On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote:
> How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and
> I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly.
>
> Here's my df -h readout:
>
> $ df -h
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s3a 1008M
Greetings, all.
Can anyone help with this issue?
Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon
Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text
from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing
and email conversing etc become possible for the visual
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:10 pm, David Newall wrote:
> Brian Astill wrote:
> > program runs on Windows 2000/XP only. Why would anyone in their
> > right mind NOT port a program as sensible as this to a SECURE OS?
>
> I should say that Windows XP is not intrinsically insecure.
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:19 am, Romana Branden wrote:> Brian Astill
wrote:
> > Interesting. The "spiel" on the Nuance website gave me that
> > impression, too. However the Royal Society for the Blind in
> > Adelaide tried v 7 (current is 8) and were VERY unimpress
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> >That advice may be OK for some things, but it doesn't make sense
> >to make yourself compile such behemoths as Openoffice and etc
> >unless you are in to pain and suffering for your entertainment.
> >
>
> Heh, that's true. Though let's be honest
FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the "nv"
driver.
When you are given choices in the "helper" programs for XFree86 setup,
just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that "nv"
driver.
You could also write that "nv" manually into your XF86Config file, if
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:39 am, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:20:40 +0200, P. B. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How can I do that?
> > explore2fs is for ext2/3 only.
> >
> > I want to copy files from my FreeBSD filesystem (UFS2, I think?)
> > using Windows.
>
> http://us1.samba.org
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:47 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Another option...an external hard disk formatted FAT so both could
> see it?
Fat limit is 2G. VFAT would be better - unless you run WinNT, in which
case you are stuck with either multiple 2G FAT partitions on that
external disk or NTFS wh
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:35 pm, Peter E. Antonov wrote:
> http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ - FFS File System Driver for Windows
> It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions
> on Windows 2000/XP/2003.
Anyone know whether FFS works on other Windoze flavours?
(I'm going to try i
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> FreeBSD is badly in need of a PR/Design/Marketing department.
> ___
It also needs people who realise that multiple cross-posting is
deprecated.
Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy a
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:13 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Ah. A crucial bit of information that was missing from the original
> post. Standard practice in that case is to create a partition on the
> system with a filesystem that both OSes can read and write. Between
> Windows and FreeBSD that boils
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:13 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> See newfs_msdos(8), fsck_msdosfs(8), mount_msdosfs(8), msdosfs(5)
I had a go with Mr Google and found
www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
Which allowed me to download "fat32.exe" which allegedly will allow NT
to read/write but not crea
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:33 am, borg wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Today is the second time I get this message on my
> console:
>
> ad0: Timeout - write_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> LBA=18576259
I had this same problem when trying to install extra packages from Disk
4 of the 5.3 Release. It also k
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:02 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > So ... if your flavour of Windoze can read FAT32, a FAT32 partition
> > is a very good idea because all the commonly-available unices can
> > read it as well.
> > If it can't ... the options aren't so good. I'd think ext2 would
> > be the on
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> FreeBSD is badly in need of a PR/Design/Marketing department.
> ___
It also needs people who realise that multiple cross-posting is
deprecated.
Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy a
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:28 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are:
>
> - Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle
> button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button
> either heavy or easy to confuse wit
Stephan Assmus wrote:
So, I'm stuck. I actually installed FreeBSD to check out the Gnome
and KDE desktop and use Gimp. I don't know in which direction to
investigate further. Thanks for any and all help.
Have you tried the text config in /stand/sysinstall? It does work -
very well. That wo
Kent Stewart wrote:
On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
So I got into the habit of completely removing Portupgrade and
everything associated with it including all the Ruby stuff, and
reinstalling them all, in order to upgrade. (it was the only way that
worked for me)
Scott Mitchell wrote:
Hi all,
I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out
of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway,
portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for
(unsurprisingly) the KDE2 --> KDE3 upgrade.
That upgrade
Derrick Ryalls wrote:
My silly system ... Using 4.6 RELEASE, 1.1G Athlon ABit KT7A VIA
chipset - running FVCool permanently in idle mode to maintain
CPU cool
temperature. The really silly bit is ...
