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Ah! No problem. The code is commented.

It was the tentacles, yes?

Sure, see below. Just to be clear: I am running several Windows 11 guests with graphics enabled and using RDP to actually interact with the client. I am doing this on different hosts with different hardware ranging from an i7-1185 laptop all the...

I'm on 14.3 and I was about to do a pkg upgrade and also saw that it wanted to remove kde. Have had stuff like this happen before, which is no fun, so I watch for it now and didn't proceed. Not sure if I still just need to wait, or maybe just...

So, now that I've tried Vbox and found it's performance lacking, I've got a lot of feedback that I should try BHYVE. However, I'm finding a lot 'half' instructional documents. I'd like to get BHYVE running on FreeBSD14 HOST and Windows 11...

It works. Thank you everybody, especially Martin. The final obstacle was a QEMU issue that has been nagging me forever. The window it opens when you don't use -nographics doesn't work for remote displays (probably using SDL for something). But...

No longer valid as of GCC 14 / Clang 16 (which started enforcing C99): https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-warnings-and-errors-clang-16 https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/porting_to.html 😞 There's a hash (#) missing at the beginning of this line...

Fortunately, C code is usually clean, clear, readable and understandable. For example, it should be obvious that the following (valid) C program ... define _ -F<00||--F-OO--; int F=00,OO=00; main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO() {...

I believe so. I may be mistaken about what specifically was under these and similar terms.

Alan, I'm still waiting for the 1st 6 TB HDD to arrive, and ATM I have the 1st NVMe but the 2nd comes tomorrow or thursday or friday. Ok? And I still have to "shoot" a 2nd SATA HDD with 6 TB, which is not so easy because some nerds are paying...

Ok. So my naive plan to have 2 x 64 = 128 GB L2ARC cache (50/50 for the mirror and the scratch) is nonsense, because this would need 2 x 6.4 = 13 GB of RAM. And I have only 16 GB total. So either I cut down the size of the cache drastically or...

Well, here you at least get the proper output and not the error. Your original issue from newish loader was an error. As we don't know what you're unpacking with that tar image it's hard to say.

has nothing to do with what I wrote... L2ARC requires memory for its allocation tables; roughly 100MB per 1GB stored in L2ARC as a rule of thumb. So L2ARC is always the wrong tool against memory pressure on such low-end systems as you will...

I went through the basic install (triggered my mbr/bsdlabel ptsd) and got it running just fine. # uname -a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 7 09:22:34 GMT 2003 root@hammer.corp.yahoo.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC...

Hope can I tell if I have set up sockets correctly? ls -l /var/run/php-fpm.sock does not find anything. Should it get created when you start fpm?

There is another solution to this conundrum. You're not limited to having a single PC on your home network. It's how I started too, first just one PC, dual booting FreeBSD and Windows (think it was 95 or 98). Got sick and tired of rebooting to...

they are a) too slow and b) *will* die quite often. just don't. L2ARC is basically only a very last resort if you are completely maxed out on RAM and absolutely need some data to stay in a slightly-faster-than-the-disks-cache. L2ARC also needs...

4.9 ISO creates the root filesystem successfully.

Of course, it's always easier to get things up and running, if everything is allowed by default, instead of you need to think of each you need to allow, and explicitely allow it first. And in theory - when you respect everything - it makes no...

well, you can block anything you like, but when after an update suddenly telnet is active and you don't block that - you get 'problems'.

I bought 2 poor-to-medium quality NVMe drives, used, 256 GB. The board has PCIe 3 x 4 lanes IIRC, and NVMe 1.3. So plugging in hyper-dyper-throw-your-money-at-me NVMe drives just doesn't make sense. These are already much faster than the...

Grrr, same result. kernel isn't loaded. `ls` output is a bit different. Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command p Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of...

sysinstall failed to install the base system, saying the /dev/ entry for the root filesystem does not exist. However, it partitioned the drive and installed the bootloader. I'm unpacking my tarfile now after newfsing in a md mapped file.

deskutils/joplin-desktop/ It works, no linuxulator needed.

Ah. Confirmed. Adding hda make it enter the installer. Thanks for that.

Had the same issue, seems to be related to not having a disk. Hence my example above with -hda.

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!

I think Python is gross, but I'm just a weak-minded Java programmer. I can probably be ignored safely. I recently ran into something like this at work: def __getattr__(self, name: str): # If class is extened, or name doesn't start with...

Oh. I was using -nographics. With graphics on it loads the kernel. My apologies. However, it bombs out as follow. Also on a Mac's qemu. qemu-system-x86_64 \ -cdrom 5.1-RELEASE-amd64-miniinst.iso qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 \ -cdrom...

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.