Mel Flynn wrote:
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote:
Mel Flynn writes:
> Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I
> can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible
> for one reason oranother, place to download application source to?
Most s
Paul Schmehl wrote:
So, you *could* do this:
su - to root
Download the wine tarball and untar it
Go in to the wine directory and type the following, in order:
./configure --without-x
make depends
make
make install
That will install wine on your system without X. Figuring out how to
get your
Jeff Laine wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:12:17PM +, Barnaby Scott wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Barnaby Scott :
I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere
and go no response.
I want to install wine, but without X on the system.
Why
Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Barnaby Scott :
I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere
and go no response.
I want to install wine, but without X on the system.
Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral part
of MS Windows .
don't want X cluttering them up.)
Any help gratefully received
Thanks
Barnaby Scott
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM
To: cpghost
Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List
Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD
It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X
aged to be far from stodgy. As for the
version covered, there are a few bits that explicitly mention version 7,
but everything else seemed totally relevant to me on 6.2.
Barnaby Scott
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Peter Schuller wrote:
My understanding from the reading I have done is that in a situation like
this where power outages are a danger (and presuably having the UPS signal
the server to shut down gracefully is not practical), you need to make the
file system as robust as possible in the first plac
if you have drives that
are doing it?
Then consider mounting the file system synchronously. Mind you, I don't
know what the scale of the performance loss would be, and whether anyone
does this nowadays!
As I say, don't rely on my knowledge, but I was prompted to write by your
latching on
Derek Ragona wrote:
At 09:00 AM 11/14/2007, Barnaby Scott wrote:
I suspect I already know the answer to this, which is that the trouble
I am having is nothing to do with the OS at all, but I have to ask,
because I am otherwise up against a total brick wall!
I bought a second-hand Dell
found?
(I do hope someone might be able to help - Dell are trying to get me to
switch to a 'supported' OS!)
Thanks
Barnaby Scott
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To
o be?
If replying, please keep in mind my embarrassing level of inexperience!!
Thanks
Barnaby Scott
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horrible suspicion I will be back with plenty of questions in
the coming weeks as I wrestle with this, my first ever server, and my
first 'for real' use of FreeBSD! However I am reading all I can,
especially the FreeBSD handbook.
Thanks
Bar
On Mon, June 19, 2006 9:17 pm, DSA - JCR wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
> I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 "amd64") for a MS Windows Network
> for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows
> boxes.
>
> Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes?
> I th
On Thu, May 18, 2006 2:51 pm, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Barnaby Scott wrote:
>
>
>> So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me
>> though:
>> 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the
>> console? Or rather, what c
John Nielsen wrote:
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote:
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Barnaby Scott wrote:
So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was
bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and
behold, first attempt to use it and I get this
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Barnaby Scott wrote:
So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was
bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and
behold, first attempt to use it and I get this:
(firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display
What the
Oh dear!
I thought I was getting somewhere, but progress is painfully slow until
I can istall a browser and get it to work, so that I can look up
solutions to the avalanche of 'challenges' that seem to befalling this
newbie!
So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was
Gerard Seibert wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote:
It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf
reads:
sendmail_enable="NONE"
This is fine, but according to rc.sendmail(8) `NONE' is deprecated and
press ^T when the boot stalled. God knows what this does, but it
turned up the following response:
load: 0.85 cmd:sendmail 454 [kqread] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1912k
I thinks that answers all the things that were suggested - can anyone
see a way of reinstating sendmail without the stalled boot proces
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:12:28AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote:
Thanks for your reply. It didn't occur to me to look at the next line -
I thought it must still be doing the Configuring syscons thing!
Anyway, the next line is:
Initial i386 initialization:.
Armed with
Parv wrote:
...
and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5
minutes every time.
Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so,
press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and
"login:" waiting for input at the end.
No the screen still has a
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Barnaby Scott wrote:
The boot sequence all goes smoothly, telling me all sorts of things I
never thought I'd need to know, and frankly don't understand, until it
gets to the following line:
Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime screensaver.
and then stops! I
ery time.
Can this be normal? If not, what do I do? (Words of one syllable only
please!)
Thanks
Barnaby Scott
PS I am conscious that I don't really know the etiquette around here too
well (apart from not mentioning the logo!) - I don't want to clutter the
list with messages of
ut and see, but
if I cannot see a way forward, the time invloved in installing and
learning FreeBSD would be very hard to justify, so please bear with me -
I would be grateful for any advice at this stage.
Many thanks,
Barnaby Scott
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I know questions like this have been asked before, but I can't find a
straight answer! Forgive me though if I have missed one.
I have a Windows 2000 machine into which I wanted to put an extra hard
disk to run FreeBSD. In my pre-installation reading, I noticed that
FreeBSD offers a mechanism to bo
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