RE: heyu and fbsd6.0

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
/dev/ttyd0 doesen't come active unless DTR and DSR are up, maybe you want /dev/cuaa0? Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis H. >Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 8:21 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: heyu and fbsd6.0 > > >An

about freebsd partition problem

2006-06-12 Thread t s
Dear all, i have some partition questions in freebsd installation! my harddisk(40G FAT32) : c:\ (primary 10G windows XP root) d:\ (logical 5G with data) e:\ (logical 5G with data) f:\ (logical 10G with data) g:\ (logical 10G empty) so i want to release 500MB from "d:\" for the second primary par

hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not software. I'm more interested in the performance from raid then the redundancy.

Re: restoring deleted files

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Denny White wrote: I hate it & it's aggravating, but it's saved me several times from another restore, but in .bashrc I have: alias rm='rm -i' This is good advice. You can also alias mv and cp similarly, and also set noclobber (tcsh) or its equivalent so that > etc do not overwrite existing

Re: is there an ies4linux port for FreeBSD?

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jim Stapleton wrote: I cant find it in www, net or devel, and the downloadable install script fails horribly. error message [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:08:52 (0) ~/ies4linux-2.0beta6 > ./ies4linux source: not found [etc] First, try running the script as

RE: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton >Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 10:46 PM >To: Ted Unangst >Cc: Hámorszky Balázs; misc@openbsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: wikipedia article > > >On 6/12/

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Mipam
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: [SNIP] > * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD, OpenBSD was a fork of NetBSD. Eeh? I believe NetBSD was there half a year before FreeBSD. Bye, Mipam. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

RE: natd not starting on boot-up SOLVED

2006-06-12 Thread Roger Merritt
I just cvsup'ed the source and rebuilt world, and now natd starts on boot-up just fine. I don't have any idea what changed, although I did notice that when I ran mergemaster there was new text in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, which I installed without examining too closely. The thing is, I looked it o

core dumps after kldloading snd_emu10kx.ko

2006-06-12 Thread ghostcorps
Hi Guys I have to just say first, I'm pretty new to this, please be patient :) Firstly: $ uname -a FreeBSD ** 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I recently added emu10kx ( http://www.freebsd.org/c

Experience with Adaptec AACU driver on FreeBSD 5.4

2006-06-12 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, I noticed Adaptec now appears to have finally released drivers for FreeBSD 5.x : http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/downloads/unix/freebsd?productId=SAS-4800&dn=Adaptec+Serial+Attached+SCSI+RAID+4800SAS Any comments on compatibility, issues or performance with these drivers ? I'm tempted to try

Re: about freebsd partition problem

2006-06-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Dear all, > i have some partition questions in freebsd installation! > > my harddisk(40G FAT32) : > c:\ (primary 10G windows XP root) > d:\ (logical 5G with data) > e:\ (logical 5G with data) > f:\ (logical 10G with data) > g:\ (logical 10G empty) > > so i want to release 500MB from "d:\" fo

Re: Compiler error during compilation of liboil

2006-06-12 Thread michael johnson
On 6/12/06, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, During a regular portupgrade I ran into a problem during compiling liboil: During compilation of composite_sse_2pix.c in /usr/ports/devel/liboil/work/liboil-0.3.9/liboil/sse I get a gcc compiler error. For the exact details see attached f

seeking advice on building jdk15

2006-06-12 Thread Peter
Hi gang. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and want to run OpenOffice but I discovered I needed Java first. I updated my port tree and followed the port instructions to manually download the ingredients from Sun and store them in /usr/ports/distfiles: bsd-jdk15-patches-3.tar.bz2 jdk-1_5_0-bin-scsl.

qmail and hostnames

2006-06-12 Thread insane
Hello. I have one problem: I dont know how to correctly configure qmail's hostnames, about primary domain for mail server (uclmd.net). I have router, whos got internal (192.168.99.1) and external/ global (193.93.193.193) IP. On that router i have port 25 forwarded to the main server wit

setting log_arp_movements to 0 at boot time

2006-06-12 Thread Al
My message log gets flooded by arp movement notices, but I'm able to turn off these messages using the following command: sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0 I read somewhere that I can add this line in my /boot/loader.conf file to keep it set at boot time: net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_

Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread JASON HOWARD
Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will BSD

Re: restoring deleted files

2006-06-12 Thread Eric Schuele
On 06/08/06 18:36, Phil Sweeney wrote: Can you tell me a simple way of retrieving recently deleted files? Regards Phil Sweeney Superior Pest Management P.O Box 68 www.superiorpest.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] H.R.M.C NSW 2310 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread Eric
JASON HOWARD wrote: > Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg > system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron > processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And > also,I have many applications,will they be compati

RE: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread Tamouh H.
Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Dale Rahn
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:18:55PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >* IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD > > that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd > release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. >

mtree(8): bug/compatibility with flags

2006-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
hi, played around with mtree to save/restore directory/file permissions/owner/flags on demand. current "save" method is: mtree -c -i -n -x -p $h_dir -k type,flags,mode,uid,gid,link >$h_file; current "restore" method is: mtree -U -e -n -q -x -p $h_dir -k type,flags,mode,uid,gid,link <$h_file; s

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not software. I'm more in

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread devilbabe5105
why do all of these e-mails show up in my inboxxx please lemme know -Original Message- From: JASON HOWARD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Im new to FreeBSD Im very new to this and have some q

Re: FBSD 6.0 and ppp

2006-06-12 Thread jhall
> Hello jhall! > > Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:03:35PM - you wrote: > >> OK. I added the -unit to ppplogin with no luck. >> >> ppplogin now contains >> >> #!/bin/sh >> /usr/sbin/ppp -direct -untit1 incoming >^ a typo? > And I don't have the ``incoming'' (the name of the

Re: seeking advice on building jdk15

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi gang. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and want to run OpenOffice but I discovered I needed Java first. I updated my port tree and followed the port instructions to manually download the ingredients from Sun and store them in /usr/ports/distfiles:

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:52:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > why do all of these e-mails show up in my inboxxx > please lemme know Where should they show up? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Monday 12 June 2006 12:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > why do all of these e-mails show up in my inboxxx > please lemme know You have subscribed your self to the mailing list... > [SNIP] Best regards... -- . 0 . | Daniel Molina Wegener . . 0 | dmw at unete dot cl 0 0

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-12 Thread dgmm
On Monday 12 June 2006 01:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Also, MS has been playing a cat and mouse game with the Wine people >   for quite some time locking the Wine folks out by restricting > operating systems versions and software installations (DX9, IE, etc),   > which has-for the most part

Re: Compiler error during compilation of liboil

2006-06-12 Thread dgmm
On Monday 12 June 2006 15:06, michael johnson wrote: > On 6/12/06, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > During a regular portupgrade I ran into a problem during compiling > > liboil: During compilation of composite_sse_2pix.c in > > /usr/ports/devel/liboil/work/liboil-0.3.9/libo

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and no

Re: Compiler error during compilation of liboil

2006-06-12 Thread dgmm
On Monday 12 June 2006 18:24, dgmm wrote: > On Monday 12 June 2006 15:06, michael johnson wrote: > > On 6/12/06, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > During a regular portupgrade I ran into a problem during compiling > > > liboil: During compilation of composite_sse_2pix.c

Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a "freebsd-devel" list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? I'm looking here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Thanks, -Jim ___

serversidefilter script problem

2006-06-12 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, According to http://perlstalker.amigo.net/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=serversidefilter%20on%20FreeBSD to compile the serversidefilter(squirremail) script I must have installed the ports: /usr/ports/security/krb5 /usr/ports/security/heimdal /usr/ports/security/pam_krb5 I've installed krb5 withou

Re: Freeze

2006-06-12 Thread youshi10
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, NgD Vulto wrote: 2006/6/11, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Jun 11, 2006, at 3:07 PM, NgD Vulto wrote: > I just hate when it happens. > > I am here on tty1, then I go to tty2...3...and It's ok, but if I keep > changing the tty, sometimes when I change the tty it fr

