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Personally, I'll use whatever DE works on FreeBSD. Plasma works. I'm using it. I like it. If I had to use any other DE or WM, I'd still use FreeBSD. In general, I want the most people to use FreeBSD so the world is a better place (I said this in...

Can you see what is causing the problem in the output of the make in #14?

SD2IDE is hardware. It has a Sinitech disk controller, which I think never existed. The device dismisses any PC formfactor. It's just a tiny board with IDE connector and female molex power entry. I still have to solve the old IDE-port connectors...

Did an hour pass? It failed here :

I have initially failed to install on a Large or LBA drive, so I picked largest CHS values. If your SD2IDE is fully software and uses .img as backend you can try booting the image I left on the google link. If it's 1:1 to SD card it's going to be...

balanga No you're not asking a dumb question. All the tools have changed the defaults into something else. Since a while, cc on FreeBSD builds ELF binaries by default, so you have to tell it to build a.out. I don't think the march for "i386" is...

I am having difficulty getting to grips with the contents of the BIOS upgrade CDROM for a ThinkPad X61. The file can be obtained using:- fetch https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7nuj22uc.iso and the contents can be extracted...

But why shouldn't source code compile? I ran cc cat.c -o cat and it produce an executable. file -s cat I guess I am asking a dumb question, but to my mind 'hello world' written in 1972 should continue to build today. But as I say, it may...

I think i386 is pretty established. Going to try this emulated for fun. Maybe I can try something on an unused Digital 486 with a SD2IDE card that I have. Is there any hardware support list? I wonder if an old 3com ISA card can do something...

Just to be clear, it probably doesn't have to be only FreeBSD 1.0, maybe a bit less arcane version like 7-series, but we're running that now. It would be great if the build could be achieved on modern FreeBSD, haven't looked into that.

Note to self. the code above should have read like this:- # set up bridge interface for iocage cloned_interfaces="bridge0" # plumb interface em0 into bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0="addm em0 up" ifconfig_em0="up"

It is a bit of weird question to make. This product is from 1993. Your 14-series is from 2025. The tooling has long ceased to be compatible.

Why?

First you have to move the installation to a modern machine because you cannot install it on one for multiple reasons. Then, if it has enough legacy support, it may be able to work against the "IDE controller". And then it would be hard to use...

Of course it doesn't. You have to do that on FreeBSD 1.0 I've switched the CPU to 486 iDX4-100 which is fastest this board supports, and running the build. When I used fast forward functionality of emulator, the build failed. It seems to be...

I usually have supplies at hand, but had to go to the supermarket for other reasons yesterday. Pure madness. Loaded up on Sushi :)

Of course it doesn't. You have to do that on FreeBSD 1.0 I've switched the CPU to 486 iDX4-100 which is fastest this board supports, and running the build. When I used fast forward functionality of emulator, the build failed. It seems to be...

If you really want to build on a modern FreeBSD it is certainly better to compile the old make(1) first instead of hacking up the Makefiles.

The Makefile doesn't work on 14.3 i386. Lines 66 - 73 of bsd.prog.mk: This doesn't mean anything to me but someone may spot something which needs changing so that make works.

I don't know about other areas but, here in St Louis, one must run to the grocery store and load up on eggs, milk and bread if there's snow or ice forecast. I was so embarrassed this morning cause I truly was out of milk and bread and had to get...

How do you connect to you printer? USB? Wireless? The command line necessary to specify a network scanner can be confusing. My scanner is an Epson, using the sane-epson2 backend. It is also connected via wireless, which involves the sane-net...

I wonder how long a `make world` takes on a today's machine.

The entire system was probably smaller than the 15.0 GENERIC kernel size. 😁

atten-what?

Forums typically use BBCode. We also have a couple of custom ones, for references to ports for example. https://forums.freebsd.org/help/bb-codes/

Thanks for the guide! 😃

Just extract the src dist and build it as you would

bash-static (though I think the package is broken again and pulls in extra cruft). oksh-static I actually prefer bash but have moved away from it on most of my machines because I imagine Linux will break it soon. Hook up to systemd or enforce...

Since the ISO includes source code, I wondered if it would be possible to build the system from scratch. Any ideas?

Reboot the machine and on first boot FreeBSD kernel will automatically extract the mini-fs floppy from cpio floppy. When asked, insert it and hit enter. Copying takes a while. Don't worry about 'File exists' error here. Hit enter to avoid...

That is a threat to KDE in general. But I don't think that KDE's ability to start from other display managers (or none) specifically is a danger.

Most people don't bother. But I like the best tires on my car at all times, which means separate summer and winter tires. Many people also don't understand that 4wd or awd tires don't do anything for breaking and steering. Off into the ditch...

The machine now should boot from kcopy_ah floppy and then, ask for filesys floppy, so switch it in the menu, hit enter and allow for kernel to boot : If you set up everything correct, you should see the IDE and SCSI CD ROM detected We're...

For now. How long can you simultaneously "lean more on systemd" but not require it?

It is a multipart tutorial since forum can't allow much pictures in one post. But if you're feeling spoiled, here you go, the end of today's phase.

KDE starts fine from other login managers than SDDM.

Now lets jump down to "Hard disks" and define a hard disk image - click on "New" We will use the following geometry : 1024 cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors Type it into the boxes. It should equal 504 MB and it is the biggest hard disk type that...

I'm confused about their confusion. As astyle said elsewhere "Now this is rather unfortunate, esp. given that FreeBSD cooperated with KDE for nearly 25 years." I can't see how KDE can reasonably be included as an option at install time now. Any...

Car tires. Or in my case whole wheels that I put on. The other gizmo is called snow chains. There are also tires with spikes, but they are usually not acceptable on public roads. The specific problems I am facing are 1) need to find the tools...

I left KDE for good about two months ago I believe and never looked back. CDE for the win

I'd prefer to avoid this degenerating into a flame war, I've been following the development of systemd for a good chunk of its existence and it does a bunch of stuff that's just not appropriate to an startup and service management system. For...

A wifi bulb may be the easiest... I don’t like allowing unknowable cheap devices having access to my wifi, which is why I only use zwave and zigbee devices. For those you need a radio and more setup... Amazon and most other consumer outlets have...

Oh, not that 'lunduke' guy again... 🫤

iocage appears to come with comprehensive documentation. (see "Links" in the GH repositroy). Perhaps save the document links as bookmarks for later reference. https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html ...

I was aware of this release, but seems there is some interest on the forum to see the state of version 1.0 of our OS :) Instead of trying to run it "natively", this is an archaic OS used on very old PCs. Many of the peripherals this OS run worked...

I was just discussing how I believe FreeBSD must resist having desktop specific architecture decisions forced on the project. Voila! What timing.

Fire up 86box, click on new machine and type some nice name for your new FreeBSD installation :). Don't mind the IBM ROM message if you get it, click OK. Now we should be in the settings screen. We will, as is historically accurate, use a late...

It sucks anyway.

Having a bit of deja vu. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/kde-plasma-as-the-default-desktop-environment.101177/

Check 'Smartphone USB Tethering' section from here: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/freebsd-cope-with-wifi-fuckup/ Create /usr/local/etc/devd/usb_tethering.conf with this: attach 0 { device-name "ue[0-9]+"; action...