Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
wrote: > Seems as you don't have write permission for /dev/ad0. Did you run grub > as root? > > GH > > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:21:45PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: > > I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having > > this problem. > >

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having this problem. GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 18:02, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:35:35PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > > > title FreeBSD 5.2.1 > > > > root (hd0,2,a) > > > >

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 17:09, jobse wrote: > Dear List, > When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. > sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* > change it to 1) > I'd rather not set the sticky bit on mount/umount if I mustn't. > > suggestions? > /j

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > title FreeBSD 5.2.1 > > root (hd0,2,a) > > kernel /boot/loader > > Sorry, this should be (hd0,1,a) ! The first slice (windows) is (hd0,0) > and the second is (hd0,1), and you want the root-partition within that > (hd0,1,a). >

Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
Happy 4th! okay, now that's out of the way. I am bored with freebsds' boot loader and want to install Grub from the ports collection. My question is: When grub installs, will it find my partitions and set everything up for me? So, when I reboot grub is working. Here is my hard drive setup -

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 10:20, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of > > July all as well! > > > > I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:32, epilogue wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:21:19 -0400 > Bruce Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:50, epilogue wrote: > > > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:40:08 -0400 > > > Bruce Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:50, epilogue wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:40:08 -0400 > Bruce Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:46:04 -0700 > > > Dan Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:46:04 -0700 > Dan Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:03:37 -0400, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:04:47 -0400 > > > Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: tar problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:23, Roop Nanuwa wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:36:44 -0400, Bruce Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting > > this error when trying to create a new tar file. > >

tar problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting this error when trying to create a new tar file. Solisix/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -c Solisix/ tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now What i

Re: Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:55, epilogue wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:54:31 -0400 > Bruce Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:34, Mike Hogsett wrote: > > > > When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. > > > > &g

Re: portupgrade fails on every port, undefined method 'each' for nil:NilClass

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
Did you both upgrade 'portupgrade' and then the problem started? I'm running portupgrade rev.1.225 with no problems. On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:22, Joey Mingrone wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > You're not alone. I'm seeing the same problem on my FreeBSD systems. > > J

Re: Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:34, Mike Hogsett wrote: > > When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera > > ELF binary type "0" not known. > > ELF binary type "0" not known. > > /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera: 1: Syntax erro

pkg_deinstall problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
hello, I ran the #pkg_deinstall -vrR then I reboot and root no longer had a password, and my only user 'flipnode' was no longer a user. Also, it seemed to delete the main .cshrc file. Also, it seemed to delete or overwrite my /etc/fstab file. Basically, I was trying to remove xfce-4 and everyt

Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Hunter
When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera ELF binary type "0" not known. ELF binary type "0" not known. /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected what does that mean? What should I do? Bruce ___

Seti@Home Installation error

2004-06-30 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install the [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the ports collection: When I run #portupgrade -N astro/setiahome/ I get this error ===> Installing for compat4x-i386-5.2.1 ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Checking if misc/co

Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-06-30 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello, When I install the Gnome port, it installs Mozilla 1.6 as default. I guess Epiphany 1.2.6 uses it. I have a few questions: 1) How do I get Epiphany to not use Mozilla and what performance hit will I take for doing this, if any? 2) If Epiphany doesn't use mozilla, then what does it use?

Converting from wma file to mp3 or other

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, What is a good program/port to convert wma files to mp3? Any ideas? Thanks all, Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Trying to install Flash... BUT

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 12:09, Douglas Korinke wrote: > S, I am on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with FBSD 4.9 running KDE 3.1.4 > and attempting to get a Flash plugin working.. > > So I goto the HowTo at KDE's site at: > http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php > > and follow the dir

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 19:44, Mark Terribile wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem with spontaneous restarts. This isn't a new problem, > but I've done the obvious things and the problem hasn't gone away. I > was thinking of asking on -hackers, but I'm trying here first. > > The system is a 4.8

Re-arranging disk slice allocation

2004-06-25 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hey all, I have a headless server running and when I first setup the system I messed up the disk slice allocations. I would like to know how it is possible to take allocations from one and give it to another? > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 508M57M 4

Application commands without having to restart

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you first install an application. The command isn't available to the system until after a reboot. How do I make the system aware? Refresh the co

NFS Port

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hi all, I am able to connect to my NFS system like so mount 192.168.1.14:/home/NFSave /mnt/coreserver I want to connect from outside my network, like when I'm at school. What port(s) does NFS run off. I have to do port forwarding on my Router/Firewall. Thanks so much Bruce

Netscape not working

2004-06-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, When I try and install any of the netscape ports I get an error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /usr/ports/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -N www/netscape7 * Your choices are saved. You must run the "make" command again to * complete the build. Ignore the "Error code 1" below. *** Error cod

Buildworld and turning of debugging to speed up the system

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
Currently I am running 5.2.1 I am doing a buildworld, buildkernel,installkernel, installworld Whatever you want to call it. I read something about turning off debugging in the current release and how it will help to speed up my system. How the heck would I go about doing this? Does it have to do

Re: Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
u use this command with portupgrade so it just updates them instead of just showing me. Just do it dang it... just do it! ;o) Bruce.. On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 03:26, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 12:03 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: > > This is off topic, I was wondering if there is

Boot GUI / Boot data and process / Fragmentation

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
This is off topic, I was wondering if there is a pretty little gui that will run when booting. Kinda like windows, lindows, and even Redhat Fedora has one; which can be switched back and forth. Basically, so I don't have to see the text scrolling down and just see a loader with %. Maybe in the port

