At 3:14 PM +1030 2000/11/19, Greg Lehey wrote:
> There is a PR. I'm not sure under what circumstances it fails. This
> is, in fact, a bug in the port, not in rawio: it's in files/patch-ac.
> It should work fine if you delete this patch and then make clean and
> rebuild.
Ahh, okay.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerd Knops writes:
: The 4.2 Beta CD does not boot on a system that has a MultiTech
: MT5634ZPX PCI (aka ActionTec 56k FAX PCI Modem) modem card (yes, that
: one has a controller and is supported by FreeBSD). Interestingly, once
: the system is installed, the c
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes:
: I wonder how long the current Microsoft partition table has to live,
: anyway? Sooner or later people are going to have to move to LBA
: addressing, or disks will get so big that the partition table can't
: address them. Then, hopefully, we'll
>My old kernel, vintage 4.1.1, works fine with my three old Adaptec SCSI host
>bus adapters, two AHA1742A's and an AHA2842VL (yes, it's an old motherboard).
This was actually fixed a while back (week ago?) for EISA adapters. If
you card still doesn't work, please let me know.
--
Justin
To
On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote:
> OK, the more this thread continues, the more it's looking as if we're
> talking about different things. I don't have (much) of an objection
> to removing it from sysinstall. If that's all we're talking about, I
> don't have any further objections. But I sti
On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 17:50:48 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel O'Connor" writes:
>> At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get
>> stuck with it.
>
> I strongly support this. It has burned me on several machines.
>
> I don't think
On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 17:48:14 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes:
>> They waste space. In most cases, they're not needed. Isn't that
>> enough?
>
> No. Writing in 'C' isn't necesary and wastes space. That, in and of
> itself, isn't a reason t
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> Erm, I guess the practice of providing details has fallen out of
> fashion or something since I still have NO IDEA what you are referring
> ...
Well, one step further. Using the 4.1.1.-RELEASE or something I
did/noticed the following:
8 <> 7 (on 4.2) conflicts after ke
Just as a (possibly related) side note:
The 4.2 Beta CD does not boot on a system that has a MultiTech
MT5634ZPX PCI (aka ActionTec 56k FAX PCI Modem) modem card (yes, that
one has a controller and is supported by FreeBSD). Interestingly, once
the system is installed, the card can be replac
On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 18:50:40 -0600, Jim King wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>> Why is DD ever _needed_?
>>
>> Because Microsoft partition tables waste space.
>
> That's a really weak argument, given the price and size of drives
> nowadays.
It's a matter of principle. Why waste?
Greg
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> > Why is DD ever _needed_?
>
> Because Microsoft partition tables waste space.
That's a really weak argument, given the price and size of drives nowadays.
Jim
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel O'Connor" writes:
: At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get
: stuck with it.
I strongly support this. It has burned me on several machines.
I don't think that anyone will remove it from the kernel...
Warner
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes:
: They waste space. In most cases, they're not needed. Isn't that
: enough?
No. Writing in 'C' isn't necesary and wastes space. That, in and of
itself, isn't a reason to not use it.
But like mike said, it was the ability to create these for t
Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David O'Brien"
> writes:
> > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> > > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated
> > > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around.
> >
> > Why
David O'Brien wrote:
> Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously
> dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough
> space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for
> you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David O'Brien"
writes:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated
> > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around.
>
> Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerou
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:35:27AM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> I'm sure to be off my rocker to suggest something like this 2 days
> before -RELEASE, but sometimes I don't clean up after installing a port
^^
WHY are you post
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated
> mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around.
Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously
dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave spa
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> So if you can get it (staroffice52) to browse, would you be so kind as to
> tell me what you did to get it to work.
Used a local caching proxy, /usr/ports/www/wwwoffle
Seems fine
George Russell
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On 11/19/00, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> Jing-Tang Keith Jang wrote:
> > --
> > Keep it simple and stupid.
>
> A little off topic, but... This is too nice for an old USA army
> expression (genie forces). Try:
>
> Keep It Simple, Stupid!
This is intentional. :-)
--
Keep it simple and stupid.
To
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James writes:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:11:38PM +0800, Jing-Tang Keith Jang wrote:
> > On 11/18/00, James wrote:
> > > Or for a much faster solution:
> > > find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -exec rm -r {} \;
> >
> > why not just "cd /usr/ports; rm
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jing-Tang Keith
Jang wri
tes:
> On 11/18/00, James wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:35:27AM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> > > # find /usr/ports -type d -name work -print -execdir make clean \; -prune
> > >
> > > is much faster than "make clean" from the top. It
Jing-Tang Keith Jang wrote:
>
> --
> Keep it simple and stupid.
A little off topic, but... This is too nice for an old USA army
expression (genie forces). Try:
Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Roelof
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Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated
mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around.
Loo and behold, on booting I got:
BTX loader 1.00 (BTX version 1.01)
Error Client format not supported
Same old, same old. I remembered having had to deal with just
this somewhere in the 3.x r
That's because the make clean in /usr/ports follows the dependencies which
makes it clean a lot of ports several times...
What you can try is to do a make -DNOCLEANDEPENDS clean.
Regards,
Maxime Henrion
David Kelly wrote:
> I'm sure to be off my rocker to suggest something like this 2 days
> b
On 11/17/00, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mike ryan writes:
> : On 11/17/00, Warner Losh wrote:
> : > This won't be changed. polling works on more systems than a specific
> : > IRQ, and the IRQ to use varies so widely that any choice is likely to
> : > be wrong.
> : are the
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