freebsd handbook

A newbie here - not to tech, but to FBSD. AIX support was my job back in the day, and I just decided, out of the blue, to see what Unix has evolved into over the years. My daily driver has been Debian, with a Mac for routine Interneting. So, my first task was to RTFM. I downloaded the very...

I read the handbook a year ago and see that every page has been updated since then, although in some cases they are minor changes. There is some basic and important information that I should read every time it is updated, but reading the entire handbook again for those changes is tiresome. For...

Hey, quick note. If this isn’t the right place for it, feel free to delete or move it. I couldn’t find an easy way to read the FreeBSD Handbook through the terminal without installing something like w3m or lynx, so I made my own solution. It works as long as you have the FreeBSD documentation...

I'm following the excellent handbook's chapter on creating jails (“Chapter 17. Jails and Containers”), and in particular §17.5.2 “Creating a Thin Jail Using NullFS”. I'm following the instructions almost verbatim, except that I'm creating a 14.1-RELEASE template rather than a 13.2-RELEASE...

For the benefit of people who do not have a full subscription to freebsd-announce: <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2022-April/000029.html> <https://markmail.org/message/vre5mpycxnb5v6lb> <https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-announce&m=165016689418229>...

Given the red alert under <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-growing>, I thought it sensible to boot in single user mode when aiming to grow the file system. I was repeatedly puzzled by failures – Operation not permitted Eventually I realised: Success, with service...

I reported to Bugzilla: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249976 The problem is this page: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization.html I think this whole chapter is too old. I think these should be changed 1. Mac OS® X -> macOS(wow, it's years ago since apple...

Hi, I'm new on BSD systems . I have one question, I read various threads but I didn't find an answer for me . I have intermediate knowledge of the Linux distributions and I would pass to BSD systems, in this case FreeBSD . I have a doubt about these two books : 1) FreeBSD Handbook of course :D...