Re: cannot install apache22 on FBSD 8.0

2010-01-13 Thread PJ
On 1/13/2010 4:09 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Gentlemen, I am absolutely stupefied by apache22, php5, php5-extensions and phpmysql refusing to be updated or installed I did manage to do one installation on a freshly upgraded box from 7.2 to 8.0 but with very frustrating and time

Re: cannot install apache22 on FBSD 8.0

2010-01-13 Thread PJ
On 1/13/2010 11:02 AM, keneasson wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:44:55 +0600 *PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca* wrote On 1/13/2010 4:09 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Gentlemen, I am absolutely stupefied by apache22, php5, php5

cannot install apache22 on FBSD 8.0

2010-01-12 Thread PJ
Gentlemen, I am absolutely stupefied by apache22, php5, php5-extensions and phpmysql refusing to be updated or installed I did manage to do one installation on a freshly upgraded box from 7.2 to 8.0 but with very frustrating and time consuming efforts. I still don't know how I managed, but it

Re: port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-09 Thread PJ
. On 1/9/2010 4:34 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Upgraded to 8.0 without problem. Reinstalling ports was tedious... but NP for most part. Sommehow the installation of apache22 stumbled over some configuration issues, I think I found that apache was running ok, except... php5

Re: port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-09 Thread PJ
On 1/9/2010 4:34 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Upgraded to 8.0 without problem. Reinstalling ports was tedious... but NP for most part. Sommehow the installation of apache22 stumbled over some configuration issues, I think I found that apache was running ok, except... php5 module

Re: port-MESS with apache22 update

2010-01-09 Thread PJ
On 1/9/2010 11:41 AM, PJ wrote: On 1/9/2010 4:34 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Upgraded to 8.0 without problem. Reinstalling ports was tedious... but NP for most part. Sommehow the installation of apache22 stumbled over some configuration issues, I think I found

port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-08 Thread PJ
Upgraded to 8.0 without problem. Reinstalling ports was tedious... but NP for most part. Sommehow the installation of apache22 stumbled over some configuration issues, I think I found that apache was running ok, except... php5 module was not correctly installed... So, I'm trying to reinstall

Re: port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-08 Thread PJ
Thought I'd better get more specific: I rebooted, apache is running. I deleted the apache2 directories -- but lo and behold, it is the php5 port that is stubborn and absolutely insists on creating these directories. What in Hades is going on? === Installing for php5-5.2.12 === php5-5.2.12

flash alternative

2009-12-08 Thread PJ
I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: flash alternative

2009-12-08 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ ___ freebsd

Re: black-friday ads -- ASUS-EEE's

2009-11-28 Thread PJ
ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/26 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: � � � �Folks, � � � �IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black FRiday � � � �adds that offer a 9-10 ASUS-EEE, I'd appreciate it. � (I've been � � � �poking around for much of today, but zip.) �The stores that

Re: ATI Eyefinity support in FreeBSD

2009-11-13 Thread PJ
Jerry wrote: I recently came across this web page regarding ATI: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx Is this supported under FreeBSD also? Hey, this is indeed very interesting. But did you read the fine print at the bottom of the page? Linux support

advice on setting up new site

2009-11-11 Thread PJ
that could be applicable to meet our needs. I look forward to hearing from from you :-) Questions are welcome ... so are investors ;-) PJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:18 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: No. The only way is by hitting the SysRq/PrintScreen key if the AllowEmptyInput is not off, otherwise you have to reboot. Reboot isn't needed to fix things - that's a misbelief from Windows

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:21:18PM -0400, PJ wrote: I also have tried with the monitor in digital mode as well as in analog... neither works. Do you mean with a VGA and DVI connector? You got it... right! It seems to me that the options for flatpanel

