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How does one add additional nameservers to resolv.conf. I can't find a man page or any additional information in the handbook. What is the syntax? Is it limited to three DNS servers? My domain registrar provides me with four name servers.

Been Looking Forever for this! Thanks. I have a Gateway Laptop Laptop MP8708 and BIOS will not set the SATA to IDE mode. So, my install slice is ad4s1a and the install fails with unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! file system creation is aborted I used your advice and simply...

Thanks for your responses. Apparently, while fooling around with a new domain name... I... well, I fixed this by adding defaultrouter= statement to rc.conf. Yes, I use a router but funny is that I could install a port..but I couldn't run portsnap. Well, anyway it's fixed. Thanks, keith.

I've been running portsnap fetch all weekend. "Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching public key from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up.

It takes 30 minutes to tr 1 gig byte. So, about 19 kilo/byes second as the wind blows. I'm using gigabit cards in both boxes. Linksys RVS4000 gigabit router and Linksys SD2008 gigabit (dumb) switch. I'm going to try ftp'g to another windows box after the current tr completed in another 2.5...

If you put a basic install on another disk and boot from it. the mount the bad disk as a usb moun. then fix it. ... when push comes to shove!

I process video on my Win XP-64 box and then I ftp the file to FFS on FreeBSD8 box. The 6+ gig file takes a long time to transfer. I would like to speed this up since a single transfer is taking a long time. I would like to know what to check on the FreeBSD box and also if the Windows QoS...

Thank you for your response. I'm using an IOMEGA server with USB ports and the keyboard won't initialize until after the boot menu. So, I can't choose to launch in single-user mode, nor any other mode. I'm thinking that I would have to build a custom kernal to be able to make it start up in a...

I tried different ways... in the end, I used a different HD that also contained freebsd and then mounted my original hd, then edited the file needing the repair. It worked nicely.

I left a little tiny " off of the ="YES in the rc.conf -- FreeBSD 8 now boots to a Dumb Terminal. As I know, commands to edit or iv do not work without a shell. How can I get a shell started or at least edit the rc.conf to add the final " ?

I'm trying to install Sharity-Light 1.3 from the ports collection. I receive the error: Sharity-Light 1.3 is marked a broken: Does not compile. ***Error code 1 This package came from the FreeBSD 8 DVD - so, I completely removed my ports collection with # rm -rf /usr/ports. Then I used #...

OK. I'll try it. thanks for the suggestion.

"Using amd provides a simple alternative to permanent mounts, as permanent mounts are usually listed in /etc/fstab." No this is not an option, as the NFS file system is set to a permanent mount point in fstab. I'm referring to the necessity to SU and mount /mnt, then to exit, before accessing...

I'm simply trying to give a user access to their own NFS share without having to explain how to SU and mount /mnt on their laptop.

FreeBSD Manual says host can't modify files on the NFS unless -maproot specified in /etc/exports "If the -maproot=root flag is not specified, then even if a user has root access on the remote system, he will not be able to modify files on the exported file system." First of all, this only means...

I mount /mnt on my laptop (host bozo). I touch me.mine and then I type ls -l and I find that the file is owned by 4294967294. I would like to know why this number is generated since it doesn't correspond to the obvious. Is there a way to show file ownership is bozo as that is my laptop's...

This was my fault. I had both a Wheel and a wheel group, so clearing out Wheel was needed. I removed my 2 users and then recreated them. In /usr/home/Kyle I added an empty file called .initrc but in /usr/home/Keith I did not add the file. Sure enough, startx worked for Keith but did not...

Ok. but.. I just noticed that I can't su with my user account, although I belong to Wheel. So, when I get this figured out I will continue with my 1st posted problem.

I've got FreeBSD V. 8 stable and can't get X11 to start when logged in as a user. It will start and runs fine as root. When I log out of root and log in as a User (member of Wheel)startx fails with a few errors. One in particular may be the cause of it, "ww drmDropmaster failed: Unknown...