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Now I'm confused. I pulled my old Nvidia GT9600 so I could run some web stuff using the Intel i7 IvyBridge CPU which does what I want. I have both drm-kmod and drm-66-kmod installed. I don't recall installing them or when. My impression is I...

games/heretic has been available natively for ages. The original Prince of Persia is an MS-DOS game, so definitely DOSBox.

I wasn't getting errors, just unusable clones. Again, I'm looking for an offline hardware option - preferably like the Inateck indicated above where I can insert the source and destination drives, press go and have a bootable clone within a...

From the beginning I liked tcl mainly because of: a) Its simplicity and coherence, not bloated and easy to learn syntax. b) The way it separately denote variable names and variable values that allows to construct strings in an intuitive way...

That's one of the software cloners I've tried. Doesn't work. But thanks.

No expert here either. Figured since I was able to install on another pc, the stick was ok...but no I did not run the checksum. I'm lazy I don't have another server here handy to test. Will go to our data center and see what happens. Have lots...

Did you check if you aren't running out of disk space?

Hi gang! Editorial Fun fact: I've been using FreeBSD for quite a while now and to be perfectly honest with you lot I'm (still) quite passionate about the whole thing. Always have, always will be. At the time of writing my backup VPS server is...

Where did you get this 15.1-PRERELEASE?

First: not sure what you mean with PRERELEASE, but second: running a development build is prone to cause weird situations from time to time because... it's a developer version which contains plenty of debug code (and sometimes unpolished bugs...

What I've encountered with forced manual intervention on etcupdate was the switch of default login shell to be /bin/csh to /bin/sh, which require to edit 1st line of /etc/master.passwd that should've been modified locally to register root...

I agree, but in all fairness the focus of the forum is of course on FreeBSD. Still, now that it's fully clear that this thread specifically addresses Python I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be allowed to expand a little bit on the learning...

Internal help have sense when the interpreter not only run in UNIX like systems with man command. Also R has such an internal help system. It makes also sense because one interacts with the interpreter, not only program. tcl, although it is also...

Interestingly enough, I have switched to pkgs, and I use freebsd-update to install patches! Never been one for consistency in my old age. -:)

I built from source 14.1,14.2, and 14.3 and each time mounted source ro. I also never had a problem. Thanks for your comments, however. One further observation about rc.subr: There were no merge indicators in the resulting file after the the...

As on the mailing list :-) On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 6:48 AM Roger Olofsson wrote: > Hello, > Is there any chance of making the Roland Tri Capture working on FreeBSD 15? > It's a device that is _NOT_ USB compliant, ie it utilizes drivers to work...

That's incorrect. While it does give you some warnings about /usr/src 'being mounted readonly' it does not require it. And the reason I know as much is because I upgraded my (VPS) backup server earlier this week, and it gets ro access to the...

I agree, but in all fairness the focus of the forum is of course on FreeBSD. Still, now that it's fully clear that this thread specifically addresses Python I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be allowed to expand a little bit on the learning...

I can check this when I do the next machine. When I upgraded to 14.1, I decided to use source, just to learn more about the process. This is my first attempt at a major upgrade with source, however. To summarize, building from source for 15.0...

What about this one? No graphics card at all. vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'IvyBridge GT2 [HD Graphics 4000]' class = display subclass = VGA

Just wondering... pkg states that the port is locked, which I suppose isn't impossible. So just to satisfy curiosity here, what happens if you run: pkg query %n\ %q\ %k mc? Does that give a 1 or not?

Not expert here, but have u verify the chksum of memdisk-img you downloaded ? I recently install FreeBSD 15.0 to DL380G8 internal SD card without any issue except my fan speed is running around 43% which is expected.

Ah, that is old enough to not need any firmware, you just need drm-66-kmod (or whichever version you want).

Whilst going through my pile of disks I came across one which looked like this: => 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 217921662 1 ntfs (104G) 217921725 1859 - free - (930K) 217923584 31457280 2 ntfs...

dd/cp/cstream will work. If the target device is bigger you can then use gpart. But it will boot just fine even before that.

Advantage of dd is that modern storage became so fast that nothing takes much time anymore. I write 5 GB USB 3.0 images in less than 2 minutes. But CLI dd still has the risk of a disk error or power loss. You have to start over again if that...

I'm a ThinkPad collecter, but most of my collection is back home and it includes an X201 and X220. But I'm currently using 2 X61's a W520 and an X1 Gen1. I would lke to install 8GB of ram in one of them since Middleton is supposed to allow...

I have done this on the X61, although I tested it with linux using hdparm to test performance, it definitely worked. And I remember also dmesg reports the 3 Gb/s interface when the drive is initialised, although that's not really a test. It's...

I only have old hardware so just want to install which works for me. I'd like to install the one which works best and uses least space.

termios is very useful here too. It helped me a lot when I wrote a text editor in C, because for such programs most of the default behaviour should be turned off (it's called to enter a raw terminal mode).

stty onlcr or ioctl ONLCR

What errors do you get when using dd? Is this a FreeBSD version? I'm guessing that there are differences between different dd's.

I didn't realise that 'latest' was actually the name. I thought it was simply short for a later one who's name I don't recall...

I always wonder why there isn't a FreeBSD equivalent of this. Much of the work is done by shell scripts AFAICS.

From the beginning I liked tcl mainly because of: a) Its simplicity and coherence, not bloated and easy to learn syntax. b) The way it separately denote variable names and variable values that allows to construct strings in an intuitive way...

Does it have an LSI/Broadcom RAID card? Not sure if this is still an issue but for some controllers FreeBSD will attach mfi when it should be using mrsas. There's a range of cards that causes the system to crash with mfi. Using...

No, generally, the destination drive is same type, but larger. I'm looking for something like this Inateck HDD Cloner, but that is able to actually produce a bootable FreeBSD drive (the Inateck doesn't)..

I think I've got pretty good command-line for dd (dd if=/dev/source_disk of=/dev/target_disk bs=1M conv=sync), but, as I mentioned above, I'm looking for a more fool-proof option that easier for me to handle and that can be run via hardware or...

With dd. I can never figure out what happens when if and of are different sizes.

With dd. I can never figure out what happens when if and of are different sizes.

Are you using identical devices?

Yes, always! 👍 :)

sort , uniq

Thanks, but I need to be able to run the cloner unattended and when the system's not running. And I should probably clarify my needs/reasoning: I'm a senior and I don't trust my command-line accuracy. I've twice fouled-up backups with dd - once...

I'm looking for a hard drive cloner that produces a bootable clone of a BSD system. I have both software hard drive cloners and a hardware device that'll clone any running Windows system hard drive over to a new/blank hard drive (i.e., old style...

Oh no, I just saw that it deletes entries since last time it they were added to the table, that would mean all of the addresses o_O 😁

You say 61, 66 or latest, how do I know which is the latest? Also how can I tell what hardware I have? Will pciconf show me that ? I get a bit lost with all the modules installed and don't really understand what they are for.

You don't have to block permanently all ips that scans your web server. They are too many anyway. They are already some botnet controller list provided by some organization for NGFW which you can use if you want to filter and reduce some of those...

It has been really difficult to tune fail2ban as there are so many different IP addresses, it catches a few, but far from them all, and max-src-conn-rate too, due to all unique addresses. I saw there was expire function in pf: pfctl -t ddos -T...

Are you aware that tkinter is tk with the whole tcl inside python? Why python with the whole tcl inside if you can do the same with tcl? And I do not think installing is a problem, more interesting would be a short introduction to python, or...