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
Oh, yes... I forgot to mention that although I got it to work... it works only in DVI mode (digital) - on FreeBSD, anyway. This makes me wonder how I could ever set up two of these babies on the same video card. Like for video editing? On XP it only works in DSUB (analog) mode. The DSUB mode just

and now for conky gremlins

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
conky is still working ok...but the calendar is limping... rather strange here's the .conkyrc: snip... ${color green}CALENDAR ${hr 2}$color #${execi 300 ~/bin/calendar.sh} ${execi 300 cal | awk 'NR1' | sed -e 's/ //g' -e 's/[^ ] / /g' -e 's/..*/ /' -e s/\ `date +%d`/\[`date +%d`\]/} output

anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread PJ
I have posted to Xorg, but I find this list most reassuring and competent ;-) I have searched the web, followed the instructions in the manual, the man pages and suggestions on the web. Nothing, nada. And I see there is a lot of frustration out there and not solutions discernible. I can post the

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:47:47PM -0400, PJ wrote: I have posted to Xorg, but I find this list most reassuring and competent ;-) I have searched the web, followed the instructions in the manual, the man pages and suggestions on the web. Nothing, nada. And I see

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
this because PC-BSD with its KDE centric concept simply isn't my cup of tea, but that doesn't mean that it's not a good OS - hey, it's still FreeBSD. :-) Tony, I can understand that you might get the impression that PJ doesn't have a full understanding of the concepts and procedures needed to know

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
still FreeBSD. :-) Tony, I can understand that you might get the impression that PJ doesn't have a full understanding of the concepts and procedures needed to know in order to properly operate FreeBSD. This may be true. But he's constantly learning and understanding, and I think even

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Tony McC wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:00 + Tony McC af...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi PJ, ok, I tried (I was also trying to offer you support, just a different kind). There was a lot of irrelevant material in your response but the part I have quoted shows such a deep

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:13:02 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: And I do wish I could use only FreeBSD... the problem is that there are some limitations on compatibility with the normal user's MS systems... You're mixing up things here. Things in MICROS~1

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:20 -0400, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:53 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon free...@edvax.de replied: [snip] That's not FreeBSD's fault. If professional web designers need to optimize their content in order to

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-27 Thread PJ
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: That is precisely why I keep an XP box nearby. There is no way in hell that I would want to personally, or expect a colleague for that matter, to waste valuable time getting a simple plug-in to work; especially since I can do it in a matter of seconds on a

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-27 Thread PJ
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Ok... supose you use FreeBSD 7.2 P3 (last version) but the RELEASE should work too.. supose you use AMD64 1) compile a custom kernel with SEM (semaphore enable) (sem_enable=YES) in the loader.conf 2) deinstall all linux stuff, remove the /compat/linux

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
- not updated for a while, but it might be some useful input. Cheers herb langhans On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:56:58PM -0400, PJ wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works. This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that there are compatibility

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Freminlins wrote: 2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk % pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: Depends on: Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g Dependency:

flashplugin

2009-10-24 Thread PJ
Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works. I thought I had installed it with linux-f8 emulations but I found the linux-f4 on the machine... so I don't

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-24 Thread PJ
Glen Barber wrote: Howdy, On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:56 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just editing fstab will do it? You could indicate

glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is already a disk on the system with the

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Johan Hendriks wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Johan Hendriks wrote: I understood that labeling a disk with glabel would permit the disk to be switched to another system and booting from that disk would not require other manupulations than adjusting network configuration, samba, rc.conf and a few others.. But what if there is

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would work; I am trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I can update

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Actually, I have been trying to clone a disk and then install the disk in another machine or same clone in several machines. That's why I thought that once

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-19 Thread PJ
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: # DeviceMountpointFStypeOptionsDumpPass# /dev/label/swapnoneswapsw00 /dev/label/rootfs/ufsrw11 /dev/label

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread PJ
Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:36:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or anything... but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread PJ
Ian Smith wrote: PJ, having (in this case at least) the luxury of reading freebsd-questions as a digest, I'm going to quote a few of your extracts from several messages, largely without surounding context, as it's all incredibly repetitive, masively overquoted and mostly just grasping

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:29:04 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: It is simple to understand Emglish but not so simple what was meant by whoever wrote it...I cannot correct something that I do not uderstand... come on, man, that should be easy to understand

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of PJ Sent: zaterdag 17 oktober 2009 3:50 To: Steve Bertrand Cc: Polytropon; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Bob Hall wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:27:42PM -0400, PJ wrote: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. I'm a native English speaker, and the manual makes perfect sense to me. It's very clear to me that since the statement

