Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled
> over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/
> which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my
> wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her
PJ wrote:
> Michael Powell wrote:
>> PJ wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Read carefully:
>>
>>> uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ;
>>> :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> See further down at bottom.
>>
>>> did I do something wrong? system is still o
Octavian Ionescu wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have received an Gembird UPS 1200 VA for one of the servers and i am
> trying to get it work. The main problem is that the cd came with a
> compiled aplication for linux and with linux_base-fc8 installed it
> does not detect it.
> the apcupsd does not recognize i
Valentin Bud wrote:
Hello list,
I don't know if the Subject says what i really want to achieve but i do
hope that i will make myself understood.
I work for a school and i want to install in 2 labs on very low performance
computers (1 Ghz CPU, 126 Mb RAM) some linux distro (zen walk). I *need*
fixer wrote:
FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12
11:05:30 UTC 2007
r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
localhost#
I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows.
I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But
Renat wrote:
> Hello! Can't upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4 with freebsd-update.
>
>
>
> webarchive# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.4-RELEASE install
> No updates are available to install.
> Run 'freebsd-update.sh fetch' first.
> webarchive# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r
Michel Talon wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>NIS, which stands for Network Information Services, was developed
>by Sun Microsystems to centralize administration of UNIX
>(originally SunOS) systems. It has now essentially become an
>industry standard; all major UNIX like systems (Sol
Renat wrote:
> Again not worked:
>
> webarchive# mv freebsd-update.sh /usr/sbin/freebsd-update
> webarchive# mv freebsd-update.conf /etc
> webarchive# mceidt /etc/freebsd-update.conf
> mceidt: Command not found.
> webarchive# mcedit /etc/freebsd-update.conf
>
>
>
>
>
Where exactly did you get t
Renat wrote:
> Yes. I try . But not worked!!
>
> -
> webarchive# freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata
Nerius Landys wrote:
> I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several
> network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a
> bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well.
>
> Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireles
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I have a test machine with a custom kernel, which I copied (as the
> handbook suggests) to /root/kernels/. However, I do not really need
> it.
>
> My question is how do I switch back to the generic kernel? Many thanks
> and all the best to you all!
>
>
I
Xrhstaras wrote:
> The booting process stops at the line mounting root ufs /dev/md0
>
> (Starting with the option for no acpi )
>
>
>
We really need more info to be able to help you...
Is this booting off from the CD? What version of FreeBSD?
Any specific reason you are booting without ACPI?
Bernard Dugas wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>>> nfsserver# time tar -cf - clientusr-amd64 > /dev/null
>>> 5.001u 12.147s 1:23.92 20.4%69+1369k 163345+0io 0pf+0w
>>>
>>> client9# time tar -cf - /usr > /dev/null
>>> tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
>>> 3.985u 19.779s 4:32.47 8.7%
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for FreeBSD. I am trying to update FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7
> (GENERIC) #2 to 7.1-RELEASE. Here are the steps I am performing:
>
> 1. freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade
>
> I get:
>
> The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> kernel/gen
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Manolis Kiagias <mailto:sonic200...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks for FreeBSD. I am trying to update FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7
>
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> First of all - thank you Manolis!
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 14:23, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>
>> I don't use freebsd-update myself. I still use csup and the long procedure,
>> but I have a question on the GENERIC kernel. You say he does not need to
>> recompile an
Richard wrote:
>Hi to all the members of the List.
>I am new to this list. But not new to FreeBSD. Twice I have tried to
>download 7.1 i386 dvd1 iso from 2 different ftp servers. But I am
>getting a totally different md5sum from the one listed in the website
>or ftp sites.
>
ec...@casasponti.net wrote:
> Quoting ec...@casasponti.net:
>
>> I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife. It comes with WindowsXP and while
>> configuring it for her I found it to be a nice, new generation
>> laptop. I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and
>> installing FreeBSD bu
perikillo wrote:
Hi people.
I want to install some ports that depends this module php5-gd (phpmyadmin
example), I update my ports every day, but I still getting this error:
bacula# pwd
/usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd
bacula# make install clean
===> php5-gd-5.2.8 has known vulnerabilities:
=
E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> I just upgraded freebsd to 7.1 release and I think I messed up using
> mergemaster because I lost my users, I backed up /etc before I
> buildworld. Is there a way to recover this now?
Sure. Compare your current /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd to your
backups. Merge any ne
Thomas W. Holloway wrote:
> Greetings from newbie land.
