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Thanks for that. I always hated FreeBSD-5. Looks like this machine never made the switch to 5. And three cheers to the FreeBSD docs team!

Also, if you don't like Python there's always Ruby at a similar level.

If it were my system, I would get a pair of quality NVMe SSDs as large as I could afford. Consider heatsinks as the design stage. Mirror them using ZFS. But see the caveat bellow about copy-on-write file systems -- you may wish to use a GEOM...

Yep. Hopefully 4.9? Vs.

Yep. Hopefully 4.9? Vs.

I would do a quick experiment with both (C++ and Python). Make a very simple program that reads pixels in from OpenCV and displays them on a simple GUI window. This is useful because it gives you a taster of setting the project up and how...

Fetched some random 5.1 ISO image and did: qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 10G qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -hda test.qcow2 -cdrom 5.1-RELEASE-amd64-miniinst.iso and booted it straight to installer ( 10.1.0 on osx ).

On the other hand, always have a "beginner's mind"! Devoid of preconceptions and with an openness.

99% sure. Internal 1 x USB 2, external 2 x USB 3 (dont know 3.0/.1/.2). I thought what is needed often from the OS will be cached by the MFU cache in RAM more or less quickly, so the speed of the storage is generally of minor importance. If you...

Fetched some random 5.1 ISO image and did: qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 10G qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -hda test.qcow2 -cdrom 5.1-RELEASE-amd64-miniinst.iso and booted it straight to installer ( 10.1.0 on osx ).

Fetched some random 5.1 ISO image and did: qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 10G qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -hda test.qcow2 -cdrom 5.1-RELEASE-amd64-miniinst.iso and booted it straight to installer ( 10.1.0 on osx ).

On the other hand, always have a "beginner's mind"! Devoid of preconceptions and with an openness.

Hmmm, the 5.1 install CD wants the kernel to be in /boot/kernel/kernel, which my old tarfile does not have. I have /kernel. Maybe my install was even older? QEMU hangs after the beastie logo when booting the install CD. Encountering a lot of...

On the other hand, always have a "beginner's mind"! Devoid of preconceptions and with an openness.

If it were my system, I would get a pair of quality NVMe SSDs as large as I could afford. Consider heatsinks as the design stage. Mirror them using ZFS. But see the caveat bellow about copy-on-write file systems -- you may wish to use a GEOM...

Interesting project. I'm assuming version 5.3. Do lsdev or show currdev report anything curious? (Love "Syntax for devices is odd." in the man page.)

The kernel doesn't get loaded in the first place. But the boot code might be unable to read the filesystem.

They are the old versions. But the bootstrap code in the MBR is not. Unfortunately I can't just copy it and I forgot the magic to cross-install it. So full install it is.

It doesn't load manually either, like load /kernel + boot but instead it goes to this "bad path" situation? Really weird, like the kernel doesn't understand the initial / tree...

No change.

I am creating a script !!! I presume you know what cat <<EOF > apache.scr does.

Oh, I missed this one when I was replying to your question. I thought you have actual working disk from the past. So legacy boot is from up-to-date version of FreeBSD ? That could mess things up.

I think the problem is that the bootloader I have in the MBR is too new. I have downloaded FreeBSD-5.1 ISOs to properly install from there first. Using i386 QEMU didn't make a difference.

Can you point me to a guide for doing this?

He's already in loader at that time.

It's hard to troubleshoot without actual disk. I'd start with the bare minimum first: qemu-system-i386 -hda root2.raw and go from there (ignoring warning about "guessing raw"). Passing -cpu host to old FreeBSD could mess things up too (but here...

I have the old kernel in /kernel

It is today's QEMU. I don't think I need the 32 bit version, but I will try that. So far I am using: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -cpu host \ -machine type=pc,accel=kvm \ -object rng-random,id=rng0,filename=/dev/urandom \ -device...

What is your full qemu command? 2004 would be most likely 32b version, are you using qemu-system-i386? I see you did ls in the loader, could you try ls / too?

I have to adjust many things to be really usable. It's a CLI and GTK3 program with common ports management module and trying to make a TUI too, all in node and gjs JavaScript with no npm packages. Then (as last step) move all work on a daemon...

Well, either way. I carry around a USB mass storage device (a NVMe in a USB enclosure) that has a FreeBSD and a Linux on it in dual-boot. Fully configured with my user account and my utils and packages I need. I use that in situations where I...

Rip a kernel from an old ISO? 2004? Must be around the 5.x releases.

No, all ports installed on my systems are built with my program

No, /boot is in the root filesystem for this setup. I also think that vintage of FreeBSD cannot have a separately mounted /boot partition because the kernel is directly in /

You can boot a physical Windows drive as virtual machine in snapshot mode to rescue files from it.

I think back in that day the kernel actually lived in the root filesystem, "/kernel". /boot has assorted support stuff. Yes, I did md mount the thing. That is how I populated the filesystem with the old install. As a test I put a modern...

Yes, I know that. I took in account several things to write my program, the first was speed. Loading and parsing the index is very fast, all the info needed to build a map of ports tree in memory can be done with index, so if you want to make a...

I personally find Qemu 1 of the best OS testing/engineering toolkits ever made. tt works when you don't expect it. It really should have a readable manual. The manpage is too long to quickly return to something.

cat <<EOF > apache.scr

I hoping to script this. Can anyone check that I have this right? cat <<EOF > apache.scr / mpm_event_module /s/^#//g / mpm_prefork_module /s/^/#/g / proxy_module /s/^#//g / proxy_fcgi_module /s/^#//g / socache_shmcb_module /s/^#//g / ssl_module...

It looks like it can't find /boot/kernel/kernel but I might be missing somethiing. Can you mdconfig -a -t vnode and mount the image?

No, I should have clarified this. That diskimage has both BIOS and uEFI loading gear. I took a working FreeBSD image, mounted the root partition inside it and untarred the 2004 install in there. I left the bootloaders and the uEFI partition alone.

I want to run an old FreeBSD install from 2004 in a VM. I know this isn't a supported release anymore but bear with me :) The only format I have is a tarfile of the root filesystem. It includes /boot and /kernel. I untarred it over a disk image...

Then the SSL/TLS connection would fail entirely, which is not the case here. The webserver is returning a 403 Forbidden error. That's typically a permission issue on the webserver, i.e. the www user not being able to read those files. Probably a...

So, you learned AI's answers are useless to anybody not versed in a certain topic. That's a good start. And you don't need it. Instead of asking several chatbots, producing and reading several answers, dealing with discrepancies, then asking...

I'm assuming that you're already familiar with BSPWM. If not, dwm is a good window manager that can be used without a mouse, and even some stacking ones, like openbox, can be used without a mouse, just creating keyboard shortcuts.

Laptop next to me, installing the 15. The point is that I really want to learn, but also want control. I get very reactive with some "reporting"... I use Manjaro as main driver, just because of the control. And...I hatched somewhere in Belgium 😉

Butterfly you did mention Manjaro earlier, and I just forgot while I was typing. I told you you're a child compared to me, it was one of too many senior moments. :)_

Jose that #2 is what scares me, especially considering the sliminess of the large corps.

I think I understand the motivations for this and similar bills now: Protect the social media giants from liability: Shift the responsibility for age verification to the OS providers. Now families get to sue them when Timmy sees something gross...