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or anything... but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I have described above? Woldn't that confuse anyone in their right

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
Steve Bertrand wrote: PJ wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed to a certain degree, of course). 'Should' can certainly mean

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread PJ
michael wrote: PJ wrote: Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole system: for instance, let's look at the instructions

GEOM label clarification

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
If I understand correctly from the manual, giving the labels their slice name (/dev/label/rootfs rather than /dev/ad4s1a) will assure that regardless of the disk, the boot will be from the disk being booted and not from another disk as happened to me recently - the fstab on disk ad4 was referncing

Re: GEOM label clarification

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: If I understand correctly from the manual, giving the labels their slice name (/dev/label/rootfs rather than /dev/ad4s1a) will assure that regardless of the disk, the boot will be from the disk being booted and not from another disk as happened to me

Re: GEOM label clarification

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: If I understand correctly from the manual, giving the labels their slice name (/dev/label/rootfs rather than /dev/ad4s1a) will assure that regardless of the disk, the boot will be from the disk

Re: GEOM label clarification

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
NOW THIS SUCKS. SUM # glabel label rootfs/dev/ad12s1a glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad12s1a: Operation not permitted This is direct from the manual what the $#*(@)! is going on? No identical post on web, but similar say to ignore: it's harmless? I so, why is it there? There seem to

Re: GEOM label clarification

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: NOW THIS SUCKS. SUM # glabel label rootfs/dev/ad12s1a glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad12s1a: Operation not permitted This is direct from the manual what the $#*(@)! is going on? No identical post on web, but similar say to ignore: it's

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:08 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just mount iit as you would any other disk. # mount -t msdosfs /dev

I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole system: for instance, let's look at the instructions for changing disk labels with

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole system: for instance, let's look

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. A common misunderstanding about manpages can be that they are often (wishfully?) seen as a tutorial

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or anything... but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I have described above? Woldn't that confuse anyone in their right

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Manolis, my state of mind is quite clear... and I'm coping with everything quite allright... I'm not about to get mad at anyone or anything... but tell me, honestly, when you see the stuff I have described above? Woldn't that confuse anyone in their right

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Steve Bertrand wrote: PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run on active

booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... #df shows we have been booted

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... #df shows we have

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... #df shows we have

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:13:08 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: add another thought... If I change the mbr on the ad12 then mount ad4s1a to /mnt copy /mnt/boot/boot0 to /boot/boot0.tmp and then copy the modified /boot/boot0 (for ad4) back to /mnt/boot

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:29 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: The /etc/fstab from ad12 will point at ad12. After restoring on ad4, did you edit fstab to now have ad4 entries? Ha! Excellent point; I missed to see this obvious thing. Next to

how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel man pages etc that I have not even selected; and if I use postinstall configuration, that doesn't do anything. Or should I use fixit and then do the manual thing?

usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB keys. When inserted, generate errors: da0 seems to be read correctly but then comes arow of (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error snip NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present Unretryable error then cd0

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:24 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: But sysinstall will overwrite all the info on the disk and that defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. If you only change a slice's state and add an MBR, it won't do anything to the data

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel man pages etc that I have not even selected; Just don't go

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Tobias Rehbein wrote: Am Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:17:43PM +0200 schrieb Polytropon: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: You can use sysinstall from the Fixit CD, too. That's the way I'm mostly doing this kind of thing: Preparing the disk

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB keys. When inserted, generate errors: da0 seems to be read correctly but then comes arow of (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error snip NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB keys. When inserted, generate errors: da0 seems to be read correctly but then comes arow of (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:45 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Now that I have had a few moments to think about it, maybe I have to give good old cruze and enema and format it under XP ... maybe all it needs is a clean system on it. ;-) I'm not sure if USB

clone-dump-restore

2009-10-14 Thread PJ
Gentlemen, I have not had a chance to thank you for your very helpful suggestions. I have tried to follow them as well as possible and I cerainly am grateful for your input. It has taken me some time to prepare for a cloning of an existing 7.2 sytem. Now that I have everything running smoothly

