Re: comconsole

1999-07-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ill I'm going loopy on > them and it's sinking in very slowly, but not fully there yet. Patches to the man pages would be welcomed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Would you like to go out with me?"

Re: comconsole

1999-07-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
.config > [For the sake of completeness...] > loader: /boot/boot.4th > /boot/loader.rc > /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/loader.conf > /boot/loader.conf.local > > kernel: > /boot/kernel.conf The last one above, only

Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password???

1999-07-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ates? Is there any chance you may have run out of space/inodes/swap? Do these backups stop at random points? Are there any crashes at any other time? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Is it true that you're a millionaire's

Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...

1999-08-31 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
emit loop ; 3kbl will do the trick. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Come on. - Where are we going? - To get what you came for. - What's that? - Me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Signal 11 on 3.3 installation

1999-09-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ation, we cannot do anything. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Problem adding aic driver to kernel

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
gt; > [snipp] > > I would interpret this as I can get them working somehow in 3.3R. Huh? What part of "NOT YET supported" don't you understand? Now, I *hate* not having AIC support, as it prevents me from having X and a cvs tree in my computer, but the statement looks prett

Re: Problem adding aic driver to kernel

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
tation but then it's > marketing. This information is there so that people who have one of these cards can find that it is no longer supported. If we kept silent, people would try to upgrade systems that rely on non-supported hardware just because it was previously supported. It was wis

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Do step 2 and use xml as your protocol . For instance , if an app such gcombust sents a status query to the plug-in its response should be encapsulated in xml : detailing the device , current status : recording/pause/playing/stop. Enjoy -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ot;libre", depending on your view. (If Linuxen, "gratis" is definitely more appropriate :). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: easyboot far into disk

1999-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
isk "in a sensible way". (You'd otherwise have to go to Custom/Disklabel/Commit, which is... scary. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers

Re: easyboot far into disk

1999-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ought to work. The question is is the install flexible > enough to allow one to create multiple partitions as well as the needed > slices within those partitions. AFAIK, it should be relatively trivial. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: easyboot far into disk

1999-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Roelof Osinga wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you? > > And then they tell *me* to stop being sarcastic! HAH! Since when, pray > tell, does root reside below mnt? /me sighs mount wd0a /mnt mount /mn

Re: Installworld fails repeatedly

1999-11-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"¶³¹q¤§­· Michael Wu" wrote: > > When I do make -j4 installworld, I keep getting > the following error: installworld target is not paralelizable (sp?). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What y'all wanna do?

Re: Userconfig still not saving selections in 3.3R

1999-01-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
information getting loaded. Put a userconfig_script_load="YES" line in /boot/loader.conf. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony,

Re: Temperature Findings

1999-12-31 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
with both Linux (or an UP kernel) *and* FreeBSD 3.4R? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nice try, Lao Che." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: JFS

2000-01-31 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
sn't that it was made obsolete by softupdates, as claimed above, but that it was made obsolete by JFS. Why work on LFS if it is not up to a JFS? Unfortunately, the people who have to suffer enourmous waits after crashes usually have way more to do, even if they have the skills to fix LFS.

Re: More than just logging, Re: JFS

2000-01-31 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Bad news: people running depending on _only_ logging are kidding themselves. Yeah. Funny how they have been doing so without getting bitten, eh? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If you consid

Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
hould be configured with the "tty" > mask in GENERIC. The kernel for the install floppy can change it to > the "net" mask; the kernel configuration file for the install floppy > is generated from GENERIC by modifying bits and pieces anyway. Go talk to the Release Engin

Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
box is a major violation of the POLA, and has direct impact on FreeBSD's reputation? No? Oh, well, I tried. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscri

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > When I tried the installkernel it installed things as /YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > I'll have to update things. Well, for people who like to build multiple kernels like me, the above works... :-) Alas, I have kernel="/DCS" in my /boot/loader

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
bootstrap problem. IIRC, /etc/defaults/make.conf refers to KERNEL=your multiple kernels here, but that doesn't work for the install target (the strip doesn't work, I think). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : You can have a menu come up and offer the choice between the partitions, > : and then boot one of them if timed out. > > How? There is an example of that on /usr/share

Re: Compiler problems with -O2 (was Re: CVS Trouble, even under4.0-RELEASE (alpha) HELP!)

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ation elsewhere that cautions against > compiling a kernel with -O2. Whatever. Remember, though, that compiling with -O2 *WILL* result in bad code. It's not that someone had an accident. Is that the breaks don't work one time out of five. Just wait your turn... -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: "dangerously dedicated"

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ght approach is for that BIOS *be* written in Forth to begin with. OpenBoot, anyone? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and i

Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly?

2000-03-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
USB > In addition, I really would like to see user control over PnP devices (via > the pnp boot config command) brought back. It's just way too useful a > thing to throw away altogether. There is nothing useful about it. That's not how PnP devices are supposed to work. -- D

Re: float-to-double core dump on 3.4R

2000-04-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
(floating-point exception). > > >From this it appears there may be a bug in the float-to-double promotion > when f is Inf (or, at least I'd expect that f is Inf). > > Any comments? If not, I'll file the PR. Sure. If you delete the last line, the compiler will opti

Re: sendmail.mc

2000-04-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
have copied > > the new one into place. > > yucchhy! [ but thanks ] > > is the assumption of the one-time build really that acceptable? Hey, wait a second! Why do you think SENDMAIL_CF exists? Just add it to your make.conf pointing to your own .cf file, and add the mc to the appr

Re: sendmail.mc

2000-04-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
amount of source code you must install, I'll pick on the ability to rebuild the whole system. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Fre

Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader

2000-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
024 cylinder limit, but I used the > exact same configuration with 3.4-STABLE and /boot/loader worked fine. > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > Regards, Roddie > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the

Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader

2000-04-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
aded, I deleted the partition during install, > and recreated it the same way). Perhaps you used boot0cfg to configure "packet mode" under 3.4, and forgot to repeat that step? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: ps does not work after a cvsupdate to 4.0-STABLE

2000-05-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
nd libkvm If you make (and install) both world and kernel, the problem ought to disappear. MM... people who do not use /boot/loader and boot /kernel directly from boot2 also see some similar problem. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stable does not boot after make buildworld, ... Was: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
e users when -current became 4.x-stable. I warned, but people don't heed warnings, they heed patches. Sorry this caused you trouble. The instructions ought to be corrected, IMHO. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target tomake your kernels

2000-07-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
r it is commented out, or the complain just apply to the first time around, before running mergemaster. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail t