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Re: changing boot splash screen

Kevin Kinsey — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:14:28 GMT

... Well, you don't, but you do. The splash module won't load the bitmap until after the "beastie menu", anyway. And your bitmap is the right depth, but it's

Re[2]: sendmail/postfix ports question

Gerard Seibert — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:49:11 GMT

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:46:54 -0700, Greg Maruszeczka Subject: Re: sendmail/postfix ports question ... ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On

Re: SMP using cpu2 only

Kris Kennaway — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:17:39 GMT

... No, it says 2 are in use. ... You do not seem to have HT enabled. You have to turn it on via sysctl as well because of the security implications. Kris

pvm port refuses to work

Hentai Pantsu — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:00:16 GMT

I was able to install the pvm port, but when i try to run it, it always fails saying: libpvm [pid42244] /tmp/pvmd.0.kungfoo: No such file or directory libpvm

i386_set_ldt differences between 4.x and 5.x?

Tijl Coosemans — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:53:01 GMT

i386_set_ldt(int start_sel, union descriptor *descs, int num_sels); The man page for this function in FreeBSD 5.x mentions the following: "If num_descs is 1,

SMP using cpu2 only

Tamouh H. — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:23:35 GMT

Hello, After cvsup to 5.4-P7 and compiling the Kernel with SMP, PAE, acpi options, I noticed when getting back in that only CPU2 is being used. I checked

Re: tunefs problem

Sasa Stupar — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:44:09 GMT

--On 8. oktober 2005 9:02 -0500 Gunter Wambaugh ... Thanx for the tip. Sasa

Re: FreeBSD Minimum System Requirements

Chuck Swiger — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:33:28 GMT

... 5.4 requires 24MB of RAM and a 486-class CPU. 4.1, 4.4, and the rest of the 4.x releases require 16MB of RAM and a 386-class CPU. Both will fit in 1GB of

Re: FreeBSD Minimum System Requirements

Björn König — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:17:47 GMT

... The minimum system requirements depend on the software that you want to use with FreeBSD. In theory FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x should run on a 80386 CPU with a

Re: Mount the stick

Björn König — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:12:19 GMT

... You'll get all information about your memory stick after you have connected it in /var/log/messages, e.g. its manufacturer, model and the device name

changing boot splash screen

FreeBsdBeni — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:04:16 GMT

Hi list, System : 5.4-RELEASE-p7 I'm trying to change the default boot splash screen from beastie to bmp-file. Here's my /boot/loader.rc : \ Loader.rc \

Re: tunefs problem

Kees Plonsz — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:51:12 GMT

... It is not fsck that is cousing the trouble but tunefs itself. From the man-page you can read: The tunefs utility cannot be run on an active file system. To

Re: tunefs problem

Gunter Wambaugh — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:03:18 GMT

Look at the output from fsck. It very clearly tells you that it found problems, but didn't fix them (probably because the partition is mounted). Notice the

FreeBSD Minimum System Requirements

Stephen Gary Wozniak — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:47:34 GMT

Hello! Can you tell me the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD 5.4? 4.1? 4.4? Thanks Mateusz _______________________________________________

Throughput computation given cwnd and transmission time values?

Jamie Ann P. Zamodio — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:49:32 GMT

Hey guys. :) Anybody have any idea how to compute for the throughput of a connection given the congestion window size of each segment, but not given the RTT?