Re: Installation Problems

2003-01-31 Thread taxman
I had thought this was in the early adopters guide (you did read that right?), but doesn't 5.0 take more memory to install than 4.7 did? I don't know if that would cause your problem or not, but it seems possible. Try installing 4.7, that should work fine, if not, let us know what problem you

Re: Bootable CD

2003-02-01 Thread taxman
Burn a bootable ISO image to a blank CDR. Iso images are on the ftp site.That does involve a cost to the project for bandwidth, so consider downloading the mini install iso and then pull anything else you need only as you need it. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.

Re: Fixit disk documentation

2003-02-10 Thread taxman
Excellent. So many people talk about writing good docs, but you've done it. The only quibble I have is that is seems more like a handbook topic than a FAQ entry. Especially as it grows. It could eventually be expanded to a fuller list of sources of general disk recovery information. > I'm n

Re:XF86Config.

2003-02-11 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 12:48 pm, Peter van Eck wrote: > I've installed freebsd 4.6.2. > > I'm still having toruble to get my X window system to run properly. > It loads the X server succesfull but the display is isshowing 3 Vertical > stripes thru the Desktop. > The frequencies seem OK , but

Re: Memory disk

2003-02-12 Thread taxman
Ok, I'll try to answer both all in one go. hopefully others will turn up good links. googling for some of the ideas I'm mentioning will be your friend On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:19 pm, Walter wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > The reason for this is so I can make my boxes much smaller an

Re: How is the subscription to the list?

2003-02-14 Thread taxman
On Friday 14 February 2003 07:09 pm, Erik Torres Serrano wrote: > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Well your answer is basically right here ^ Also any time you have questions at least make an attempt to find your

Re: SAPDB port for FreeBSD

2003-02-14 Thread taxman
On Friday 14 February 2003 03:30 am, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I was surprised; there are no SAPDB (www.sapdb.org) in > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/databases.html list! > > Has someone tried to install SAPDB on FreeBSD? Is it possible to create > new port? sure, if it runs on FreeBSD. Look

Re: New release

2003-02-15 Thread taxman
On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:29 am, Jack Raats wrote: > When will the tree be frozen? The release scheme on > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/schedule.html > is not uptodate > > Can anyone give a clue? > Jack sorry for the semi-sarcasm, but no step can really be announced before it is an

Re: Make fails: when compiling kernel

2003-02-16 Thread taxman
On Friday 01 January 1999 02:54 am, Christian Johansson wrote: > I'm completely new to freebsd and tried to get my Soundblaster Live to work > I sure tried to take away stuff that I know I didn't have,, but when I make > the kernel I got the following error: > > linking kernel > umass.o: In funct

Re: Make fails: when compiling kernel

2003-02-19 Thread taxman
On Monday 17 February 2003 12:50 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 02:54:41AM +0100, Christian Johansson wrote: > > I'm completely new to freebsd and tried to get my Soundblaster Live to work > > I sure tried to take away stuff that I know I didn't have,, but when I make > > the

Re: CD Recording

2003-02-19 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:05 am, Justin P. Michel wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there an easy process for CD duplication using FreeBSD V4.7-R, and a > standard IDE/ATAPI burner? I used to use "Nero" under Windows, but now am > lost with "dd" and "burncd", as it seems I have to know beforehan

Re: device.hints problem

2003-02-19 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 04:29 pm, Marc LeMaire wrote: > Hello you all, > This is my first posting here so please be patient :) > I've updated my source tree and by accident, I have the 5.0 release. > That wasn't my intention : I wanted to stay on 4.7 release but I made a > mistake in my cvsup

Re: up dating the portstree

2003-02-19 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:24 pm, kitsune wrote: > How do I update /usr/ports? read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html carefully and follow the necessary parts. especially editing your supfile properly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

samba in a jail

2003-02-19 Thread taxman
Anyone successfully running samba inside of a jail on 4.7R? I'm trying te get it to work for a friend of mine. It works ok for a while and then locks the machine up hard every night. Network access is gone. We haven't yet determined if it is the periodic scripts that cause the trouble, or j

Re: CVSup Tags and release status

2003-02-20 Thread taxman
On Friday 21 February 2003 04:10 am, Travis Troyer wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:55:01PM -0500, Travis Troyer wrote: > >>This says that RELENG_4 is for FreeBSD-STABLE and that RELENG_5_0 is > >>"used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes."

Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) > I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) > > So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Ok this is getting out of hand. 5.0 is a testing release. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/earl

Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:16 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 06:08 am, Tuc wrote: > > Hi, > > I have : > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > > > in my stable-supfile, and on one machine all of a sudden on the last > > update I have : > > > > FreeBSD vjofn.ttsg.c

Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only?

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
sorry I missed this part of the thread. see my other post too. On Friday 21 February 2003 03:58 pm, Tuc wrote: > > CVS Tag list: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > > > So if I read it right: > > RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE - First ever 4.7 release

Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:24 am, Michael wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:46:09 +0100 > taxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) > > > I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I c

Re: Toshiba Satellite 5105-S501 Install Hang

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:37 pm, jaymz wrote: > I downloaded and burned the ISO's for Release-5.0 . Running the Try 4.7 Release. 5.0 is new technology. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html > install program from the CD gets to the boot prompt. Pressing [enter] >

Re: setting up server (was by daniel warfe)

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Friday 21 February 2003 02:30 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > daniel warfe wrote: > > The charity currently contains 2 sites which are the main charity site > > and a shop front site. The shop front tries to make enough income to > > support the charity and cover daily operating costs. > > > > Curren

Installkernel fails on 4.7Rel p2

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
Hi, I can't figure this one out, I have already installed a custom kernel on this sytem and now I'm trying to make a new one. It build fine, but intallkernel fails with: install -o root -g wheel -m 555 joy.ko /modules install -o root -g wheel -m 444 joy.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 install -o

FU Re: samba in a jail - seems to work

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
, taxman wrote: > Anyone successfully running samba inside of a jail on 4.7R? I'm trying te get > it to work for a friend of mine. It works ok for a while and then locks the > machine up hard every night. Network access is gone. We haven't yet > determined if it is the

errors building ports INDEX

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
Hi, I don't know if I missed something, but I get thousands of errors (1,920 or so) when doing make index after a cvsup of ports this afternoon. What's going on? Nothing really unusual in the cvsup output (no large number of ports deleted) Any ideas? Thanks, Tim Generating INDEX - pl

Re: Installkernel fails on 4.7Rel p2

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 February 2003 07:10 am, taxman wrote: > Hi, I can't figure this one out, I have already installed a custom kernel > on this sytem and now I'm trying to make a new one. It build fine, but > intallkernel fails with: > install -o root -g wheel -m 555 joy.ko

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: > Here's the situation: > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x Your best bet is to put more memory in and see how that goes first. next, try to get -current

Re: errors building ports INDEX

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:17 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:08:32PM -0500, taxman wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't know if I missed something, but I get thousands of errors (1,920 > > or so) when doing make index after a cvsup of ports this afte

Re: errors building ports INDEX

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:52 pm, Andy Farkas wrote: > > So I guess I need to figure out how to use refuse files. > > # cat /usr/sup/refuse > ports/chinese/* > ports/french/* > ports/german/* > ports/hebrew/* > ports/hungarian/* > ports/japanese/* > ports/korean/* > ports/portuguese/* > port

Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue

2003-02-26 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:50 am, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:29:57PM +, rew wrote: > > So you boot a new kernel with old system? > > Yes, but how is that so different from installing a new world for an old > kernel? And it's really usually not that big of a deal anywa

Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue

2003-02-26 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:23 am, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Quoting rew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You must installkernel and reboot before you can installworld. > > Read > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > for more details. > > > > Daniel Bye > > Hi

Re: FreeBSD 4.4 Questions

2003-02-26 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:13 pm, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:34:26AM +0100, Aas, Eskild wrote: > > Dear Sirs > > > > > > We are three students attending Hærens Ingeniørhøgskole (the norwegian > > millitary engineering school). We are currently working on an assignment >

Re: FreeBSD sysctls

2003-02-27 Thread taxman
On Thursday 27 February 2003 01:38 pm, Tomazo Lujiano wrote: > Hello, FreeBSD hackers! > And here is my problem: > I use FreeBSD-4.7 Stable at home. My machine also provides an Internet > access in our local network. That's why I set different firewalls, > ipfilters and other stuff to provide the s

