From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 26 10:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from home.se (smtphost1.home.se [195.66.35.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497E437B4C5 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from jetthe.home.se [212.151.145.73] by home.se with Novonyx SMTP Server $Revision: 2.69 $; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:10:27 +0100 (ECTD) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001126190839.00caa920@mail4.mail.home.se> X-Sender: pop70320@mail4.mail.home.se X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:11:49 +0100 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Jonas 'jetthe' Tull Subject: KDENABIO-error Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, got two problems I'd like to get solved.. so if someone is brave enough to help a newbie, here goes: 1. when trying to start X. (which earlier worked just fine) I keep getting this error-report: "xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)" and that it hits me right back to the cli... 2. when trying to install packages from /usr/ports/* i.e /usr/ports/ftp/wget/ by writing "make" or "make install", it doesn't try to read files from my 4.2 cdrom... doesn't matter if it's mounted or not... when i copyied the files to /usr/ports/distfiles/ it STILL didn't read them... anyone knows why?!? thnx, Jonas '[cbx]jetthe' Tull [jetthe@home.se - uin: 6477925 - http://sqrk.n3.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 26 11:27: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uranus.interscope.ro (unknown [193.226.188.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C7037B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 11:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by URANUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:24:31 +0200 Message-ID: From: Stefan KORONKA To: 'Lawrence Kreitzer' Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Need New Kernel Help Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:24:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In order to stop chating: you may want to try asking on questions@FreeBSD.org - that list is for technical questions. And for Doug: I like vi too .. stefan > Hello everyone > > I am a newbie to Unix in general and FreeBSD in particular, > but I have a lot of experience with all sorts of OS-es, > dating back to the CDC-6400. vi is not so strange, believe > it or not :) > > I recently bought BSD 4.1 Desktop Edition. The install > worked just fine, as far as it went, it just didn't go far > enough. I need to connect to my office network to do > anything - print, surf, whatever - but I have an Olicom 3118 > tokenring NIC in this box. > > The Complete FreeBSD book that came with the package was > written for version 3.x and the CDs do not have the CVS on it > (at least, I couldn't find it and I have looked for it pretty > darn hard). Nonetheless, it covers most subjects well enough > so that I can I generalize the info to my particular > situation, I think. > > I understand that to get the Olicom working, I need to build > new kernel. I created my own configuration file after > studying LINT and starting with GENERIC. I think I have the > correct files in the correct places. config, make depend, > make and make install all work without any fatal or serious > errors (an occasional warning comes up in make depend). > > My question is this (and perhaps it is better addressed to > the tokenring list, but I thought I should start here, being > a newbie) - when I boot, all the devices I have defined in > the config come up, except for the Olicom. I get this instead > > >> unknown0: at port > 0xa00-0xa1f irq 3 drq1 on ISA0 > > Having browsed the tokenring mailing list archive, I have > seen comments that the ISA cards have had support dropped, to > be replaced later, when the PCI card drivers came out. I > hope this is not the case and that instead I am doing > something stupidly wrong. Conversely, must I do a MAKEDEV? > (which I have already tried to no success, because the code > doesn't have any references to oltr in it) or even a mknod ? > If so, could someone provide me with the parameters for it ? > > I appreciate y'all (as they say down here in Texas) shedding > some light on this for me. Thanks ! > > Lawrence Kreitzer > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 26 17:27:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gw-us4.philips.com (gw-us4.philips.com [63.114.235.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737C637B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:27:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtprelay-hk1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-us4.philips.com with ESMTP id TAA23008 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:27:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com) From: lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com Received: from smtprelay-asp1.philips.com(130.147.65.5) by gw-us4.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma023002; Sun, 26 Nov 00 19:27:06 -0600 Received: from APLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (aplms01sv1.diamond.philips.com [130.147.79.213]) by smtprelay-hk1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id JAA21453 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:27:03 +0800 (HKT) Received: by APLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (Soft-Switch LMS 4.0) with snapi via APAC id 0056920008557959; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:27:36 +0800 To: Subject: Cannot buy the laterest offical FreeBSD CD in Hong Kong Message-ID: <0056920008557959000002L292*@MHS> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:27:36 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="MEMO 11/27/00 09:26:47" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear all, We cannot buy any the laterest offical FreeBSD CD in Hong Kong anymore!= ! It seems that have a problem between supplier and local dealer. Regards, Lawrence Cheung= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Nov 27 5:35: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sraige.mif.vu.lt (sraige.mif.vu.lt [193.219.42.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AB137B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from simas@localhost) by sraige.mif.vu.lt (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id PAA10313; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:35:02 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:35:01 +0200 From: Simas Cepaitis To: "Jonas 'jetthe' Tull" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDENABIO-error Message-ID: <20001127153501.A10306@sraige.mif.vu.lt> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001126190839.00caa920@mail4.mail.home.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001126190839.00caa920@mail4.mail.home.se>; from jetthe@home.se on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:11:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:11:49PM +0100, Jonas 'jetthe' Tull wrote: > 1. > when trying to start X. (which earlier worked just fine) > I keep getting this error-report: > > "xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)" > > and that it hits me right back to the cli... It happens, that X starts on FreeBSD only in -1 securelevel sysctl kern.securelevel Simas Cepaitis simas@sraige.mif.vu.lt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Nov 27 7:51: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f89.