>
> I have what I hope is a simple question about using packages offline,
> with particular reference to XFCE if that matters. I am not so much
> asking "how do I do this?" as I am "Do I understand this correctly?"
>
> I have read the appropri
Warren Liddell wrote:
> i have a cannon pixma ip1000 and i have tried various ways to set it up so i
> can print using methods found through google, but so far nothing has had
> success, so id like to know if there is an idiots guide to the dummies
> version
> of trying to setup a printer to wo
Thomas W. Holloway wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:16:45 -0500, Manolis Kiagias
> wrote:
>
>> As a side note, I have a machine specifically for building packages and
>> it just happens that I finished a complete build run today (for FreeBSD
>> 7.1 32bit). This include
Mel wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2009 13:39:19 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>> is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD,
>> from size i think it's kind of lossless compression)
>>
>
> # cd /usr/ports/audio
> # grep -l APE */pkg-descr
> gnormalize/pkg-descr
> opti
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:40, k...@snaffler.net wrote:
After installkernel finishes successfully, you should boot in single
user mode (i.e. using boot -s from the loader prompt).
How can this be done with a remote machine?
NO without serial access
Akenner wrote:
Hi,
I've continued reading to keep myself updated with info used, and I
have a few questions about what I've seen about freebsd-update:
I've read not to use FreeBSD-update AND cvsup together, and so I've
decided to go along with this as to not cause problems for myself.
Does
bsd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to see if someone has already configured an APC PowerChute
> software on FreeBSD.
>
> There is a linux version, I was just wondering how to set It up on BSD
> and if anyone has successfully installed such soft…
>
> I have installed a BSD box in Angola in unstable
Akenner wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been using this list to my advantage for a while to learn things
> I can't seem to grasp, and I've gotten great amounts of help.
>
> I have a question in regards to the process of patching / Updating /
> Upgrading I'd like a hand with. I have two machines runnin
Doug Hardie wrote:
> I am looking for a port that would take an image file (preferably and
> image format) and convert it to JPEG at a specified pixel size. I
> couldn't find anything in the ports that appears to provide this
> capability. If needed I would settle for requiring JPEG input format.
Hugo Silva wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> For a server I will be setting up, I am considering using gjournal on
> the partition that will hold all the www data.
>
> The journaled partition (mounted async) would be mostly read from,
> uploads would not be very frequent and most sites wouldn't write to
> the
Nicolas Letellier wrote:
Hello.
I use a script to create automatically my users (with pw, and mkdir, etc...). I
use quota, and I have to excute 'edquota -u user', and enter quota
informations. So, the process can not be automaticated. And cannot be part of
my script.
I don't find information
Gary Kline wrote:
iS there an easy way (by cmd-line) to erase a used DVD-RW?
I tried K3B and can't figure out where to click!
tia,
gary
Try something like
dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 -blank
dvd+rw-format comes with sysutils/dvd+rw-tools (you probably have it
installed already).
___
Mehul Ved wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> wrote:
>
>> install FreeBSD 7
>>
>
> How do I upgrade to FreeBSD 7? Use ports?
>
>
No. Strictly speaking, you would have to obtain the sources for
7.1-RELEASE and rebuild the base system. This is described in Chapter
paljibus wrote:
>Helo gurus,
>my system is:
>FreeBSD cvs2.abvent.fr 7.0-STABLE-200806 FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE-200806 #0:
>Mon Jun 2 18:36:08 UTC 2008
>[1]r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>cvs2#
>I installed that half-year version of FreeBSD
Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys,
>
> If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and
> flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to
> pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies.
> linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but
>
Yavuz Maslak wrote:
> I use freebsd7.1-release.
>
> Sometimes, when I monitor my server on the monitor, I see some
> messages which are about inform, warning or kernel messages.
> But I couldn't see these messages in /var/log/messages.
> How can I do that ?
> What do I need to set to this ?
Edit
Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote:
Hello!
I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM.
Is there a suitable port for such task?
I'd like to point out that i don't want to measure perfomance. I need
to really really
heavily load the server up to it's maximum.
well, n
Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> I successfully updated the Ports collection to compile MySQL 5.1.22,
> but even after updating /etc/rc.conf, the server doesn't start but
> doesn't say why:
>
> ==
> # pkg_version -v | grep -i mysql
> mysql-client-5.1.22 < needs updating (port has
> 5
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
> On freebsd 6.0, I upgraded XFCE from 4.4 to 4.6 last night.