Re: Floppy installalation - But

2003-02-27 Thread taxman
On Thursday 27 February 2003 05:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My CD ROM and Floppy drive are in the same spot. FTP , CABLE , HEADLESS > will not Work. 4 sets of cables, 20 disks later nothing has changed, cept > my grey hair. > > So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so f

Re: File system limits

2003-02-27 Thread taxman
On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:39 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:11:14AM +, How Can ThisBe wrote: > > I'm working on a little experimental script and I'm wondering if there > > is any kind of limit as to how many files or subdirectories a directory > > can have. Well of

Re:

2003-02-27 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 February 2003 12:42 am, JacobRhoden wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:41, Pete C wrote: > > unsubscribe > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Is it just me, or is having this unsubscribe messag

Re: Do sorted messages exist?

2003-02-27 Thread taxman
On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. > Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day > long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of > time it

Re: btxld fails in boot2 during buildworld for -current

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 February 2003 11:46 am, Daxbert wrote: > I'm sorry if 'questions' isn't the proper list for this... > (let me know which list if this isn't the right one) these aren't the list you're looking for (wave of hand) If you're cvsupping -current, then -current is the list you're looking for

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2003-02-26 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:57 pm, Bobb Shires wrote: > I'm trying to install 5.0-RELEASE on a Gateway Solo 5150 laptop > (PII-366/128M), can't seem to get past this situation while > booting from the CD: > Terminate ACPI > ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded > Automatic reboot in

Re: single user mode

2003-03-01 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 February 2003 12:57 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > Since nobody else stepped forward with an answer, I'll try > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > No I can think of kludgy ways to do this, but I want to know the way > > it should be done. How can you

Re: kernel compile woes

2003-03-01 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 February 2003 01:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've managed to bork something up badly... > > First off, I had earlier today upgrade my src tree with this supfile: > > *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=. > *defa

Re: Portupgrade -- am not Einstein

2003-03-01 Thread taxman
On Saturday 01 March 2003 06:53 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Ok, > I give in. > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:310:in `deorigin': failed to > convert nil into String (Pkg DB::DBError) > > After most of two days trying to understand portupgrade, RTFM, and advice > given on this list, I

Re: translation the FreeBSD homepage to brazilian portuguese

2003-03-01 Thread taxman
On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:10 pm, igor wrote: > Dear FreeBSD friends: > I´m brazilian and I liked help this project translating the FreeBSD > homepage to brazilian portuguese. > I´m send a email to you because I send a email to brazilian docs mail list > and I didn´t receive any answer B

Re: portsman - need feedback and testers

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:11 pm, Anselm Garbe wrote: >a while ago I asked on this list, if someone knows an curses based > frontend for the FreeBSD ports collection, which behaves like a package > manager (e.g. dselect under Debian), but I got only responds, that this > does not yet exist

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > At the risk of being accused of a complainer. > I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have > left me without a useable X system. > Guess it is back to the CD's. > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they

Re: 5.0 and ACPI Errors:

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:34 pm, Lord Sith wrote: > Does anyone have a clue what this error means? not myself, but see what -current does on that machine. 5.0 is not production code yet. It is a static point along a rapidly moving devlopment branch. It's not expected to work in all cases.

Re: ADSL modem and Security

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:08 pm, Defryn, Guy wrote: > I am thinking about getting an ADSL connection and I would like to know > which (internal) ADSL modems work well with Freebsd. I don't know, but check the hardware notes on the FreeBSD.org website. also any adsl modem that interfaces intellige

Re: Error - Signal 11 was caught

2003-03-03 Thread taxman
On Monday 03 March 2003 11:20 am, Peter Elsner wrote: > Signal 11 is almost always memory... Replace your memory chips on your > motherboard Actually in general it's usually a software bug. But when (as in this case) you're talking specifically about a FreeBSD install or kernel compile or a ma

Re: RFC 1912 compliant ISP's...

