Is it possible, when booted into FreeBSD, to run Linux programs from an actual
Linux installation, instead of the Linux-emulation ports?
User would have both FreeBSD and Linux installed on hard drive, and might
possibly
mount -t ext2fs /dev/linux-partition /compat/linux
I noticed there was a
I too had the problem of Command not found after freshly installing something
from ports, but I thought that was a peculiarity of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and 2.
I was going to post this question to freebsd-current list.
For instance, if I typed which lynx, it was not found, but was found if I ran
ls
I don't think you can use gpart on a slice of an MBR-partitioned disk.
You can run man gpart if you didn't already; I didn't see anything to migrate
an MBR partition table to GPT.
The older gpt, which NetBSD still uses, can migrate an MBR partition table to
GPT.
You could try Roderick Smith's
FreeBSD needs to acknowledge its history, and C has been and still is a
critical part.
Dennis Ritchie's role deserves to be acknowledged.
Tom
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After I run
csup /usr/share/examples/releng9-supfile
how do I know I have the correct version, like 9.0-BETA3 or 9.0-RC1?
I can't find any such information explicitly anywhere under /usr/src .
This releng9-supfile was made from stable-supfile by changing RELENG_8 to
RELENG_9 in the line
From: Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd:
Maybe also I should put this releng9-supfile in a safer place where
it won't be deleted by the next installation/upgrade?
Indeed you should.
From my /etc/make.conf:
SUP_UPDATE= yes
SUP=/usr/bin/csup
SUPFLAGS= -zgL 2
from Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org:
I like to have all config dialogs done and out of the way.
You might want to consider using portmaster, which handles that (and a
bunch of other stuff) for you.
I think portmaster has an equivalent for 'portupgrade -R' to portupgrade
dependencies?
I
from Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk:
Don't define PORTSSUPFILE in /etc/make.conf if you're using portsnap(1).
Apart from anything else, typing 'make update' in /usr/src will attempt
to cvsup not just the system sources but as well any of PORTS, DOC where
you've defined a
from Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org:
I like to save a build log, would the config-recursive part be
disrupted or disruptive?
I don't understand that question either. :) portmaster has an option to
log build/install, and it's completely separate from the process of
showing the user the
from Mark Felder f...@feld.me:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are
instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go
home and do the same with my
Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux?
I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to
mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file
system
+type.
Any help in this regard is very much appreciated.
Many
Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade
-r ...) or the portmaster equivalent.
Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is
the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or
just self-flagellation?
--
Jerry ???
What software, base or ports, is used to burn a CD or DVD on a SATA drive,
/dev/cd0 ?
Would burncd be appropriate, or do I need cdrtools? Or cdrkit?
This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64.
I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and
SATA, but cdrecord can't see
I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a
thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see anything
(running cdrecord -scanbus):
cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot
open or use SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try
from my previous message:
Does growisofs work on CDRs or only DVDs?
If 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work at all, how do I get the SCSI device
n:n:n? Use camcontrol?
I see both FreeBSD and NetBSD have makefs (which can make a UFS/FFS or iso
file system, taking the place of mkisofs in
Hello all,
i try to unmute a box with a mcp79 ane alc-889.
the sound is working on another os, and playback
and recording are treated separately by os x, (10.7).
i tried different combinations according to the snd_hda man page,
but i cannot find a good one.
Pleease, have you some
from William Bulley w...@umich.edu:
Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a
pipe having an xzcat(1) in front of the tar(1) command. Maybe there
is an xz option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man
page doesn't list any, sigh... It does list
from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.):
I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different
partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your
/usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 10G, to hold all stuff you
built from the ports. And putting /var on a
What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config
file?
Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it
make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated?
I am trying to burn a CD (or DVD) on a SATA DVD-RW drive, but cdrtools don't
work.
Also, how
According to ugen man page, ugen can be compiled into the kernel with
device ugen
in config file.
I tried that in the kernel config when upgrading from FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 to RC2,
but the kernel build stopped quickly with the message that ugen was not valid.
After removing that line from kernel
from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com:
If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to
exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded
(relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES, for example in
/etc/make.conf. If you are only going to build a few
Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net writes:
What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel
config file?
Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it
make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated?
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions
from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com:
If the kernel versions were compatible, and the set of modules were
the same, I suppose you could set MODULES_WITH_WORLD and
KODIR=/boot/modules during buildworld and installworld, to build the
modules as part of buildworld and install them in /boot/modules
On 11/27/11, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes:
What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel
config file?
Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but
will it make things
--- On Sat, 12/10/11, Douglas F Taylor dft...@gmail.com wrote:
Can ROX-Desktop work on FreeBSD, I am
just starting to learn FreeBSD??
