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Wow, I was really horrible about reporting back. It worked great. We are now in production serving up FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE via freebsd-update on our internal network.

I'm using a Dell Mini 9 netbook as my home server right now. Small, quiet and comes with built in keyboard and monitor for those "OOPS!" moments and the battery is great for power failures. Just add a USB drive for file backups and it's good to go!

Since it's a laptop, shouldn't the swap size be set at a little over the size of RAM for hibernation purposes?

Thanks, jgh! I will start testing it and report back.

9.0-release I am currently in the process of trying to get updates for 9.0-RELEASE built. A lot has changed in the layout of the .iso file. If anyone is interested, I would be happy to collaborate. I can get pretty much everything except the kernel built correctly.

This has really changed a lot. Still trying to figure out which parts go where. The above files are incorrect. I will post the correct ones once I get them figured out.

Now extracting components. I had to create a custom build.conf and build.subr due to layout changes on the 9.0-RELEASE disc. Relevant part of scripts/9.0-RELEASE/amd64/build.subr: extractiso () { # Create and mount a md(4) attached to the ISO image. ISOMD=`mdconfig -a -t vnode...

Trying to build 9.0-RELEASE freebsd-update binaries on my local freebsd-update-server machine. I created the build.conf and it pulls the disc1.iso just fine. The checksum check passes and then it moves to extract components. At that point it flies by very quickly because it does not find the...

I may be wrong, but won't deinstalling it leave it still running in memory? From what I remember, things will still be running unless the service stops. Then you will have a problem. Of course, this leaves you in an even more dangerous situation. You could also make the old one as a package so...

I think Dustin is asking if the forum software supports torrents. If so, he would like to use the software for his own site.

Sounds like a new entry for WBlock's Interrupted UNIX FAQ.

This is how we do vmware-tools at my job. An installed version of Perl is needed. The compatibility layer for BSD version 6.x is needed cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x make install clean Present the guest OS using vSphere -> Guest -> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools The presents a virtual...

And that is why you are one of the top people in here answering questions for the rest of us. It is a rare thread that doesn't contain your insight somewhere.

It's been a while since I had the same problem, but I think I fixed it by making the host OS the nameserver for the guest. Never seemed like the proper solution, but it worked.

You probably need to add if_zyd_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. Also you are correct about the ssid= and psk=, and they should be in double quotes. Ex. ssid="DontStealMyWireless".

Try changing the SERVER entry in /etc/freebsd-update.conf to fetch from a different server and see if that helps. Yours looks like it's getting the files from update4.FreeBSD.org, so try changing it to update3.FreeBSD.org.

Have you installed emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions on your guest?

Was it this one,Things a Linux sysadmin should know?

They will automatically install the correct version whether you use ports or packages.

Since it is for Linux with no mention of FreeBSD compatibility, I wonder if the build script is looking for libintl.h in the wrong path. I think that is what you need to use with ./configure. I have no idea how to do that though. You might try going through ./configure to see where it is looking...