Dear FreeBSD savvies
I am (still) struggling to understand how to keep my FreeBSD system up
to date ("world"/system, not ports). I want to "track" RELEASE (not a
development branch) and I want to receive security related updates. And
I want to run a custom kernel.
>From what I understand I cannot
Thank you very much for your detailed answer!
on 16.4.13 22:18 Polytropon said the following:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:38:16 +0200, andreas scherrer wrote:
>> I am (still) struggling to understand how to keep my FreeBSD system up
>> to date ("world"/system, not ports).
on 17.4.13 21:18 Brett Glass said the following:
> I've just had to resurrect a machine which apparently failed because the
> kernel was built with the make -j option.
[snip]
> The result was a kernel in which some compiled-in modules -- in
> particular, netgraph nodes -- weren't accessible. mpd
following:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:37:06 +0200, andreas scherrer wrote:
>> For some reason I was under the impression that /usr/src/sys is not
>> being updated by freebsd-update if I remove "kernel" from the
>> "Components" directive in freebsd
Hi
This can be considered a follow up to the message "How to keep
freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?" sent to this list by Brett
Glass on August 13th 2012 (see [1]). Unfortunately there is no solution
to the problem in that thread (or I cannot see it).
I am running currently running 9.0-
on 2.1.13 19:15 Paul Schmehl said the following:
> --On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer
>> And from experience this is what it will do: replace /boot/kernel/kernel
>> which is my custom kernel with a GENERIC kernel.
>>
>> As it seems that freebsd-updat
Hello FreeBSD-Questions-people!
I am trying to get a Samsung ML5000a printer to work on my FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE-p3 box. The Machine has a EPIA Mini-ITX board which has *no*
parallel port.
The printer only connects through a parallel port though. So I use a
cable that should be able to help me
On 27/05/07, andreas scherrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to get a Samsung ML5000a printer to work on my FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE-p3 box. The Machine has a EPIA Mini-ITX board which has *no*
parallel port.
The printer is connected to /dev/unlpt0
crw-rw 1 root cups0,
