Re: -stable needs rw obj dir for install?

2004-03-03 Thread William Grim
Julian Elischer wrote: The prize goes to Kris Kennaway who suggested that it was a time sync problem between the NFS server and client.. There in fact was a time problem. wierd.. I don't know how it was determined that there was a time sync problem; however, in general, "make" creates updat

FBSD 4.9-STABLE -- Lexmark z25 (USB) -- BROKEN

2004-03-03 Thread William Grim
I have a Lexmark z25 attached to my FBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 machine through USB. However, I can't print to it using /dev/ulpt0. From what I can find on these printers using google is that these printers are crap (too late to return it now). su-2.05# usbdevs -dv Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: self

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread William Grim
Marco van de Voort wrote: I also don't think it's the issue that needs to be dealt with - distribution is much, much, MUCH bigger an issue than "shall we get rid of floppies"? I sent this to the list before, but it got ignored, so I'll send it again, where Jordan points out we have bigger issue

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-10 Thread William Grim
Wes Peters wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 09:34 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michel TALON wrote: Sincerely FreeBSD developers have more important tasks than spending hours to fit an installable system on floppies. When FreeBSD used one floppy, it was tolerable to do fl

Update: PR bin/60636

2003-12-29 Thread William Grim
Hey there. I emailed that PR into the FreeBSD team the other day. I didn't remove a line that said , because the above lines said comments and anything between < and > would be removed. It put [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my email, and now I'm getting all sorts of spam to that mail box (all dealing