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No, it should get an IP via DHCP and then start an sshd(8) server, not more. It runs in a ramdisk (md(4)) and does not touch anything (especially not the disks). Then you can log in via ssh(1) and run bsdinstall(8) (motd(5) will tell this). My...

Nanu nanu.

But how do you want to tell the thing where to install to? I must be missing something. Do you want to make an install medium that just wipes the disk and installs FreeBSD without questions?

Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System Without a Remote Console

Why DHCP and no fixed IP number? Because the typical home or office network already has a DHCP server running, and we can't know the network number in advance. DHCP is the most flexible solution, and it will work in 99.999% of all use cases.

I'm going to make a headless installation on my "new" (used) home server, a semi-professional NAS box for SOHO that I "shot" in an auction on the internet. I'll follow the instructions of 2-3 guides that can be found easily on the net, the only...

I'm going to make a headless installation on my "new" (used) home server, a semi-professional NAS box for SOHO that I "shot" in an auction on the internet. I'll follow the instructions of 2-3 guides that can be found easily on the net, the only...

As an update, I needed to set those ENV variables in /etc/profiles so that they get set and stick. ~/.profile did not work for me. The lines I had to use: export KWIN_DRM_NO_AMS=1 and export KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1... But even then, that...

I simply resolve all my internal names through the /etc/hosts file on my openWRT firewall, where I also resolve all external DNS inquires. If the hostname lookup is without a domain then it resolves to an internal host. Apache virtual hosts...

I was a huge fan, I mean I still am of the classic 66-01 series... Enterprise was cool, but kind of a mislead plot, and rushed ending. The final seasons were great. My favourite has to be DS9, TNG maybe has higher highs but DS9 is one of the...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. FreeBSD runs on this… FreeBSD runs on this… and FreeBSD runs on this…! It’s easy to get FreeBSD running on a Raspberry Pi. It’s easy to manage multiple hard drives with ZFS. So we were...

I am using dnsmasq which is a dns server but not sure how to assign hostnames to specific IP addresses.

The problem I'm having is knowing how to set an IP address for a jail since it does not have a MAC address.

I want to understand difference. I tried sign language, they told me it was from down under,

There's nothing simpler, more observable and debuggable than rc which is just a bunch of shell scripts. Throw in a bunch of "echo"es and you can follow each and every step - it doesn't get any more predictive and discoverable. SMF is a wholly...

I was a huge fan, I mean I still am of the classic 66-01 series... Enterprise was cool, but kind of a mislead plot, and rushed ending. The final seasons were great. My favourite has to be DS9, TNG maybe has higher highs but DS9 is one of the...

This is the one I meant: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/14-3-release-p6-to-15-0-release-ipfw-issues.100603/post-730467 and here's another one https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-15-0-release-issues-strange-issues.102027/post-749795

As vault.io seems to take longer for its next update/release - you may as well migrate to SYLVE - https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve - nice web interface and ZFS pool management.

How? I think fungi are extraterrestial but they evolved on in a new environment a long time. Spores in the inside of a meteorite that was launched by some impact force and survived the impact on another world...

The word "zombie" has a very specific meaning in the context of Unix and the ps command. Specifically: So, as cracauer@ suggests, processes that won't terminate and still have resources allocated are not zombies. They are typically waiting...

out of ideas here. Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log kldstat | grep -i drm 20 1 0xffffffff89aa9000 8a190 drm.ko kldstat | grep -i nvidia 5 1 0xffffffff83848000 1652f8 nvidia-modeset.ko 6 1 0xffffffff83a00000 6068378 nvidia.ko

I founded the issue thanks to you. There was nothing helpful in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. But this reminded me that I ran nvidia-xconfig at some point. So I just renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkp and everything is working now. Now...

My guess is that the BIOS, which could be very similar to UEFI like on modern x86 PC, remembers that your attempt to boot did not succeed, and therefore, on the next boot, it tries to boot from the next possible boot medium -- another device or...

