Re: Updating from 9.2 to 10.0-BETA3 Issues..

2013-11-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:00:16 +, Thomas Mueller wrote: You are advised to rebuild all ports on a major version change such as 9.x to 10.x. Or if you can't or intendedly refuse, use the compat9x port. But be careful when starting to install new

Re: gpart freebsd 8.0

2013-04-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
motty cruz motty.c...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I'm grow hard drive for FreeBSD web server. Machine is running FreeBSD 8.0 i386. can some one advise me on the best suggestion to go about doing this procedure. Start with the entry in the FAQ: How can I add my new hard disk to my FreeBSD

Re: gpart freebsd 8.0

2013-04-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
filesystems. Or depending on how you want to use the space, sade(8) might be more helpful. Good luck! Thanks, On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-chat-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: motty cruz motty.c...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I'm grow hard drive for FreeBSD web server

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vance Siemens vance.siem...@gmail.com writes: Can you share a brief overview of what's wrong with it? I guess I'm not as knowledgeable as I thought. The story was quite enticing to me. To quote the Looney Tunes great, Foghorn Leghorn, It's a joke, son. From beginning to end.

Re: why panic(9) ?

2011-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[Replies redirected.] Boris Kochergin sp...@acm.poly.edu writes: All modern operating systems? Maybe some niche ones, like the ones that run on Mars rovers, have made progress towards formal verification and are believed not to crash given correctly-functioning hardware. The Mars rovers run

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:22:22 pm Lowell Gilbert wrote: I probably should move this bikeshed to freebsd-chat... And now I actually am... Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 6:20:35 pm Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Oct

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: sh(1) documentation_set

2009-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
spellberg_robert email...@emailrob.com writes: dear mr. fromme --- man_pages need to be, at least, substantially_complete. I agree that the sh(1) manual page should be complete, and I think it is indeed complete. Do you think some piece of reference information is missing? ah_ha, you

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. Or at *least* per file. Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29 different styles

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
is ignorant of their stupidity? Objection, your honor: hypothetical implying fact not in evidence! -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing

Re: file system

2008-05-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Carlos Porto Filho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What file system do you use for a data partition (music, video..) to use between windows and freebsd in a dual boot system? is there something better than fat32? To be honest, FAT isn't that bad a filesystem for relatively large files which change

Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support

2008-03-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
In addition to the extensive comments you've already gotten from Max Laier, I'd like to provide one comment... Passive PROFITS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only 'official' list seems to be this: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions But it starts off with the rather

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-02-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. I think pedantic frequently gets a bad rap. ;) Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould ___

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [cc: redirected [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Huff wrote: Kevin Kinsey writes: But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to try portupgrade -arR or equivalent after forgetting to read UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 13 June 2006 08:53, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x

Re: torrents for FreeBSD ISOs?

2005-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Are there any active torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? I used torrent file as found via FreeBSD 5.4 announcement. But for over 30 minutes ctorrent timed out attempting to retrieve it. I had used