Re: Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Sunday 11 June 2006 10:46, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a > "freebsd-devel" list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. > What am I missing here? Try freebsd-hackers and freebsd-current, also freebsd-bugs should be intereting. > [SNIP]

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) >> I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. >> >> I'm looking for suggestions for a goo

Re: Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 11, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a "freebsd-devel" list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? There are lots of FreeBSD mailing lists oriented towards developers, but they tend to be focus

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread pete wright
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) >> I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. >> >> I'm looking for suggestions for a goo

Re: gmirror problem

2006-06-12 Thread dayton
Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not providing enough information. I have figured it out. thanks again. dayton > "Brian" == Brian A Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> plenty of simply things. Anyway, is a mis-configuration a likely or >> possible cause of this behavior.

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread youshi10
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Mipam wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: [SNIP] * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD, OpenBSD was a fork of NetBSD. Eeh? I believe NetBSD was there half a year before FreeBSD. Bye, Mipam. From what I remember, I thought it was 386BSD split off into Fre

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:23:06AM -0400, Dale Rahn wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:18:55PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >* IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD > > > > that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:48:07PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > Does it really matter? This whole discussion seems like a deliberate > effort to dredge up old rivalries and create bad feeling. It is all > ancient, ancient history now. I doubt this was the original intention, but it looks

Re: Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:46 AM -0400 6/11/06, Jim Stapleton wrote: I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a "freebsd-devel" list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? I'm looking here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOUR

Re: setting log_arp_movements to 0 at boot time

2006-06-12 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Al wrote: > My message log gets flooded by arp movement notices, but I'm able to > turn off these messages using the following command: > sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0 > > I read somewhere that I can add this line in my /boot/loader.conf file > to keep it set at boot time: > net.l

Re: seeking advice on building jdk15

2006-06-12 Thread Peter
I succeeded in building jdk14 instead. My manual downloads were: j2sdk-1_4_2_11-linux-i586.bin j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip bsd-jdk14-patches-8.tar.gz The port instructions added an extra step. It had me mount a simulated linux proc filesystem: linprocfs on /usr/compat/lin

Re: seeking advice on building jdk15

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I succeeded in building jdk14 instead. My manual downloads were: j2sdk-1_4_2_11-linux-i586.bin j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip bsd-jdk14-patches-8.tar.gz The port instructions added an extra step. It had me mount a simulated linux

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Paul Pathiakis
If you go SATA RAID, I've had good luck and good speed with RocketRaid 1820 cards. P. On Monday 12 June 2006 14:29, pete wright wrote: > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> H

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread Paul Pathiakis
Jason, 15000 freeware applications. Read about the ports collection. Please read the manual. It is an excellent piece of work. Paul On Monday 12 June 2006 11:10, JASON HOWARD wrote: > Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg > system to replace windows Xp o

FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share it: Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May. Six hosting companies share the top spot this month, with INetU, Hostway, IPower, New York Internet, Pair Networks andTiscali all sharing the top spot as the most reliable hosting company site

Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

2006-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 , Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote: >> Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text? I want >> the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other >> special effects. Just ascii text I c

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Danial Thom
Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) --- Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share > it: > > Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in > May. > > Six hosting companies share the top spot this > month, with INetU, Hostway, > IPower, New York Internet, Pair

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:36:24PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) At this point FreeBSD 6.x has had way more intensive stress testing and QA by the project than 4.x did. It is stable. Kris pgp3Ibgo80nS3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 12 June 2006 13:36, Danial Thom wrote: > Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) > > --- Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share > > it: > > > > Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in > > May. > > > > Six hosting companies share the top spot

Re: General Non-critical: FreeBSD media releases

2006-06-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Pavel Duda wrote: Justin T. Wert wrote: To Whom It May Concern: Are there any plans to release a DVD version of all 3 of your media CDs combined? I tried searching the web on how to combine the media into one DVD, but have failed to find a site that has a working method. My pe

RE: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread John Nemeth
On Nov 1, 6:11pm, "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote: } } Prior to the release of the 80386 the Intel processors didn't have } memory protection which was a requirement of any processor running } the BSD kernel. This is not entirely true. The 80286 had memory protection. However, its memory protecti

