Brian Guest wrote:
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to install freebsd 6.2 or 6.0 on my pentium three PC computer.
At this moment my pentium three computer has XP installed on it i do not know
which files from the freebsd website to download and write to a CDRW orCDR
could you dir
hal wrote:
> On freebsd.org the date of the ISO images is
> 1-12-2007. There have been several updates
> since then. Is there a repository of ISO images
> that are kept current?
>
> hal
>
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hal wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2007, at Monday, Oct1, 2007 2:03 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>>>
>> Maybe you would like to download a 6-STABLE ISO image?
>>
>> Have a look at
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots and in particular
>>
Duane Winner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Question about patch numbers and applying patches:
>
> Last night, I got the openssl security advisory, and this morning am
> starting to patch my servers.
>
> I've always just done a "make build world; make build kernel; make
> install kernel; make install world" wh
Robert Marella wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400
> Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Manolis Kiagias writes:
>>
>>
>>> I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3:
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
James Jeffery wrote:
> Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world).
>
> Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this
> a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge
> of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the
stan wrote:
> I'm building a new machine which (I beleive) needs the NFE driver fr the
> onboard NIC's.
>
> It appears that there is a third part (as in not in tree) driver for this
> chipset, Why is this not in 6.2 CURRENT? Are the issues with it?
>
>
I am using this driver in 6.2-RELEASE:
h
Vinny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that using freebsd-update on a freshly installed
> 6.2-RELEASE system yielded the following mismatch:
>
> $ uname -vp
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
>
> The results of running a freebsd
Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Is it possible to copy all of the audio tracks on a cd to a directory at
> one time. The handbook gives instructions for copying one at a time,
> but there must be a way to do it all at once.
>
> Rem
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David Benfell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS?
>
> The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in
> added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is
> silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doin
David Benfell wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>> The following comes from the handbook and works for me:
>>
>> copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e:
>>
>> cp /etc/mast
Olivier Nicole wrote:
>> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it
>> uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now
>> to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't
>> remember details).
>>
>
> If I am not wron
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> Hi there, I'm beginner.
>
> Please recommend for proper editor so that ...
> I want to practice *Python* under best environment ...
>
> vim, emacs, gedit, or notepad.exe, ...
>
> If you give me good advice about that, I'll study very hard ...
>
> So which one is best edito
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> Olivier Nicole wrote:
>>
>>>> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it
>>>> uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 08:47 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there, I'm beginner.
>>>
>>> Please recommend for proper editor so that ...
>>> I want to practice *Pytho
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it.
>> The manual says:
>> "If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD
>> clients that
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> I have experimented a bit further with my debian NIS server, and this is
>> what I found:
>>
>> >From a NIS client, I can do with my standard user account:
>>
>> [E
Roberth Sjonøy wrote:
> How do I get the kernel source for my kernel? I need it to install the
> nvidia-driver from ports, and is there anything else I need to do to
> make the kernel load the driver at startup?
>
> Regards, Roberth
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AN wrote:
> I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1.
> Here are the steps I have taken:
>
> install 6.2 release
> cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07
> buildworld -sucessful
> installworld -sucessful
> reboot into 7.0 beta
> set packagesite to ft2.nl.freebsd.org
> pkg_add
W. D. wrote:
> Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY.
>
> Remote PuTTY:
> Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
>
> At computer terminal:
> PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
You are probably trying to
Martin McCormick wrote:
> I need to modify the first installation image for a
> headless installation of Freebsd6.2. The file in question is:
>
> 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>
> Thanks to a helpful member of the list, I found out that
> tar works on unpacking these images and it mostly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 for a couple of months now with no major
> snags. Until now. I did a portupgrade this morning and afterwards,
> when I logged in as a user into Gnome, my desktop was missing most of
> the programs (Accessories, System To
Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Two questions :
> it's a "binary" module ?
> I don't find the module for azalia. Where is it ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nicolas
>
> Oliver Herold a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BINARY_MODULES/
>>
>> just follow the README.
>>
>> Cheers, Oliver
James wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:15 +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody out there know where I can find a list of sites running
FreeBSD?
I expected it on www.freebsd.org, but couldn't find it (maybe overlooked?)
Thanks in advance for any pointer.
-ewald
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RW wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:02 -0800
> "Mark D. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Vince wrote:
>>
>>> Ashley Moran wrote:
>>>
>>>
Hi
I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI
configuration for some ports? Simply put, they
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right. I tried that a while back and forgot I had. This is what I get:
server726# cd /usr/ports/graphics/py-imaging
server726# make install clean
===> Installing for py24-imaging-1.1.5
===> py24-imaging-1.1.5 depends on file:
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
> I went to compile a programme in the port tree tonight. When I did so, a GUI
> popped up with different options. No probs. However, later I decided I
> wanted to compile it with different options. When I go to compile it, the GUI
> doesn't pop up any more, so I assu
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
i have machune with intel's CPU with hyperthreading.
it is detected right, but only first thread is ever used.
top shows at least 50% idle no matter what i run!
what's wrong?
root@:/usr62/src/sys/amd64/compile/serwer.tensor.gdynia.pl
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
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To enable hyperthreading, try setting the following in /etc/sysctl.conf:
machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1
and reboot (or execute sysctl machdep.hyperthrea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details
>
> AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows
> Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows
>
> HP Compaq
David Morton wrote:
I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and
scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about
messing with my PC.
