Re: booting a CD-ROM

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time and > I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 and > FreeBSD-4.7 > on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting onto that system by > booting with a CD-ROM which started going and gave me t

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

2012-04-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Xavier : > I have: > casa# disktype /dev/da1 > --- /dev/da1 > Character device, size 3.771 GiB (4048551936 bytes) > FreeBSD boot loader (i386 boot2/BTX 1.02 at sector 2) > BSD disklabel (at sector 1), 8 partitions > Partition c: 2.145 GiB (2302711808 bytes, 4497484 sectors from 0) > Type

Re: help me please

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Vinicio Santiago Altamirano Mendez : > please can u tell me how to remapping tftp with a remapping file or exist > another form?. > i see that in tftp manual no exist the -m option > how to do remapping on tftp on mac os x 10.6 pleas > thanks. Is this question for FreeBSD or Mac OS X?

Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

2012-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to build FreeBSD to install in two places: regular hard drive and also on a USB stick, probably 8 GB. USB stick install would be for backup, in case something goes awry with a later update, then I have something to fall back on; could also install tools such as gdisk to use on hard

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

2012-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> What exactly went wrong? Setting DESTDIR is the correct way to do this > sort of thing. You only need to set it when running the installworld or > installkernel steps though -- there's nothing that gets compiled into > /usr/obj which prevents you from installing into a different than normal > t

Re: This does look strange

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
>From Bernt Hansson : > After a reinstall of winxp, yes I know but the games. > I have a fat32 slice/partition/postcard whatever it's called. > Mocking me with: > testbox# fsck -y -t msdosfs /dev/ad4 > ** /dev/ad4 > Invalid signature in fsinfo block > Fix? yes > fsck: /dev/ad4: Floating point e

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Better to "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel" as two > > separate steps, rather than "make kernel"? > Yes. You only need to "make buildkernel" once, then "make installkernel" > for both $DESTDIRs. The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once and install to two d

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once > > and install to two different DESTDIRs. > I'm not sure I understand: The two install* targets ("make installkernel" > and "make installworld") are only able to install to _one_ location, > which is the _default_ location *or

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

2012-05-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Polytropon: > In case you need to do more than one additional installation, > you should consider creating a tar archive of the fully installed > system and then use tar --unlink to the mounted target. If you > need to create many bootable systems from scratch, a script > performing the diskl

Re: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
- Original Message - From: Gary Aitken To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:02:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports According to the handbook, one can do portsnap fetch portsnap update and the update will work with a previou

Re: ports tree

2012-05-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Henri Reinikainen : > Would it be stupid idea to have publicly available, mountable (nfs) > partition, with full port tree(s)? I think it would be good for > systems with low storage space. I know hd space is cheap, but I run > over and over to this problem. > I don't know how easily it coul

How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
How does one indicate a system source directory location when in other than /usr/src? That could be necessary when in another directory, for instance running ndiscvt. Or one could be building FreeBSD for a USB stick and want to do the heavy work on a hard drive; I could also want to build and i

Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
When a list member has problems with the list that require contacting a human list owner/operator, what is the address to send to? I received a probe message regarding messages to me that bounced, might have been spams that slipped by the list's filters. I was advised in the message that the ad

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
> freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list > that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address > ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. > The message you got ab

Re: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
>From Lowell Gilbert : > For ports, I would would normally say that you want SRC_BASE. However, > that's for building ports, not running them, so I may be missing the > point. That may be what I need. I would be building ports. For running ports, source code wouldn't come into play. I couldn'

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list > that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address > ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. > The message you got ab

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. > I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged > to an USB2(two!) reports > da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 > da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> From Gary Aitken : > I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. > hp-probe finds it: > #hp-probe -bnet > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) > Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 > ... > Device URI Model

(no subject)

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 29 May 2012 20:06, wrote: >    Hello, >   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability >   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which >   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used >   at home and away, for e-mail, prepa

