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I suggest you start using it, then find out for yourself.

Its developer walked away many, many years ago. It still uses the deprecated jail_* rc.conf variables. It cannot handle jails based on different versions. Do I need to go on?

It's a terrible website, but I've gotten good boot disk images from them for all sorts of different operating systems. https://www.bootdisk.com/ I presume you need a DOS boot disk for a BIOS/UEFI firmware update? Maybe they have a UEFI shell...

I have the required files which I can easily add once the device is mounted. I have just found that syslinux --install -f /dev/da0 gets my USB stick past the first hurdle and I get to a boot: prompt.

No, not for a bootable DOS (MS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, etc) disk. It's not enough for FreeBSD either. The code in the master boot record can only be about 446 bytes, nowhere near enough. So the booting is done in stages, the code in the master boot...

I suggest you start using it, then find out for yourself.

Hmmm. "KDE Removes FreeBSD Support Because They Rely on systemd/logind Linux Daemons." That's a headline fail. They require systemd for 1 of 2 login managers, not from the actual desktop. "Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed...

That would only write code to the boot sector. It could do it, if you actually have the code. You'd still miss io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com (for a bootable MS-DOS disk). Which is what the sys command writes to a disk to make it bootable...

Its developer walked away many, many years ago. It still uses the deprecated jail_* rc.conf variables. It cannot handle jails based on different versions. Do I need to go on?

Is the firmware matching your GPU loaded? If you're not sure enough, does fwget fetch and install matching firmware?

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I can only imagine that they were locked somehow by IOCAGE.

What if I'm starting with a blank USB stick? Do I need to gpart destroy -F da0 gpart create -s mbr da0 gpart add -t f16 da0 newfs_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt cp /dos/* /mnt unmount /mnt dd if=(dos.mbr) of=/dev/da0 bs=1...

I couldn't find any way to delete them. In the end I destroyed the jail.

This looks like something I'll probably try to setup https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/06_freebsd_jail.html

You can either get a dongle / adapter (same as, e.g., for Bluetooth or WiFi if they are not built-in) or you can get a gateway / bridge which would provide a network (either Ethernet or WiFi interface). You can find this resource useful...

The original boot sector of what?

no, but you can try the following. save the original boot sector with dd; newfs_msdos the disk in freebsd;copy ibmbio.com or io.sys first. copy ibmdos.com or msdos.sys next. copy the rest of the files. dd the original boot sector back. usually it...

Can I do the equivalent of SYS C: in FreeBSD to make a device DOS bootable?

iocage list:- I have had each of these apart from one up and running at one point. To create a new one I ran iocage create -n xxx -r latest vnet=on dhcp=on Not sure what that means. iocage start xxx I have never set defaultrouter as...

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After upgrading to VirtualBox 6.x on FreeBSD, I started encountering an issue that I’ve been trying to solve for quite some time. It affects Ubuntu and Lubuntu guests. The slowdown occurs in a very early stage of the boot process, and it even...

I seem to be having troubles on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE with N3160 and Intel DRM. Both drm-515-kmod and drm-61-kmod. It seems to act like Baytrail Graphics which also bomb out on newer versions of FreeBSD. Installed gpu-firmware-kmod. Xorg.0.log...

Same error after upgrading to FreeBSD 15.0 using generic Intel card when attempting to start xdm. kldstat showed my drm video drivers loaded, and that part worked with the consle. Installing x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel worked as well for my...

Sigh. https://developer.x.com/en/docs/tutorials/how-to-create-a-twitter-bot-with-twitter-api-v2 https://github.com/EvolutionAPI/evolution-api https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference...

I could make a scriot send keyboard and mouse events to my X account in a browser, but it probably gets banned for automated user activity. A step further is to do entire new account creation too... Is that it? I have the idea running this from...

This is no different from running a bot on X/Twitter, discord or IRC.

Possbile. How does it retrieve existing Whatsapp conversations from the Meta servers? Or does the actual Whatsapp app have to be running in a hidden virtual environment to pull the information from its screen?

Think you're misunderstanding what it does.

Never said that. EZJail is old and should not be used any more.

Never said that. EZJail is old and should not be used any more.

"All data is local" doesn't sound like trust to me. This thing communicates with soclal media programs independently, right? They are online, so being local is no solid property and a questionable statement. Does any online fingerprint of it...

Don't forget, FreeBSD itself and its ports are mostly maintained by volunteers. If you force me "keep ALL versions of nvidia driver ports everytime and maintain!", I need to resign from maintaining it. In case breakages on 580.119.02, it fixed...

I'd do something like pkg info -l ntpd | grep 'rc.d'

In Openbox I have in autostart.sh export XCURSOR_THEME="/home/fernandel/.icons/default/cursors" And I copy them from /usr/local/share/icons I forgot which one but it works.

That's an SSL/TLS issue. Is the date/time correct on the machine?

You have an error in your /etc/fstab, that's what's causing it to drop to user mode. Remove those /compat/linux mounts.

After a reboot I get this:- em0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500...

for modern MacOS we use Ukelele. Dunno anything about Windows, but on FreeBSD we have our Wayland compositor set up to basically subclass the built-in dvorak layout and apply our modifications on top. This requires an understanding of Xkb, which...

Fwiw, it looks like the post was never here. This is interesting.

I heard about USB XHCI interrupt moderation (IMOD), and figured out the addresses to disable it! Nothing noticeable at 1000Hz on a mouse, but I'm curious about 8K (above 1K needs the wireless receiver and I gotta re-connect the battery; I was...

So sorry! You are absolutely correct, I mean Guido not Theo. The funny thing is that Guido was the office mate of a good friend of mine in the early 90s; the friend really likes Guido (the person, colleague, and fellow scientist), and hates the...

really struggling to understand the reasoning here. development is lost and "elitarianist" because the rc system doesn't work to your expectation, and your script-generated system doesn't work, therefore, what, exactly ???

huh, what we're hearing is that you won't use it because you have to learn how to use it. weird flex, but ok

no, but reading code and understanding what it does is a fundamental skill to using the computer, despite what all these slop purveyors claim about "just ask chatgpt" if you want to see what it does as it executes, you can do sh -x $(which...

I see the same thing and it saddens me, having been "here" since what might be called the Ur-version, 386BSD.

I don't really know how things have got into this state:- em0: flags=1008943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500...

Why should there be? https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Fresh install of 15.0 today using the ...disc1.iso and the Tech Preview (pkgbase). After login, tried to do 'pkg update' and it fails repeatedly with (for example): Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... pkg: Failed to fetch...