However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I
have always wanted to play with BSD. My
Yuri wrote:
> I installed Apache port.
> But when I run "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start" nothing happens.
> 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing.
> So server wasn't started.
>
> Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first command?
> What is the right way to start the server?
Dánielisz László wrote:
Hello!
I can not make my xorg.conf work with nvidia-xconfig. I do execute the command
and it gives me always the following error:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0): suppor
Joe Tseng wrote:
I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to
compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu or
start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox does not start and
there's no indication of any problems. When I
Vlad GURDIGA wrote:
Hello,
I've started an Apache bechmark with ab today and a lot of such
messages from kernel appeared in /var/log/messages:
Sep 25 16:16:34 dev01 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from
270 to 200 packets/sec
Sep 25 16:19:10 dev01 kernel: Limiting closed port RST respo
Walter Venable wrote:
Our box, without readily obvious provocation, started doing this today:
Panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: dependency for new inode already exists.
cpuid: 0
physical memory: 1971 MB
dumping 78MB: 63 47 31 15
The system then immediately reboots, and hits the panic, reboots, etc
Warren Liddell wrote:
Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract information
within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64
You can mount an iso and copy files from it.
First create a memory disk device to contain the file system:
mdconfig -a -
Dino Vliet wrote:
Hey freebsd list,
I've bought a secondry HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0. I want
to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch), but I want to
know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for doing this
operation.
The command
d
Laszlo Nagy wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to add a new disk to my system. I'm ready with labeling the
disk. It is an SCSI device with and UFS partition and a SWAP
partition. The swap is turned off, and I would like to use it as
journal space. There is a screenshot attached showing what happens
after
James Butler wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm using 7-stable on my Thinkpad X31, with Xfce recently (2 weeks or
so) installed from packages. I have two minor problems with Xfce, at
least one of which could be HAL/DBUS related - I'd appreciate some
advice to rule out misconfiguration on my part.
Firstl
James Butler wrote:
My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform
which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file,
emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is restarted or I
log out and then in. Any ideas? Notably, automatic detection and
mounting
James Butler wrote:
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James Butler wrote:
My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform
which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file,
emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is res
Dánielisz László wrote:
hello!
I just installed Brasero and because a strange reason I can not select any dvd writer drive, I included device atapicam to my kernel?
Do you have any idea what can I try?
Laci
While I have not used brasero on FreeBSD, I know (from k3b) that you
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Hi Manolis & everyone else,
`ipdivert.ko' works fine as a module too. You don't really *have* to
recompile the kernel, but we probably have to update the relevant
Handbook bits to mention that `ipdivert.ko' can be kldload'ed now.
Adding a few options in `loader.conf'
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
Manish Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a
Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection
to the internet.
When I started writing this, I thought that system had bee
Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hi,
On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting
the system?
Best regards,
Olivier
There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT
_
Peter Boosten wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hi,
On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting
the system?
Best regards,
Olivier
There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here:
http://www.freebsd.org
andrew clarke wrote:
On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT
Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working
either (on both 7.0 and 6.3):
sysctl h
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:58:29AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Peter Boosten wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hi,
On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting
the system?
Best regards
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following
error...
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action':
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to
integer of different size
*** Error code 1
I removed
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:43 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following
error...
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action':
/usr/src/sys/de
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:30 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Is it a 64bit CPU? The AMD64 version of FreeBSD supports the Intel
64bit
(Core2 / Quad / Xeon / Pentium 4 / Pentium D) processors as well,
regardless of the "AMD" in its name.
It is an
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user?
Jos Chrispijn
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Victor Farah wrote:
Hello
I have about 10 machines that are NFS clients, 5 are new and 5 are
older. Anyway the new machine mount from the NFS server just fine.
The older machines mount; and I can ls /mnt/data/; BUT when I ls
/mnt/data/sc/ on the older machines this happens:
nfs server 192
Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 13:31:13 Craig Butler wrote:
The way forwards has to be to jump onto the gnash band wagon I
think that project is moving leaps and bounds.
Any idea how to get the Firefox plugin working? I installed it with "PLUGIN"
and "GTK" sele
Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
If it is firefox3 you are talking about, create a symbolic link to
the actual plugins directory:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libgnashplugin.so
/usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins
Well, that seems pretty
Aggelidis Nikos wrote:
hi to all the list,
i am trying to install ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from the ports system.
