Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

there's always the shells, bash for example -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

I've got a write-up of the steps required to do this if you or anyone else needs them. I also routinely disconnect one of the drives in my mirror before a major upgrade to the OS or ports so that if I mess it up, I can boot back to the previous state. I have a write-up of the steps needed to do

Wine installation/configuration question

I've having trouble with Wine. I'm getting the same error regardless if I compile from the ports tree, install a package, or compile from source. on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE %wine program.exe fixme:msvcrt:_spawnve :not translating name /usr/local/lib/../bin/wine to locate program Then it just

DSL router bridging question

I've got a bit of an involved question about dsl and router config so hopefully I'm able to make this clear. The situation I've got is, one dsl router w/ 4 inside ports, 8 routable IPs, 2 outside machines ( FW and Email/Web), and a number of inside machines behind the firewall. Currently I've got

Re: Odd Partition/Newfs Question

Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the new disk. After the machine was back in production,

Odd Partition/Newfs Question

I don't think I've done any harm, but I wanted another opinion or two. Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the

FreeBSD Mail Archive Question

Is it possible to have older mail messages resent?? I know I can get the zipped archives and that would be fine, but I was hoping I could get the list software to resend them. Thanks, John. -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in an easy and efficient way? I don't know if

Re: Samba Config

I've got a mixture of ME and XP machines, this has been working well as public storage without dealing with individual permissions. I don't think I had to do anything beyond the normal setup, I don't remember. [global] workgroup = GAISERCO netbios name = GSRCOFS security = SHARE disable spoolss

Re: Partition Size

I'm sure that many will disagree, but if you don't want to worry about the partition sizes, don't. Just have two partitions, / and swap. I may have started a flame war, but for my small installs, it works just fine. John. - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]

During Boot - error after mounting root

that my hostname can't be found. Thanks, John --- John Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: During Boot - error after mounting root

for the strings of [O^[[O^[[O^[[O^[[O^[[ after mounting the partitions. the error is on the console, there not in /var/log/messages or dmesg. thanks for checking the DNS, it looks fine from here. I'll have another look at the files. John. --- John Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED