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A computer wasn't able to see a USB with cp'd Win10 ISO at all Legacy or UEFI (tried a few mins ago); on Linux it appeared as UDF in GNOME Disk Utility and files looked ok on mount

Bumping an almost 10 years old thread? really?

Easiest board yet 😁 Was looking around the board on a random Dell 2-in-1; I've only heard rumors of a jumper 😆

You could use pico if you don't want it to be like GNU.

For me the downloadable ISO did boot but got hung up in something later. Details escape me now.

As I posted before: google has proved to be unreliable in this, and many other, matters. I avoided using dd because google told me not to. That may have been one of many mistakes I made. I put this into google: freebsd dd might not work for...

wget2 for simultaneous download. Accepts the same options as wget.

It looks like plain file copy to FAT32/NTFS and readable by UEFI (no Legacy/CSM/MBR support); afaik that's the trickiest part to a Windows USB and I don't like command-line partition management :p (usually use WoeUSB from Linux LiveUSB or Rufus...

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Just a word of warning. Last time I had to reinstall Windows 10 the downloadable iso files did not actually work. I had to download their iso file maker program and run that on an existing windows machine to make a usb stick.

I've never seen a Windows ISO boot after dd to USB, but not sure on specifics If the computer being installed to is UEFI, you can likely copy the ISO contents to a FAT32 USB and select it from boot loader (my Dell also supports NTFS for large...

Write iso to the first USB drive da0 in blocks of 100MB: dd if=file.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=100m While writing, press ctrl-t to see any progress per block. Process end without error means succesful. Check the result: gpart show da0 or fdisk /dev/da0...

I second this. That's exactly what I said with: Development has to be efficient and effective. IMHO it is not efficient to solve an edge use case at all costs. Great, if someone prepares a solution in their spare time. Call me old-fashioned...

They found a toaster it does not run on.

On a shell from tmux: cu -l /dev/ttyxxx -s 115200 And by the way, you can also run a program on a tmux window or pane directly, not calling first a shell.

Not actually the answer for your question itself, but topics about NetBSD (and any other OS'es) are not at all off-topic if the question is about running NetBSD on FreeBSD via Bhyve as one of guest OS'es, and posted in Emulation and...

With screen /dev/ttyxxx 115200 I get a fully functional serial console. I'm not sure what kind of task separation you are asking about. What specific functionality of cu?

I have samba installed and working, but i need to change the location of samba logs from default /var/log/samba4/ to /var/log/, so i did change log file to my own path: After restart (testparm did not complain) samba created expected files in...

misc/colortail deskutils/pipecolor sysutils/colorize

Hi. Am I doing this correctly? After upgrading my system from FreeBSD 14.3 to 14.4, I do the following: What about the jail environment, updating outdated system files in jail? Right?

You can replace 595.58.03 in the link to any "actually released" version you want, at least for several recent ones per branch (580, 590, 595, 610, ...). Yes, it would be me, in whichever Nvidia thread or NVIDIA GTX 1080i support how? thread. 😁

See this for pointers. But the review for it is now abandoned for large reworks.

Here's the thing - bikeshedding output format styling or symlink paths doesn't really improve anything with regards to the core functionality of the init system. Which is what the title of this post is declaring. For something like this, you...

My friend: moving parts. They break. You introduce them at your peril, not mine. I like my teams' nights uninterrupted. And yes, I will die on this hill in a far more literal sense than you're prepared to imagine. That's the frame you get to...

Honestly, aesthetics isn't much of a concern for an OS which doesn't ship with a GUI by default. Also, booting tends to be pretty fast and infrequent enough that it's a non-issue. It's been a while, but I thought that it used to be possible to...

Has something like cu embedded in it? I prefer the separation of tasks.

As I read the monsterous OP my blood pressure started boiling: another who wants to convert a professional expert system OS into consumer drivvel...so after reading all the responses I'm somewhat calmed by those who are attempting to talk OP off...

Add this to /boot/loader.conf: splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="/boot/logo.bmp" boot_mute="YES" Done.

The point I was trying to make above wasn't to discourage you. It's much more that FreeBSD is a foundation that, in its current form, is far more often than not deployed in scenarios where the box doesn't even have a screen to begin with.. if...

I disagree. Aesthetic is important and is not only a GUI thing. Due to readability. Linux dmesg, in opposite to *BSD dmesg, are difficult to read for me. Colors and ornaments may make them more unreadable, due to distraction. All is the question...

Netbsd 9.0 BETA(?) - July 2019 Netbsd 9.0 RC1 - Dec 2019 Netbsd 9.0 RC2 - Feb 2020 Netbsd 9.0 - Feb 2020 Netbsd 10.0 RC1 - Nov 2023 Netbsd 10.0 RC6 - Dec 2024 Netbsd 10.0 - Dec 2024 Netbsd 11.0 RC1 - Feb 2026 Netbsd 11.0 RC6 - July 2026 For me...

What then? I have thousands of files in this directory.

/home/$user/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/Cache_Data/

/usr/ports/misc/lf might be of use in a terminal such as konsole if doublecmd wont suffice.

Are you running this directly from your terminal? When you run it the terminal log Vivaldi and will provide you details of what it's doing when trying to run the email/RSS client.

The vast majority of it is either younger Boomers or older Gen X. In terms of being able to sit down at a random computer and get stuff done without training, that tends to be more of a younger Gen-X/older Millennial skill set.

Mc, tmux, bash, xterm, mousepad, xpdf Now trying doublecmd as mc replacement in X but I can't get used to it somehow. Must support longer filenames to see how far the copying is.

Yes, the 580 version of the Nvidia stuff should be right for your card.

So the point is to beautify the output during the boot to highlight potential errors, I agree that is good but not essential with a serious caveat, for people with impaired vision adding colors or bold to unicode text means getting a lot of weird...

Being Gen-X is fun, getting to provide tech support for Boomers and anybody born in the current millennia. It kind of amazes me that kids today might actually be worse at using technology than the Boomers were.

like the Palantir guy (stock symbol EVLᵀᴹ) said in the CNBC interview ... the illusion of productivity... 😆

Because it's JavaScript? Don't worry, after a couple of months with Claude™, the things you'll actually know and understand will be very few and far between anyway.

I agree with this. There is no virtue in knowing zillion different formats and doing things the hard way when there is no rhyme or reason for this. IMHO there are two kinds of intelligent people. One that can *handle* a lot of complex things and...

Being Gen-X is fun, getting to provide tech support for Boomers and anybody born in the current millennia. It kind of amazes me that kids today might actually be worse at using technology than the Boomers were.

I wonder how many kids today wonder what's wrong with them if they don't get the tech when "everybody else does" but the reality is it's just not their thing. They really want to grow up to be doctors and lawyers and such. Or carpenters and auto...

I have just discovered the use of the keyword tangle. #+begin_src sh :tangle /babble-tangle-test (message "Hello") #+end_src This simply puts the text between begin and end into the provide file. Just to add... you need to use M-x...

TBF, Boomers are really uneven in terms of technology, a bunch of the most important bits of technology were created by Boomers, and then you've got ones that think that everything is computer. And then refuse to engage with it at all unless...

usb_modeswitch is a PITA to get working. I had two Huawei dongles at one point, both with the same model numbers but the were completely different. I think I did get one working at one point but it was 4G. Nowadays with the ability to USB...

I'm using Chromium.

Microslopft Github - lol.