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    Bash aliases don't work in Midnight Commander

    Try this in ~/.bash_profile, and if it doesn't work, try again in ~/.bashrc: alias ll='ls -l' Otherwise, read those man pages for bash (near the bottom of the page) and mc ("The subshell support", a fairly detailed read). There are varying behaviors, depending on whether the alias is typed in...
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    Bash aliases don't work in Midnight Commander

    They're working just fine here, with some work. If your login shell is bash, then the alias should be set in .bash_profile. If your login shell is something else, and you invoke bash manually, the aliases work when set from .bashrc. In my instance, if I start bash, then start mc, then the mc...
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    Getting ATAPI ZIP drive to work under FreeBSD

    I have an ATAPI Zip drive running under FreeBSD 9.1. If nothing else, something about partition detection misses these drives. If I want to use a Zip disk under FreeBSD, I place the disk in the drive, then boot FreeBSD. I can remove the disk, too, but the partition mapping stays the same, at...
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    [PHORONIX] Sony's PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9

    All I see are a couple of pictures. It starts with GRUB in one picture, which could suggest that it's Debian kFreeBSD, or maybe GRUB2 loading regular FreeBSD. Then in the next picture, someone's loading libstdc++, suggesting that Sony isn't totally against the GPL, and even then the license...
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    Install FreeBSD 9 on UFS1

    I forgot, the UFS2 read/write mount option goes something like this from Linux, if you have the UFS write support in your kernel: mount -t ufs -o rw,ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mount_point
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    Install FreeBSD 9 on UFS1

    No, Linux supports UFS2 read/write just fine, it's just marked as EXPERIMENTAL in the kernel configuration. The configuration variables for Linux can be shown like this: mls:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep UFS CONFIG_UFS_FS=y CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE=y # CONFIG_UFS_DEBUG is not set Note that it is...
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    Advanced partitioning help needed

    Try harder. Don't let the FreeBSD installer auto-partition the disk. I mean, you can let it do so but only as a guide. FreeBSD likes that tiny boot partition of type freebsd-boot, and it's good at calculating swap size. However, if it thinks that your / partition should be 230 GB, then...
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    FreeBSD on old computers

    2) Yes. I think it's on the main FreeBSD DVD release. I think I compiled it once, too, but that was back in the 6.2 days. 3) I don't know. I don't use PHP. 1) The big one, memory. I've gotten FreeBSD down to 41 MB at boot, and some of that is cached, but I'm running hardly anything...
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    .sujournal

    Were you able to remove .sujournal and use softupdates journaling again on this file system, though? If I enable SUJ and leave it alone, it will recover from crashes each and every time. But if the journal disagrees with the file system in certain ways, fsck will skip the journal and fall...
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    How much memory is needed for i386 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE?

    Er, comment out regular entries from the GENERIC configuration file. Sorry.
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    How much memory is needed for i386 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE?

    Build from a PC with more memory Maybe play with the kmem variables a bit...and keep trying! However, I *think* (not sure) that I didn't use the kmem variables in my final solution. My experience was that I could not boot GENERIC with 64 MB of RAM, after I put two chips into an old PC and...
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    .sujournal

    Maybe disable softupdates, too? Hmm...keep trying? I'm pretty sure I've deleted this file with a simple `rm .sujournal`, but I forget exactly how. My context is that in 9.0/9.1, FreeBSD reminds me politely that I can't dump snapshots while using soft updates. I *think* my solution was to...
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    FreeBSD 9.0 diskless nfs root in rw mode

    Yes. Now I hope that the real experts will come along and help you. Might you post the line from /etc/exports that actually exports the NFS share to the client? Also, any NFS-related variables from /etc/rc.conf on both PCs, such as nfs_client_enable="YES", would be useful. I use PXE to boot...
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    Why do you use FreeBSD?

    It makes a good time server and good ordinary PC, too... I started with FreeBSD because David Mills has stated on numerous occasions that FreeBSD is the best platform for NTP. If nothing else, FreeBSD's time support is stable and has had working PPS support more consistently than Linux PPS...
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