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I thought I made it clear that I installed FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE from a bootonly ISO onto a brand new 4TB disk which booted up OK. My intention is to replace the disk in another computer with this new one, but before I do that I want to copy over...

Ok, that looks really helpful. I copied your FreeBSD-base.conf, and did your pkg add -f but still got the same error of pkg-static: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_3/data.pkg: Not found As well as a bunch of...

I admit that audio/music and home theatre are more than a casual hobby to me and that my audio system cost more than some nice small cars (at least new, I bought some components used). It is a 14 channel system (9.1.4) and the main amplifier...

Here is how I did the upgrade from 14 to 15: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/upgrade-from-14-3-to-15-0-release-using-pkgbase-wrong-packagesite-and-no-trusted-public-keys-found.100527/post-730469

I have a lot of VST instruments that i use in my production. Some of them claim to have that "analog sound" but, as soon as i hit the keys on my legendary Roland Jupiter 8, i realize how far fetch those claims are. Digital is always going to be...

I just installed from a bootonly ISO and tried to follow the prompts. Must have done something wrong, but it booted up OK to a command prompt.

It looks like ZFS is a steep learning cliff so I may go back to using UFS if I can't sort this out. It's just that I thought ZFS would provide some benefits, although I wasn't sure what.

In my mind ZFS is a tool for building a storage system. I know a lot of people seem to like putting ZFS on a laptop... I still really like UFS for small systems. There is a good thread here that talks about the good stuff you can do with UFS...

Which disk are you talking about? The disk in my laptop or the new ZFS disk connected through a USB enclosure. The ZFS disk was wiped so everything is from today.

I said I was hopelessly lost and don't know the first thing about ZFS. Suffice it to say I want to copy most of my current installation onto this disk and then use the ZFS disk as my main disk.

My new ZFS disk is in a USB enclosure attached to my ThinkPad X1 Carbon which I have used for many years and can't remember what garbage has accumulated on it. /dev/da0 is my new disk and I am booting from /dev/ada0s4a which currently has...

Here is how I did the upgrade from 14 to 15: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/upgrade-from-14-3-to-15-0-release-using-pkgbase-wrong-packagesite-and-no-trusted-public-keys-found.100527/post-730469

Erichans yes, I have a 14.3 RELEASE-p7 on a vm that I want to upgrade, via pkgbase, to 15.0 I am doing it as suggested in the handbook, making a boot environment called 15.0-RELEASE, then mounting it on /mnt/upgrade. The results of env DEBUG...

Erichans yes, I have a 14.3 RELEASE-p7 on a vm that I want to upgrade, via pkgbase, to 15.0 I am doing it as suggested in the handbook, making a boot environment called 15.0-RELEASE, then mounting it on /mnt/upgrade. The results of env DEBUG...

scottro Please post the output of pkg -vv | sed -n '/Repositories:/,$p'

scottro Please post the output of pkg -vv | sed -n '/Repositories:/,$p'

I couldn’t resist joining in here… I build and repair Hi-Fi audio equipment as a hobby. My personal preference is pure Class A, and I have one amplifier rated at 10 watts output that consumes around 100 watts of power (so yes, it runs very hot)...

it's looking for the tank on da0p1 but that's a boot partition on your current drive. how, exactly, did you arrive at this current situation?

I don't get it. You say that you have only one disk in the machine? Could you please explain in more detail your setup? How many drives are installed in the current system for example. What drive contains your "original system" and what drive...

I would just like to say how polished this version seems. I got Cinnamon up and running in 15 minutes after installing and setting up other ZFS drives etc... Working like a champ! Great job!

'-v' doesn't seem to make any difference. It's only a single disk, with FreeBSD installed on it.

I dunno. From what I see here the new CEO is even worse at corpspeak than the previous one.

Plenty of people build good speaker systems when they are doing home recording or other electronic music making activities. They usually don't get Hi-Fi gear but studio monitors instead. Many of them also know that good monitors without room...

