From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 03:27:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF49D16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11702.mail.yahoo.com (web11702.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D12943D41 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jefdodson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 7465 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=cGi1TNZqKu1Sz8bLlscNSrIYdlGrVP4IHxFrRNcdcGB4pSaAhumIAv/j8iEt1uEnm7Ak7eFNpJFfihFI/84BV1rkCkyY0Sk7jF7AG+5UpOFBTLn6c8YGvX7+4cn91DTwwwK93EFUNeVk923nT8doQ3iBmRvnaAwTd9Wy1mM3o5Y= ; Message-ID: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.205.68.127] by web11702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:27:14 PST Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:27:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:27:14 -0000 Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the drive geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set the geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values get set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. The drive currently has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD installation, i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon 3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first as I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. Jef __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 08:09:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5394F16A4CE; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:09:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nezlok.unixathome.org (nezlok.unixathome.org [66.154.97.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A8643D48; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:09:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@nezlok.unixathome.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nezlok.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9743157A2; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from nezlok.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nezlok.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97048-10; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by nezlok.unixathome.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0317579E; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Langille To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20041128081003.C0317579E@nezlok.unixathome.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:10:03 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at unixathome.org Subject: The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-11-07 - 2004-11-27 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:09:30 -0000 The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. 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Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives and/or The FreeBSD Diary . -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 09:59:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC7816A4DC for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2425343D31 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041128095859i9100rg0qme>; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:58:59 +0000 Message-ID: <41A9A161.1040002@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:58:57 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041119) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jef Dodson References: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:00 -0000 Jef Dodson wrote: >Hello, >I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the drive >geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set the >geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values get >set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the >installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. > I'm not sure whether you changed the values and then installed or left them alone and then installed.... I've have this happen a few times before. I just ignored the message and continued on with the install as normal, I have had no problems with those computers. > The drive currently >has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD installation, >i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon >3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems >similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first as >I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. > >Jef > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. >http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 10:42:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8327E16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:42:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11705.mail.yahoo.com (web11705.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63FA543D45 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:42:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jefdodson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 50442 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Nov 2004 10:42:57 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=XedF/Xcna/tdlI6lfM3Ad85/Z7pBTbOqpB2IfIuC4spA1sCMwx1G83hWpE2C2tjP8ZbFe81xw+2cu2CMiqX0HwjYillkLX4SivjcT1duOhBnvoee4UDleT7MebIRru+PS+Szm6ISfWTbjI0xXk+TggI0zJkLkxCBT9xNCa1CCsc= ; Message-ID: <20041128104257.50440.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.205.68.127] by web11705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:42:57 PST Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:42:57 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: <41A9A161.1040002@nbritton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:42:57 -0000 I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the error. I then tried changing the values to the values that my BIOS reported but that gave the same error. Incidentally, the values that the installer is setting are the same values that I see if I run fdisk and print the partition table for and identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation. Jef --- Nikolas Britton wrote: > Jef Dodson wrote: > > >Hello, > >I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the > drive > >geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set > the > >geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values > get > >set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the > >installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. > > > I'm not sure whether you changed the values and then installed or left > them alone and then installed.... > > I've have this happen a few times before. I just ignored the message and > continued on with the install as normal, I have had no problems with > those computers. > > > The drive currently > >has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD > installation, > >i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon > >3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems > >similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first > as > >I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. > > > >Jef > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > >http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 17:08:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A20D16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:08:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2CF43D58 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:08:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afabian@austin.rr.com) Received: from turingmachine.mentalsiege.net (cs70112247-52.austin.rr.com [70.112.247.52])iASH8FJ5022888; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:08:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from turingmachine.mentalsiege.net (turingmachine.mentalsiege.net [127.0.0.1])iASH7GbG072120; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:07:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from afabian@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net) Received: (from afabian@localhost)iASH7B66072119; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:07:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from afabian) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:07:09 -0600 From: Adam Fabian To: Jef Dodson Message-ID: <20041128170709.GA71942@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> References: <41A9A161.1040002@nbritton.org> <20041128104257.50440.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041128104257.50440.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:08:25 -0000 On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:42:57AM -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the > error. I then tried changing the values to the values that > my BIOS reported but that gave the same error. Incidentally, > the values that the installer is setting are the same values > that I see if I run fdisk and print the partition table for and > identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation. I'm still hazy on this. On the attempt where FreeBSD said that the reported geometry was unlikely, and it was using a more likely geometry, and you accepted FreeBSD's more likely geometry (if, in fact, you made such an attempt; this is where I'm hazy), when you tried to commit to the install, what error message did you get? -- Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com) From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 08:30:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056DB16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:30:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53206.mail.yahoo.com (web53206.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0B7D43D39 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:30:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tommyhadiwibowo@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 65703 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Nov 2004 08:30:12 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? 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Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 16:33:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB7316A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:33:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.pace.edu (smtp.pace.edu [198.105.44.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6551043D64 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:33:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmcbean@pace.edu) Received: from [192.168.50.50] (192.168.50.50) by smtp.pace.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.ADB1613F@smtp.pace.edu>; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:30:09 -0500 Message-ID: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:31:30 -0500 From: Jermaine McBean User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Installing GNU Make X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:33:11 -0000 I'm trying to install GNU Make 3.8 on FreeBSD 4.10. Everything install fine, but I still get the FreeBSD version of make. I don't know where it installed to. I do: ./configure make make install make clean I want to install other apps and I need GNU make to install other apps. I wasted a day trying to figure this out From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 17:29:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A5316A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:29:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E8B43D54 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:29:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aentgood@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so723088wri for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:29:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=me8VDWotmSa/DvfMfC+uY/iyMok1HQGT5mm/1Q4RHq5DwoAdxNRZuc0vqOpQAc8eU+W2IHJKI2bAU/lM5bVsAwbFIegkVpS0G6TzKbYSvfj8GaJN2eWNSYu345/lHlz69iNZ5kjJS4WhG1d/0OXW743Oc7FrfytNIOkdfAd04nw= Received: by 10.54.3.16 with SMTP id 16mr712645wrc; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:29:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.27.45 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:29:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7603e5d804112909293d5dda1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:29:02 +0000 From: Wouter van Rooij To: Jermaine McBean In-Reply-To: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing GNU Make