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Well, I still see complains about a few quirks in 9 here in the list, > specially after certain src updates. > Re:Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 > Re: kern/168190: [pf] panic when using pf and route-to (maybe: bad fragment > handling?) > Re: ULE/sched issues on stable/

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: Wojciech Puchar : > seems you like to incredibly complicated things. > It just happens that i configured that printer in one office and there is > NO NEED for this windows-style crappy shit from HP. > /usr/ports/print/hplip (make config and disable GUI trash) is enough. > scanning works

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 > things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. > Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS > server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out > over

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Polytropon, you mention ppd files (.ppd or .ppd.gz). Is this the binary plugin that hplip was unable to install for me? Or am I grasping at straws? Somehow I thought the binary plugin was much bigger than the .ppd.gz files found in /usr/local/share/ppd/HP/ Tom

Re: (no subject)

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
>>For a server, you don't need a lot of fancy stuff such as Adobe Flash > and do you need this for a non-server? Adobe don't want us (FreeBSD users) > to use their closed-source software. And i respect their will and don't > use it. Which resulted in much easier browsing by the way :) Some, too m

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
- Original Message - From: David Christensen I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3 motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host, desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC). Can this be done with FreeBSD; if so, which distributi

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Jerry : > I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then > threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use > 2+ year old units that have been replaced by shiny new Windows units. I > don't see that changing anytime soon. I did, or almost.

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from David Christensen : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239742.html > It looks like -STABLE are daily development/ test builds (?): > ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/ > I'm looking for stability. I'll try the 9.0-RELEASE: > ftp

Re: ports: make config-recursive doesn't really

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Gary Aitken : I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling out the +appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed: for port in $ports do cd /usr/port/$port make c

USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first > plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a > usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat > up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports and for "make buildworld" and "make buildkernel" in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE? Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to "make buildworld". I see from reading the emailing lists that the intention is to make Clan

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 17 June 2012 21:37, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports > > and for > > "make buildworld" and "make buildkernel" in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE? > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
ould not stop me from trying Clang on an experimental/testing installation, such as HEAD, where the basic intent is development. >From Volodymyr Kostyrko: > Thomas Mueller wrote: > >Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to "make buildworld". > For me I&#

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Wojciech Puchar : > I successfully predicted the fall of linux (in quality point of view) > years ago, then netbsd - after this and my prediction were good. > Now i predict FreeBSD will fall within 2015 time frame. > What i mean fall - that it would be better to use older version as

Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Stephen Cook : > No, this is unusual. But also remember that most of these lists are not > just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription. Then it > becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is. > That's not an accident, the admins work hard to limit abuse.

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Antonio Olivares : > I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under > GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not > giving back as the license requires. There was little to no way to > enforce the license, he decided to move to other li

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. > >If FreeBSD appears > >as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure this > >will be good > > I think any project that size is

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> My elder colleague often told me that it is the easiest and well-working way > to check whether the one is certified to work for Mac OS X to get USB mass > storage devices which work with *BSD :) > Just my 5 yen, -|-__ YAMAMOTO, Taku | __ < What if a USB mass storage device works with

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hi, > On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I > > tried the opposite. > I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work > on FreeBSD on a

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mike Jeays : > I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the > click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get > any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would > make nice museum exhibits, but that's

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant : > Thanks > Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is > throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a > FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive > the Omega disks we found. > Again thanks for headi

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant : > Aloha Woj, > How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I > read there is a USB to ide on the market. I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives. One problem

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

2012-06-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:59, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > We use dump to backup ext4 filesystems on linux (Centos6) at work "Peter A. Giessel" responded: > You can find a version of dump for Linux that supports ext4. What I have > been completely unable to find is a linux boot disk that has a vers

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
"Peter A. Giessel" responded: > According to: > http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list > It does not contain any version of restore. > There are a lot of Linux boot disks out there. I haven't found one yet that > includes an ext4 compatible restore. Debian lets you roll your own, but

WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules? I have WITHOUT_MODULES= ulpt in /etc/make.conf but ulpt.ko always appears in /boot/kernel directory. For now, I want to build all modules except for this one, but perhaps I could keep everything in kernel config and no

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Polytropon : > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more > > modules? > Use the "new" means of /etc/src.conf (see "man src.conf" for > details) to prevent t

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Polytropon : > Yes, /etc/src.conf uses WITHOUT_* on a per-module basis, so you need > to explicitely name the modules not to build. > But you're right, there's only WITHOUT_USB (for not building the > USB-related parts), so going with kernel configuration would be > a good point to start --

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> No, I'm just borderline sure that WITHOUT_MODULES works > the same way as MODULES_OVERRIDE, that is it looks in > top directory in /usr/src/sys/modules/ and ulpt is in > /usr/src/sys/modules/usb/ulpt > Speaking of RAM savings, things you would always load > should be compiled in kernel, modules

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ivan Ivanov : > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be enough RAM or

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ivan Ivanov : > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be enough RAM or

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) > is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 > 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and > 5gb HDD Polytropon responded: >

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB > > flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to > > erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. > In that case, screw slic

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I > heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for > FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, rep

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:45:17 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Does a USB flash drive also work as a giant floppy, no partitions? > Can you make a flash drive bootable when nonpartitioned and > formatted that way? Polytropon responded: > Yes, that's exactly what my advice was aim

Re: Basic i5/i7 Motherboard Suggestion..

2012-07-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Pierre-Luc Drouin : > I am looking to build a simple i5 or i7 CPU-based desktop computer that is > compatible with FreeBSD. Could someone suggest me a sub $200 motherboard > whose chipsets and BIOS works well with FreeBSD? I would prefer to stick > with either Intel or Asus if possible... MS

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:43:47 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: > > No rel 9.0 i386 disc1.iso anywhere. My pc can not boot from memstick. Polytropon responded: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ > A

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
I think dvd1.iso was < 700 MB and would therefore fit on a CD? I just checked, it was < 700 MB: Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ Up to higher level directory NameSizeLast Modified File:CHECKSUM.MD5 1 KB09/01/1100:00:00 Fil

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
To build FreeBSD 9.0 on USB stick for the old computer, host computer would be new amd64, cross-compiling for i386. I see default /var partition size for new FreeBSD installations was to be 4 GB, so I might be safer with 16 GB rather than 8 GB USB stick, even though there would be no need to in

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I could build one kernel that would support the hardware on both computers, or one kernel for each computer. This would be the USB-stick i386 install. I would also have FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 on the new computer hard drive; would put the system source and ports tree on the hard-drive installation.

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
I can't really see the rationale for putting / and /usr on separate partitions. Swap would go on a different partition because it does not use the same file system. I like to put /home on a separate partition, and don't like the idea of /usr/home. I also don't like to put /var and /tmp on sepa

Linux emulation with actual Linux installation?

2011-09-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is it possible, when booted into FreeBSD, to run Linux programs from an actual Linux installation, instead of the Linux-emulation ports? User would have both FreeBSD and Linux installed on hard drive, and might possibly mount -t ext2fs /dev/ /compat/linux I noticed there was a Gentoo Linux por

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
I too had the problem of "Command not found" after freshly installing something from ports, but I thought that was a peculiarity of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and 2. I was going to post this question to freebsd-current list. For instance, if I typed "which lynx", it was not found, but was found if I ran

Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I don't think you can use gpart on a slice of an MBR-partitioned disk. You can run "man gpart" if you didn't already; I didn't see anything to migrate an MBR partition table to GPT. The older gpt, which NetBSD still uses, can migrate an MBR partition table to GPT. You could try Roderick Smith'

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
FreeBSD needs to acknowledge its history, and C has been and still is a critical part. Dennis Ritchie's role deserves to be acknowledged. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
After I run csup /usr/share/examples/releng9-supfile how do I know I have the correct version, like 9.0-BETA3 or 9.0-RC1? I can't find any such information explicitly anywhere under /usr/src . This releng9-supfile was made from stable-supfile by changing RELENG_8 to RELENG_9 in the line *def