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019BD37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:51:03 -0800 Received: from 63.109.42.62 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:51:02 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.109.42.62] From: "d. sanders" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: auth 7e06ee31 subscribe freebsd-newbies grog@example.org Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:51:02 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Nov 2000 15:51:03.0227 (UTC) FILETIME=[D87DF0B0:01C05889] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org auth 7e06ee31 subscribe freebsd-newbies grog@example.org _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Nov 27 10:21: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cho.cstone.net (mail.cstone.net [209.145.64.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4798137B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cstone.net (aylee.mrgoodbucks.com [209.145.93.143]) by mail.cho.cstone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eARIJZV91051; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:19:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A22A62E.3C4ADFA8@cstone.net> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:21:34 -0500 From: Sean Michael Whipkey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wulfie Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-spam policy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org wulfie wrote: > > I don't know what the list moderator's policy is on spam - I'm seeing > plenty of it on this list. However, here's mine - I'm unsubscribing. it's easy - the standard policy for the FreeBSD lists is that spam is not allowed. Of course, people still post to it, mostly because they allow people not on the list to post. I can't say I agree with that, but it's not my list. Unless they started filtering all list mail through something like the RBL, implementing an anti-spam policy is not going to cut down on the amount of spam. As for the purpose of the list, it's intended for newbies to discuss getting used to FreeBSD. Sounds simple enough to me. If you have questions, they go to freebsd-questions; this is for conversation and experiences, not "how do I do $FOO" type questions. SeanMike -- SeanMike Whipkey - "The Man. The goatee. The reputation." - Kimmet "What the hell is wrong with that boy?!?" - Adrienne Uphoff "What the French lack in reason they make up for in sheer gall." - Onion "Did anyone else read this and think of SeanMike?" - Leybourne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 28 0:16:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ratatosk.sveg.se.sykes.com (proxy.sveg.se.sykes.com [195.67.11.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE7137B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:16:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:16:10 +0100 Message-ID: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D702F5FF6C@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= To: 'Sean Michael Whipkey' , wulfie Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Anti-spam policy Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:16:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > wulfie wrote: > > > > I don't know what the list moderator's policy is on spam - > I'm seeing > > plenty of it on this list. However, here's mine - I'm unsubscribing. > > it's easy - the standard policy for the FreeBSD lists is that spam is > not allowed. > > Of course, people still post to it, mostly because they allow > people not > on the list to post. Do they really? I'd bet my Fbsd box for this message not getting through to -newbies.. > I can't say I agree with that, but it's not my > list. Unless they started filtering all list mail through something > like the RBL, implementing an anti-spam policy is not going > to cut down > on the amount of spam. freebsd lists have a pretty good spam filtering - maybe even too good: In Finland, (6 months ago) I wasn't able to send mail to freebsd lists directly from my home box, because of Dynamic IP address: freebsd lists deny many of them.. Today I can't send mail to freebsd lists, because they have plain stupid M$Exchange server here, and whenever I try to send mail via it, I get response "sender not recognized in recipients address" or something like that. Of course, every once in a while a spam message gets through, but personally I think it could be a LOT worse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 28 0:18:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ratatosk.sveg.se.sykes.com (proxy.sveg.se.sykes.com [195.67.11.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D544337B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:18:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:18:42 +0100 Message-ID: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D702F5FF6E@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= , 'Sean Michael Whipkey' , wulfie Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Anti-spam policy Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:18:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ok.. I don't like to respond to my own messages, but I was truly amazed that the message got through.. luckily no one had time to take that bet ;) > > wulfie wrote: > > > > > > I don't know what the list moderator's policy is on spam - > > I'm seeing > > > plenty of it on this list. However, here's mine - I'm > unsubscribing. > > > > it's easy - the standard policy for the FreeBSD lists is > that spam is > > not allowed. > > > > Of course, people still post to it, mostly because they allow > > people not > > on the list to post. > Do they really? I'd bet my Fbsd box for this message not > getting through to > -newbies.. > > > > I can't say I agree with that, but it's not my > > list. Unless they started filtering all list mail through something > > like the RBL, implementing an anti-spam policy is not going > > to cut down > > on the amount of spam. > freebsd lists have a pretty good spam filtering - maybe even too good: > In Finland, (6 months ago) I wasn't able to send mail to freebsd lists > directly > from my home box, because of Dynamic IP address: freebsd > lists deny many of > them.. > > Today I can't send mail to freebsd lists, because they have > plain stupid > M$Exchange server here, > and whenever I try to send mail via it, I get response "sender not > recognized in recipients address" or something like that. > > Of course, every once in a while a spam message gets through, > but personally > I think it could > be a LOT worse. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 28 5:25:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mielie.nda.agric.za (mielie.nda.agric.za [192.96.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDFA37B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 05:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ERMAGRI1 ([155.240.59.10]) by mielie.nda.agric.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27411 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:13:34 -0200 (GMT) Received: from ERMDOM-Message_Server by ERMAGRI1 with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:25:21 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:25:02 +0200 From: "Eric Reynolds" To: Subject: unsubscribe Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 28 10:34:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6CE37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p132.