>
> When I started X this morning, and went to follow these instructions
> from the UPDATING file:
>
> "Make sure to switch as well to the Tango theme. To do this just open
> the Settings Manager and select Appeara
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>
>
>
>> longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I
>> preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports
>>
>
> I wasn't able to find pkg_rmleaves, so I tried pkg_delete on all the
> related packages I could find.
>
>
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>
>
> New user gets a completely different interface. XFCE and components
> don't seem to launch, nor do they seem to be available. Not only is
> there no menu, there's no panel from which to launch the menu, and the
> panel won't start from the command line.
>
>
Well, th
Neal Hogan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I
> also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2.
>
> I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled
> and/or used by ff3. That is, ff claims not to have any plug-ins. I ha
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
> Well, I finally got XORG to install again, and then installed XFCE
> 4.6. Still no menus, and huge screen resolution. However,
> Ctl-Alt-[Keypad Minus] will zoom in on part of the desktop area,
> making text at least readable on screen.
>
> Any other suggestions on getting
Ross wrote:
> I want to use my home server to build Xorg and KDE packages for a
> desktop. man ports says make package will install the port. I don't
> need Xorg on the server and I would like to tweak make.conf to build
> for a different architecture. Is there a way to do this?
>
Use ports-mgm
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion
> so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special
> software?
>
> Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file
> under windows. Ma
Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), "Zbigniew Szalbot"
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion
>> so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special
>> software?
>>
>
> Maybe th
"Remorque" wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
>> On Sunday 22 March 2009 07:53:00 am "Remorque" wrote:
>>
>>> I have installed 7.1-RELEASE on a hardware with AMD processor. I have
>>> successfully buildworld, and now doing the "make kernel" thing.The kernel
>
"Remorque" wrote:
>
>
> >
>
> If you csup'd source as you say above, you are now on 7-STABLE.
> There have been some changes in the atheros driver, and I noticed your
> build stopped there.
>
> Look at the new GENERIC conf file:
>
> device ath # Atheros
Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm upgrading form 4.6-RELEASE to 4.6-STABLE.
> When I get to the *second* run of mergemaster (after installworld),
> I'd be interested to hear the list's comments on using options to
> start mergemaster.
>
> For example, have you had good luck with:
> mergemaster -i -u
Charles Howse wrote:
>
>
> Actually, I wasn't asking about the CVS line with regard to
> mergemaster. I realize that mergemaster will stop and ask about any
> file in its list with a CVS line older than the new file.
>
> What I really want to know is, let's say the file above is
> /etc/hosts.allow
Adam Vandemore wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:02:07AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>>
>>> Tim Judd writes:
>>>
>>>
I don't understand the "months/years" or "weeks/days" symptom of OOo.
On my dual-core system at work, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU
>
Leslie Jensen wrote:
>
> I used to use csup and in my /root/ports-supfile I changed the default
> host line to a server near me.
>
> *default host=cvsup.se.FreeBSD.org
>
> Now I've been using portsnap for a while and when installing a new
> system I got to question if portsnap look in this file for
Juri Mianovich wrote:
> Just trying to install rrdtool on a server.
>
> Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg.
>
> So I did the "right" thing and added this to /etc/make.conf:
>
> WITHOUT_X11=yes
> WITHOUT_X=yes
> WITH_X=NO
> ENABLE_GUI=NO
>
> and then 'make install' in the rrdtool dir
Inspired by the recent discussion on the list concerning
openoffice.org-3.01 packages, I have created a set of packages for the
i386 architecture using my tinderbox system. Glen Barber has kindly
offered *lots* of his webspace to host these packages for everyone's
benefit.
These packages are avail
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> When you have a minute please would you have a look at a proposal for
> changes to the packages system I posted which is kind of a ports
> equivalent of freebsd-update involving a 'ports-snapshot'.
>
> The original post is here
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/p
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> I could also distribute the ports tree ...
>>
>
> I wonder if it's necessary to distribute the entire ports tree.
> Perhaps it would suffice to distribute a timestamp for csup/cvsup
>
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>>
>> I am following this discussion too.
>> I was actually thinking of some less drastic method to make a FreeBSD
>> desktop easier to build and less time consuming.