Many, many years ago I set up an "authoritative" domain with a bogus TLD .home. For multiple reasons, the first was that I wanted to learn about DNS and how it worked. The second reason was to have something I could use for my homelab to register...

OK - I've been away for a few days and now successfully installed a Pi 4 - at last. I did this by writing FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img to a USB SanDisk 64GB Ultra Fit Flash Drive - WITHOUT using an SD-Card ! So I tried doing the...

The comment T-Daemon found is saying that you should log in as user freebsd with password freebsd and then su with password root to switch to the root user.

Try "root": https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/tools/arm.subr 92 arm_create_user() { 93 # Create a default user account 'freebsd' with the password 'freebsd', 94 # and set the default password for the 'root' user to 'root'.

I dived in at the deep end and went for it... # installing freebsd ## on the iMac - from: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/ - download: FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz - using Raspberry Pi...

If the parent isn't around anymore it cannot be a zombie. It would be collected by init. You had an ordinary hang.

The index is not accurate for some port, very few, I see one but I do not remember which. What I remember is that it was for 32bit instead of 64bit, not a big issue, but my program to manage ports marked it 'out-of-date' (stale) or differences...

And yes of course if you have a 2nd SSD you can put the SSD with the old system in a safe and install onto a new SSD. But if you dont have another SSD, it's best NOT to destroy the zpool on it, but keep it, don't upgrade the zpool version (yet)...

Anyone else here thinking that Star Trek first officers are just not sarcastic enough?

I dont find the thread quicky now. From December '25. Yes, of course there are 100's of systems running FBSD-15.0 flawlessly! But OTOH please keep in mind: your 2 systems is what the statisticians call "anecdotal" and it's pretty normal that...

You posted 4 times in a row. No wonder you are exhausted.

I have a simple split, DHCP is used for workstations, laptops, phones, that sort of thing. Servers (and their services) have static IPs. I also have my home network split up into different VLANs. But that's really not necessary, I didn't have...

I would need to maintain a hosts file on every system on my network.

I hate to say it but this upgrade has been the most painful I've seen in a lot of years. It's a big upgrade with tones of great stuff in it but the gotchas have been disappointing. My latest adventure has been with traditional updates with...

What is in the video? It is blocked in the US.

While that would give the host a proper hostname and IP address, that relationship (hostname to IP address) isn't known to any other computer on your network. That's what DNS is for. Didn't you recently set up dnsmasq? You can set up an...

What is in the video? It is blocked in the US.

That's fine, just means that no device was found nearby. For example if I set my phone visible I get: Inquiry result #0 BD_ADDR: b4:05:a1:92:35:1f Page Scan Rep. Mode: 0x1 Page Scan Period Mode: 00 Page Scan Mode: 00 Class...

Introducing a queen or king of the Borg went against what the Borg were introduced to be in TNG, though. The whole point is that they don't have a head huncho and are self-organizing.

my favorite star trek series is Babylon 5

On webmin: I read in the XigmaNAS forum from a guy who switched from a Linux-based NAS to a plain vanilla FBSD NAS that he had to spend some time disabling some webmin modules that did not work in adequate quality, and (naturally) to delete all...

While that would give the host a proper hostname and IP address, that relationship (hostname to IP address) isn't known to any other computer on your network. That's what DNS is for. Didn't you recently set up dnsmasq? You can set up an...

Using IP address works, but I'd like to use a hostname. Getting assigned by the network would be my preferable solution

That's exactly what I'm looking for. I want a simple solution. I'm running in a jail so would like to access the server from anywhere on my network. I do have a dhcp server and I would try assigning an IP address and hostname via MAC address...

if the old zpool of TrueNAS already occupies the whole ssd, there is no space left IIUC. AFAIK you can not shrink a zpool, right? If I'm wrong, yes that would be nice, then you can create a 2nd zpool for the new system beneath the zpool of the...