This is a step-by-step guide, mostly for my own reference, but you might find this useful too.

Disclaimer: This article is about clean installation of operating system, where “clean” means that, if you follow these instructions, all existing contents of the hard drive will be destroyed.  Do not follow these instructions except on an empty hard ( Read more... )

This is a step-by-step guide, mostly for my own reference, but you might find this useful too.

Disclaimer: This article is about clean installation of operating system, where “clean” means that, if you follow these instructions, all existing contents of the hard drive will be destroyed.  Do not follow these instructions except on an empty hard ( Read more... )

Again, this is mostly for my own reference, but if you have the same problem that I had, this article may prove useful to you as well.

OpenSolaris (from which FreeBSD's ZFS codebase came from) has this limitation: The “root” pool (i.e. the one that contains a boot filesystem, specified in the bootfs pool property) can only be a simple pool or a ( Read more... )

Update: If you also want to encrypt everything except /boot, refer to this version.

Update: This works for FreeBSD 8.2 as well.

This is a step-by-step guide, mostly for my own reference, but you might find this useful too.

Disclaimer: This article is about clean installation of operating system, where “clean” means that, if you follow these ( Read more... )

Again, this is more for future reference for myself than any, but in case some of you have the same issue:

1. 
   Add to /boot/loader.conf:
   ng_ubt_load="YES"
   
2. 
   Add to /etc/rc.conf:
   hcsecd_enable="YES"
   sdpd_enable="YES"
   bthidd_enable="YES"
   
3. 
   Reboot, or run:
   kldload ng_ubt
   /etc/rc.d/sdpd start
   /etc/rc.d/hcsecd start
   
4. 
   Figure out the name of the Bluetooth HCI ( Read more... )

Q: What is the name of the FreeBSD kernel watchdog?
A: /dev/fido.

Q: What ioctl do you need for /dev/fido in order to keep it from rebooting the system?
A: WDIOCPATPAT.

Reference: FreeBSD 6.3 watchdog(4) manpage

Spotted on cvs-all@freebsd.org: ( It should've been “de-mentoring”…  *giggles* )

The subject says it all.  I just installed FreeBSD on a leftover harddrive from a previous work laptop converted to an external 2.5-inch drive.  Which means: No power cable's necessary either; it's a go just with a USB cable.

The performance is much better than I thought, almost the same as the speed of an internal harddrive.  I'm lovin' it!  ^^

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Yanked from my FreeBSD inbox:
From: Wes Peters <(E-mail address withheld)>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:08:46 -0700
To: Ruslan Ermilov <(E-mail address withheld)>
Cc: (E-mail address withheld), (E-mail address withheld), (E-mail address withheld)
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile

On May 11, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

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Just saw parts (i.e. not completed yet) of the source tree being tagged with RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE.  ^^

*braces for an upgrade-fest*