Re: Where is packages-6.2-release?

2008-03-15 Thread Jonathan Wallace
I think lack of disk space is a poor excuse for an organization distributing an OS. This isn't the 90's. 500GB drives are $99.00 at newegg and that's enough to hold the OS, ports, and packages for 50 releases (at least). Surely the decision not to keep older releases where pkg_add() can find t

Smbfs hang when connection broken

2006-02-25 Thread Jonathan Wallace
Processes that access a share from a remote machine hang if the connection goes away. I'm using FBSD V5.4 and mount_smbfs. This can be replicated by the following sequence: 1) Share a file system from a remote Windows machine. 2) Mount the share using mount_smbfs 3) Start a tar() command to cop

Re: mkisofs on 5.4

2005-12-03 Thread Jonathan Wallace
Thanks for responding. >>Do you see the problem if you only use mkisofs? Yes. I just tried it and got the same problem with an iso image using mkisofs. This is starting to look like a timezone issue. The date/time difference between the date displayed via ISO and the date displayed via FFS (sa

growisofs problem

2005-01-14 Thread Jonathan Wallace
Hello, I've got a curious problem using growisofs on FBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0. I'm using the following hardware (from dmesg): acd0: DVDR at ata1-slave PIO4 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Using the cd0 device (through atapicam) I can write to /dev/cd0 without any errors, but I cannot mount

headless indicator light

2004-12-20 Thread Jonathan Wallace
I'm looking for a way to build an indicator light that shows when the OS is booted and ready on a headless system. Is there a way to do this and do you know of any documentation that explains how to do something like this? Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai