From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 5 07:52:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA03498 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 07:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA03477 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 07:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA17620; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:51:16 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA00800; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:51:15 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id QAA08543; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:46:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:46:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: tphilips@cedar.netten.net Subject: Re: Couple of newbie questions References: <32CFC16F.3816@cedar.netten.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32CFC16F.3816@cedar.netten.net>; from Tracy E. Phillips on Jan 5, 1997 08:57:51 -0600 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tracy E. Phillips wrote: > I have use Linux for a while so i am quite used to bash. How can i make > bash the system default? You probably don't want to make it your /bin/sh -- i think our current /bin/sh is less buggy than bash, and it's less bloated. Since /bin/sh is used explicitly or implicitly very often (scripts, system(3) etc.), a bloated shell is likely to consume more resources. If your only concern is to make it your login shell, that's fairly simple to accomplish: chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash > How can i get the console block curser to be a blinking line? I'm not a syscons expert (working in X11 most of the time), but have you tried the `blink' mode for your cursor? I think it's a blinking block, but that's perhaps more what you're looking for. Make the change in /etc/sysconfig. To just try, read the manpage for vidcontrol(1). > What are ide drives called under FreeBSD? My drives under Linux are: > > primary master = /dev/hda /dev/[r]wd0 > primary slave = /dev/hdb this is where my *nix OS sits /dev/[r]wd1 > secondary master = /dev/hdc /dev/[r]wd2 One note of a difference: FreeBSD uses partitioning of its own, but also can handle fdisk partitions (which we prefer to call slices, to distinguish them from the historical unix partitions we're using). This is a two-layer approach. > Can you alter the location that /stand/sysinstall looks for packages? (No idea offhand.) > When will vfat be intoduced? When it's ready. The developer (Robert Nordier) ran into serious lack of time suddenly. Meanwhile, have a look at mtools. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)