Re: Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines]

2004-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Skylar Thompson wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. If that's all that's keeping fro

Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines]

2004-12-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on > a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built > without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. > If that's all that's keeping from starting from

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500, RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might > just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into > problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my > old system. Besides

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:27:18 -0500 RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > and maybe a few other

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0500, RL wrote: > Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > and maybe a few other things, so I r

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-22 Thread RL
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:54:32 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RL wrote: > > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might > > just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into > > problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-22 Thread RL
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RL wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>RL wrote: > >> > >>>Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > >>>420SC Server

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-22 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
RL wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RL wrote: Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a hard time getting things to work on my current machine such

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-22 Thread RL
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RL wrote: > > Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > > 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > > hard time getting things to work on my current machine s