Category: FreeBSD
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Ascertaining installed ports for a specific architecture
When upgrading from one major version of FreeBSD to another, in my case from FreeBSD/amd64 stable/9 to FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10, it’s customary to upgrade the installed ports afterwards, beginning with ports-mgmt/pkg. I forcefully upgraded all installed ports using portupgrade -afpv, but the upgrade of lang/ruby21 failed miserably. I removed all traces of Ruby 2.1, i.e. ports-mgmt/portupgrade […]
Read More → Ascertaining installed ports for a specific architectureUpgrading lang/php5 to lang/php56
The 20150220 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING contains no instructions for upgrading lang/php5 to lang/php56, at least not for us compiling our own ports. I learned the hard way using portupgrade what needs to be done. I have summarised my steps into the script below. Use the script as a guide, and if you do run my […]
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Running dns/bind910 within a chroot after r382109
dns/bind910 gained native chroot support in r382109. Those of us who used to store the BIND files in /var/named/etc/namedb and ran BIND with /var/named as the chroot environment, must do five things: Rename the /var/named directory to something else, like /var/Named. This is to avoid upsetting make -C /usr/src delete-old and still retain the meaning […]
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/dev/ada1 failing
smartd sent me not one, but two emails today, regarding /dev/ada1.
Read More → /dev/ada1 failingUEFI, GPT, Windows 10, FreeBSD 10, and rEFInd
Over the last few days have I experimented with UEFI and GPT in VirtualBox 4.3.26. The goal was to multiboot various operating system, in this case Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview 9926 x64 and FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10. First, I thought of persuading the UEFI firmware to always present its boot menu. It sure beats remembering to […]
Read More → UEFI, GPT, Windows 10, FreeBSD 10, and rEFIndUEFI booting FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10 in VirtualBox 4.3.24
VirtualBox 4.3.24 is out, so I wanted to try out the UEFI version of the latest FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10 snapshot. It didn’t go well until I realised something important, however strange it may be.
Read More → UEFI booting FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10 in VirtualBox 4.3.24Replicating an entire FreeBSD system using ZFS
I had a FreeBSD setup I wanted to replicate to another, identical computer. The source system runs ZFS and so should the receiving system. A recursive snapshot in combination with the zfs send and zfs receive commands proved most fruitful.
Read More → Replicating an entire FreeBSD system using ZFSFreeBSD – the ability to make a choice
… FreeBSD gives you the ability to make a choice how you want your boot prompt, splash screen, X login, desktop environment and applications. This, in my opinion, makes it very professional compared to systems that force a given set of settings upon the user, and there is no way to make a different choice. […]
Read More → FreeBSD – the ability to make a choiceConfiguring X.org on FreeBSD guests running in VirtualBox
Configuring X11 is more or less a dark art, and you must almost be a wizard of the Slytherine House to get modern X.org 1.14.7 working on a FreeBSD guest in VirtualBox. Nonetheless, through lots of experimentation this evening, have I finally arrived at this configuration file: Somehow, you need both the InputClass and the […]
Read More → Configuring X.org on FreeBSD guests running in VirtualBoxMigrating FreeBSD from i386 to amd64
I have (successfully) attempted to migrate a running i386 stable/9 system into a running amd64 stable/9 system, and attempted to migrate a running i386 stable/10 system into a running amd64 stable/10 system, only to see if these tasks are in fact feasible. The results speaks for themselves, given the boundary conditions outlined below. If your […]
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