the limit is 32765, just because link count is 2 bytes wide and
each subdir adds two to base directory. you have to change to 2
level hierarchy.
Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion):
If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32
bits? Or is it
i think it can be done somehow, but isn't the best to run X on your card
with 1440x900 resolution and run one (or several) xterms full screen.
that's what i do with fvwm2 window manager and slightly modified config.
no window frames, no titlebars, buttons etc, 100% screen for program, not
I think it's more because:
a. Java is the only strictly-typed language that runs on any platform
(though it's not the only one)
C runs on any platform. and was for a long.
for interpretitive languages - anything made before was better than java.
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number of years. Hammer, the new FS for FreeBSDs is available for
DragonflyBSD.
i would like to see final (now still beta) version of hammer in action.
it's ADVERTISED features are great. but ZFS features was (and are)
ADVERTISED great too while we see the result.
Hammer would be great if it
em0: link state changed to DOWN
em0: link state changed to UP
em0: link state changed to DOWN
Have you double-checked the hardware? (Includes the cable
connection.) The em driver has a very good reputation and others
- includong myself - use it under siilar load profiles with no
i don't think it's interrupt sharing problems.
anyway - turn on MSI interrupts if your hardware can.
check if producing high load on atapci1 make problem worse or not.
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Christer Solskogen wrote:
Mel wrote:
Any shared interrupts? What does vmstat -i show under the load
no idea. there are tools if your data was only jpeg images -
ports/graphics/recoverjpeg
but there are such tools for DOS and windoze. you may use qemu to run them
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
So ...
newfs_msdos /dev/insert_typo_in_here
.. new filesystem succesfully created
Now, some day we may be more fortunate, like Linux where Linus and
several others are each being paid by some company or consortium just to
EVERY good free software magically turns into crap when it gets heavy
financing. for OSes i don't know any exceptions...
went straight to the reboot. Anyway, if there are other reports,
here's mine. I'd like to blame X, since I have yet to observe an X
that really felt stable to me, but I suspect the culprit is more
likely linux-base-fc4...shame. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised
that running linux programs
please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows
vista
but i cannot understand which system to use
maybe windows XP?
i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software
simply check it.
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simply check it.
unless you think this may be a troll,
your comments seem a great way to chase away a potential convert to FreeBSD.
indeed.
conversion from windows to unix that way is bad idea.
if you/others will help them, soon we will have another linux - windows
competitor and see
FreeBSD is a very powerful and stable system, but that said it is also
very hands on - the opposite extreme of vista which is all hands off.
This means that you will have a very steep learning curve.
simply reading FreeBSD handbook will be the best move for the beginning.
But it is NOT
opinion
But why are we interested in converting people? That borders on
religious, which an operating system should not be.
exactly.
it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already
using some flavor of unix.
One can be converted from Solaris to FreeBSD, from
The OP asked advice on an OS alternative to Vista and asked about
FreeBSD. Telling him that FreeBSD is a good choice is not making
a religious statement. It is just answering his question in an
honest manner.
no - because it's not alternative for Windows Vista.
Windows XP is an
Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for
michael from 89.123.165.3 po
rt 55185 ssh2
There is a user michael on the system, but whoever was doing this was not
him.
I am assuming someone tried to break in using a valid username (michael) but
with an incorrect
Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been
there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and
downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it along with
chklastlog and chkwtmp. Nothing was found. Pehaps this was a harmless enough
Also keep in mind that the user may not have actually logged in and
gotten a shell; the message you see can also happen if the individual
simply scp'd something (e.g. no shell spawned).
but this case there are other messages about scp, not sure if in auth.log
or others. i use single file for
Windows XP is an alternative
excellent for windows vista alternative. it is much faster (while still
slow of course), and there are fixes available that allows to use any new drivers
from vista under XP.
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do you make sound studio or just connecting lots of gsm phones to asterisk
PBX using chan_celliax? ;)
no idea if it supports. as every driver - it should, but simply check the
sources.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
hello,
can anyone verify that the new snd_hda driver in
B) Disable NAT on the wireless router. This allows it to be a simple switch
and wireless access point. The price is that you're probably relying on the
DHCP server in the wireless router for your wireless devices and you'll have
to disable the DHCP when you disable NAT. This creates new
most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk
stripping em all reduces their size dramatically
I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ?
me too
do I miss anything ?
no.