>> Currently there are at least two projects based on FreeBSD that offer
>> reasonable BSD desktops without
Warren Liddell wrote:
> im running FreeBSD7.1-STABLE portupgrade//world//kernel done today an
> still even from following a few howto's on the BSD site i cant get
> java to work or show up in the plugins .. anyone got any ideas on
> whats going on and/or how to fix this annoying problem ?
Assuming
tethys ocean wrote:
> I am using 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE # on one of the my servers. This
> server was working properly for long time. Electricty is often break down
> and this server isnt behind UPS. Today I have found it as shutdown and than
> opened it but some servis/daemon hasn't work
tethys ocean wrote:
> thank a lot i found info in UPDATING just below
>
> 20090312:
> The open-source Atheros HAL has been merged from HEAD
> to STABLE.
> The kernel compile-time option AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 has been
> added to support certain newer Atheros parts, particularly
> PCI-Express chipse
Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
> I ran the perl upgrade and portupgrade, and now my mouse doesn't work in
> Xorg running KDE. Works fine in the console, and I haven't changed anything
> in the xorg.conf file. I generated a new one, and the mouse section is
> identical to what I already have.
>
> Section
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has
> FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external
> drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on
> FreeBSD.
> I have seen severa
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Manolis Kiagias
> mailto:sonic200...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in
> Greek only, but I
Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias
wrote:
OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an
average user's desktop.
If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like "Windows", feels like
"Windows", still i
kenneth hatteland wrote:
> Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2
> prerelease but each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4
> starts ok, but I get the known mouse locked problem and would love and
> xorg.conf to edit as I have learned but it doesn`t exist.
>
> An
John Beukema wrote:
> I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an
> ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop.
>
> I installed the latest version
> of FBSD on partition 3. Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed
> partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and
> backup. partition 2 is Wind
Warren Liddell wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Warren Liddell writes:
>>
>>
>>> After finally managing to get java working with FF i find when i goto
>>> use it now, it uses 100% of my CPU ... how can i fix this annoyinng
>>> issue ?
>>>
>>> Running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64
>>>
>>
>> You
Warren Liddell wrote:
> Are you getting 100% on something as simple as this?
>> http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
>>
>> My setup is exactly similar, but I run i386. No such problem.
>> I do get very high CPU usage when flash (gnash) is active though...
>
> No, that works quite fine, b
Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 to
> FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and I am
> not able to start X correctly. When I invoke startx, it tries to start
> it and then the screen goes blank and bla
Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> Browsing your xorg.conf, you forgot to add the keyword "Option" in front
>> of "AllowEmptyInput". And actually this should also go the "ServerFlags"
>> section.
>
>
Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:58:10 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
[snip]
While CTRL+ALT+Backspace does not kill the X server, I can press
CTRL+ALT+F1 or ALT+F1 to return to the text mode console. I then
kill the X server via CTRL+C.
There's a new setting that needs to be put int
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
> I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a
> number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or
> FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption
> that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>
>
>
>> Follow the instructions here:
>>
>> http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing
>>
>
> I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all
> that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until
> yesterday), and still t
Jon Radel wrote:
> Lisa Casey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running FreeBSD 5.3 IN /etc/ntp.conf I have:
>>
>> server time.nist.gov prefer
>> server tock.gpsclock.com
>> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
>> logfile /var/log/ntp.log
>>
>> If I run ntpdate from a prompt, I get the following error message:
>>
>> # ntp
Mark Stosberg wrote:
>>> We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server,
>>> managed
>>> by /etc/rc.conf.
>>>
>>> The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2"
>>> failing
>>> to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5.
>>>
>>> Later, when I
mv wrote:
> On Sun, 19 April 2009 03:14:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>>
>> The default screen when not running a WM/DE is no longer the familiar
>> screen pattern / X mouse pointer, but a black screen. Go figure...
>> You maybe having a working X and not know it.
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when running "freebsd-update fetch" on FreeBSD 6.x I get the error:
>
> Fetching public key...
> fetch: http://update.freebsd.org/i386/6.1/pub.key: No address record
> Error fetching updates
>
I've seen the "No address record" in the past in few of my machines.
The u
VirtualHost wrote:
> Please, calm down a bit,
>
> The original poster only revert to a "modern' install, who knows what
> he ment by this. Perhaps he doesn't want to specify what the
> partioning would look like himself, unless he prefered to do it
> otherwise. The idea that he insist on a graphica
Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:59:53 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>
>> Exactly. Modern install does not necessarily mean GUI. FreeBSD *needs* a
>> text installer to work on old machines, headless servers, serial
>> consoles and the like. That being
Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:24 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> The text installer should always be the default, IMHO. A GUI installer
>> should be selectable i.e. from the boot options.
