init can't exec /usr/libexec/getty -and more

Ok, Now I am frustrated, so any help would be greatly appreciated after my upgrade from 4.0-r to 4.1.1-s everything went great .. I followed the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. After booting my machine and I get to ... waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle .. I get multiple erro

Re: Removing user with "-" in username

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 14:40 -0500, Chris Byrnes wrote: > > awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina > Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. While we're at it (and since I just went through this dealing with Samba and PDC functionality) -- are there any plans to add the '$' sign to

Re: Installworld fails

>> Original Message << On 10/24/00, 7:06:25 PM, Alexander Nazarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Installworld fails: > Hello > have such problem: > 21:03 [sasha#pluton:p0][/usr/src] make installworld > "/usr/src/Makefile", line 103: warning: "LC_TIME=C d

"Malloc type lacks magic" show-stopper solved

In case it helps anyone else, the error in the subject line was due to compiler optimisations. Going back to -O -pipe and rebuilding everything fixed it. Oddly enough, -O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -ffast-math worked fine on 3.3, but not on 4.1.1. -- Juha "Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with s

Having trouble installing 4.x sym/ncr issue

I have a Compaq 2500 with an internal SCSI controller. FreeBSD 3 works perfectly on it. Unfortunately, when I try to do a clean install of FreeBSD 4.0 or 4.1, the SYM driver grabs it and can't find any disks. I believe the NCR driver would work perfectly, since that's what works on FreeBS

Where do i ask newbie install questions

I subscribed to this list, but after reading it for the last few days, i dont think this is the place to ask newbie install questions. If you could please point me to the proper forum, i would very much appreciate it. Thanks Erich Heine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Where do i ask newbie install questions

Hi Erich, http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html is a good place to start. It has links to various resources for beginners. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, erich alfred heine wrote: > I subscribed to this list,

FreeBSD install questions

You are right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a more advanced mailing list for people who are using cvs and tracking the stable branch of the development tree. (I run production webservers, thus I track stable.) For Newbie install questions you should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I was on it, it was a h

Re: pccard problems in 4.1-STABLE

hi i have had the same problem, also on a dell lattitude (CPt 333). 4.1.1-release installed and booted fine, liked my wavelan card. updating to stable using the reccomended procedure, which has worked on my other boxen (around oct 6 iirc), yielded a system with otherwise works fine but hangs hard

Re: Removing user with "-" in username

> awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina > Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. I just submitted a PR and the following (trivial) patch such that we should get a fix in the tree RSN. --Kevin --- rmuser.perl.bak Tue Oct 24 16:05:49 2000 +++ rmuser.perl Tue Oct 24 16:2

Re: Where do i ask newbie install questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this single line in the body: subscribe freebsd-questions erich alfred heine wrote: > > I subscribed to this list, but after reading it for the last few days, i > dont think this is the place to ask newbie install questions. If you > could

Re: some strange things with ahc

I have observed some strange more strange occurrences with the ahc driver. Attached is the output from boot -v. This strangeness centers around an HP C1553A SCSI2 DAT Tape drive. I updated the firmware to the latest from HP to see if it solved the problem. It didn't. This same device works fine

Re: ps2 mouse errors (solution)

"Corey G." wrote: > > I installed three new installations of FreeBSD 4.1.1 in the last 8 days. > All three systems entirely different. One system with a Logitech 3 > button mouse, one with a Microsoft 2 button and another off brand 2 > button mouse. All three machines have seen the psmintr: out

FRUSTRADED! Shoot me?

I am losing faith!! Will someone Please help? Ok, Now I am frustrated, so any help would be greatly appreciated after my upgrade from 4.0-r to 4.1.1-s everything went great .. I followed the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. After booting my machine and I get to ... waiting 15 seconds f