On Saturday 06 November 2004 14:19, Valerian Galeru wrote:
Could there appear any problems if the /usr/src/sys
tree is not completely updated(I mean I started
updating , but I didn`t finish) ?
If you mean: can cvsup be stopped, and started again? the answer is yes
it can.
If you mean that
On Sunday 07 November 2004 06:16, Rob wrote:
Hello,
I have a master for a cluster of diskless slaves; the master
serves the slaves over NFS (/, /usr, /home). I have two
internet cards in all PCs, but only using one on the slaves
right now.
Could I use the second internet card to separate
On Saturday 06 November 2004 15:34, Mark wrote:
I am on sbc dsl and found this page covered the setup.
http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:54:30AM -0800, William Scott wrote:
Dear Sir or Madam,
Is there any support/documentation for configuring
On Monday 01 November 2004 13:33, Henry Miller wrote:
You can add more ram, but considering the age of that system it
really isn't worth the cost. I don't know what that system takes,
but in many cases old RAM isn't made anymore, so when you can buy it
(supply and demand) you pay far more
I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new
double-layer type.
Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid?
My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram,
is it going to be fast enough?
TIA
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use
a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 08:59, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Monday 18 October 2004 11:10 pm, Christopher Nehren
Hmph. Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Pan deserves a
1.0 version number because of its full feature set, stability, and
so forth. It's never crashed here, and I've
On Monday 18 October 2004 23:06, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort of
new at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and
upgrade it for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove that
patch if need be. What I've been doing is
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 15:27, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
Martes Wigglesworth wrote:
Greetings.
I have an issue with my mozilla install. I am unable to figure out
how, or what people get flash7 to work with mozilla. And I also
have trouble getting anything to work that I need, while
On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:36, Gary Kline wrote:
Both Gnome and KDE are nice front ends, but a bit heavy
on the graphical interface side for a CLI hacker like
me. Feedback welcome!
Try xfce4.
XCFe started life as a CDE clone, but the later versions are quite
configurable, and it's
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 19:21, stan wrote:
I just got my first set of pictures on CD's (vacation pics), and I
wan't to put them up on my web server.
What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them
with? Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but I _might_
do
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 04:12, annuar wrote:
I'm interested on FreeBSD (download the 4.10) and would like to
install it either on this machine or a new machine.
If you are a new FreeBSD user, you might want to wait a week or two and
download the 5.3 release. 5.x versions have been
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 17:43, dave wrote:
Hello,
Last evening i had a pretty determined dialup user try to ssh in
to my system as root, the logs showed he tried for over 15 minutes.
What i'd like to know is is there a way of dropping a connection from
an IP if it connects more than
I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound
stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but then
there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still work
properly under XFce, it's just KDE.
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On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:07, Younes Al-Hroub wrote:
Dear Sir,
I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS,
and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried
to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found
two Releases one called New Technology
I'm using FreeBSD 5.21 with a dialup modem, and I'm having problem
uploading files and sending emails with attachments through the
Fastmail.fm mail service - the connections just time-out. Ordinary web
browsing and short text emails work normally with Fastmail. File
uploads to other sites
On Saturday 28 August 2004 23:27, JB Fields wrote:
Hi,
Just finished installing BSD 5.0. Had an old CD, made an ISO image,
attached it as a CDRom to a new VMWare machine, booted form it, and
can log on.
If I were you I'd download a 5.2.1 iso and start again. 5.0 is a sort of
first-cut beta
On Sunday 29 August 2004 04:29, Peter Ryan wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but are you sure I need to do a port
upgrade after the cvsup if I am installing from the newly
updated port. KDE is the first application i am installing
after the standard installation of 4.10, and the error is
a
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:58, Mike Hauber wrote:
Has anyone had any luck getting KlamAV to work on FreeBSD?
Is there a project underway to get this into the ports
tree? If not, is there another frontend for clamAV that
will run on FreeBSD? (I haven't been able to find any, and
my
On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:07, Peter Ryan wrote:
HI,
I have just done a fresh install of 4.10 R
from the ISO disk
The first package I installed was cvsup,
and then i did a complete ports upgrade from
cvsup3.
Then I tried to make KDE3. It failed trying to
find a file called
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:17, Jay O'Brien wrote:
I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in
/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is
a mess. This is a tutorial on make. I've unzipped
the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display
tool that will not show the
On Sunday 22 August 2004 13:49, John Michaels wrote:
I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with
FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then
'follow along' the book.
I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which
already has
I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to
have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and
I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under
windows 98.
Under windows each tcp socket would tend to receive at about the same
I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to
have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and
I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under
windows 98.
Under windows each tcp socket would tend to receive at about the same
On Saturday 21 August 2004 13:46, R. W. wrote:
I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to
have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and
I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under
windows 98.
Under windows each tcp
On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:28, Eric Crist wrote:
Hello list,
I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding
installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than
XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those
advantages?
Until 5.x goes stable,
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 17:05, Tyler Parrott wrote:
Hey all,
I'm currently trying to install X.Org onto my FreeBSD 4.10 machine
but am running into trouble. I followed the instructions in
/usr/ports/UPDATING but to no avail.
Basically, I deleted XFree and imake using pkg_deinstall -f
I'm not sure what installed it, but I have a port called rc_subr.
Does this port serve any useful function on 5.x?
The pkg_descr suggests it doesn't, but it doesn't say it categorically.
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Things will be easier if you install (and use) sysutils/portupgrade
It's best to use /etc/make.conf for world and kernel settings, and for
general compiler settings; and use /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf for
port settings. Anything in make.conf is seen by every build, but
portupgrade reads
Sound like what you actually did was upgrade to FreeBSD-CURRENT
which is bleeding edge (and probably closer to 5.3 than 5.21), and then
downgraded to 5.2.1.
If you couldn't build the kernel then you shouldn't actually have
installed anything yet. In that case I would leave it and see if you
I've recently been using portversion -r and pkg_cutleaves to find unwanted
ports that I can deinstall. However, it appears that neither of these takes
into account build-dependencies.
Is there a tool that will find true port-leaves, rather than package leaves?
Just a thought, but do you actually need an up-to-date
ports collection. If you are trying things out, and frequently
reinstalling you may be better-off with the one on the disk.
One of the big pitfalls in FreeBSD (and Gentoo Linux) is
that new users install something like gnome, from the
I installed both Gnome and KDE (FreeBSD 5.2.1) and have been keeping both up
to date for some time. But I scarcely ever use Gnome, and don't want the
hassle of running the 2.6 upgrade script.
How do I de-install Gnome 2.4.2? Will removing the metaport alone suffice?
(When I recently
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