Doug
I think I remember seeing ROX-Desktop and roxterm in the ports collection?
Tom
___
What is the BSD equivalent of Linux cp -rpu ?
I tried that in FreeBSD, or maybe it was NetBSD, and -u was not recognized.
I think the issue would be differences between GNU/Linux coreutils and
util-linux and the BSD counterparts.
the -u flag, for update, means not to copy files that exist in
How would I build FreeBSD, in this case 9.0-RELEASE, for two or more
architectures, in this case i386 and amd64?
One build (amd64) would update the present system (9.0 RC3), but the other
would go on a USB stick, likely 16 GB.
Real question is how to keep things like /usr/obj and other things
While on the subject of Clang, is this compiler only for C, C++ and Objective-C?
What about Ada and Fortran? Does one need GCC for that? Dragonlace for Ada?
I believe some of the ports require GCC. Many of these ports are developed
primarily for Linux and subsequently ported to FreeBSD ports
On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote:
NetBSD
Not recommended, sorry to say
Why?
Fritz Wuehler fr...@spamexpire-201201.rodent.frell.theremailer.net responded:
Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and
NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say
from: Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.net:
b) Does 9.0 have USB 3.0 support.
my system says:
Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: xhci0: XHCI (generic) USB 3.0
controller mem 0xf9cfe000-0xf9cf irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
Jan 27 22:16:51 server kernel: xhci0: 64 byte context size.
Jan 27
from Kévin Hagner jsaipakoim...@spyzone.fr:
I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 2Gb
RAM and no native swap partition.
Oh. You should never configure a Unix system without at least some swap
space available, and configuring at least as much swap as you
Has anyone gotten one to work?
Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a
different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on.
Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm
not say that, YET.
I'd like to hear from
Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer
side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or
test my USB receptacles?
USB 3.0 connectors have a somewhat different appearance than USB 2.0 or 1.1
connectors.
I knew which were which from
from Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com:
I have:
casa# disktype /dev/da1
--- /dev/da1
Character device, size 3.771 GiB (4048551936 bytes)
FreeBSD boot loader (i386 boot2/BTX 1.02 at sector 2)
BSD disklabel (at sector 1), 8 partitions
Partition c: 2.145 GiB (2302711808 bytes, 4497484
from Vinicio Santiago Altamirano Mendez mail@gmail.com:
please can u tell me how to remapping tftp with a remapping file or exist
another form?.
i see that in tftp manual no exist the -m option
how to do remapping on tftp on mac os x 10.6 pleas
thanks.
Is this question for FreeBSD
I would like to build FreeBSD to install in two places: regular hard drive and
also on a USB stick, probably 8 GB.
USB stick install would be for backup, in case something goes awry with a later
update, then I have something to fall back on; could also install tools such as
gdisk to use on
What exactly went wrong? Setting DESTDIR is the correct way to do this
sort of thing. You only need to set it when running the installworld or
installkernel steps though -- there's nothing that gets compiled into
/usr/obj which prevents you from installing into a different than normal
tree.
From Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se:
After a reinstall of winxp, yes I know but the games.
I have a fat32 slice/partition/postcard whatever it's called.
Mocking me with:
testbox# fsck -y -t msdosfs /dev/ad4
** /dev/ad4
Invalid signature in fsinfo block
Fix? yes
fsck: /dev/ad4:
Better to make buildkernel and make installkernel as two
separate steps, rather than make kernel?
Yes. You only need to make buildkernel once, then make installkernel
for both $DESTDIRs.
The idea was to make buildkernel once and make buildworld once and install
to two different DESTDIRs.
The idea was to make buildkernel once and make buildworld once
and install to two different DESTDIRs.
I'm not sure I understand: The two install* targets (make installkernel
and make installworld) are only able to install to _one_ location,
which is the _default_ location *or* the location
from Polytropon:
In case you need to do more than one additional installation,
you should consider creating a tar archive of the fully installed
system and then use tar --unlink to the mounted target. If you
need to create many bootable systems from scratch, a script
performing the
- Original Message -
From: Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: portsnap update won't update original /usr/ports
According to the handbook, one can do
portsnap fetch
portsnap update
and the update
from Henri Reinikainen henr...@gmail.com:
Would it be stupid idea to have publicly available, mountable (nfs)
partition, with full port tree(s)? I think it would be good for
systems with low storage space. I know hd space is cheap, but I run
over and over to this problem.
I don't know how
How does one indicate a system source directory location when in other than
/usr/src?
That could be necessary when in another directory, for instance running ndiscvt.
Or one could be building FreeBSD for a USB stick and want to do the heavy work
on a hard drive; I could also want to build and
When a list member has problems with the list that require contacting a human
list owner/operator, what is the address to send to?
I received a probe message regarding messages to me that bounced, might have
been spams that slipped by the list's filters.
