Forum: Everything BSD

How can I enable my regular user account to log in using su? Is there a permissions file I need to edit? It's really getting old having to log out...

I know this is old news, as the new version was released on May 19. But I just wanted to let everyone know it is out, and I was also curious to see...

disklabel wd1 (virtual disk mapped to phys HDD on MS Virtual PC) just displays one partition - "c". At the same time i remember, that on VMWare...

Hi, i'm new to Linux/BSD, and I am having trouble installing FreeBSD. I downloaded it and ran install. The installation went fine as far as I...

hi all, just tried freeSBIE 1.1 live cd, its based on freeBSD 5 apparently and its really dam good, bbut had just one problem, i need the password...

I have a 56K modem, not winmodem, that does not get recognized by BSD. Can someone tell me how to make it recognize the modem?

When I put the miniinstall disc in (with correct md5) the cd will only boot to a point after it says something about bios discs c and d being disc0...

ok, heres the situation: I have just installed FreeBSD on my HD with a few linux distros on different partitions. I have installed from miniinst...

How do I tell which partitions I'm using?? I have several Linux OS's on my drive and I want to change Xandos to BSD, It's (Xandr) on dev/hdd7(/) and...

I have recently installed FreeBSD, and Im trying to make it as unstable as possible :). (obsd user!). Ive never done it before only In Gentoo, but I...

So recently I wanted to install FreeBSD on my Gateway Solo 2500 with a pentium II 233specs and everything is going well in the installation setup,...

I'm putting it on an old machine that can't boot from CD. I've booted fromn the floppies on the installation CD, and I've arrived at this screen:...

Any of you guys testing?

In all that I have read so far of the FreeBSD system I saw naught of how it handles fonts. Can it just accept both *.fnt and *.ttf fonts or does it...

I installed vsftpd via ports. I cant seem to get the dameon started or make it run at startup. I tried adding the following to /etc/rc.conf,...

Greetings from Colombia, I have recently installed freebsd 5.3 , when i run X server this doesn´t work, it send me an error(I have a S3 Prosavage...

Hi, Two days ago, I formatted a supposedly unused partition via Windows XP. I think that corrupted my freebsd boot manager. I'm not able to boot...

I am about to dl BSD for the first time. I am very interested in DragonFlyBSD; however, since FreeBSD was recommended to me earlier in this forum I...

I guess this is as good a post as any to get recommendations. No, I'm not going to start a *BSD equivalent of "what distro should I choose?", I...

Hi all, I still consider myself a Linux newbie but I am always eager to try new things. In September, I may have the chance to start a server...