RE: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-11 Thread Johnson David
From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because FreeBSD is a server, not a desktop. Agree and disagree. While FreeBSD is well suited for the server, it's also well suited for the desktop. That doesn't mean that we should be stressing the desktop to those shopping for servers, instead

RE: SPAM: Score 2.5: Re: FreeBSD logo design competition

2005-02-09 Thread Johnson David
From: stheg olloydson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now as to the need to change the logo, to quote the announcement, This character sometimes treated with misinterpreted in the religious and cultural context. Over the years, the only complaints I have ever heard have come from America's

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-08 Thread Johnson David
On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:40 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. No, it doesn't. It only needs to be on some boot record: the MBR or the BR of one of the 4 primary partitions. It was once common to put it on a small /boot

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread Johnson David
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:21 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi all. I added a 2 GB linux disk as a slave and installed Mandrake Linux with LILO on the root partition of linux. So far this is correct. LILO needs to be on the *root* partition. I am trying configure Boot Easy to boot linux.

Re: unable to use BOOT EASY to boot linux

2004-04-07 Thread Johnson David
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:56 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: If I understand what you are asking - FreeBSD on disk0 and Linux on disk1, then you need to install an MBR and a standard book sector on disk 0. But the standard boot sector will not boot to disk 1. Quoting from the Handbook: If

Re: kernel compile Q - How to get the speaker to work?

2004-03-04 Thread Johnson David
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:12 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi thanks for the answer, but when I had Windows installed, the speaker did work, I mean I was able to hear music, in addition to the beeps. I may be confused as to what speaker you are talking about. My assumption was that you were

Re: kernel compile Q - How to get the speaker to work?

2004-03-02 Thread Johnson David
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 04:28 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: I added to my kernel config file: device pca (this was mentioned in the NOTES file) Typically a PC speaker is not an audio device in the normal sense of the term. It's there just to make beeps, and not music. It's not going to do

devfs and umass devices

2003-06-25 Thread Johnson David
I just upgraded to 5.1-RELEASE last night. I have a Jungsoft Nexdisk USB memory stick that is being successfully recognized. Since I want the memory stick to be usable by users of group operator, I need the /dev/da0s1 device to be mode 0664. Then they can mount the device on one of their own