Re: Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines]
Skylar Thompson wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. If that's all that's keeping from starting from scratch, don't worry about java; it's not that bad. Does anyone know if JDK1.5 is going to be supported by FreeBSD? I have some JDK1.5 apps that I've written for Linux that I would like to run on FreeBSD. I've been unsuccessful in getting JDK1.5 running through Linux emulation too. Alexey Zelkin just announced on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that he had succeeded in porting JDK-1.5 to the extent that it is now self-hosting: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2004-December/003286.html Public beta testing releases are expected in January. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500, RL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again. Yes, apparently folks have had alot of trouble with java. Just to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. If that's all that's keeping from starting from scratch, don't worry about java; it's not that bad. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines]
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. If that's all that's keeping from starting from scratch, don't worry about java; it's not that bad. Does anyone know if JDK1.5 is going to be supported by FreeBSD? I have some JDK1.5 apps that I've written for Linux that I would like to run on FreeBSD. I've been unsuccessful in getting JDK1.5 running through Linux emulation too. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ pgpV5j4s5vCqZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Switching FreeBSD machines
Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
RL wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RL wrote: Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. -- Kristian Kielhofner Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a P4. Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, and I am not much of a believer in optimizing. You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you modify /etc/make.conf, of course). -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:54:32 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RL wrote: It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again. RL, Sometimes that's fun to do anyways. Why didn't you do the free upgrade to 512mb? -- Kristian Kielhofner There was a free upgrade to 512MB?? I didn't see that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
