Hi,
Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu
utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is
there some way I can get higher cpu usage?
/usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried installing
openoffice.org-2 with make -j 2 but it fa
Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
A total noob here with FreeBSD, but am liking it so far. I went to run
portupgrade for the first time and encountered quite a few problems. I
have googled around and found some of my answers, but it's been slow
going. For exampl
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu
utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is
there some way I can get higher cpu usage?
/usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried installing
openoffic
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
My Dear Friend,
You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above
except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD)
works flawlessly on FreeBSD including watching YouTube (just use
youtube-dl to snap the video and play with VL
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
My Dear Friend,
You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above
except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD)
works flawlessly on FreeBSD including watching YouTube (just use
youtube-dl to snap
Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
My Dear Friend,
You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above
except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD)
works flawlessly on
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Any video posted on Youtube will work for youtube-dl . It will snap the
file in .flv format which can be player only with VLC and MPlayer.
Nothing else. Clive is capable of snapping videos from Google video as
well and has an additional capabilities to converting
.flv
Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Trix Farrar wrote:
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a
FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple,
but:
mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
mount
Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote:
Hi,
have you tried this before:
#mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb
I hadn't initially, but I have now:
# mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument
And dmesg:
umass0: Western Digital External H
Hi,
I recently removed sysutils/cdrtools and installed cdrtools-devel
instead because cdrecord in cdrtools doesn't have prodvd included and
cdrtools-devel does (helped by a recent post from the author pointing
out that cdrecord from cdrtools is quite old).
Anyway, I just csupped my ports and
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
Hi,
I'm getting an "Invalid address" error trying to run Windows apps
under WINE. "wineconsole cmd" works OK though, and so does winefile.
The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with
WINE, eg.
C:\Program Files\Winamp>winamp.exe
wine: could not load L
Robert Huff wrote:
RW writes:
> Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have
> been done on a system? I did a "portupgrade -arR" recently and want to
> know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't
> run that portupgrade under "script"...)
pk
Jules Gilbert wrote:
now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse.
when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the
mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine.
So...
If you are running hald you probably need
option "AutoAddDe
Hi all
Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton
eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ?
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064
Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported
under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to as
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said:
Hi all
Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton
eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ?
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm
Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Philip Jocks wrote:
BTW: is everyone else getting messages from the list twice, once with
the list's signature, once without?
Normal procedure on the FreeBSD mailing lists is to respond to the
message and CC the list (or vice versa) so replies are vis
hi,
I just noticed this at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html
On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.
The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed
only if their basename matches the *.sh shell file name pat
Henry Olyer wrote:
I need more information to make this work.
help, please. And thank you!
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Jules Gilbert wrote:
now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working
mouse.
when I am in screen mode (normal, --
Jamie Griffin wrote:
On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter
are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2
(7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at
/usr/ports/UPDATIN
Hi
Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in
square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for
setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different
'folders'
I couldn't see anything in my freebsd questions list account sett
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Hi, Chris--
On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name
in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for
setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into
Hi
I am trying to build x11/lxde-meta in a 8.0RC2 tinderbox. lxpanel fails
because it depends on linux-alsa-lib. linux-alsa-lib fails because
eco# make
===> linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3_2 bsd.linux-rpm.mk test failed: default
package building at OSVERSION>=800076 was changed to linux-f10 ports,
plea
Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:41:19 +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I have WITHOUT_ALSA=true in lxpanel's options and I have even changed
the line in lxpanel/Makefile:
eco# diff Makefile Makefile.original
31c31
< WITH_ALSA=off
---
WITH_ALSA=yes
Maybe that'
vuthecuong wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under
the boot of the install dvd I get this
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
and then 120, 180 etc.
Anyone know whats wrong?
thanks
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/
Tim Judd wrote:
Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can
disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer)
Install CD/DVDs?
more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup
due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of this on
David Horn wrote:
Would it be an option to have sbp disabled by default in the install
CD's? Those without the problem can put sbp_load in loader.conf, those
with the problem will have to kldload it later but at least they will be
able to install.
