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Ideally what you should do is create *one* zfs storage pool (eventually a mirror of ada0 and ada1 but you can start with one) and then create zfs filesystems you want with zfs create (man zfs-create). No need to have separate partitions -...

And put that single zpool at the end of the disk, after swap. That way you can extend the partition later when you might copy the whole disk to a bigger one.

There is a slight misconception that must be addressed. The FreeBSD project is centrally managed by a team, while the ports tree is decentralized to several hundreds of maintainers. When a FreeBSD release is made, a new branch is created —...

And put that single zpool at the end of the disk, after swap. That way you can extend the partition later when you might copy the whole disk to a bigger one.

Not at all. On the contrary it's working perfectly well. The ports tree and all the dependencies of every port must remain consistent. Packages that fail to build are removed and if the port itself is not maintained properly and is outdated it is...

Don't do this. ZFS works quite different from what you might be used to. There's NO need for separate partitions (each would need to have a zpool on it). Just follow the default ZFS install. And you'll automatically end up with this...

The template has a disk definition, it creates the disk. Then just dd your raw image onto that VM's disk (zvol, image, whatever the template created). centos7 template: loader="uefi" graphics="yes" xhci_mouse="yes" cpu=1 memory=512M...

Check with htop(1) - in the UPDATE 1 as I wrote - I was able to get as low as 82 MB RAM :)

Not desktop, but Raspberry pi Zero 2 with 15.0.2 idle after installation: weberjn@zero2:~ $ top -b last pid: 3650; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+13:13:04 07:47:06 25 processes: 1 running, 24 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user...

I'm reusing this thread because I want to try to infuse a little positivity. Another of the reasons why FreeBSD makes me happy is the passion and commitment of the port maintainers and the developers. I sincerely admire all of them. They invest...

Just for the record, I moved to Belize because Trump won. And no, I am not going to get involved in the discussion of the politics of it. I just wanted to point out that some of us actually do what we say we are going to do.

I think the handbook is the best resource for new users.

Inventing terms is kind of easy. Having them catch on is kind of impossible. It happens when it happens. I would suggest "repack" from "repackaging."

Same problem here in Russia, it got stuck at a certain percent of download, and was "stalled". At least my wireguard server still works, so installing wireguard-tools locally helped to mitigate this. Posting this just to report that this happens...

I really don't know how to thank you. Thank you so much... I downloaded it and I'm now installing and configuring it.

I uploaded spoofdpi.pkg to my google drive, this is for FreeBSD 14.3. I hope you can download from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17gdIbk9s64igg4xzaTP8QDbr-cqN5WVw/view?usp=drive_link Try pkg add <pkgfile> # pkg info spoofdpi...

In those websites (they are not package mirrors, as previously established) there seems to be part of the FreeBSD base system in different formats, but I doubt that you can find the ports/packages there (they are probably too big). Anyway you can...

No force of law but market falsification. The EU kneels for the largest companies of the world. Having a local computer or free operating system for it would hurt them for losing forced advertising targets. It will stay getting rejected for being...

It's national law, not EU law, that prevents circumvention of digital barriers. These laws are bing forced on European countries by large trade agreements with the US that contain them among hundreds of details. Actually some activists hope that...

😆 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KIkPp-Cd4

Another option might be (instead of buying another pc) would be to get a sata ssd and a sata -to-usb connector, dedicating that whole disk to FreeBSD and effectively using it as an external drive. I've done this myself. Just to add, it's much...

Unfortunately I'm at a point where I cannot acquire new hardware very easily. Right now my wife is really really sick, so my cash is pretty tied up these days. Ten years ago I probably would have assembled a budget PC just to experiment with...

Still waiting for any UI-base that does fast 2d framebuffer scaling. (not like xrandr) GPU manufacturers don't like that accessibility and avoid direct addressing because it makes modern graphics applications run fast enough on outdated hardware...

