Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dumb software and hardware. You do realize that, that statement can be construed as a condemnation of non-Microsoft software, AKA open-source? don't generalize everything. There are good software, bad software, closed source software, open source software. There are great open source software

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread jb
Sergey Listopad gmail.com> writes: > > Hi. > > I try to boot topic on retro dual PIII Intel L440GX+ based system. It > is onboard AIC-7896 SCSI controller with 1 COMPAQ HDD. CDROM is IDE. > When I try boot from installation CD, boot stuck on > > CD Loader 1.2 > ... > BTX loader 1.00 BTX versio

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:57:59 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:39:21PM +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, patent law and copyright law are very different > environments. The truth is that probably every nontrivial piece of yes. > software created infri

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO -- into its grave, > having hung all its hopes on litigation. Along the way, though, it will > probably do a lot of damage to a lot of people, projects, and businesses, > and I just hope it

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar articulated: > true. Microsoft know it is falling. > > People got fed up with microsoft. They now want even worse and more > dumb software and hardware. You do realize that, that statement can be construed as a condemnation of non-Microsof

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO -- into its grave, true. Microsoft know it is falling. People got fed up with microsoft. They now want even worse and more dumb software and hardware. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:39:21PM +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > > >even if not  it's just matter to add proper licence to right ports in > >port tree and require user to accept it. > > Probably won't even have to do that. People can download, compile and > run whatever they want on a base op

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Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread jb
Wojciech Puchar wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> writes: > ... > I suggest you to prepare bootable media with just /boot directory that can > boot, and put > > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:yourrootpartition" > > in loader.conf I have already suggested that in the post above. jb

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread jb
Sergey Listopad gmail.com> writes: > ... > So far I have system with GPT partitioning scheme. To exclude this > layer, I've reinstall system with MBR scheme, but loader(8) stuck in > the same place. > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is d

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 all suggestions before seems like not reading your problem description. third stage boot loader fails. at that stage it still uses BIOS calls to access disks. Your controller's firmware do somethin

Problem with sendmail update

2012-08-02 Thread Mervyn Passmore
Hi, Hope someone can help. we're stuck trying to update Sendmail from 8.14.3 to 8.14.5 We've made & installed 8.14.5 and both the new and old versions seem to be installed and running according to PS. Whatever is starting sendmail is initiating the old version. How can we remove the 8.14.3 versi

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread Sergey Listopad
2012/8/2 jb : > Sergey Listopad gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> As you can see, bootstrap process stuck much earlier kernel >> booting/root mounting. It stuck on loader stage (loader can't do >> something. But what exactly?) >> >> I've been able to boot system manually (so system on HDD is workable

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread jb
Sergey Listopad gmail.com> writes: > ... > As you can see, bootstrap process stuck much earlier kernel > booting/root mounting. It stuck on loader stage (loader can't do > something. But what exactly?) > > I've been able to boot system manually (so system on HDD is workable), > by skipping load

Re: buggy awk regex handling?

2012-08-02 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, RW wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:20:52 +0200 kaltheat wrote: I tried to replace three letters with three letters by awk using the sub-routine. I assumed that my regular expression does mean the following: match if three letters of any letter of alphabet occurs anywhere in

Re: buggy awk regex handling?

2012-08-02 Thread RW
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:20:52 +0200 kaltheat wrote: > > > Hi, > > I tried to replace three letters with three letters by awk using the > sub-routine. I assumed that my regular expression does mean the > following: > > match if three letters of any letter of alphabet occurs anywhere in > input >

buggy awk regex handling?

2012-08-02 Thread kaltheat
Hi, I tried to replace three letters with three letters by awk using the sub-routine. I assumed that my regular expression does mean the following: match if three letters of any letter of alphabet occurs anywhere in input $ echo AbC | awk '{sub(/[[:alpha:]]{3}/,"cBa"); print;}' AbC As you ca

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread jb
Sergey Listopad gmail.com> writes: > ... > As you can see, bootstrap process stuck much earlier kernel > booting/root mounting. It stuck on loader stage (loader can't do > something. But what exactly?) > > I've been able to boot system manually (so system on HDD is workable), > by skipping load

Re: Cant boot 9-RELEASE on Intel L440GX+ based system

2012-08-02 Thread Sergey Listopad
2012/8/1 jb : > Sergey Listopad gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi. >> >> I try to boot topic on retro dual PIII Intel L440GX+ based system. It >> is onboard AIC-7896 SCSI controller with 1 COMPAQ HDD. CDROM is IDE. >> When I try boot from installation CD, boot stuck on >> >> CD Loader 1.2 >> ... >> BT