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Bob Beck
* Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 15:07]: > On 11/06/06, Hamorszky Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems > > Whilst there, what about another im

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Matthias Kilian
Could this discussion please be moved to the Wikipedia discussion pages? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 Lf

2006-06-12 Thread John Eve
Hello folks, I'm having a problem configuring an ATI Radeon mobility 9000 in a family member laptop (recently converted). It's working ok with the radeon driver and drm but im not able to set the resolution to what he used to use under windows. The current resolution is 1024x768 but the resolu

Re: Help redirect port

2006-06-12 Thread FBSD_UG
On 08 jun 2006, at 16:49, Vasili S. wrote: I try make redirect port by natd # natd -n ed1 -redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.100:80 8080 no work Not see traffic by tcpdump, Not see listen port (netstat or sockstat) why ? interfaces ~~~ ed1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet A.B.C.D netmask 0xf

Samba: very strange truncation error

2006-06-12 Thread Postalbunny
i've come across this same problem with any windows machine connecting to my samba machine. The windows machiens are looking for services... and will cause that log output on every initial connection. You can either delete this key in window registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Win

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Danial Thom
--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:36:24PM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > > Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) > > At this point FreeBSD 6.x has had way more > intensive stress testing > and QA by the project than 4.x did. It is > stable. > > Kris > I'm not saying

Your message to Oawa.members awaits moderator approval

2006-06-12 Thread oawa . members-admin
Your mail to 'Oawa.members' with the subject Returned mail: see transcript for details Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Posting to a restricted list by sender requires approval Either the message will get posted to the list

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 12 June 2006 16:06, Danial Thom wrote: > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:36:24PM -0700, > > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) > > > > At this point FreeBSD 6.x has had way more > > intensive stress testing > > and QA by the pr

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 12, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Danial Thom wrote: --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:36:24PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) At this point FreeBSD 6.x has had way more intensive stress testing and QA by the project than 4.x did. It is

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Sergio Lenzi
> While trying to introduce FreeBSD into a Micro$oft only house, I've heard the > following many times: > > "Never heard of FreeBSD" and "Show me some documentation and stats". > > Regardless of the actual version, the stats are accurate for those providers. > They reflect overall uptime and

Re: ext2fs and NFS

2006-06-12 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:39:08PM +, Bob Hepple wrote: > I need to export an ext2fs file system mounted@/mnt/guest - it's a > removable IDE disc that I carry to & from my linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "mount" shows: > > /dev/ad2s1 on /mnt/guest (ext2fs, local) > > So, I put an entry into /etc

RE: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thor >Lancelot Simon >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:48 AM >To: Dale Rahn >Cc: misc@openbsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: wikipedia article > > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:27:33PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > What was the bit size of the CPU's originally used to write UNIX in Bell > Labs? Rather large. You can get all the details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core. -- Thor Lancelot Simon

RE: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:06 PM >To: Kris Kennaway >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Beech Rintoul >Subject: Re: FreeBSD is #1 > > > > >--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On

[Fwd: formatting tools for Docbook]

2006-06-12 Thread Chuck Robey
This is a delayed reposting of something that I might have sent to an initially poorly chosen list; if it still gets no reponse in another day, I might try again, if I can figure out a better FreeBSD list to choose. My predilection for FreeBSD is strong, I would really dislike to be forced t

RE: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Thor Lancelot Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:35 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: misc@openbsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: wikipedia article > > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:27:33PM -0700, Ted

Creating a disklabel for NetBSD slice

2006-06-12 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.1 and NetBSD 3.0 on my machine. I can make disklabel entries (in NetBSD) for the FreeBSD partitions, and that way mount them in NetBSD. Just a matter of giving the absolute offset values of the partitions. But I cant find any straight forward way of mounting NetBSD partitions

installing openoffice by package

2006-06-12 Thread Peter
I tried unsuccessfully to build OpenOffice 2.0 on my 5.4 box. Never had enoudh space in /usr... I decided to install by package: # pkg_add -r openoffice.org It tried to install version 1.1.5... Anyway, trying to start it gives errors: # openoffice.org-1.1.5 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared ob