As per svn and cvs:
r199112 | kensmith | 2009
Warren Block wrote:
As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is
that a couple GUI network managers are around:
sysutils/desktopbsd-tools includes a wireless network configurator
according to its pkg-descr, haven't used myself though.
Chris
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Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote:
also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since
you say they only need a few programs, you could go with
just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a
light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) we
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and
could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering
what's required and what's not to get a desktop going.
d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern
these days.
You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are
working you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if
ena
Hi all,
My motherboard has onboard nvidia GeForce 8300 graphics rated up to
1920x1080 (1080p). It has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Are there any
issues using a 1920x1080 monitor with HDMI like LG electronics W2361V?
Eg would this mode need special drivers? Or should it all just work?
http://u
Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
at first I'm lookings for a "cots" (commericial, off-the-shelf)
solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks.
I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for
around a
Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote:
I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got
stuck at
the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0.
I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and
burned
it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. Af
Uwe Laverenz wrote:
Am 08.01.2010 16:43, schrieb Anselm Strauss:
chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list
whether the
following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not. Maybe
I have an Asus "M4A785TD-M EVO" running with RELENG_8 and it works fine.
There i
Al Plant wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with
SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites.
How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other
programs?
I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:03:18 +
Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Al Plant wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with
SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites.
How can I de-install thi
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with
SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites.
How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other
programs?
I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something?
Than
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote:
Hi list,
In order to tighten up my fbsd installation I decided to try out
pkg_cutleaves. I wasn't really too worried, as I figured I could always
run portupgrade if I removed one package too many - and so I did it
appears. Portupgrade doesn't bring anything back thou
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 15:26:42 Edward Ruggeri wrote:
A lot of people would reply that they'd like to configure the ports
themselves before launching the installation, leading people to
suggest scripts such as:
#!/bin/sh
plist=`pkg_version -ovl'<' |awk '{ print $1 }'`
for porg in $
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 22:10:41 Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Do something like [sorry not exact syntax as I don't have access to a
freebsd machine]:
foreach i (`cat portlist`)
foreach? cd /usr/ports/$i && make config
You should 'make config-conditional' to
I normally use this server (aka ftp.plig.net) but it doesn't seem to be
mirroring FreeBSD anymore. Is it coming back?
Also UK is not in the list of countries at
http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php.
thanks
Chris
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Kelly Jones wrote:
I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request.
I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents,
lists, etc.
Is there a Unix tool that does this?
I know SharePoint has an "API", which basically spoofs the GET/POST
calls that your b
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kelly Jones wrote:
I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request.
I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents,
lists, etc.
Is there
Hi
What's the difference between packages made by these two methods?
Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory
# make package-recursive
resulted in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8389 29 May 21:14
/usr/ports/packages/All/youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz
whereas from wit
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Chris
If you want to use some/many/most of the core util
Jim Stapleton wrote:
My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are
typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors
still bring notebooks as they provide quick & easy access to many
things, but there is no internet. For credit cards, many use their
cell phone
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
What's the difference between packages made by these two methods?
Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory
# make package-recursive
result
Well I think it's a space hopper
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=space%20hopper&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
(and Mary is not my aunt)
Chris
Beastie fan
Camilo Reyes wrote:
It was started by a question posted about wanting help for a ce
Jim Stapleton wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim Stapleton wrote:
My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are
typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors
still bring notebooks as they p
Hi,
does anyone know what is going on here?
this is an external usb 250gb hard disk mounted on /mnt using ntfs-3g.
The hard disk is less than a year old and not heavily used. I've only
just started using it as an external drive, it was installed in a
computer until then.
%mount
/dev/ad4s1a
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:01:36AM -0300, sergio lenzi wrote:
Well...
Here I am in a project of notebooks for schools
machines with 13" 120gb of disk turion 64...
All of them running FreeBSD 7.0 it is about 7000 notebooks
in the first year...
With a total of 35000
About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror
ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be
ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source
for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared very recently.
