Re: Custom release ISO questions.

2013-09-04 Thread Paul Wootton
On 09/04/13 10:27, Sergey wrote: Hi all! Is there a way to create custom ISO without buildworld? I just want to edit some configs and bsdinstall scripts for silent automated install - why need to recompile whole world? It will be great if you'll share some useful links about this process.

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wootton
On 06/17/13 20:40, Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Chris, I prepared a new patch that incorporates my fixes, yours and Michael's. I found the coredump - multiple missing right parens on line 1170. Then I ran into another problem on line 430 and made an educated guess with the fix. The new patch is

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wootton
On 06/18/13 15:01, Chris Maness wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Paul Wootton paul-free...@fletchermoorland.co.uk wrote: On 06/17/13 20:40, Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Chris, I prepared a new patch that incorporates my fixes, yours and Michael's. I found the coredump - multiple missing

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Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-29 Thread Paul Wootton
On 12/28/10 16:02, Chris Brennan wrote: Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 where x equals your drive number. This will zero out any old MBR. [..] GARBAGEInvalid partition tableError loading

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Wootton
On 12/06/10 08:33, andrew clarke wrote: In Windows I use 7-Zip. It's open source and supports .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .zip, .rar and a number of other archive formats. http://www.7-zip.org/ For Windows, I use use WinRAR for .tar and .tar.gz files Paul

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-18 Thread Paul Wootton
On 11/18/10 18:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote: Harddrive speed is not so important so a 5400rpm drive would be OK. Seems like the green line of WD harddrives use both 5400rpm and 7200rpm. I will use RAID 5. I

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Wootton
On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-13 Thread Paul Wootton
On 09/10/10 15:16, Chip Camden wrote: Perhaps someone could provide specific use cases for which Java is the only good solution? Take a look at some online games. For example Runescape (www.runescape.com) Taken from Wikipedia /*RuneScape*/ is a fantasy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy