It's a little troublesome~~~

2004-08-04 Thread william
Hi there ~~~ I got a problem about the a lot of E-mails from FreeBSD Everytime I open up my Outlook Express I receive a lot of E-mails from FreeBSD members Where could I cancel the E_mails receiving?? Sincerely!!! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

stuck in single-user mode

2004-05-03 Thread William
write to the file i can't seem to find vi or any other editor for that matter. any ideas on how i can get back into multi-user mode. all help is much appreciated. i'm running 4.4 current on an pentium III box. thanks in advance William Benson __

Anyone running FreeBSD 6.x on HP DL320 G5?

2007-02-08 Thread William
Hello, If anyone is running FreeBSD 6.x on a HP DL320 G5, can they please hit me off-list with their stories? Kind Regards, Will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-04-27 Thread William
): HP DL140 G2 HP DL145 G2 HP DL320 G4 HP DL360 G4 If you could CC me onto any replies as I'm currently not subscribed to the list. Thank you for your time. Regards, William ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-04-27 Thread William
Thanks for your email, I'm really happy to hear about the support, I'm looking at using the sata disks! I'm not sure else to ask you have covered pretty much everything. Regards, William On 27/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > O

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-04-28 Thread William
Will this stop me using the drives without RAID? Regards, William On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RAID support on the DL320 G4 is broken. HP uses Adaptec > firmware and Adaptec has not provided Soren programming info > on their metadata format,

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-04-29 Thread William
IL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > > >Will this stop me using the drives without RAID? > >Regards, > >William > >On 2

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-04-29 Thread William
being one of the most important devices I need working for what I'm after! :( Cheers, Will On 29/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi William, No. Soren added a bunch of error checking code in the ata driver for 6.1 to reject oddball cases and one of the things

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-05-02 Thread William
What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they w

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-05-03 Thread William
6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-05-05 Thread William
Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9680

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread william
I am curious to see if the idea is entertained even. --Original Message-- From: Chris Knight Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 16:29 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer Damn, that i

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread william
Let the flaming begin Or continue..meh! --Original Message-- From: michael copeland Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 19:50 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalze

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread william
Score 1 to Chris, nice come-back. Flame on!! --Original Message-- From: Chris Knight Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: michael copeland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 20:35 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer On Tu

rrdtool port build fails on: Error: shared library "cairo.2" does not exist

2008-08-05 Thread William
Hi, I'm running a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system, ports updated via cvsup. I'm trying to build the port 'cacti', which depends on 'rrdtool', which depends on 'cairo'. The build for cairo completes then I'm stopped in my tracks on: config.status: config.h is unchanged ===> Running ldconfig /sbin/ld

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-06-21 Thread William
Hello again, Sorry to dig this up again. I'm in the position to order the server now and the DL320 is within our price range. Is everyone still having an enjoyable experience running FreeBSD on the DL3XX G4 range? Regards, William On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-06-23 Thread William
n different machines. Ted - Original Message ----- From: "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:16 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > Hello again, > > Sorry to dig th

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-06-29 Thread William
Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23/06/2006 6:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Out of t

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-06-29 Thread William
Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is "Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000". Any idea if that will do? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/06/2006 3:53 PM, Wi

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-06-30 Thread William
Will i get the updated driver by just cvsup'ing to stable once I install -STABLE from CD? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/06/2006 4:56 PM, William wrote: > I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the > code is INTEL-PWLA

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-01 Thread William
Bloody good point. On 01/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How will you cvsup without a network connection? Ted - Original Message - From: "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Antony Mawer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Frid

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-03 Thread William
Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: >> Antony, >> >> I've got an

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-03 Thread William
order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Antony Mawer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "Ted Mittelstaedt"

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-04 Thread William
SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Antony Mawer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-05 Thread William
than LICENSE and README right-click download, save to disk, copy to your running freebsd system, from that system copy to freebsd-formatted floppy disk, unmount floppy disk, take disk to dl320, mount disk, copy to /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ and recompile the kernel. Ted - Original Message - From: &

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-07 Thread William
dual port. Regards, Will On 07/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If it works then let it alone. What model of PT card did you get? The single-port one? Ted - Original Message - From: "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelsta

vr0 interface and VLAN tagging

2006-07-27 Thread William
Hi list, I'm trying to get a FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (running GENERIC kernel) to do vlan tagging. I want to have several 'vlan interfaces' that can talk to their local subnet and also use a default route. On the switch side of things I'm using a Cisco 3550 runing layer3 code, I've had this working

Re: vr0 interface and VLAN tagging

2006-07-28 Thread William
trunking port, I'm not sure what happens to frames that leave without an 802.1Q header. Frames leaving via vr0 would be untagged and I think dropped by the switch. You may need to drop 10.25.254.252 from vr0 and put it on a fourth VLAN interface. But don't quote me on this. Hope this helps.

boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-25 Thread William Bulley
ot; slice above is the Windows recovery (or diagnostic?) slice, I believe. I have looked in the Handbook to no avail. Any ideas? Help! Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

vmware system speeker beeps

2007-11-04 Thread William Evanson
I am running freebsd on as a vmware guest system on a Latitude D620 laptop which has a problem with some VM's with beeping. On Linux systems I have found a few ways of shutting off the system speaker. Is there a way of shutting of the system speaker driver on Linux. I could not find it within th

Re: Flash, FreeBSD and Opera

2003-11-05 Thread William O'Higgins
;t work I also added /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/ to the plugin path, to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions? -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Message

2003-11-08 Thread William Downs
Hello, I keep getting this message on my server. Could you tell me how to get rid of it. Thanks, arp: 192.168.123.1 moved from 00:40:10:0f:c0:b8 to 00:50:18:07:03:36 on lnc0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

portupgrade -arR

2003-11-11 Thread William O'Higgins
ng kdeutils as we speak - I wish I'd remembered to uninstall *that* before I started). Any suggestions? Thanks. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

exim not running after portupgrade?

2003-11-13 Thread William O'Higgins
ate. Any ideas? -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: beeping on console...NOT X - related question

2003-11-14 Thread William O'Higgins
e to get back to the beginning of 'dmesg' (I know, I should pipe to 'less' or a file, but I like being able to retrace my steps when I realize partway through that I should have been running 'script'). Thanks. -- yours, William _

wireless networking

2003-11-23 Thread William O'Higgins
hannel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 As near as I can tell, I don't know enough about networking FreeBSD, and it is that ignorance that is the problem. Any suggestions? I am including the output of dmesg, in case that's useful.

Re: vim keyboard mapping problems (ssh)

2003-11-26 Thread William O'Higgins
should be able to find the settings you need. -- yours, William O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: wireless networking

2003-11-28 Thread William O'Higgins
ess router, where I had been trying to use 192.168.0.1, which is the network gateway) that did the trick. Thanks. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: wireless networking

2003-11-28 Thread William O'Higgins
side IP address and google.com. No joy on any of them. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ASUS WL-100

2003-12-01 Thread William O'Higgins
Now that card works just fine. Now, since this card *is* supported, how do I contribute the info so that it gets included in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf and man wi? -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

config(8) out of sync with source

2003-12-01 Thread William O'Higgins
ompile the kernel to turn on some key features. Is there a way to update config(8) so I can build my new kernel? Thanks. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Order of Creation of Partitions

2003-12-03 Thread William Blum
Barry Skidmore wrote: I am preparing to do a fresh install of 4.9-RELEASE, and read in the Handbook the following recommended partitions, and the order in which they should be created: / swap /var /tmp /usr I would like to have two additional partitions, but do not see in the Handbook their orderin

Re: config(8) out of sync with source

2003-12-03 Thread William O'Higgins
installworld I hadn't used that method, because I was unsure of the results, and the procedure in the Handbook is more extensive than I had time for. My reticence was well founded, since when I followed the above procedure it rendered the computer non-bootable. -- yours, William __