X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Wouter van Rooij List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:29:09 -0000 > I'm trying to install GNU Make 3.8 on FreeBSD 4.10. Everything install > fine, but I still get the FreeBSD version of make. I don't know where it > installed to. I do: > ./configure > make > make install > make clean Stupid question: have you tried rehash? Otherwise go to ftp.freebsd.org en get the tbz ( package of gnu make ) and run pkg_add file Then it must work... if it don't try rehash Wouter van Rooij From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 20:34:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274B316A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:34:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829D443D45 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:34:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matze@matzsoft.de) Received: from [212.227.126.207] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CYsDz-0001Tt-00; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:34:19 +0100 Received: from [80.171.135.80] (helo=freiteufel.homeunix.net) (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CYsDz-0001tI-00; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:34:19 +0100 Received: from matze by freiteufel.homeunix.net with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1CYsHY-0001Pp-B2; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:38:00 +0100 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:38:00 +0100 From: Mathias Menzel-Nielsen To: Jermaine McBean Message-ID: <20041129203800.GA5390@freiteufel.homeunix.net> References: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT X-Datenschutz: "Ich widerspreche der Nutzung oder Uebermittlung meiner Daten fuer Werbezwecke und/oder fuer die Markt- oder Meinungsforschung (gemaess Par. 28 Abs.3 BDSG)" Sender: User Matze X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:0e85dbd733be3b1884b58588af844618 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing GNU Make X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:34:22 -0000 Am Monday, dem 29. November 2004 um 11:31:30 -0500 meinte Jermaine McBean: > I'm trying to install GNU Make 3.8 on FreeBSD 4.10. Everything install > fine, but I still get the FreeBSD version of make. I don't know where it remember that the GNU make executable is named "gmake" on FreeBSD, "make" still points to the bsd-make... -- I WILL NOT HANG DONUTS ON MY PERSON I WILL NOT HANG DONUTS ON MY PERSON I WILL NOT HANG DONUTS ON MY PERSON I WILL NOT HANG DONUTS ON MY PERSON Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 2F13 From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 20:45:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C24816A4CF for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:45:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.pace.edu (smtp.pace.edu [198.105.44.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1AA43D45 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:45:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmcbean@pace.edu) Received: from [192.168.50.50] (192.168.50.50) by smtp.pace.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.ADB1BF97@smtp.pace.edu>; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:42:42 -0500 Message-ID: <41AB8A11.1060109@pace.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:44:01 -0500 From: Jermaine McBean User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wouter van Rooij References: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> <7603e5d804112909293d5dda1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7603e5d804112909293d5dda1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing GNU Make X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:45:44 -0000 I typed rehash and it doesn't do anything. I did a make --version and it doesn't show me a version. I found the port and installed it. It works now. I just don't understand that make install doesn't work Wouter van Rooij wrote: >>I'm trying to install GNU Make 3.8 on FreeBSD 4.10. Everything install >>fine, but I still get the FreeBSD version of make. I don't know where it >>installed to. I do: >>./configure >>make >>make install >>make clean >> >> > >Stupid question: have you tried rehash? >Otherwise go to ftp.freebsd.org en get the tbz ( package of gnu make ) >and run pkg_add file >Then it must work... if it don't try rehash > >Wouter van Rooij > > From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 00:05:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A737B16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:05:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay17-f42.bay17.hotmail.com [64.4.43.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9340543D1D for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:05:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from the_worm_qc@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:05:01 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 69.70.11.117 by by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:04:12 GMT X-Originating-IP: [69.70.11.117] X-Originating-Email: [the_worm_qc@hotmail.com] X-Sender: the_worm_qc@hotmail.com From: "Christ The_worm" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:04:12 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2004 00:05:01.0833 (UTC) FILETIME=[3CD28F90:01C4D670] Subject: tar : unrecognized archive format X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:05:02 -0000 Hi, I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages installation and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try to untar a *.tar.gz file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive format " error I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more *.tar.gz ?!? Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-) Thanx for your help ! Christophe Montreal, Qc. Canada From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 00:21:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856AC16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:21:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA1943D58 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:21:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2CEE885669; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:51:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:51:08 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Christ The_worm Message-ID: <20041130002108.GH48369@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar : unrecognized archive format X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:21:13 -0000 --U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 29 November 2004 at 19:04:12 -0500, Christ The_worm wrote: > Hi, > > I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages installation > and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try to untar a *.tar.gz > file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive format " error > I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more *.tar.gz ?!? > > Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-) Well, you posted to -newbies instead of -questions. But there's an easy solution which you can find out there :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBq7z0IubykFB6QiMRAjarAJ9ZxITFuLqaqf4fXZVPpRUZ48YQgQCffPjB OL6vJG/7RnrVNcBtZMmhfI8= =Y8eB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+-- From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 11:56:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1669016A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:56:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E31343D1D for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:56:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aentgood@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so818726wra for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:56:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=G7x1I7+YeqNW+KfDFjauQcniWco0HRYvohZXZP9r0/4P7TenBxqCpRun6Pp4grvI3L5Td+nGn7RXZWwiTBquE72wGH/Nk74JG6jX/QrHd8BJoZR3jstNc+o7mO3MmuXPcTClS9Y9JCXaKHALXf7W6W2MoFsIwMmZEbd+QM9l4co= Received: by 10.54.25.66 with SMTP id 66mr34618wry; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.27.45 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:56:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7603e5d804113003567e9b2824@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:56:42 +0100 From: Wouter van Rooij To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <7603e5d80411300355684bbf72@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041130002108.GH48369@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7603e5d80411300355684bbf72@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: tar : unrecognized archive format X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Wouter van Rooij List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:56:44 -0000 > Hi, > > I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages installation > and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try to untar a *.tar.gz > file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive format " error > I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more *.tar.gz ?!? > > Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-) This is a newbie problem I think;-) You have to use the following commands with *.tgz: gunzip filename tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) You have to use the following commands with *.tar.gz: gunzip filename tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) Wouter van Rooij. P.S. You could try googling your problem first. You could also put the file on a page so I could look at it later and see if it's really damaged or even broken From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 18:41:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DCE16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:41:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0178F43D48 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:41:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithcam@adelphia.net) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (really [68.169.225.230]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20041130184118.PYRF12490.mta13.adelphia.net@[192.168.0.199]> for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:41:18 -0500 Message-ID: <41ACBECF.6040000@adelphia.net> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:41:19 -0800 From: Kevin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: writable file system for windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:41:19 -0000 I'm happily running 5.3-Release on a dual-boot system with windows. I have my NTFS partition mounted read-only on bsd so I can get files from windows. What is the safest method of writing files from bsd so that windows can read them ? Should I create a FAT partition in windows and mount this one rw for this purpose ? From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 19:33:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C456A16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A7443D2F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:33:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [62.240.243.33] (62-240-243-33.adsl.claranet.fr [62.240.243.33]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C4A2A4FF5; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:33:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41ACCAF5.6090403@gautherot.net> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:33:09 +0100 From: Olivier Gautherot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Smith References: <41ACBECF.6040000@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <41ACBECF.6040000@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writable file system for windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:33:09 -0000 Hi kevin! > I'm happily running 5.3-Release on a dual-boot system with windows. > I have my NTFS partition mounted read-only on bsd so I can get files > from windows. > What is the safest method of writing files from bsd so that windows > can read them ? Should I create a FAT partition in windows and mount > this one rw for this purpose ? If you have no restrictions regarding ACL, this is the quickest way to do so. You can also create an ext2fs file system, that can be mounted read-only under Windows using Cygwin ;-) Cheers Olivier From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 