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I use only HP Slim keyboard; no frills, very understated. I found them quiet with a soft touch. Nothing fancy, just get the job done.

That's what I did: I used USB stick to boot and selected "shell". I can mount that partition in Linux in read-only mode.

How about booting from a USB stick to examine the system?

I tried using FreeBSD 15.1 installer to fix some stuff in the root filesystem. However, I get: # mount /dev/ada1s2a /mnt/ mount: /dev/ada1s2a: Operation not permitted It's formatted as UFS, I ran fsck on it, no errors found. Thanks for advises!

Tenkeyless with hotswap mech switches on a board with open-source firmware (2.4GHz wireless, USB-C wired, and BT) could be like $30-60, and a keypad $10-30 (I got a Japanese brand mech one for $30 with mech keys and LCD for switching between PC...

That's the reason for hotswap. :) If you spill something on it, there's a good chance you can just replace the switches and it works again.

Generally the following: - Modifying the general structures (e.g. accessing the filesystem inodes) via e.g. C - Examples of using tools to fiddle with the concepts - Advice on how to use the information to optimise using BSD Its all a little...

Ta, Looks ok, and glclock's running happily. % drm_info | grep Driver ├───Driver: nvidia-drm (NVIDIA DRM driver) version 0.0.0 (20160202) % % glxinfo -B | grep Device % % kldstat | grep nvidia 5 1 0xffffffff83710000 14a88 nvidia-drm.ko...

If you're prone to doing this, might I suggest just getting any cheap USB keyboard? It won't hurt as much if you spill another drink on it. It gets rather painful if you do this to a $150,- keyboard.

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System This is the current version from 2014 I agree with kpedersen about the Kong book

I bet this thread goes at least two pages. Anyway, will you be getting a mechanical keyboard? If so, and you want quiet, there are silent red switches which are very quiet. I know Cherry makes them, don't know about others. I would also suggest...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/whats-your-favourite-keyboard.91542/

In case you missed it, this was a tremendous series on HBO back in 2019 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9APLXM9Ei8

What happened in Chernobyl is a long-standing interest of mine; I saw all the original news reports when it happened, and we had warnings where I lived at the time not to drink the milk because the radioactive cloud was over the country and it...

Greetings all, after having had accidentally spilled water on my keyboard, it goes on and off on strike. I would, therefore appreciate advice on a new keyboard. I understand that it is quiet a personal choice, what I seem to like is: - full...

What happened in Chernobyl is a long-standing interest of mine; I saw all the original news reports when it happened, and we had warnings where I lived at the time not to drink the milk because the radioactive cloud was over the country and it...

fstyp is also helpful.

the bootonce flag (attribute) is reset after a successful boot attempt, see gptboot.

Its pretty good and gives a detailed overview of the internals. Though personally, I didn't find much of the info that "actionable". If you are interested in drivers, then Kong, as listed via your link a good candidate: FreeBSD, unlike Linux...

After a weekend ports update, the linux-brave browser is now core dumping a bit after complaining "MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information". I've rebuilt mesa and linux-rl9 ports to no avail, suggestions would be welcomed. %...

The more I fnd out about emacs org babel tangle the more I want to try out the the available options but I would like to find some tutorial which would flatten the learning cliff of simply learning by trial and error, because I have an infinite...

Creating /www goes against sacred FreeBSD philosophy!

Not my preference, but I see no problems with it as long as the permissions/ownership are all sound. It's not going to make much difference if the webserver got hacked where the exact path on the filesystem is. Lots of people seem to think www is...

GPT is a partitioning scheme, UFS, FAT, ZFS, XFS, ext2/3/4 are filesystems. Which is another thing to watch out for, the stick might not be formatted with UFS filesystem. Again something gpart and/or file will be able to tell you.

Yes. Assuming Mint uses X, not wayland. Because you're going to need a working X server on the Mint clients. Note however that X-Forwarding is off by default server-side nowadays. You will need to enable X11Forwarding in sshd_config.