2003-03-02 Thread taxman
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:15 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > I'm starting to feel like I'm the only one in the > > surrounding 3 counties that would know how > > to do it righttoo bad I have no brain for > > business, 'cause otherwise I could run an > > ISP bette

Re: USB Mass storage (Datafab)

2003-03-04 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:37 am, Irvine Short wrote: > Hi All > > There's a pile of pretty neat USB attached gadgets out there. > > We just got a USB 2.0 external case with a 2.5" notebook drive in it. > It's a Datafab MD2-USB2A. USB 2.0 is not supported at all yet in FreeBSD as far as I last he

Re: A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc.

2003-03-04 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:08 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-03-04 10:02, Phillip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : A couple of quick questions... > : > : I've downloaded the 8.11.6 patch from sendmail.org, and used the > : instructions they provided > : [patch -p0 < /PATH/TO/sendmail.8

Re: Make buildworld fails for 5.0

2003-03-04 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:40 pm, Mike Loiterman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm getting the following error in my: > > 'make buildworld' > > I'm currently running 5.0-RELEASE #0 and I've cvsup'ed to '.'. So then this belongs on -current. See http://www.FreeBSD.

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7)

2003-03-05 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:38 am, Peter Elsner wrote: > The only thing I can see wrong is: > > you forgot make installworld after your make buildworld. Peter, no he didn't. He did the basic steps in the right order. read carefully: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ma

Re: A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc.

2003-03-05 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 05:27 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-03-04 22:38, taxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:08 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2003-03-04 10:02, Phillip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: How many mbufs do I need?

2003-03-05 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:40 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I killed my FreeBSD 4.8-PRE (2003-02-18) server today by exhausting the > available mbufs. I'd seen warnings like "All mbuf clusters exhausted, > please see tuning(7)." in /var/log/messages, so I added > `kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384"' to

Re: Possible 5.0 FAQ entry? was: Could not allocate Bus space

2003-03-06 Thread taxman
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:04 am, Anish Mistry wrote: > I'm running 5.0-RELEASE on my [system] and I'm trying to get > foo working. This is becoming a FAQ. 5.0-RELEASE was never designed as a supported release. See the early adopter's guide again: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-06 Thread taxman
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:49 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > I just advised someone that memtest gives spurious error on tests 5 and 7 > on Asus motherboards. > i think I started ths thread. P am amzed at the reaction. The usual > bollocks of course about bad harware. Mmm.. sorry guys, X/Screensa

Re: Need help

2003-03-06 Thread taxman
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:08 pm, Mihai Mateescu wrote: > Hello ! > I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer, but I failed in the worst way I > could: I didn't take serious your advise to back-up my data... ooh, bad idea ;) > Well, I tried to install FreeBSD on a partition on my IDE drive. I

Re: core dump

2003-03-07 Thread taxman
On Friday 07 March 2003 04:00 pm, Thomas Haug wrote: > Hi List members > > Since a few weeks my box is core dumping when i'm doing a make > buildworld with > one of the following error msgs (changing always :-)): If it is changing the place in the compile that it bombs at each time, doing the sam

Re: A question about kernel modules

2003-03-07 Thread taxman
On Friday 07 March 2003 11:55 am, Damien Tougas wrote: > Is there any advantage/disadvantage to using kernel moduls vs. staticly > linking stuff in the kernel? I would like to eliminate everything from my > kernel config that can be loaded as a module, then load them at boot using > loader.conf.

Re: A question about kernel modules

2003-03-07 Thread taxman
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:18 pm, Simon Barner wrote: > > So optimal security would be have every > > needed component compiled in, and turn off the ability to load any > > modules. I have no idea if this can be done or how in FreeBSD. > > This is what securelevel(8) is about: ahh yes, that seems

Re: FreeBSD (4.5-to-4.7) Binary Upgrade Mishap

2003-03-07 Thread taxman
On Friday 07 March 2003 10:32 pm, Bob Perry wrote: > Recently tried to upgrade my 4.5 box using the 4.7 CDs and ran into a > problem which left me with a partially upgraded system. > > I have a 14 GB hard disk so I chose to load all of the canned > distributions. During the early stages of the upgr

Re: Want to be a member of Free BSD

2003-03-08 Thread taxman
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:11 am, Prashant Sarma wrote: > Visit the following webpage. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/x29.h >tml In fact go up a level and read that entire document. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions B

