make buildworld errors

2011-01-01 Thread Mike
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trying to buildworld but it keeps failing. I finally deleted /usr/src and recopyed from a cd then cvsup using standard-supfile. Tried limiting how much ram freebsd uses and only using one stick of ram. All attempts have failed at the same place.

Re: make buildworld errors

2011-01-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 01/01/2011 9:54 ?.?., Mike wrote: Trying to buildworld but it keeps failing. I finally deleted /usr/src and recopyed from a cd then cvsup using standard-supfile. Tried limiting how much ram freebsd uses and only using one stick of ram. All attempts have failed at the same place. Would

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:15:45 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Anybody know if there is a utility that transforms the /root/.cshrc into a bash RC file?After decades, I'm giving up on the csh stuff. Need something simpler. As far as I know, there is no automatic

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Gary Kline
I've read about 30% of your email and just have to sack out. It is just past 04:00 and my eyes are starting to glue shut. And hey, once them shut, I'll bang into stuff before I can get to my bed!! More coming tomooor-- Hm. Since this *is*

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the first setting. I'm not sure how bash handles this. man bash and search for PROMPTING, everything you can pass PS1 is there # is \# the command number of this command I don't see how a '%' is handled tho, what does it do is

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19 C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable not H.D.M.I. I

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Yes - true enough. Was thinking partition table and typed 'mbr'. It's all good, I got the cmd right in the end, but alas, it helped me not! Mmm .. it's not clear from Chris' original message exactly what he did. I clarified that in a subsequent reply with considerably more detail :D

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:56:24 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the first setting. I'm not sure how bash handles this. man bash and search for PROMPTING, everything you can pass PS1 is there # is \# the

Re: ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Gabor Illo
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Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 10:25, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought snip Identifier Monitor0 VendorName HWP ModelNameHP 2010 HorizSync24.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 OptionDPMS EndSection For a start, remove or comment

csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Chip Camden
At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the only rebuilding steps required are to rebuild and install the kernel? Or is it possible that world could require a rebuild to take advantage of some of

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: man xorg.conf. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa,

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the only rebuilding steps required are to rebuild and install the

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Polytropon on Saturday, 01 January 2011: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions: If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the only

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:23:11 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Saturday, 01 January 2011: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions:

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: If programs or other components of the world do have to be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then I conclude that world also has to be compiled. In this regards, it means a change of the kernel, and if the

Re: ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Modulok
Probably. I think I've got like 10 of these on and off. -Modulok- On 1/1/11, Gabor Illo stagel...@gmail.com wrote: Spam? 2010/12/6 freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Dear Sir/Madam, Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. For more information on our

Re: ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 1 January 2011 13:08, Gabor Illo stagel...@gmail.com wrote: Spam? 2010/12/6 freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Dear Sir/Madam, Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. For more information on our business please click on the following link: Click here

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 11:01:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:15:45 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Anybody know if there is a utility that transforms the /root/.cshrc into a bash RC file?After decades, I'm giving up on the csh stuff. Need

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: If programs or other components of the world do have to be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then I conclude that world also has to be compiled. In this regards, it means

broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 articles, none of which seem even vaguely related. Does

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Jan 1 11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 articles,

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article. A search for geom on that page retrieves

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth per...@pluto.rain.com on Saturday, 01 January 2011: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:44:01 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: If programs or other components of the world do have to be in sync with kernel or system files (sys/*.h), then I conclude

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 12:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, Michael D. Norwickmnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: man xorg.conf. :-) From 'man xorg.conf'

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat Jan 1 11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article ...

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: I have a 2GB MicroSD card that I am going to toss 8.2BETA1 on, hopefully later today and see where that gets me. 2GB MicroSD card was a bust, use a 60GB hard-drive and wrote the image to that, it booted it just fine,

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Okay, closer. Thank You. I commented out the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines restarted the X session and the screen appeared to fill more but I still had a black bar to the left at 1600x900. Going to Computer - System Settings - Computer

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Well, what's commonly called 'the partition table' is bytes 0x1be-1ff of the MBR, so I was confused by your writing to sector 1 rather than 0, but have a new theory to test, seeing Chris isn't making any progress; this

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: [snip] Try zeroing out the mbr: Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: [..] The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned, specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the boot