Re: config(8) out of sync with source

2003-12-03 Thread William O'Higgins
em. The above steps did not complete successfully. Rather a lot seemed to go wrong. Since there has been a format and reinstall since then, there is little value in diagnostics. Thanks though. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: a technical how to

2003-12-08 Thread William O'Higgins
age out of it. Have fun. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Radeon DVI

2003-12-16 Thread William Bloom
n't running. I haven't bought the flat panel yet and I don't have one to experiment with. Bill -- William Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (602) 604-3100 Eldorado Computing, Inc. 5353 North 16th Street, Suite 400 Phoenix, Az 85016 http://www.eldocomp.com -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTI

Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11

2009-09-25 Thread William Bulley
things in xorg-7.4_2 and open-motif-2.2.3_6 and 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 15 14:33:54 EDT 2009 work for me. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| __

tcp delays in jails

2009-11-30 Thread William Taylor
9 CALL sendto(0x6,0xbfbfe100,0x2b,0,0x28269b60,0x10) 86872 perdition 1259617195.147186 GIO fd 6 wrote 43 bytes Any ideas of what I can do to figure this out? Thanks, William ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: tcp delays in jails

2009-12-01 Thread William Taylor
On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > William Taylor wrote: >> I recently started having a problem with tcp connections in one of my jails. >> Im running 4.9-stable > > I guess it will not do any good to tell you to upgrade to 8.0? :) > Not at this time al

8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread William Taylor
Does the installer in 8.0 support zfs? If not whats the easiest way to get a full zfs install done? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-quest

help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread William Bulley
he disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread William Brown
hat would be cross platform using this tool. Finally, the best cross platform tool is a web service. So perhaps you should explore the Django or Ruby on Rails path? Sincerely, William Brown Research & Teaching, Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 CRICOS

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread William Brown
pio or pax) > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Why not use the ZFS send / rec

Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-12 Thread William Orr
Hello, I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least manually add entries I know for

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-14 Thread William Orr
Thanks, it looks like I had a copy from May in there that was fairly accurate! On Jun 13, 2012 5:03 PM, "Warren Block" wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I h

Tape drive for backup soloution

2011-03-28 Thread William Brown
backups over time. My server on hand has sata and IDE available. Are there any recommendations that you can make about compatible solutions. My knowledge in this area is limited. Sincerely, William Brown Research & Teaching, Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread William Brown
ng before you start, in case of the worst. I have wiped many machines by accident while learning (and as such learn the value of backups and how to restore systems). You will not master anything unless you actually put in the time and effort. Facing challenges will catalyse this process.

system upgrade introduced oddball apache error...

2011-06-15 Thread William Bulley
og since I rebooted and shut down apache2 on June 9th as part of the upgrade. Any and all ideas welcome. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| _

can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nor databases/p5-DBD-Oracle with lang/perl5.14

2011-06-23 Thread William Bulley
5.14 were observed trying to launch apache2 (2.2.19) with mod_perl2 (2.0.5). Those problems also went away once I rebuilt my ports starting with Perl 5.12.3 version. This makes me suspect Perl 5.14 changes or the effect those changes have had on other ports in the ports tree.

Re: EXABYTE 8200 on FreeBSD 5.3

2011-07-08 Thread William Stevenson
Hi Scott, Do any of these links help? http://cis.kutztown.edu/~frye/cgi-bin/unixManPages.cgi?st+7D http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=63988&prodTypeId=12169&objectID=lpg51061 http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/19

Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
This situation sucks, but we have not been able to suss out what the problem is. He and I have been running FreeBSD for over a decade, so we are not clueless, but this laptop audio weirdness has us stumped. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
n. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
GPIUnsol=1 GPIO: data=0x enable=0x direction=0x wake=0x unsol=0xsticky=0x Now, re-reading the snd_hda man page with the above in hand, I just may be able to make changes similar to what you have shown above provided I can make sense of

