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hi I'm new in using FreeBSD 11 but really I want to make it my primary system with arch. I read a lot in FreeBSD forum and handbook, I'm glade to do that. I begin with installed it in VirtualBox and take a time until i realize I'm ready to do it in my hard like a primary partition with other...

I've been setting up a server that's been kicking my arse. It's 11.0_RELEASE-p1 and it's thrown a bunch of issues at me that I'm not happy with. nginx and Passenger still aren't working in tandem, and I'm getting nginx.pid permissions issues, even after I've chmod 755 the file. So I'm going...

I have a server that I am trying to install FreeBSD on using the FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick image (the server does not have a CD drive). All the hard drives (only a couple of SSDs for now) are on a backplane attached to two Adaptec 5405z adapters. The drives are initialized and set up...

I have a Veriton M421G and i'm currently trying to install FreeBSD on it. I tried both 10.3 and 11.0, but both have failed to install, but 10.3 at least gave me a shell. The following error repeats time after time: http://oscomp.hu/depot/freebsd_installer_error.jpg I tried to set SATA mode in...

Hi folks. Bought a NEO2 and tried a suggested version to install. Scanned the LAN and the box didn't show up. There is no video port on this guy, and/or I didn't purchase anything so I could hook up a monitor to it. Flashed Ubuntu onto the same card, into the same NEO2 and it works fine...

Hi folks. Well, having messed with PCs and Raspberry PI 2, considering a Pi Zero, and other potential OS installations, I'd like to inquire about automated Kernel module generations. Essentially, how I can build an environment where an installer can be run (assuming FreeBSD) to install from a...

Hello, I wanted to try out FreeBSD so I downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img and wrote it on my 16 GB USB key using 'Win32DiskImager' , all went smooth the img wasn't corrupted. I then tried to boot on my usb stick but the following message appeared gptboot: primary GPT table...

I have a G5 Power Mac with Linux and i would like to install FreeBSD on it. However, whenever i try to install it, it completely destroys the partition tables on ALL disks and rendering Linux to unbootable. (FreeBSD also cannot boot.) I've read in the manual, that on PPC sysinstall cannot...

I'm trying to update devel/cmake on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p7 and am running into a problem at the "install" phase. The build phase appears to complete successfully, but the process aborts with the following output: [100%] Built target documentation ===> Staging for cmake-3.7.1 ===>...

I am trying to install FreeBSD 11 from USB using memstick.img file but during installation process I'm getting error about it can't find usb device and mountroot > is appearing. What should I do ?

Hello FreeBSD community I am having problems booting from USB after writing the FreeBSD 11.0 image to a USB drive, although I have had the same issue when trying the UEFI-memstick image of FreeBSD 10.3. I used the command from the install guide with the filename changed to reflect the new...

Dear all, I am aware CURRENT is not dealt with on this forums but thought it worth asking anyway. I am new, so please don't hate me if this has been answered somewhere. I just did a new build of 12-CURRENT (drm-next-4.7) into an empty dataset and am pleased as it boots and works really well...

Hey guys, Today I was showing to my teacher at university how to setup and apache server on FreeBSD, or at least was trying... Because some problems updating my personal server at home on end week I choose use mysql instead mariadb (this one I know the installer is bugged and already reported...

Hi folks, hoping someone can help with this. I'm an old hat with *nix, but new to fFreeBSD. I can't get www/spdylay to build. None of the output from make config throws anything unusual, but make install fails: make install ...snip... libtool: link: g++48 -O2 -pipe...

Hello everyone, I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One "cloudbook" that has a 64gb Hynix eMMC part as it's internal disk. My goal is to make this a lightweight FreeBSD-only machine for travel and daily mobile computing. When trying an install of 10.1-RELEASE the eMMC device was not found and...

When I run pkg install en-freebsd-doc or try to install any other package I get this: The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y Bootstraping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:amd64/quarterly. please wait...

Hi folks. I can't seem to get the installer to start from an external DVD. I get the FreeBSD boot menu, then this. Also, I have 2 SSDs in the box I'd like to RAID for mirroring. Is that doable? Any advice appreciated. Cheers

Followed this tutorial on my machine with four disk. shows following error File /boot/loader not found

Hiya, I've just installed sysutils/ezjail, built my first jail, and can telnet out of it - so the network appears to work. However, I can't install ports - they fail to download via FTP - and FTP connections don't work: # ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ Trying 96.47.72.72:21 ... ftp: Can't connect...

I'm still fighting getting those Dell 730 and 630 servers to work with FreeBSD. I'm fighting with problems such as when starting a program like ssh, make or screen I get Illegal instructions (Core Dumped) mfid timeouts (controller) NMI errors (this happens on one server during install) I've...