Re: 4.8 release updates

2003-03-06 Thread taxman
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:40 pm, Daryl Chance wrote: > is there a place i can go (i know that once it's > released i can, but i'm wanting to check now) to check > what the latest changes/updates to 4.8R will be once > it comes out? I'm doings some "homework" and trying > to decide if we will st

Re: Problems with mkisofs and Mac OS X

2003-03-06 Thread taxman
On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:46 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > I know this doesn't belong on this list, but I can't find any information > about it at all, anywhere. First off, if anyone can point me to > information in lieu of a direct answer, that would be just as helpful. > I've searched Apple's site

Re: Intel i810e graphic

2003-03-09 Thread taxman
On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:33 am, Miroslaw J. Wiechowski wrote: > The system installation program does not give me any > working configuration. The best I could get was some > ugly display with standard VGA, configured by XFree86 -configure. > > Did anyone succeed with this Intel i810e chip and

Re: Is Adaptec 2120S supported?

2003-03-09 Thread taxman
On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:08 pm, Christian Laursen wrote: > I've been trying to figure out whether the Adaptec 2120S raid controller > is supported by FreeBSD. > > Adaptec do not list FreeBSD as a supported platform for the 2120S like > they do for e.g. 2110S. > > Is it supported, and if it is,

Re: 4.7-STABLE, 4.8-RC! don't recognize 2nd SCSI disk

2003-03-09 Thread taxman
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:39 pm, joe moore wrote: > I have a Compaq Prosignia 200 with 4.3 GB and 9.1 GB SCSI drives on a > Compaq SCSI controller sym0 (875). 4.7-RELEASE installs and runs fine. I > cvsup'd to stable (as of a few days ago) and now the second disk (da1) is > no longer recognized

Re: Pregunta URGENTE --Reply in spanish

2003-03-09 Thread taxman
David, Lo siento para mi espanol peor Este es una lista en ingles. Mira a: http://www.freebsd.org/es/support.html#mailing-list hay listas alli en espanol. Manda un email con no subjeto, y solo la palabra: lists a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Este manda una lista de la listas en espanol. Y trata de mandar

Re: Hot-Swapable Drives and FreeBSD

2003-03-10 Thread taxman
On Monday 10 March 2003 02:45 pm, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Martin McCormick writes: > > Is there a safe way short of rebooting to let FreeBSD > > know that a hot-pluggable drive has been added? > > man camcontrol or atacontrol if you happen to have IDE hot pluggable drives Tim To Unsubscribe:

Re: Change default IPC limitations

2003-03-10 Thread taxman
On Monday 10 March 2003 08:49 pm, Kung Ching-Yi wrote: > Hi, I have a need to change the following settings. > kern.ipc.msgmni > kern.ipc.semmns > kern.ipc.shmmni > > I can't use sysctl to modify these since it returns "read-only" message. > > I assume I need to rebuild the kernel but I don't know

Re: Some Info

2003-03-11 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:21 pm, vignesh vignesh wrote: > Hi, > I am student and I would like to get some information about > FreeBSD.What is the advantages and disadvantages of this operating system? First read the information at www.freebsd.org. There is so much there that will help you

Re: Reply From Ahmad Imran: FreeBSD Demoware info please

2003-03-10 Thread taxman
On Monday 10 March 2003 08:16 pm, Ahmad Imran wrote: > Good Day > > Please inform me about the fact that BSD Run on PII 350MHz Processor with > Intel 440BX2 MB,64MB RAM and having 12 Drives. http://www.chieftec.com . Yes most likely, why not try it? That motherboard is fine, but it would depend

Re: FreeBSD Demoware info please

2003-03-09 Thread taxman
On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:30 pm, Ahmad Imran wrote: > Please send us Ex-Manufacturing Prices for your products and relevant > quantities. We would like to Import In Pakistan and represent you in > Pakistan. Well i had great dificulty figuring out what you wanted and why it was sent to this maili

Re: kernel configuration

2003-03-09 Thread taxman
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:26 pm, charles pelletier wrote: > Okay, just to make sure this is correct (my first use of the newer more > current kernel config).. > > The only steps involved are those listed in the handbook: > Change to the /usr/src directory. > # cd /usr/src > Compile the kerne