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and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD.
But not from Windows.
Come on, lose your thickness and let the guy be free from Vista.
I DO NOT say don't free from microsoft!
you may change Toyota to Nissan, and just sit down and drive.
But you can't change windoze to unix without learning unix
no - because it's not alternative for Windows Vista.
He is trying to get out of Vista, not trying to be Vista with another name.
well this is a big difference. XP is few years less of f...ng up software
:)
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I have posted
I am installing FreeBSD 7.1 Beta 2 on my laptop model Acer Aspire 4530
1) Atheros AR5B91 is not detected
Does anyone know how to get the drivers or patch it
try ndisgen and windoze driver.
it may work.
actually it work very often
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The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the
availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is
our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for
FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing
lists.
this
and subscribe. is having as much users as possible really good for
FreeBSD? i don't think so.
There's no law or even a policy against i...ts using FreeBSD.
OF COURSE. but how usable such forum be for specialists (i mean just
someone bit advanced)?
will it be separate forum or integrated
It's independent of the mailing lists -- there's a feed of the News articles
that's fine - just i've checked it.
i was scared it will be webinterface to this mailing list.
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improving FreeBSD, there wouldn't be a need to convert. Build it
(and secure/stabilise it) and they will come.
Indeed, what IS the value of more users to a volunteer project like
FreeBSD?
to some level - better driver support. but
windows-converters-seeking-for-nicer-windows don't write
Interesting analogy, and your overall point makes sense. Here's a
question regarding the attitude towards moves to new software and the
expectation it behave like $OTHER_PROGRAM. Photoshop had to be learned
exactly. for experienced gimp user moving to photoshop will not be easy
too.
but
unfortunately the modification requires a newer version of GCC so I have
installed gcc version 4.3.3 from ports.
When I try to run my make command I'm seeing this error
*** WARNING: renaming _codecs_hk since importing it failed: Shared object
libgcc_s.so.1
I see that the gcc 4.3.3 libs were
Still it goes, the OP is trying to get away from MS-Win, not find some
non-MS clone
in EVERY such post i see exactly opposite. they want windoze clones!
they don't ask about how to learn unix, what to read, they didn't read
even basic manuals, or if so - just glanced.
actually - there is a
Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting
NO IT IS NOT!
complete beginners by what ever means work, since today's
Noob is potentially tomorrow's elite Kernel programmer.
At first he must be programmer at all. you can learn programming in
any OS, even
simply reading FreeBSD handbook will be the best move for the beginning.
But it is NOT windoze replacement.
It is if you put it on the system instead of MS-Win stuff.
It will totally replace it if you use fdisk to create a FreeBSD slice
no need for slices. i don't create slices on any
I *do* want to see a discussion of the FreeBSD project's goals, as part
of the answer the OP's question about which platform to use instead of
Windows. The more people understand what FreeBSD's design goals are, the
better they'll be able to decide if it also meets their goals.
they can read it
Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means
attracting
NO IT IS NOT!
Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;)
--
minix doesn't work well under high load. it's not even designed to do
this. maybe it will change, and full DMA ide drivers. will be
Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;)
I cannot begin to express how disappointed I am that a potential
user's question turned into a flamewar.
actually it's NOT a flamewar.
it's my WARNING to all current FreeBSD community about the effect of doing
such nonsense
which are doing quite well. If accommodating a Windows user is simply
allowing for a usable desktop system, then FreeBSD works fine.
what you mean usable desktop system?
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I strongly recommend all of You to stop this bad trend.
Could you please stop trolling? You're not contributing to anything here.
no - because i'm not trolling. simply ignore me if you don't understand
what i write
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indeed it is offense. my opinion is different than yours so i have to
shut up. that's what you said/
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why not learn from where it went wrong and do it better?
what better exactly? sounds interesting. please add some details, because
for now i see that it going not better not worse but exactly the same way
as my examples.
If FreeBSD becomes popular we'll have to deal with it sooner or
Try ReactOS- it's exactly that.
I think its a version of Wine on steroids...
does it really work - i mean all (or most at least) programs work.
can user simply put say - M$ Office CD/DVD and click setup?
if yes - they NEED MORE ADVERTISEMENT.
i will check it today on second disk. if it's
FreeBSD? i don't think so.