Does anyone know what ha
On 06/02/2012 22:33, Mark Blackman wrote:
On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk
mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be
ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file
source for
On 05/03/2012 16:53, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 05/03/2012 16:42, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Thank you for the pointer. I do find it a bit overkill to setup jails
and such, just to build a few ports. I was thinking more along the line of;
cd /usr/ports/"random port"
make "it for i386 even if we are b
On 20/03/2012 04:58, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 March 2012 04:17, Sabine Baer wrote:
Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask.
I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not
remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't
install it
On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote:
Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is
currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0?
Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free
for other uses.
Linksys WPC54G works with malo dri
On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote:
Chris Whitehouse writes:
On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote:
Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is
currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0?
Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep
hi,
I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of
installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a
domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name.
What do you do if you don't have your own domain?
I've never supplied a domain na
On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of
installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a
domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is d
On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote:
Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network
profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look
around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more
recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireles
On 08/05/2012 20:09, Carmel wrote:
I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content
was not view-able.
Example:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
There is a video there that displ
On 08/05/2012 15:06, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Anyway, this was easier than I expected.
I removed a lot of dust from the fan
and the heat sink gills. I also replaced
the "thermal material".
I prop my mine up off the desk to get better airflow to the fan intake
which is on the underside. The f
c400# uname -a
FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC
2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Following the handbook:
c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching m
On 03/06/2012 13:00, RW wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
c400# uname -a
FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25
UTC 2012
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Following the handbook:
c400# freebsd-update
On 12/06/2012 04:53, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:36:00 -0600, Arlen McIntyre wrote:
How can I get FreeBSD on
my other partition and have a dual OS system without the boot installation?
Qustion part one:
Prepare a USB stick with the FreeBSD "memstick edition".
You'll find instruct
Sorry sent to OP only...
On 21/04/2011 11:21, Michael wrote:
Hello.
I'm having stability issues on my desktop system running FreeBSD 8.2-R
on amd64. It happens quite often that some application (say web browser)
goes nuts and totally locks-up my system.
When it happens it looks like the applic
On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennan wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed?
Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two
rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things.
Any thoughts on brand o
On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry wrote:
Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found
"portmanager" to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case,
if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory,
update yo
Hi, does anyone know if the GL811e chipset is supported in 8.2R? It's
supposed to be common in external usb hard disk and optical disk drives.
It's not mentioned in the hardware notes and google didn't turn up much.
thanks
Chris
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On 25/05/2011 18:45, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi Ramu cc questions@
I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do
that?? I have CRUX installed before.
I wrote some notes here:
http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html
Hope it may help you& or similar en
Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good Day;
It appears that I cannot build openoffice.org-3 from ports due to an
error similar to
this;
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/OpenOffice-3-2-fails-to-build-on-FreeBSD-8-0-STABLE-amd64-td3873768.html
1 module(s):
nss
need(s) *to* be rebuilt
On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
Hi all,
I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5
checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at
the end stand for ? It looks like it stan
On 10/07/2011 14:02, Jerry wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:35:28 -0400
b. f. articulated:
This is the tag that you would use on src collections to update your
base system sources (usually in /usr/src) to 8-STABLE. You would use
RELENG_8_2 for the 8.2-STABLE security branch, RELENG_8_2_RELEASE fo
Hi,
before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell
me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first
time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD.
I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get
text printed using
On 03/08/2011 18:58, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul
tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is
the first time I have tried to get anything
On 03/08/2011 18:59, Robert Bonomi wrote:
So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get
ghostscript to know about this printer?
I don't think there is a 'generic' "PCL" driver, but one of the 'HP
laserjet' drivers _should_ do the job. Pick one thqt corresponds to
a 'more-o
On 03/08/2011 19:18, Matthias Apitz wrote:
# cat |lpr -Plp
To the OP: You won the todays "Useless Use of Cat Award" :-)
The same would do:
lpr -Plp< ps-file
or
lpr -Plp ps-file
:-)
matthias
Well I'm not a guru so perhaps I can be excused :-)
Still thanks
On 05/08/2011 01:58, Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote:
There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor.
