Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread FBSD UG
Hey Rick, I've managed to setup an gPXE boot where a diskless client booted OpenSUSE over AoE from a FreeBSD server. Not exactly what you want, yet the setup is mostly the same for all OS's... My main source of info came from this site: http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos greets Arno Beekman

AoE vblade reporting size 0

2012-11-04 Thread FBSD UG
Hello, I'm trying to export a disk on FreeBSD 9.0-R4 over AoE (ATA over Ethernet) using vblade from ports. I run this as root: # vblade 1 1 em0 /dev/ada1 and the system returns this: ioctl returned -1 0 bytes pid 2629: e1.1, 0 sectors O_RDWR The drive nicely shows up on OSX and Linux a

Re: af_atalk.c error FBSD 9.0Rp4

2012-08-13 Thread FBSD UG
aaah nevermind... sigh... just for the archive, I'm learning C and had setenv GCC_EXEC_PREFIX "c-program" setenv C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include which were preventing certain things to compile... and then 'Computer says "no"' gr arno On 1

af_atalk.c error FBSD 9.0Rp4

2012-08-10 Thread FBSD UG
hello! I'm trying to buildworld on my FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 server after successfully installing the kernel, but keep running into the same error no matter what I do. I've been googling for days now and must either be looking in the wrong directions or it's not there. The error I get is the fol

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread FBSD UG
doesn't VLC do that too? On 11 mrt 2012, at 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e > excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. > > here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or > radio stre

Re: net/netatalk afpd causes abort on amd64?

2011-08-08 Thread FBSD UG
Heya, I just struggled with this the last few days and found that the problem lies in zeroconf. I didn't get any error message at all. Adding the flag -nozeroconf to the share the afpd.conf file made it work for me. I use avahi now to make the share available on the network. greets Arno Bee

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-27 Thread FBSD UG
On 27 jul 2010, at 11:10, Bulk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:20:48PM -0600, Chad Perrin typed: >> >> You're a self-righteous git, and probably personally offended by the >> appearance of an attack on Christianity (which is never what was >> intended, nor even what happened, at least in the

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread FBSD UG
A bit of reading shows that ZFS, if it's stable enough, has some really great features that would be nice on such a large pile o' drives. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is if you need to use hardwar

Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD

2009-06-11 Thread FBSD UG
On 11 jun 2009, at 03:19, patrick wrote: Oh, I don't know about 10.4. Looks easy enough in 10.5: http://www.macresearch.org/nfs-exports-leopard It didn't change in the way it's described on that site from 10.4 to 10.5 the other, more OSX way of doing it using NetInfo changed though. NetIn

Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD

2009-06-10 Thread FBSD UG
On 10 jun 2009, at 21:09, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:52:06PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: Chris Maness wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have

Re: Streaming server / YouTube

2009-05-25 Thread FBSD UG
On 25 mei 2009, at 19:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have some short movies (a la YouTube) that I would like to show as video streams. Presenting them by download is messing up my bandwidth (...). ^ Can someone tell me if

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-03 Thread FBSD UG
On 2 mrt 2009, at 20:22, Bernt Hansson wrote: FBSD UG skrev: You're not buying the software, you buy a license to use it on one Apple computer. Mostly semantics, if I name my computer "APPLE" Then it's "legal" to install. Crap, if I buy it I can install it

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread FBSD UG
On 1 mrt 2009, at 07:37, Charles Oppermann wrote: That depends on where you are domiciled. Under certain scenarios, simply open the box, or installing the software constitutes acceptance of the EULA. Yes I'm aware of that, but that kind of agreement isn't valid in Sweden. That would b

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread FBSD UG
On 28 feb 2009, at 17:26, Bernt Hansson wrote: Sean Cavanaugh said the following on 2009-02-28 16:25: - From: "Bernt Hansson" Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:32 AM To: "FBSD UG" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subje

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-02-28 Thread FBSD UG
On 27 feb 2009, at 13:39, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 14:45 +0300, z...@zaa.pp.ru escreveu: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-14 Thread FBSD UG
SO - please just stop ALL NTG topics here. this group really lacks moderator. not someone that will remove posts he considers "lame" but all that is off topic. Off topic=not about FreeBSD OS. I'm amazed that you seem to think that making FreeBSD do what one wants it to do isn't a FreeBSD

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-14 Thread FBSD UG
On 12 dec 2008, at 21:54, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:35:59 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: They do this to hide their hardware faults that way - that's the true reason they do this. With new hardware produced every year it MUST be buggy and certainly there are thousand

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-14 Thread FBSD UG
On 12 dec 2008, at 20:32, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I disagree. I believe, rather, that support for closed hardware specs isn't *as* important -- but is still at least somewhat important. My reservation to the 3D driver thing is it is setting a very dangerous precedent if the solution inv

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread FBSD UG
On 11 dec 2008, at 12:28, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good. in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a bit for windows is not a problem

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread FBSD UG
On 17 nov 2008, at 01:02, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;) I cannot begin to express how disappointed I am that a potential user's question turned into a flamewar. actually it's NOT a flamewar. it's my WARNING to all current FreeBSD c

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread FBSD UG
Great, very useful! Thanks a lot! gr Arno On 16 nov 2008, at 17:04, Brad Davis wrote: Dear FreeBSD users, The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve a