Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Strick
I install /usr/ports/misc/compat5x. Is this the official work-around? I see that there are also compat4x and compat3x ports in /usr/ports/misc. Is 1x, 20, 21, and 22 compatibility support gone forever? (Not that I would miss it. I only need 4x and 5x co

old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Strick
I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and had no problems during the basic installation. I did a "Custom" install and seleced "All" in the "Choose Distributions" menu. When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. On my relea

painful delay during 5.3 boot

2004-12-08 Thread Dan Strick
ontroller interface?) The floppy disk drive seems to work correctly. Dan Strick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SATA on FreeBSD-4.x

2004-05-15 Thread Dan Strick
nd 4.10-PRERELEASE). >> Which HighPoint card are you using? (There are several different models.) Are you using the standard FreeBSD 4.9/4.10 ATA driver or perhaps something from HighPoint? Can you boot off your HighPoint card? Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: UFS file system problem in either stable or current

2003-11-02 Thread Dan Strick
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:14:33, strick (Dan Strick) wrote about "UFS file > system problem in either stable or current": > DS> There seems to be an inconsistency between release 4.9-RC and 5.1 ufs > DS> support. If I

Re: 4.9 is now available

2003-10-31 Thread Dan Strick
lternative new-bootstrap 4.9 iso image should be built and distributed to the FreeBSD ftp sites and the issue should be explained in a companion README file so that downloaders can make an intelligent choice. The important thing is that new FreeBSD users should not

Re: ATA failure with 4.6.2 & 250GB drive?

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Strick
on between drive failures and using 80 conductor cables with UDMA33 controllers was just coincidence. Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 4.9-20030914-PRERELEASE hangs during boot

2003-09-14 Thread Dan Strick
ELEASE problems. I am guessing that the people who are working on the release are reading freebsd-stable. (I gather that one of the purposes of this mailing list is communication between people running the STABLE branch, either via cvsup or snapshots.) Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

4.9-20030914-PRERELEASE hangs during boot

2003-09-14 Thread Dan Strick
her not configure the serial ATA ports to operate in "legacy" mode (which renders one the parallel ATA ports unusable). Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"