On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:04:08 +0100, Jens Jahnke wrote:
[snip] Maybe
you should install portaudit too. It tells you for which ports security
flaws have been found.
To update a single port using portmaster you would run
# portmaster www/firefox
for example.
Hi Jens :)
thank you.
Regards,
Ralf
Hi :)
since I updated the ports tree I'm able to fix one issue after the other,
e.g. GDM now can start Xfce4.
IIUC correctly freebsd-update (
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8 ) will
not take care about updates for e.g. Firefox, since I guess it doesn't
bel
Hi Ruslan :)
here's the output of sysctl hw.snd and sysctl dev.pcm.
$ sysctl hw.snd
hw.snd.vpc_reset: 0
hw.snd.vpc_0db: 45
hw.snd.vpc_autoreset: 1
hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
hw.snd.latency: 5
hw.snd.report_soft_matrix: 1
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
hw.snd.feeder_eq_e
Thank you Ian :)
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:25:59 +0100, Ian Smith wrote:
'cat /dev/sndstat'
I already posted it ;). However, I set sysctl hw.snd.verbose=2, here it's
again [1].
It's a cheap professional audio device, IOW it's not a consumer or
semi-professional device, so cheap doesn't mean
Hi :)
perhaps good news for me.
That's strange. Now user and group are kept for the mount point of the
ext3 fs. Can I assume that this usually should work and that I just had
bad luck, when permissions, user and group were automatically changed?
root@freebsd:/mnt # ls -l
drwxrwx--- 21 100
Hi :)
I can use Opera to play YouTube by the analog IOs of the HDSPe AIO sound
card. I can use Jack with OSS and play a WAV by Audacity and by Audacious
and I also can hear ZynAddSubFX. All of them only use the 2 analog IOs.
If I test VLC with OSS and /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp* (* is for 0 to 7)
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:33:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
Note that you shouldn't run "startx" from your root account
I've still tons of issues to solve, one issue is to get GDM run or to
directly start x without a display manager. It didn't work as described in
the handbook, perhaps it would work
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:09:52 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
Infrastructures are moving on, and
backwards compatibility isn't the biggest strength
of desktop environments. :-(
Full ACK with the smiley ;) ... :(.
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:26:18 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:16:42 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
On 1/21/2013 5:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux
> installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it'
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:16:42 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote:
It looks like to me you're asking for long term trouble. You're using
multiple versions, so in the future there could be changes that could
corrupt your mail. Why not just use an IMAP server instead? It's what
I do, so my mail's shar
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:22:04 +0100, Hrisikesh sahu
wrote:
#portupgrade gnome2
Is there a future for GNOME 2 on FreeBSD?
GNOME 2 forks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(desktop_environment)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(user_interface)
GNOMER 3 fallback mode fork
http://solusos.com/b
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD
> > user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000?
>
> Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing
> FreeBSD would be without own
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 07:31 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> >
> > root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt
> > drwxrwx--- 21 1000 1000 4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 ro
Hi :)
I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux
installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's Evolution 3.2.3 and for e.g.
Ubuntu Quantal it's Evolution 3.6.0.
I'm doing it by a link:
root@precise:~# ls -l /home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution
lrwxrwxrwx 1 spinymouse spiny
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 10:43 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 08:30 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
> >> I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use
> >> pulsea
Thank you Warren.
Regards,
Ralf
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On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 08:30 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
> I worked around this by reconfiguring the port so that it doesn't use
> pulseadio, recompiled, and it finished OK.
IIUC Google doesn't like to add pulseaudio and/or jackd support to their
software. Because you need to be subscribed to Jack deve
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:18:32 +0100, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 21/01/2013 14:22 David Demelier said the following:
I mean audacious, not VLC
2013/1/21 David Demelier
Don't enable OSS4 nor ALSA, VLC can run fine with FreeBSD kernel mixer
support (that has a OSS compatibility support).
Just us
u use default
options.
2013/1/21 Ralf Mardorf
Hi :)
I know it's a topic for the multimedia list, but there's less traffic
on
that list, so I hope it's okay to post it to both lists :S.