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: Damien Fleuriot : > > Maybe also I should put this releng9-supfile in a safer place where > > it won't be deleted by the next installation/upgrade? > Indeed you should. > >>From my /etc/make.conf: > SUP_UPDATE= yes > SUP=/usr/bin/csup > SUPFLAGS= -zgL 2 >

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Doug Barton : > I like to have all config dialogs done and out of the way. > You might want to consider using portmaster, which handles that (and a > bunch of other stuff) for you. I think portmaster has an equivalent for 'portupgrade -R' to portupgrade dependencies? I think one would use

Re: csup: How do I know I have correct version?

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Matthew Seaman : > Don't define PORTSSUPFILE in /etc/make.conf if you're using portsnap(1). > Apart from anything else, typing 'make update' in /usr/src will attempt > to cvsup not just the system sources but as well any of PORTS, DOC where > you've defined a ...SUPFILE. > In fact, without

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Doug Barton : > > I like to save a build log, would the config-recursive part be > > disrupted or disruptive? > I don't understand that question either. :) portmaster has an option to > log build/install, and it's completely separate from the process of > showing the user the config dialo

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mark Felder : > You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would > take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are > instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go > home and do the same with my personal laser.

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to > mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file > system +type. > Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. > Ma

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade > > -r ...) or the portmaster equivalent. > Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is > the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or > just self-flagellation? > -- > Jerry ?

Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
What software, base or ports, is used to burn a CD or DVD on a SATA drive, /dev/cd0 ? Would burncd be appropriate, or do I need cdrtools? Or cdrkit? This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64. I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see any

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a > > thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see anything > > (running "cdrecord -scanbus"): > > cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot > > open or use SCSI driver. > > cdrecord: For possible t

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
from my previous message: > Does growisofs work on CDRs or only DVDs? > If 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work at all, how do I get the "SCSI device" > n:n:n? Use camcontrol? > I see both FreeBSD and NetBSD have makefs (which can make a UFS/FFS or iso > file system, taking the place of mkisofs i

Re: no sound on alc-889

2011-11-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hello all, > i try to unmute a box with a mcp79 ane alc-889. > the sound is working on another os, and playback > and recording are treated separately by os x, (10.7). > i tried different combinations according to the snd_hda man page, > but i cannot find a good one. > Pleease, have you

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
from William Bulley : > Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a > pipe having an "xzcat(1)" in front of the "tar(1)" command. Maybe there > is an "xz" option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man > page doesn't list any, sigh... It does list -y and

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
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 - 10G, to hold all stuff you > built from the ports. And putting /var on a sep

"options atapicam" and/or "device ATA_CAM" in kernel config?

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the role of "options atapicam" and "device ATA_CAM" in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated? I am trying to burn a CD (or DVD) on a SATA DVD-RW drive, but cdrtools don't work. Also,

man ugen error

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
According to ugen man page, ugen can be compiled into the kernel with device ugen in config file. I tried that in the kernel config when upgrading from FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 to RC2, but the kernel build stopped quickly with the message that ugen was not valid. After removing that line from kernel con

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from "b. f." : > If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to > exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded > (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES, for example in > /etc/make.conf. If you are only going to build a few modules, and want

Re: "options atapicam" and/or "device ATA_CAM" in kernel config?

2011-11-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
"Thomas Mueller" writes: > > What is the role of "options atapicam" and "device ATA_CAM" in kernel > > config file? > > Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it > > make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM depr

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
from "b. f." : > If the kernel versions were compatible, and the set of modules were > the same, I suppose you could set MODULES_WITH_WORLD and > KODIR=/boot/modules during buildworld and installworld, to build the > modules as part of buildworld and install them in /boot/modules during > installw

Re: "options atapicam" and/or "device ATA_CAM" in kernel config?

