Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 04:18:05 -0700 (PDT) From: DK <asdzxc111@yahoo.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ??? Message-ID: <20040801111805.3398.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040728203052.GA32457@gothmog.gr>
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > You should really try TkDesk one of these days. It's my all times > favorite from the x11-fm category! ;-) thanks, will try it tonight. > You have to be VERY careful when reading the instructions. There is no > "groupadd" command on FreeBSD. There is a "pw" command though, which > accepts a "groupadd" option to add new user groups. The full command > would be then: > > # pw groupadd mysql that worked, thanks. > > Raw numbers no... just sitting in front of the BSD screen counting the > > seconds.. wondering how people use this OS - then I do a reboot & > > select WIN2000 & can't believe the difference. If you want, when I > > have time, I could take an mpg of it & upload it for all ?? > > An mpg of FreeBSD running? Hmmm, I'd be interested to know exactly HOW > you'd do that. You're not complaining about the apparent slowness of > FreeBSD by running it under VMWare or something similar, right? VM no. Just a hand held digital Video Camera showing the running of both OS on the same box. > I haven't tried setting it up yet, so I'm not the best person to ask for > instructions but I might find the time to tinker with it this weekend. > > Amazingly similar look to Windows XP though ;-) Let me know if you get this one installed ok. > > I can mount my Floppy when I run gluggy KDE, but under Wmaker, I type: > > mount -v -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt > > ... and this says its mounted > > Try changing the current directory to /mnt and see what files are in > that directory. Are they the floppy contents? Floppy & CD mount OK now, however even though the floppy mounts OK, when I mount the floppy, I get: 127# mount -v -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt /dev/fd0 on /mnt (msdos, local, reads: sync 2 async 0) floppy: mount -v -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt CDROM: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom However, I can't seem to unmount them. I get "Command not found". 127# unmount /cdrom unmount: Command not found. > > When I run partition magic in Win2000, its says that I have a BAD > > partition. Doing some searching, found that BSD messes up something > > with the sizes of the geometry of the selected partitions(slices) - > > still don't know how to fix this ??? > > Don't "fix" anything. It's more likely that just Partition Magic that > is brain-damaged and cannot read the BSD partition properly. No, partition magic can read the BSD partition correctly. PM is saying the whole primary parition(both Windows 2000 + FBSD) is BAD(nothing to do with surface errors) I can't remember where I read it(BSD site or book, will look later) but when you make the slices, the sizes must add up to a certain divisable number, otherwise part of the partition(small number like 1024kb) will be unusable. Thats why PM is saying that the whole partition is BAD. But I don't know how to fix this ??? Kind Regards, DK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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