Re: hardware compatiblity list and upgrading

2003-03-12 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:00 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > alright my bookpc that has served me nicely for over a year now has gone > to hell. > > i've had a Dual P3-700e on an Asus P2B-LS. unfortunately, this MB doesn't > have anything beyond an ata33. the drive I have is an ata100 drive. i'm >

Re: Upgrade

2003-03-14 Thread taxman
On Friday 14 March 2003 05:59 pm, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any experts who are willing to talk with me off list about > upgrading? (4.4 -> 4.7 or 5.0) You don't need much help off list. There is very good documentation for what you want to do in the handbook at www.freebsd.org/ha

Re: A simple question about FreeBSD

2003-03-14 Thread taxman
On Friday 14 March 2003 08:23 pm, Wizard of Wor wrote: > I was unable to find the minimum requirements on x86 platform. Can I > run FreeBSD on mz 486dx2 8Mb laptop smoothly? The install documentation or the FAQ does have this answer, but yes you should be able to run fine on this machine. Just d

Re: Freebsd 5.0-RELEASE & named pipes

2003-03-10 Thread taxman
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:22 pm, Borut Kurnik wrote: > Hi! > > The system doesn't wait for me to open the reader, I get the message > instantly. > > I worked on 4.7 & still does (also on linux, netbsd, ... :-) ) Ok then you may want to either use 4.7, or upgrade to -current and see how it does t

Re: 5.0 Install Kernel/Dell Inspiron 2650

2003-03-15 Thread taxman
On Saturday 15 March 2003 01:47 pm, Lucas Reddinger wrote: > So where can I go for help Where should I go? > I would appriciate any comments. Thanks. You should either stay on 4.x and live without ACPI, or upgrade to -current and live with all that goes with that. At least test -current and see

Re: Developers handbook was: Thanks for the help!

2003-03-11 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:16 pm, J. Seth Henry wrote: > I appreciate all the helpful comments regarding programming under FreeBSD. > I think I have enough to take another stab at it. I also discovered that > the developer's handbook has a lot of useful info - though it seems the > chapter on sign

Re: Kernel Fault

2003-03-11 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:17 pm, Christopher Blanchard wrote: > I just rebuilt my kernel - see below. I get the following error message: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. > fault virtual address= 0x0 > fault code= supervisor read, page not present > ins

Re: Bluetooth

2003-03-10 Thread taxman
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:46 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > Anyone know of any bluetooth access point that work with FreeBSD? How > about anyone working on bluetooth software? There is a section on it from the Dec 2002 status report at: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-nov-2002-dec-2002.html l

Re: 5.0 Install Kernel/Dell Inspiron 2650

2003-03-15 Thread taxman
On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:46 pm, Lucas Reddinger wrote: > But I can't get 5.0 installed. And no one seems to want to help. > > To boot the 2650, eisa cannot exist in the boot kernel. And it does in > the 5.0 boot kernel. On 4.x, I can use `boot -c` to take it out. But 5.0 > does not have this fe

Re: mkdep error on kernel compilation

2003-03-15 Thread taxman
On Saturday 15 March 2003 09:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to compile a kernel under FreeBSD 4.62, and I am getting an > error that I couldn't find in the archives. After executing "make depend > && make all install", I get an error like this: Considering this is a nons

Re: How to make a linux binary run on FreeBSD

2003-03-16 Thread taxman
On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:31 am, Lars Eighner wrote: > I have a Savage/IX agp card. Savage/IX was developed for > laptops so of its three possible output devices (LCD, CRT, > and several flavors of TV), by default it assumes that is > attached to a 640x480 LCD.

Re: latest stable branch upgrade fails

2003-03-16 Thread taxman
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:07 am, Joe Sotham wrote: > Here's my stable cvsup file: Then the correct list for this is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *default host=cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *def

Re: CVSUPing to 4.8-RC2

2003-03-16 Thread taxman
On Sunday 16 March 2003 08:16 pm, Charlie Root wrote: > What tag=RELENG_4_8_0_RC2 use in my cvsup flle to update release?? Once is enough. Four times is bordering on abuse. You haven't said what you want to do so read for yourself: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tag

Re: How to make a linux binary run on FreeBSD

2003-03-17 Thread taxman
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:33 pm, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, taxman wrote: > > This seems pretty clear. The linuix syscall that this program uses > > is not supported on FreeBSD. The linux binary compatibility is > > pretty good for userland binaries and so

