simple and nice

Setting up Subversion access through HTTP is not that hard if not because of my specific situation. Apache 2 is needed here and I’m currently using Apache 1.3 and did not plan to switch to Apache 2. Installing both server and let Apache 2 being used only by Subversion on different port is possible. Here’s some notes:-

• Install Apache 2 on different location. Something like this:-

  # make PREFIX=/aur/apache2

Edit httpd.conf file to specify different listen port and pid file.

• Install Subversion and let it know the location of apache2 binary:-

  # make APXS=/aur/apache2/sbin/apxs -DWITH_MOD_DAV_SVN -DWITHOUT_BDB install

I need WITHOUT_BDB since I built apache2 without bdb support. And I also overwrote the variable APR_APU_DIR=/aur/apache2/lib/apache2 in Subversion’s ports Makefile. For the rest, you can just follow the guide in svnbook.

just I like I write before, I've spent (wasting time) installing dragonflybsd by wiping out the Freebsd system. the installation process went up smoothly (thanks to the new bsdinstaller) but upon restarting the pc, it fails to boot the newly installed system. don't know what happen but I'm just to sleepy

Got the link from [url=http://farrokhi.net/blog/]geek style[/url]. Totally impressed ... can't wait for that :)
There are currently two separate efforts for building a Debian distribution based on FreeBSD's kernel. Both are work in progress in experimental stage, and we have not fully decided yet which of them will become the official Debian GNU/FreeBSD. See the corresponding port sites for details on the status of each port:

Debian GNU/FreeBSD based on GNU C library (Glibc)
Debian GNU/FreeBSD based on BSD C library (libc5) - [url=http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/]http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/[/url]

How I miss [url=http://www.freebsd.org]Freebsd[/url] but I just couldn't leave [url=http://www.archlinux.org]Arch[/url]. Giving a try to [url=http://www.freesbie.org]Freesbie[/url], one of the Freebsd Live CD I hope it could fill the void. It boot fast but GUI start-up a little bit slower when compared to [url=http://www.knopper.net/knoppix]Knoppix[/url]. The default desktop is XFCE, with an XP like wallpaper. The first apps to try is of course the web browser. It comes with Firefox 0.8 out of the box but it takes a while to load. Once running, just like any other firefox instances - its roxxx. Freesbie also provide a script for mounting external file system. In my case, the scripts performed well in mounting all the FAT32 file systems. Have yet to try the other applications but I think I would use it more as console system. Lately, I make fully use of Knoppix as one of the box doesn't have a capable OS, Mandrake 10.0 have crashed and the Win98 installation is barely bone with no NIC, VGA driver etc. Knoppix just save my time.

I\'ve made a decision to put my old and trusted Celeron 500Mhz into \'full-time\' home server. I\'ve been using it as my primary desktop machines for years and I think this is a time for it\'s \'retirement\'. Since last night, I\'ve got busy preparing the other 1.7G Celeron to make it ready as my main desktop. Previously it was running Win98SE on the first drive (40GB Wester Digital) and Freebsd 4.8 on the second drive (20GB Maxtor). I\'m planning to have a multiboot system with Win98SE, Freebsd 5.2.1, Mandrake Linux 10.0 and another Linux distro ( Arch Linux was in my mind). All the system now have been installed but far yet to be completed. I\'ve got sound working on Freebsd but not in Mandrake 10.0 Community. My soundcard (CMI8738-based) is detected and all the modules have been loaded but there\'s still no sound. Mplayer seems to play all the media well, which came to my conclusion that the sound devices is still muted. It use alsa which is came by default in 2.6 kernel but running alsamixer also doesn\'t solve the problem. A search on Google also does not point me to something useful. Now I\'m testing Arch Linux package manager, pacman (something like debian\'s apt-get) which working fine currently. It\'s also have Arch Build System (ABS), kind of freebsd port\'s system.

This time, I\'ve jotted down the steps to build the system which I\'m thinking of putting it here, as a documentation for myself.