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.132]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA533542; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:30:46 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00592; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:25:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:25:43 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Anti-spam policy In-Reply-To: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D702F5FF6C@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jukka, > > Of course, people still post to it, mostly because they allow > > people not > > on the list to post. > Do they really? I'd bet my Fbsd box for this message not getting through to > -newbies.. Got it. BUT, its not only wild MS stuff that is a problem, also wild cowboys like the ORBS team etc...www.orbs.org , to give an example. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 6:35:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ajax1.sovam.com (ajax1.sovam.com [194.67.1.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E9437B404 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 06:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.152.91.227] ([62.152.91.227]:3979 "HELO zhuki" ident: "TIMEDOUT" whoson: "stash@online.ru" smtp-auth: TLS-CIPHER: TLS-PEER: ) by ajax1.sovam.com with SMTP id ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:33:52 +0300 Received: from server.cns (unknown [90.0.0.1]) by zhuki (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2CC1B49E for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:23:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by SERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:28:34 +0300 Message-ID: <41A4E43D1765D3118C41000001013BDD044DFF@SERVER> From: Administrator To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: LBA and loader -> problem Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:28:32 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! I have faced following problem: I've installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on WD drive with LBA mode on. Everything works fine, except that on the very first boot stage (BMX loader) the system works VERY SLOW (it takes about several minutes to get to the kernel loading stage), and the drive makes some snaping sounds like if the drive head hits somethig. But after the kernel starts loading - everythig works fine. After trying different choises of disk geometry in BIOS setup (actually 3 - LBA, NORMAL and LARGE) I found out that the problem vanishes when setting LARGE mode. I can't use this mode permanently , cause I have several more OSes on this drive and they won't boot in any mode except LBA. In the logs I see that the FreeBSD system thinks that the drive C/H/S "signature" is NORMAL, no matter what i set up in BIOS. Can anyone give me some direction to work in? Thanx in advance PS: sorry for my bad english. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 12:30: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A506237B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:29:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from Hartman0013@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.34.) id n.37.d374be6 (3997) for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: Hartman0013@aol.com Message-ID: <37.d374be6.2756c143@aol.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:29:55 EST Subject: (no subject) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 107 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i keep trying to download thing on disk but it is now saying that the disks need to be formated no matter which one i put in. Can you help? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 12:37:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from stud.alakhawayn.ma (stud.alakhawayn.ma [193.194.63.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF22D37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:37:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (961BE653994@localhost) by stud.alakhawayn.ma (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA20387; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:31:19 GMT Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:31:18 +0000 (GMT) From: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma> To: Hartman0013@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compraison Btw Linux and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <37.d374be6.2756c143@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear All, Can anybody tell what are the strengths of FreeBsd over linux? Best Regards, Ali To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 12:44:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ux11.cso.uiuc.edu (ux11.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2439D37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by ux11.cso.uiuc.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eATKiHq13182 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:44:17 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: ux11.cso.uiuc.edu: eheine owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:44:17 -0600 (CST) From: erich alfred heine X-Sender: eheine@ux11.cso.uiuc.edu To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: installworld problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I CVSuped, and followed the instructions in the handbook to the letter. Now im in single user mode, and get the following error while doing make -j4 installworld (i added the -j4 because that is how i did buildworld, and the handbook says that make needs all the same parameters) output: install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 sh /bin Could not execute shell ***Error code 1 1 error ***Error code 2 1 error The last part (about error code 2) is repeated 4 more times. What could be causing this error and what can i do to fix it? thanks Erich Heine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 13:10:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1648737B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:10:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 72E1718B1; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:34:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0F718B0; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:34:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:34:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Hartman0013@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <37.d374be6.2756c143@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > i keep trying to download thing on disk but it is now saying that the disks > need to be formated no matter which one i put in. Can you help? Please ask questions on -questions. Not -newbies. You may also want to check http://www.freebsd.org/handbook and read the installation section, specifically the part refering to fdimage.exe Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 13:13:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D379F37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 868C318B1; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FE518B0; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:37:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma> Cc: FreeBSD-newbies Subject: Re: Compraison Btw Linux and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Dear All, > Can anybody tell what are the strengths of FreeBsd over linux? You'd be better off asking this on -questions or searching the mailing list archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists This question has been answered to death there. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 14: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.senet.com.au (pluto.senet.com.au [203.56.239.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D4A37B404 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:00:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from senet.com.au (c1-p180.senet.com.au [203.56.237.181]) by pluto.senet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eATM05A07312 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:30:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from bruce@senet.com.au) Message-ID: <3A257C59.C962F224@senet.com.au> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:29:53 +1030 From: Bruce X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Newbies Subject: Lego BSDaemon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but for those who don't read /., this may provide you with some entertainment: http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/daemon.html Anyone feeling creative? þ -- Gewat ða neosian, syþðan niht becom (Beowulf) Recta non toleranda futuaris nisi irrisus ridebis. (Carlton) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 16:40:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c002.snv.cp.net (c002-h000.c002.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C024037B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 24655 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 15:36:15 -0800 Received: from 1Cust251.tnt1.fort-wayne.in.da.uu.net (HELO canada.com) (63.23.159.251) by smtp.peoplepc.com (209.228.32.164) with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 15:36:14 -0800 X-Sent: 29 Nov 2000 23:36:14 GMT Message-ID: <3A259495.E69A545D@canada.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:43:17 -0500 From: mh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma> Cc: Hartman0013@aol.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compraison Btw Linux and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dude, Rick is going to be really pissed about this question! Better ask this on freebsd-questions!! mike ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI wrote: > Dear All, > Can anybody tell what are the strengths of FreeBsd over linux? > > Best Regards, > Ali > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 17:17:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c002.snv.cp.net (c002-h007.c002.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB7F437B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:17:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 29513 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 15:34:30 -0800 Received: from 1Cust251.tnt1.fort-wayne.in.da.uu.net (HELO canada.com) (63.23.159.251) by smtp.peoplepc.com (209.228.32.171) with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 15:34:30 -0800 X-Sent: 29 Nov 2000 23:34:30 GMT Message-ID: <3A259428.6DD3897C@canada.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:41:28 -0500 From: mh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Administrator Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LBA and loader -> problem References: <41A4E43D1765D3118C41000001013BDD044DFF@SERVER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dude, Rick is going to be pissed about this question! Better ask it on freebsd-questions! mike Administrator wrote: > Hi! > I have faced following problem: > I've installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on WD drive with LBA mode on. > Everything works fine, except that on the very first boot stage (BMX > loader) > the system works VERY SLOW (it takes about several minutes to get to the > kernel > loading stage), and the drive makes some snaping sounds like if the drive > head > hits somethig. But after the kernel starts loading - everythig works > fine. > After trying different choises of disk geometry in BIOS setup > (actually 3 - LBA, NORMAL and LARGE) I found out that the problem vanishes > when setting LARGE mode. > I can't use this mode permanently , cause I have several more OSes on this > drive and they won't boot > in any mode except LBA. > In the logs I see that the FreeBSD system thinks that the drive C/H/S > "signature" is NORMAL, no matter what i set up in BIOS. > > Can anyone give me some direction to work in? > Thanx in advance > > PS: sorry for my bad english. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 18:40:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net (mail.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1418D37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:40:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 51601 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2000 02:40:30 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 51505 invoked by uid 0); 30 Nov 2000 02:40:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uswest.net) (63.224.105.223) by mail.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 2000 02:40:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3A25BD0C.1000008@uswest.net> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:35:56 -0700 From: Joe Warner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en, ja, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mh Cc: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma>, Hartman0013@aol.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compraison Btw Linux and FreeBSD References: <3A259495.E69A545D@canada.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040405090603060107040003" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------040405090603060107040003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike, It's nice of you to make the effort to direct those asking questions of a technical nature to -questions. However, telling people that Rick is going to be really pissed is simply untrue. Rick would do as he's always done and politely suggest they ask technical questions in -questions. If you'd like to continue to help, I'd suggest the following format for future responses: ------CUT----------------- (name), Please send technical questions such as this to FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org. FreeBSD-Newbies is a discussion forum for newbies. We don't ask for help or answer how-to questions here. Also, these links may be of assistance: http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://bsdquickstart.freeservers.com/ http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd/ Thanks ----------CUT-------------- mh wrote: > dude, Rick is going to be really pissed about this question! Better ask > this on freebsd-questions!! > > mike > > > ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI wrote: > >> Dear All, >> Can anybody tell what are the strengths of FreeBsd over linux? >> >> Best Regards, >> Ali >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > --------------040405090603060107040003 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike,

