Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then
> install each program piece-by-piece afterwards.
>
> To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away
> with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one?
The boot-on
Ivan Voras wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>>How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any
>> outstanding issues?
>
> Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0 so you might as
> well start using it now.
>
> It's "stable enough" like all .0 releases, meaning
Ivan Voras wrote:
> Tore Lund wrote:
>> Moreover, wasn't there supposed to be a new install program? I have
>> read some promising remarks about it, but it's certainly not part of
>> 7.0-BETA3. Personally, I would much rather type a long list of commands
>>
Doug Poland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system
So have I.
> and am having issues with firefox 2.0.0.9.
FWIW, native firefox-2.0.0.9,1 runs perfectly OK here.
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Bill Moran wrote:
> Huh?
The figure for PC-BSD in November was 6551. When I checked earlier this
evening, it was 1997. I suppose this does NOT mean that 4554 PC-BSD
users have kicked the bucket. Probably, it means that many PC-BSD
systems have not YET reported to bsdstats in December. I think
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
>
> Percentage Change in November from October:
>
>Overall - 2.5%
>
> Broken down as:
>
>DesktopBSD + 31.8% ( 737 hosts)
>DragonFly+ 9.5% ( 23 hosts)
>
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 BETA2 on my system. During
> installation using FTP option, I could notice the following:
>
> After some random time (two, five or six minutes, for instance) the
> installation stalled and sysinstall lost the connection. I
Incoming Mail List wrote:
>> I have only ONE question.
>> Where is packages-6.2-release? I have FreeBSD 6.2, and tuning it.
>> Where I can download packages for my freebsd version?
>
> Thats a great question, and it appears that the 6.2-release packages
> repository has been removed. Looking in f
D Hill wrote:
> It only took my computer just over four hours to install with 2x3Ghz dual
> core and 8Gb RAM.
Sigh. When shall we get a modular OO. Sigh again.
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Matthew Woodson wrote:
> I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try
> Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the
> instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you
> tell me how to download Free BSD with it?
First of all: please break yo
Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> [snip]
> As regards copying the original recipients, this list specifically requests
> it: check the regular posting titled ``how to get best results from
> freebsd-questions'', particularly para VII.6.
I think you mean para VI.6. The gist of that paragraph is a wish t
Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:54:00PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
>> [snip]
>> I request that this misunderstood piece of "etiquette" is revised. If
>> someone has the brains to find this list as well as the brains to use
>> FreeBSD at all, t
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> [snip]
> We don't accept email only from lurkers. The mailing list is also
> advertized as the official place to ask questions in CD-ROMs provided by
> vendors, in our documentation, on magazines, conferences, and so on.
The normal thing on all other forums that I have
RW wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100
> Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD
>> would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups -
>> something like news.mozilla.org -
Sébastien Morand wrote:
> [snip]
> nv-freebsd.h:76:24: error: pci/agpvar.h: No such file or directory
>
> [snip]
> So a file is missing. I try this:
> # cd work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-169.12/src/ && mkdir pci && cd pci && ln -s
> /usr/src/sys/dev/agp/agpvar.h && cd ../../../../ && make install
Hmmm.
Ivan Voras wrote:
> 1) Soft-updates were created in a different time, with different
> requirements than modern hard drives (especially desktop hard drives)
> can deliver. Especially, SU requires that data it once sends to the
> drive gets written immediately, not cached by the drive. Modern
> desk
John Wynstra wrote:
> I have FreeBSD 7.0 running on a PC at home which was formerly running
> Windows XP until I couldn't stand it anymore. I had both of the latest
> Thunderbird and Firefox installed on it as my mail application and web
> browser. Unfortunately I am unemployed so I was in the
Raymond Gibson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via
> etherboot. After power up the client boots and gives me a login prompt. At
> that time I enter 'root' and I am presented with a command prompt. I then
> enter 'X -query ' and X starts and i
cothrige wrote:
> [snip]
> However, after reading you post, I am thinking that the packages are
> only available for the snapshots labelled RELEASE. Am I right? All
> updates and changes made in between one release and the next are via
> sources. Would that be accurate?
I wondered about the sam
cothrige wrote:
> * Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the
>> gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with
>> 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way:
&
Nathan Lasseter wrote:
> Hi
> I tried to install FreeBSD, but Windows hogs all the drivespace. Now
> after aborting the installer, every time I power on, the Loader appears.