I'll test the snd_hdspe driver. It's working for the 2 analog IOs of a
HDSPe AI
Thank you David,
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:21:53 +0100, David Demelier
wrote:
Don't enable OSS4 nor ALSA, VLC can run fine with FreeBSD kernel mixer
support (that has a OSS compatibility support).
Just use defaults, it will always work more when you use default options.
I'll use audio software
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:25:57 +0100, Emre Çamalan
wrote:
What is your distribution for installing FreeBSD, CD , DVD ?
You can also use DVD for installing kernel.
First , download FreeBSD 8.x or 9.x DVD distribution then try to install
kernel with same way which is showing on cyberciti.biz.
o
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:09:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/
I'm sorry, I missed the link from the last comment.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172
A long thre
I'm a FreeBSD novice, experienced with Linux audio. If on Linux the
network does work, than it works.
What is needed to have a working network on FreeBSD for all situations?
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/
German FTP:
Unable to transfer the sbase distribution f
Hi :)
I know it's a topic for the multimedia list, but there's less traffic on
that list, so I hope it's okay to post it to both lists :S.
I'll test the snd_hdspe driver. It's working for the 2 analog IOs of a
HDSPe AIO, but other ports are missing by jackd.
I was asked to use mpd, but I never
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
/usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse
It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very
likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic and since there's no big
difference between /usr and /user and it both is
Hi :)
is it possible to mount Linux ext3 file systems with fstab by label?
Before I run mount -a /mnt/dump had the same permissions, owner and group
as /mnt/archlinux has got. Is it possible to keep this? Both are Linux
ext3 fs. Mounting without a label does work.
root@freebsd:/usr/home/roc
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:12 +0100, Herbert J. Skuhra
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100
"Ralf Mardorf" wrote:
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
$ su -
Password:
root@freebsd:/root # mcedit
Error
Since I only run "mcedit" without a file, the error message is grotesque
and btw.
$ ls -l /usr/home
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 26 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1536 Jan 20 13:07 rocketmouse
$ ls -l /home
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 19:19 /home -> usr/home
Thank you for the hints. I take the issue
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
# cd /root
# mv .mc .mc.orig
# mcedit
$ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013
$ su root -c "mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013"
$ mcedit
Error
"user/home/rocketmouse" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
That should start the editor
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
$ su -
Password:
root@freebsd:/root # mcedit
Error
"/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
root@freebsd:/root # gedit
(gedit:17410): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
root@free
Compiling was finished, when I woke up at around 7 o'clock. Everything
seems to be ok, but I didn't reboot until now.
If everything should be ok after rebooting, I'll add all the steps to a
thread in the forums later today or tomorrow,
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=205453#post2
Pff! It's still compiling :S, but I get back more and more functionality,
in the meanwhile I learned Old Greek.
If there would be packages available for 9.1, I would have learned how to
mix packages and ports instead.
Is it foreseeable, when there will be packages available? OTOH I read that
I now run the command with what options ever, don't remember, but it's
compiling and every few hours I have to answer n/y to delete a file, but
there aren't stops regarding to the configuration. I'm compiling since
yesterday 17 or 18 o'clock, perhaps -8 hours where it might stopped
regardin
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:59:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
I stopped by Ctrl + C, add --no-confirm to the command and run it again.
To read this mail I had to use the archive, Opera can't display received
emails at the moment ;).
Thank you!
Oops, I should read more carefully,
I stopped by Ctrl + C, add --no-confirm to the command and run it again.
To read this mail I had to use the archive, Opera can't display received
emails at the moment ;).
Thank you!
Regards,
Ralf
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:50:51 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
"man portmaster"
root@freebsd:/root # portmaster --list-origins > ~/installed-port-list
root@freebsd:/root # portsnap fetch update
root@freebsd:/root # portmaster -ty --clean-distfiles
root@freebsd:/root # portmaster --check-port-dbdir
del
Hi :)
I had to do a "portsnap fetch update" to compile icedtea-web and run into
a dependency hell. Most apps can't be launched anymore. When I deinstall,
recompile the new versions and install them, I have tons of dependencies
for each app.
Is there a way to automatically recompile all br
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:46:31 +0100, Georg Reilinger
wrote:
If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip:
archivers/p7zip
It has among the best compression ratios.
