1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hi, would anybody kindly help me as I am new in FreeBSD 4.4 (downloaded iso image from FreeBSD.org) and have installed it to an HP VEctra Pentium 1-166Mhz PC, have installled all the devices mouse,video card,monitor and some ports specifically to Xfree86 and all gnome related to "X" but when I type... (3 Replies)

2. Programming

I am trying to send a SIGUSR1 to a set of process. Please tell me how to do. I've tried the system call raise(int sig) but it just raise a signal of to the 'current process.' My program is about a network chat server. When a client connects in, The main process will fork a new process... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I recently installed FreeBSD on my Dell Inspiron 1100 and it works fine. The problem is that I dont know how to connect it to the internet. I have a Linksys Wireless B Network Adapter but if I cant use that, I can use my internal 10/100 Ethernet card. I also use a Linksys Wireless B & G router. ... (1 Reply)

4. BSD

I just download the FreeBSD 5.3 i386 iso files. And I have a problem now, I can't copy the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso to the cd, I try a lot of times, even change lots of blank cd to try but still cannot. But I can copy the other three iso files, i.e. 5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso,... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi. I am newbie in Unix. I wanted to install Free BSD 5.2.1 to my computer which winXp was already installed. But i couldn't. I chose Standard. Then it said you are going to use dos style fdisk partitioning. Then a window displayed begining like this. WARNING: A geometry of 155127/16/63 for... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have installed freeBSD 7.0 using the 5 cds. when i try to install the gnome or kde during the post-installation, the following error appears: "ghost-script gpl-8.60 aborted error 1 ......." Do u think that the cd(it's the second cd) is corrupted or i missed some steps which i should follow. I... (1 Reply)

7. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

I am trying to setup 2 network shares that exist on a server. One of the shares is mounted but when i try to mount the second share I am greeted with: # mount srv:/data/music /data/music srv:/data/music: RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Program not registered Server Info: name: srv #cat /etc/exports:... (0 Replies)

8. BSD

Hello, when I try to install freeBSD in Virtualbox it always reboots when copying the files for the OS. Does anyone know what's wrong? It must be the VM Settings, but I can't seem to get behind it... any help would be very nice. I have to old and new freeBSD Versions. (new = downloaded... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everybody. I have a problem of this kind: After installation of FreeBSD, my Windows XP became unreachable. Boot from CDROM is impossible. The conclusion: BIOS was damaged by GParted or some other program. Question: Are there any Unix means of updating (repairing) BIOS ?:wall: (11 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I created a VM for FreeBSD on hyper-v and i am having trouble connecting it to the internet. My virtual machine config are as below: 100 GB HD 1GB RAM Generation 1 Two Network adapters 1. Legacy Network Adapter 2. Network Adapter both are connected to network switch "Internet" which... (2 Replies)