19:45:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7968816A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:45:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D094E43D1D for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:45:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithcam@adelphia.net) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (really [68.169.225.230]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20041130194525.SWYX12490.mta13.adelphia.net@[192.168.0.199]>; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:45:25 -0500 Message-ID: <41ACCDD5.9080407@adelphia.net> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:45:25 -0800 From: Kevin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Gautherot , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <41ACBECF.6040000@adelphia.net> <41ACCAF5.6090403@gautherot.net> In-Reply-To: <41ACCAF5.6090403@gautherot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: writable file system for windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:45:27 -0000 Hi-- My question is really directed at which type of file system I should choose for the shared area (bsd/windows) when I do the partitioning, rather than access. I seem to be able to mount NTFS partitions and read them, but my understanding is that they are unsafe to write to from bsd. At least on Linux this is the case. I want to be able to write files from bsd and read them in windows. The ext2fs system seems like one way, but I was hoping that I could use a native windows/dos file system that would not require any special mounting on the windows side. -K Olivier Gautherot wrote: > Hi kevin! > > >> I'm happily running 5.3-Release on a dual-boot system with windows. >> I have my NTFS partition mounted read-only on bsd so I can get files >> from windows. >> What is the safest method of writing files from bsd so that windows >> can read them ? Should I create a FAT partition in windows and mount >> this one rw for this purpose ? > > > If you have no restrictions regarding ACL, this is the quickest way to > do so. > > You can also create an ext2fs file system, that can be mounted > read-only under Windows using Cygwin ;-) > > Cheers > Olivier > From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 21:54:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C51516A4DB for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A786143D2F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:51:44 -0600 Message-ID: <41ACEC38.9070904@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:55:04 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Smith References: <41ACBECF.6040000@adelphia.net> <41ACCAF5.6090403@gautherot.net> <41ACCDD5.9080407@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <41ACCDD5.9080407@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2004 21:51:45.0090 (UTC) FILETIME=[C8CE2A20:01C4D726] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: Olivier Gautherot Subject: Re: writable file system for windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:51 -0000 Kevin Smith wrote: > Hi-- My question is really directed at which type of file system I > should > choose for the shared area (bsd/windows) when I do the partitioning, > rather than access. I seem to be able to mount NTFS partitions and > read them, but my understanding is that they are unsafe to write to > from bsd. At least on Linux this is the case. I want to be able to > write > files from bsd and read them in windows. The ext2fs system seems like > one way, but I was hoping that I could use a native windows/dos file > system > that would not require any special mounting on the windows side. > > -K > > > Olivier Gautherot wrote: > >> If you have no restrictions regarding ACL, this is the quickest way >> to do so. >> >> You can also create an ext2fs file system, that can be mounted >> read-only under Windows using Cygwin ;-) >> >> Cheers >> Olivier > Kevin, I don't *think*, (but am having a little trouble verifying) that mount_msdosfs(8) will have any trouble with FAT 32; I know I've read 'em; can't remember whether I had to write 'em or not (I stick 'em in a FBSD box to backup before "flattening" winboxen). I am sure FAT (FAT16?) would be OK. Maybe Olivier or someone else can say. [ BTW, I think he was simply giving options, not suggesting that ext2fs would be the best way. ] I did a small bit of perusal of the CVS commit logs and the source for the mount utilities in question, but it's a good bit over my head --- I can't determine (other than reading the manpage) exactly how dangerous it would be, (heck, I've not even figured out exactly how they do it *at all*) but I agree that it seems risky to try it with NTFS based on what we can see. Is there any way to try it as FAT32? Like I said, I'm *pretty* sure I've done this often. Kevin Kinsey From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 23:02:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF3B16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:02:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11701.mail.yahoo.com (web11701.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFDDB43D46 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:02:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jefdodson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 83164 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Nov 2004 23:02:38 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=Y0hCjJcOZAgbu+sx3Mi/+G8pMfgZ+eun7grdEUQTjO/VzDGbTn7wXj7+n5tCXVBFk/ZZUhdZtrjmMNCfqhBnnL2/LDo2hk/jev+hCCv/36UtEMzOtfQjqsbwTJqzO+fPMZfKV+RFIPV+dYgBrfCQZqMDgBO43hF10HOdGZKav4s= ; Message-ID: <20041130230238.83162.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.92.50.91] by web11701.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:02:38 PST Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:02:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson To: Adam Fabian In-Reply-To: <20041128170709.GA71942@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive geometry error X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:02:38 -0000 So, I swapped out the WD 250 GB drive for a Maxtor 10GB drive from an old iMac and the installation worked. So, the problem I was having was definitely related to the hard drive, but I don't know exactly what the problem was. Is there a general problem with using large drives with BSD? Is there something special that I need to do in order to use a 250GB drive? Like I said before, the drive works fine under Debian so I know the drive itself is OK. Thanks. Jef --- Adam Fabian wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:42:57AM -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > > I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the > > error. I then tried changing the values to the values that > > my BIOS reported but that gave the same error. Incidentally, > > the values that the installer is setting are the same values > > that I see if I run fdisk and print the partition table for and > > identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation. > > I'm still hazy on this. On the attempt where FreeBSD said that the > reported geometry was unlikely, and it was using a more likely > geometry, and you accepted FreeBSD's more likely geometry (if, in > fact, you made such an attempt; this is where I'm hazy), when you > tried to commit to the install, what error message did you get? > > -- > Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 00:10:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0585816A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:10:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4623743D6A for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:10:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lramos3@satx.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([66.69.40.1])iB10A82b019799 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:10:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41AD0BDE.7090207@satx.rr.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:10:06 -0600 From: luis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Java port X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:10:12 -0000 I have searched the net with google, the mailing list, with no luck. I have also checked the man pages and the on line handbook. Here is my problem: I'm trying to install java14 via the ports system. So far, I have installed many ports in my 5.3 system all with no problems. What happens in trying to install is that I get the error message "printf: missing format character", jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is*** Error code 1. I had previously downloaded the j2sdk-1_4_2-mozilla_headers-unix.zip into the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Please let me know what other piece of information is needed to solve this problem or to whom could I direct this question. Thanks. Luis From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 04:01:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4764716A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 04:01:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0387F43D45 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 04:01:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:58:34 -0600 Message-ID: <41AD4233.9090309@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:01:55 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: luis References: <41AD0BDE.7090207@satx.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <41AD0BDE.7090207@satx.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Dec 2004 03:58:35.0043 (UTC) FILETIME=[07C27730:01C4D75A] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java port X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 04:01:40 -0000 luis wrote: > I have searched the net with google, the mailing list, with no luck. > I have also checked the man pages and the on line handbook. Here > is my problem: I'm trying to install java14 via the ports system. So > far, > I have installed many ports in my 5.3 system all with no problems. > What happens in trying to install is that I get the error message > "printf: missing format character", jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is*** Error code 1. > I had previously downloaded the j2sdk-1_4_2-mozilla_headers-unix.zip > into the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Please let me know what other > piece of information is needed to solve this problem or to whom could > I direct this question. Thanks. Luis > _______________________________________________ A stock answer when something like this happens with *most* ports is "re-cvsup and try again" .... Assuming you've tried that (it may be a new experience, or somehow made complicated by circumstances), I would recommend two more avenues: the freebsd-questions@ list, and the freebsd-java@ mailling list archives. Of course, you mention searching the "mailing list"; did you try freebsd-java@freebsd.org or only the freebsd-questions archive? The java list has a page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java Now, the list charter specifies that it is a "specialized" list, meant for "development of significant Java applications" and "porting and maintenance of JDK's" ... so, you probably shouldn't just barge in and ask right away, but it might, just *might*, be acceptable to ask, real gently, after perusing their archives and trying whatever else. Don't pester them too much. A quick perusal doesn't show any recent crucifixions, though .... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 05:31:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA4F16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:31:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E3043D58 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:31:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.telford@sympatico.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.10] ([65.94.51.66]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP <20041201053110.YTQH1919.