Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:27:55 Erik Trulsson wrote:
The amd64 architecture is called that because it was AMD who invented and
created it and was for a while the only one using it and since AMD named
the architecture AMD64 that was the name FreeBSD used too. Later
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:44:15PM +0300, Anton typed:
Hello freebsd-questions,
Found the solution here: [1]http
://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-10/msg01065
.html
But do not know how to apply patch :-(
The URL you posted says it all:
Save
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:50 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:53:22 Coert Waagmeester wrote:
I tried it via the ports, but this error keeps popping up:
Missing pkg-descr for patch-2.5.9.
I believe you have a defective ports tree. You should have the following file:
Coert Waagmeester skrev:
Hello all,
What is the best way to install eclipse on FreeBSD 7.2?
On Linux I installed java, and downloaded the newest eclipse.
Regards,
Coert
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... PowerPC is dead ...
I suspect both IBM and Freescale would beg to differ :)
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Many people's only familiarity with computers in general will be from a
Windows centric perspective. Somehow there is a tendency to believe that
inserting a CD, booting, and then proceeding to click OK in a dialog box a
few dozen times makes them some kind of expert when they successfully
Randall Wood wrote:
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Riegler wrote:
Has anyone tested Arora?
I'm actually surprised no one has recommended Konqueror. It's not my
favorite browser (I happen to love Opera) but it would seem to mostly fit the
bill of fast,
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote:
... PowerPC is dead ...
Well yes
(lousy excuse coming up!) I meant in the PC/Mac world... ;-)
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On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
[snip]
To achieve this, there are two things that should be made
Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
It's called PC-BSD.
HTH HAND
Matthew
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Frank Shute wrote:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:43:05AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote:
[snip]
Well, we can start to agree that FreeBSD is not a distro, but a UNIX
operating system. :)
We can't quite agree on that ;)
BSD=Berkeley Software Distribution AKA distro of Unix
At least the
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
It's called PC-BSD.
HTH HAND
Matthew
Nice
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:50 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:53:22 Coert Waagmeester wrote:
I tried it via the ports, but this error keeps popping up:
Missing pkg-descr for patch-2.5.9.
I believe
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Mel
Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
Your best bet is to poll the mobile list (CC'd) to see if anyone was able to
get FreeBSD working on this laptop (or even to know whether this is a lost
cause till somebody makes some patches for this
Hi,
On 06 August 2009 pm 14:35:40 Mark Stapper wrote:
Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:27:55 Erik Trulsson wrote:
The amd64 architecture is called that because it was AMD who
invented and created it and was for a while the only one
Now I come to think of it, isn't it
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Because people using them, new what they were doing.
And probably didn't care...
IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the
Itanium?
The one that didn't stick... indeed.
Yes, also Intel can fail. Intel also failed with their first 32
bit
Hi,
On 06 August 2009 pm 16:40:41 Mark Stapper wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the
Itanium?
The one that didn't stick... indeed.
do they really sell machines with this CPU in numbers?
I have not seen one in the wild.
Yes, also
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:39:38AM -0600, Modulok wrote:
But I'm also looking for a good way to generate high quality crypto
keys. In the later case, the data being protected are disk images of
clients...mountains of sensitive data. These will be on USB
keys, and thus do not need to be
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:18:09PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On 06 August 2009 pm 16:40:41 Mark Stapper wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the
Itanium?
The one that didn't stick... indeed.
do they really sell
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeownj.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
I am not saying that a Windows user should be able to feel right at home
on a box running FreeBSD, but a computer user
- Original Message -
From: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com
To: Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade
7.2overwrites partitions)
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at
Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:02:58 +0300,
Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com a écrit :
# grep ftps /etc/services
ftps-data 989/tcp# ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL
ftps-data 989/udp
ftps990/tcp# ftp protocol, control, over TLS/SSL
ftps990/udp
Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run
natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it,
I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I
can't find it by hand. Anyone have the URL handy?
Respectfully,
On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:19:47 Robert Huff wrote:
Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run
natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it,
I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I
can't find it by hand.
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:19:47AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run
natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it,
I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I
can't find it by
Evening folks... have just built up a new 7.0-RELEASE box, and have gone to
update it to 7.0-RELEASEp11, however, whenever I run freebsd-update fetch I get
the following:
bigsis2# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for
Damn have no clue how to build fix or anything with plist ... Except it
seemd to be a list of the files used ??
