PC-BSD's installer and package management
I'm probably so far behind the times, but I'd just heard about pc-bsd. Graphical installer, and a very clever package management and installer system DF uses pksrc now for source, what does it use for binary distribution and updates? Nige. Nigel Weeks Tech Support & Systems Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.examiner.com.au 71 - 75 Paterson Street Launceston Tasmania 7250 Australia Phone: 03 6336 7234
Re: bootloader problems
Eugene wrote: I've noticed some problems wit bootloader: when it comes to a boot menu and the countdown is started, on some machines a counter does not count from 10 to 0, but cycles in 9-8-9-8 and so on, and after 10 seconds prints some garbage on screen and hangs. do you have serial equipment connected to those machines? modem, mouse, etc. dragonfly by default spawns a serial bootloader console, so this could be the cause. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
bootloader problems
I've noticed some problems wit bootloader: when it comes to a boot menu and the countdown is started, on some machines a counter does not count from 10 to 0, but cycles in 9-8-9-8 and so on, and after 10 seconds prints some garbage on screen and hangs. But pressing "Enter" or choosing any boot option from the menu while it is still attempts to count boots a system with no problems. Tested since 06-04-2005 with 1.2 prerelease, 1.2 release and 1.4 release. Unfortunatly, I can't access a large park of machines in a considerable short time to view, if this was a CPU-dependent, or motherboard-manufacturer-dependent problem, but I do believe, this was not cased by any other hardware. The only thing I know is that all these machines are now in a working state and running variouse operating systems with no problems. Here is some statistic for problems with bootloader. via 586 + Celeron 300A - problems nForce3 + Sempron 3000+ - problems nForce2 + Sempron 2500+ - problems via KT133 + Duron (Morgane) 1300 - OK via KT133 + Duron (Spitfire) 750 - OK i430VX + Pentium-S 133 - OK ali 154x + Cyrix MII-300+ - OK i810 + Cyrix (VIA) CIII 500 - OK i440LX + Celeron 433 - OK i945 + Pentium-4 3000 - OK i440BX + Pentium III - 800 - OK i440BX + Pentium II - 450 - OK AFAIR, there was no problems with i810 + Celeron 600, i815 + Celeron 600, Via MVP3 + AMD-k6-2-(300?). The last is an interesting case, because it has a faulty RAM (memtest86 3.2 and memtest86+1.65 are indicating the same bad addresses in low memory) - and is working fine! ;)
Re: chip-architect.net archive
On 2006-02-13, David Rhodus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have an archive of chip-architect.net ? The site has been down > for a while now and google cache seems to be missing the images from > the site. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.chip-architect.net/ HTH. Regards, Csaba
Re: Wireless network cards
--- Bryan Berch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to get a wireless network set-up in my > house using my gateway > box. Can any one give me a good choice in a > wireless network card for > my desktop box or is there a better way to do > it? > > If the network card route is fine, can there be > an antenna located in a > central location in the house using a cable > from the network card and to > the antenna? > > I'm new to wireless and any suggestions > appreciated. > > Bryan Get a linksys or d-link wireless router for $49. and enjoy whatever hair you have remaining. Just plug your DFLY box into a port and your wireless stuff will work out of the box. Note if they have a mail-in rebate offer don't expect to get anything back without a lot of complaining. How would one go about proposing a world-wide boycott of products with mail-in rebates? DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
chip-architect.net archive
Anyone have an archive of chip-architect.net ? The site has been down for a while now and google cache seems to be missing the images from the site. -DR