> How do I remove it?
It sounds like the installer got far enough to change the active slice
(partition). If so, you migh
Tom wrote:
> Question:
>
> Is there an alternate-platform emulator available?
Sounds like you have already tried an emulator that did not work. Which
one did you try? Have you tried Wine or Win4BSD? I have the same
problem myself, so I am interested in your experiences.
> I have some programs
William Tracy wrote:
> [snip]
> So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD
> can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back.
What's so compelling about Linux?
At least, tell us which distribution you are talking about and how and
why FreeBSD does not seem very impressiv
Anders Troback wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400
> "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in
>> kernel config?
>
> No, should I? Running on GENERIC!
It's a little easier to try it out by putting this line into
/boot/
Laurens Timmermans wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and
> Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by
> following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, but not
> on my laptop...
> I installed FreeB
Anders Troback wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0200
> Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Anders Troback wrote:
>>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400
>>> "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> I have
Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying
> for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named
> in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :)
Have you tried setting "network.protocol-handler.app.htt
Rem P Roberti wrote:
>> Rem P Roberti wrote:
>>
>>> Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying
>>> for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named
>>> in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :)
>>>
>> Have you
Vince wrote:
> If you have the latest Firefox port (firefox-1.5.0.7_1,1) firefox is now
> in /usr/local/bin/firefox This threw me a bit as there was nothing in
> UPDATING about it (unless the GTK/GNOME announcement covered it.)
> try a `which firefox` from a command prompt to check this.
Well, on
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows.
>> What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for?
>
> 3d
Another reason to use it is monitor calibration. My GeForce worked
Christopher Illies wrote:
> Is anyone successfully running wine emulating Windows 98 on FreeBSD
> 6.X?
Which programs are you trying to run? I think you have a greater chance
of getting responses if you tell us that.
> I know that wine used to have problems on FreeBSD and I never got it
> to run
Andreas Davour wrote:
> I have just read the UPDATING file and realized that this is something
> that have so many possibilities of going horribly wrong that it most
> certanly will. Thus I want another option.
> [snip}
We have seen some "clever" ways of doing it. For my own part, I studied
tho
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email
> addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to
> impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make
> the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful.
Maybe so. But w
Michel Talon wrote:
> ... and X locks up at least once a day.
Well, mine doesn't.
> It is not
> very difficult to understand why Ubuntu is massively gaining users,
> while FreeBSD doesn't, and is now ranked position 22 on Distrowatch.
Add together FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD - FreeBSD will t
Crist J. Clark wrote:
> I just tried to burn a CD for the first time in a long time
> on a machine. The burncd(8) command worked fine on this machine
> in FreeBSD 5.x (or was it 4.x?), but now in 6.2, I get,
> [snip]
It's unclear to me whether you got a satisfactory answer. Anyway, I run
6.2-RELE
Lisandro Grullon wrote:
> Hi Erich and thank youf rot the reply,
> I do understand that this is an X aplication, I am trying to run it
> in 6.2_release using Xorg 7.2 and Gnome2, still giving me that strange
> error when I try to execute from the shell as root, I try google at it
> and nothing sho
Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad T41p that has had a variety of fan problems
> for some time. After my most recent repair things seemed to be
> working fine, but the other day I was compiling some ports and
> the machine just shut down in the middle; after some
> experimentation it seeme
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Norberto Meijome wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:24:49 +0100
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>>> Subject: how to run root cmds when starting xorg?
>>> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:24:49 +0100
>>> Sender: [EMA
Tore Lund wrote:
> The startup script is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. You may also
> want to have a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. This latter
> file will call up ~/.xsession, which is where we normally put commands
> at the beginning of an X session called up through
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Martin Tournoij wrote:
>> hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP
>> driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working.
>>
>> If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a
>> kernel without device agp.
>> http://www
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have installed the port nvidia-driver. I have followed all the step in
> the readme (including adding the line to /boot/device.hint see below).
OK. The line "hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled" looks very odd, so
I had to ask. If you have also modified your xo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> pciconf -l | grep nvidia
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x21881682 chip=0x00f510de
> rev=0xa2
>
> I have a Geforce XFX 7800 GS AGP why does it show up as pci?
