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A live memstick system is no option? I made a FreeBSD system that boots into RAM, adds a wheel user with ssh access from the local network and starts sshd, No problem to log in and dd an OS image to the local disk or run any non-graphical...

Ok, that was easy. I followed this recipe and with just a few changes in the install image I can log in as root w/o password. It is ifconfig_DEFAULT in uppercase, I forgot that... I guess what I did must be more or less the same like thogard...

A live memstick system is no option? I made a FreeBSD system that boots into RAM, adds a wheel user with ssh access from the local network and starts sshd, No problem to log in and dd an OS image to the local disk or run any non-graphical...

I've contemplated a script that figures out there is no useful rc.conf or network, set up all interface with dhcp. Checks that ssh has no keys and then creates them and installs a ssh key for root and then starts up sshd in a limited role with a...

Sounds very cool! So quick middleware requirements for example: CV (OpenCV) Image processing (stb_image, lodepng, etc) ML (Tensorflow? PyTorch) Database (Sqlite) UI (Qt/Gtk/Fltk/etc) This isn't too strenuous for any specific language. The most...

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Fun fact: With a read-only filesystem, the dash and underscore on my USB keyboard are disabled. But after mount -uw / I have them... Isn't that funny?! Right. 1. The console will not be disabled. 2. I want to create a solution for the 99/100...

Yes. If the machine has that (most do), it would be silly to disable these. All I want is that when your home/SOHO server box is placed in the broom closet, you're not forced to carry a display and keyboard and plug them in when you want to...

Yes exactly. And what is the "right" network interface? I know it's easy to set up when you know it's just for this one machine, today. But I'd like to create a more universal solution. Pitfall #1 ifconfig_default="DHCP" in rc.conf does not...

"You can't just kick them out of an airlock. You know how low we are on supplies! First strip them down, THEN kick them out of an airlock!" And one of my favorite 10 seconds is that oh-so-not-sorry speech.

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...

Thanks. I feel old now. I had to carry 17" CRT around, use serial line to make a network to play Doom or an online text-mud. In that case, I recommend reading the book series around that. The Centauri trilogy has all the back story around Londo...

Are you trying to configure wifi? You don't need those in kld_list, read iwm The FreeBSD 15.0 installer should detect and download the firmware, it did it for my 7260, be aware that these models won't connect to wireless N networks, only a/b/g...

All you need is a finished FreeBSD install on a USB stick that is configured to do dhcp on the right interface for the target machine.

There is so much that can go sideways before sshd has been started. Maybe an ssh-like console in addition to the traditional and serial consoles. Like an sshd built into loader(8). This comes with the caveat, how to implement this securely. The...

A more powerful version could start a VNC or RDP server or a lighttpd (tiny HTTP server) for graphical login. Then fancy images could be shown with instructions how to backup the previous OS etc. pp. So that ordinary people can install FBSD on...

I think there are a lot of "trekkies" out there. "Trekkie fans"? ie fans of "trekkies"...probly not so much. Oh, and for the record...I have zero use for the "reloaded" franchise...total crap! heavy special effects, weak plots, and the...

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?