Re: clone-dump-restore

2009-10-14 Thread PJ
I believe that my problems arise out of subliminal refuse syndrome: the brain refuses to comprehend dump and restore TOs and FROMs. In other words, I'm beginning to see that dump -0af TO ( - or device/file) FROM (device or directory/file) and restore -rf (TO curr.dir FROM device or file) or

conky calendar

2009-10-10 Thread PJ
I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the Net; it doesn't display quite correctly. It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out what is not functioning correctly: #!/bin/sh cal | awk 'NR2' | sed -e 's/ //g' -e 's/[^ ] / /g' -e 's/..*/

just cloning

2009-09-30 Thread PJ
Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2 computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately. This link http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html seems to be about right, but I'd like to get some

backups cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. I would like to do 2 things: 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation 2. set up a backup script to back up changes either

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. I would like to do 2 things: 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:44:38 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: This may be clear to someone; it certainly is not to me. As I understand it, newfs will (re)format the slice. No. The newfs program does create a new file system. In other terminology, this can be called a formatting

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Olivier Nicole wrote: $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target $ cd /target $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - [...] But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can Thats ad*1*s1a that has just been formatted, not

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can it be dumped if its been formatted? When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your commands. Failure to do so

conky, anyone?

2009-09-04 Thread PJ
Anybody have any luck with installing conky on 7.2? I get errors when configured with or without xmms2: with - file xmmxclient.4 not found without - conky.h:67:18: error: bmpx.h: no such file of directory... TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: conky, anyone?

2009-09-04 Thread PJ
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: 2009/9/4 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca: Anybody have any luck with installing conky on 7.2? I get errors when configured with or without xmms2: with - file xmmxclient.4 not found without - conky.h:67:18: error: bmpx.h: no such file of directory... TIA Error

moving a disk

2009-08-24 Thread PJ
I am trying to move a 7.2 installation to another computer where it is to be the only OS acting as a server for the lan. On bootup I get the message: Using drive 0, partition 3. And there it hangs. I have tried to rewrite the mbr but that did absolutely nothing. fik ad0 returns: partitions 1,2,3

Re: moving a disk

2009-08-24 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: I am trying to move a 7.2 installation to another computer where it is to be the only OS acting as a server for the lan. On bootup I get the message: Using drive 0, partition 3. And there it hangs. I have tried to rewrite the mbr but that did absolutely nothing. fik ad0 returns

Re: moving a disk

2009-08-24 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:50:28AM -0400, PJ wrote: PJ wrote: I am trying to move a 7.2 installation to another computer where it is to be the only OS acting as a server for the lan. On bootup I get the message: Using drive 0, partition 3. And there it hangs

Re: moving a disk

2009-08-24 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:33:25PM -0400, PJ wrote: I'm afraid I was a bit impatient Patience is a virtue. Installing stuff can take hours, and a split-second can suffice to screw it all up. Been there done that. :-) and messed up the already messed up

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22,

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup csup ports-supfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u /usr//local/sbin/pkgdb -uvF cd $LOCAL_DIR === Good Luck! lane On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:12 -0400, PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files

installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread PJ
Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-20 Thread PJ
An update on the problems of the boot sector disks. So far, I have not found any errors on the guilty disks from one computer... the Seagate Tools for checking their ( other) disks show no errors on the disks themselves. I haven't finished with them all, yet as I am trying to set up a couple of

plip0 GEOM_LABEL

2009-08-17 Thread PJ
to I get rid of the GEOM_LABEL: stuff - it seems unnecessary... TIA PJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: plip0 GEOM_LABEL

2009-08-17 Thread PJ
b. f. wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:00:31PM -0400, PJ wrote: version 7.2 GENERIC kernel on bootup, dmesg shows plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag Is this significant? Of what? It means that someone should update this driver

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote: Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting shei**e that doesn't make sense. 1. The fbsd minimal installation that I had set up for recovery of the previous crash does not boot... Now, why

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote: I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give some insight on what is see from this end: Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally) think about all this and actually, I am tending more toward

this is csup ?

2009-08-13 Thread PJ
Please, please reassure me that I do come from Mars: What am I missing in the following? (direct quote from http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html : Then copy this script to /usr/local/sbin/ and run it when you want to update your ports, source docs. #!/bin/sh # # Update source,

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