I don't switch off every day, but I have noticed that, on restart,
loading sometimes waits
Thanks for the help - there is a fix in there somewhere :-)
Saw this in cvs-commit:
Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_5_0)
sys/fs/fifofsfifo_vnops.c
Log:
MFC: Put a one-second timeout (And a XXX: comment) on a tsleep which
under certain not understood circumstances hangs send
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I determine that the modem is on /dev/cuaa4 by trying all ports up to
that one. I did this:
ppp ON localhost> set device /dev/cuaa0
ppp ON localhost> set speed 115200
ppp ON localhost> term
ppp ON localhsot> set device /dev/cuaa1
ppp ON locahlost> set speed 115200
ppp O
Mark wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management
Try the ports/sysutils/fvcool port ---
http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/
Using it has c
I was very sad to see this thread die, just as (for me) it was getting
interesting.
My setup and experience is almost identical to Nicola's.
bra@BAPhD ~ ifconfig -au
rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::200:21ff:fed5:c670
Stacey Roberts wrote:
It appears that rl1 is not configured here. Two things of note:
1] Have you actually configured rl1?
2] If so, what IP addr configurations is supposed to have?
The reasoning behind my questions is the fact that you mentioned that
*both* rl0 & rl1 are connected to "the same
Stacey Roberts and Bill Moran wrote stuff:
Wot I dun:
root@BAPhD ~ #ifconfig rl1 inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
root@BAPhD ~ #ifconfig -a
rl1: flags=8843 mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::205:1cff:fe01:9622%rl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
ether 00:05
Stacey Roberts wrote:
Here you go.., You have given the same IP Addr / netmasks information to
both rl0 & rl1 - this is not right.
In your earlier message, you mentioned that rl0 is connected to a cable
modem and rl1 is connected to a lan. rl0 should have a different IP
address.., indeed a diffe
Stacey Roberts wrote:
Just one more question.
How do I list the second card in /etc/hosts?
atm I have
127.0.0.1 localhost.gihon.org.au
localhost
192.168.1.100 BAPhD.gihon.org.au
BAPhD
172.
I want to move my FBSD partitions to one larger HD. Shouldn't be hard.
;-)
The system recognises my new HD at ad2
ad0: 8063MB [16383/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
ad1: 8056MB [16368/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66
ad2: 19470MB [39560/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100
acd0: CD-RW at ata1-slave PIO4
B
My sincere apologies, fellow followers of the Beastie!
I managed to slice ad2 using /stand/sysinstall.
However
disklabel -r shows:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 819200 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 93 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*)
b: 2017089 37859328 swap # (Cyl. 37558*- 39559*)
c: 398
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:14, Scott Robbins wrote:
> The handbook section is at
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
>
Thanks.
I have had a slight look and downloaded. Seems it will answer my question.
Post I was about to make, follows.
Made my first (and successful -Yeah!) attempt to copy a couple of CDs today.
Working from the console (ie no X or KDE to interfere),
using
dd if=/dev/acd0c of=file.iso bs=2048
the dreaded "microuptime going backwards" began in earnest.
As the source CD had only a small dta footprint, I let it run
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 06:11, Pam Wampler wrote:
> Is there a utility that allows the use of cdrw on an atapi cdrw drive other
> than
> mkisofs & burncd? -- When I use burncd, I am not able to later append to
> the cdrw.
Man burncd:
-mclose disk in multisession mode (otherwise disk is cl
On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:15, mufassa bendover wrote :
For goodness sake - have you tried simply
"mount /cdrom"?
That will work provided you have the right settings in /etc/fstab , and you
almost certainly already have.
The only comment I would make in your favour is that some advice fro
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:12, Michael Collette wrote:
> Sean O'Neill wrote:
> > I just noticed that the KDE2 ports are no longer in the ports tree.
> >
> > What the best way to upgrade to KDE3 from ports ? Do I need to delete
> > KDE2 first and then install KDE3 ?
>
> This is one of those to
I did a silly thing - doh!
I was working froom the console as su-root, then wanted to do some gui things
so withour thinking I entered startx and KDE has never forgiven me
I rescued one or two essential files where ownership had been changed from
myself-wheel to root-wheel, but this was
On Monday 07 October 2002 00:24, Tim Kellers wrote:
> Make sure that your (not root's) .kde directory (in your home directory)
> is owned by you. Also check /tmp and make sure the ownership of all the
> kde/X related files in there is correct. (kde-username, mcop-username,
> etc) and, finally, ma
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:12, Michael Collette wrote:
> pkg_delete -rf qt-*
Then install KDE3, of course :-)
Thought I might help someone with a follow-up.
I have an Athlon 1.1G / ABIT KT7a /320M RAM system running FBSD 4.6.
After installing KDE3 I ran into "tables full" and "too many open
Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others.
Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client?
I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer
Kmail message files to the console client.
--
Regards,
Brian
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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:20, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Andy Knapp wrote:
>
> No, on our servers I disabled APM by default because it triggered trouble
> in the past on several SMP machines. And why APM on every-time-up servers?
> No, definitely no APM facilities in kernel o
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 04:51 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > The author also has FVCool, a CPU cooling utility. It
> > reduces my CPU temp by 14 or 15 degrees C (from 46 to
> > 32 or 31). Again, it's native and easy to install.
> > (BTW, yes I do have CPU_SUSP_HLT in my kernel options.
> > This util
Running "fvcool -e -i" works just fine for me in keeping my Athlon CPU cool,
BUT the output from TOP, shows:
last pid: 2890; load averages: 1.10, 1.07, 1.00
up 1+02:45:27 23:20:20
66 processes: 2 running, 64 sleeping
CPU states: 1.2% user, 98.4% nice, 0.4%
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:35 pm, you wrote:
> Let me guess - you have an AMD processor on a KX133 / KT133 motherboard.
Not a bad guess 1.1G Athlon ABit KT7A mobo using the VIA KT133 chip.
> This is normal for FVCool - it sits in an idle loop (basically just getting
> the CPU to spin it's wheels, bu
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (msg sent twice as I did not get feeback)
> hi, I have an Epson Stylus Color 880 which I want to run through
> apsfilter (or any other server) for lp but:
>
> # /usr/ports/print/pips-sc880 : make
> ===> pips-sc880-2.1 is forbidden: Momentall
bryan cassidy wrote:
OK. I have tried unsuscribing to this mailing list and
re-subscribing to it and then sending e-mails to it to
test but my e-mails never make it. I know this e-mail
will make it to the list but this account is not the
one im having problems with. I'm having problems with
my PO
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:45 pm, Wayne Swart wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must
> be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must
> have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients.
bu (in ports) looks good
--
Re
I have installed (from the ports) ghostscript-afpl-7.04_5 and apsfilter-7.2.2
echo test | lpr still does not talk to my printer.
/var/spool/lpd/lp/log still says "apsfilter: driver script 'epsonc' not yet
available" even though I KNOW "epsonc" is part of my newly-installed
ghostscript.
The dire
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:57, you wrote:
> On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 11:00:02 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:18, you wrote:
> >> On Thursday, 11 July 2002 at 19:32:23 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> >>> I have installed (from the ports
Greetings and thanks for your helpful siggestions thus far.
After make install ghostscript, make install apsfilter, and find /usr | grep
epson (inter alia)
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-afpl/work/gs7.04/gimp-print-4.2.1/src/cups/epson.c
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-afpl/work/gs7.04/gimp-print-4.2
Looked at printcap, which says:
EpsonSQ850:\
:sh:\
:ml=0:\
:mx=0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/EpsonSQ850:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:lpd_bounce=true:\
:if=/usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper:
Note the absence of "epsonc".
usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper does NOT
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:48, you wrote:
> >Does this further information allow you to help me further to get FBSD to
> >PRINT .
>
> Well it shows that your printcap isnt setup to use apsfilter.
> Brian. What happens when you run the setup for apsfilter? Does it let
> you select the epsonc driver?
Ben wrote:
> Well it shows that your printcap isnt setup to use apsfilter.
> Brian. What happens when you run the setup for apsfilter? Does it let
> you select the epsonc driver?
> /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP
>
> This script should setup printcap correctly. Does it?
I think the method has ch
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:28, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> This all looks like a bug in the apsfilter port to me.
Me too! :-) But my impression is based on ignorance.
> Can we go back to the beginning and ask why you're
> using apsfilter and not the standard base system components?
Ignoran
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:02:55 pm Bob Middaugh wrote:
> > I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but
> > I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful
> > argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be.
