Is freebsd.org Down?
I attempted to reach the archives to search for a 3.1 boot floppy problem and cannot. Is www.freebsd.org down? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Is freebsd.org Down?
I can get there, now. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: **HEADS UP** newsyslog.conf syntax change
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Warner Losh wrote: I'll add this to updating, but wouldn't it make more sense to accept (with a warning) the old form when there isn't a user by the name of user.group? Yes. Count me as one more vote for "accept with a warning." Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Suspend modeX
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: Well, pushing 4s on the power button will turn the computer off (in fact it's more of a "hard" power off IIRC). Depends on the BIOS. It is often settable. David, who finds most ATX stuff annoying because it hasn't got a 25 pin serial port. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Boot Manager says F1 ?? for WINNT
I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works. Everything worked OK, except the boot manager. I get: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F3 ?? F4 FreeBSD Pressing F1 boots WINNT, F2 boots FreeBSD. The other partitions are not bootable. The disk slices are: 1. 400MB WINNT NTFS 2. 120 FreeBSD /, swap, and /var 3. 600MB WINNT NTFS 4. 960MB FreeBSD /usr FDISK recognizes the partition as NTFS, etc. How do I get something other than ?? for F1 and lose F3 and F4? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RE: Boot Manager says F1 ?? for WINNT
On 30-Jun-99 Thomas Dean wrote: I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works. Everything worked OK, except the boot manager. I get: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F3 ?? F4 FreeBSD Pressing F1 boots WINNT, F2 boots FreeBSD. The other partitions are not bootable. The disk slices are: 1. 400MB WINNT NTFS 2. 120 FreeBSD /, swap, and /var 3. 600MB WINNT NTFS 4. 960MB FreeBSD /usr FDISK recognizes the partition as NTFS, etc. How do I get something other than ?? for F1 and lose F3 and F4? tomdean You could try OS-BS (available on CD 1 in the tools/ dir or via ftp at pub/FreeBSD/tools from any mirror). It's much prettier and configurable, IHMO, than BootEasy. --- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Boot Manager says F1 ?? for WINNT
In the last episode (Jun 29), Thomas Dean said: I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works. Everything worked OK, except the boot manager. I get: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F3 ?? F4 FreeBSD Pressing F1 boots WINNT, F2 boots FreeBSD. The other partitions are not bootable. How do I get something other than ?? for F1 and lose F3 and F4? Part of the problem is the bootblock has to fit in 512 bytes, so there's no room for all possible partition types. At the moment, there are 8 whole bytes free :), so you should be able to fit an "NT" type in there. It would take two bytes to map the NT partition type to the "DOS" string, and two+stringlen to map it to another string. Source is in /sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s As for removing slices from the menu, man boot0cfg. The -m option lets you mask out any or all of the partitions. -Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Upgrading from ancient to current...
Hello! I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1 without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are unfortunately not an option). I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this task by altering sysinstall options, but this seems to only apply when upgrading from less distant version numbers. Is it even possible to upgrade to current from this ancient a version? Any help is appreciated! Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
