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Did you know you can use the "prtscr" (Print Screen) key on your keyboard to cycle through the virtual terminals on the console? Does that work? It's a weird situation you have, makes very little sense. Things might have gotten messed up right...

Five seconds on Bugzilla: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277062

I once had a pice of customer hardware. When I would switch on the light (neon tubes), the display would be garbled. Totally snowstorm with confetti. Lights out, lights on again - switched to clear display. Toggle lights again, display goes...

Not supported here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/ Unused memory is useless. So you're going to find all your memory being used after a while. Mostly caches (process cache...

https://yumiusb.com/ I'll leave it here, maybe you can use it. I remember using it a long time ago. And it's like Hiren's BOOT CD, only you can add what you need. It uses the syslinux loader or grub2.

1. Mount ISO # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /home/user/hiren.iso -u 0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt 2. Copy and edit # mkdir /tmp/hiren_new # cp -a /mnt/. /tmp/hiren_new/ 3. Create custom ISO # mkisofs \ -iso-level 3 \ -udf \ -J -R \ -V...

ntpdate -v -b pool.ntp.org export SSL_NO_VERIFY_PEER=1 pkg bootstrap

ahh this is not a FreeBSD iso and it should be a bootable ISO.

I'm just trying to add something to Hiren's BOOT CD. I will only be using it to boot via Ventoy.

if you don't need a bootable ISO: mkisofs -J -R -V "MY_LABEL" -o /home/user/my_new_custom.iso /tmp/my_new_iso

Please, can you tell me what kind of ISO you're doing? do you want it to be bootable?

IBM have made milllions out of this program.

mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'boot/cdboot' inside the target tree. I guess I need to copy /boot/cdboot to /tmp/my_new_iso/

-b boot/cdboot # mkisofs -J -R -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -V "MY_LABEL" -o /home/user/my_new_custom.iso /tmp/my_new_iso

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#mkisofs

mkisofs: Missing boot image name, use -eltorito-boot option.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#mkisofs

Something like this... I haven't done this in a long time 1. Mount ISO # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /home/user/my.iso -u 0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt 2. Copy ISO files and modify # mkdir /tmp/my_new_iso # cp -R /mnt/* /tmp/my_new_iso/ #...

Something like this... I haven't done this in a long time 1. Mount ISO # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /home/user/my.iso -u 0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt 2. Copy ISO files and modify # mkdir /tmp/my_new_iso # cp -R /mnt/* /tmp/my_new_iso/ #...

How do I create a new ISO after amending the copied contents?

Hello You can't mount an iso in R/W mode. You need to mount the ISO, copy the contents to another folder, make changes, and then burn the new ISO.

Hello You can't mount an iso in R/W mode. You need to mount the ISO, copy the contents to another folder, make changes, and then burn the new ISO.

Is there any way to make an mdconfig backed file R/W? I have mounted an ISO file using '-t 9660' and would like to be able to change it. Is that possible?

Quite possibly, NTFS, HPFS and exFAT all share the same ID, and it's a pretty safe bet that this isn't an exFAT disk. If it were me personally, I'd image the entire disk, or at least all of the partitions and mount those. It's a fairly small...

And this is the script running every 15 minutes via crontab: #!/bin/sh now=$(date) echo -e "$now - Adding DDoS addresses to PF table..." >> /var/log/ddosip.log awk '$11 == "404" && index($9, "/attacked-url-1") {print $1}'...

I suspect that in reality it is an HPFS partition.

Wed Apr 15 03:45:00 CEST 2026 - Adding DDoS addresses to PF table... Reloading pf rules. Done adding... Wed Apr 15 04:00:00 CEST 2026 - Adding DDoS addresses to PF table... Reloading pf rules. /usr/local/etc/pf.conf:28...

The shell script is just doing a service pf reload after adding new ips - I'm not sure if it's replacing or flushing the already loaded <ddos> table. This is what I have (if there are any errors): ### SET PARAMS ext_if="vmx0"...

Here is shortest almost useless program. IEFBR14 CSECT XR 15,15 ZERO RETURN CODE BR 14 RETURN What does it do? Let's translate this to C: int main() { return (0); } Pretty...

The man page has been corrected.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the...

Well, it says ntfs and likely actually contains an ntfs. What are you waiting for? Ignore small additional partitions on Windows disks.

I'm writing this from Chrome running from the latest Hiren;s Boot CD based on Windows 11 which I booted via Ventoy. It looks pretty good. I'd recommend any Hiren;s users to upgrade. This new version goes straight into my toolkit.

I managed to get bun built but had to workaround some errors, likely due to changes since the script/patches were written: https://github.com/8ff/bun-freebsd/issues/1 something is still not quite right though. I was in the process of building...

This might be an apocryphal story, but it amuses me nonetheless. Supposedly Larry McV yanked the Bitkeeper rug out from under Linus because Tridge "reverse engineered" the BK protocol. According to Tridge, this involved telnetting to the BK port...

How do you update a disk firmware? I thought it was ROM. Iloveyou was a vbscript worm as I remember. That only works until early WinXP,

... but first I would update the firmware version from "TC6OAB1A" to at least "TC6OAB2F", for speeding up dd. But before dd, he must be responsible, and check the content with an original copy of Dr Solomon Anti-Virus Toolkit, for avoiding to...

How do you update the firmware and can you do it from FreeBSD. I guess I should see if the firmware on my other disks needs updating. Never thought of doing something like that.

I might be younger than both of you, yet my first hdd is 20 MB.

4oz Fishing Sinker and a Hairdryer.

You are showing your age. My first computer had a wapping 100 MB disk.

It was a weird hype. afaik. I remember all PC stores were full of it but the mouse click interface was so different than WFW3.11 that nobody got it. CP/M what it seems to be derived from wasn't that bad for the time, though. It runs on my old...

Actually you want each audio carrying cable to have the shield grounded, but only on one end.

Pollution

Exactly. Just like Linux has an extremely large market share of development systems and servers, git has an extremely high market share. I've worked at a company that had multiple internal systems (each of which was better than git in some...

Why wifi in a VM?

It was actually really big for that time. I probably had it in a Thinkpad 760, but can't remember. It may well have OS/2 installed since that is what I was mainly using at the time.

I would like to know what is on it first, but copying to central storage is a good idea.

I spliced random barrel wires to 12V Molex for my network stuff; the barrel wires usually have one with white/different paint that I assumed meant that wire was center (iirc something like non-painted wire to black molex, painted to yellow/12V)...

Well, it worked as expected. The memstick with my mailed kernel module made on some Apple activated the network after loading it from the shell. I was actually just wondering if there was a workaround for this but apparently not. PC mainboards...