>> I hope Ivan Voras finds the time to continue with the
John Nielsen wrote:
> I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD
> src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way
> for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue.
>
> I tried a few "cvs history" commands against the an
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Steven Friedrich writes:
>>
>>> I've been having trouble with X11 ports, so I deleted all my packages
>>> and tried to install xorg fresh.
>>>
>>> xorg port failed trying to build cairo, cairo failed because it
>>> couldn't build libdrm, libdrm fa
Luke Dean wrote:
>
> I just upgraded my old laptop from an older 7.1 release to the
> latest 7-STABLE for i386, and I started getting a lot of new
> GEOM_LABEL noise during the boot process.
> It says it's removing and adding labels every time it does the
> filesystem checks.
> What's that all abou
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:43:18PM +0200, Daniel C. Dowse wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100
>> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:24:05AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>>>
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
Lloyd Friedman wrote:
> I have a Microway computer with a PC164LX.
> How and where can I down load FreeBSD ALPHA version.
> I know it is no longer supported, but I believe there are older versions I
> can down load.
> If not, then I will have to try to find a Linux that will work.
>
Try the FT
Tim Judd wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
>
>
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Fbsd1 wrote:
>>
>>> How can i just download the source for sysinstall?
>>>
>> http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/7.2.0/usr.sbin/sysinstall/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Glen Barber
>>
>>
Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of
> installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I
> prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An
> obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security
>
Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I'm looking to purchase a >= 1TB external harddrive, because I'm
> running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience
> with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands
> compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to c
Andrew Gould wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote:
>
>
>> Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615
>>
>>
>
>
> me too ;-)
>
Taking this opportunity, allow me to r
Yuri wrote:
> I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD.
> How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives?
>
> Any experiences?
>
> Thank you,
> Yuri
>
Highly unscientific measurement here, but I seem to be getting a max of
~160 MB/s by striping two Seagate 500Gb dr
Matthias Apitz wrote:
Hello,
Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400
laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to
reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT
in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for so
Modulok wrote:
> Just making sure I'm not brewing a disaster...
>
> Is it 'safe' to install a kernel (i.e. 'make installkernel') on a
> system while in multi-user mode?
>
> Thanks!
> -Modulok-
>
Yes. But you should schedule a reboot shortly afterwards.
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Fabian Krook wrote:
I see, well i have done that in xorg.conf.new file (snice it didn't create
any xorg.conf) the ctrl + alt + backspace
doesn't seems to work even with X -config xorg.conf.new.
2009/5/9 Frank Shute
There are several changes in Xorg 7.4. Please read the updated handbook
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Hey all,
I believe this list (and probably the forums) would be the best place
to announce one of my little projects, namely the building of custom
FreeBSD install discs (DVD sized for desktops, CD sized for servers)
with the latest release and updat
Andrew Gould wrote:
> I installed abiword from the 7.2-release binaries online. When I try to
> type, the cursor doesn't move forward and the characters are appearing on
> top of the previous characters.
>
> Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>
It hap
Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Hello,
> in advance sorry for the cross posting, it is just that freebsd-geom didnt
> seem that populated.
> I run 7.1-PRERELEASE, its a home server.
> today morning after a power failure, the rebuild my root gm0 failed on disk
> ad4.
> The messages were:
>
> May 18 08
Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I would like to know what other ports are going to be installed when I
> install
> a port
>
> When I installed krb5 I notice it build and install a lot of ports.
>
> maps
>
There are a few things you can try from inside the port directory to
jery wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Freebsd 7.2
> my system hangs when playing videos, it's the same for vlc and totem.
>
>
> >From the Xorg.0.log file
>
> intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
> i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
> E72
Hey all,
This is a continuation of an effort to offer pre-built packages for
OpenOffice, that started with this post:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-April/195997.html
With the release of OpenOffice 3.1, the new package and all dependencies
were rebuilt, and are hosted
Unga wrote:
Hi all
I made a live CD based on FreeBSD 7.2. When the CD boots, it prompts for a
login. Type root without password can log in. It seems this login is redundant.
How to remove this redundant login?
Best regards
Unga
I found this info in a text file of mine (copied from somewhe
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