Re: tty/pty/console wish

2007-06-06 Thread Bob Bagwill
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:04:26 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: I think the last time I used screen was 20 years ago. I just leave all my xterms open. I stop using screen when I got my VAXstation II/GPX running ULTRIX. :-) Adios emacs! But I don't like sitting in the machine room in the basement,

tty/pty/console wish

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Bagwill
I never remember to launch screen or dtach before I start some long- running job. Wouldn't it be handy to be able to - detach - attach - lock - dup - log - snoop - share any tty, any time? Or is there already an elegant way of doing it I haven't heard of? It's also be handy to be able to

vmplayer + dfbsd

2007-04-18 Thread Bob Bagwill
FWIW, I didn't have any trouble installing LATEST-Devel.iso into a VMware vmplayer-controlled VM. If anyone's interested, I could put instructions on the wiki. -- Bob Bagwill

users as blobs

2006-09-03 Thread Bob Bagwill
everything under /home/bob, or have a bob filesystem layered on top of the shared one. -- Bob Bagwill

install to external usb disk oops

2006-03-25 Thread Bob Bagwill
still doesn't boot successfully. :-( If I'm feeling masochistic, I could try the install again, and see if the bsdinstaller did it. -- Bob Bagwill

Re: make buildworld fails

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Bagwill
/ on DBSD, since heroic gcc optimizations aren't always helpful. Theoretically, it supports FreeBSD, but it didn't compile cleanly out-of-the-box, and I didn't put any more effort into getting it to work. -- Bob Bagwill

pkgsrc daemon rc scripts should go in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d?

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Bagwill
Should daemons from pkgsrc install their rc scripts in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d?

Re: chkconfig missing? and some rc.conf questions/suggestions

2006-02-09 Thread Bob Bagwill
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:39:02 +0100, joerg wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:15:55PM -0500, Bob Bagwill wrote: 1) Is there any particular reason DBSD doesn't have a chkconfig script, like NetBSD? ... which is not installed by default. So it's not useful enough to install? 2) How about

more dragonfly photos

2006-01-27 Thread Bob Bagwill
Just in case you haven't seen this site: http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~fmitchel/dragonfly/index.html -- Bob

Re: Hi all

2006-01-16 Thread Bob Bagwill
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:16:11 -0500, E. Gad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What might someone say to a BSD novice considering DragonFly ? DragonFly installs from a CD, but without a GUI. You might want to try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD instead, if you want a GUI-ier install. -- Bob Bagwill

[off-topic] Re: recommend kvm switch

2005-12-01 Thread Bob Bagwill
In _My Perfect Computer World_, every computer would be required to have a Universal Console Port, which only spoke the Universal Console Port Protocol. There would be only one physical connector design, the port would always be hot-pluggable, no differing baud rates, parity, character sets,

Re: recommend kvm switch

2005-12-01 Thread Bob Bagwill
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:42:54 -0800, Peter Hessler wrote: I'd recommend getting usb keyboards and mice, or ps2-usb adapters. I have an Northgate Omni Key 101 that I'd hate to give up, so I guess I'll have to audition adapters too.

recommend kvm switch

2005-11-30 Thread Bob Bagwill
Can anyone recommend a really bullet-proof 2 or 4 port kvm switch (that's DBSD compatible)? Thanks.

Re: how do people play with different versions of DBSD on the same system?

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Bagwill
, configure, reconfigure the other 95% is a pain. -- Bob Bagwill

Opera 8.02 build 1272 works

2005-08-04 Thread Bob Bagwill
FYI, I downloaded the FreeBSD version of Opera from Opera, replaced all occurrences of OpenBSD with DragonFly in install.sh, ran it, and it works. There was one complaint about plugins. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/