On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Rick Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to set the offset/starting cylinder in install.cfg so that
> partitions begin on appropriate boundaries. The applicable section of
> install.cfg looks like the following. My assumption is that I need to
> make the change
On 03/07/12 01:01, David Walker wrote:
Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
What tv card? Mine work fine
Thread here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-drivers/2012-February/001370.html
May have to do with the cx88 port available, especially as its from 2006
(las
Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
> What tv card? Mine work fine
Thread here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-drivers/2012-February/001370.html
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On 03/06/12 05:23, David Walker wrote:
Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net
OK, here goes: (in Nelson Muntz's voice) Haha, you clown, that's what
you get for believing what documentation says. Use a magnetized needle
and a steady hand you buffoon!
There. I respect! :)
Well played.
It's a seriou
Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net
> OK, here goes: (in Nelson Muntz's voice) Haha, you clown, that's what
> you get for believing what documentation says. Use a magnetized needle
> and a steady hand you buffoon!
> There. I respect! :)
Well played.
It's a serious issue for me after 15 years of
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 07:24:23PM +1030, David Walker wrote:
> Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net
> > If you did it the normal way
>
> Please define normal.
>
> As per the way you do it? Surely that's not what you mean right?
>
> As per the handbook?
> As per the man pages?
Believe it or not, r
Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net
> If you did it the normal way
Please define normal.
As per the way you do it? Surely that's not what you mean right?
As per the handbook?
As per the man pages?
As per the way I usually do it?
I'm new here so I don't have a normal way other than spending hours
So of course I can't install source using sysinstall either ...
No problem, I'll re-install (reverting a few hours of work) and do it
on the install.
Of course it works perfectly - I am able to install ports and src from
the CD that sysinstall fails on ...
As I'm getting used to though, there's m
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:37:07AM +1030, David Walker wrote:
> So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports".
> I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
> Looks easy.
>
> For some u
On 03/03/2012 20:07, David Walker wrote:
> So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports".
> I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
> Looks easy.
>
> For some unknown reason sysinst
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Brent Clark wrote:
I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download
the kernel source.
I tried following this example
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/
I use "Install from an FTP server"
The error message I get
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200
Brent Clark wrote:
> I use "Install from an FTP server"
>
> The error message I get is "Unable to transfer the sbase distribution
> from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.";
>
> Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source.
Get it with csup and be sure to set
On 02/17/12 19:31, Brent Clark wrote:
Hiya
I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to
download the kernel source.
I tried following this example
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/
I use "Install from an FTP server"
The error message I
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem?
Unfortunately you'd need to use a different tool to partition/label the
disk, such as gpart.
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300
> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot
> > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems
> > peculiar to this OS, somewhere.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot
> use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems
> peculiar to this OS, somewhere.
> When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on
Wow! Thanks for all the info and the time you spent pulling it together and
writing it out, Devin! There is a lot to digest. Right now, I do have
a "workaround" that I am currently testing out. I will be hanging onto your
email for future reference, certainly.
On Nov 11, 2010 12:19pm, Devin
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:12 +, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate
> much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that
> are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The sc
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ross wrote:
> vgc> I do this twice before the installCommit and both scripts run and load
> the
> vgc> resulting configs successfully. I also run another script after the
> vgc> InstallComit...it fails citing the script could not be found. In
> vgc> troubleshooti
vgc> I do this twice before the installCommit and both scripts run and load the
vgc> resulting configs successfully. I also run another script after the
vgc> InstallComit...it fails citing the script could not be found. In
vgc> troubleshooting, I found that sysinstall is removing /stand and doi
On 11 November 2010 12:12, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate
> much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that
> are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The scripts that
> are run are placed
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 3, Message: 2
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:04:08 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700,
> per...@pluto.rain.com escribió:
>
> > Devin Teske wrote:
> >
> > > sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. The
El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com
escribió:
> Devin Teske wrote:
>
> > sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making
> > changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK
> > partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and A
Devin Teske wrote:
> sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making
> changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK
> partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and Abort-out and relaunch
> sysinstall so that it probes the new disk devices (ad4s1, ad4s2,
> etc.) befo
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 23:48 +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:04:15 -0700
> Devin Teske wrote:
>
> > I'll be the first to admit that sysinstall(8) could be a little easier
> > to use in the userland. It should be noted that sade(8) (System
> > Administrator's Disk Editor) is no di
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:04:15 -0700
Devin Teske wrote:
> I'll be the first to admit that sysinstall(8) could be a little easier
> to use in the userland. It should be noted that sade(8) (System
> Administrator's Disk Editor) is no different -- sade, at this point at
> least, is nothing more than t
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 21:02 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed a 9-CURRENT from an USB key to a hard disk of a laptop and
> encountered a strange problem: I booted the USB key to normal
> multiuser mode and wanted to wipe out the Windows on the disk, create
> one slice ad4s1 and
On 01.11.10 01:03, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> sysinstall isn't really intended for post-install use: you should probably
> learn how to use gpart instead - e.g.
