Tag Archives: freebsd

X-less VirtualBox OSE

Posted on February 1, 2010 by edogawaconan

It’s possible now. Still in testing phase though but it’ll be surely interesting and there goes my final (non-experimental/fun) reason of staying with OpenSolaris. VNC is rather crappy but it’s much better than compiling/installing X just for that one program.
Compiling … Continue reading →

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ed2k for some OSes

Posted on November 2, 2009 by edogawaconan

ed2k – A program computing eDonkey link (ed2k://), or only the Hash/Id (à la md5).
I first time installed it on FreeBSD (which exists in ports). Later I tried compiling it on OpenSolaris – and it doesn’t work. Lots of errors. … Continue reading →

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Peaceful days (no), and random FreeBSD ZFS Install Script

Posted on September 5, 2009 by edogawaconan

…nothing interesting happened.
So, here, have some random install script instead. This will install FreeBSD in a ZFS root.

Boot into fixit environment (FreeBSD 8.0 and up)
Download the script
Execute

This will wipe the harddisk specified and do some evilry to create ZFS root, … Continue reading →

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Tips of the day (FreeBSD)

Posted on July 18, 2009 by edogawaconan

FreeBSD installation:

You don’t want to install in full zfs root unless you can access the machine physically (or a way to reboot and operate on console) when needed
You don’t want to install in GPT. Unless you only have one disk … Continue reading →

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Headache-free dual/triple/multiple-boot Windows/OpenSolaris/Linux/FreeBSD

Posted on March 15, 2009 by edogawaconan

…after being wtf-ed by trying to add GRUB entry to boot to ArchLinux’s ext4 partition.

Install Windows
Install OpenSolaris
Install Linux/FreeBSD, with GRUB on the Linux/FreeBSD partition then add entry on OpenSolaris’ GRUB to chainload to Linux/FreeBSD partition
???
Profit!

There’s also this but I prefer … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 6.4 Released

Posted on November 29, 2008 by edogawaconan

Hmm, when will 7.1 be released?
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights:

New … Continue reading →

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Installing Danbooru on FreeBSD 7.0

Posted on August 31, 2008 by edogawaconan

Warning: this post is kind of outdated. Even though there’s no problem using it I don’t recommend following this any more.
Danbooru is basically a web gallery software with its main advantage in its advanced tagging system.
However, it’s written in one … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD and OpenBSD: comparison (I)

Posted on August 31, 2008 by edogawaconan

This comparison is not really fair from my POV since I only fully use and manage FreeBSD for like several months with its latest version only 2 weeks or so when I have used OpenBSD for at least one year.
I’ll … Continue reading →

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