It doesn't archive permissions.
I guess the best compression ratio to pack and unpack time ratio i
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:06:15 +0100, Georg Reilinger
wrote:
http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
Oops, I've forgotten that there is that fork. However, I suspect that KDE
and GNOME forks will suffer from Qt and GTK dependencies, resp. the
manpower (coders and user base, aka testers) to maintain
Some decisions from upstream are a PITA. I'm from Linux, it's more
up-to-date than FreeBSD. On Linux I switched from KDE 3 to GNOME 2, when
KDE 4 was introduced and from GNOME 2 to Xfce, when GNOME 3 was
introduced. There are forks of GNOME 2, but I guess there's no fork of KDE
3. Some user
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 21:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:54:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > If I make mcedit the default editor, could this cause serious issues,
> > perhaps if upgrading the kernel and world?
>
> I'm also using it regularly:
I've got an issue, that regarding to
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=13467 is an issue for several
users. Since I've got to fix many other issues, ALSA doesn't work, the GUI
of QjackCtl does behave strange, Ardour 2 doesn't build, only 2 IOs are
available for the sound card, by O
In reply to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248117.html
Thank you,
to enable "su", I run
# pw user mod rocketmouse -G wheel
Restart is enabled by
$ cat ~/.xinitrc
# /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
# cat /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/loca
Hi :)
does anybody know how to set up Claws Mail to use POP/SMTP with
Yahoo/Rocketmail?
I was able to set up Opera for FreeBSD, the settings are
pop.mail.yahoo.com , port 995, secure connection TLS enabled, Auto
(Plaintext) and
sntp.mail.yahoo.com, port 465, secure connection TLS enabled,
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 14:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> FWIW this might be related to the issue:
> Thunar doesn't mount devices, such as USB sticks.
> I only can log out, but restart and shutdown aren't available for Xfce,
> they are shadowed.
PS:
I can't run &qu
Hi :)
I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 and installed Xfce4 and GDM2 from ports.
Without GDM I need to run startx manually to start Xfce. If I enable
GDM, it will start automatically, it displays the user, but the input
field to type the password is missing.
There's no difference with or without a m
On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:30 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote:
> [snip] I then updated to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything
> seems to have gone smoothly but now I'm getting the below error when trying
> to isntall xorg.
I upgraded from 8.3 to 9.1,
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ques
On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 02:09 -0800, Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
> How can I install a new device driver on my OS ?
I'm new to FreeBSD myself :).
Manually as root run
kldload driver_name
this is something I already used myself.
To load the module automagically at startup, edit /boot/l
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:50 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> I need k3b on a newly installed 9.1-RELEASE system.
>
> I wonder if I miss out on some functionality if I go with version
> without KDE?
>
> I use XFCE4 as my Desktop.
I don't think so. On Linux I'm running K3b on Xfce. I never noticed t
Please don't reply to spam, since this makes it harder to detect spam by
software.
Happy New Year!
Ralf
PS: I've broken the thread intendedly.
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Hi,
I've done the upgrade yesterday. It was a clean 8.3 install, I only set
up PPPoE and then run the following commands.
# cd /usr/ports/misc/mc && make install clean
# uname -r
8.3-RELEASE
# freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now
# freebsd-update insta
On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 07:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > &
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> >> I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-)
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Strange qu
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 15:52 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > The author of the snd_hdspe driver for FreeBSD seems to need testers.
>
> I never have heard of this driver.
It's a new driver for FreeBSD for some cards of the vendor RME, AFAIK
they only sell really professional audio cards, used for
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-)
:)
Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook?
At the moment I've got plenty of time, unfortunately not in front of my
desktop computer. Some time ago I won an iPad2, it's a dust catcher,
n
Thank you Erich :)
ok, so "FreeBSD release" is the version of the kernel and not a
labelling for the collection of all the software.
For Linux major distros there usually is a labelling for the collection
of the software, independent of the kernel version.
On Linux I usually install binaries for
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works
> very well and a nice example is given by W. Block:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html
Thank you Antonio :)
because I can't install FreeBSD
Hi :)
this isn't a request, just a note about the handbook, from the point of
view a newbie has got.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
"We also assume that you have already obtained the sources to a newer
system. If the sources available on the particular
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 18:57 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:42:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version
> > including the driver or something similar to get the driver?