>
Maybe sade (sysadmins disk editor) would help too... looks like
sysinstall's dis
On Monday 01 November 2010 09:06:53 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I'm unsure about the 3rd command (gpart create -s bsd ad4s1), should it
> use 'ad4' as you say above, or 'ad4s1' as in the August's post?
Since you're creating the bsd scheme inside the freebsd container, you would
use ad4s1.
--
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El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 12:03:54AM +, Bruce Cran escribió:
> On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8)
> > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case?
>
> sysinstall isn't really intended for
On Monday 01 November 2010 06:09:51 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Is there any document explaining this in more
> detail as the man page of gpart(8). The FreeBSD Handbook in chaptar 18.3
> points still to sysinstall(8) and bsdlabel(8)...
The documentation for gpart is still rather
El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 12:03:54AM +, Bruce Cran escribió:
> On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8)
> > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case?
>
> sysinstall isn't really intended for
On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8)
> or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case?
sysinstall isn't really intended for post-install use: you should probably
learn how to use gpart instead - e.g.
gpart create
binE6c8fkIE6U.bin
Description: Binary data
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On 21/09/2010, at 7:29 PM, Phan Quoc Hien wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I followed tut at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ to install
> FreeBSD Root on ZFS using GPT on my VMWARE virtual machine.
> When I go to step "Install FreeBSD to zroo
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, wrote:
> Adam Vande More wrote:
[SNIP]
> The question is, how do I go about partitioning gm0 from Fixit?
> I've seen nothing so far that describes how to go about creating
> multiple partitions on a gmirror (or on anything else, for that
> matter) without either
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote:
> > > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable).
> >
> > This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives
> > using sysinstall, but how do I go about partitioning gm0?
>
> Your problem is that
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote:
> > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable).
>
> This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives
> using sysinstall, but how do I go about partitioning gm0?
>
Your problem is that you are still using sysinstall. Y
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote:
> > The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand.
> > (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations
> > involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall
> > seems at least to know how to tran
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote:
> The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand.
> (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations
> involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall
> seems at least to know how to translate a reasonably human-
> readab
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror?
> > ...
> I don't think sysinstall will do what you want.
It certainly has been less than totally cooperative so far :(
> However, what is your ultimate goal?
> To in
On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror?
>
> I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider --
> using Fixit#, followed by
>
> Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot
> Fixit# gmirror load
>
> after which /dev/m
This has been fixed. Get a newer RC.
-- randi
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Kristaps Kūlis wrote:
> Hi,
> On FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (i386) on IBM T43, sysinstall fails when trying to
> add src distribution to already installed system (when starting to download
> them from FTP). No network acti
> For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious
> 'install via HTTP' option. Trying to install via HTTP proxy and saying
> ftp.freebsd.org:80 when prompted seems like it should work to me, but I
> haven't verified that.
Next time I install I'll try this - I was just wondering i
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On 13/03/2010 14:22:58, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>
>> You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP
>
> but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it
For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious
'install via HT
>
> You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP
but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it
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On 11/03/2010 15:07:07, Eitan Adler wrote:
> instead of "ftp through an http proxy" is it possible to get a pure http
> mirror?
Yes
happy-idiot-talk:~:% HEAD -uSe http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
HEAD http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
HEAD http
On 02/19/10 15:34, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training <
> p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
>
>> Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just
>> fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but
>> that errors o
On 02/19/10 15:27, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
> Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version
>
Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just
fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but
that errors out, too.