Re: I need information

2003-03-17 Thread taxman
On Monday 17 March 2003 08:44 am, Bill Moran wrote: > JOSE D HERNANDEZ-TORRES wrote: > > I am migrating users from a Free BSD system 4.2 in to a 4.7 release. I > > already tried the documentation that is in the free BDS questions site, > > however I have not being able to do it. Any help will be ap

Re: Make failure

2003-03-17 Thread taxman
On Monday 17 March 2003 09:49 pm, Doug Reynolds wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:43:07 -0500, David Markle wrote: > >Can someone help me with a kernel rebuild make problem ?? > > > >I have the source tree in place and modified my CUSTOM kernel in > >/usr/src/sys/i386/conf. When I run make buildkern

Re: Question about background FSCK

2003-03-20 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 09:52 am, John Straiton wrote: > Thanks for the idea. While I'm not against the idea of the disk dying, > this is reproduceable quite reliably. Foreground fsck -y in single user > mode works in about 2 minutes (for the 119GB slice) flawlessly every > time and background f

Re: Problem with Cardbus on 5.0-RELEASE

2003-03-20 Thread taxman
On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:30 am, INV/Stefan K. wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with 5.0-REL since its available. There > are no problems with X, Postgres and all programs I > am working with. > > The only problem I have, my Xircom Realport Cardbus > RBEM56G-100 (Network part) comes up, but in the

Re: Learning FreeBSD was: blank

2003-03-20 Thread taxman
On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:27 am, Bluezmo wrote: > I've been tussling with installing & implementing FreeBSD 5 on a laptop for as others have said 5.0 can be a pain as it was not meant to be a polished release. > Yesterday my buddy who recommended I try BSD as an alternative to Linux > came ov

Re:

2003-03-20 Thread taxman
On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:14 pm, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD. > At the end of the istallation through FTP, I am receiving messages such as > "Warning: No /dev/tun) device".."PPP will not work !" Unable to start PPP. > This installation cannot be used. Can you please

Re:

2003-03-16 Thread taxman
On Sunday 16 March 2003 06:56 pm, KAROLYN LEWIS wrote: > MY question is: Can you give me a step by step instruction on how to > download the unix program to my "d" drive. I am running W'ME on a Pentinum > III, 500MHz system. I have two hdd.the second one being my 'd' drive which > is a scsi and v

Re: Unable to fetch XFree86-libraries during install

2003-03-15 Thread taxman
On Saturday 15 March 2003 07:33 pm, Nick Popoff wrote: > I'm having a problem installing 5.0 from floppies & FTP. The whole > installation goes very well until it gets to XFree86, and then fails > with the following sequence of messages. I've tried the main FTP server > plus several mirrors. Any

Re: error updating 4.6 --> 4.8

2003-03-16 Thread taxman
On Sunday 16 March 2003 01:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Buildworld gets: > > cc -o make_keys -O -pipe -I. -I/usr/src/lib/libncurses > -I/usr/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/ncurses > -I/usr/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/include -Wall > -DFREEBSD_NATIVE -DNDEBUG -DHAVE_CONF

Re: SCSI Emulation

2003-03-22 Thread taxman
On Saturday 22 March 2003 05:30 am, Scott A. Moberly wrote: > see man atapicam > and http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/ > > You don't have to patch if you are on the latest RELENG (not sure about > 4.7-RELEASE) Nah, it wasn't merged from current till afer 4.7-Release. > > Is there an

Re: Design of FreeBSD

2003-03-22 Thread taxman
On Saturday 22 March 2003 10:55 pm, Jiban.BlackSabbath wrote: > My questions is: > The design of FreeBSD is the same of 4.4BSD? no, but FreeBSD was based on 4.4BSD starting around 1994 or so. Thats 10 years of development since then, thus a lot of changes. > The four basics facilities presents

Re: Drivers for a MOTOROLA WinModem

2003-03-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:40 am, Dimitri Nedeltchev wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a Motorola Modem with this written on the chip > > MOTOROLA > 62412-51 > U45111.2-0.6 > 9950 > > and trying to get it to run on a fbsd 5.0-release. anyone any ideas where I > can get drivers for it? I'm pretty sure

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