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If it has a serial port, attach a serial cable and enable a serial console (see boot). If it has IPMI, use that. Is this a UEFI system?

This apple is clearly not an orange. I don't think it's fair to either project. While it's correct that quantity does not equal quality, scarcity does not equal quality, either. If OpenBSD's documentation or goals or attitude appeals to you, great! If you find the similar goals but different...

Put the patterns in a file and use egrep -f patternfile file?

I just recently converted a couple of Dell PERC H200 and one H310 to LSI cards: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/dell-h200-versus-h310-heat.45822/. They seem fine, although have not seen much testing yet. I would use them again, but the H200 cards at least need good airflow. The...

1. Install emulators/virtualbox-ose on FreeBSD host. 2. Turn on GUESTADDITIONS option. 3. Profit! Virtual machines can mount the virtual CD then. Nothing more is needed.

A USB SSD or hard drive would be fine for speed. USB memory sticks write very slowly, though, so it would not be suited for swap.

Some vi users hate vim, probably the other way around, too. I'm not fond of sed and awk, both of which fall just short of being powerful and require the other to work around their flaws. Which is why there is Perl, which is hated by Python people. And so the cycle is repeated. This book is...

I have not tested the SiL3132 cards recently, but have two of them. It is probably worth navigating the maze to upgrade the firmware on them. Some people here have used the ASM1061-based cards with success.

Found by Dru: Unix Text Processing (27M PDF) This is a free text download of the 1987 book, now licensed as Creative Commons. Yes, it's from 1987. Yes, some things have changed. No, it's not obsolete. You should have this.

What you found there is a CVS info page. That was the GNU answer to man pages. It's probably accurate, if you are looking for information on CVS, but FreeBSD no longer uses CVS at all.

Not exactly. make kernel is the same as make buildkernel installkernel. The current version of the buildworld section of the Handbook is ...historical. There is a lot of stuff mentioned and procedures done that were best practices at some point. Many are no longer necessary. I am working on...

You said that partition 4 on the SSD is for L2ARC. How is the rest of that drive partitioned?

The ati driver is for very old ATI video cards that probably few people use any more. Use radeon.

Yes. Although it's been a long time since I've run FreeBSD from an extended partition. GPT makes things so much simpler.

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Extended partitions work fine for FreeBSD. They are, of course, an ugly leftover from MBR partitioning, which should always be avoided when GPT is available. The boot0cfg multiboot loader does not like them, and people have confused this for FreeBSD not being able to run from an extended...

AllowEmptyInput was cargo-culted so much that the X developers disabled it. It is ignored now.

make clean in a port will remove all the temporary work directories. Or make distclean gets rid of those and the distfiles, which can take a fair bit of space. Outdated distfiles stick around, too, unless you delete them. ports-mgmt/portmaster can clean out unused or obsolete distfiles.

I remember that FreeBSD guests showed some sort of ignorable error, although not exactly which error. But a FreeBSD 10.3-stable VM started just now did not do that. Maybe the latest version of the VirtualBox port fixed that.

Windows does stupid things with NTFS. They like to plop a non-relocatable swap file right in the middle of a partition. Still, the Windows disk manager can probably shrink that enough to give room to run FreeBSD.