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Is this a Gen10-11? I picked up a HPE MicroServer Gen11 and it has trouble booting 15.0. It's a open issue related to iLO console/serial port that seems to affect some recent model HPE and Dell machines. It's already been patched in CURRENT. For...

dev.hwpstate_intel.0.epp="0" is cooler :cool: I'd have no scheduler with NVMe (general software scheduling likely slower than hardware-specific NVMe scheduling) I prefer traditional schedulers; an article implied sched_ext is useful for HT/SMT...

Worth a try: store the partition table of the entire disk with fdisk -f and treat the content as a usual directory tree Compress it to 1 file with a tar/gzip pipe. To restore the disk from nothing, the partition table must be written back and the...

I don't know why these error messages are appearing: sysctl: kern.ipc...: Invalid argument I see there are some kernel variables without comments. I need to fix that. Thanks for testing it and sharing the results.

I believe tests should be conducted under the strictest possible equality of conditions: first comparing all OS in VM, and then comparing all OS on bare metal both without extra network loads and after with additional network loads (such as...

Maturin I have no problem with anything related to files/disks using UFS. I'm simply talking about Windows installations. I think I will try to use Clonzilla which I can start up easily via PXE and then backup via NFS to my server. From my...

Lxqt,

You could start by explaining why you don't want to back up an in-filesystem view, such as just tarring it up. You only need to deal with free space when you do a disk view backup.

We can't read minds. No context, hence someone asked, and that filled in the blanks.

You list 2 workloads and say "3". Anyway, gaming with no background load is trivial. Since there's no competition it doesn't matter how smart you schedule. As for desktop with compilation in the background, do you observe actual problems (other...

It was a parody on Alfredo's. He's going on my nerves.

If you want to dig into the details based on your network setup, just install it and give it a try. Even if it’s only for hands-on learning, you’ll pick up useful insights. Have fun experimenting!

This model does not do image generation.

That reply sucked.

You can just copy over an installed tree from windows or linux.

Well, for gaming you don't need any of that whizwaz. Did you measure whether your workload actually improves with these (most are default anyway). What is your workload?

I am trying to export a directory and one of its subdirectories. Should I be able to do this on both v3 and v4? Are there any restrictions?

Isn't Apple II completely underpowered to run this game fluidly? I'm looking at YT videos and the frame rate drops significantly in combat. Something like a 286 10 MHz with EGA was cheap budget PC in 1989, and it is able to play Prince at full...

Does anyone run clonezilla via pxe? I can boot up via pxe and can start clonezilla with any problems, but would like to run a script to clone a local hard drive. Does anyone have this working?

I have used clonezilla in the past but never managed to script a backup so it's like starting from scratch every time. One of the biggest problems I have is mounting an NFS share. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Clonezilla or has anyone tried...

dd can only backup your drive 1:1, so also the empty space is backupped, which, as you already see yourself, is pretty bogus, especially when the drive is pretty empty. gzip like all other packers work on files, not drives or partitions...

Interesting find but I notice:- ie. no model 80.

It's 75GB but only 5GB is in use.

Dosbox is least good choice to enjoy DOS games. It is good for occasional run, but as a high level emulator it is highly inaccurate across the board. One that thinks this is harsh opinion, probably did not fire up a real DOS computer + game in...

Sorry but I'm a nerd, and I had to argue! Without more context in the answer or without quoting the OP, a short and "inflammatory" messages like "I don't care. Use the search tool" cannot be intuitively related to the OP after 10 days and 5 pages...

Is this a Gen10-11? I picked up a HPE MicroServer Gen11 and it has trouble booting 15.0. It's a open issue related to iLO console/serial port that seems to affect some recent model HPE and Dell machines. It's already been patched in CURRENT. For...

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to backup/archive a disk which has lots of free space? The only way I can think of is to use dd & gzip. Is there is a better alternative?

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Chris I. Nailed it! Adding set console="eficom" during boot (ESC to add boot options and then "boot") booted it up as it should. Then adding the same option to the /boot/loader.conf file has everything working great again. Thanks!

I tried to make a new snapshot for the second time in my life (new to ZFS). # zfs snapshot -r zroot@snapshot cannot create snapshot 'zroot@snapshot': dataset already exists I'm guessing I need to destroy the old snapshot first, if I want to...

<Nitpick> It was Apple II, yes? </Nitpick>

Chris I. Nailed it! Adding set console="eficom" during boot (ESC to add boot options and then "boot") booted it up as it should. Then adding the same option to the /boot/loader.conf file has everything working great again. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the input! I think what'll work best for me is setting up three thick jails - one for web, one for mail, and one as a playground. I’ll start with the playground to get the hang of things and go from there.

As one of the maintainer of NVIDIA GPU driver ports, xorg is preferred. This is simply because upstream (NVIDIA) doesn't (yet) announced supports for xlibre. As a person, neutral. But need to see whether or not xlibre provides continuous...

This is now committed into main branch of ports tree. No plan to merge into quarterly branch, 2026Q1, but next quarterly 2026Q2 would be created early April and it should have this, unless reverted with some reason before 2026Q2 branches from...

looks like a monitor with lots of fingerprint smudges and a cellphone camera flash spot. But FWIW, trying configuring your xorg to use simple vesa mode (low res). It's been supported in every GPU I've ever used. ie...what if you blackball all...

What version of FreeBSD are you using? If 14/15 : Delete all the stuff you put in loader.conf. The sound system is in kernel per default. You should just use kld_list entry in the rc.conf file and add snd_envy24ht. Note the ht, snd_envy24 is a...

Diablo II (notes) Runs no problem wine-devel (11.5) with nGlide Glide wrapper :D I play on patch 1.06b as that's the last OG version before Lord of Destruction expansion (I missed Flamespike The Crawler :p) Just beat Andariel on Nightmare...

In your case (graphics/drm-kmod and graphics/drm-66-kmod are installed), by graphics/drm-66-kmod. You can confirm it by pkg which -o /boot/modules/i915kms.ko and pkg info -l graphics/drm-66-kmod. Examples for me are as below. Note that...