Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:54:32AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Unga > > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:14 PM > > To: Steve Lake > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Looking f

Re: small office backup hardware advice

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:38:48AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Sdavtaker writes: > Im working in a small office (4 PC with 80GB HD each and a > "server" with a 200GB HD). > We were working with no backups at all until now, we was just > replicating some critical data in more than 1 PC al

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:18:14AM -0400, Steve Lake wrote: > > >> > -Original Message- > >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Unga > >> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:14 PM > >> > To: Steve Lake > >> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> > Subject: R

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:57:00PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 15:58:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I agree completely, it's what got me over to BSD ! > > > > I am a little confused. I just see a sphere with "horns" on it that reminds > me of the BSD daemon's head, only

Re: logo

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:44:35PM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 18:48:56 Frank Shute wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:57:00PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > > On Monday 02 June 2008 15:58:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I agree completely, it's what got me over to BSD

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:54:50PM +1000, Fraser Tweedale wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:45:57AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > [snip] > > The issue started several years ago when one of the core > > developers started agitating for a different graphic. Apparently > > he had been asked

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:18:26PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeffrey > > Goldberg > > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:34 PM > > To: Jerry McAll

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:15:44PM -0400, Schiz0 wrote: > Hey, > > I recently ordered a FreeBSD server from a hosting company. This would > be the first time I do not have physical access to a FreeBSD system. > I'm looking for any hints/tricks/suggestions for managing and > upgrading it safely (a

Re: Lead-Gen Help

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Phil Dunn wrote: > > Hi Wilko, > > Do you know who handles creative production for marketing documents at > The FreeBSD Project? > > We help companies drive sales with lead-generation pieces like case > studies, brochures and white papers. > > Our ra

Re: appropriate 64 bit version?

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:13:16PM -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > > > The version is called amd64 because AMD published their spec first. (FYI) > > > > > the thing I have actually wondered is why i386 and amd64 are used as the > naming convention instead of x86 and x86-64 or x64 Just beca

Re: Flashplugin

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:03:50AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500 > "Sam Fourman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > use Firefox for Windows and use wine, then install the windows Flash 9 > > plugin > > People choosing FreeBSD shouldn't be "forced" to run win

Re: Flashplugin

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 notebooks in

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:34:20AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: > So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit? You don't want to diddle the shell. Use the correct UNIX utilities such as - for, xargs or find - in this case as have been suggested by other responders. That is t

Re: Removal of content from the mailing list

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:03:46AM +0800, yt wrote: > Who should I talk to about removing a thread from the mailing list? As has been mentioned many times in the lists - it's a lost cause. These lists are archived, mirrored and otherwise duplicated hundreds or even thousands of times around the

Re: One or Four?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:05:23PM -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: > Hiya, > > A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as > opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. > > It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap > as suc

Re: One or Four?

> > > Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. > > Why not add a selection to the installer, something like > this: > > Partition scheme > > > [ ] all in one + swap > Create one partition containing all subtrees >

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have > said: > > >Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default > >with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_ > >default style for sep

Re: One or Four?

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > > Hiya, > [snip] > > We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as > > one wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We > > want to kno

Re: One or Four?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. O

Re: One or Four?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:55:01AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or > > > > requesting. > > > > > > You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. > > > They do not think of recovery until it actually ha

Re: One or Four?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 02:22:12AM -0500, Stephen Cook wrote: > On 2/18/2012 8:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>I don't see that this plan adds any significant complication or confusion. > >>Nor do

Re: One or Four?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:38:14PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Reference: > > From: Daniel Staal > > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:10:57 -0500 > > Message-id: > > Daniel Staal wrote: > > --As of February 19, 2012 3:30:15 PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey is allege

Re: One or Four?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:14:35PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > I remember when & why the list was set up. > > > See src/ etc/motd > > > I don't see how this is so OT for a general questions list - regardless > > of verbiage about its charter. A general question was asked and > > many p

Re: /usr/home vs /home

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 06:39:00AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > > > > AHA. probably an 'RL-05', cousin to the better known "RK-05" > > I had a memory fault -- the RLs were the RL-01 and RL-02. > > > > > > 14" media, in a 'cartridge'. I -think- it was an 'SMD' interface > > > > 14" c

Re: Reading an unknown DAT Tape

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:17:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > This is a case of idle curiosity and not an urgent need > to recover a valuable backup. I found an old DAT tape and > attempted to read it on the very drive that probably once wrote > it and it appears to read the tape prope

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:37:15AM -0500, Jay West wrote: > Tony wrote... > --- > I'm a bit alarmed by the fact that none of the major low-cost Xen VPS-based > hosting providers in the modern web development > scene (Rackspace, > Linode, S

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 02:40:12PM +0200, Tony wrote: > Hello! > > As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate > identity. Since FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I believe it should have a > design that reflects this. A design that is so neutral and stripped of any >

AFS install

client is the biggest part, but still, do not need the server part hanging around if it would work happily that way) Thanks for any help, ////jerryJerry McAllisterjerr...@msu.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: AFS install

finding another file. ../rpc/types.h:77:27: error: rpc/netconfig.h: No such file or directory I will send along another message with the build script attached. > Hi Jerry, > > On Mon, 14 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I installed AMD64 FreeBSD 8.

Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. My new machine has two disk drives. Wind

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been searching through questions and forums for information > > on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7

Re: why I am upset

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 06:04:04AM -0500, Franci Nabalanci wrote: > My French and Italian is enough for me, dear Sir. There are not just > English on the world!! Speak whatever language you want. I don't support that part of a former post. > How do you know that I didn't contribute to the Free

Re: mail server

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:55:08AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > 11.06.2012 16:33, Bahaa Babekir ??: > > > I want to sent me configuration to build mail server step by step > > I'd suggest to begin with: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html Yes, read t

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:59:19AM -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: You need to put the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks. Use bootcfg. jerry > Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation, > I had one hard drive. I partitioned it with two s

Re: files need

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:53:37PM -0700, j wrote: > I am a newbie to linux and unix. I want to install freebsd 8.3 and > want to know what files I need to download. Go to: http://www.freebsd.org/ and study the handbook. It has complete sections on getting ISO files and doing the installati

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 02:27:05PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote: > >With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using > >the desired CLI tools. You don't go "Now I have to remember > >which command to format the disk", you just format the disk, > >which m

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:44:28AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >You don't. You wipe the FAT32 with fdisk and make a FreeBSD slice on it. > >Then you can bsdlabel it with one partition and newfs it. Or you can > > repeat 100 times more that you "have to" make fdisk and bsdlabel. you > don't

Re: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:15:30PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD > desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 > desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and > webrowsing seem to be about perfect

Re: How to install Tomcat 7

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:18:28PM +1030, Andreas Junius wrote: > Hi All, > > This is my first post to this list, so I hope I get it right. I'm new to > both Unix and freeBSD and I've been doing my first steps for three days > now. I was able to install Java and Tomcat 6, because these products

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a > distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word > processing, etc.). > > But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for m

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:23:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth William Brown on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: > > > > On 30/03/2011, at 07:15, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > >> So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? What desktop > > >> BSD distro is so easy to use that even Par

Re: gcc

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > > > When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. > > The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. > > > > Probably never, as GPL 3 code

Re: mount a dumpfile

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:08:15PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > Is it possible to mount a dump(8) dumpfile? restore(8) obviously knows > everything about the file structure, and restore -i is nearly a > read-only mount_dump already. I don't think so. It is a different structure. jerry

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:23:47PM +0200, Michael Grünewald wrote: > Dear FreeBSD users, > > > today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question: > where is the best place to install libraries of shell functions. > > I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place fo

Re: graphical representation of `du`

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:34:42PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2011/4/6 Peter Vereshagin : > > > > Again, why don't you guys just use perl to provide a graphical du? I believe > > perl is just present on every freebsd machine where graphical du is needed. > > > > Why on Earth would you use Perl wh

Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 06:56:53AM -0700, Stefan N wrote: > Hi Christer, > > As there are many parts of the source > code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), > which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That is a strange question. I guess the answer is 'Yes' It depends on what you

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > This is a minor problem but I use "more" to read Email messages > from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible > to start typing and create a log file of the message in which > ever mailbox directory one is readi

Re: hello

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:38:45PM +0200, Julian Fagir wrote: > Hi, > > > can you help me, i will freebsd 8.1 32bit downgraden to freebsd 7.1 or 7.2 > > as ? > I think you ask on one of the regional mailing lists in your mother tongue. > According to your errors (German, Dutch?), your language ha

Re: For My Edification

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to > shed some light on. > > Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to > understand a very experienced programmer

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:11:07PM -0700, Mike Seda wrote: > Hi All, > When will FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE be available? > > I remember reading that it would be ready in May 2011. I just wanted to > see if it was on schedule or not. I don't remember seeing that. Anyway, go to the FreeBSD Release Engi

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:48:55PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of May 3, 2011 5:33:23 PM -0400, Jerry McAllister is alleged to have > said: > > >I don't remember seeing that. > >Anyway, go to the FreeBSD Release Engineering web site for information. > &g

Re: Newbie Needing Help

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing > >> configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits > >> of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. > > > > It's not just for softwar

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > I've googled for over an hour. > > I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs > that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. > But if you are using suid it it should work; I don

Re: Skyip? question

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably > a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some > video glued on? I am sure MS will find a way to use it t

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > > > >>I've googled for over an hour. > >> > >>I'm not looking t

