make buildworld errors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trying to buildworld but it keeps failing. I finally deleted /usr/src and recopyed from a cd then cvsup using standard-supfile. Tried limiting how much ram freebsd uses and only using one stick of ram. All attempts have failed at the same place. Woul

Re: make buildworld errors

On 01/01/2011 9:54 ?.?., Mike wrote: > > Trying to buildworld but it keeps failing. I finally deleted /usr/src > and recopyed from a cd then cvsup using standard-supfile. Tried > limiting how much ram freebsd uses and only using one stick of ram. > All attempts have failed at the same place. Would

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:15:45 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Anybody know if there is a utility that transforms the /root/.cshrc > into a bash RC file?After decades, I'm giving up on the csh stuff. > Need something simpler. As far as I know, there is no automatic converter for csh ->

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

I've read about 30% of your email and just have to sack out. It is just past 04:00 and my eyes are starting to glue shut. And hey, once them shut, I'll bang into stuff before I can get to my bed!! More coming tomooor-- Hm. Since this *is* tomorrow

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

> > > Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the > > first setting. I'm not sure how bash handles this. > man bash and search for PROMPTING, everything you can pass PS1 is there # is \# the command number of this command I don't see how a '%' is handled tho, what does it do

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19" C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable not H.D.M.I. I reconfi

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

> > Yes - true enough. Was thinking partition table and typed 'mbr'. > > It's all good, I got the cmd right in the end, but alas, it helped me not! > > Mmm .. it's not clear from Chris' original message exactly what he did. > > I clarified that in a subsequent reply with considerably more detail

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:56:24 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > > Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the > > > first setting. I'm not sure how bash handles this. > > > > man bash and search for PROMPTING, everything you can pass PS1 is there > > # is \# the command numb

Re: ZFS

Spam? 2010/12/6 > Dear Sir/Madam, > > Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it > to. > For more information on our business please click on the following link: > Click here for our website > We look forward to your continued business in

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On 01/01/2011 10:25, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "HWP" ModelName"HP 2010" HorizSync24.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 Option"DPMS" EndSection For a start, remove or comm

csup and build question

At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the only rebuilding steps required are to rebuild and install the kernel? Or is it possible that world could require a rebuild to take advantage of some of th

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: > And, where are those commented out option lines > in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: "man xorg.conf". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: csup and build question

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: > > If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the > only rebuilding steps required are to rebuild and install the kernel? Or > is it possible

Re: csup and build question

Quoth Polytropon on Saturday, 01 January 2011: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden > wrote: > > At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: > > > > If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the > > only rebuilding steps required a

Re: csup and build question

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:23:11 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Polytropon on Saturday, 01 January 2011: > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden > > wrote: > > > At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: > > > > > > If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys

Re: csup and build question

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > If programs or other components of the world do have to > be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then > I conclude that world also has to be compiled. In this > regards, it means a change of the kernel, and if the > kernel did chang

Re: ZFS

Probably. I think I've got like 10 of these on and off. -Modulok- On 1/1/11, Gabor Illo wrote: > Spam? > > 2010/12/6 > >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it >> to. >> For more information on our business please click on the following l

Re: ZFS

On 1 January 2011 13:08, Gabor Illo wrote: > Spam? > > 2010/12/6 > >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it >> to. >> For more information on our business please click on the following link: >> Click here for our website

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 11:01:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:15:45 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Anybody know if there is a utility that transforms the /root/.cshrc > > into a bash RC file?After decades, I'm giving up on the csh stuff. > > Need something simpler.

Re: csup and build question

Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 > Polytropon wrote: > > If programs or other components of the world do have to > > be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then > > I conclude that world also has to be compiled. In this > > regards, it means a change of the kernel,

broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 articles, none of which seem even vaguely related. Does anyone

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

On Sat Jan 1 11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html > > That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended > article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 arti

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, wrote: > The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html > > That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended > article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 articles, > n

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, wrote: > >> The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: >> >> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html >> >> That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended >> ar

Re: csup and build question

Quoth per...@pluto.rain.com on Saturday, 01 January 2011: > Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 > > Polytropon wrote: > > > If programs or other components of the world do have to > > > be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then > > > I conclude that world also has

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On 01/01/2011 12:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: "man xorg.conf". :-) From 'man xorg.conf'"VIDEOADAPTOR SECTION

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

Alexander Best wrote: > On Sat Jan 1 11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: > > > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html > > > > That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended > > article ... > > this

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, wrote: > >> The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: > >> > >> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html > >> > >> That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended > >> article ... > >> Does

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > I have a 2GB MicroSD card that I am going to toss 8.2BETA1 on, hopefully > later today and see where that gets me. > 2GB MicroSD card was a bust, use a 60GB hard-drive and wrote the image to that, it booted it just fine, but the install fai

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Okay, closer. Thank You. I commented out the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines restarted the X session and the screen appeared to fill more but I still had a black bar to the left at 1600x900. Going to Computer -> System Settings -> Computer Admin

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > Well, what's commonly called 'the partition table' is bytes 0x1be-1ff of > the MBR, so I was confused by your writing to sector 1 rather than 0, > but have a new theory to test, seeing Chris isn't making any progress; > this maybe a victim of th

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell > wrote: [snip] > > > > > > > > > Try zeroing out the mbr: > > > > > > > > > > Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: > > > > > > > > > > sysctl ker

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned, > > specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the > > boot blocks. As noted a