The problem seems to be that i can't complete succesfully the tests of
imagemagick. In particular i fail in all the Magick++ tests
[snip]
If I remember well, this is a known iss
Aggelidis Nikos wrote:
Here are the configurations options:
===> The following configuration options are available for
ImageMagick-6.4.4.1_1:
X11=on "X11 support"
IMAGEMAGICK_TESTS=on "Run bundled self-tests after build"
IMAGEMAGICK_OPENMP=off "OpenMP for SMP (needs threads)"
joeb wrote:
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FBSD1 wrote:
What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop
environment?
I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one.
Thanks in advance.
I'm going to rake a random guess: x11
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-p11 (yes, I've got to update). A couple days ago
I updated my ports tree and went to update kde 3.5.6. At first I did a
portupgrade on the KDE meta-port but, ironically, the only thing that
updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r to
Laszlo Nagy wrote:
Hi,
I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works
perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with
no success:
%file test.eps
test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length
566887 TIFF starts at byte 5669
Christopher Key wrote:
Hello,
I've come upon OpenSSH bug 472, whereby scp refuses usernames
containing a '#' character, dieing with 'invalid user name'. Both
rsync and ssh accept such usernames, and after looking at
/usr/src/crypto/openssh/scp.c, it would appear that scp also allows
such us
Juri Mianovich wrote:
Clean install of 6.3-RELEASE.
cvsup _only_ ports/x11, ports/x11-wm, ports/x11-servers
Now enter ports/x11/xorg and attempt a 'make install'
The sample /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile states:
# Be sure to ALWAYS cvsup the ports-base collection if you use any
Frank Bonnet wrote:
Hello
I don't want appears as an impatient and I KNOW people that
support FreeBSD are volunteers, I am a long time user of
our prefered OS
I just would like to have an estimation for the release of 7.1.
I have two new production servers that will come tomorrow
- If the rele
Ott Köstner wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC
status yet on 7.1
On a production server you will probably wish to go with
7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by means of
freebsd-update(8) when it is released
Gary Hartl wrote:
> Hi all;
>
>
>
> I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd.
>
>
>
> I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or
> something like that feeding to my tv.
>
>
>
> Anyone with any feedback on this.
>
I believe it w
Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>>> By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are
>>>
>> and i will repeat it because it's true. it's every other unix replacement.
>>
>
> It did a quite admirable job of rep
Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just subscribed to freebsd-questions and I have a question about ppp
> -nat.
>
> I have 2 computers. One is running FreeBSD-7.0R, the other is running WinXP.
> The host running FBSD7.0R has been connecting to the outside world using
> user-ppp with
Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
> * Manolis Kiagias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>> This worked fine for me, although I prefer to use pf. Here is how I
>> setup pf (Adjust for your interfaces as necessary)
>>
>> My Internet interface is rl0, setup in rc.con
andrew clarke wrote:
> On Tue 2008-11-25 07:16:44 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
>
>
>> I hope you can clear my doubts. When I use freebsd-update to update a
>> machine with a custom kernel, do I need to fetch sources before I
>> rebuild the kernel or are they fetched b
Rick Janssen wrote:
> I've been playing around with FreeBSD for some time now, still being
> unable to solve some problems. Let me explain.
>
> I'm trying to run a webserver on the machine. Just basic, nothing too
> fancy. Problem concerns the following: The website served is speedy as
> expected w
Rick Janssen wrote:
>> Rick Janssen wrote:
>>
>>> I've been playing around with FreeBSD for some time now, still being
>>> unable to solve some problems. Let me explain.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to run a webserver on the machine. Just basic, nothing too
>>> fancy. Problem concerns the following: The
Chris wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>
>>
>> From your reply on my message of 29-11-2008 21:47:
>>> An even tighter practice is to turn off all password logins and
>>> use only keyed connections. This is easier than it might seem
>>> though I'll admit I think of ssh as
Kim Hyun wrote:
> help me~my configuration kernel file is failed.
>
> my os is FreeBSD 7.2 Release
> my notebook's model is "Compaq Evo N150"
> memory ram is 311M
> cpu is "Intel pentium III (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU)"
>
>
> executig command
> ===
> make
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> 2009/9/20 Fernando Apesteguía :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having some problems trying to update from FreeBSD 8.0 Beta1 to 8.0
>> Beta4.
>>
>> I upgraded from 7.2 to beta1 some time ago, using freebsd-update
>> without problems. Later
>> I did the same thing to reach be
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Hey all,
For everyone who has been following my little project here:
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com
I am now pleased to announce the immediate availability of an 8.0-RC1
based XFCE custom DVD iso (i386 only).
