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I started to install freebsd memstick iso from the offical freebsd website it took 2 hours to download 1.1GB file, I loaded into a usb and installed it but packages I install with pkg take forever, I get very decent internet speed with other package managers or websites or downloads but for some...

Hello there, I've been wanting to try out FreeBSD for a while now but I've ran into a problem when it comes to setting up the keyboard layout. When I choose the czech keyboard (qwertz with accent keys) I have the following problems - 1) The only accent letters that appear are the áíéú keys...

Hello. I have a problem installing FreeBSD 13.1. When partitioning the disk, I have the problem that you see in the photo. Invalid argument. I checked both on VM and on another disk. I tried to reinstall MBR, it didn't help. It's the same in gpart. Creating a part of any type does not work. I...

Machine: 1. motherboard: asus tuf gaming z490-plus(wifi) 2. cpu: i7-10700K 3. ram: 32gb ddr4 4. no dedicated GPU What I've tried? I've put on my pendrive (sandisk) with installed Ventoy, these files: - FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso - FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img -...

Something very odd just occurred on my laptop when I performed a freebsd-update fetch & install. When I did the fetch it reported that there was a new patch (I was already on p4), so I then performed the "freebsd-update install" as usual and then did a reboot. When I checked it using uname -a...

Hello. Trying to install FreeBSD 13.1-Release (FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) with configuration: Partitioning: Auto (ZFS) Partition Scheme: MBR (BIOS) Pool Type/Disks: stripe: 1 disk And I found that after the first reboot the system does not boot and a message is displayed: "Missing...

Good afternoon everyone: This is a continuation of my Reddit thread and YouTube video detailing how to install FreeBSD for a very basic desktop using the command line as found on the installer disk exclusively. I have three main reasons for doing this, as stated on the thread: Firstly, yes...

Hi, I was going through the following man page about building openbsd image using Freebsd13 server.It looks this feature recently started supporting openbsd.. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=release&sektion=8&manpath=OpenBSD Did any one built openbsd using above utilitity ? I am...

I reinstalled FreeBSD and KDE today because of an issue I was having with my clock. Everything seemed to work after installing FreeBSD and Xorg. I was even able to run the TWM window manager after installing Xorg by running % startx as a regular user. The issue came when I got to the very last...

I can't install FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE or FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT on my notebook. I get the following error message when I try to boot / install from the USB flash drive. Consoles: EFI console Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 (Thu Nov 4...

I have little experience with ports and I don't understand what I should do. I always have the option to install everything from source, though... I'm running FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on my main computer and also at a VPS. In the latter, the ports collection is not installed. net-im/Prosody...

Hi, Today, I was doing a clean install of my system and I see that the gnome3 package no longer exists. And the gnome installation is not complete. What's going on?

Excuse me if this is a noobish question, but this is the first time I'm using FreeBSD after purchasing a QOTOM and installing pfSense on it. Context: The QOTOM PC I bought for my home office has shiny specs, and I intended to use the spare power to use it as my Kubernetes master (but without...

I have an installation of print/texlive-full. However, that is missing the siunitx package I would like to use. What is the best way to add this package?

I want to set up freeBSD to a 16 gb usb driver. I tried to plug my usb while installisation and got Cam statues: CCN request completed with an error. So how can I avoid these errors and setup FreeBSD to my usb driver?

I decided to reinstall one of my FreeBSD systems this morning. I downloaded the 12.2-RELEASE installer (memstick), copied it to a USB drive and then tried to boot from it. That's where the problems began... In general, this sounds very similar to the following thread but I'm not seeing the...

I've been away from the various *BSD for a while but decided I wanted to try some development work in FreeBSD. I'd like to do that dev. work in a desktop installation running as a guest under VMware Fusion (on MacOS). So I downloaded 12.2 and installed in a new VM. Installation went mostly OK...

Hello, I wanted to check for updates on my server and ran pkg update but the output was: The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y Which I replied yes Bootstrapping pkg from...

I'm doing some clean FreeBSD installs and pkg is very slow to download packages (400/500 kb/s). Is there any way to choose another mirror for faster installation?

Being in the process of doing that for myself, I think it can be useful to put together a list of the most recent / breadth-some links on how to run FreeBSD as a full-fledged workstation. (after having done the same for openbsd, although there probably are far less pages) Here is my first catch...