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This whole adventure has been far more difficult than I was expecting. I've looked through a lot of websites and spoken with some sales people. I think I've now accepted that cheap and good are difficult to achieve in one place! Licencing Windows, which we need for testing, is another factor...

Thanks very much to all for your replies and suggestions. Replying in one big message: For clarity, I'm happy with the ISO boot support that gergeskirolos59 mentioned, though in that case I expect I might need to do a bit more work to configure hardware drivers etc. Indeed, imho, installing...

Thanks for clarifying: that is the level of hassle I am keen to avoid. Engineer time (including mine) costs a lot more than the saving from cheaper but inconvenient hosting. For personal stuff, the challenge of unsupported tech is a welcome one but not so much for work stuff!

That's very useful to know. So let's say I'm an idiot and manage to mess up the network configuration, it's possible to log in at the console without needing specialist client software (the thread I linked was talking about needing a Java client)? What method did you use to get FreeBSD installed...

Thanks vmb and gergeskirolos59 for your replies. I've been pointed towards a relevant recent blog post, looking at low-cost European VPS options: The state of European cloud providers in 2026 (via lobste.rs) as well as a suggestion of French provider Scaleway which looks to offer some free...

I'm looking for some advice on hosting providers in the UK or EU for my (small) company's DevOps infrastructure; a small number of services including source control as well as continuous integration (CI) runners. Our main product is a virtual appliance so the CI runners will be compiling code...

I was using editors/vim for years and then last year switched to editors/helix which I really, really like. The only slight annoyance is that I'm now so fluent in helix that when I need to use vi I end up typing commands in the wrong order; vi says "change word - c, then w" whereas helix says...

I highly recommend the book Classic Shell Scripting for /bin/sh scripting. Also +1 for lang/lu54, which we've started using at my company for more complex scripts where sh stuff starts to get a bit fragile but where writing a full application isn't merited. We tried using python, which tends...

Hmmm... Is it possible your laptop uses NVIDIA Optimus, which is meant to switch between graphics cards on-the-fly? Your easiest option might be to try to disable one graphics card and just use the other. Are there any settings in the BIOS that would allow that? Alternatively to make Optimus...

In general it looks like you are moving in the right direction. Have you tried plugging in a USB mouse to see whether it is just an issue with the touchpad configuration at this point? Responding to your posts, let me take your latest ones in order. Regarding Xorg.0.log, a good place to start...

I have some concerns about the values in the xorg.conf file you posted: You have listed two separate Device sections using the same BusID value, which I don't believe is valid as it would mean that you are trying to attach two drivers to one physical device I don't believe that i195kms is a...

Hi Trogg, I've always found setting up x11/xorg to be a pain, particularly on laptops. Don't despair -- you will get it working ? Your NVIDIA card looks to be supported, having looked at the NVIDIA driver page. Try specifying the BusIDs for both cards. I would also echo i1045 's suggestion of...

Many thanks, bapt@ , the patch is looking good. Thanks also for clarifying the meaning of MIRROR_TYPE in repository configuration files. IMHO for your next release it would be worth expanding on the MIRROR_TYPE information in the pkg.conf man page to explain when, why and how to use the...

I could swear I just put in the number as per my example above but perhaps I had just been staring at screens for too long. I see the tag in the other thread has been fixed by a kind mod, thank you.

The PR tag doesn't appear to be working properly in my post in 89687: 272674 I see: 272674" href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272674">PR 272674 Identical example that seems to be fine: 272674

PR now logged as: 272674

I did some more investigation into my issue and believe there may be a bug in ports-mgmt/pkg. I will log a PR unless someone beats me to it. Version 1.19.2 works just fine and appears to use fetch, which I can see when I run in debug mode with pkg -d update. Version 1.20.4 does not work...

Hi Scanline, your issue sounds like a different one and it would probably be worth starting a new thread and providing some more details such as whether you are using the FreeBSD package repositories and if so whether you are using Quarterly or Latest (see the FreeBSD handbook page on binary...

I'm not using mirror_type: "srv" in my configuration: my_poudriere_repo: { url: "http://user:password@repo_server.local/${VERSION_MAJOR}${VERSION_MINOR}${ARCH}-default" enabled: true, signature_type: "pubkey" pubkey: "/etc/ssl/keys/my_poudriere_repo.pub"...

I have exactly the same issue, also relating to hosts and jails running FreeBSD 12.4, also installing packages from a poudriere build. I think the suggestion from sko is a good one though it requires downgrading ports-mgmt/pkg for all affected machines/jails that can't currently read from my...