Gnome green screen of death

2013-09-26 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I have installed X11 and Gnome on my computer equipped with FreeBSD 9.1. The X11 and Gnome packages were taken from the d.v.d.-r.o.m. that contained the operating system. The computer is an H.P. Z220 with an Intel Xeon quad-core processor. I do not

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2013-04-12 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiasts. Is there anyone who has attempted to install a TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 p.c.i.-express wireless network interface card? I am using FreeBSD 9.1 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. The card works perfectly under Windows XP. However, it seems that the

Install TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 wireless network interface card

2013-04-10 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSd enthusiasts. Is there anyone who has attempted to install a TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 p.c.i.-express wireless network interface card? I am using FreeBSD 9.1 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. The card works perfectly under Windows XP. However, it seems that the

Fwd: Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-17 Thread leeoliveshackelford
---BeginMessage--- On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Dear Mr. Block, Greetings. Thank you for your response to my message. Your instruction to change the name of the disk drive from ah0 to aha0 worked. I can now boot FreeBSD. The next trick will be to attempt to

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the boot loader. The handbook says to run this command, boot0cfg -B ad0. When I run this

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message

FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so that it can be booted from the traditional master boot record? It is important

Architectural CAD software

2012-07-26 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I did not receive a response to the following message, so I would like to rephrase the question. Does anyone use an architectural CAD application with FreeBSD? If so, would you be willing to share any comments, opinions, or advice with me concerning your

CYCAS architectural C.A.D. software

2012-07-24 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good day FreeBSD enthusiasts. Has anyone installed and used CYCAS architectural CAD software on a FreeBSD system? Is this possible? If you have used CYCAS on a FreeBSD system, would you like to share with me your comments about your experience? Many thanks. Lee Shackelford

FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

2012-06-21 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation, I had one hard drive. I partitioned it with two slices, the first one for FreeBSD 8.2 with its native file system, and the second one for a future re-installation of Windows XP, to be formatted with NTFS file system.

Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Normally, only one of them is logged in at any given time. I have

Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2011-12-30 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am a newcomer, and have installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400. After many hours of frustration, I am tearing my hair out. I want my system to include an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card, MIDI over USB driver, X-windows, and Gnome. The

8.1-release Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition u.s.b. 2.0 drive

2011-01-28 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good evening, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I seem to be flummoxed by the FreeBSD website. I am trying to discover the list of supported devices for 8.1-release, which I know exists, but I do not seem to be able to find. In particular, does this version of FreeBSD support a Western Digital My

location of discussion of lives

2009-12-25 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search terms to find a general discussion about this topic. I would like to know

Fwd: location of discussion of livefs

2009-12-25 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Greetings FreeBSD enthusiast. Sorry that I misspelled the issue of interest in the subject line. ---BeginMessage--- Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about livefs. I have not been successful at