Here are the direct download links:
herbs wrote:
> Hi Daemons,
> I wonder whats wrong there:
>
> I need to change the permissions from
> /dev/speaker 600 to /dev/speaker 666
> --all works ok.
>
> Then I reboot the computer and the permissions of the file is back to 600.
>
> How to make it permanent? Is is normal that /dev files do w
Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
> NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I really hope you meant Gb here ;)
>
> I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in
> Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> What is the best way to change an option on an installed port? should I
> deinstall and then reinstall with the updated options on the port?
>
Yes.
> Also what was the command to change the options through make?
>
make config. If you also wish to configure eve
Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>>
>> Bret Busby wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
>>> NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
>>
>>
PJ wrote:
> Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2
> computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a
> minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately.
> This link
> http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html
> seems to be about right, but
Chris Stankevitz wrote:
>
> The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for
> obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall.
>
> Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but
> only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods.
>
> Q1: How do
Daniel Bye wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up
> gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new system. I want to journal my
> /home partition, label all the partitions for ease of reference, and
> use gmirror to save me in the event a disk goes bad. I
PJ wrote:
> If I understand correctly from the manual, giving the labels their slice
> name (/dev/label/rootfs rather than /dev/ad4s1a) will assure that
> regardless of the disk, the boot will be from the disk being booted and
> not from another disk as happened to me recently - the fstab on disk a
PJ wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> PJ wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If I understand correctly from the manual, giving the labels their slice
>>> name (/dev/label/rootfs rather than /dev/ad4s1a) will assure that
>>> regardless of the disk, the
PJ wrote:
> NOW THIS SUCKS.
>
> SUM
>
> # glabel label rootfs/dev/ad12s1a
> glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad12s1a: Operation not permitted
>
> This is direct from the manual what the "<$#*(@)! is going on?
> No identical post on web, but similar say to ignore: "it's harmless?"
>
> I so,
PJ wrote:
> Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very,
> very confusing.
> Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many
> instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole
> system:
> for instance, let's look at the instructions for changi
Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:43:37 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> Is this your normal '/' filesystem, and is it mounted?
>> If it is reboot your system and select 'single user mode' from the
>> loader.menu
>> Then use glabe
PJ wrote:
>
> Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with
> everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or
> anything...
> but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I have described above?
> Woldn't that confuse anyone in their right mind?
>
>
I am so
PJ wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> PJ wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with
>>> everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or
>>> anything...
>>>
PJ wrote:
>
> manual: "it is assumed that a single ATA disk is used, which is
> currently recognized by the system as ad0. It is also assumed that the
> standard FreeBSD partition scheme is used, with /, /var, /usr and /tmp
> file systems, as well as a swap partition."
>
> Now, does that mean that
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>> PJ wrote:
>
>>> Now, does that mean that glabel does not work if there are several
>>> disks
>>> on the system... it certainly does not say so nor does it adv ertise
>>> that this would
PJ wrote:
(trimmed down)
>
> Is entirely possible that I mucked up somewhere and did not do the
> shutdown -r quite right... anyway, it is working fine now.
> I still have some minor questions, though...
> Can glabel be done on a dormant file system and then boot that file
> system to change the f
Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD 7.2 with Xorg 7.4 server, but mouse (usb)
> and keyboard don't work. when I start X server the only way to exit
> is Ctrl-Alt-F* and kill the process.
>
> I've find out that Xorg now uses hal and dbus to configure mouse and
> maybe this is a problem.
Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:30:27PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
>>
>>> I've installed FreeBSD 7.2 with Xorg 7.4 server, but mouse (usb)
>>> and keyboard don't work. when I start X serv
Rob Hurle wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> This may sound like a Windows problem, but please read on. I made a
> mistake and bought a WD "My Passport" external 350GB disc drive for
> use on several Windows machines, on some of which I don't have admin
> access, and a couple of FreeBSD systems.
>
> On fi
Rob Hurle wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for your comments too, about use of the FAT32 file system. I
> had thought about that, but the NTFS seemed to be a bit more universal
> - I'm not sure that FAT file systems are recognised by default on Macs
> (for example).
>
>
FAT (and almost to the same extent,
Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:08 +
> Freminlins wrote:
>
>
>> Yeah, thanks for that. I knew about that file, but don't often read
>> it. There's even more to the saga - Xkblayout doesn't work. This
>> whole HAL thing stinks horribly. IF X is built with HAL basically
>> certa
oscar Seo wrote:
> I'm a beginner in freebsd.
> my machine consists of freebsd-6.4 + i386 bootstrap loader,+ windowmaker
> after upgrade freebsd-6.4 using sysinstall then reboot the system,
> I got an error message as follows
> +++
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader
Guy Marcenac wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons
> * I am very interested in the jail concept
> * I have to relearn iptables syntax each time I want to add a rule
Don't we all :)
>
> I am testing the system in vmware virtual machine.
>
> There
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