install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition

Dear FreeBSD users, We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is provided it takes time to install. I was wondering if anyone of you e

howto convert Linux shared libraries foo.so to FreeBSD shared libraries

Does anybody know how to convert a shared object compiled in Linux foo-linux.so to a shared object compiled for FreeBSD freebsd-foo.so? I mean a freebsd-foo.so to which I can link with objects compiled by a native FreeBSD compiler. Or equivalently how to create a FreeBSD foo.so from a linux foo.so

conver Linux shared libraries foo.so to FreeBSD shared libraries

Does anybody know how to convert a shared object compiled in Linux foo-linux.so to a shared object compiled for FreeBSD freebsd-foo.so? I mean a freebsd-foo.so to which I can link with objects compiled by a native FreeBSD compiler. Or equivalently how to create a FreeBSD foo.so from a linux fo

linking with linux shared library

Hallo everybody, 1:) Suppose I have a Linux Library library.so. And I want to link it with my main.c compiled in FreeBSD. How can I achieve that? Thanks in advance! Simeon! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resource

mplayer doesn't want to be built

trying to install mplayer from the latest port MPlayer-1.0pre7.tar.bz2 I come across the following: # make -DWITH_GTK1 install N - O - T - E Take a careful look into the Makefile in order to learn how to tune mplayer towards you personal prefer

Interrupt storm in Compaq Presario Laptop

Dear fellows, I have a Compaq presario 1230 laptop here! FreeBSD 4.11 Installs fine but: a) USB port doesn't work b) touchpad doesn't work c) /dev/psm0 cannot be found in /dev FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.3 --- Installs fine but: a) USB port works fine b) touchpad doesn't work