Re: 6.0 post-install questions
- From: brucegb@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bruce Burden)
- Date: 3 Jun 2006 02:46:12 GMT
Kaitlyn Luna <Kaitlyn Luna on AIM> wrote:
:
: I don't have a UPS on the P166. In the event of a power failure, how
: well does UFS fare when you don't shutdown properly?
:
Pretty well. Just give the fsck process time to compete
its job afterwards, since it is now run in the background.
:
: Is it possible to really uninstall a package?
:
Sure. Perform a pkg_info command before and after adding
a package, the differences in the packages are those required
for the attempted package. Delete them as necessary.
:
: My Firefox install failed
: (possibly something to do with Gnome), but all its dependencies were
: left after the pkg_delete. I may have found them all, but this is a bit
: too much like Windows where applications are often never really gone.
:
For me, the crucial difference is that I can find out what
packages are installed, and if pkg_delete doesn't fuss about it
having some dependency, it can be safely deleted. Even if it does
fuss, a -f will force the issue. :-)
At least I have a chance of knowing what is installed.
:
: Since the Mozilla Suite is dying and I can't install Firefox, is lynx
: my only browser choice now?
:
The better question may be "why did Mozilla fail to install?"
A P166 is pretty old, it is possible that a package may be built
on something more recent, and has instructions the P166 can't perform.
Granted a P166 is slow, but you may be better off building
the ports, rather than a package. Of course that depends on how
long you want to leave the machine running as it builds the ports
(and, yeah, there will be a bunch of them) and what kind of
connectivity you have to download the various files.
:
: Other packages also failed to install with pkg_add -r. These include
: tinyfugue, playmidi, and amanda-client. At least with the first,
: installing from source is pretty easy. As for playmidi, I downloaded
: its package manually, but pkg_add still rejected the file. (I did a
: gzip -t and it was ok.) So what can I do about these recalcitrant
: packages?
:
From what I have seen, you are better off either building
from ports, or installing precompiled packages. Mixing and matching
is a good way to have problems, as a package is "present", but was
build against different objects, so it does not really have what
is needed.
:
: I have a USB to serial adapter. In Linux it's /dev/ttyUSB0. What would
: it be called in FreeBSD?
:
My guess is ucom0 or something like that. You will need the
ucom device in the kernel if it is not already there.
man ucom and see if that is what you are expecting.
Bruce
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