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

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.

Re: OT: Looking for the perfect background downloader

2003-03-27 Thread taxman
On Thursday 27 March 2003 04:03 pm, Carlos Carnero wrote: Hello, (sorry for the OT but I really don't know of a better place for my enquiry. Really) I'm looking for a little program to help me download files across extremely unreliable links and/or unstable systems. I'd like something to

Re: Installation Problem.

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 02:25 pm, Paul Smith. wrote: My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% then you probably want to try 4.7-Release instead. See: http://www.mired.org/5.0-not-production.html Good luck, Tim

Re: Questions about upgrading from 4.6.2 to 4.7 (and beyond)

2003-03-26 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:19 am, James Schmidt wrote: I apologize in advance for my unfamiliarity with the workings of the FreeBSD world. Out of the several hundred machines I administer I have only the one FreeBSD box, and it is considered a production server, so I don't get much chance

Re: Ports installation, maxima

2003-03-26 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 02:15 pm, User Otto Ernst Bernhardi wrote: Hi, Thanks for providing FreeBSD!! I downloaded the ports.tar.gz file from your site. While trying to install /usr/ports/math/Maxima from the ports collection, I get the following problem. Distfiles not up-to-date or

Re: cvsupit broken (Re: Link??)

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 10:07 pm, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: The maintainer is on vacation in Maui and will fix it just as soon as he returns. He has only sporadic email connectivity and very slow connectivity at that, too slow to actually do any work (nor would his girlfriend look kindly on

Re: Link??

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 05:22 am, Eqab Almutairi wrote: Hello, seems this link dosnt work anymore right? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht ml is there any other place? well

Re: 5.0 install won't start

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 04:53 pm, Petri Riihikallio wrote: Hello I have a Compaq Armada 1500c C366 notebook with 160MB memory. I have been running FreeBSD on it since 3.0. At the moment I run 4.7-p9. I tried to install the new 5.0 on another partition (slice). The machine boots happily

Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:52 am, Eveline wrote: Hi there, I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to reboot my

Acroread port errors

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
Hi, I installed acroread-3.02 from ports but I get errors when trying to run it. First I got 3-4 errors about different lib versions needed, eg: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Thats true because I had libc.so.6 - libc-2.2.4.so in /usr/compat/linux/lib

Re: Mailing list was: no subject

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:42 pm, skylex wrote: %list The freebsd lists aren't administrated with majordomo anymore, checkout this link: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dd

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 07:57 pm, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am about to make the trip to shutdown one of our servers and 'dd' the first SCSI drive to the second. from what I have read, and what some of you have kindly offered, I just kick into single user mode, with only root mounted on

Re: Need help getting FreeBSD to run

2003-03-31 Thread taxman
On Monday 31 March 2003 07:02 am, Mike Doyle wrote: I'm having a little problem with my ISP. They said they would lease me a new rack-mounted server and put FreeBSD on to it. However, they were unable to get it to recognize certain parts of the hardware (specifically getting errors on the

Re: Setting-up FreeBSD 4.6 on my computer !

2003-04-02 Thread taxman
On Monday 31 March 2003 08:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I bought FreeBSD 4.6 OS which includes 4 discs and FreeBSD Toolkit (March 2002) which includes 6 discs and 'The FreeBSD HANDBOOK' 2nd Edition [WindRiver] ; all of this from BSDmall website in Augest 2002 and they ship it to

Re: installworld -- error 71

2003-04-02 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:28 pm, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am trying to installworld after a successful cvsup of RELENG_4 and buildworld. I continuously get: Then you should ask on -stable mailing list. Tim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Kernel out of sync was: make buildworld help please ?

2003-04-04 Thread taxman
On Friday 04 April 2003 02:28 pm, Brent Bailey wrote: Hello, Im running a FBSD 4.5 machine DUEL CPU 450 w/ 512 MB ram . Anywho ...i tried to CVSUP to the latest stable release , seems the CVSUP went then a good idea is to use the -stable mailing list. Try 4.8 release. RELENG_4_8 well

Re: Sendmail from src or ports

2003-04-04 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 02:10 am, K Anderson wrote: Which is the preferred sendmail? The ports version or the src/ version? The question has no useful meaning. Preferred for what? You need to define what you want first. Only then can you determine what is best for you. Some may say

Re: Mounting problem

2003-04-05 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:50 pm, DayGlow Etsa wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem mounting my cdrom drive(acd0a). In my /sbin/dmesg they state that my cdrom drive is acd0 but I found that no such a device is in my /dev directory instead I found a acd0a and a acd0c. I can't get it to mount ,

Re: mail server

2003-04-05 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 05:05 pm, Yorgos Christoforou wrote: thanks for the tip. I had tried the freebsd archives but couldn't find anything there. Thats one good place, then try glancing through the FreeBSD handbook, it has almost everything you would need. At least read the table of

Re: 4.8-Installation floppies fail

2003-04-05 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:19 am, Rob Lahaye wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:18:17PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Does the official release come with broken floppy files? Anything I can do to avoid this? No, but floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. Sounds to me

Re: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD

2003-04-05 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 01:48 pm, Jason Burgess wrote: please don't top post -Original Message- From: kitsune [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 18:23:18 +0200

Re: 4.8 mini-iso wont boot off SCSI cdrom

2003-04-05 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 08:42 pm, C Mead wrote: Hi all, Wondering if anyone has had, or can try to recreate the problem below. Just downloaded the 4.8 mini iso, and tried booting it from a Plextor UW SCSI cdrom, for some reason though it doesnt want to boot from it. The at what point does

Re: Updating /usr/src after updating 4.7-4.8

2003-04-05 Thread taxman
On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:26 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. On a test machine, I upgraded from fairly vanilla 4.7 to 4.8 using CD-ROM and /stand/sysintall. At the beginning of the upgrade, it told me that it would not upgrade /usr/src. After the upgrade, I see by the dates that it

Re: How good is Linux Binary Compatibility?

2003-04-02 Thread taxman
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:40 am, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, I've got a few minutes going spare so I thought that I would try and see if it is possible to bootstrap a chroot-ed debian install under 4.7. Has anyone tried this before with any luck or is this just going to be a learning

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

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 it

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 and

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 for

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

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 function

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 beforehand how many

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

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. That is

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:

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.com

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. Oldest

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 can remember =) So i'm booting

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. Currently I am

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 periodic scripts that cause

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 -

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 /modules install -o root -g

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 afternoon. What's going on? Nothing

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 anyway. I

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 Daniel ! I

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 about

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 far

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: 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: 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 tell from

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=. *default

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 give

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: 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

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

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 better than

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 heard,

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

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

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:

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: : A couple of quick questions... : : I've

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: edited 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:

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/Screensaver

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 same

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 pretty

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 upgrade,

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 By

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 stick

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, by

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: send

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 exactly

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 on

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 mailing

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 kernel.

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 sure

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

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 there.

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 signals

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

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

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

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 nonstandard

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 *default

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