I was advised in the message that the
freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge
there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list
that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address
ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org.
The message you got about
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go.
I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged
to an USB2(two!) reports
da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0
da5:ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB
From Gary Aitken a...@dreamchaser.org :
I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network.
hp-probe finds it:
#hp-probe -bnet
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2)
Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1
...
Device URI Model
On 29 May 2012 20:06, phnxcs_...@lycos.com wrote:
Hello,
I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability
concerns. Below are the machines I use and would like to know which
version of FreeBSD will work best with each. The computer s are used
at home and away,
Well, I still see complains about a few quirks in 9 here in the list,
specially after certain src updates.
Re:Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148
Re: kern/168190: [pf] panic when using pf and route-to (maybe: bad fragment
handling?)
Re: ULE/sched issues on stable/9 -
From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
seems you like to incredibly complicated things.
It just happens that i configured that printer in one office and there is
NO NEED for this windows-style crappy shit from HP.
/usr/ports/print/hplip (make config and disable GUI trash) is
this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2
things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap.
Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS
server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out
over 2
Polytropon, you mention ppd files (.ppd or .ppd.gz).
Is this the binary plugin that hplip was unable to install for me?
Or am I grasping at straws?
Somehow I thought the binary plugin was much bigger than the .ppd.gz files
found in
/usr/local/share/ppd/HP/
Tom
For a server, you don't need a lot of fancy stuff such as Adobe Flash
and do you need this for a non-server? Adobe don't want us (FreeBSD users)
to use their closed-source software. And i respect their will and don't
use it. Which resulted in much easier browsing by the way :)
Some, too many,
- Original Message -
From: David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com
I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3
motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host,
desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC).
Can this be done with
Snippet from Jerry je...@seibercom.net:
I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then
threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use
2+ year old units that have been replaced by shiny new Windows units. I
don't see that changing anytime soon.
I
Snippet from David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239742.html
It looks like -STABLE are daily development/ test builds (?):
ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/
I'm looking for stability. I'll try
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org:
I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have
installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling
out the
+appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed:
for port in $ports
do
cd
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first
plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a
usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat
up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd
What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports and
for
make buildworld and make buildkernel in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE?
Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to make buildworld.
I see from reading the emailing lists that the intention is to make Clang the
On 17 June 2012 21:37, Thomas Mueller mueller...@insightbb.com wrote:
What is the current status of Clang vs. GCC as default compiler for ports
and for
make buildworld and make buildkernel in HEAD and 9.0-STABLE?
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang
Now one concern is wine
on an experimental/testing
installation, such as HEAD, where the basic intent is development.
From Volodymyr Kostyrko:
Thomas Mueller wrote:
Now one concern is wine not working when Clang is used to make buildworld.
For me I'm just waiting on toolchain stabilization as both this one and
(open
Snippet from Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
I successfully predicted the fall of linux (in quality point of view)
years ago, then netbsd - after this and my prediction were good.
Now i predict FreeBSD will fall within 2015 time frame.
What i mean fall - that it would be
from Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com:
No, this is unusual. But also remember that most of these lists are not
just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription. Then it
becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is.
That's not an accident, the admins work hard
Snippet from Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com:
I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under
GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not
giving back as the license requires. There was little to no way to
enforce the license, he decided
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself.
If FreeBSD appears
as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure this
will be good
I think any project that size is actually
My elder colleague often told me that it is the easiest and well-working way
to check whether the one is certified to work for Mac OS X to get USB mass
storage devices which work with *BSD :)
Just my 5 yen,
-|-__ YAMAMOTO, Taku
| __ t...@tackymt.homeip.net
What if a USB mass storage
Hi,
On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote:
I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I
tried the opposite.
I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work
on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works
from Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com:
I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the
click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get
any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would
make nice museum
from Al Plant n...@hdk5.net:
Thanks
Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is
throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a
FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive
the Omega disks we found.
Again thanks
from Al Plant n...@hdk5.net:
Aloha Woj,
How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I
read there is a USB to ide on the market.
I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when
they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives.
On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:59, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote:
We use dump to backup ext4 filesystems on linux (Centos6) at work
Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com responded:
You can find a version of dump for Linux that supports ext4. What I have
been completely unable to find is a
Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com responded:
According to:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list
It does not contain any version of restore.
There are a lot of Linux boot disks out there. I haven't found one yet that
includes an ext4 compatible restore. Debian lets you roll your
How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules?
I have
WITHOUT_MODULES= ulpt
in /etc/make.conf
but ulpt.ko always appears in /boot/kernel directory.
For now, I want to build all modules except for this one, but perhaps I could
keep everything in kernel config and
from Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more
modules?