It's nice of you to make the effort to direct those
asking questions of a technical nature to -questions.

However, telling people that Rick is going to be
really pissed is simply untrue.  Rick would do as
he's always done and politely suggest they ask
technical questions in -questions.

If you'd like to continue to help, I'd suggest the
following format for future responses:

------CUT-----------------

(name),


Please send technical questions such as this to
FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org.

FreeBSD-Newbies is a discussion forum for newbies.
We don't ask for help or answer how-to questions here.

Also, these links may be of assistance:

http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html

http://bsdquickstart.freeservers.com/

http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd/


Thanks

----------CUT--------------


mh wrote:
dude, Rick is going to be really pissed about this question! Better ask
this on freebsd-questions!!

mike


ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI wrote:

Dear All,
Can anybody tell what are the strengths of FreeBsd over linux?

Best Regards,
Ali

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--------------040405090603060107040003-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 29 21:48: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c002.snv.cp.net (c002-h008.c002.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9159637B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:48:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 20437 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 19:09:21 -0800 Received: from 1Cust183.tnt5.fort-wayne.in.da.uu.net (HELO canada.com) (63.17.239.183) by smtp.peoplepc.com (209.228.32.172) with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 19:09:21 -0800 X-Sent: 30 Nov 2000 03:09:21 GMT Message-ID: <3A25C685.F05FDF87@canada.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:16:21 -0500 From: mh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Warner Cc: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma>, Hartman0013@aol.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compraison Btw Linux and FreeBSD References: <3A259495.E69A545D@canada.com> <3A25BD0C.1000008@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org just a warped sense of humor. thought it would be taken as such. Joe Warner wrote: > Mike, > > It's nice of you to make the effort to direct those > asking questions of a technical nature to -questions. > > However, telling people that Rick is going to be > really pissed is simply untrue. Rick would do as > he's always done and politely suggest they ask > technical questions in -questions. > > If you'd like to continue to help, I'd suggest the > following format for future responses: > > ------CUT----------------- > > (name), > > Please send technical questions such as this to > FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org. > > FreeBSD-Newbies is a discussion forum for newbies. > We don't ask for help or answer how-to questions here. > > Also, these links may be of assistance: > > http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html > > > http://bsdquickstart.freeservers.com/ > > http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd/ > > > Thanks > > ----------CUT-------------- > > mh wrote: > >> dude, Rick is going to be really pissed about this question! Better >> ask >> this on freebsd-questions!! >> >> mike >> >> >> ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI wrote: >> >> >> > Dear All, >> > Can anybody tell what are the strengths of FreeBsd over linux? >> > >> > Best Regards, >> > Ali >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >> > >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 30 11:17:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from surfree.net.il (mail.surfree.net.il [212.3.192.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA6E337B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: From [mail.surfree.net.il 213.151.4.243] By SuperMail at surfree.net.il with SMTP; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:15:54 +0200 GMT From: jeny@FreeBSD.ORG To: , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Answer To Your Question. Date: 30 Nov 2000 21:18:25 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20001130191709.AA6E337B401@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www14.brinkster.com/karon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 30 18:53:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from aport2000.ru (relay2.aport.ru [193.125.27.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FCEA37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4283 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 02:53:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([193.125.27.10]) (envelope-sender ) by relay2.aport.ru for ; 1 Dec 2000 02:53:46 -0000 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org From: eduard_71@aport.ru X-Mailer: Aport Webmail 1.0 Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 05:53:46 +0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Message-Id: X-Originating-IP: [154.5.203.15] Subject: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! How can I install FreeBSD in my computer if I have a dial-up connect with Internet? Is it possible? Eduard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 30 22:47:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (unknown [216.47.143.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D918E37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by charlie.cns.iit.edu (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA54260; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:47:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:47:32 -0600 From: "Benjamin M. Manes" To: eduard_71@aport.ru Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yep, but its a little more difficult than the other options. It is the slowest, since a FreeBSD install varies in size (ie, do you want X?). I'd recommend buying/burning the CDs, either from WC CDROM or another group (e.g., cheapbytes, linuxmall). If you really want to use the modem, check out the handbook (freebsd.org/handbook), The Complete FreeBSD, or the Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD (http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/). You might be able to find a few tutorials to boot (I haven't checked, but this may be useful: http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/). regards, Ben On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 eduard_71@aport.ru wrote: > Hi! > > How can I install FreeBSD in my computer if I have a > dial-up connect with Internet? > Is it possible? > > Eduard. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------ "Open Source?" - Press any key to continue To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 3: 8:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3B537B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 03:08:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dougy (dougy.apana.org.au [203.3.126.131]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA08122; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:14:43 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <011401c05b88$44453500$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: , References: Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:17:13 +1000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org easy ...... just a matter of making the 2 boot floppies & installing via ftp (hopefully you have a permanent connection because it takes a while !!!!) For more info read the handbook (available online at freebsd.org) ... if thats too complicated for you let me know & I'll give you the url for a REAL simple tutorial I wrote a while back :) ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:53 AM > Hi! > > How can I install FreeBSD in my computer if I have a > dial-up connect with Internet? > Is it possible? > > Eduard. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 7:28:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web1101.mail.yahoo.com (web1101.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD54D37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:28:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14436 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Dec 2000 15:28:04 -0000 Message-ID: <20001201152804.14434.qmail@web1101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.200.148.220] by web1101.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:28:04 PST Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:28:04 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Erlin Subject: and if -questions doesn't work? To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org People consistently send questions to this list, and are consistenly advised to send them to -questions. I've taken those comments to heart and sent several of my questions to -questions. But what do I do if they don't get answered? There is an implied comment/concern here; in discussion, I've heard the criticism that FreeBSD can't hold up against any commercial OS because you can't get support for it. There are a lot of resources out there, both people and information, but nonetheless, I can't seem to get the support I'm looking for. What recourse do I have, other than resend the questions until they do get answered? --Tim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 7:32:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ratatosk.sveg.se.sykes.com (proxy.sveg.se.sykes.com [195.67.11.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5F837B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:32:17 +0100 Message-ID: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D702F5FFA1@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= To: 'Tim Erlin' Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: and if -questions doesn't work? Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:32:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org my feelings exactly. you are not alone there. beware however, freebsd community is very confident that every question ever asked in -questions is answered. (yeah, sure.) Don't start flame wars about it, no-one will listen. Been there, done that. Oh, and if you people want to start (yet another) war, please leave me out of CC :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Erlin [mailto:tperlin@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:28 PM > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: and if -questions doesn't work? > > > People consistently send questions to this list, and > are consistenly advised to send them to -questions. > I've taken those comments to heart and sent several of > my questions to -questions. But what do I do if they > don't get answered? > > There is an implied comment/concern here; in > discussion, I've heard the criticism that FreeBSD > can't hold up against any commercial OS because you > can't get support for it. There are a lot of resources > out there, both people and information, but > nonetheless, I can't seem to get the support I'm > looking for. > > What recourse do I have, other than resend the > questions until they do get answered? > --Tim > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 7:33:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603FC37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3982418B2; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BA818B1; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:57:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Tim Erlin Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? In-Reply-To: <20001201152804.14434.qmail@web1101.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > People consistently send questions to this list, and > are consistenly advised to send them to -questions. > I've taken those comments to heart and sent several of > my questions to -questions. But what do I do if they > don't get answered? Well, 90% of the time when I don't get an answer to my questions it's because I asked it without doing much research. These days I mostly try to ask "Where can I find some more info on ....." and I'll get two or three good pointers. After a bit of research, I'm usually ready to come back and ask a more pointed question. Of the other 10% of questions, it's usually because I'm asking about some program that no one really uses, or it's been answered to death on both the list (mail archives!) and in the handbook. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 7:57: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web1103.mail.yahoo.com (web1103.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A185E37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:57:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8536 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Dec 2000 15:56:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20001201155659.8535.qmail@web1103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.200.148.220] by web1103.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:56:58 PST Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:56:58 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Erlin Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's a fair response, but doesn't do much for FreeBSD advocacy. I can't help but think that marketshare (read Micro$oft) is obtained by making it easy to find help; configuration for the lazy, if you will. Maybe I misread the goals of the community. I can't choose a side here; I respect an OS or application that requires you to learn it, to understand how it works before you can run it effectively, but that requirement seems to relegate FreeBSD to a hobby until I become an expert...and since it's a hobby, that may never happen. --Tim "Look Ma, I'm using -newbies for a discussion!" --- Rick Hamell wrote: > > > People consistently send questions to this list, > and > > are consistenly advised to send them to > -questions. > > I've taken those comments to heart and sent > several of > > my questions to -questions. But what do I do if > they > > don't get answered? > > Well, 90% of the time when I don't get an answer to > my questions > it's because I asked it without doing much research. > These days I mostly > try to ask "Where can I find some more info on > ....." and I'll get two or > three good pointers. After a bit of research, I'm > usually ready to come > back and ask a more pointed question. > Of the other 10% of questions, it's usually because > I'm asking > about some program that no one really uses, or it's > been answered to death > on both the list (mail archives!) and in the > handbook. > > Rick > > ******************************************************************* > Rick's FreeBSD Web page > http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide > http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! > http://www.freebsd.org > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 8:21:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FA137B402 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DB9918B2; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:45:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737C718B1; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:45:29 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:45:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Tim Erlin Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? In-Reply-To: <20001201155659.8535.qmail@web1103.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > That's a fair response, but doesn't do much for > FreeBSD advocacy. I can't help but think that > marketshare (read Micro$oft) is obtained by making it > easy to find help; configuration for the lazy, if you > will. Maybe I misread the goals of the community. Agreed, the problem that many people don't realize is that FreeBSD is just now becoming main-stream enough that it NEEDS the documentation to go along with it. Unluckily, the core team and committers don't have the time to write documentation, leaving it instead to the user-land people to do. We as newbies can contribute heavily in this area for other newbies. My attempts at http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd have been a cumilation of hand written notes and such that I've made over the last 4 years. This is the exact place Linux was 1.5-2 years ago, which is where FreeBSD has always been in the "acceptance curve." > I can't choose a side here; I respect an OS or > application that requires you to learn it, to > understand how it works before you can run it > effectively, but that requirement seems to relegate > FreeBSD to a hobby until I become an expert...and > since it's a hobby, that may never happen. It merely happens more slowly... I've had my domain name up and running for 6 months now, and I'm trying to branch out to hosting other domains for friends and such just to get the experience... it's been a long road, but I've helped others get FreeBSD installed. Written small tidbits of documentation, etc... :) Hopefully some day I'll be able to contribute even more. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 10: 6:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (smtp.smed.com [12.20.51.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D3437B401; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:06:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (keymaster.smed.com [12.20.51.2]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E7E161EA; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:06:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17942; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:06:38 -0500 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from Deimos.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id ; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:06:19 -0500 Received: by Deimos.smed.