Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks

2006-09-24 Thread backyard
--- Jason Artz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jason Artz wrote: Hello, I want to install FreeBSD 6.1 on my system, but I only have a version 5.3 CD. I can tell sysinstall to get

Re: Filesystem size

2006-09-25 Thread backyard
--- Weijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if Freebsd 5.4 amd64 support file system more than 4TB ? I have a system disk and a raid 5 connected to a 3ware controller, installed system, but only see 96 GB on the 4 TB raid 5. Anyone can help me?

Re: Restoring FreeBSD grub loader

2006-09-30 Thread backyard
--- Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader. In the beginning there was only one entry in grub - namely FreeBSD. Later, I had to install Windows XP on the machine and of course, it destroyed grub and now I

Re: Restoring FreeBSD grub loader

2006-10-01 Thread backyard
--- Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thank you for your response. On 10/1/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub boot loader

Re: vr0: watchdog timeout FreeBSD 6.1-p10 Crashing my backups

2006-10-04 Thread backyard
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:32 AM, perikillo wrote: My kernel file is this: machine i386 cpu I686_CPU You should also list cpu I586_CPU, otherwise you will not include some optimizations intended for Pentium or higher

Good References and or Books for learning ADA

2006-10-04 Thread backyard
Hello All, I'm looking to teach myself ADA using the Gnu Compiler Collection and GNATS as my compiler under an i386 FreeBSD 6.X system. I'm just curious if any ADA programmers out there can point me to some decent books/online resources for learning the basics and more advanced aspects of ADA.

Re: Good References and or Books for learning ADA

2006-10-04 Thread backyard
--- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:39, backyard wrote: Hello All, I'm looking to teach myself ADA using the Gnu Compiler Collection and GNATS as my compiler under an i386 FreeBSD 6.X system. I'm just curious if any ADA programmers out

Re: Good References and or Books for learning ADA

2006-10-04 Thread backyard
--- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:57, backyard wrote: --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:39, backyard wrote: Hello All, I'm looking to teach myself ADA using the Gnu Compiler

Re: Can't get direct rendering with i915

2006-10-05 Thread backyard
--- Alexandre Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, I'm setting up my laptop (Acer 1644WLMi) and I noticed some days ago that I don't have direct rendering with i915+drm. Any one knows if it is supposed to be like this? the i915 drm module is still new to Release 6 of

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread backyard
--- Jerry Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to be in the wheel group to be able to SU to root, but that won't give you permission to run shutdown. Only root can do that, I believe. or members of group operator. having to be root or su/sudoing is only an affliction of linux. only

Re: Can't get direct rendering with i915

2006-10-05 Thread backyard
--- Alexandre Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/5/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Alexandre Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, I'm setting up my laptop (Acer 1644WLMi) and I noticed some days ago that I don't have direct rendering with i915+drm

Re: Good References and or Books for learning ADA

2006-10-06 Thread backyard
--- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 02:39, backyard wrote: Hello All, I'm looking to teach myself ADA using the Gnu Compiler Collection and GNATS as my compiler under an i386 FreeBSD 6.X system. I'm just curious if any ADA programmers out there can point me

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread backyard
--- Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, October 06, 2006 15:10:21 -0400 Bob M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therein lies the problem. There *is* an entry in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure Guess I'll just start double-checking

Re: Using portconf and /usr/local/etc/ports.conf

2006-10-09 Thread backyard
--- James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to migrate my /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf into /usr/local/etc/ports.conf. I'm not sure I have the ports.conf syntax correct, or that the entries I'm making are being recognized. I've installed the sysutils/portconf port

Re: minimum requirements

2006-10-09 Thread backyard
--- free bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you everyone for responding to my initial question. In hindsight I realize I worded my original inquiry inaccurately. What I am attempting to determine is how well or if ver 6.1 will work on a 4GB hard drive with a Pentium 4 - 3.06GHz

Re: Something Like Beagle

2006-10-09 Thread backyard
--- Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle the evolutionary computation system? The personel data indexer seems cool to

Re: Something Like Beagle

2006-10-10 Thread backyard
--- Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: --- Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom Beagle the personal data indexer, or open

Re: Using portconf and /usr/local/etc/ports.conf

2006-10-10 Thread backyard
--- James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 05:15:28 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using portconf and /usr/local/etc/ports.conf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859

Re: .dmg files?

2006-10-10 Thread backyard
--- Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this

FreeBSD HP Netserver LH 3000 hang at sysinstall

2007-04-02 Thread backyard
Hello, I have an HP Netserver LH 3000 Server w/ 2x 800 MHZ pIII 1128 MB RAM (HP Parts) Integrated Netraid, 4 drives 100 GB of storage Bios 4.06.33 PT MMC 10.46 netraid bios 2.04 firmware 1.12 I have scene posts that quote this hardware working with LH 3000/6000 (2-way piii, 6-way piii xeon)

Odd Multi-User Mode BUILD Error: lang/gnat; why is it attempting to use csh???

2007-07-08 Thread backyard
Please CC me on a response as I am not a member of freebsd-questions Here it is: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc/fixinc' /bin/csh ./genfixes machname.h SHELL=/bin/sh: Command not found. export: Command not found. if: Expression Syntax. gmake[2]: ***