Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Alexander Motin
Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not today. Have the anybody ever seen ECC video RAM? Video RAM usually works on

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin: Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not today. Have the anybody

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Achim Patzner wrote: Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin: Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not

Re: Project Ideas and a question

2007-10-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting David Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:59:45 +0200): I have some project ideas (due to lack of technical skills I can not pursue them at this time but that is no reason not to share :-). If someone thinks an idea is a good one could you please add it to the appropriate

Creating install CD with custom ports - how to massage INDEX file?

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
I've been building my own install CDs for a planned multi-server upgrade to 6.2Rp8 and ran into one last stumbling block this week. I understand the process a lot better now than I did a few years back when I was doing it for 4.8, but I'm still having trouble pieceing together how I get my own

A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl wrapper for an iterative pkg_delete -f followed by pkg_add -f, which made it problematic to upgrade either the

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:05:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl wrapper for an iterative

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread soralx
I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl wrapper for an iterative pkg_delete -f followed by pkg_add -f, which made it problematic to upgrade

Re: Project Ideas and a question

2007-10-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- David Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The question first: init does allow a chroot before booting the system however does it allow the first device to be unmounted and use the new chroot as the root device. If it does how can that be achieved. My motivation for this: Allow