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
what are the chances it will "just work" for me? I do hate just copying something without knowing what the heck it means -- just the pedantic engineer in me, I reckon... :-) The snd_hda(4) man page is not very helpful in explaining what your four hints would do for my T500 problem, but

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-14 Thread William Bulley
d luck, Thanks! But no thanks -- because I got it to work with your T400 hints! :-) You have been most helpful and I really appreciate it. I wonder just who came up with those in the first place? :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.e

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-15 Thread William Bulley
gain later. > Helping others is a side benefit. It isn't for me that I am doing this. It is to help others - really. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@um

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-15 Thread William Bulley
S. I suspected that If by chance my device.hints > will "just work", the "pedantic engineer" in > you would be silenced somehow :P Well, then you don't know me very well then, do you?? ;^) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@u

binary upgrade problems (8.1-RELEASE-p5 -> 8.2-RELEASE-p3)

2011-10-05 Thread William Yardley
I'm having some problems after doing a: freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade (I had also done an upgrade from 8.1-p5 to p6 without rebooting; not sure if that's part of the problem). I did the update, merged the config files, ran freebsd-update install, rebooted, and then ran freebsd-update inst

Re: binary upgrade problems (8.1-RELEASE-p5 -> 8.2-RELEASE-p3)

2011-10-05 Thread William Yardley
Sorry for the self-follow-up, but I did eventually fix it - I thought I had tried this already, but the machine seems to have been booting from the inactive component of a gmirror array; doing a gmirror forget gm0 and a reboot fixed the problem. w ___

gmirror resync seems stalled

2011-10-05 Thread William Yardley
I had a drive which had some timeout problems, and got kicked out of a gmirror based RAID1 on my FreeBSD machine (now 8.2-RELEASE-p3). Normally, if the devices get out of sync, they rebuild relatively quickly, and I can watch the progress. This time, after running gmirror forget and inserting the

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-24 Thread William Myers
I'm seeing the same thing from the same IP adresses. William Myers Associate Professor, Computer Studies 100 Belmont-Mount Holly Road Belmont Abbey College Belmont, NC 28012-1802 (704) 461-6823 FAX: (704) 461-5051 my...@crusader.bac.edu On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Admin ValhallaProjectet

where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Ema

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

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
According to Matthew Seaman on Fri, 11/18/11 at 17:41: > On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote: > > I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults > > to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. > > > > This process gave me an error, but

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

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
(base.txz) chunk that the popup appeared giving me the "unable to write" or "unable to uncompress" message. Can't recall the exact error now some hours later... :-( So the extraction step failed the first file, and I never made it to the Post-Installation phase, sigh..

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

2011-11-18 Thread William Bulley
. Or, perhaps you are saying 4 GB is insufficient for /var? Since it seems to be complaining about not being able to write to "var/". Regards, web... -- William Bulley Emai

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

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
x27;t handle GPT > partitioning, should still be useful for partitioning and maintaining > many existing systems. I've yet to install RC1, and here's RC2, but I'm > encouraged to see the memstick.img has dropped GPT partitioning for MBR > with a sin

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

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
iled upgrade attempt, the RC1 ISOs and so forth were missing from ftp.freebsd.org which I thought was odd. Shortly thereafter RC2 was being seen around *.freebsd.org in various places, so I must have been making this attempt during the transition from RC1 to RC2 in all the distribution places. This convince

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

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
x27;s a definite win. > > But for files that will be compressed and uncompressed regularly, or > compressed and usually never touched again, it's worth thinking about > what's the best balance of resources. Thanks for that explanation! :-) Regards, web...