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.0.10]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:31:10 -0500 Message-ID: <41AD5B8E.90707@sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:50:06 -0500 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <41AD0BDE.7090207@satx.rr.com> <41AD4233.9090309@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41AD4233.9090309@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: luis cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java port X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:31:12 -0000 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > luis wrote: > >> I have searched the net with google, the mailing list, with no >> luck. I have also checked the man pages and the on line handbook. Here >> is my problem: I'm trying to install java14 via the ports system. So >> far, >> I have installed many ports in my 5.3 system all with no problems. >> What happens in trying to install is that I get the error message >> "printf: missing format character", jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is*** Error code 1. >> I had previously downloaded the j2sdk-1_4_2-mozilla_headers-unix.zip >> into the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Please let me know what other >> piece of information is needed to solve this problem or to whom could >> I direct this question. Thanks. Luis >> _______________________________________________ > > > > A stock answer when something like this happens with *most* > ports is "re-cvsup and try again" .... > > Assuming you've tried that (it may be a new experience, or > somehow made complicated by circumstances), I would recommend > two more avenues: the freebsd-questions@ list, and the > freebsd-java@ mailling list archives. Of course, you mention > searching the "mailing list"; did you try freebsd-java@freebsd.org > or only the freebsd-questions archive? The java list has a page at: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > > Now, the list charter specifies that it is a "specialized" list, > meant for "development of significant Java applications" and > "porting and maintenance of JDK's" ... so, you probably shouldn't > just barge in and ask right away, but it might, just *might*, be > acceptable to ask, real gently, after perusing their archives > and trying whatever else. Don't pester them too much. A > quick perusal doesn't show any recent crucifixions, though .... > > HTH, > > I have notes on all this from the build i just finished at the office and will post. Tip #1 You can only use "make minimal=YES" on the current port <= that case may be backwards. Due to the java security bug found last week. Update all ports first - it has a lot of dependents. This is a brutal build, takes hours on the fastest dual box, my notes will help save you some trouble hopefully. Anyone know a faster way to get jdk on a freebsd box ? J From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 05:51:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FCE16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:51:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao07.cox.net (lakermmtao07.cox.net [68.230.240.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AAF43D53 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:51:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.30.24]) by lakermmtao07.cox.net ESMTP <20041201055116.RAJR20686.lakermmtao07.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:51:16 -0500 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iB15pDQS035331; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:51:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:51:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Wouter van Rooij Message-ID: <20041130235108.2684c043@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <7603e5d804113003567e9b2824@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041130002108.GH48369@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7603e5d80411300355684bbf72@mail.gmail.com> <7603e5d804113003567e9b2824@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar : unrecognized archive format X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:51:17 -0000 On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:56:42 +0100, Wouter van Rooij wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages > > installation and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try > > to untar a *.tar.gz file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive > > format " error I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more > > *.tar.gz ?!? > > > > Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-) > > > This is a newbie problem I think;-) > You have to use the following commands with *.tgz: > gunzip filename > tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) > You have to use the following commands with *.tar.gz: > gunzip filename > tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) No, actually, you can do it all in one step with tar: tar xvzf filename The "z" option tells tar to gunzip first, then untar. -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas" From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 09:51:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653AD16A4CF for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:51:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11705.mail.yahoo.com (web11705.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 364D643D1D for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:51:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jefdodson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 71975 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Dec 2004 09:51:35 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=o6CBnixXHYyJW8b0chX1sy3jTHvySqYZz8GzTMsght/xJDrkPrJkUU68NJtzeNsgKz0yjePjn9fCCk7YkOxXZI5hMn5rI4RO1lP/kyz3L9pV4NRWoiRh3gPCHqTlvO76VkocD2WlMwl6GartXwz89mAZ4nGwxuSnWVOXl1qW8nY= ; Message-ID: <20041201095135.71973.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.92.50.91] by web11705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:51:34 PST Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:51:34 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <41AD4233.9090309@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: problem installing 5.3 with large drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:51:35 -0000 Does anyone know if BSD has a problem with largish hard drives. I have tried installing FreeBSD 5.3 using a WD 250 GB drive and a Maxtor 200 GB drive and both have failed. However, I am able to complete the installation on the same system using a Maxtor 10 GB drive. The WD drive fails to write during the commit phase of the installation and the 200 GB Maxtor writes the filesystem OK but then hangs at 9% while copying the base dist. Thanks very much. Jef __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 11:22:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC6016A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AE0D43D46 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:22:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bubalator@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (bubalator@222.146.140.134 with login) by smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 2004 11:22:32 -0000 From: Stacy Tucker To: Jef Dodson In-Reply-To: <20041201095135.71973.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041201095135.71973.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:31:32 +0900 Message-Id: <1101900692.1278.10.camel@dolo.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installing 5.3 with large drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:22:33 -0000 On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:51 -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > Does anyone know if BSD has a problem with largish hard drives. I have tried installing FreeBSD > 5.3 using a WD 250 GB drive and a Maxtor 200 GB drive and both have failed. However, I am able to > complete the installation on the same system using a Maxtor 10 GB drive. The WD drive fails to > write during the commit phase of the installation and the 200 GB Maxtor writes the filesystem OK > but then hangs at 9% while copying the base dist. Thanks very much. > > Jef > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Stacy Tucker I ran into the same problem. The method I used was to do a minimum install, reboot, enter back into the setup, (but use the configure option) and install any other applications/make configuration changes as needed. Hope that helps. ST From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 12:49:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0428616A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:49:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8412D43D5C for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from freesurf.fr (arlette.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.12]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D6DD2A4E75; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:49:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.98.178.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ogautherot) by arlette.freesurf.fr with HTTP; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:49:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <26349.194.98.178.34.1101905372.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:49:32 +0100 (CET) From: "Olivier Gautherot" To: X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <41ACEC38.9070904@daleco.biz> References: <41ACEC38.9070904@daleco.biz> Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: smithcam@adelphia.net cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: olivier@gautherot.net Subject: Re: writable file system for windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: olivier@gautherot.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:49:35 -0000 Hi both! The story about ext2fs was a joke, sorry for that. I read recently about its support under Windows and found it interesting. But using this for data exchange in your case would be a nightmare (hence the smilie). Seriously, FAT32 is the safest bet in general as long as Microsoft does not patent it (they seem to be in the process of having the patent revoked). FAT32 is the first file system supported on basically any OS (*BSD, Linux, BeOS, SkyOS, etc.) I heard about an update coming from Apple (the Darwin project) which supports partitions beyond 8 or 16GB (I don't remember exactly what was the old limitation) so partitions of more than 100GB should be fine. Anyway, try mkfs with the side you need and you will see what happens (yes, I really mean to create the partition under FreeBSD, not Windows - this way you're sure you can use it for your purpose). I would not recommend FAT16 as they are limited in size. And you don't really find disks of this format any more around. FAT12 should be limited to floppy disks. Writable NTFS is dangerous mostly because of the compressed files and directories - M$ did not publish the algorithms so you risk loosing your data and overwriting sectors that have been already assigned. M$ tend to make some slight changes with every OS so they manipulate the specs as they want. The NTFS specs are not public - the FreeBSD implementation is a reverse-engineering work. Hope it helps Olivier > Kevin Smith wrote: > >> Hi-- My question is really directed at which type of file system I >> should >> choose for the shared area (bsd/windows) when I do the partitioning, >> rather than access. I seem to be able to mount NTFS partitions and >> read them, but my understanding is that they are unsafe to write to >> from bsd. At least on Linux this is the case. I want to be able to >> write >> files from bsd and read them in windows. The ext2fs system seems like >> one way, but I was hoping that I could use a native windows/dos file >> system >> that would not require any special mounting on the windows side. >> >> -K >> >> >> Olivier Gautherot wrote: >> >>> If you have no restrictions regarding ACL, this is the quickest way >>> to do so. >>> >>> You can also create an ext2fs file system, that can be mounted >>> read-only under Windows using Cygwin ;-) >>> >>> Cheers >>> Olivier >> > > Kevin, > > I don't *think*, (but am having a little trouble verifying) that > mount_msdosfs(8) will have any trouble with FAT 32; I know > I've read 'em; can't remember whether I had to write 'em or > not (I stick 'em in a FBSD box to backup before "flattening" > winboxen). I am sure FAT (FAT16?) would be OK. Maybe > Olivier or someone else can say. > > [ BTW, I think he was simply giving options, not suggesting > that ext2fs would be the best way. ] > > I did a small bit of perusal of the CVS commit logs and > the source for the mount utilities in question, but it's a > good bit over my head --- I can't determine (other than > reading the manpage) exactly how dangerous it would be, > (heck, I've not even figured out exactly how they do it *at all*) > but I agree that it seems risky to try it with NTFS based > on what we can see. Is there any way to try it as FAT32? > Like I said, I'm *pretty* sure I've done this often. > > Kevin Kinsey From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 05:15:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F92216A4D0 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:15:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACA943D2F for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:15:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.telford@sympatico.