Even though it's dated, this is still useful. Michael Lucas who is great at explaining things so that even dummies like me can get it has some zfs books that are relatively inexpensive. https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/fmzfs/

ZFS don't think partitions, think pools and datasets. ZFS stuff created on a different system, you need to do zpool import on the current system. You need to be careful as to where original datasets were mounted. Why? Lets say the zpool you...

Read the error message. If you created this pool with only one disk, and that disk is connected to your current computer and accessible without IO errors, then zpool clear should fix the problem. If the disk is not connected, or not functioning...

Even though it's dated, this is still useful. Michael Lucas who is great at explaining things so that even dummies like me can get it has some zfs books that are relatively inexpensive. https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/fmzfs/

env DEBUG_LEVEL=2 ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg-static -c /mnt/upgrade upgrade -r FreeBSD-base pkg-static: Setting ABI requires setting OSVERSION, guessing the OSVERSION as: 1500000 DBG(1)[764]> (config) loading repositories in /etc/pkg/ DBG(1)[764]>...

High end, state of the art reproduction, even of old recordings (restored analog to high bit rate lossless transfer) can sound amazing. For example, I have a SACD box of "The Vienna Philharmonics on Holiday" which was recorded in the late 50s and...

It must pick up that setting "release_3" from somewhere. Can you post the output of: env DEBUG_LEVEL=2 ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg-static -c /mnt/upgrade upgrade -r FreeBSD-base This will indicate what config files are being parsed by pkg.

I know everyone goes on and on about how wonderful ZFS is, but I've never got my head around it. However, I'm trying to take baby steps with it in the hope that somethng might sink in. I have installed FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a brand new 4TB...

I admit that audio/music and home theatre are more than a casual hobby to me and that my audio system cost more than some nice small cars (at least new, I bought some components used). It is a 14 channel system (9.1.4) and the main amplifier...

It will be the same

Right, I think that what happens is that pkgbasify kept the 14.3 3, but then, when I try to modify FreeBSD-base.conf to release_0 I still get the error that it's looking for release_3 and I'm not sure what else to change if making...

Can't remember, but it was likely trashed because people kept making it political. There's this thread though: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/porting-x11libre-to-freebsd.98455/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250628213937/https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/so-long-xorg-thanks-for-all-the-fish-hello-xlibre.98054/

Yeah, that's going to take a while to get there 😁

Done, many thanks.

You also need to fix button2. X²

AFAIK it's waaaay to early for FreeBSD 15.3 .

I have a VM with 14.3-RELEASE-p7, and thought I'd try to use pkgbasify with it. I followed the handbook instructions of making a bectl image called 15.0, then mounting it at /mnt/upgrade. In the past I'd had problems with it being unable to find...

Does anyone know what the loader settings should be? BTW, although GhostBSD isn't supported here, it looks like FreeBSD may be the only place I can get something of support. ghostbsd.org forums allows me to register but it says it will send a...

An even better solution: add those lines to ~/.Xresources: !=============================== X C A L C =================================================================== XCalc.ti.button3.label: SQRT XCalc.ti.button21.label: PI...

Do you know the word irony ?

GhostBSD is not supported here actually. If you look at the Freshports page of xsane you'll see that libm is not even mentioned in the dependencies, probably because it is part of the base system. I tried to support my theory by installing xsane...

These switches appear with the beginning of controversial changes and then disappear over time.

I'm not sure we have a choice. Sure, in open-source, they don't have corporate logos to hide behind. The rest do.

Nor had I until recently. I used the quick start from churcher's page https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve which has always worked. However, if it gives me issues again, I'll copy your network config and once again thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for the tip ! o_OI always had in mind I will need some linux to call grub-install and then make a bootable GRUB sd-card. I now just install the port of sysutils/grub2-pcbsd and will give that a try to build the sd-card from the running...

Yes, I just tracked that down as well. Thank you! I've tried forcing a reinstall of Rocky linux and xsane. I have the same problem saying it can't find the .so's. (Also, I was just told this was a 'ghostBSD' machine if that makes any...