While I can see the point you are trying to make, and it's a valid
concern, I don't fully agree.
What you are essentially hinting at is that having a forum will attract
less experienced users. I don't think less experienced people are, for
some reason, 'idiots', but
I have the perfect solution for you since you know more than 80 - 90
percent of the subscribers to this list.
Why not create you own operating system and then pick and choose who
could use it. All of the source you need is freely available.
because it will take too much time.
So Rolls-Royce should start to mass-produce cars for everyone? it won't
be Rolls-Royce anymore.
This is nonsense: better start charging money for FreeBSD then.
FreeBSD will not turn bad (or Linux) whenever more users are using it.
if it would be kept high quality i would be able to pay for
I don't want to fan the flames, but isn't that exactly what Wojciech is
suggesting? That Linux went wrong when it began to cater too much to
the perceived need to give former Windows users a user-friendly
system?
exactly.
Anyway, I suspect that this discussion more properly belongs on the
have).
while there may be some benefit to freebsd becoming 'popular', it would
it is already popular within experienced users. number one or two.
it's just enough.
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Try ReactOS- it's exactly that.
well it's an alpha state now as stated on their webpage.
i wish they will finalize it withing reasonable time.
it would be great.
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Wojciech - I appreciate the UNIX knowledge that you have but
continuing this discussion in this manner seems pointless. Your points
are exagerrated to say the least.
exactly the same i heard years ago on NetBSD list, and more years ago on
linux list. time showed that i was right.
I am very
ReactOS is somewhat of a joke at this point. I've personally tried it,
and I cannot see how it can be taken seriously until its cleaned up and
made much more user-friendly. There's also been some developer drama
in recent days, which literally halted the project for months on end,
and I don't
The fact that you love to communicate via email does not mean that
everyone shoud/must/does. And you shouldn't call people idiots only
because they have different preference than you.
it's not preference. it's self-limiting to just single interface for
everything - WWW. today common trend.
today we have at least 10:1
Let's not be too pessimistic, shall we? :D
i'm realistic.
those who are not just less experienced but so brainless that they
can't even sent a subscribing mail to mailing list
they will not become experienced unix users ever.
We can help as much as we
questions a day. and i do answer and help if i can.
but soon it will be much worse.
I beg to differ. I don't like playing the `old fart' card, but I've
been a subscriber to questions for a decade or so. I haven't noticed
any significant reduction in the quality of traffic. It still rocks as
they could sell it, instead of begging for donations
If you start selling software like that, you end up just like another M
$.
of course not like that. but with total of ca 2000$ donations over 2 years
it doesn't make sense.
Me personally I don't like the software and system introduced
Unfortunately, the only one who doesn't understand would not be
any of the other posters.
The community is much more trustworthy than you give it credit.
The community got us a valuable resource and will continue to
do so if people who might take an interest aren't too put off
by perpetual
not mentioning linux that got just billion$ total sposoring from IBM.
Could you point out some of those strange-but-trendy features? I tried
Ubuntu for a while on my laptop and it more or less Just Works. It
very slow and badly under high load
Are there any chances to see FreeBSD supported by vua.la? Does anybody know?
no idea what vua.la, but ask it's author about it.
if it's already unix program (be it linux, solaris, netbsd, whatever) it's
just matter of few hours (worst case few days) of work.
Best regards
Konrad Heuer
I have read briefly on FreeBSD and it seems to be the winner on speed and
stability versus Linux and of course MS Windows.
versus linux - of course, versus windows - it's different OS, we should
define how do you compare. for example running windows apps under FreeBSD
with wine will probably
If you're thinking of trying out FreeBSD, then this is the right place to
come. A word of warning though: it's not at all like Windows, or even
MacOSX. You will be expected to learn quite a bit about the low level
MacOSX can run unix programs, but in every other respect is not like unix
as
All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will
say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right.
I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth,
i exactly repeat opinion of LOTS of windoze users that tried any unix GUI.
it's poor mans
usage or need.
You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here
is someone that simply use unix an expert?
no.
By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are
and i will repeat it because it's true. it's every other unix replacement.
as linux
For FreeBSD supported laptops Lenovo as generally good choice.