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On 02/19/10 14:48, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Programmer In Training schrieb:
>> On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
>>> wrote:
It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
reinstall, making sure t
On 02/19/10 14:26, Programmer In Training wrote:
> On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
>> And don't miss the documentation about getting "Flash"
>> stuff running:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
That all worked except for the last command:
nspluginwrapper -v
Mehul Ved wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m wrote:
thanks.. i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to
mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can
copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and
st
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m wrote:
>
>
> thanks.. i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to
> mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can
> copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and
> started modif
thanks.. i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need
to mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i
can copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went
"enterprise" and started modifying the core code
basically i just need some com
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM, kalin m wrote:
>
> hi all... realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old
> fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc... what would be
> the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora?
To be honest considering its sooo OLD you're bes
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM, kalin m wrote:
>
> hi all... realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old
> fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc... what would be
> the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora?
Does
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_E
On Friday 19 of February 2010 21:58:53 Erik Norgaard wrote:
> On 19/02/10 20:42, Programmer In Training wrote:
> > Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done?
>
> IIRC you first need to load the linux and linprocfs kernel modules and
> mount linproc.
>
> BR, Erik
>
If you have never used
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training <
p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
> Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just
> fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but
> that errors out, too.
>
> You have to run portsnap fetch update
>
> Of course I did forget to install
> www/linux-f10-flashplugin10
>
> BUT, it doesn't matter that I forgot it.
>
> [r...@heaven]make install clean
> ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> => install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/fla
On 02/19/10 14:50, Programmer In Training wrote:
> That all worked except for the last command:
>
> nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
>
> Even directly symlinking to
>
> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>
> Isn't helping (it's not showing up in about plugins).
>
> Creating
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:26:29 -0600, Programmer In Training
wrote:
> On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
> > wrote:
> >> It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
> >> reinstall, making sure to opt for linux em
Hello!
Programmer In Training schrieb:
On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
wrote:
It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go.
It is not needed t
On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
> wrote:
>> It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
>> reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go.
>
> It is not needed to reinstall the whole OS just
On 19/02/10 20:42, Programmer In Training wrote:
Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done?
IIRC you first need to load the linux and linprocfs kernel modules and
mount linproc.
BR, Erik
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training
wrote:
> It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and
> reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go.
It is not needed to reinstall the whole OS just because you
accidentally forgot to install an a
Please create a PR for any problems you find here or additions to
install.cfg that you would like to see, and I'll take a look at it.
-- randi
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Martin McCormick
wrote:
> I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found
> out my problem with getting
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin McCormick
wrote:
> J65nko writes:
>> IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all.
>>
>> See the "FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall" guide at
>> http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538
>
> This looks very possible
J65nko writes:
> IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all.
>
> See the "FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall" guide at
> http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538
This looks very possible with a couple of changes. Am I
right in my reading of the man pa
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Martin McCormick
wrote:
> I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found
> out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive
> rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not
> something you can set in the partition editor or
I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found
out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive
rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not
something you can set in the partition editor or disklabel
editor. It is found in the very first menu which oddly
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark wrote:
> From: Mark
> Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.
> To: "Martin McCormick"
> Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 12:17 AM
>
>
> --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick
> wrote:
>
> > From: Martin Mc
--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick wrote:
> From: Martin McCormick
> Subject: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas.
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:22 PM
> After about a week
> of trying, I don't think sysinstall
> will install FreeBSD when used wi
Jerry McAllister writes:
> I don't understand why you are trying to do your own MFS for this.
> You need to be booted to the MFS for it to make any difference and
> that is what the install image (from the CD) normally does. If you
> just create an MFS and copy sysinstall to it, it will make no
>
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:31:33PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> It appears that the same sysinstall executable that
> works fine when run from the installation CDROM malfunctions
> when run from a mfs platform even though it finds the disk it is
> supposed to install on.
>
> One c
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:25:21AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Thomas Dickey writes:
> > "Terminal" would probably be one of the programs using VTE,
> > which differs from "linux".
>
> This is all very interesting. Thanks to all. What I
> normally do is start a command-line shell on a D
Thomas Dickey writes:
> "Terminal" would probably be one of the programs using VTE,
> which differs from "linux".
This is all very interesting. Thanks to all. What I
normally do is start a command-line shell on a Debian Linux box.
This defaults to a "linux" console. When I ssh somewhere, s
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:48:32PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote:
>
> Using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and GNOME Terminal 2.28.1, $TERM is Xterm.