2011-11-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 11/27/11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > "b. f." writes: > >>> > > What is the role of "options atapicam" and "device ATA_CAM" in kernel > >>> > > config file? > >>> > > Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but > >>> > > will it make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprec

Re: FreeBSD & ROX Desktop

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
--- On Sat, 12/10/11, Douglas F Taylor wrote: > Can ROX-Desktop work on FreeBSD, I am > just starting to learn FreeBSD?? > Doug I think I remember seeing ROX-Desktop and roxterm in the ports collection? Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the BSD equivalent of Linux cp -rpu ? I tried that in FreeBSD, or maybe it was NetBSD, and -u was not recognized. I think the issue would be differences between GNU/Linux coreutils and util-linux and the BSD counterparts. the -u flag, for update, means not to copy files that exist in bo

Building FreeBSD for two or more architectures but not all

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
How would I build FreeBSD, in this case 9.0-RELEASE, for two or more architectures, in this case i386 and amd64? One build (amd64) would update the present system (9.0 RC3), but the other would go on a USB stick, likely 16 GB. Real question is how to keep things like /usr/obj and other things f

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
While on the subject of Clang, is this compiler only for C, C++ and Objective-C? What about Ada and Fortran? Does one need GCC for that? Dragonlace for Ada? I believe some of the ports require GCC. Many of these ports are developed primarily for Linux and subsequently ported to FreeBSD ports

Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: > > NetBSD > > Not recommended, sorry to say > Why? Fritz Wuehler responded: > Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and > NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's > best days are behind u

Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from: Matthias Fechner : > > b) Does 9.0 have USB 3.0 support. > my system says: > Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: xhci0: controller> mem 0xf9cfe000-0xf9cf irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5 > Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: xhci0: 64 byte context size. > Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: usbus3 on xh

Re: Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Kévin Hagner : > > I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 2Gb > > RAM and no "native" swap partition. > Oh. You should never configure a Unix system without at least some swap > space available, and configuring at least as much swap as you have RAM (plus >

Re: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential

2012-02-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Has anyone gotten one to work? > Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a > different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. > Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm > not say that, YET. > I'd like to hear fr

Re: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential

2012-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer > side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or > test my USB receptacles? USB 3.0 connectors have a somewhat different appearance than USB 2.0 or 1.1 connectors. I knew which were which fr

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I recently bought a 3 TB external hard drive. I attached it to the > Firewire (400) bus and waited for my 8.2-STABLE i386 system to recognize it. > After a small flurry of Firewire protocol messages, the kernel eventually > said, > Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2 at sbp0 bus 0

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Rich Kulawiec : > 3. Note that Mailman, as part of that same mechanism, allows list-owners > to add non-subscribers to a list of those permitted to send traffic to > the list without approval. This feature is probably more often used to > allow traffic from alternative addresses for

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: > hello all > > > i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need > > partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions > > from a to h, not any more. > That's correct and expected for the MBR partition

Re: will freebsd run on a mac osx 10.8.4

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I assume you are running Mac OS X 10.8.4 on Intel CPU. I assume it must be 64-bits, so you would want amd64 version of FreeBSD, though you could also run i386 version. I don't know if you could install FreeBSD on same hard disk with Mac OS X, but you ought to be able to install FreeBSD on a sep

Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

2013-07-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hi, > I am Erhan,i have a problem,i read your all definition but i can not > create usb boot FreeBSD,i have a ubuntu 12.04 operating system.I want > to create it with FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso but when i try > this,it shows ''boot error''.Can you help me? Do you want to install onto US

RE: Pre-sales question

2013-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did +not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). > For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core pro

Re: Excessive bounces

2013-08-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. > Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? > What is their operating mode ? > What can I do if they do not require to break my (inclusive) firewall > which seems to work fine and which

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:29:26 -0400 > "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > > mount -o rw / > That would need to be > mount -u -o rw / > Steve O'Hara-Smith I think you could shorten that to mount -uw / Is that correct? Tom ___ fre

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