On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:06:38 -, Sven Hazejager
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all!
I have quite a big problem here
I've upgraded my FreeBSD 4.11 to 6.1. Basically, I did a newfs of / and
/usr
and reinstalled from scratch. That worked.
Rebooted in 6.1 single user mode, mounted /, /
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:03:09 -, Reuben A. Popp
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,
We have an old dusty DECstation (last bootup circa 1993) that is finally
being
removed from our server room after we do one final dump of the data. If
I
were to remove its drives to attatch to a mod
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:41:16 -, Jeff Molofee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
does anyone know how to resolve the following error in googleearth
(astro/google-earth)
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===> Extracting for google-earth-4
=> MD5 Checksum OK for GoogleEarthLinu
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:40:06 -, Kyrre Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello!
Just a wild thought here ...
After noticing how much simpler it is using tags, for instance
with my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us -- compared to hours of
frustration trying find the right combination of fol
On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:49:42 -, mehmet gogebakan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i would like to install 6.1-RELEASE to my computer , configuration is:
128 MB SDRAM
LG cdrom 52x
8 MB Grafic card
40 gb hd
p3 800 mhz processor
azza motherboard
could you please tell me whether this configuration i
the /usr/ports/distfiles dir are the source files you downloaded while
installing ports.
You can safly empty the whole directory
You can delete /boot/kernel.old if the new kernel is working
/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs can be safly deleted
/usr/ports/INDEX-5 can be deleted,
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:34:44 -, User Gandalf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a regular x86 PC. I'm using the
official install disk. It tells me that there are no CD/DVD drives are
detected. I have a Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110D). That has ATAP
I have downloaded the 6.1rc1 iso. I dont mind downloading the release
candidate compared to the mainstream because i have been using linux
for about 4 months and know my way around.
I have to do the following,
1) install freebsd(on a UFS file system) and dual boot it with
windows XP(on fa
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:53:23 -, Low Kian Seong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Dear all,
Not really a question, rather a plea of opinion. I looked around for a
zope
howto on FreeBSD but found none, so i wrote my own, and I want to
contribute
the docs back, but before that can anyone intere
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:48:10 -, Huy Ton That <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Just a general question; not sure if it belongs in questions but let me
know
otherwise. I'm currently using gnome2 as my desktop environment on RC
6.1but it is a little dry; What are you all using out there and any
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:46:24 -, boy red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the
accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me
2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get
in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the
place where
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:57:58 -, Wil Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Did you use a 80- or 40-ATA cable?
If you've configured your drives to do UATA-66 or faster then
FreeBSD (or
any other OS for that matter) will crash if you connect a second
drive...
It's an 80 wire. I have two dr
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:53:57 -, Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:47, Wil Hatfield wrote:
> I had a similar situation under 6.0. My secondary drive would
> throw DMA read
> errors at bootup, adding several minutes to the boot process, so
> I ran it in
> PI
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:50:51 -, Maxim Vetrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've not used floppy in my notebook for a while, then when I did, I
found that it worked very slowly :-)
Here is the stats:
> dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes tr
Here's the situation:
I work at a computer repair shop, as we all know viruses, ad-ware and
other mal-ware is a huge problem in the windows world, and a lot of people
come to us to have their pc's cleaned up.
Some of those programs spread themselves actively, or are used as "zombie
compute
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:01:21 -, Michael Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:14:43 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
Hello,
I found an old disk (24 Mo!) and I know I installed BSD on it... years
ago.
How can I read this disk under windows XP pro?
Thank you for your help.
Best
It's /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile
so:
cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile
should work, although you'll need to set a server in the supfile first...
The source will be put in /usr/doc/
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:21:27 -, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Use one of
> 1) Which forum software runs on FreeBSD?
The Operating system doesn't matter, for most forums the webserver
(apache, caudium etc.) needs to have certain modules loaded (php, asp,
etc.) and/or a database server(mysql, bdb, etc.).
Check the program's site to see what is needed, php and mysql are
> You ask such a question without saying anything about what NIC
> you are using?
Forgot to mention that I tried about 5 diffrent NIC's, and 3 or 4
diffrent pc's to...
Sorry about that...
I've thought about shutting the machine down with acpiconf to, but
since I'm using older systems, which don't
I'm trying to get WoL working, and actually works quite well as long
as windows shuts down the system.
However, when FreeBSD or Linux shuts down my system, it won't work,
and if I manually turn on the system and shut it down again (even
before POST is done) WoL will work again(!?!?)
I've tried shu
Dick Davies => Sorry for sending you this mail twice, accidently
pressed enter...(shoudn't eat and write e-mails at the same time...)
> So what? That's exactly the same for FreeBSD, even it's core apps.
> And vendors rush to support MS' new OSes.
There's a very big dump of unmaintained software,
> Windows almost runs everything
Quite the opposite, try running some application from a few years back
on windows 200 or XP, big chance it won't work.
> Unix has not matured yet to compete with Microsoft.
Yeah, let's just forget that UNIX had stuff like network support
before windows even exist
d you try
using opera 7.x or 6.x? it those work alright I think opera support
would be the best place to be
On 12/01/06, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 04:25 am, Joseph Kerian wrote:
> > On 1/11/06, Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 10/01/06, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gimpy# uname -a
> FreeBSD gimpy.tcbug.org 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #9: Fri
> Jan 6 20:26:44 CST 2006
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GIMPY i386
>
> dmesg attached
>
> Xorg config attached
>
> Kernel config attached
>
> I
On 06/12/05, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:19:44 +
> Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and
> > properly connected, both those on the outside and inside.
Forwarded
Well, not entirly, If windows craches, and you to reinstall you'll
also need to reinstall the boot manager, not much work, but still...
Also, there's a small change of the windows filesystem going bad on
the wrong location (where your boot manager is located) and you won't
be able to boo
-- Forwarded message --
From: spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06-Dec-2005 16:16
Subject: Re: DualBoot
To: Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Whatever works for you, the downside of this is that the config file
is saved on the filesystem, not the MBR, so if you do the
On 06/12/05, spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> check this out for multi-boot OS:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER
> particularly
> 9.10. How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD?
>
> so if you choose to edit the boot.ini of windows XP s
t; wrote:
> Don't top-post, please.
>
> Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > My advice:
> > Save all your work before you do anything with a floppy
> > Don't do anything with a floppy on critical machines
> > Think before you act when
Dual-boot is always a bit of a risk to install, backup your important
data first...
I have good experiences with the GAG bootmanager, which can be
installed as a port sysutils/gag, and the website is
http://gag.sourceforge.net/
You can just create a boot floppy, and either save the config on the
does the "halt" command work?
and the "shutdown" command?
On 05/12/05, Benjamin Sobotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The messages seem fine to me. However, I have no clue why it doesn't
> reboot. :)
>
> Ben
>
> On Monday 05 December 2005 03:59, Jose Borquez wrote:
> > I attempted to reboot
It happens, I've experienced quite some problems with floppy's and
FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0
anyway, if you mount a floppy, pull it out and unmount it the kernel
might panic, if the floppy if reading writing and you pull it out the
kernel might panic, if you mount a floppy which is damaged or has a
dama
You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and
properly connected, both those on the outside and inside.
You can also try running from a live-cd, or another harddisk with
another installation and see if the problem still occurs, if it does,
you know it's a hardware problem and not
Wrong mailinglist, perhaps, but glad you send it anyway...
Might actually go in my mail signature
On 06/12/05, Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2005/12/6, Uncle Deejy-Pooh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
> > > Linux: "Where do you want to go
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