Simple, Use a live CD. RoFreesbie, Knoppix, Ubuntu, and
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 07:36 pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> We just got an HP DeskJet 6122 for printing Unix docs. It comes with
> a duplexing unit, which works when driven by the supplied Windows
> driver.
>
> However, I'd really rather have this thing connected to my FreeBSD
> workstation.
On Mon, 19 May 2003 02:52 pm, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > > Sure there is. Show us what fdisk and disklabel say.
referring to my being unable to access ad0s2 from FBSD.
herewith:
As you can see, fdisk can see the extended partition, but not the
logical partition inside it. (tho' windoze is happy)
#fd
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:42 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > > > > Sure there is [a solution]. Show us what fdisk and disklabel
> > > > > say.
> >
> > referring to my being unable to access ad0s2 from FBSD.
> > The drive is partitioned DOS-DOS-FBSD.
> > If I set up the partitions Primary1-Primary2-Primary
I needed to replace my printer recently, so took the advice of
linuxprinting.org to choose the HP 6122 Deskjet (within my budget,
interfaces "perfectly", etc.)
Both my systems are dual boot, so I took the HP-supplied CD to set up
the printer and print a test page on my two WinNT4 systems. Took
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended
> > partition ?
>
> The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4 primary
> partitions.
Typo! should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three primary
partition
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:13 am, Brett Glass wrote:
> KDE's docs claim that it has an "Add printer"
> wizard, but this utility seems to be absent from the FreeBSD port..
Don't be too excited. I installed my HP Deskjet 6122 using this system
- seemed to be flawless - but the printer still won't prin
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > > > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended
> > > > partition ?
> > >
&g
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:51 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:18, Brian Astill wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:16 pm, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 11:50 PM 7/6/2003, Brian Astill wrote:
> >That shouldn't be an issue. Utilities-KJettool is designed for HP
> >Laserjets. Have you tried that?
>
> Can't. It won't run on anything but Linux.
Brett - that si
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:29 pm, Brett Glass wrote:
> The owners of the machine installed FreeBSD 4.8, with KDE as supplied
> as a FreeBSD package on the install disk. This package installs the
> KDE utlities package as a dependency. However, the utilities package
> does not include the "KJettool" u
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Jim Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW
> > drive and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They
> > give a message
> >
> > ATA identify retries exceeded
> >
> > du
I guess there is some small incompatibility between my system and FBSD.
Whatever .. the effect was that as I kept CVSupdating from FBSD 4.7
through 4.10 I gradually lost usability as first one program then
another, failed.
I decided to wait for 5.3 before using FBSD again.
In the meantime I ha
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:12 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:40:27PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> > Brian Astill wrote:
> > >I guess there is some small incompatibility between my system and
> > > FBSD. Whatever .. the effect was that as I kept CVSupdating
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:58 am, vizion communication wrote:
> For the second time I have had mails to me stopped due to
> automati claissification of mails which have temproarily not
> been accepted by a mail server to mailserver malfunction at
> an ISP. This is the only freebsd list for which this
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 01:12 am, Eric Yellin wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.
> Something happened that cause all data on all partitions to be wiped.
> I'd like help on the following:
Try googling for "Autopsy Forensic Browser"
--
Regards,
Brian
My ISP now stores "all" the FBSD ports and sources
#portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make
//ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing):
malformed entry: make: don't know how to make
//ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing)
mak
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:36 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> > My ISP now stores "all" the FBSD ports and sources
> >
> > #portsdb -Uu
> > Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 02:14 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> There are two errors there. Probably what you intended was for
> MASTER_SITE_BACKUP to be set to ftp://ftp.filearena.net/..., but
> comments are not ignored when doing line continuations, so the
> variable is set to the literal next line, and th
Before a fairly major system upgrade I have done "portsdb -Uu" and
"pkgdb -F". Next step, upgrade portupgrade, which entails doing smart
things to also painlessly upgrade to ruby 1.8. BUT ..
I must have misunderstood what pkgdb requires when it asks about stale
dependencies because at the pen
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote:
> All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages,
> a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and
> a recent kernel and graphics support. Compared to Ubuntu that
> would be a lot more value for a lot less effort. If
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