Mine also shows up as PCI. As long as it works, I don't mind:
%pciconf -l | grep nvi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Chris Slothouber wrote:
>> What version of FreeBSD are you currently running.
Sorry for pressing the point, but it seems you have not yet told us
which version of FreeBSD you are running.
> /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P
In that case, it may be simpler to j
UCTC Sysadmin wrote:
> Using a Sony CRX850E slimline CD burner / DVD reader
> FreeBSD 6.1
>
> I write a single file to the CD and say "-fixate"; the command shows the
> progress of writing
> and then finishes with no error message. Trying to then mount that CD on
> FreeBSD says "unrecognizable"
Stan Cooper wrote:
> Hi;
> I have a windoze drive set up in my fstab that I can access and read, but I
> can't write to it! The permissions are set "rw"...doesn't that mean read
> *and* write? I'm confused.
> TIA,
If it is FAT32, my best guess is that you do not have permisson to
write. In that
nik wrote:
> hi, could you send me a floppy disk boot download please.
I think you are looking for this page:
http://www.no.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
Leaf down to "Acquire the Boot Floppy Images".
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mato wrote:
>
> Do you think I could supply raw disk device directly to Qemu ??
As I understand it, you HAVE TO use a raw disk for qemu at present,
though I cannot recall the reason for it right now. But this will not
help you "make use of existing Windows (XP) installation". I believe
the OS i
Robert Huff wrote:
> (Personally, I think there are also points where the correct user
> behavior is not intuitively obvious.)
An understatement. There are situations where sysinstall is positively
quixotic. I don't mind the simple character-based interface. But I do
find it worrying that I som
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> "Top posting" is only one issue. Others of great importance are
> trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and
> not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of
> things that people should remove from replies.
Hmmm. While I ca
Firas Kraiem wrote:
> Hello everyone !
>
> My problem is that fonts look really horrible in most websites (see
> screenshot
> at the end of this message). The same problem occured in various Linux
> distros and was solved by installing the gsfonts-x11 package. How would I do
> the same in FBSD
Andrew Gould wrote:
> [snip]
Honestly, Andrew. Please try to use a style where on or more >
indicates quoting level. It is 100% foggy who wrote what in the parent
message of this post. TIA.
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This question drew exactly zero responses on another forum, so I try the
experts here:
By using Firefox and Thunderbird on both Windows and FreeBSD I have
noticed that line-spacing is slightly denser on Windows. Lines are one
or two pixels taller on FreeBSD, which probably means that leading is
in
Joe Vender wrote:
> One last question. How do I get FBSD to completely power off my computer when
> I shut down, both from KDE and from console? When I shutdown, it just gets to
> the "system halted, press any key to reboot" prompt and doesn't completely
> power off. In slackware, all I have to
Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>
>> Flash9 is very unstable though, so you'll probably want to stay with
>> flash7 for now.
>
> Since I have had serious problems getting even Flash7 to work, following
> instructions found here at the list, could you please su
Andreas Davour wrote:
> It's terribly sad that nobody can make it work, as of now. I really hope
> FreeBSD 7 can make a change.
It DOES work right now, in 6.2-RELEASE with linux-flashplugin7, and that
is with sound. The problem is, it only works for some users, and no one
knows precisely which c
Andreas Davour wrote:
> I'll try to do a cvsup, rebuild and try to reinstall the browser and the
> plugins. Is PKG_SITES only used with pkg_fetch or can I use the ports
> system "as is"? I've never even heard of it before today.
I believe you can use the ports system as is. In theory at least y
Andreas Davour wrote:
> [snip]
> Is what I get when I try Google Video. YouTube works for video, but not
> sound. I wonder if that state "kserel" is what's troubling us?
It's past midnight here, so I'll think about this thing tomorrow.
I also get YouTube without sound. But I get http://www.fla
Andreas Davour wrote:
> I did try to set up my environment like you described. But, in the
> listarchive the ftp site you mentioned is scrambled. Could you please
> repost it? The site I used didn't have many of the packages.
