vmware and vmnet devices

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Beattie
nodes? Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional quality, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | standards based software. Users of Microsoft | products or other substandard software should www.beattie-home.net | contact the author about receiving a Free upgra

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Brian Beattie
to testing for an extended keyboard SEEMS to have caused this change in behaviour. More so because the keyboard has problems only when you DON'T test for an extended keyboard, because then it fails, correctly, to read the keyboard. As to insults, I do not see how disagreeing with you analy

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Brian Beattie
x27;ll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional qual

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-22 Thread Brian Beattie
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > It seems silly to implement something as trivial and straightforward as > copying a file in userland. The process designated to copy a file just > sits in a tight loop invoking the read()/write() syscalls > repeatedly. Since this operation is alread

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Beattie
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Dennis wrote: > > If you fellows put as much time into freebsd as you do flaming me we > wouldnt need this crap. :-) > *Plonk!* Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional quality, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | standards based softwar

Re: 100Bit Fast Ethernet EISA card - anyone?

2000-03-22 Thread Brian Beattie
FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional quality, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | standa

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Brian Beattie
ier to find and lost blocks and inodes, of be very careful when /var is not mounted. Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional quality, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | standards based software. Users of Microsoft [EMAIL PROTECTED] | products or other substandard software

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Brian Beattie
ock, until > :you write. If you need to make a copy, it will be on a write system call > :(possibly an inode update), just fail the write ENOSPC or whatever. Or am > :I missing something simple here. > > The issue here is to ensure that you have sufficient swap. Swap? I though

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Brian Beattie
y-on-write, you do not need the block, until you write. If you need to make a copy, it will be on a write system call (possibly an inode update), just fail the write ENOSPC or whatever. Or am I missing something simple here. > -MB > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Brian Beattie
the general case. You could certainly rewrite the "cp" command and that would get a majority of cases, though it is hard to say how many. The answer would depend on how the copies were made. I suspect that a large number of copies on most systems are made by going to the original sourc

building a release

2000-02-26 Thread Brian Beattie
I have looked at the FAQ and find only a partial answer. I would like to build a a release with base and X11, to do local installs of 4.0-current. I can build the base from /usr/src/release, I have the XFree86 sources. Can anybody send me notes, or point me at the FAQ? Brian Beattie

recomendations for a msdos terminal program

2000-02-23 Thread Brian Beattie
so far seem to only want to talk to a modem. While I'm sure I can beat one of them into submission I though I'd ask for advice before I spend too much more time. Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie |

Help diagnoseing a panic

2000-02-22 Thread Brian Beattie
t, so far the message tends to scroll off before I get a chance. Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: CMOS clock won't do 2000

2000-02-13 Thread Brian Beattie
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian >Beattie writes: > : I have an older 486 system, running 3.4R that has a cmos clock that seems > : to be unwilling to accept years out side the range 94-99. The bios seems > : willing to set da

CMOS clock won't do 2000

2000-02-12 Thread Brian Beattie
/isa/clock.c and in the routines inittodr, resettodr, is to add 6 to and subtract 6 from the years respectively. I was wondering if anybody had any better ideas. Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end

Chosing a value for VT_XXXX (enum vtagtype)

2000-01-26 Thread Brian Beattie
I'm playing around with writing a filesystem module and am trying to figure out what value to use for the vtagtype. Do I ask to have one assigned, should I use an existing one, should I make up a new one? Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning th

UDF approach comments?

2000-01-20 Thread Brian Beattie
erfs, that would allow me to run most of the guts of the filesystem code in a user process. Then I would write the UDF filesystem to run in a user process. What do you think, am I nuts? Is there a better way, a better base for the userfs? Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-18 Thread Brian Beattie
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Daniel Eischen wrote: > In a week or two. I just committed the fix to -current, and the rule > is to wait a week or two before MFC. MFC? Could somebody expand this TLA for me, I'm sure it will be obvious once I see it, thanks Brian Beattie| The o

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-17 Thread Brian Beattie
geometry to be showed the geomery for the drive as being clearly > incorrect... according to the info contained in the FAQ page at the > above URL... for the current translation/non-translation setting of my > SCSI controller. > Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PRO

UDF

2000-01-13 Thread Brian Beattie
having somebody else show up with a completed implementation. Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

Parallel-port ethernet interfaces

1999-12-19 Thread Brian Beattie
Anybody know of any currently available, that are supported by FreeBSD? Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: natd question

1999-10-19 Thread Brian Beattie
+ ( 130.144.120/22 ) -- |FreeBSD| |FreeBSD| --( 130.144.120/22 ) +(real)+ | | | |+(test)+ () +---+ +---+ ( ) (~~) (~~) Using 10.0.0.0 on the network in the middle Brian Beattie| The only p

Re: how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-18 Thread Brian Beattie
y inode. The rasson for this is that some filesystems can not be made to support the old semantics, and it is a good idea to have an atomic method to make a directory. > -- > @BABOLO http://links.ru/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubsc

Re: Search a symbol in the source tree

1999-10-18 Thread Brian Beattie
f you are looking for a few instances in hundreds of files, the hits can scroll off the screen and get lost in the noise. My prefered approach is: find . -name "*.[c]" -exec grep string {} /dev/null \; (the /dev/null forces grep to print the filename where a match is found, and I am

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Beattie
omplex solutions are prone to holes. Another daemon, is yet one more process, sucking up resources, prone to attack. If I can hack your devfsd, I can give myself permissions to do anything to your system. Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race .

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-20 Thread Brian Beattie
he owner/group/permissions from the real fs underneath. Any change to the node would affect the real fs underneath. I could probably expand on this futher if anybody is interested. Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.arac

Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current]

1999-09-14 Thread Brian Beattie
lly supported. As for line-editing in the kernel, let put ISAM and support for record structured files while we are cramming stuff into the kernel. THen we will be that much closer to Multics. Yuck! Brian Beattie| The only problem with beat...@aracnet.com | winning the rat r

Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current]

1999-09-14 Thread Brian Beattie
lly supported. As for line-editing in the kernel, let put ISAM and support for record structured files while we are cramming stuff into the kernel. THen we will be that much closer to Multics. Yuck! Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat r

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Brian Beattie
d based systems. But then I'm still running a 486 and a couple of sub 200MHz Cyrix based systems :) Brian Beattie| The only problem with beat...@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Brian Beattie
ol thing will buy Merced based systems. But then I'm still running a 486 and a couple of sub 200MHz Cyrix based systems :) Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat T

Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c))

1999-06-24 Thread Brian Beattie
ommodated using a blessed, > non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs > the links. > -- Tom Christiansen in <37514...@cs.colorado.edu> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&q

Re: Algorithm used to delete part of a file

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Beattie
stem not the most common application. > Thanks for your help. > > Zhihui > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Beattie| The only problem with beat...@a