Use the new means of /etc/src.conf (see man src.conf for
details) to prevent the building of modules.
I looked
from Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
Yes, /etc/src.conf uses WITHOUT_* on a per-module basis, so you need
to explicitely name the modules not to build.
But you're right, there's only WITHOUT_USB (for not building the
USB-related parts), so going with kernel configuration would be
a good point
No, I'm just borderline sure that WITHOUT_MODULES works
the same way as MODULES_OVERRIDE, that is it looks in
top directory in /usr/src/sys/modules/ and ulpt is in
/usr/src/sys/modules/usb/ulpt
Speaking of RAM savings, things you would always load
should be compiled in kernel, modules per
from Ivan Ivanov hel...@abv.bg:
Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it
posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this
specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD
I think it would be possible, but there would not be
from Ivan Ivanov hel...@abv.bg:
Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it
posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this
specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD
I think it would be possible, but there would not be
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote:
Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9)
is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161
217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and
5gb HDD
Polytropon free...@edvax.de
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote:
This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB
flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to
erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system.
In that case, screw slices and
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote:
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I
heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for
FreeBSD and comparable with KDE?
I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD,
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:45:17 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Does a USB flash drive also work as a giant floppy, no partitions?
Can you make a flash drive bootable when nonpartitioned and
formatted that way?
Polytropon responded:
Yes, that's exactly what my advice was aiming to, but let's
try
Snippet from Robert Bonomi regarding spam from Emma Haze emmakh...@gmail.com:
Now, *PLEASE* stop bombarding the innocent users of the support mailing-list
with your ignorant, ill-informed, impossible-of-fullfilment nonsense.
Continued spamming off the mailing-list might well result in
I am having problems getting the Hiro USB wireless adapter to work and think I
might possibly be missing something.
Chip is Realtek RTL8191S.
I read the man pages for ndisgen and ndiscvt and the FreeBSD Handbook online.
Do I need
options NDISAPI # and
device ndis
in the kernel config, even
Regarding the security of various methods of deleting data, I just saw in
Office Depot's online ad for the coming week, which is the reason I couldn't
post this any earlier:
Need to discard an old PC but worried about protecting your identity?
Let us securely erase your personal files and
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org:
Aargh...
So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle...
it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general
even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always.
X (screen was
So this statement in the WikiP is false?
systemd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as
cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due
to this issue.[7]
--
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.
I read an
from Maarten Billemont lhun...@lyndir.com:
I've installed a FreeBSD server using the BETA1 release because RC1 was
delayed. I notice the 9.1-RC1 is available now, so I thought I'd upgrade
ASAP.
The following command, however, fails me:
freebsd-update -r 9.1-RC1 upgrade
Looking up
from Peter Wemm pe...@wemm.org:
As a data point.. if you're talking about stable/9, then that is
still available via cvs/csup/cvsup as RELENG_9.
If you track 9-stable, you're unaffected.
I got two private emails about this.
To be clear, yes, if you're tracking RELENG_9, you will get
On getting vim text editor (vi improved) for FreeBSD, you can either pkg_add
or use the ports system, where you build from source code with a convenient
setup. You can check http://www.freebsd.org/ and check the documentation,
including the handbook and ports system.
I've heard of Cygwin but
from Lynn Steven Killingsworth blue.seahorse.syndic...@gmail.com:
I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say.
The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and
another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr
disk with zfs
How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being
interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? Idea
is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just before
bedtime. Doing make config ahead of time also gives the chance to
from Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org:
Thanks to all.
Solved.
It was a multiple cause issue:
1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than 3.5
which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured to me).
2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined
From Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.gr:
If you are sure that the default configuration settings are OK for you, then
one way is to perform a portupgrade with the switches --batch --yes, like
portupgrade --batch --yes -a
This will assume that the default settings are those you like
Thanks to all who responded, now I have several things to think about.
I will want to look at perl-after-upgrade script. Even if I don't use it, it
would likely be helpful to see what it does and guide me as to what I can do.
I also find I have a burning desire to check out pkgsrc (under
from O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de;
Hello out there,
well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based
systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe
support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux
Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard drive
2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive firmware can
make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can handle up to 2 TB; this
limit is not just for BSD but Linux too.
Western Digital
Is there any intent to modify, hopefully improve, the installer program
(sysinstall) for FreeBSD-9.0?
I noticed something on the freebsd-questions emailing list about a
pc-sysinstall, but downloaded a snapshot .iso of CURRENT-9.0 mainly to see what
was there, not planning to install; am
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:31:26 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
There's a plan to replace sysinstall with pc-sysinstall, the
PCBSD installer in 9.0. Currently the backend has been committed and
people are working on a web interface frontend to allow people to do
installations via a
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