Re: free sco unix

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:28:24PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Robert Bonomi > wrote: > > I'ts _MUCH_ simpler, to just sign and date a copy of the work, and have a > > notary public 'witness' the signature. > > True. > > Without the service of a public registry

Re: new to os

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, scott mcclellan wrote: > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm > going through a midlife crisis). >   > Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate > back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past

Re: A quality operating system

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:47:04PM -0500, Evan Busch wrote: > Hi, > > I make decisions about hardware and software for those who work with me. > > Talking with my second in command this morning, we reached a quandary. > Ron is completely pro-Linux and pro-Windows, and against FreeBSD. > > What

Re: 9.0-RC1 Release?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:52:02AM -0500, Nathaniel Torbett wrote: > Hello, > > Distrowatch has you slated to release 9.0-RC1 on 8/24. I cannot find the > release for download. Is this delayed and is there a new release > date/schedule? Anyone, even Distrowatch, who posts a specific date for a

Re: Hi

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 02:09:30PM -0700, Spencer Thompson wrote: You have an interesting thing to start on and a worthwhile place to begin your exploration, but you will need to do some studying. It will be necessary to explore some things on the net. The Handbook is a good place to start. Th

Re: much to my surprise....

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:14:50PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 > > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Cc: > > Subject: much to my surprise > > > > > > guys, > > >

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 02:04:03PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I am looking into finally setting up a backup solution that's a little > more sophisticated than a bunch of DVD-RWs. I have two servers. I'd > like to make each a backup server for the other. I'm considering using > rsync. >

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On 09/23/11 14:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >Why would you interject NFS in the middle of it? jerry > There would be no middle. I would run rsyncd or nfsd, but not both. Ah, I get it. In that case, I think rsync

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: > Hi, Freebsd-questions. > > # df -h > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 2G206M1.6G11%/ > devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev > /dev/ad4s1e3.9G 13M

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 03:41:26PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 9/29/11 10:09 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: > > > >> Hi, Freebsd-questions. > >> > >> # df -h > >&

Re: can't find installed executables

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:09:40AM +0200, Jim jim wrote: Jim, First, just a politeness thing; please break your lines at about 72 character length. It helps in reading and responding to your questions. Most Email clients allow you to set a line length. > > Hallo, > I'm kind of new to FreeBS

Re: Three button mouse emulation

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:06:08AM -1000, Open Slate wrote: > A simple way to enable three button mouse emulation is to put > > mouse_flags=-3 > > in /etc/rc.conf. I cannot find this documented anywhere. Section 4.5 of the > faq mentions this feature and refers to the moused man page, where we a

Re: Make buildworld don't run

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 03:45:39PM -0300, Zantgo wrote: > I write "make buildworld", this is the answer: > > #make buildworld > make: don't know how to make buildworld. Stop > > PS: I use FreeBSD 9.0 RC1, and I try to follow current What user/permissions did you have? Which directory were you i

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 01:10:28AM -0300, Zantgo wrote: > Without wanting to erase all contents of / etc / rc.conf, by > running "echo" slim_enable = "YES" "> / etc / rc.conf". > Please help!. First, please learn to break your lines at about 70 characters. It makes it easier to reply appropria

Re: Problem with X

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:40:10PM -0300, Zantgo wrote: > on the console keyboard and mouse do work Did you run X config It is one of the steps in the Handbook You can fake a .Xauthority and get rid of the message by doing touch .Xauthority in your home directory (and in roots home) jer

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:55:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:28:57 -0300 > Mario Lobo articulated: > > > Aren't there enough laws already to protect copyright? > > Laws to protect copyrighted or patented goods certainly exist. > Unfortunately, they are poorly enforced. There i

Re: file system on 9.0

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:25:35AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): > > > I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different > > partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your > > /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 1

Re: Installing free bsd

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: > Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It > was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. > Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup. > Need support.. Is the

Re: Installing free bsd

burner utilities do it automatically with no choice. The burncd utility needs to have you specify it. jerry > > On 12/12/11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: > > > >> Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and u

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:16:11PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: Hi, I am not expert on all this, but can give a couple of impressions. > Hello, > > I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. Welcome to FreeBSD. It is a good system. > I've searched a lot in google, mailing list, for

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:01:47AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:46:54 -0600, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > >I would just like to add that is FreeBSD was so crappy open sour > >software, why does it run half the Internet? > > This must be a mistake. I was just assured this wee

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:47:52PM -0800, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: > Mainly to Jerry and Chad, but anyone contributing to the flame and OT fest, Note that there are more than one persons using the name Jerry. Where I might dip in to an argument a bit, especially if I see humor in it, I never flam

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:52:17AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:40:42 -0600, wrote: > > >On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0600 > >Mark Felder articulated: > > > >>Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if > >>you don't vote, > > > >Excuse me, but ar

Re: Mailing list recommend

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:59:06PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: > Default Mail SignatureHi All - can anyone recommend an easy / simple mailing > list software? > All I need is to subscribe/ un-subscribe and a little maintainance of > users. MySQL if its worth it, or a just php? Any pointers appre

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

Subject: Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:08:37AM +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800 > "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > > > > > In the man page for restore(8) I see the following: > > > > The -r flag ... can be detrime

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > > Please Cc responses to the mailing list > > I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing > lists nowadays it's common to reply to

Re: Will i be force.