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.10] ([65.95.228.249]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20041202051523.QDFD2026.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.0.10]>; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:15:23 -0500 Message-ID: <41AEA953.60205@sympatico.ca> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:34:11 -0500 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: luis References: <41AD0BDE.7090207@satx.rr.com> <41AD4233.9090309@daleco.biz> <41AD5B8E.90707@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <41AD5B8E.90707@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java port X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:15:26 -0000 My notes are below and are current only to November 28, 2004. FreeBSD 4.10 jdk142 John wrote: > > > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > >> luis wrote: >> >>> I have searched the net with google, the mailing list, with no >>> luck. I have also checked the man pages and the on line handbook. Here >>> is my problem: I'm trying to install java14 via the ports system. So >>> far, >>> I have installed many ports in my 5.3 system all with no problems. >>> What happens in trying to install is that I get the error message >>> "printf: missing format character", jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is*** Error code 1. >>> I had previously downloaded the j2sdk-1_4_2-mozilla_headers-unix.zip >>> into the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Please let me know what other >>> piece of information is needed to solve this problem or to whom could >>> I direct this question. Thanks. Luis >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> A stock answer when something like this happens with *most* >> ports is "re-cvsup and try again" .... >> >> Assuming you've tried that (it may be a new experience, or >> somehow made complicated by circumstances), I would recommend >> two more avenues: the freebsd-questions@ list, and the >> freebsd-java@ mailling list archives. Of course, you mention >> searching the "mailing list"; did you try freebsd-java@freebsd.org >> or only the freebsd-questions archive? The java list has a page at: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java >> >> Now, the list charter specifies that it is a "specialized" list, >> meant for "development of significant Java applications" and >> "porting and maintenance of JDK's" ... so, you probably shouldn't >> just barge in and ask right away, but it might, just *might*, be >> acceptable to ask, real gently, after perusing their archives >> and trying whatever else. Don't pester them too much. A >> quick perusal doesn't show any recent crucifixions, though .... >> >> HTH, >> >> > I have notes on all this from the build i just finished at the office > and will post. > Tip #1 > You can only use "make minimal=YES" on the current port <= that case > may be backwards. Due to the java security bug found last week. > Update all ports first - it has a lot of dependents. > This is a brutal build, takes hours on the fastest dual box, my notes > will help save you some trouble hopefully. Anyone know a faster way to > get jdk on a freebsd box ? > J > Building java jdk142 from ports. Update all ports first – it has a lot of dependents. If building remotely install 'screen' from ports. It will allow you to attach detach from the session. Warning do not pkg_add screen, it has a race problem. The build will ask you for required files to be downloaded to /usr/ports/distfiles, these are from a build on Nov 28, 2004. Update ports and check the Makefile for changes or do the make and grab the files as they come up. From http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK14SCSLConfirm.html you need the FreeBSD Patchset. bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz From Sun download: j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586.bin make MINIMAL=yes install to avoid JAVA vulnerability, that currently exists on Nov 28, 2004. You won't get the Browser plug-in. After hours compiling it will probably error on : Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location Solution is: http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=mwhQc.246469%24Oq2.107712%40attbi_s52&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26q%3Dfreebsd%2B%27class%27%2Bor%2B%27interface%27%2Bexpected%26btnG%3DSearch "Edit /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java There are two lines, 1st and last, that begin with "Java HotSpot(TM)", comment them out with //." I only had to comment the first line. Restart (it's not from the beginning as long as you have'nt done a 'make clean' ) you will get the instructions: make MINIMAL=yes install ===> Building for jdk-minimal-1.4.2p6_6 ERROR: You have to have LINPROCFS mounted before starting to build of native JDK 1.4.2. You may do it by following set of commands: # kldload linprocfs and # mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. So do that: server01# kldload linprocfs server01# mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc Load and continue compiling. It should now complete fairly quick. Regards, John. From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 06:34:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C526216A4CF for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 06:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF3843D5F for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 06:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [212.43.209.210] (du-209-210.nat.adsl.claranet.fr [212.43.209.210]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AD12A6EC0; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:34:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41AE3586.70103@gautherot.net> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:20:06 +0100 From: Olivier Gautherot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jermaine McBean References: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> <7603e5d804112909293d5dda1@mail.gmail.com> <41AB8A11.1060109@pace.edu> In-Reply-To: <41AB8A11.1060109@pace.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Wouter van Rooij cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing GNU Make X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:34:41 -0000 Hi folks! Jermaine McBean wrote: > > I typed rehash and it doesn't do anything. I did a make --version and > it doesn't show me a version. > I found the port and installed it. It works now. I just don't > understand that make install doesn't work > Wouter van Rooij wrote: > >>> I'm trying to install GNU Make 3.8 on FreeBSD 4.10. Everything install >>> fine, but I still get the FreeBSD version of make. I don't know >>> where it >>> installed to. I do: >>> ./configure >>> make >>> make install >>> make clean >>> >> >> >> Stupid question: have you tried rehash? >> Otherwise go to ftp.freebsd.org en get the tbz ( package of gnu make ) >> and run pkg_add file >> Then it must work... if it don't try rehash >> >> Wouter van Rooij > If you run FreeBSD, you should expect the BSD version of make as a standard. GNU make is called gmake and you should find it at /usr/local/bin/gmake. Here is the result of {,g}make --version on my machine: bash-2.05b$ make --version make: illegal option -- - usage: make [-BPSXeiknqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...] bash-2.05b$ gmake --version GNU Make 3.80 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. bash-2.05b$ Hope it helps Olivier From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 07:18:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CBA16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA9543D3F for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:18:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from graham.north@telus.net) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [207.81.136.101]) by priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.netESMTP <20041202071844.ULEY7061.priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net@[192.168.0.100]> for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:18:44 -0700 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.289 [265.4.4]); Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:19:05 -0800 Message-ID: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:19:04 -0800 From: Graham North User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-41AEC1E961F1=======" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:18:45 -0000 --=======AVGMAIL-41AEC1E961F1======= Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection - probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM? My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need to save as ISO image? File format issues? Indexing issues? Thanks, Graham/ Graham North Vancouver, Canada. [1]graham.north@telus.net References 1. mailto:graham.north@telus.net --=======AVGMAIL-41AEC1E961F1======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.4 - Release Date: 11/30/2004 --=======AVGMAIL-41AEC1E961F1=======-- From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 09:26:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AEE16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:26:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB47443D53 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:26:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from freesurf.fr (arlette.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.12]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id E7E022A7021; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:26:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.98.178.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ogautherot) by arlette.freesurf.fr with HTTP; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:26:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19350.194.98.178.34.1101979599.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:26:39 +0100 (CET) From: "Olivier Gautherot" To: X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: olivier@gautherot.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:26:41 -0000 Hi Graham! > Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection - > probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM? > My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is > installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need > to save as ISO image? File format issues? Indexing issues? If you're running out of space with the pure ports collection, I would recommend to add a new disk in your machine. The ports tree weighs in the order of 50MB (ports.tar.gz is a ~25MB archive) but, in addition, you need space to download the individual archives (for instance, the mozilla archive requires over 30MB on its own), compile and install. The ports tree is not sufficient on its own to install new apps. By the way, if you have a separate partition that you can use for this, you can create a soft link called /usr/ports and redirect it to the other disk (try to stick to ufs or possibly ext2fs for the target file system; FAT32 did a miserable job for me so I gave up). Hope it helps Olivier From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 16:04:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2472F16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:04:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3EB343D54 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:04:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:07:06 -0600 Message-ID: <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:04:55 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham North References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2004 16:07:07.0018 (UTC) FILETIME=[F88A46A0:01C4D888] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:04:40 -0000 Graham North wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection - > probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM? > My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is > installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need > to save as ISO image? File format issues? Indexing issues? > Thanks, Graham/ > > Where would /ports/distfiles go? And what about ~/work subdirs? They must be writable. You need hard disk to do this. You can use a refuse file to trim the size of /usr/ports, but you can't use the ports tools to do auto upgrading unless you have the whole tree (can't find the doc ATM, a thread on questions@ recently addressed this.) If you're unable to add HDD space, why not use packages? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 23:45:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EEA16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:45:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11705.mail.yahoo.com (web11705.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9195043D1D for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:45:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jefdodson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 85643 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Dec 2004 23:45:38 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=BFU3pAH4S1FRU0mbRvZsZt64IJoQGNOQflmZRBR4eiFhvgGVJqvDOlX+TC9ew3utuk4bzJqZkiw2Bdp9bHOag55TLoN53w1sAKjM2LvUDGcY7zleJ5jgRZ41n8g2Fd5K2Sz66vsUEtglsGtNDUEi8Qx40iXr2I7z5x4lf1hPL7U= ; Message-ID: <20041202234537.85641.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.92.50.91] by web11705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:45:37 PST Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:45:37 -0800 (PST) From: Jef Dodson To: Stacy Tucker In-Reply-To: <1101900692.1278.10.camel@dolo.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installing 5.3 with large drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:45:38 -0000 Which problem did you have? Did you get an error stating that the disk could not be written to or did the filesystem get written but then the installation stalled? Thanks. Jef --- Stacy Tucker wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:51 -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > > Does anyone know if BSD has a problem with largish hard drives. I have tried installing > FreeBSD > > 5.3 using a WD 250 GB drive and a Maxtor 200 GB drive and both have failed. However, I am > able to > > complete the installation on the same system using a Maxtor 10 GB drive. The WD drive fails > to > > write during the commit phase of the installation and the 200 GB Maxtor writes the filesystem > OK > > but then hangs at 9% while copying the base dist. Thanks very much. > > > > Jef > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- > Stacy Tucker > I ran into the same problem. The method I used was to do a minimum > install, reboot, enter back into the setup, (but use the configure > option) and install any other applications/make configuration changes as > needed. Hope that helps. > ST > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 02:51:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9F716A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:51:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8046843D2D for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:51:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.telford@sympatico.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.10] ([65.95.228.249]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20041203025138.DQS1836.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.0.10]>; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:51:38 -0500 Message-ID: <41AFD918.7030600@sympatico.ca> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:10:16 -0500 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: luis , "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" References: <41AEF193.6060006@satx.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <41AEF193.6060006@satx.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Java build X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:51:40 -0000 Yes, I had forgotten about the actual error. There must be a minor problem in the Makefile and I will send a note to the maintainer. I just tested and replicated. This is in Makefile v 1.82 2004/11/24 15:16:38 On a system that jdk has never been built on you will get the following: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 server02# make printf: missing format character ===> jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is*** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. But on a system where it has already been built you will get: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14/ server01# make ===> jdk-1.4.2p6_6 is forbidden: Vulnerabilities in the browser plugin. server01# Solution: The only way to continue is to use the MINIMAL switch: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14/ server01# make MINIMAL=yes But you won't get the browser plugins in your build. John. luis wrote: > John, thanks for the tip. My problem, though, happens right away as > soon as I hit Enter after typing "make install". Any idea what "printf: > missing format character" means? It seems as if the console/terminal > does not have a font/character library or something like that to send to > the screen a particular symbol used during this compilation. Thanks for > your help. Luis > From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 15:01:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82AB216A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:01:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6345743D48 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:01:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bubalator@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (bubalator@222.148.40.223 with login) by smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2004 15:01:31 -0000 From: Stacy Tucker To: Jef Dodson In-Reply-To: <20041202234537.85641.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041202234537.85641.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:10:40 +0900 Message-Id: <1102086640.62340.32.camel@dolo.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installing 5.3 with large drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:01:32 -0000 On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:45 -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > Which problem did you have? Did you get an error stating that the disk could not be written to or > did the filesystem get written but then the installation stalled? Thanks. > > Jef > > --- Stacy Tucker wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:51 -0800, Jef Dodson wrote: > > > Does anyone know if BSD has a problem with largish hard drives. I have tried installing > > FreeBSD > > > 5.3 using a WD 250 GB drive and a Maxtor 200 GB drive and both have failed. However, I am > > able to > > > complete the installation on the same system using a Maxtor 10 GB drive. The WD drive fails > > to > > > write during the commit phase of the installation and the 200 GB Maxtor writes the filesystem > > OK > > > but then hangs at 9% while copying the base dist. Thanks very much. > > > > > > Jef > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > > Stacy Tucker > > I ran into the same problem. The method I used was to do a minimum > > install, reboot, enter back into the setup, (but use the configure > > option) and install any other applications/make configuration changes as > > needed. Hope that helps. > > ST > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- Stacy Tucker My box hanged up everytime it loaded the based dist files from the CDROM. My fix on the WD 200 GB drive was to do a minimum install, and then come back and install any other files I wanted. I had the same problem on a Maxtor 160 GB drive. On that one I did the following (Time Consuming effort); 1. Install FreeBSD minimum on a smaller hard drive. 2. Copy the CD files onto the smaller hard drive. 3. Shut down the system, and install the large drive as primary, small drive as the secondary. 4. Reboot, with the CDROM est as bootable in the BIOS. 5. Execute an install using the entire disk, accepting [/stand/sysinstall]'s settings for the hard drives geometry. 6. Install the files from the hard drive, following the instructions in the handbook. Hope that helps. From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 18:09:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9E116A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C1043D67 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:09:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (du-209-210.nat.adsl.claranet.fr [212.43.209.210]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5201E2A6285; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:09:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:09:19 +0100 From: Olivier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Graham North References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020207010606060502090201" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:09:18 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020207010606060502090201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there! >> Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection - >> probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM? >> My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is >> installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need >> to save as ISO image? File format issues? Indexing issues? >> Thanks, Graham/ >> > > Where would /ports/distfiles go? And what about ~/work subdirs? > They must be writable. You need hard disk to do this. > > You can use a refuse file to trim the size of /usr/ports, but you > can't use the ports tools to do auto upgrading unless you have > the whole tree (can't find the doc ATM, a thread on questions@ > recently addressed this.) > > If you're unable to add HDD space, why not use packages? > What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS? Olivier --------------020207010606060502090201-- From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 19:10:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06B016A589 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:10:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B717543D49 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sue@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (sue@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB3JATGh047132 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:10:29 GMT (envelope-from sue@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from sue@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iB3JATQr047129 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:10:29 GMT (envelope-from sue) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:10:29 GMT From: Sue Blake Message-Id: <200412031910.iB3JATQr047129@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Newbies FAK X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:10:30 -0000 FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list. It is also available at http://people.freebsd.org/~sue/newbies/fak.html 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. It is particularly important to send all installation questions and answers to FreeBSD-Questions so that they only appear in one place. FreeBSD-Newbies is different. We don't ask for FreeBSD 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. We can help people to use the FreeBSD mailing lists and resources, or to interact more productively with the broader FreeBSD community. These are not support questions, and not technical, so we deal with them here. Everyone can help with these new user orientation requests. 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/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/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. _________________________________________________________________ Mailing list membership To Subscribe to FreeBSD-Newbies: Use the easy form at http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies to subscribe to the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list, or to change your subscription details if you are already a member. To Unsubscribe from FreeBSD-Newbies: To stop receiving list emails, simply follow the unsubscribe link that appears at the bottom of each email you receive from the mailing list. Mail sent to freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org is distributed to all members of the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list. _________________________________________________________________ From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 23:58:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6AA16A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:58:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E211643D41 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:58:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CaNJw-000DZE-26 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:58:40 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:58:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> In-Reply-To: <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412032358.39196.