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This counts as "using external media". So it should work fine, if you're careful enough. This is always recommended anyway, even if you're upgrading the regular way (from source or using freebsd-update). Use dump and restore.

If you want to do that on your live system, then yes it's crazy and won't work. Otherwise, you'll need a working system during the whole extraction process. In other words, if you don't want to use external media, you'll need a second bootable FreeBSD system (on another partition of the same...

I was watching the second episode of Cowboy Bebop when I heard a variant of the intro of Let's Go by The Routers. Isn't it incredible how this 1962 tune became so popular that you still hear it to this day!

Yep, that's how it used to be done before bsdinstall became the default installer. Distribution files are simple archives after all.

FWIW, the .snap is a directory and it only appeared when you mounted the partition. It was created by newfs along with the file system and it's used for generating snapshots of the file system. newfs: -n Do not create a .snap directory on the new file system. The resulting file...

Assuming you're using 3.7 for your own scripting needs, you can have both versions installed in parallel. Otherwise, remove 3.7 and keep 2.7 only. Many ports still depend on 2.7.

Unix is dead, long live Unix!

Then just move the file(s) somewhere safe and remove the directory.

Just because Linux works on that stick doesn't mean FreeBSD will. Many of these devices are not fully standard-compliant and FreeBSD will have trouble accessing (and booting off) them. All operating systems have a "band-aid" system for circumventing these exceptions and FreeBSD may happen to not...

Your last post is a bit vague. But if you're asking what you need for Python 2.7, it's lang/python27. Many ports will already have Python 2.7 as a dependency, so it's very likely to be already installed on your machine. If you need something more modern and much saner, then also install Python...

No need for Windows when you can just use Wine (emulators/wine).

In other words ... It's always one of these ;)

It's available online in many places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures https://filesignatures.net/ https://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html http://file-extension.net/ file is pretty good at what it does. If it's failing to identify the file properly, it usually...

Then what about Wine and WinRAR? The problem you're having in this thread and others may be due to some proprietary peculiarity, incompatibility between versions (of the algorithm or the software) or even simply an error in the archive file. By the way, archivers/unrar is provided by the same...

Have you read this (specifically near the end of that section)?

Apart from UNC pathnames or using a backslash to escape another character (here it would be to escape the second backslash), I've never seen double backslashes being used like that. bsdtar has absolutely no problem listing or extracting .zip files. Even if they're created on Windows, bsdtar...

The .meta files are probably RealPlayer metafiles (proprietary format I guess, just like the rest of RealNetworks' products). They must've been generated while playing the wave files in RealPlayer. And the .crc are most likely the CRC checksums of the wave files. Have you tried using file yet...

Because it's not doing much. Writing a bunch of zeroes on a disk is peanuts for the CPU. No, not really. It'll just take like a billion years to finish. May I ask why on Earth you're doing what you're doing? It sounds a bit pointless.

Give www/otter-browser a try.