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:18:43PM +, k_win...@ovi.com wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > > My name is Kevin, I want to build an OS that is derived from freebsd but > Should i be worried about FreeBSD license when i am deriving. No. Not at all. FreeBSD allows free use including modifying. Look it

Re: how to dual boot

> > I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. > First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the > remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to > the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do I do to pro

Re: how to dual boot

> > At 07:39 PM 12/16/2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >You need to read the documentation better. > > Or at all. :) Was hoping it would just magically guide me through it. Not > a critical box of mine of course. > > >It tells you that you should install

Re: default password of toor

> > what is the default password of toor cause i have forgotton my roots > password so any one could help me in recovering ? There is no default password for the toor account. It is just an account with another name that has root's UID (0). You can create one for yourself with any name you want

Re: FreeBSD LOGO

> > F3D0F66622AA8 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi! > > It's for you. From Ukraine with love. > > (i've re-draw your logo) Where is it? > > Thanx, > Andrew. > > F3D0F66622AA8 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="u

Re: Two simple questions

> > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to > > unhide them? > > > > Teilhard. Micah's response is correct, but just an additional comment. In FreeBSD UNIX, there are really no 'hidden' files. They are all just files with names in a speci

Re: how to dual boot

> > Marty Landman 写道: > > I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. > > First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the > > remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to > > the FBSD installer by booting from th

Re: how to dual boot

> > On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. > > It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. > > It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem > >

Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

> > > Hi, > > I'm installing a brand new notebook and have to do it with 6.0-REL > because the SATA support; so I can't use my 1 GByte distfiles of > the 5.4-REL which I have on the older notebook; is there somehow > a place to download isos of the distfiles? I know that I could buy > them but n

Re: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly?

> > Hello, > > I've recently purchased an IDE 320GB Western Digital WD3200JB-22KFA0 > harddrive for use in my FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE fileserver. The BIOS in the > system > reports the drive as being a 320GB, but FreeBSD (dmesg) sees it as a 305245MB > (or 298GB drive) in two separate machines.

Re: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly?

> > On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:22 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Now, I understand that harddrive manufacturers measure things differently > > > (1000kbytes per gbyte rather than 1024, or something like that) than > > > expected, but I've been told by

Re: Help me

> > Isn't "stable" supposed to mean that it's "feature-stable", as in > "We've discontinued implementing new features to this kernel, and are > fixing bugs"? This is covered pretty well in the handbook and that is better than what I would write. jerry > On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda <[EMAIL P

Re: unable to write data to disk ad0

> Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 6.0 system on i386. I would like to add a new label on > my main FreeBSD partition (I have about 30GB free space left). > If I try to add a new slice (ad0s1g, mount point: /shares > size:20031MB, UFS2+S) then I get this message: > > unable to write data to disk

Re: FreeBSD 6 - Do i need both CD1 and CD2 ?

> > From: "FlashWebHost.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There is 5.4 to 6 upgrade also at > > > > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/ > > This would be a great resource, if it were sure to work. I am not > anxious to go from 5.4-STABLE to 6.0 (not until it goes stable), but I >

Re: FreeBSD 6 - Do i need both CD1 and CD2 ?

> > On 1/3/06, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a question here -- What do you mean until it goes stable? > > FreeBSD 6.0 is already at RELEASE which is beyond stable. > > So you have the terminology mangled or just the typing? > > You&#

Re: unable to write data to disk ad0

> > > >First of all, lets get the terminology straightened out. > >I think you mean to say that you want to add a partition to > >your FreeBSD slice. > > > Yes. > > >Second, I presume you are booted to that drive. The system does > >not allow you to modify the label on the boot drive. If

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

> > Allen wrote: > > >On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:50, Josh Soza wrote: > > > <..snip..> > > >And another mail I sent to the list today, I pointed out the reason I didn't > >link tot he docs. I WANT people to BUY the books from Free BSD to help > >support the project. You can't possibly think

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

> > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:50, Josh Soza wrote: > > Allen wrote: > > >I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before > > > and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on > > > here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't th

Re: Fw: Problem with Usb Mobile data cabel on prolific2303

> > > - Original Message - > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:01 AM > Subject: Problem with Usb Mobile data cabel on prolific2303 > > > > Sorry, I am russian and bad know English! > > of kernel config > I don't know about the

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