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 852569A8.0063452D ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:04:17 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SMS To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-Id: <852569A8.0063408D.00@Deimos.smed.com> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:06:46 -0700 Subject: Searching The Skies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Check out this story, titled "Searching The Skies" at the bottom of the page: Since this is taking place at Berkeley, I wonder what "PCs" Mr. Loen is referring to and which OS their running on.? Cheers Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 10:32: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84C437B404; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: [from pobox4.mot.com (pobox4.mot.com [10.64.251.243]) by motgate.mot.com (motgate 2.1) with ESMTP id LAA27205; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:30:57 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from il02exi02.comm.mot.com (il02exi02.comm.mot.com [145.1.204.41]) by pobox4.mot.com (MOT-pobox4 2.0) with ESMTP id LAA12227; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:30:36 -0700 (MST)] Received: by il02exi02.comm.mot.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:30:36 -0600 Message-ID: <1FA6C7249817D4119B9800D0B73E99A6020B8CDE@il02exm27.comm.mot.com> From: Libby Charles-CCL044 To: "'Joe.Warner@smed.com'" , "',freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG'" <>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Searching The Skies Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:30:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Setiathome is running only on M$ machines. There is no Apple or Linux or FreeBSD version of the program. Do a search on Yahoo for "Setiathome" there are some interesting links. Charles Check out this story, titled "Searching The Skies" at the bottom of the page: Since this is taking place at Berkeley, I wonder what "PCs" Mr. Loen is referring to and which OS their running on.? Cheers Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 10:40:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (smtp.smed.com [12.20.51.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDB837B402; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (keymaster.smed.com [12.20.51.2]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DAA1621B; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:40:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA22338; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:40:25 -0500 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from Deimos.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id ; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:40:20 -0500 Received: by Deimos.smed.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 852569A8.00666260 ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:38:18 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SMS To: Libby Charles-CCL044 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Message-Id: <852569A8.006660B3.00@Deimos.smed.com> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:40:54 -0700 Subject: RE: Searching The Skies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Interesting... Also, my apologies for my previous failure at spelling..."their" should have been "they're". Joe |--------+------------------------------> | | Libby Charles-CCL044| | | | | | | | | 12/01/00 11:30 AM | | | | |--------+------------------------------> >---------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Joe Warner/SMS@SMS, | | "',freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG'" <>, | | freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG | | cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" | | | | Subject: RE: Searching The Skies | >---------------------------------------------------------| The Setiathome is running only on M$ machines. There is no Apple or Linux or FreeBSD version of the program. Do a search on Yahoo for "Setiathome" there are some interesting links. Charles Check out this story, titled "Searching The Skies" at the bottom of the page: Since this is taking place at Berkeley, I wonder what "PCs" Mr. Loen is referring to and which OS their running on.? Cheers Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 10:52: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from agora.neteze.com (agora.neteze.com [206.14.108.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F97137B400; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from fenris ([207.136.167.5]) by agora.neteze.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-62409U9000L900S0V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:52:52 -0800 Message-ID: <000701c05bc8$5fa5ebb0$15fea8c0@fenris> Reply-To: "Ben Gordon" From: "Ben Gordon" To: Cc: References: <1FA6C7249817D4119B9800D0B73E99A6020B8CDE@il02exm27.comm.mot.com> Subject: Re: Searching The Skies Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:56:11 -0800 Organization: Ben Gordon, PC Consultant MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes, the clients for Linux, FreeBSD, etc can be found at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Libby Charles-CCL044" To: ; <',freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG'>; Cc: Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:30 AM Subject: RE: Searching The Skies > The Setiathome is running only on M$ machines. There is no Apple or Linux or FreeBSD version of the program. Do a search on Yahoo for "Setiathome" there are some interesting links. > > Charles > > Check out this story, titled "Searching The Skies" > at the bottom of the page: > > > > Since this is taking place at Berkeley, I wonder > what "PCs" Mr. Loen is referring to and which > OS their running on.? > > Cheers > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 12:33: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8622937B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA62646; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 07:31:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 07:31:04 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Tim Erlin Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? Message-ID: <20001202073102.J377@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Tim Erlin , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001201152804.14434.qmail@web1101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20001201152804.14434.qmail@web1101.mail.yahoo.com>; from Tim Erlin on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:28:04AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:28:04AM -0800, Tim Erlin wrote: > People consistently send questions to this list, and > are consistenly advised to send them to -questions. > I've taken those comments to heart and sent several of > my questions to -questions. But what do I do if they > don't get answered? Then you need to figure out why, and try again. Meanwhile you've done the right thing by coming here to express your concern. If you need help to figure out why, you can discuss it here. We know that this can be a frustrating problem and you'll get pointers here for asking questions, from people who have time to read beyond the inevitable frustration without taking it personally :-) You have read the advice on how to ask questions, haven't you? Most of the unanswered questions are ones that could have been rewritten to make them easier to answer, e.g. just "Why isn't Froogle Graphics in my path?" is unlikely to get a response. But it can be very hard to identify what might be lacking in your own question because you're too close to it. If you were trying to answer that question, what else would you need to know? Maybe they have no subject line or an uninformative one (like "FreeBSD") that people will skip past. Or maybe there wasn't enough information for a person to figure out what to advise you. 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Ericka Rivera Directora-Latinoamérica --=200012011906=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 17:28:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65BD37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:28:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA63725 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:30:14 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:30:14 +1100 (EST) From: Sue Blake Message-Id: <200012020130.MAA63725@phoenix.welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Newbies First Aid Kit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit (This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list. It is also available at http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/) FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG is the place to send all questions about installing, configuring, running and using FreeBSD. All help requests are handled by FreeBSD-Questions, including newbies questions. FreeBSD-Newbies is different. We don't ask for help or answer how-to questions. It is a discussion forum for newbies. FreeBSD-Newbies provides a place for new FreeBSD users to meet and covers any of the activities of newbies that are not already dealt with elsewhere. Examples include helping each other to learn more on our own, finding and using resources, problem solving techniques, how to seek help elsewhere, how to use mailing lists and which lists to use, general chat, making mistakes, boasting, sharing ideas, stories, moral (but not technical) support, and taking an active part in the FreeBSD community. We take our problems and support questions to freebsd-questions, and use freebsd-newbies to meet others who are doing the same things that we do as newbies. One of the things we do together is learn more effective ways to find help when we need it. Here are some suggestions: When something doesn't work the way you expect 1. First look at the errata for your release of FreeBSD at http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/releases/ for the latest information and security advisories. 