Not anymore. They were when it was still IBM. Some in-depth discussion here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2008-July/010831.html
thanks for info. it was really on place as i told someone yesterday.
fortunately
This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not
very powerful.
as KDE and Gnome and others.
when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have
read even the user interface of Mac OS X is much better that Windows
although they have a much smaller
I am one of the few UNIX administrators who prefers to use Windows (XP
or 2K; cannot stand Vista) as a desktop/workstation operating system.
if you need really windows-like computing/desktop-environments/whatever is
called they RIGHT - windows is most windows like and it's good choice.
Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at
hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in
for benchmarks doing same thing over and over, or same thing in parallel
linux can even be better.
but try running many different tasks in parallel
D-LINK DWL-G630
Trendnet TEW-421PC
D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ...
Linksys WPC54G
Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster
Trendnet TEW-441PC
ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site for hardware
compatibility. FreeBSD supports a lot
versus linux - of course, versus windows - it's different OS, we should
define how do you compare. for example running windows apps under FreeBSD
with wine will probably be slower than under windows.
This is not as constant a truism as one might think. I haven't run much
software in Wine, but
Can you point out some places on the web that confirm this?
no. for me it's important that i confirmed this. that's why i'm far away
from using linux anywhere.
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Time to forget this.It is a semantic and religious battle
playing hair splitting games with words.It is not a MS clone
but it is an MS replacement. If you overwrite your MS-Win with
FreeBSD, it completely replaces it.
and you get something completely different. FORTUNATELY different.
are happy to find that to be true.Give them a hand rather than
a kick in the face.
Amen to that! This is something I am also asking for. Wojciech you
often help others here. Let's keep it this way. Please?!
i will do exactly what i'm doing now. no more no less.
helping those who ask
so why it have a much smaller market share?
Because MS wrote restrictive contracts with companies trying to
sell PCs saying that if they wanted to put MS on any of their
Apple produces it's own computers. Actually a branded PCs now.
what a problem?
the problem is that Apple works the same
I think the fundamental problem with the Windows UI is that it's trying
to cater for both advanced (e.g Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, Hibernate or
well funny - that being able to restart is being advanced user. good to
know.
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I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64.
There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran
solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that
for fast network (LAN)
telnet/rlogin (better not ssh)
export DISPLAY=IP-of-your-display:0
then
when i do this:
export DISPLAY=192.168.0.100:0
xterm
first it tells me that export can't befound, I guess that is because it is a
built it.
So I added to my .profile the following
DISPLAY=192.168.0.100:0
export DISPLAY
maybe you use csh not bash as me.
Logged out and logged
X windows has client/server built into the protocol: you can run an X
application on a machine that has no video card and display the result
on another machine that has video facility and an X display (called an
X server).
Does anyone know of a tutorial or a how-to, I would like to try this
all the input from various users I assume zfs would be the file system of
choice for such large volumes?
Are there limitations or downsides using UFS on such a large volume?
no, unless you will create it with default options.
use -i big-power-of-two simply to have enough inodes for your
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UFS performs excellent on large drives/volumes. not in theory but in
practice, i use it every place, on volumes up to 3GB
NO PROBLEMS.
Do you mean 3TB instead?
yes. sorry
Hi,
I was just reading stuff about ZFS, and wonder if it would be
beneficial for me to use it. I store a lots of multimedia files in my
HD, they usually have the size of 1GB (e.g. 1.2, 1.7 or even
bigger), and my system is running UFS.
simply use UFS with big blocks (-b 65536 -f 8192) will
What does MAXPHYS mean (yes max raw I/O transfer) and do? A little
bit more specific if you may.
how large can be single read from disk.
when you say read 2 files in the same time, FreeBSD will readahead at most
MAXPHYS from one file, then from file 2, from file 1 etc.
128kB/s is way too
Thank you for your explanation.
from what i tested 1MB is optimal on modern drives, 2MB doesn't speed up
much (if any) but increases latency.
use lower values for old drives (20GB) and low memory (=64MB) machines
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add -u
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Fbsd1 wrote:
Trying to use diff program to create a patch.
Output gos to console and does not create the patch file.
If it do diff original updated patch.file
The patch.file does not look like a normal patch file.