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.netmel.flynn%2bfbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net
wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 10:35:02
[snip]
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
I am not saying that a Windows user should be able to feel right at home
on a box running FreeBSD, but a computer
On Thursday 06 August 2009 00:07:33 Coert Waagmeester wrote:
I have PKGDIR variable exported.
Ack, yeah. Should've thought of that. It's a badly chosen variable name for
pkg_add. You could make an alias though:
alias pkg_keep='env PKGDIR=/path/to/whatever pkg_add -K'
--
Mel
John Nielsen wrote:
There's always the build logs on pointyhat:
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/
And some reports here:
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html
These are not the droids I'm looking for.
As I remember the page, it has three columns: the port name, the
Well, the bad day has come... My primary server won't boot. I have
backups of databases and user directories, but I need to try to get
this server back up again.
During the boot sequence, it freezes at the statement:
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a
I tried booting into single
Kalle Møller wrote:
Damn have no clue how to build fix or anything with plist ... Except it
seemd to be a list of the files used ??
Pretty much, the porters handbook has a decent section on it if your
interested. Any installed files except man pages and documentation
(which are specified in
Identry wrote:
Well, the bad day has come... My primary server won't boot. I have
backups of databases and user directories, but I need to try to get
this server back up again.
During the boot sequence, it freezes at the statement:
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a
I
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ben Fallonbfal...@itbuildersinc.com wrote:
Might want to take a look at this page as it may provide a bit more insight.
The problem isn't with the Machine specifically but with the ATI Sata
Controller/Chipset. Not sure if this has been fixed yet.
Might want to take a look at this page as it may provide a bit more insight.
The problem isn't with the Machine specifically but with the ATI Sata
Controller/Chipset. Not sure if this has been fixed yet.
http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-currentid=2740699
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and touch the physical
workstation. Things I'm trying to avoid, to list a couple of
examples:
1. Go to BIOS settings
Bernt Hansson wrote:
Matthew Seaman skrev:
Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
It's called PC-BSD.
Have a look at Manolis Kiagias
On 8/6/09, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and touch the physical
workstation. Things I'm trying to avoid, to
Al Plant wrote:
Bernt Hansson wrote:
Matthew Seaman skrev:
Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
It's called PC-BSD.
Have a look
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:35:55PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
On 8/6/09, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 04. Aug 2009, 13:26:24 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
an Acer notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad makes some trouble
here.
This is a real mess. Nobody gives me any help and I do not know
what to try any further. I reduced the problem to the following
behaviour:
# dd
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your
data/configs etc etc
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:56:59 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified
package manager.
If you're talking about PBI, that's what the average user expects:
You open a web browser (d'oh), search for what you
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freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote:
Message: 16
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:41:12 -0500
From: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was:
upgrade 7.2
overwrites partitions)
I have a server in Manhattan (NYI.net) that isn't booting. I'm trying
to fix it (not making any changes until I'm absolutely sure I know
what the problem is and how to fix it), but I have the feeling that
this problem may be beyond my relatively limited admin skills. If you
are a very experienced
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:48:10 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
I should however note that although this work takes out most of the
compiling steps (and I plan to expand the range of pre-built packages
soon), it is still not a common man's OS, as all the configuration
steps are
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 02:46:05 +0100, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
At least the OP didn't make the faux pas of calling FreeBSD a Linux
distro like one of his colleagues did a couple of years ago on this
list.
I've seen this in a german Linux magazine, titeling in a way
similar to this:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:51:00 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Been thinking over what someone said recently about restricting or
dropping further ports. BSD is the best opensource system around. But
keeping everything current is painful.
If you're not running a
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:53:23 +0200, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On FreeBSD, you don't need to download things manually via a web
browser in this old fashioned way. :-)
Unfortunately this is not true for the jdk. But it's only a minor
disadvantage ;-)
Sadly,
inspired by a guy (the OP) who has been using fBSD for many
years
(over 5 . . . I can't remember the exact number).
I have been struggling to use FreeBSD for a shorter amount of time (for a
fileserver). I was originally attracted to OpenBSD for security. However,
OpenBSD users are
Identry wrote:
During the boot sequence, it freezes at the statement:
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:31:49PM -0400, Identry wrote:
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
probably your OS/kernel but
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:14:49 +0100
David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote:
Hi every one
My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for
systems with Intel Quad Core processors.
It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean
why does freebsd
--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
So, this long story boils down to the following
question:
What is that best way to use the handbook and related
documentation (like man-pages)?