UPDATE
I\'ve got soundcard working in Arch 0.6 with no hassle. Just modprobe snd-cmipci to load the modules for the sound card. To make it loaded at boot, just add it to /etc/rc.conf and it will be loaded everytime you reboot the computer. Sound on Mandrake still doesn\'t work. modprobe snd-cmipci only gives the sound for a while and if I was in KDE, I got an error message, something like .. \'CPU overload ...\' and the sound stop. No wonder when I ran lsmod, there were a long list of modules are loaded, mostly related to the sound card. Compared to Arch, lsmod only gave few modules listed. So far, Arch seems to be perfect desktop for me. Although the packages list is not comparable to Debian, Freebsd Port or Gentoo Portage, I can found most of my favourite apps.

Lcf, you are pointing to the right place. I\'m just thinking to wipe out the Mandrake and give a try to Gentoo (currently reading the Installation Handbook) :).

First I try to use dd and sdd, the common unix utility for capturing and writing disc image. Both tools does not produce an exact image of the vcd, which I think more to the problem of the vcd itself. I can\'t even play them on my FreeBSD box. Then I found that cdrdao has an option --read-cd that can be use to dump the image of the vcd into ISO image. So my life would be easier. To copy the VCD I just run this command:
# cdrdao read-cd --device 1,1,0 --driver generic-mmc -v 3 vcd.toc
This command will produce file data.bin and vcd.toc which can be used to burn to CDR. This command will burn the produced image to the CDR:
# cdrdao write --device 1,1,0 --driver generic-mmc vcd.toc
The --device option should reflect the position of the CDR-W devices.

Since last week, I\'ve been searching on the net for a guide to configure my CD-Writer to work under Freebsd. Not much resources available, means a specific howto to do that. Freebsd Handbook, just covering a basic on how to set it up using either burncd (for ATAPI writer) and cdrecord for the SCSI. Mine is ATAPI (Matshita CD-R CW7585) so it should work with burncd but it\'s not. burncd keep giving an error message. Later I found that my writer is not supported yet with burncd ( www.freebsd.dk/ata ). So the only option (according to handbook) is to use ATAPI/CAM driver that will provide access to the cd-writer through a SCSI interface. Maybe somewhat similar to the ide-scsi emulation in linux. To use ATAPI/CAM driver, I have to recompile the kernel to include the driver into the kernel (which I\'d try to avoid in the first place). I had a bad experience compiling kernel under linux, so kinda like a nightmare for me. The Handbook has a step-by-step guide on how to compile the kernel. First I need to cd into the source dir and copy the GENERIC kernel config file:
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
# cp GENERIC MYKERNEL

The next step is to edit the kernel config file and include the CAM driver:
device atapicam
device scbus
device cd
device pass
Then I\'ve to run the config command:
# /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
Now I can start building the kernel:
# cd ../compile/MYKERNEL
# make depend
# make
# make install
Done. The new kernel is located at /kernel while the old one is rename to /kernel.old. I\'d only have to reboot my machine to load the new kernel. Praying for nothing would go wrong, I restart my machine and .. voila !! The new kernel boot up without any problem. Now I have support for my CD-Writer. For the burning purposes, the standard tools mkisofs and cdrecord is used. Since last night, I\'ve kept myself busy burning all the stuff on my harddrive.

My second in command, reliant which is running the FreeBSD 4.8 is down today. It just won\'t boot up. My first guess is the processor or the mainboard. These two parts have given some problems previously. Lucky that it still on warranty. So the unit is now back at the shop which I bought it and it would be 3 or 5 days before the new replacement. Most of my times recently spent on it and now I\'ve to fall back on my first command, mospeda running Vector Linux 4.0.

I\'m starting my quest for FreeBSD today. I started the installation just after Subuh, can\'t wait anymore :) . Everything goes well with just a minor glitch during the X configuration. A few hours later I was ready to explore the world of BSD. Just like any system setup, I started to install my favourite apps (xmms and xine). Xine seems to have a little problem, sometimes it won\'t stop and I had to kill it. Now the printer still not working. I\'m still looking for solution and I really hope that I don\'t have to rebuild the kernel. Not at this time.

All that I can say, moving to FreeBSD is not that easy as changing linux distros. So much more to learn ...