What am I doing wrong here?
when you say read 2 files in the same time, FreeBSD will readahead at most
MAXPHYS from one file, then from file 2, from file 1 etc.
128kB/s is way too much for todays drives, that can read 1MB within one
access time.
128kB/s is way to much , and you set it to 1024, or did you mean way to low
We are considering using an application that uses FreeBSD web servers in
front of Windows file servers. How reliable/scalable is the kernel SMB
module?
no idea. it worked many times when i wanted to fetch few files from
windows. but i don't think anyone really cares very much about it being
I lost my Hard Drive and all my many tens of thousands of emails.
Thus, my excellent repository of answers from this list were sent to oblivion.
I make dumps using gzip and forget the command line to restore files from the
zipped dump.
I use the command line like:
dump 0 -h0 -uaLf - /home |
/usr/local/bin/rsync -az -e 'ssh ' data.cdb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/etc/tinydns/root/data.cdb
channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
The rsync does work. That is, the file is copied over. So this is actually a
warning, I guess.
On the other server, the one
rule looks OK, but your message clearly suggest you DO NOT have IP
forwarding enabled
Interesting sysctl reports that forwarding is enabled:
$ sysctl -a |grep forward
net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
it's not that. it's about routing, not ipfw forwarding
you need
IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
option in
The server is give this error whenever i want to start apache22. why?
regards
no idea,but most probably you use PHP and added lots of it's modules, some
of them crashes
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My IP Address on my FreeBSD Server 4.11-STABLE keeps changing. What I need
saying My suggest you are administrator - so you (your script/program)
changes IP. so you know what it is.
please more precisely specify your question
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My IP Address on my FreeBSD Server 4.11-STABLE keeps changing. What I need
saying My suggest you are administrator - so you (your script/program)
changes IP. so you know what it is.
please more precisely specify your question
OK sorry i didn't read carefully.
you need ifconfig and route to
Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with FreeBSD?
Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip?
don't be suggested by amd in port name. it's for AMD64-compatible
processor, for example your xeon
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recipient, instead of using sendmail or an installed MTA?
Sendmail/Sendwhale sucks for just about anything. There are much better
as i like programs that sucks, i use sendmail everywhere.
it's perfect
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The page includes the following suggestion on how I might be able to
proceed:
Alternatively, the dump device can be hard-coded via the
dump clause in the config(5) line of a kernel configuration
file. This approach is deprecated and should be used only
if a kernel is
my /var/db/portsnap/pub.ssh file (i use 7.1-PRERELEASE):
-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA0FgDRCCYpEOiTHwtjtDI
rz/OLIOhjNZKa9OEtcbyHS24GMpMYp+lAb1uCxCyyJUQ7F08phNNud39cdpBBtjg
ZFSisdJARYu2IhgEvxJqN+1EKVw6psLCOwlosIJlALPohf0LzTQ2eMkrDNk1xXru
sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are?
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My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing
application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files,
usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one of the
fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans, spyware, etc.
that's my
When people ask my advice about computers, I always include: Never use
Limewire, or anything like it.
just downloading/sharing files allows you to download viruses, but it's
up to you to run them.
well unless P2P program is really broken, or you are sharing executables.
for sharing movies,
because historically ISPs used those ports for throttling.
+1 . skype does the same thing. and it's p2p too , although a lot less so
than limewire.
well ther are excellent method to block skype when using HTTP proxy not
NAT ;) (skype can do through proxy)
Yeah. Limewire is written in Java (iirc), which makes it extremely
easy to port it to any system that can run java.
for P2P sharing rtorrent (/usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent) works excellent
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Nov 26 20:48:11 server kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error
(retrying request) LBA=1364750271
Nov 26 20:48:11 server kernel: ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48
status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=1364750271
Nov 26 20:48:11 server kernel:
thanks!
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:19:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
sorry but while i use FreeBSD for a long time i need dual boot for the
first time.
i already have installed DOS in dospartition 1 (/dev/ad0s1
sorry but while i use FreeBSD for a long time i need dual boot for the
first time.
i already have installed DOS in dospartition 1 (/dev/ad0s1) and FreeBSD on
dospartition 2 slice a (/dev/ad0s2a)
i can boot both but i need to use fdisk to change active partition every
time i want to boot
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