I suppose you are talking about PKG_SITES. I use this Norwegian mirro
The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a
file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I
should have seen a familiar filename. I tried fsck_msdosfs and got this
meaningful answer:
isidoros# fsck_msdosfs /kdisk
** /kdisk (NO WRITE)
Invalid signa
Rico Secada wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could
> recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD?
http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/
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Spiros Papadopoulos wrote:
> Allthough i have set to yes the option about "receiving your messages to the
> list" I didn't receive it.
> In addition i haven't received any reply so far.
>
> Could somebody confirm that my message was sent properly to the list.
Yes, I got your original message on f
Andy Harrison wrote:
> Probably, but beryl would not work. metacity and beryl are just
> window managers, they do not provide the rest of the desktop
> environment.
Uh, correct me if I am wrong. I have not tried Beryl myself. However,
as I understand it, Beryl would work, as a window manager.
Frank Staals wrote:
> Just make sure you have free space and go. You probably want to use the
> FreeBSD Bootmanager but I'm not 100% sure about that ( Only running a
> dualboot system with FreeBSD and WinXP for which the FreeBSD bootmanager
> is required )
FreeBSD boot manager shouldn't be requ
My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor,
which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no
doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc.
There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few
comments I can find about
John Nielsen wrote:
> Quoting Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor,
>> which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no
>> doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, co
Angel Heaven wrote:
> Next problem: it has no sound. It seems like no sound
> card is detected at all. Any help is appreciated.
Have you tried "kldload snd_driver"? The instructions in the Handbook
section 7.2.1 usually work for me.
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Kimi wrote:
>
> xorg-driver-nv will be more then good enough, providing 3D is not needed.
2D can also be pretty sluggish at times. The following shows the nv
driver in its fully glory as I was leafing through a page of photos:
http://home.no/tl18/misc/mincemeat.jpg
Moreover, the nv driver does
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Reason # 1 to be happy with Linux: It attracts all the morons who
> would otherwise fuck up FreeBSD?
I do wish people would not be "happy" about missing users. Being rid of
all the "morons" means that we are also rid of proper attention from
companies like Adobe and Nv
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory
> overwrite:
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done
> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'bufdaemon' to stop...done
> a
> iStyinncgi n(gm adxi s6k0s ,s evcnoond
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have already upgraded a couple of machines from 7.0-RC1/2 to
> 7.0-RELEASE using:
>
> freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade
>
> However, on this one machine, I get this:
>
> freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
I have no answer, b
gpeel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and
> Windows boot back. [snip]
I know it won't help you now, but for the general case: It is a very
good idea to save MBRs. Restoring an MBR is a quick and painless way to
bring back a former state o
Tom Worster wrote:
> a funny thing happened on wat to 7.1 today (from 7.0-p6):
>
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
Have you tried "freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade"?
I am not sure it makes a difference, but at any rate, as far as I know,
this is the right syntax.
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Mike Clarke wrote:
> But I get sensible looking results for my Athlon 64 X2 4850e with the
> following command:
>
> sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature
For some reason it works on your 4850e. But for some of us this command
does not work. It never reports anything but 40 C on my Athlo
Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a
screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg.
I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE
with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported
fonts from my Windows 2000 installat
Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009 22:02:35 Tore Lund wrote:
>> Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a
>> screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg.
>>
>> I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under win
Novembre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not
> subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time
> to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but
> since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if
Novembre wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Novembre wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not
>>> subscribed to the list and does not receiv
Dimitris Giakoudis wrote:
> ...
> applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and
> everything is in Greek now. I have a problem though when viewing
> web pages that are encoded with el_GR, there are spaces among the
> letters and it is really ugly.
Have you got examples of such
ronggui wrote:
> I would like to execute "xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc" whenever login or start
> the Xorg. I try to put the command to ~/.login_conf or ~/.xinit, but
> it doesn't take effects.
>
> What should I do? Thanks.
How do you start X? That command should normally be in ~/.xsession or
~/.xinitrc
Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:02:09 -0700
>> "Kurt Buff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ...
>> Do you have both the generic sound support (sound) as well as the
>> specific hardware driver enabled in your ker
Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> ...
> Having said that, the issue with the temperature must not be my thing :(
> after kldload coretemp, i get
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% sysctl -a | grep tempera
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 40,0C
> dev.cpu.0.temperature: -1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]%
> The first alway
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