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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...

Hi, I'm having some trouble trying to install FreeBSD on my Pentium 3. I burned a disk with the FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso, and when I try to install it on the Pentium 3 PC I get this error: lua error cannot open /boot/lua/load.lua no such file or directory. So at first I thought maybe...

Hello, I am new to the FreeBSD forums. I would like to install FreeBSD sparc64 on a Sun Fire V240 On boot it runs into an error. I have tested the following versions: 11.2 CD and DVD, 12.1 CD and DVD all with the same error. I changed the RAM, without success. Same error. For testing I booted a...

Hi All, When I verify the FreeBSD 12.1 Release signed checksum signature using gpg it say good signature but the key has expired. I tried it with - https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/CHECKSUM.SHA256-FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.asc...

I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad E485(Ryzen3 2200, only HDD attached) and trying to install FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, but booting always stucks on a line: ahcich0: AHCI reset... and sometimes hangs on one line before or after that line. I'm wondering if the laptop is defective, in case I have to change it.

I wanted to install FreeBSD 12.0 on my laptop. It is currently running Manjaro but I’d like to try something different for a while. I followed the instructions in the FreeBSD provided documentation on how to make a USB installer, and I tried in both Manjaro and Windows 10 yet received the...

Hi! I'm doing my first install of FreeBSD and really looking forward to getting started with FreeBSD. I've recently purchase a copy of 'Absolute FreeBSD' and I'm working my way through the chapters. While I've previously used FreeBSD inside VirtualBox, this time I'm doing my first physcial...

Hello, I'm installing FreeBSD 12.0-Release and I'm using the Shell option in the installer to partition my disk by hand. I have a swap and a root partition. I'm using GPT label to label them, and GELI for the encryption. After completing the installation and rebooting the host, I'm asked for...

My laptop is a Lenovo V110-15AST AMD A9-9410 I downloaded the img file to write onto a USB 3 8GB stick. After, I then used dd to write the image sudo dd if=/home/ukbeast/Downloads/FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=sync I then have 3 partitions on the stick as: sdb1...

Hey everyone, I'm new to FreeBSD and to the forums, so I might be here often... My question is why does my app not open when I click run??? The app I am trying to open is CuraEngine, it's a 3-D printing slicer software. Whenever I search it up on the start menu and click "Run CuraEngine," it...

I would like to share HOWTO in 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐁𝐒𝐃 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐩 series about fonts and frameworks. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽 - 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮.𝟭 - 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝟭𝟮 https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/freebsd-desktop-part-2-1-install-freebsd-12/ You may also like earlier articles in the series. Part 1 – Simplified Boot...

Hello, I am attempting to install freebsd 11.2 on a lenovo laptop. When booting the initial screen render fine, but after selecting boot multi user this happens. the installer starts but can't be read.

Hi, I'm trying to build PhantomJS on a shared host which uses FreeBSD 9.1, without an admin privilege. I followed this instruction and build failed when typing python build.py with the following error. Creating qmake... .........................Done. Running configuration tests... Turn on...

Hi Gang, It's been a while since I was here. So, hi all :) Okay. So, I have this Linux box (32 bit Manjaro Linux) for which the support of the OS has stopped. There was an attempt to keep the patient alive, but there are "voices of reason" that call on pulling the perverbial plug... So. Is it...

I have finished installion but when i boot missing boot loader , this js twice times happened to me when i want to install bsd to my external HDD, Forst time I was tying install from iso file to bootably by dvd , And this is the second was trying install from IMG to my pen drive When i have...

Hello everyone, I am new to BSD, and - like I imagine many people do - struggled through my first X desktop setup. To make things faster for me when I have to set up other machines, as well as make the process a bit easier for other newcomers, I have written a little script...

Hello everyone, I'm a noobie to BSD systems and got some problems with installing tor and virtualbox-ose from ports. My system is 11.1-RELEASE. cd /usr/ports/security/tor (or simular with virtualbox) make install clean ... configure: error: perl 5.8 required ===> Script "configure" failed...