Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category
New committer: Bruce Cran (src)
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Ulrich Spörlein (src)
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"Booting instructions for FreeBSD on Cavium Octeon
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Here's a quick note on how to net boot the Cavium EBT3000 board running uboot. The Cavium kernel is still a work in progress as I restore all the fixes I made to an earlier version of this code that I was unable to release.
You'll need to break into the boot sequence for this board. Usually that's just hitting
You'll need to break into the boot sequence for this board. Usually that's just hitting
Booting instructions for FreeBSD on Cavium Octeon
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Here's a quick note on how to net boot the Cavium EBT3000 board running uboot. The Cavium kernel is still a work in progress as I restore all the fixes I made to an earlier version of this code that I was unable to release.
You'll need to break into the boot sequence for this board. Usually that's just hitting
You'll need to break into the boot sequence for this board. Usually that's just hitting
New committer: Romain Tartière (ports)
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Alberto Villa (ports)
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"October-December, 2009 Status Report
Posted on January 17th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The October-December, 2009 Status Report is now available with 38 entries.
FreeBSD – Make ports not to include X11 or GUI related library
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"
Most of the time, ports will install the necessary dependencies to fulfill its requirement. But certain ports installs the X11 (X window system) libraries. Which
FreeBSD – Make ports not to include X11 or GUI related library
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
FreeBSD is an excellent operating system, be it on a Desktop (PC-BSD) or Server. Its stability and flexibility was never an issue, nor even software availability (21135 ports currently available to deploy).
Most of the time, ports will install the necessary dependencies to fulfill its requirement. But certain ports installs the X11 (X window system) libraries. [...]
FreeBSD – How to manage ports in FreeBSD using portmanager
Posted on January 14th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"Using portmanager to manage ports have a few advantage :
- portmanager scans for what dependencies are needed
FreeBSD – How to manage ports in FreeBSD using portmanager
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
There are various way of managing ports, using utilities. The usual “cd /usr/ports/<ports directory>; make; make install; make clean“, portmaster, portupgrade and others. Today, this post will brief on how to use portmanager to install, upgrade and delete ports.
Using portmanager to manage ports have a few advantage :
portmanager scans for what dependencies are needed and [...]
Post-mortum on projects/mips branch
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Greetings to one and all. As you have read elsewhere, I recently merged all the changes from the projects/mips branch onto head. In other reports, I've made cryptic reference to the branch being damaged. I thought I'd go through all the problems we encountered running this development effort on the projects/mips branch.
First, we created the branch in the normal
First, we created the branch in the normal
Post-mortum on projects/mips branch
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by "warner losh" from "Warner's Random Hacking Blog"
Greetings to one and all. As you have read elsewhere, I recently merged all the changes from the projects/mips branch onto head. In other reports, I've made cryptic reference to the branch being damaged. I thought I'd go through all the problems we encountered running this development effort on the projects/mips branch.
First, we created the branch in the normal
First, we created the branch in the normal
KVM: Starting / Stopping Guest Operating Systems With virsh Command
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by "Vivek Gite" from "Frequently Asked Questions About Linux / UNIX » FreeBSD"
The virsh command can be used to mange local or remote guest operating systems. The program can be used to create, pause, and shutdown domains. It can also be used to list current domains.
FreeBSD – How to setup ports using wget to download
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"But wget gives extra bell and whistle like date/time of the download, log to file, continue from a partially downloaded
FreeBSD – How to setup ports using wget to download
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
The default download program for ports is using fetch. fetch is fine but my personal preference is wget. wget uses 1 connection to download, unlike my previous post that mentioned “Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections“.
But wget gives extra bell and whistle like date/time of the download, log to file, continue from a partially downloaded [...]
FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"Scenario 1:
Bumpy internet broadband internet connection, like mine, will disconnect halfway when downloading big files (> 10 MB)
Scenario 2:
Large ports that depends on tens if not hundreds
FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
Ports gets it’s sources from internet. If the sources is big or there are multiple tens of sources, the tendency to fail in the mid of the ports installation increases.
Scenario 1:
Bumpy internet broadband internet connection, like mine, will disconnect halfway when downloading big files (> 10 MB)
Scenario 2:
Large ports that depends on tens if not [...]
FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
Ports randomly gets it’s source server list from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, as defined by the port maintainer. But the top 1st choice of the list may not be the one physically near to us and thus the download speed is much desirable. Most of the time compiling ports doesn’t necessary takes a long time (like my 3 [...]