>
> $ echo $TERM
> Xterm
> $
>
> The only thing I'd change about the mapping is that I'd rather flash the
> screen instead of ringing the bell.
>
Put:
XT
rg [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
> Sent: January-23-10 7:02 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal
>
...
> Is TERM = "linux" or something else?
>
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:01:41AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Dale Scott writes:
> > I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7
> > and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in
> > Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though.
>
> Tha
Dale Scott writes:
> I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7
> and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in
> Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though.
Thank you for responding.
If you type
echo $TERM
or just the command
env
I
Polytropon writes:
> What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)?
Thank you! I tried cons25 first and it worked very well.
Since I am still actually receiving via the linux terminal
definition, I was surprised it worked as well as it does. The
cons25 must use many of the same es
> If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux
> platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible
> with a vt100. As soon as I run sysinstall, things go to the dogs
> very fast. It is as if there was no terminal emulation in effect
I don't have a solution but can repor
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:10:15 -0600, Martin McCormick
wrote:
> If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux
> platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible
> with a vt100.
What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)?
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Magdeburg, Germany
Happy
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michiel Overtoom wrote:
>
> On Friday 16 October 2009, Randi Harper wrote:
>
> > Personally if I spent a lot of time on such a project, I'd be sure to
> have
> > the "is this going to make it into freebsd base?" conversation first.
>
> I think there's no doubt abo
On Friday 16 October 2009, Randi Harper wrote:
> Personally if I spent a lot of time on such a project, I'd be sure to have
> the "is this going to make it into freebsd base?" conversation first.
I think there's no doubt about it that 'sysinstall' will feature in the next
FreeBSD too. It will!
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Alexander Best <
alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>
> just did a quick research and google soc sponsored the finstaller in 2007
> and
> the bsdinstaller in 2005.
>
> personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it
> to
> get integra
Kevin Kinsey schrieb am 2009-10-11:
> Alexander Best wrote:
> >>Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is
> >>to
> >>change
> >>the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer
> >>pink.
> >>-- randi
> I'm painting the little girl's room next week and might
Alexander Best wrote:
Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to
change
the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer pink.
-- randi
I'm painting the little girl's room next week and might have
some leftover interior latex, if that will do. Oh, b
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:25:16 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
AN>
AN> # Now set the parameters for the partition editor on da0.
AN> disk=da0
AN> partition=all
AN> bootManager=none
try
bootManager=standard
AN> diskPartitionEditor
AN> diskPartitionWrite
try to remove d
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jason Nordwick wrote:
> I'm a previous FreeBSD user that used to track current and returning after a
> few years. If my memory is correct, the definition of -stable, -release, and
> -current seems to have changed? (but my memory sucks so excuse me if I'm
> wrong).
Steve Polyack wrote:
I've seen some oddities with the partition and bsdlabel editors in the
sysinstall program on the 7.0 and 7.1 releases. The partition editor
seems to be reading or parsing the partition table incorrectly. I had
a 6.3-RELEASE system with the following layout:
/dev/amrd3s1a
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Freminlins wrote:
> 2009/1/8 Jerry McAllister
> >
> > Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures
> > that are missing.
>
> sysinstall also works over serial console. No use for pretty pictures
> there...
Oh My God!
If ever you weren't a fan of sysinstall, try
2009/1/8 Jerry McAllister
>
> Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures
> that are missing.
sysinstall also works over serial console. No use for pretty pictures
there...
> jerry
MF.
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nd time you see it and just quit. But
you get used to that. Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures
that are missing.
jerry
>
> -Grant
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kurt Buff"
> To: "Gonzalo Nemmi"
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, Ja
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:23:20 -0500, "Grant Peel" wrote:
> Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still
> remains:
>
> How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility?
In principle, you just start a kind of minimal live file system,
use its commands (like fdis
El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 07:23:20PM -0500, Grant Peel escribió:
> Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still
> remains:
>
> How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility?
>
> -Grant
Here you go: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt
Ad
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 9:51:11 pm Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is
> >> greatly in need of 'Death'.
>
quot;
> To: "Gonzalo Nemmi"
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Sysinstall
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote:
>>>
>>&g
Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still
remains:
How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility?
-Grant
- Original Message -
From: "Kurt Buff"
To: "Gonzalo Nemmi"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM
Sub
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly
>> in need of 'Death'.
>>
>> How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it?
>>
>> Is th
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