Hello people, at the end of 2023 I started my journey of no return with FreeBSD because I got tired of Linux and wanted to experiment with this wonderful OS. I have already tried GhostBSD, NomadBSD... But the problem is that they are easy to install, I want someone to give me a guide to install...
Important to know: I'm new to FreeBSD and I may have done something wrong!
My first FreeBSD installation on an Acer Nitro 5 Laptop, I used Nvme 2Tb Kingston SNV2S2000G
I don't remember if I used the MBR partition or if I used GPT, but I also tried to install using the installer's automatic...
Hello, a while ago I tried to install FreeBSD on my 2006 computer (which model is an HP Compaq 6720s) although I have a problem, and that is that when the installation starts, when I click "boot multi-user" or "boot single -user" then after those numbers appeared below the ASCII art, the screen...
For years now, I've been setting up my FreeBSD servers with GELI encrypting nearly the entire disk (except for boot stuff). Long ago I did this manually, but in recent years I've been letting the standard FreeBSD installer process do it for me. When the machine powers up, it boots as far as...
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 13.2. My laptop has an Intel 8260 Wireless-AC adapter. The live install media uses the "iwm" driver by default which does not work with this network adapter (no networks found). The "iwlwifi" driver works fine without issue when I set it up post install. How do I...
I started to install freebsd memstick iso from the offical freebsd website it took 2 hours to download 1.1GB file, I loaded into a usb and installed it but packages I install with pkg take forever, I get very decent internet speed with other package managers or websites or downloads but for some...
Hello there,
I've been wanting to try out FreeBSD for a while now but I've ran into a problem when it comes to setting up the keyboard layout. When I choose the czech keyboard (qwertz with accent keys) I have the following problems -
1) The only accent letters that appear are the áíéú keys...
Hello. I have a problem installing FreeBSD 13.1. When partitioning the disk, I have the problem that you see in the photo. Invalid argument. I checked both on VM and on another disk. I tried to reinstall MBR, it didn't help. It's the same in gpart. Creating a part of any type does not work. I...
Machine:
1. motherboard: asus tuf gaming z490-plus(wifi)
2. cpu: i7-10700K
3. ram: 32gb ddr4
4. no dedicated GPU
What I've tried?
I've put on my pendrive (sandisk) with installed Ventoy, these files:
- FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
- FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
-...
Something very odd just occurred on my laptop when I performed a freebsd-update fetch & install. When I did the fetch it reported that there was a new patch (I was already on p4), so I then performed the "freebsd-update install" as usual and then did a reboot.
When I checked it using uname -a...
Hello.
Trying to install FreeBSD 13.1-Release (FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) with configuration:
Partitioning: Auto (ZFS)
Partition Scheme: MBR (BIOS)
Pool Type/Disks: stripe: 1 disk
And I found that after the first reboot the system does not boot and a message is displayed: "Missing...
Good afternoon everyone:
This is a continuation of my Reddit thread and YouTube video detailing how to install FreeBSD for a very basic desktop using the command line as found on the installer disk exclusively. I have three main reasons for doing this, as stated on the thread:
Firstly, yes...
Hi,
I was going through the following man page about building openbsd image using Freebsd13 server.It looks this feature recently started supporting openbsd..
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=release&sektion=8&manpath=OpenBSD
Did any one built openbsd using above utilitity ? I am...
I reinstalled FreeBSD and KDE today because of an issue I was having with my clock. Everything seemed to work after installing FreeBSD and Xorg. I was even able to run the TWM window manager after installing Xorg by running % startx as a regular user. The issue came when I got to the very last...
I can't install FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE or FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT on my notebook. I get the following error message when I try to boot / install from the USB flash drive.
Consoles: EFI console
Reading loader env vars from /efi/freebsd/loader.env
FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
(Thu Nov 4...
I have little experience with ports and I don't understand what I should do. I always have the option to install everything from source, though...
I'm running FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on my main computer and also at a VPS. In the latter, the ports collection is not installed.
net-im/Prosody...
Hi, Today, I was doing a clean install of my system and I see that the gnome3 package no longer exists. And the gnome installation is not complete. What's going on?
Excuse me if this is a noobish question, but this is the first time I'm using FreeBSD after purchasing a QOTOM and installing pfSense on it.
Context: The QOTOM PC I bought for my home office has shiny specs, and I intended to use the spare power to use it as my Kubernetes master (but without...
I have an installation of print/texlive-full.
However, that is missing the siunitx package I would like to use.
What is the best way to add this package?
I want to set up freeBSD to a 16 gb usb driver. I tried to plug my usb while installisation and got
Cam statues: CCN request completed with an error.
So how can I avoid these errors and setup FreeBSD to my usb driver?
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