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:58:41 -0000 > What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS? I tried that and found that chmod didn't work on NFS. Other remote filesystems like SMB might work if they allow chmod. You might be able to do something with having the ports collection on CD and mounting it as union. -- /Xian "A person who smiles in the face of adversity... probably has a scapegoat" unknown author From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 01:11:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718A416A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:11:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD22B43D55 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:11:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gorebofh@comcast.net) Received: from linux.org (pcp02382275pcs.pthurn01.mi.comcast.net[68.60.78.233]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004120401114001400egdeue>; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:11:40 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by linux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA5423459 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:11:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown by localhost (amavisd-new, unix socket) id client-XXc3AIeT for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:11:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by linux.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2BEE7983; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:11:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:11:23 -0500 From: Allen To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041204011123.GA10223@linux.pthurn01.mi.comcast> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Free BSD install help I wrote X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 01:11:42 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline This is a tutorial I wrote for http://www.antionline.com to help people install Free BSD because I got somewhat tired of everyone asking how to install it. So I made this and made it step by step so it makes it easy enough so that a real newbie should have no problems as I've even typed out how many tmies to hit the TAB key and then what to press next. After I wrote this I posted it and got very very good feedback form peopel thanking me for making it so much easier. They had all had these problems installing for some reason or another, and it was mainly because they got confused on what to press, so I made this, they read it, and now they run Free BSD. So I know it's at least good enough that it's helped people to use the installation and get it actually installed. I'm going to attach the tutorial to this message and I did write this myself, so if you'd like you can add it to the newbies section of the Free BSD page if you'd like. I wrote it and have sent it to a few friend's pages , so pretty much as long as I get credit you can pop it up on a page, and for people reading it I really don't care if they print it out and use it or however it is easier for them. I made it to help people use a better OS, so as long as it helps I'm happy. If you do post it anywhere I would liek to at least know about it so I can refer people to it. I've gotten quite a few people to use Free BSD for the first time with it because it's so easy to use, and I've been a Free BSD supporter for a while now. I started using it about a year and a half after getting my very first computer when I bought the Free BSD Power Pack, and then I bought the Free BSD Unleashed book. I don't code and I'm not good at it anyway so I buy Free BSD when I can and I help epople install it to try and give something back. One of my past times is getting Gentoo Linux users to switch, I can't stand Gentoo ;) Anyway sorry this is getting long and I haven't even gotten to the tutorial itself yet, but again, I'd at least like credit for it, but I'm not asking for mnoey or anything like that, anyone could have written it, I just did to help the newbies use a much better OS than they were used to :) You can reach me at this E-Mail address if you need to or if you want to make changes, you can if you want, but I'd like to see them to see how others make my work better. Anyway, Enjoy! -Allen Kenner / Gore from AntiOnline.com Free BSD and Slackware / SUSE Linux lover. --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FreeBSDinstall.txt" Installing Free BSD 5.0 Installing Operating Systems with gore Free BSD 5.0 Introduction: Free BSD has the same reputation as Slackware Linux does for not being an easy to install OS. Well, So far I've installed it 30 times, and I haven't used a manual yet. This tutorial will be the same as my Slackware tutorial was, in that it will provide a step by step installation tutorial for Free BSD. Free BSD is actually quite easy to install. Hopefully this will show that. For right now I'm only going to show the installation, but maybe in another tutorial, or paper, I'll show you how to configure it, but first things first right? This will work on a number of machines. I've installed it this way on two machines, with very different hardware, and the install works fine, so you should be fine. Even if you have an integrated video card you can at least install it, but setting up XFree86 is different, and so for the time being, I won't be showing the configuration. Mainly because the machine I usually use for free BSD is currently being used to type this with Slackware Linux 9.1. This tutorial is being typed on Emacs, the non X version, and the install should only take you a few minutes unless you have terribly slow hardware. Assumptions: You have a CD-ROM drive You won't be sharing the HD with another OS (If you are, when it comes time to partition, you're on your own :) I won't be showing you how to partition to use another OS with it, as I don't, and don't feel the need to, as there is enough documentation to get you through this anyway, and besides, you have to partition to use Free BSD anyway, so if you can do that, you can do it to allow another OS to reside on disk with Free BSD too.) You will be setting up a network connection. (If you are not, then skip that section). X86: The GUI for free BSD is the same as Linux uses, but you do have to set it up by hand. If you plan on using X, I recommend that before you begin, you go into the current OS on your computer and get all the information about your hardware, you'll need it. I've set up X a few times, and it's not hard, but you have to set it up to your own hardware configuration, and I'm NOT going to show you hwo to do this with every possible configuration, so that is why I'm not adding a section for X. After you use it for a while and read books, you'll learn more by doing this yourself, than you will if I just tell you how. So I'm not skipping X configuration to be mean, but just because there are to many possible combinations of hardware. The installation: To start the installation, take the CD-ROM, and insert it into the CD-ROM drive of the computer you are installing on, and shut the machine down. Wait a few seconds, and then hit the power button. As the machine boots up you'll see text scrolling, and a little warning saying it will boot in 10 seconds, you can either watch the count down with excitement, or press "ENTER" on your keyboard. After the count down, the text gets a brighter white color, scrolls, and then you see something that may remind you a little of Slackware Linux: Sys Install: The Free BSD installation is done by "SysInstall" which is a nice non GUI program that's fairly easy to use. After the machine has booted up you'll see it, and can begin the installation. When Sys Install is loaded on your screen, press the DOWN arrow key once, and press "ENTER" to begin a standard installation. For the most part, the install of Free BSD looks the same as far back as 4.0 which was my first version. 5.1 and so on look a bit different, but besides a few screens, it's the same. I'm using the Free BSD 5.0 disk that came with my book "Free BSD Unleashed, second edition". I highly recommend This book, and "the Complete Free BSD" for anyone using BSD. After pressing "ENTER" to begin a standard install, you come to a screen saying you are going into Fdisk. Press "ENTER" to say "OK" and then you see the Fdisk screen. Don't worry, this is simple! Press the letter "A" on your keyboard, to alocate all of the disk to Free BSD, then, press the UP arrow key once to highlight the partition named "freebsd" and press "S" to set it as bootable. You'll see a little "A" after pressing "S" to confirm it was set as bootable. After you press "S" and have it set as bootable, press "Q" to quit. After you have pressed "Q" you come to the screen to select a boot manager. If you plan on dual booting, I recommend the Free BSD boot manager. If you have a partition and boot manager already installed that you need to keep, then you will want to leave the MBR alone! To leave the MBR alone and use whatever boot manager you have installed: Press the DOWN arrow key twice to highlight "NONE" and press the "ENTER" key. If you're like me and don't have any other OS you need installed on the machine, then press the DOWN arrow key one time, to highlight "Standard" and then press "ENTER". After you have done this, you see a screen saying you are going to be playing with Fdisk again. Press "ENTER" to say "OK", and you are taken back to Fdisk for round 2. Now, this part looks very intimidating to a newbie, but it's actually very easy. All you have to do here, is press "A" for auto defaults, then press "Q" to finish. Easy huh? After you press "Q" you come back to the Sys Install screen to select software. This screen is fairly straight forward for coders and Kernel Developers, but for newbies it's not. The easiest way to get passed this screen, is to press the DOWN arrow key once, which will select all, and pressing "ENTER". After you press "ENTER" you are taken to a new screen asking about the ports collection. There is no reason you should not install the ports unless you're installing on a VERY small disk. The default highlight is "Yes", so go ahead and press "ENTER" on this window, and after doing so, you come ack to the same screen you were just at asking for software to install. At this screen, press the UP arrow key once, to highlight "EXIT" and then press "ENTER". After you have done so, you come to a new screen that is asking where to install from. It's already highlighting the CD/DVD method, so just press "ENTER". After pressing "ENTER" you have to tell it which CD-ROM it's in. Usually if you have more than one CD drive in your machine, you pop it in the top one, so the already highlighted top "ATAPI/IDE CDROM" Option should work fine. If not pick the other ;) After you have pressed "ENTER" and selected the CD-ROM drive the Free BSD installation media is in, you come to a screen warning you that this is your last chance to turn back. If you forgot to do something, this is the time to select "No". If you took care of everything you may need, and are ready to finally actually begin the installation, then press "ENTER" as the "YES" option is already highlighted. After you select "YES" you see the screen go blue and showing you the current task it is performing. It's currently making File Systems on the HD, so relax for a minute while it does this. After the File Systems are done, you see a new little window on the screen showing you a progress bar. It's now loading things from CD, so it can take a while on a slower system. After a few minutes, you see it starts adding packages. This doesn't usually take that long, but again, just relax. After a few minutes, you see a message saying how Free BSD is now installed. Don't stop yet though, you're not done. Press "ENTER" on the screen telling