RE: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do I had the same problem back in 4.5. I worked around the problem by formating the hard drive with a Win98(Oh Boy) recovery floppy then ...

Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

Hello! I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a 120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one computer. Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do now, i cant get the system to boot off the disk, i have even tried eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd and dos versions). Does anyone know how I can save it? I

ipfw log popup in X

This is slightly off topic, but I have just setup ipfw and was wondering if there was a way to get the log messgaes popup in a window (ie so if someone attempts to connect, you get notified)? Some /usr/ports perhaps? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Using freebsd to analyse ip usage?

Hello Everyone, At work there are some unused ip addresses but we dont know which ones they are (because there are alot of computers) is there a port which could be used to ping the subnet over a few days to work out which ip addresses are actually coming online? Thanks Fred

Formatting an email for this list using vi

Hi, I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? Thanks, Fred ___

Re: Pentium 120 reboots after loading mfsroot floppy.

Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the mfsroot floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then reboots

Pentium 120 reboots after loading mfsroot floppy.

Hi, I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the mfsroot floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then reboots. What might cause this problem? Fred