Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-22 Thread Andreas Hauser
wa1ter wrote @ Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:25:31 -0700: Andreas Hauser wrote: dillon wrote @ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:34:02 -0700 (PDT): Xen is an operating environment. Operating systems running under Xen have to be aware that they are running under Xen. Unless you use a current

Re: Xen vs VMware

2006-10-21 Thread Andreas Hauser
dillon wrote @ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:34:02 -0700 (PDT): Xen is an operating environment. Operating systems running under Xen have to be aware that they are running under Xen. Unless you use a current processor (Intel or Amd e.g.) which come with hardware virtualization. There are only a

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-17 Thread Andreas Hauser
csaba.henk wrote @ Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:48:04 +0200: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:05:25PM +0200, Andreas Hauser wrote: csaba.henk wrote @ 17 Aug 2006 05:52:41 GMT: In one sentence: I can see how can you change DESTDIR with a chroot trick, but I don't see how you could adjust the PREFIX

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Hauser
bastyaelvtars wrote @ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:54:55 +0200: Yeah, it's me again. I have read the according wikipage and read info about pacman as well and it looks good. Now I would like to ask whether it conflicts with pkgsrc, and if so, will there be resolution, and whether integration is

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Hauser
erik-wikstrom wrote @ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:43:12 +0200: On 2006-08-14 17:54, Gergo Szakal wrote: Yeah, it's me again. I have read the according wikipage and read info about pacman as well and it looks good. Now I would like to ask whether it conflicts with pkgsrc, and if so, will there be

Re: Locked out - need a little help (caution: n00b meter on high!)

2006-07-31 Thread Andreas Hauser
dillon wrote @ Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:16:17 -0700 (PDT): We don't really need toor any more. If it comes to it, you will always get a /bin/sh if you boot single user. Not always is it possible to boot into single user, e.g. on remote hosts without serial console access. -- Andy

Re: login to wiki

2006-07-18 Thread Andreas Hauser
iacovelli_mail wrote @ Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:28:14 +0200 (CEST): Hoi, I lose my personal userd id and password to login dragonflywiki. How can I have these informations? I guess you mean your old account is not working in the new wiki. As sad as it is. The old wiki data got lost, including

Re: BootBlocks.

2006-06-03 Thread Andreas Hauser
talon wrote @ Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:21:38 +0200: Marcin Jessa wrote: On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:00:01 +0100 Max von Seibold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is not especially glorious to install but at least such trivial things are solved by the installer since ages. Anyways the present

Re: BootBlocks.

2006-06-03 Thread Andreas Hauser
talon wrote @ Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:06:48 +0200: Andreas Hauser wrote: The thing is once you installed BSD and learned its ways it gets easy. While on the otherhand the more userfriendly Linux We are explicitely speaking of newcomers here, not of people who have taken pains of reading

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-30 Thread Andreas Hauser
danial_thom wrote @ Mon, 29 May 2006 16:59:06 -0700 (PDT): Is anyone using DragonflyBSD in any serious production servers yet? Any feelings about how it measures up in its current state performance-wise? One of the ftp.fortunaty.net mirrors ran DragonFly for 2 years or so. Latest uptime was

The new wiki

2006-05-30 Thread Andreas Hauser
Hoi, we have setup a replacement wiki two weeks ago. And since today this wiki is reachable via http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/ and a daily backup is here: http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFly/wiki/dragonflywiki.tbz -- Andy

Re: Back in black... need to try SBCL Lisp

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Hauser
jcm wrote @ Wed, 10 May 2006 16:31:05 +0100: Sorry I've been Missing In Action, but I've had to install Linux on my new laptop just to get it to work. Has anyone tried getting sbcl lisp to run? I had it working at one point: http://www.splashground.de/~andy/dragonfly/sbcl-0.8.19.patch Know

Re: Shutdown

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Hauser
saw wrote @ Tue, 09 May 2006 12:34:38 +0200: Thomas Schlesinger wrote: Hi, when I shutdown my notebook (ASUS V6800), I get a message to power it of on console, but it doesn't happen automagically as in Linux. I believe to remember, that I've read somewhere something about an sysctl

Re: WLAN doesn't work

2006-04-13 Thread Andreas Hauser
joerg wrote @ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:35:54 +0200: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:34:00PM +0200, Thomas Schlesinger wrote: thanks for your reply. I didn't install the iwi_firmware. How can I it? I can't install it with pkg_add (I'm a litke bit confused about installing software, as I've

Re: ICH7 ?

2006-04-05 Thread Andreas Hauser
bsddiy wrote @ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:27:02 +0800: Chuck Tuffli wrote: On 4/4/06, David Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any dragonflybsd .iso I can install on intel ICH7 south bridge based machine ? I was able to install 1.4 on a ECS PF5 Extreme (Intel 945 based w/ ICH7). Using a

Re: pkgsrc on DragonFly status

2005-09-04 Thread Andreas Hauser
reed wrote @ Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:20:01 -0700 (PDT): I need to find out where these can all be mirrored from. I have 3025 packages. Good work :) Provide an URL and i mirror them. Andy

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Andreas Hauser
joerg wrote @ Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:09:39 +0200: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: As far as recovery after a crash is involved, clearly nothing beats journalling, and i have to say that performancewise, i have the impression that Linux journalled filesystems do

Re: Looking for Statistics from DragonFly mirror sites

2005-09-02 Thread Andreas Hauser
dillon wrote @ Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:19:11 -0700 (PDT): The BSD Certification group is looking for whatever long term download statistics we might have, and I'm rather interested myself :-). If any of our mirrors have such statistics, please post them or URLs that point to them!

Re: DF Ports

2005-08-31 Thread Andreas Hauser
nmlunix wrote @ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:49:49 -0500: Hello, I've installed DF 1.2.5 on a Compaq Laptop recently, and cvs'd the dfports collection; On a 'make install' many errors erupt due to FreeBSD MK files missing. My concern is, is it possible to install any ports on DF, as a stand-alone

Re: Warning about installing DragonFly and FreeBSD to same disk

2005-08-25 Thread Andreas Hauser
fcash-ml wrote @ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:58:39 -0700: On August 25, 2005 12:45 pm, Rob Andrews wrote: [25-Aug-2005 17:59.00 (BST) / Chris Pressey] Be warned, grub may not support the ufs filesystem you choose to install it upon. If grub can't read the stage2 files from your filesystem, keep

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-18 Thread Andreas Hauser
jfrazer wrote @ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:58:59 -0500: The reason I'm not running it right now is lack of good binary packages and a good package management system. I don't have time to mess around with source builds which may or may not work. I want an upgrade path that has a good probability of

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-18 Thread Andreas Hauser
mhellwig wrote @ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:22:47 +0200: When DF is SSI clusterable, then of course it is going to be on the average company desktop, there is no way I am continuing to throw away all this CPU power other resources when I _have_ an option to use it even if it means that some apps

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

2005-08-15 Thread Andreas Hauser
sdrhodus wrote @ Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:59:25 -0400: On 15 Aug 2005 00:17:07 -, Andreas Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dillon wrote @ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:27:44 -0700 (PDT): So the answer is no... we are going to have to move to (almost certainly) pkgsrc and fix whatever