> > Btw. I didn't test, if
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 18:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version
^^^8.3
> including the driver or something similar to get the driver?
> Btw. I didn't test, if the driver
Hi :)
first I tried to install FreeBSD 9.0 64bit by the default installer, but
it didn't work, then I installed PC-BSD 8.2 and it worked, after that I
tried 9.0 again, but I choose sysinstall, it also failed.
Now I've got FreeBSD 8.3 64bit installed, installing it worked without
issues. I later t
Several trials failed, but perhaps the kind of issues do lead to the
cause. I'll describe one trial.
Power on -> Enter to boot -> Shell -> # sysinstall -> Standard ->
set up MBR partition -> ada0 -> keep geometry: yes ->
OffsetSize(ST) EndName PType DescSubtype Flags
0
...
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Screenshots from Linux's GParted:
> > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php
> > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screen
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > ada0 298 GB MBR
> > ada0s1 57 GB freebsd
> > ada0s2 240 GB EBR
> > [snip]
> >
> > gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and th
Screenshots from Linux's GParted:
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php
Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install
FreeBSD on /dev/sda1.
I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /,
Since partitioning didn't work with FreeBSD 9.0 64bit, I tried PC-BSD
8.2 64bit and partitioning worked.
I had PC-BSD installed on ada0s1, this was the fstab:
/dev/label/rootfs0 / ufs rw,noatime
1 1
/dev/label/swap0none
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 18:45 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> flash
For Linux there are no issues with the proprietary 64 bit flash, but
there will be no new versions of Flash any more for Linux. If FreeBSD
should use the Linux version, than Flash in the near future either way
won't work any more. I
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
> I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported.
I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for
audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply:
"If you do not have a _specific_ requirement for 32 bit, use
Thank you :)
I've got some thoughts, before I continue.
What version of FreeBSD does include the snd_hdspe driver? Do I have to
download and burn a version > 9.0?
Since the issue to get the needed slice/partition with the needed file
system is solved by installing PC-BSD 8.2 instead of FreeBSD 9
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 13:11 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> Mixing PBI and ports/packages is possible, but discouraged.
I read about it, but don't understand the issue.
If I never ever would use PBI again but ports/packages only in the
future, it still would cause issues? The port directory isn't empt
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 14:18 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> PS: Monitoring
>
> Latency -->
> in hard -+-> A/D - in soft - out soft - D/A
> |
> +---> vol monitor -> out hard
>
PS: Monitoring
Latency -->
in hard -+-> A/D - in soft - out soft - D/A
|
+---> vol monitor -> out hard
No Latency -->
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On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 09:52 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:51 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > On 12/12/12 23:51, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > What is mix mixing, and what does
> > monitor do? A schematic would be helpful...
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 13:08 -0500, Michael Powell wrote about drivers.
I tested vesa, ati and radeonhd before I posted my request. There where
tons of resolutions available and there aren't performance issues. Just
the frequencies are to low. However, at the moment I want to be able to
use GUIs on
Hi :)
the KDE 4 desktop does cause issues, since I set up the panel and then
booted with display wizard enabled, on PC-BSD 8.2 64-bit.
The last panel I add often isn't visible and accessible, but the first
panel did work before I restarted with display wizard enabled. I add
several panels, that a
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 16:47 +, RW wrote:
> ##enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf)
>
> You probably need this if you haven't set resolv.conf manually
>
> > set dial
> > set login
>
> I don't think you need these.
Thank you :)
uncommenting "enable dns", commenting
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 16:27 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary the
> tempo? I've used audacity on win systems, but I don't see that in ports.
Google found the code for FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=audacity&s
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 16:47 +, RW wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:13:40 +0100
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> ##enable dns # request DNS info (for resolv.conf)
>
> You probably need this if you haven't set resolv.conf manually
>
> > set dial
> > se
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 10:20 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> you do have an IP from your provider.
No.
> Is it your default route not getting installed ?
What is the default route?
By Ethernet I want to connect to an ADSL modem.