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

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
al -- your hard > drive is mounted at something like /mnt while the system is installed > onto it. The installer is just using paths relative to that mountpoint. Well, now that is interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibilit

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

2011-11-19 Thread William Bulley
will try using manual and see what happens I did not try guided. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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

2011-11-20 Thread William Bulley
7 Everything is there and listed. Amazing! You learn something every day. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-qu

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

2011-11-20 Thread William Bulley
see? That just goes to show you... ;^) The above section is missing from my 8.2-STABLE platform tar(1) man page. The whole problem is my trying to "get there from here" - which was what started this thread... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

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

2011-11-22 Thread William Bulley
r the record, how do I upgrade to 9.0RC2 (or any 9.0 variant) from a system already running 8.2-STABLE? Had this attempt been using the sysinstall method, I would have long since been up and running FreeBSD 9.x on this laptop. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bull

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

2011-11-22 Thread William Bulley
installworld process. I hope this works this time. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

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

2011-11-23 Thread William Bulley
According to Ian Smith on Tue, 11/22/11 at 23:48: > > Sorry William, this arrived not long after I crashed, 18-hour odd time > difference .. I've since seen Frank Shute advise how to csup from 8.2-S > to RELENG_9_0 and in your case that's likely the easiest way to go.

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3

2011-11-23 Thread William Bulley
st for me, but had trouble in the attempt to upgrade to a 9.x variant before it was ready for prime time. I would not normally have done this, but there were extenuating circumstances that required the attempt. Thanks again. :-) Regards, web... -- Wil

failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

2011-11-30 Thread William Bulley
#x27;, '-lcairo', '-lX11', '-lpango-1.0', '-lm', '-lfreetype', '-lfontconfig', '-lsoup-2.4', '-lgio-2.0', '-lgobject-2.0', '-lgmodu

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

2011-12-01 Thread William Bulley
According to Robert Bonomi on Wed, 11/30/11 at 16:12: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 09:14:56 2011 > > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:12:23 -0500 > > From: William Bulley > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: gn...@freebsd.org > >

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

2011-12-02 Thread William Bulley
and for my own sanity, how would I have been able to avoid this problem? Thanks. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread William Brown
indows. You can use git like SVN if you push to the master after every commit though. I also have found git's support for merging to be a lot better. Additionally it stores branches and tags as metadata on commits rather than svn's "dumb" tag / branch system where you just co

9.1-STABLE with xterm-292 oddity

2013-05-10 Thread William Bulley
this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

[SOLVED] Re: www/179397: I used mouse focus in open-motif and shift-click3 to iconify xterms, doing so causes cursor to disappear and mouse is unusable!

2013-06-10 Thread William Bulley
as the cause of my problems with mwm (part of the x11-toolkits/open-motif port) but it did not impact other window managers such as FVWM which may be why this patch was overlooked. Regards, web... -- William

memory stick

2013-08-08 Thread william benton
I am trying to mount a memory stick at the command line. I seem to be able to mount and unmount it but i can't copy files into the stick. please see the attached image for the commands I used and the results. If you have any suggestions on what the problem might be I would sure like to know what

history

2013-09-19 Thread william benton
when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history at the command line and the machine says history not found. If I type h at the command line it works like i expect the history command to work. In the csh or tcsh shells history works as well as h. why does entering history at the com

I quit

2005-01-09 Thread william gatlin
Hello, I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying to get it to work. After figuring out how to get an ISO image, windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted on modifying the file, I loaded it and got a lot of error code 1 messages that I never did figure

problem with mozilla/foxfire

2005-01-13 Thread William Cox
Every time I click on MF, the screen goes black. Then white. Next, the desktop page icons appear without color. Then, the screen goes white. Next, the icons reappear and gradually fill in. Then, you can access MF. Any suggestions how to solve this problem which did not exist when I initia

ghost imaging CD

2005-03-02 Thread William Bierman
ded, I can certainly provide it, though I have included everything I see as relevant. Thanks! William ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 & 5.2

2004-02-02 Thread William Segars
of choice but I need to get these problems solved. Thank you in advance for your help. William Segars __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ [EMAI

laptop booting issue

2003-09-10 Thread William O'Higgins
boot the remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. -- yours, William O'Higgins [EMAIL

Re: laptop booting issue - RESOLVED

2003-09-11 Thread William O'Higgins
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote: >William O'Higgins wrote: > >>I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed >>to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices >>- F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is

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