NIS client (ypbind) "feature" on FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE

Hi, This is long but I wanted to provide as much information as possible. There appears to be an interesting "feature" with NIS client support under FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE (as at Tuesday 24 August). This was a new installation onto a Dell Precision 410-MT (single 400MHz CPU, single SCSI disk, on-boa

VMWare and SCSI CD-ROMs

Hi, I just installed the "vmware2" port on my freshly CVSup'ed and rebuilt 4.3-RC system. The port installed fine and it appears to startup just fine. My system has a SCSI CD-ROM drive and SCSI CD-RW, both of which work just fine under FreeBSD. VMWare doesn't seem to be able to access the CD-

Promise ATA100 controller: disk not recognised

Hi, Season's greetings to everyone from a rather warm Sydney, Australia! This evening, I installed a new Promise UltraATA 100 TX2 controller which is correctly recognised at boot time. To this controller I connected a new IBN 60 GB disk (Model: IC35L060AVER07-0). This disk is found and recogni

Re: Promise ATA100 controller: disk not recognised

Hi again, As you can now see I must be needing sleep as I stupidly forgot the output from the "boot -v" - apologies! Thanks, Shaun. >Season's greetings to everyone from a rather warm Sydney, Australia! > >This evening, I installed a new Promise UltraATA 100 TX2 controller which is >correctly re

NIS client (ypbind) "feature" on FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE

Hi, This is long but I wanted to provide as much information as possible. There appears to be an interesting "feature" with NIS client support under FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE (as at Tuesday 24 August). This was a new installation onto a Dell Precision 410-MT (single 400MHz CPU, single SCSI disk, on-bo

Re: CCD questions

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On 28 Oct, Wes Peters wrote: >> "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: >>> >>> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at >> >> Why? Do you have a compelling reason not to use Vinum volume manager? > >No, but why should I use Vinum over CCD? (All I want to

Re: CD-RW long filenames/rw filesystem.

>A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under >all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use >it, is grab a bunch of stuff you want to backup/record and use mkisofs and >cdrecord to dump it onto a CD. Everything I read seemed to indicate that

Re: CD-RW long filenames/rw filesystem.

>"Shaun Amy, CSIRO TIP/ATNF" wrote: >> >A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under >> >all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use >> >it, is grab a bunch of stuff you want to backup/record and

4.0-RELEASE, PCMCIA, DHCP and IP

Hi, If the subject line hasn't put you off then no doubt after reading this you will think I am crazy in a fairly standard configuration almost works but for the networking... Basically I am trying to install 4.0-RELEASE (off a CD I burnt from the ISO image whilst I wait for the WC CD kit) on a