2. Search the Handbook, FAQ, and mail archives at http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/search.html 3. If you still have a question or problem, collect the output of `uname -a' and of any relevant program(s) and email your question to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. Mailing lists When you have a problem that you can't solve by yourself, there's only one support mailing list and that's FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. FreeBSD-questions helps with installation and basic setup as well as more general and advanced questions. You don't have to actually join freebsd-questions before asking a question there. Replies to your question will normally be sent to you personally as well as to the list. Just make sure you have read and followed the guidelines for posting, because you might find them different to what you're used to. If you do subscribe to freebsd-questions you'll have the advantage of seeing all of the recent questions and their answers. Before you post to FreeBSD-questions, please read the guidelines at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Many of the people who answer FreeBSD-questions are very knowledgeable, but they get frustrated when they get questions which are difficult to understand. http://www.lemis.com/email.html is worth reading too. If you're not sure that you can follow these guidelines, come back and ask the other newbies for help on how to post an effective question to the support mailing list. Maybe your question has been asked before. If you search the mailing list archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html first you might get the answer right away. It's always worth trying. Other mailing lists (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-CHARTERS) cover specialised areas and many are more developer-oriented. You'll need to read their charters carefully before participating, but it's probably a good idea to ask on either -newbies or -questions for advice about where to post a more specialised question. FreeBSD-announce is a very low volume read-only list for occasional announcements, such as notice of new releases, and the Really Quick Newsletter. It's worth subscribing to FreeBSD-announce too. Manuals You'll always be expected to show that you have made some effort to use the available documentation before asking for help. That's not always as easy as it sounds! If you know what documentation you need but can't locate it, send a brief query to FreeBSD-questions. If you don't know what you need, always have trouble finding it, or can't make any sense of it when you do, ask some patient newbies to steer you in the right direction. Anyone interested in writing or reviewing documentation for FreeBSD is encouraged to join the FreeBSD Documentation Project. Details are at http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/docproj.html Other resources A resource list is available at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html to help new and inexperienced FreeBSD users to find relevant information quickly. It includes books, on line documents and tutorials, and links to web pages that other newbies have found useful for learning. If you have a suggestion for good material to be included, please write to freebsd-newbies and tell us about it. But I have seen people asking questions here! It is quite common for people to send the wrong kind of post to a mailing list. Because we're newbies it'll certainly happen here from time to time. The best thing to do if you see a message that doesn't belong on a list is to ignore it. There's always someone around whose job it is to sort these problems out privately. The posts to the lists go straight through, whatever their content. It is going to be confusing for a little while because we're all newbies so we all make mistakes. That's OK. One thing we're going to see a fair bit is people posting questions, believing they're doing the right thing by posting here as newbies, not realising how it works. If someone answers those questions the situation will snowball. There's nothing wrong with helping someone to redirect their question to freebsd-questions, but please do so gently. There's nothing wrong with the occasional mistake either. So all questions, requests for help, etc still go to freebsd-questions as usual. Ours is more of a discussion group, a place where newbies can relax with other newbies and focus more on our successes than on our temporary imperfection. We can talk about things here that are not allowed on freebsd-questions. We're also a bit freer to make the mistakes that we need to make in order to learn. _________________________________________________________________ To Subscribe to FreeBSD-Newbies: Send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "subscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message. Mail sent to freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org appears on the mailing list. _________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 2 3:49:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3.netvision.net.il (mailgw3.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DE237B402 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgw.netvision.net.il (Ramat-Gan-2-137.access.net.il [213.8.2.137] (may be forged)) by mailgw3.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05128 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:48:26 +0200 (IST) Message-Id: <200012021148.NAA05128@mailgw3.netvision.net.il> From: eli@mailgw3.netvision.net.il To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Answer To Your Question. Date: 02 Dec 2000 13:51:08 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Untitled http://www.yahoo.com/info.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 2 6:35: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (symphony-01.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1789137B401 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 06:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27159 invoked by uid 666); 2 Dec 2000 14:34:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO katinkahouse) (203.59.71.71) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 2 Dec 2000 14:34:48 -0000 Message-ID: <000901c05c6b$a0aca920$fe00a8c0@domain> From: "Kathy Quinlan" To: "freebsd questions" , "freebsd newbies" Subject: Support Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:24:48 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all for those of you who hate dalnet due to poor services their is a new network up :o) irctgnet and has a #freebsd support room :o) all the servers are freebsd :o) the two server addys are : ns.irctgnet.com spokane.irctgnet.com Kathy (aka PinkyDwaggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 2 6:48:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.pythonvideo.com (joe.pythonvideo.com [209.226.29.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B61F37B400; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 06:48:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by joe.pythonvideo.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB2Emgk25628; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 09:48:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from joe@advancewebhosting.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joe.pythonvideo.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 09:48:42 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro X-Sender: joe@joe.pythonvideo.com To: Kathy Quinlan Cc: freebsd questions , freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Support In-Reply-To: <000901c05c6b$a0aca920$fe00a8c0@domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org go spam somewhere else about your cheezy network. FreeBSD - The BEST upgrade you can do to NT! On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > Hi all > > for those of you who hate dalnet due to poor services their is a new network > up :o) > > irctgnet and has a #freebsd support room :o) all the servers are freebsd :o) > > the two server addys are : > > ns.irctgnet.com > spokane.irctgnet.com > > Kathy (aka PinkyDwaggy) > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message