you the main install is done, and then it will ask you if you want to configure a network. If you have no network, then don't select "Yes". But if you DO have a network and want to set it up now, press "ENTER" as "Yes" is already selected. After pressing "ENTER" you see various options. Free BSD has picked up my integrated NIC, so I press "ENTER" as it's already selected on the screen. After pressing "ENTER" You see a message pop up asking if you want to use IPV6 with this device....Unless you are sure you need this, then you will NOT need it. "No" is already preselected, so just press "ENTER". After you press "ENTER" be careful not to just hit it again, as the same message window then asks if you want to use DHCP. I'm on a LAN, so I press the LEFT arrow key once, and press "ENTER" on "Yes". It scans for DHCP servers, and it finds my DHCP servers, and now I can fill out information. For host, you can type pretty much anything, and the domain is already filled out as my DHCP configuration on the router sent it to Free BSD already. Type in a host name you want, and then press "TAB" to pop over to the next box. You may notice that pressing "TAB" made more information pop up, this is fine, so don't worry. Press "TAB" until you have "OK" selected at the bottom. After you have "OK" slected, press "ENTER". Network configuration continues as the next screen has another window asking you if you want to use Free BSD as a network gateway. If you are, then go ahead, but for me, I'm leaving the already selected "No" answer and just pressing "ENTER". After you have pressed "ENTER" another window asks about InetD. For now, I'm just going to leave the answer "NO" that is already selected, and press "ENTER". You can always configure this later anwyay. After you have pressed "ENTER" you have another window asking about FTP. If you're not setting up an FTP server, leave this screen alone, and just press "ENTER" as you can do this later if you need it, and "NO" is selected by default, so just press "ENTER". After you have done so, you get asked about an NFS server. Just press "ENTER" here too. After you hot "OK" on this screen, you come to another screen, which asks about an NFS client. If you are setting up Free BSD as a server or client on your network, you may want to set this up, but if it's just going to be on your LAN, then just keep hitting "No" for these, and as always, you can set these up later on. After you have pressed "ENTER" you come to another screen asking for the security profile of the system. This screen is your choice. If you're like me, you'll be pressing "ENTER" as the default selection is already on "No". This way I can configure the system myself. After you made a choice and hit "ENTER" you are taken to the next screen telling you about the security selection. Just press "ENTER" after reading the message on the screen. After you press "ENTER" you come to another screen asking to customize the console settings. Just press "ENTER" here for the already selected answer "No" as you don't need to do this unless you really want to. After pressing "ENTER" you will come to another screen, asking for the time zone. Press "ENTER" here as it is already on "Yes". After pressing "ENTER" the next screen tries to confuse you, so just press "ENTER" again. Unless of course you're sure of the answer. After pressing "ENTER" select your Country. I'm in the US, so I press the DOWN arrow key until I have "America -- North and South" selected, and then I press "ENTER". Now, after you have "ENTER" pressed, press the DOWN arrow key until the Country you're in is selected. I'm in the "United States" so I press the DOWN arrow jey until that is highlighted. I then press "ENTER" and go to the time zone selection screen. I'm in "Michigan" so I press on the DOWN arrow key once to select "Eastern Time - Michigan - most locations" and press the "ENTER" key. After pressing "ENTER" a little window pops up asking if an abbreciation looks OK. Just press "ENTER" here. The next question it asks is about Linux compatibility. Go ahead and say "Yes" here, as it can be nice to use Linux Applications on Free BSD. After you press "ENTER" it adds the packages needed, and is also a great time to smoke. So I'm going to smoke while this is installing, and when I get back it will be done. The Linux compatibility install finishes, and then you come to another screen asking you if you have a NON USB mouse attached. My mouse is not USB so I press the LEFT arrow key to highlight "Yes" and press "ENTER". After pressing "ENTER" you come to a screen to set up the mouse. Press the DOWN arrow key one time, and press "ENTER". Move the mouse around and see if it shows up. This should work without problems, and if you see the cursor moving press "ENTER". Now press the DOWN arrow key to select the mouse protocol. In this, "AUTO" is already selected, so just press "ENTER" unless you're sure of the mouseyou have and see it here. After pressing "ENTER" press the DOWN arrow key and press "ENTER". This mouse is a PS/2 mouse, so I just press the little "ENTER" key, and then when I'm back on the original screen I press the UP arrow key until "EXIT" is highlighted, and press "ENTER" again. The next window asks about configuraing X, but as I said already, I'm not walkign you through this because you have to set options for each video card. I don't have the same card as everyone else, so it wouldn't be all that helpful. So for this screen, just press the RIGHT arrow key to select "No" and press "ENTER". You can se this up at a later time, so don't worry. After you finish that screen you come to another screen to install more software. "Yes" is already selected, so just press "ENTER". After you have pressed "ENTER" the easiest thing is just pressing "ENTER" as "ALL" is already selected. This will install everything, and makes it easier than going through every package. You can do that when you have learned more about Free BSD. After you have gotten to the next screen, you should see a software selection screen, and you can choose some things to install for X. You can select whatever you want here, and any dependencies will be added automatically. After you have selected what you want, press "TAB" to select "OK" and then press "ENTER" on the keyboard. You now come back to the screen you were at earlier, and now you just press "TAB" to highlight on the button saying to "Install" and press "ENTER". After pressing "ENTER" the packages you selected are installed, and then you come to a new screen some time later. this screen asks for setting up user accounts, so press "ENTER" as "YES" is already highlighted. After pressing "ENTER" press the little "DOWN" arrow on your keyboard, and press "ENTER" to add a user. It asks for a log in ID, so whatever you want to use to log in should be entered. I enter "GORE" then hit "TAB" 3 times to enter in a password, then hit "TAB" again to enter a full name. After you have entered the name, press "TAB" until you are on "OK" and hit "ENTER". After pressing "ENTER" you go back to the screen to add users or groups. Enter as many users as you need to, and then, select "EXIT" and press "ENTER" when you finish adding users. Now it's time to set the Root password. Press enter at the screen telling you about it, and then enter in a Root password. You have to enter it in twice. Then you can read the window asking if want to go to the main window for any more options. "No" is already highlighted here, so just press "ENTER". After you are done, you see the first screen again. Press "TAB" and that will highlight the "Exit" option. Press "ENTER" and a little screen asks if you're sure. Press the LEFT arrow key to highlight "YES" and press "ENTER". Make sure you pop out the CD-ROM first, and if you can't for some reason, just wait until it's rebooting and pull it out then. The machine reboots, and boots up for the first time. Now, have fun. --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf-- From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 15:42:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D4116A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:42:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C799443D45 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:42:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (62-240-243-47.adsl.claranet.fr [62.240.243.47]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE092A6DE9; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:42:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41B1DAFC.9040801@gautherot.net> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:42:52 +0100 From: Olivier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xian References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> <200412032358.39196.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200412032358.39196.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040204030100060907090006" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:42:53 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040204030100060907090006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Xian! >>What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS? >> >> > >I tried that and found that chmod didn't work on NFS. Other remote filesystems >like SMB might work if they allow chmod. >You might be able to do something with having the ports collection on CD and >mounting it as union. > > NFS should work but there are requirements: you have to use the same UID for each user (if you declare user xian as UID 2003, you must declare it with the same number on each system). NFS is widely used across companies and such a constraint would have been long overcome if it were the case! Dedicated file servers would be useless. You may think of an NIS server to help on this - but it may be a killer if you just use it in your living room ;-) Cheers Olivier --------------040204030100060907090006-- From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 20:23:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16CF16A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:23:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nerdshack.com (mail.nerdshack.com [206.123.69.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E3743D62 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:23:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alfredoj69@nerdshack.com) Received: from [192.168.2.101] (CPE0004e24debd1-CM000a73660589.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.24.136.165]) by mail.nerdshack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6C68BC00B for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:23:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41B21CA4.2030500@nerdshack.com> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:23:00 -0500 From: alfredo perez User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:23:10 -0000 Hello there Is there anybody who can give me detail instructions on how to setup the wheel of my mouse?. I have used several configurations using Xorg.conf , rc.conf and imwheel. None of them have given me a good result. Thanks From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 22:48:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6790916A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:48:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gatekeeper.ptitoliv.net (gatekeeper.ptitoliv.net [213.41.155.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201E643D2F for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:48:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptitoliv@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net) Received: from frenchsuballiance.cjb.net (misato.ptitoliv.lan [192.168.1.1]) iB4NmeB7002146 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 00:48:41 +0100 Message-ID: <41B23F3E.4060400@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:50:38 +0100 From: ptitoliv User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/614/Wed Dec 1 16:44:43 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on gatekeeper.ptitoliv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Main differences between RELEASE_X and RELEASE_X_Y branches X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:48:57 -0000 Hi everybody, I am writing this mail in this mailing list because I would like to have more informations about the main differences between a RELEASE branch and the STABLE branch. More precisely, I would want to now what is the interest to use a RELEASE in stead of STABLE branch. Thank you for your ansewers. Best Regards, Ptitoliv