PC-BSD PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD. It is an easy to use solution which saves time and energy. Think of PC-BSD as a port. Someone made a port for FreeBSD, KDE, mail, IRC, office suite, and scores of other applications. If you want FreeBSD and lots of extras, it is available as a nice little …
Cross compiling on AMD64 – the teaser Cross compiling is the act of compiling for one platform (e.g. i386) when on another (e.g. AMD 64). Why is this interesting to me? I have an AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB of RAM running on an ASUS A8V Deluxe1. It’s acting as my gateway right now. Needless …
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. Yes, I’ve been butt-ass stupid. But at least you get to hear about it. I don’t worry about admitting my mistakes. I’ve been trying to track down the cause of a build world problem for a couple of days. I’ve been suspecting hardware errors, -stable errors, etc. I have swapped …
Checklist for a new box In the past two weeks, I have set up FreeBSD three times, on two different boxes, but three different disks. One drive I have put aside for future use. In the short term, I have a workstation to create and a gateway to set up. I have just obtained a …
Installing via wireless NIC If you have been paying attention and reading every one of my articles (which of course, everyone does, I have no doubt) you will recall that John Van Boxtel gave me a Compaq Presario 1620 laptop. This beast has an 814MB disk, 48MB of RAM, and three spare batteries. I’ve also …
The make-world script Do you remember that makefile I had for my upgrade from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable. Well, gill wrote in with an improvement. It doesn’t make things any faster. But it does make the script easier to configure. I’ve updated the old script with his changes and the script is available here. …
Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE – things to watch out for Today I finished upgrading the freshports box to 4.1-STABLE. If you are upgrading to 4.1, you should be aware of a potential gotcha. During the first boot under 4.1-STABLE, you’ll probably see this message: Generating DSA parameter and key. and the box will appear to hang. …
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FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users This problem has now been fixed. Skip to the last section of this article. I found out the hard way that FreeBSD 4.0-stable is not working for international users. Now that’s an overstatement, but the problem has added 48 hours to the time it will take me …
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users This problem has now been fixed. Skip to the last section of this article. I found out the hard way that FreeBSD 4.0-stable is not working for international users. Now that’s an overstatement, but the problem has added 48 hours to the time it will take me …
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Tranferring websites/users from one box to another When I was setting up my new web server, I had to copy the files from one box to another. But if you just do a tarball and ftp, you won’t get what you expect. Specifically, the permissions may be fuggered. So here’s what I did to …
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