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-07 Thread Bruce Hunter
t; /var/run/dmesg.boot > > which is the boot output from the most recent boot. > > You can also see it by issuing the command > dmesg > but the display that this one shows can get over written as the system > does other log messages. > > Hope this helps > mjt >

Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-07 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? Also, what should I do when I shutdown my system incorrectly and boot up again? Last questions! I promise. Is there a file th

WineTools Error

2004-06-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
I installed winetools from FreeBSD ports collection 1.25a It worked fine. I was having problems setting up wine and winetools solved my issues. I ran wine to install adobe photoshop #wine setup.exe then wine crashed at 80% of install of ps. I couldn't get shutdown wines windows, so I had to rebo

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 01:40, Jay Moore wrote: > This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... > > I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have mozilla installed (don't > really want it), and would like to preview my html in Konqueror. > > What is the corre

FreeBSD / Gnome Performance Tuning

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hey everyone, I have noticed that my system isn't as fast as the windows gui is. Probably has to do with Gnome and GTK 2.0 issues. Is there anything I can do, to increase system wide performance? Either harddrive access time, or gui performance when running multiple apps? - Bruce - __

PHP IDE instead of Bluefish

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have recently gotten rid of window and now only run FBSD. I am a programmer of many kinds. I program in PHP and was wondering what is a good PHP IDE? Maybe something in the ports collection. I use anjuta for my C, and C++ Development. Any comments would be great. -Bruce- ___

Re: Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
7 data > 170 14:25.74 - 64799 - - > > If I changed the startsector to 0, I saw the root FS and some data but > no folders. I had to use -s 14660. > > So the solution for me was: > root:/# mount_cd9660 -v -s 14660 /dev/acd0 /mnt > > Hope this he

Re: Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-04 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 02:07, Luke Kearney wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 02:03:29 -0400 > Bruce Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 01:52, Jorge Mario G. wrote: > > > check for /dev/acd0 > > > anyway do it the easy way: &g

Re: Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-04 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 01:52, Jorge Mario G. wrote: > check for /dev/acd0 > anyway do it the easy way: > #mount /cdrom > or trya acd0a > > > Jorge > i tried #mount /cdrom and #mount /dev/acd0 nothing worked i get this error cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument Any other ideas? Bruce __

Problems mounting my cdrom drive

2004-06-04 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am having problems mounting my cdrom drive. i have also run the command mount_cd9660, and this is the result [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom/ mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument this is with the mount command [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount -v -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom/ cd9660

Re: Portupgrade -N for gimp-devel : install help

2004-06-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:03, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:50 pm, Bruce Hunter wrote: > > I am trying to install graphics/gimp-devel > > I have never had an error before with the portupgrade -N command > > This is my error: > > > > [EMAIL PROTEC

Portupgrade -N for gimp-devel : install help

2004-06-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install graphics/gimp-devel I have never had an error before with the portupgrade -N command This is my error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -N graphics/gimp-devel/ make: don't know how to make all-depends-list. Stop ** Invalid package name: graphics/gimp-devel: : Not in due form: -

Apache 2 / PHP Installation

2004-05-14 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hi all, I installed Apache 2 from the ports collection. Does apache2 come with php support? Probably not, but not sure. I want to install php on the system. I'm not sure what port I need to install?? All the pre recks.. are for 1.* versions of Apache. What's the deal? Thanks so much, Bruce

ProFTPd installation / configuration help needed

2004-05-14 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have installed ProFTPd from the ports collection on a FBSD 5.2.1 system. The only problem is, it doesn't start up. I know I have to set / change the ftp line in the /etc/inetd.conf i also have setup a user account on the system called ftp and the group ftp. Any help would be great Here is the

Transfering Files

2004-05-13 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system is my local webserver where I do my testing before transfering to another se

Port Install Error

2004-05-13 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install 'Portupgrade' using the ports collection What does this mean? and how do I solve the problem [EMAIL PROTECTED] make ===> Vulnerability check disabled ===> Extracting for portupgrade-20040325_1 >> Checksum OK for pkgtools-20040208.tar.bz2. >> Checksum OK for pkgtools-2004020

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:09 PM: I am pinging b/c I am testing. I am trying to install a port. When a port installs, it downloads the required files. Whenever I try, I get an error b/c it can't download any of the files needed for the port. This happens wit

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote: Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM: Brad Tarver wrote: Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf for your defaultrouter entry. my defaultrouter entry is set to my router ip, any other ideas? hmmm. what are

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 09:02 PM: Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM: I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me to login at root. I am able to

Re: instillation problem

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:02:10 +0800 "Jeremy Saville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I'm installing freebsd on a i386 machine, using the iso image off linuxiso.org Once I configure my mouse and keyboard (ps/2 mouse, microsoft natural keyboard) the text goes completely wonky

Re: SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Brad Tarver wrote: Bruce Hunter wrote on 05/12/04 08:41 PM: I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can not ping outside my

SSH Help / Installing ports / Internet

2004-05-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have setup a headless system. I connect to the system from another machine using a ssh client. I have set the headless machine to allow me to login at root. I am able to login and edit files , except I can not ping outside my network or install ports, b/c it won't allow it to access the inter

Connecting to a headless system

2004-05-11 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 using the headless install method. My problem is this. I can't get the login prompt when connecting using cu -l /dev/cuaa0, after the install /reboot. I did setup ssh, but I can't connect using ssh and root. I did not setup another account, so I have to get in and

Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have setup a headless machine via a null modem cable. Instalation went fine. The only problem now, is connecting to the machine after the install. When I #cu -l /dev/cuaao/ I see the boot process, but it gets to the date prompt but doesn't show the login: i did install ssh, but won't let me lo