> Are you expecting nat to be working ?
No.
> After you are connecte
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 02:17 +1100, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Thu 2012-12-06 16:13:40 UTC+0100, Ralf Mardorf
> (ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com) wrote:
>
> > how do I have to set up PPPoE?
> > This doesn't work: [1]
>
> In what way does it not work?
>
> In your
Hi,
how do I have to set up PPPoE?
This doesn't work: [1]
Regards,
Ralf
[1]
[rocketmouse@freebsd] /usr/home/rocketmouse# ppp -ddial alice
Working in ddial mode
Using interface: tun0
[rocketmouse@freebsd] /usr/home/rocketmouse# cat /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
###
On Linux I switched from GRUB legacy to GRUB 2.
To transform menu.lst into grub.cfg:
SYNOPSIS
grub-menulst2cfg [INFILE [OUTFILE]]
To boot FreeBSD:
menuentry "FreeBSD"{
set root=(hd0,msdos1)
chainloader +1
}
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On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 13:08 +0100, Gyrd Thane Lange wrote:
> On 29.11.2012 05:50, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > Ralf Mardorf writes:
> >
> >> Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the
> >> bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is un
PS:
spinymouse@q:/boot$ grep CONFIG_UFS_FS config-3.6.5-rt14
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set
spinymouse@q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs
spinymouse@q:/boot$ sudo modprobe ufs
[sudo] password for spinymouse:
spinymouse@q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs
ufs74797 0
So for writ
Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the
bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD,
because of "Error17: Cannot mount selected partition"
spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
timeout 8
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
ti
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:25 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> >>>> # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
>
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> > > # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
> > > gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists
> >
> > Sorry, no idea on that. Because of the extended part
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> > # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
> > gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists
>
> Sorry, no idea on that. Because of the extended partitions, maybe.
Thank you,
so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD?
Anything else I c
PS: In Linux the result does look like this:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep BSD
/dev/sda1 63 12127468460637311 a5 FreeBSD
$ sudo parted -l | grep pri
1 32.3kB 62.1GB 62.1GB primary ext3
1 32.3kB 22.0GB 22.0GB primary ext4
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# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
did not work. It has to be
# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
This is from the log:
# gpart show ada0
=> 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683- free - (57G)
121274746 503862599 2 ebr [active] (240G)
625137345 5103
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 09:05 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > All instructions failed. Is there a way to mount a linux partition or
> > USB-stick and to redirect the output of the gpart commands to a log
> > file?
> >
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 16:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> All instructions failed. Is there a way to mount a linux partition or
> USB-stick and to redirect the output of the gpart commands to a log
> file?
>
> In linux after mounting a partition or usb-stick I would do
All instructions failed. Is there a way to mount a linux partition or
USB-stick and to redirect the output of the gpart commands to a log
file?
In linux after mounting a partition or usb-stick I would do it like
that:
spinymouse@q:~$ echo "$ ls -l" >> logfile
spinymouse@q:~$ ls -l >> logfile
spin
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 02:22 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> Hi Warren,
>
> On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
> > For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
> > good.
> Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
"Create a partition
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:49 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> Realize this multi-boot stuff is painful and inconvenient and install
> everything in a VM?
Unfortunately this is impossible.
I'll install FreeBSD, because there's a driver for my sound card, a RME
HDSPe AIO, that perhaps enables to use al
I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2
and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1.
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> Assuming the first slice has been deleted.
Correct.
> # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0
>
> Create a FreeBSD disklabel/bsdlabel part
Polytropon, I'll use journaling.
I've to apologize for my broken English.
Regarding to the "comment" line my question is, if it's enough to us a #
at the beginning, or if it's needed to begin and to end with a #. I
suspect just a # at the beginning is needed.
_
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:37 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> BTW, I still have some Atari ST hardware here. Impressive what has
> been possible with this (quite limited) machines, but with _efficient_
> programs...
I still have the C64 in some cartons and the Atari ST is still beside my
PC, but I don't
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 15:10 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency
> > scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work?
> I don't see how it could ever come i
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:13 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > IIUC "Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition" has to be done
> > and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR.
> Not in your case. You won't need bootc
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