FreeBSD 6.2 + Subversion - cannot connect...

2007-03-19 Thread Paul van den Bergen
mport, svn commit and svn checkout using the file method from either the svn user or other users using the file:/// method. I cannot svn to the repository using tortoise SVN from the windows XP box on the same network. any suggestions welcome for where to start looking - I'm all out. --

Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 - how to check RAM

2005-04-08 Thread Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:02:27 -0500, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote: OK, thanks for the info... now for the solution... I have more than 16 MB of ram available but it does nto seem to play well together or there is a problem with s

difficulty installing 5.3-R i386

2005-04-06 Thread Gabrielle Harrison &amp; Paul van den Bergen
seem to be the installation option... then reboots back to floppy... I do not seem to have a way of getting to sysinstall!!! -- ## Paul van den Bergen, # Gabrielle Harrison # # # & Anja van den Bergen # # 848 High Street Rd ## Glen Waverley VIC

hardware testing - e.g. memory - on old hardware

2003-12-16 Thread paul van den bergen
there are geek-wannabes, geeks, ubergeeks and Gnurus... and the process is progressive and non-linear -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stone

Re: Anonymous FTP

2003-12-16 Thread paul van den bergen
at there be a "ftp" UID in the password file and > is triggered by the remote user logging in as "anonymous" or "ftp". > > Cheers, > > Matthew -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL P

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread paul van den bergen
, and check uname -a. You will see stats for a > 4.9-x kernel! > > HTH > > Eric F Crist > President > AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc > (612) 998-3588 > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pa

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread paul van den bergen
After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system reverted to a 4.8 kernel... Not sure why, but gave up at this point... On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > > Hi... >

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-11 Thread paul van den bergen
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > Hi... > snip... I stuffed up... > # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp > # mkdir /bootfloppy > # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ ^ does not work... try simply # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/

howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy?

2003-12-11 Thread paul van den bergen
ot.mountfrom > boot > > Now cross your fingers once you wipe the partitions out to reinstall... > > > It would be cool if this could be automated[1], perhaps by setting > the boot partition to the swap partition and setting it up temporarily > as a ufs filesystem and then...

Re: SLIP connection to Cisco CONSOLE...

2003-12-04 Thread paul van den bergen
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:33 pm, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > Then use a standard terminal program like cu, tip, minicom or kermit to > connect at 9600 8N1 to the cisco. we find we need to turn flow control to none also... *shrug* -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Archite

general updating and staying current questions...

2003-11-30 Thread paul van den bergen
This is likely alredy answered elsewhere... but... what methods are there for keeping up to date with BSD-STABLE? OK, I get using cvsup for ports, how about for the source tree? same deal? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linksys WPC11 ver4 troubles

2003-11-24 Thread paul van den bergen
etc/pccard.conf file with > the appropriate settings. Tried this, it doesn't work. > > Someone please help me! Getting this to show up in my ifconfig would > really make my day. > > Thanks, -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.a

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
ically. > You would normally not be able to influence this, because > it is deeply intertwined with the routing protocols that > all network operators use to transmit data on the Internet. > > You may ask how network operators get their IP address > blocks. Check out IANA: h

Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
gottchas? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the

mounting windows FS questions

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made.&q

while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
then a name provider for myself and have to worry about litigation? Question4) or to put it another way, what is the relationship between trademark control institutions and name brokers? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-20 Thread paul van den bergen
(multiple interfaces) can one define multiple hostnames? to expand on this, there is a potential many to many relationship here between host names and IP addresses (strickly speaking that is what dns etc sees?) how dose BSD define this? how does one define this using BSD? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen

hardware ITX for firewalls etc.

2003-11-20 Thread paul van den bergen
email 1 On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:22 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: > > You can also get CF and similar solid stat memory chips to IDE connection > > adaptors for around AU$30... > > URL? > Sounds like an interesting option for

Re: mouse configuration + Xwindows + KDE

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:26 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > Hi all, > > I expect this is a kde question more than an xwindows or mouse question... > > how does one get autofocus configured on the mouse (e.g. so that hovering > over a window for 'n' ms (~200 ms) bring

mouse configuration + Xwindows + KDE

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
le doing other stuff... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to se

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:24 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > > is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) > > to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? > > N

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
ot image etc. on a disk with no moving parts... also USB minidisk stuff too... quieter, no moving parts for use in conjunction with picobsd, etc -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
onnect to the outside world. > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Inte

upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
uess there is a gap in my knowledge here about how the freebsd software "state" changes... e.g. how does one avoid clashes and incompatabilities in a large complex collection of software that is continually changing? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architecture

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread paul van den bergen
o... but *ouch* ditto C wrt OO. the thing is that modular C programming is scalable in ways similar to OO. that's sort of part way to OO. the rest of it - inheretance, etc. when automated in C++ v's C make C++ more suitable to OO programming. IMHO, ofcourse. -- Dr Paul van

Re: C / C++

2003-11-11 Thread paul van den bergen
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:15 pm, Alex Kelly wrote: > Whoever mentioned the "holy war" may have been on to something. ;-) Except they are all violently agreeing with one another... I'd involke Godwin's Law if it wasn't for Quirk's Exception -- Dr Paul van den Be

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread paul van den bergen
no wonder that C is the basis for most OSOSs... and because someone mentioned Java, I thought i'd mention Forth... :-) -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping

gnuplot, libtool, pdflib install hassles under FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-20 Thread paul van den bergen
gnuplot-3.7.3_2 depends on shared library: png.5 - found ===> gnuplot-3.7.3_2 depends on shared library: pdf.5 - not found ===>Verifying install for pdf.5 in /usr/ports/print/pdflib ===> Building for pdflib-5.0.1 then it starts with the libtool message above again... (small voice)

make in ports versus pkg_add

2003-01-16 Thread paul van den bergen
Hi all, dumb q warning it seems to me that doing an install from /usr/ports/... is fine and all, but how do you do an uninstall? ok, with pkg_remove or pkg_delete, this is not a problem... but how does pkg know??? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures