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Good day to all I did install FreeBSD 14.3 and I wanted to install the KDE destop but after all these steps as below shown, it when I reboot it always take me back to username and password no desktop show up,. Did I miss something in the process? Or what can I do to make the desktop show up...

Am finally going to install Nextcloud. Can anyone tell me if these are the requireds pkgs for Nexcloud (using Postgresql)? pkg install nextcloud postgresql16-server apache24 php82 php82-pgsql php82-gd php82-curl php82-zip php82-mbstring php82-intl php82-bcmath php82-gmp php82-opcache This is...

After watching a video on installing qemu View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVK8_F-kRk I thought I would give it a go.... in the process of running ../configure gmake I end up with Help!

I want to try FreeBSD on qemu. I installed it, but doing `pkg install kde` says: "No packages available to install maching `kde` have been found. I follow these instructions in the official documentation, none of them worked so far. In case anyone wonders, `pkg search` does not show any...

Hi All, I'm new here so a short introduction, I've recently started used FreeBSD. I use(d) Debian as my main desktop for several years, but I'm far from an expert. I just know howto exit vi(m) ;) Anyway, I'm trying to install CDE by following this thread. I've reached the Adding programs to...

Hey viewers. I've been trying to piece together the steps to properly install Qtile on v15.x. Searching youtube, reddit, even qtile.org for good documentation has proved of little help. Qtile's install guide is quite literally a one liner, and does not work. The most help I have found has been...

Does anyone by chance know what this photos.exe binary is about

I tried to install it handbook method. didnt work https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/ and https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/ two videos from youtube didnt work: View: https://youtu.be/1VpVvsVbT-g?si=2fleQjttZh3c37Hz and I tried lots of suggestions by chatgpt. that...

Hi, the installation process also goes well, I get to the login but I don't have time to type my username that the error appears as in the picture. What can it depend on? Hardware MiniPC HP i3-4030u on ssd SiliconPower 250GB and 8GB DDR3

So I've been thinking of switching to FreeBSD on my desktop which is currently dual booting Windows and Fedora Linux. I like FreeBSD and I have used it in the past and I find it easier to use and understand than Linux but I'm not sure if it would work with my setup and I wouldn't wanna format...

I tried to install FreeBSD 14 release again (on a separate partition) on my desktop. I am successfully creating two boot entries in BIOS. FreeBSD, and FreeBSD 2. But no matter which entry I choose, the system is booting up with the older installation. I tried to get help of chatgpt but all of...

Hello all! Quite excited to make the switch to FreeBSD, however the installer refuses to even start. I have tried every image & iso for installation. I currently I am trying a 14.0 release memstick img written via the win32diskimager. I have a zephry rog g14 2021. The installer works fine up...

DISCLAIMER: Introduction After a successful installation of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE on a Dell OptiPlex Micro (MMF) 7010 (GPT+ZFS on NVMe SSD) I felt encouraged to do the "same" on an older Dell Vostro 3470 of mine which was running a fully updated FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE. The system uses UEFI...

DISCLAIMER: The beginning of the story I've got a new hardware, Dell OptiPlex Micro Form Factor 7010, on which I was willing to perform a "relatively minimal" :-/ FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE installation. After having successfully created & tested the "recovery media" following Dell recommendations...

Interesting behavior of the installer (cosmetic) on 14.0-RC3: number of files read seems to report random large numbers (positive and negative). It doesn't seem to affect the installation. Install media is FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso on a i386 architecture within VMWare Player 16.

I want to move over to FreeBSD from OpenBSD, but I'm having some problems right at the start. Installation done, network connected, boots. Now I want to install X11. Start off with: pkg install xorg ...and add my user to the video group. Once that's done, check the graphics card: pciconf...

I originally installed Gitlab on FreeBSD 12.4 attempting to follow the article at [1]. While this is a good starting point, things have changed over time because there were numerous things not mentioned that need to be done to get things going properly. So I started this post with the intent to...

Hello FreeBSD community, I wanted to describe my situation because I'm not quite sure what I did exactly wrong, and I do think that, given the relatively typical circumstances, this might be a documentation issue with the manual, so I wanted to ask if there are other resources I could consider...

Hi! First of all, I am complete newbie in FreeBSD. I would like to install FreeBSD on ZFS. Modern installer have everything to install FreeBSD on ZFS without any problems, but I have a one "Ideafix", if you know what I mean. I want to remove Boot and Swap partitions from ZFS pool(RAIDZ1) and...

I trying install FreeBSD to external HDD from memstick. OS successfully installed, but when I tried to boot absolutely nothing happens. Something like computer tries to find another disk to boot system. In process of installing I choosed Auto(UFS) partition and MBR partition scheme. Nothing...