The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer
directly.
ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is supposed
Hi,
I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied
and said;
"I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer supported. This was the last
version in
the Perl branch, since we moved to Python there have been already 10 more
releases. So please try the latest version (0.52)."
Ar
On 20/09/2011 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Sht
On 30/10/2011 10:01, Peter wrote:
Hi,
I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since
computers will need to be used for teaching
Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way:
1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware
2. Easily restore system images to the
On 05/11/2011 19:47, Chris wrote:
I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to
USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names
which have spaces, similar to the following:
./foo bar/some name.tar.gz
./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz
On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with:
Still waiting after {60,..,300} seconds for xpt_config.
What's a body to do? I've tried disabling ACPI, going single,
safe mode. All on my ASUS M4A785TD-EVO mobo with some amd64 x4.
Any additi
DEFEND PRIVACY
Glad to hear it. I hope you won't mind that I've cc'd the list.
cheers
Chris
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with:
Still waiting after {60,..,300
On 05/12/2011 01:42, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, masayoshi wrote:
When I was looking for sudo, I noticed a weired thing.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sudo&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9&arch=default&format=html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?qu
On 05/12/2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I thought the odd bit was
ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH
] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ]
| [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu
username
On 04/01/2012 00:57, Jeffrey McFadden wrote:
um, well, yeah, but it's a laptop. :/ And I bought it before FreeBSD ever
crossed my mind.
Replacing the Realtek with a supported wireless card may be as easy as
undoing a plate on the bottom of the machine, unclipping the old one and
clipping i
On 04/01/2012 16:21, Chad Perrin wrote:
As someone who has actually done laptop technician work, professionally,
You don't by any chance know where there is a service manual for OP's
laptop in pdf format (or html)? I did a bit of googling but didn't find
it. It's a Toshiba U505-S2950. Or mayb
On 30/01/2012 17:41, Mike. wrote:
I installed 9.0 on my test ThinkPad. During the boot-up process, I see
the following message after a pause in the boot-up process:
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
xpt_config
A quick spin through google showed the message occurre
Hello
I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a
combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off
but the light stays red.
The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless
on. I found some sysctls that control it:
d
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hello
I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a
combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but
the light stays red.
The light is
On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse
wrote:
Hello
I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a
On 12/02/2013 21:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently
I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1).
But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive
containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and wit
On 21/03/2013 19:54, Fbsd8 wrote:
Back around 4.x there was a File that had all the available kernel
compile options with their meanings as comments. On 9.1 I don't see that
file any more. Where can I find that file that lists all the kernel
compile options? The 9.1 NOTES file is not that file.
On 02/05/2013 16:02, Steven wrote:
Hello,
I posted this once already, but I wasn't subscribed at the time and
I don't think it got posted to the list. Hopefully this isn't a
dupe.
I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE on a family member's laptop, a
Toshiba Satellite 5100. Said member was using a L
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:38:34 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Since I updated to 9.1-RELEASE my boot process seems to stall for a
while. Booting in verbose mode shows messages like these ones:
Opening device da0 -> 6 (repeated like 30 times or so)
Opening device da1 -> 6 (repeated like 30 time
Pietro Cerutti wrote:
On 12/13/05, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A way to use your current machine for both operating systems without
dual booting is to install a second hard disk, install FreeBSD and
select which to boot from in the bios. It's a slight faff changin
Frank Staals wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Nicolas,
I forget to say that I'm using Gnome, does k3b work with it?
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Nicolas Blais wrote:
|On December 26, 2005 01:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|> Hi all,
|>
|> Can you point me to some good GUI to CD/DVD burni
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote:
I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4.
The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to
only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC
(the latest and greatest) can't deal with anythin
Hi
My ISP Telewest/Blueyonder hosts some FreeBSD stuff at
ftp.blueyonder.co.uk but they are usually a few weeks behind releases.
Would it be of interest to get them up to speed as a mirror and/or cvsup
mirror? If so how to go about it? I would be happy to approach them.
Thanks
Chris
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