This stuff confused me too. I wound up making a little page on it, which might help. (also works with beadm). https://srobb.net/fbsdbe.html

Apologies may be longer than you want to read. N flag is "active on next boot" R flag is "currently running" bectl activate -t I think adds a "bootonce" property and moves the N flag to that BE, leaving the "bootfs" property on the currently...

That's a slice, not a partition. And would only exist if the MBR scheme was used, slices do not exist with GPT, the used partitioning scheme is important. Hence the gpart show da0 as that would clear up any confusion. It's possible no...

According to the man page for bectl, bectl activate -t just applies to the next boot. Bectl itself, from what I can tell, just mounts that related snapshot rather than what the normal files would be there. Of is that not what you're getting at?

SirDice It's been a while, and my memory is foggy on this, but a while back, we had a proliferation of small sites we managed and we moved them all to /www from /usr/local/www to get them out of the way. I really don't remember the details but I...

Yep, I'm like 95% sure that it's legitimately just a "thank you for your feedback, we're looking into this" response while pretty much immediately filing it to the circular file. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of any of this is because...

Post the exact, and entire, responses you got. And a case number. Until then I'm going to take everything you claim with a grain of salt. Because nothing you have said here can be verified.

I don't know, but it's certainly not going anywhere and the OP still hasn't actually justified their position to any reasonable degree nor does anything in the posts about the response suggest that the authorities really agree that there's a...

It has no reasoning...or intelligence beyond being able to piece together what it has gathered from other sources.

/boot/loader.conf is part of a BE, it lives in zroot/ROOT/default (which is mounted as /) normally. That entire dataset is the BE.

You seem to have made a bunch of typos. A mountpoint is a directory not a file. Mountpoint doesn't match, typo again? Maybe try the commands again, this time paying attention not to make any typos. Then double check if you actually used the...

Import it with -R <altroot> and -t to give it a temporary new name. Or else things are definitely going to overlap.

Post the exact, and entire, responses you got. And a case number. Until then I'm going to take everything you claim with a grain of salt. Because nothing you have said here can be verified.

Import it with -R <altroot> and -t to give it a temporary new name. Or else things are definitely going to overlap.

Ok solved it by installing an new FreeBSD image with UFS, then imported the zpool of the forgotten-password-image, mounted it and chrooted to it, followed by a passwd. (with a new ZFS FreeBSD image this did not work, it got confused by the 2...

Then why did you try to mount da9?

For me it's a mixture... My personal favorite for my own account(s) is the Korn shell (shells/pdksh). The reasoning is simple: I'm a former Solaris admin and yah, got used to it. I especially appreciate it's vi modus. Well, it was FreeBSD...

I have separate mail servers for incoming and outgoing mail. I implemented DKIM and Dmarc on my outgoing machine some months ago and that works well. Yesterday I decided to add DKIM verification to my incoming server, but I have a couple of...

On my little $2/month VPS, they assigned me eight ipv6 addresses and two ipv4. Looking at their pricing sheet, they don't do that anymore but I think I'm considered a legacy user. I've never used the ipv6 addresses but I need to turn them on...

AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

True for most things. I have little interest in carpentry but a keen interest in remodeling a room of my house so I re-learned hanging drywall and painting. I don't mind doing that stuff. I do mind paying $10,000 to have someone else do it.

You don't have to read the whole thing. Just use that as the reference.

Ehm, no. Suppose your web application gets hacked. Then they'll have access with the www user, if this user has write access to the document root (or other directories) they'll have all the access needed to completely wreck your website, insert...

I love FreeBSD because it's fun and educational. And the people involved with it takes the time to be nice. That is true value. /grandpa

The live CD you used to write the bootloaders, how old is that? Although if it was too old I would expect it to fail to load the pool entirely. But it looks like it's stuck somewhere in stage 2 and never gets to the point where it's able to...