This laptop runs FreeBSD 12.0 current. The version of the installed Firefox is 59, which is pretty new isn’t it? Well, that’s not new or good enough to browse outlook.office365.com email. What happened is that, the Outlook web based email would just automatically switch to class Outlook web access. This problem is not unique to Outlook email, even some work related websites refuse to load correctly on Firefox running FreeBSD. ...
I have a FreeBSD server which used to run of a smaller SSD drive. When replaced with a larger capacity SSD by using dd command to clone the disk, there is free space allocated. I want to extend the existing zroot pool to use this space. The following describes how I achieve this with the help of a forum post. Let’s list some information about the zroot pool: root@nas:~ # zfs list zroot NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot 4.88G 50.8G 144K none List the partition scheme of the drive I’d like to extend my zroot zpool with: ...
It’s another night with another FreeBSD problem. Well, I could just use Linux like Ubuntu or Void, but then things would just work. Where is the fun? 😉 So, I’ve been having problem with upgrading or installing new binary packages on a machine running FreeBSD 12.0 for a few days now. root@vansota:~ # pkg upgrade Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. Checking for upgrades (13 candidates): 100% Processing candidates (13 candidates): 100% The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: p5-Locale-gettext: 1.07 Installed packages to be REINSTALLED: xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1 (needed shared library changed) xf86-input-synaptics-1.9.0 (options changed) texinfo-6.5,1 (options changed) m4-1.4.18,1 (options changed) help2man-1.47.5 (options changed) Number of packages to be installed: 1 Number of packages to be reinstalled: 5 The process will require 2 MiB more space. 3 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y [1/6] Fetching xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1.txz: 100% 1 MiB 184.0kB/s 00:08 pkg: cached package xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1: size mismatch, fetching from remote [2/6] Fetching xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1.txz: 18% 272 KiB 180.2kB/s 00:08 ETA First I’d thought it was just some FreeBSD mirrors were out of sync of each others. This happens quite frequently with Ubuntu mirrors. Usually, we give it a bit of time and the problem will fix itself. ...
This weekend I replaced Kubuntu 16.04 with FreeBSD 12 on an old HP laptop. I came across with lots of problems, but mainly because I wanted to have some experiences with UEFI and GPT. Anyway, currently the laptop is running FreeBSD 12-current with i3 as the windows manager. After Firefox was installed, I ran it from the menu (rofi) and nothing appeared. So I ran it from a terminal instead. Here was the output: ...
I need to create a bootable FreeBSD install disk and the downloaded file happened to be on a Mac laptop. Since OS X is based on BSD, it also comes with dd utility. After a USB is inserted, I need to identify the disk. This can be done using diskutil command: $ sudo diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme 251.0 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.7 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 (synthesized): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.7 GB disk1 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 98.6 GB disk1s1 2: APFS Volume Preboot 21.4 MB disk1s2 3: APFS Volume Recovery 509.8 MB disk1s3 4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk1s4 /dev/disk2 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme *2.1 GB disk2 1: Apple_partition_map 4.1 KB disk2s1 2: Apple_HFS 2.4 MB disk2s2 From the above output, the USB drive is /dev/disk2. Now, I can use dd to copy the image file to the USB drive using the following command: ...