What?!
Ummm . . . read them. I'm not trying to be too big of a
dick, but
How do you expect to get comfortable w/out playing
around, other
than, I guess (a'la above) reading the documentation?
Put another way: I want a reliable, backed-up file-server before playing
around on my workstation that would be a separate computer.
I want to build myself a sand-box so
Nerius Landys wrote:
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and touch the physical
workstation.
I assume that users cannot tingle with the hardware, take it
Identry wrote:
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your
James Phillips wrote:
Put another way: I want a reliable, backed-up file-server before playing
around on my workstation that would be a separate computer.
I want to build myself a sand-box so I don't have to worry about breaking
stuff that is unrelated.
Another way of asking the question:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:46:21 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 04. Aug 2009, 13:26:24 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
an Acer notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad makes some trouble
here.
This is a real mess. Nobody gives me any help and I do not know
what to try any further.
I've got a server in lower manhattan (at NYI.net datacenter) that
hangs when trying to mount the root partition. I'm working on it right
now, but have a feeling this may be beyond my limited admin skills,
and I really need this server back online ASAP.
Might be time to hire a professional.
Can
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:56:41 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca
wrote:
I was also attracted to BSD because I knew from my brief stint at
university that the BSD man-pages were actually kept up to date.
As a developer, documentation is VERY important to me. That's why
I love
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go about
it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is there an upgrade path
that's not fraught with gotchas?
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As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:41:40 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca
wrote:
Put another way: I want a reliable, backed-up file-server before
playing around on my workstation that would be a separate
computer.
The default installation of FreeBSD covers most cases.
I want to build
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:31:12 -0400, Identry jalmb...@identry.com wrote:
I've booted the install CD1 and found something called 'fixit' mode.
I've been googling, but can't seem to find any info on 'fixit'. Is it
possible to use this instead of a livefs disk?
As far as I remember, that's correct.
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:09:51 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
Windows experience won't help much - mainly due to the fact Windows
forces the users (and admins) to a completely different way of thinking
than FreeBSD.
That's true. It's even hard to communicate with 'Windows'
Hi,
On 06 August 2009 pm 19:07:12 Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:18:09PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
On 06 August 2009 pm 16:40:41 Mark Stapper wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for
the Itanium?
The one that
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Schmehlpschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is there an
upgrade path that's not fraught with gotchas?
--
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:14:15AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:51:00 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Been thinking over what someone said recently about restricting or
dropping further ports. BSD is the best opensource system around. But
keeping
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:15:18 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com
wrote:
Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory
folder.
Terminology: the directory (is not a folder, and not a directory folder).
FreeBSD has directories, not folders. :-)
--
Polytropon
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:25:07 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Super! just offhand, can i install PCSD *over* thius FBSd
--7.1--? Keep /usr/home and so on?
basically yes. Check if the installer allows you NOT to format
the partition where you have your home directories. If
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:21:14PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is there an
upgrade path that's not fraught with gotchas?
i have a me-too here. i don't
Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your
data/configs etc etc
Once taken the time to set things up, they make you happy running for
a lifetime. :-)
Amen.
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--On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould
andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Schmehlpschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com
wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is
On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:21:14 Paul Schmehl wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is there an
upgrade path that's not fraught with gotchas?
Wait a week I'd say. KDE 4.3.0 has hit the ports
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:15:18 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com
wrote:
Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory
folder.
Terminology: the directory (is not a folder, and not a directory
Hello,
I have a device that sends one byte over the serial line every 10ms.
Using c, I wrote an application that opens the serial port and reads
bytes in an infinite loop. I disabled all blocking (O_NONBLOCK, VMIN=0,
VTIME=0, B115200). My CPU spends ~100% of its time calling read()
[which
[snip]
Once taken the time to set things up, they make you happy running for
a lifetime. :-)
[/snip]
It's nice to be able to go on vacation, without worrying about the
servers back home craping out :)
-Modulok-
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mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:21:14 Paul Schmehl wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:25:38PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
[snip]
Once taken the time to set things up, they make you happy running for
a lifetime. :-)
[/snip]
It's nice to be able to go on vacation, without worrying about the
servers back home craping out :)
-Modulok-
Really.
On Thursday 06 August 2009 05:53:05 pm Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould
andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Schmehlpschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com
wrote:
Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:37:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:15:18 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com
wrote:
Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory
folder.
Terminology: the directory (is not a folder, and not a directory
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