Sure, but XLibre has to match or be faster than current-Xorg or else why bother? :p (Wayland could also be option not considering performance)

X11Libre isn't about being "faster than Xorg." It is more likely an actively maintained archive of X11 that we are used to and like. in my understanding Speed is not necessarily an indicator of quality :P

Yes, btop is way more accurate than htop about memory usage. (even on Linux). The fact "what does used memory actually mean" is a not-existent term as far as i know. Not used for what? you know... point of view If free (not used at all) RAM is...

I have seen it on Windows 11 Pro. I have been deleting as much of the unwanted Windows apps (OneDrive, CoPilot, etc.) as I can.

Got it fully working on a 4K display with bspwm, st terminals, regular desktop applications, WebGL, VirtualBox, RDP etc. Too easy: pkg install xlibre xlibre-nvidia-driver-470 Thank you Xlibre guys.

iirc the open source standard-bearer in this area is Imhex with the right patterns file from https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex-Patterns there's also a paid option 010 Editor that came recommended from one of our malware-analyst friends

Well, actually, and I won't carry this on any further, all of the things in that clip do have a reason but I don't feel like going into it (though the "no reason" things aren't explained in a film is because they aren't important to the story...

mmmh Jovanotti. I know him, but do not like him (his music). Steel Pulse - Blasphemy (Selah) Peter Tosh - Mystic Man Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My Love Jimmy Cliff - Sitting Here In Limbo Third World - African Woman

Reality: the EU protects the Silicon Valley industrial empire by excluding all competition and locking users in a software construct. Fact: your phone operating system hijacked your admin permissions to have you watch advertisements and exploit...

Got it fully working on a 4K display with bspwm, st terminals, regular desktop applications, WebGL, VirtualBox, RDP etc. Too easy: pkg install xlibre xlibre-nvidia-driver-470 Thank you Xlibre guys.

I'm not sure courting end users should be the goal. Look at what Gnome, Wayland, and even newer Firefox versions are doing. They are requiring more and more Linux-only software and design choices (pulseaudio, Wayland only, systemd, etc). To run...

Tim Blake. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZolrJ8OIrKk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6z_qanBMHA&list=RDR6z_qanBMHA&start_radio=1

graphics/viewnior simple, lightweight and get the job done.

Find the commit hash for OpenZFS 2.4.0 in the stable/15 branch and git-cherry-pick the hash in releng/15.0. See Committer's Guide, 5.3. MFC (Merge From Current) Procedures for merging details.

Why not? I didn't have to configure anything /etc/rc.initdiskless related when booting diskless. Aside from that: FreeBSD handbook, 34.10.1. Setting Up the PXE Environment

That's your opinion that is not valid for others.

There's always a reason why anyone does anything.

I know that this is a old message but just to clarify, the Euro GPDR stuff ensures that companies that deal with data collection specifically declare themselves as such and abide to some practices in safeguarding the data integrity and...

Not sure what you mean. Fdisk options -b and -f to read or write a partition table in ASCII format. Not binary but bytewise. :D I'm still looking for something that can see what's the problem related to this method and fsck inconsistency errors...

FreeBSD can read ext4 (I think write too iirc), but NTFS worked easiest Linux and FreeBSD for read/write. My main NAS drive gets formatted to whatever OS I'm using (full-immersion :cool:), but I rsync it to a spare NTFS drive first and then...

Is there anything like a binary editor for boot and partition records which will translate the values in the areas and show data at various disk addresses?

The most recent reference of vermaden about getting Windows XP to run on Bhyve using VirtualBox as a middle step, as Emrion has commented, that I can find is this one...

I have a page on vm-bhyve, which also has a link to vermaden's page on it (which is more complete). https://srobb.net/vm-bhyve.html But in your case, I think all you need is vm create -t centos7 myvm with myvm being the name of the vm. For...

And if you're in X and using a terminal emulator such as Xterm, scrolling is done using Shift+Page Up/Down.

That's because this website (which is not affiliated with the FreeBSD project) has an outdated version. It's currently 1.2.1_1, not 1.1.3_1: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/spoofdpi-1.2.1_1.pkg If you have access to...

You can't boot from a USB drive? That would be problem solved, I think? Watch out with choosing the target disk in the installation program. It has kind of a strange order of actions. Also you might check /etc/fstab after installation to see if...