installation

Hello everyone :( Hello folks :( Hello people For the last 3 days, I want to install FreeBSD on my machine but I can't I just can't install it I didn't even sleep last night I'm noob, yes and I don't know almost anything about this OS, I'm a windows user and I start recently use Linux distro I...

Hello to all, my first post here. I hope following question won't be in inappropriate forum section. I'm thinking about trying FreeBSD for small four drive NAS and use advantages of ZFS filesystem. Previously I've done bunch of similar NASes with Linux and dmraid. There I typically sliced all...

Help! I am trying to reinstall FreeBSD and am getting the following message when scanning for wireless access points: "No wireless networks were found. Rescan?" I am close to my Wi-Fi router and the network is up. In my previous two installs, many wireless networks in the area always appeared...

I have a fresh installation of FreeBSD 13.0-Release on a machine without internet connection. Some time ago, to install pkg, I would enter "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg" and call "make" to build it. However, now I am getting the following errors: In other words, to build "pkg" from ports, it...

I want to give FreeBSD another chance. I've used FreeBSD as a desktop a little bit for about a year. But I am a complete noob and need the help of The FreeBSD Forums once again if I am to use it as my primary desktop. See these two blog posts I made about how I installed FreeBSD (with the...

Hi, I am trying to install Free BSD on HP ZBook 15 G6 following handbook. I didn't get very far because my computer freezes after BOOT Menu and printing masks 0x00ff0000 0x0000ff00 0xff000000. I did try "safe mode" but nothing changed. I am pretty intrigued by the fact that FreeBSD 14.0 boots...

MacBook Pro: On macOS Big Sur 11. The approach is to completely install freeBSD on top of the native hardware destroying the existing OS. Processor: 2.6 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB HardDisk: 250 GB Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 530 1536 MB Hello, I've been trying to install...

I am planning to purchase NVMe hardware and I am planning to install FreeBSD on it (ZFS). My work is to try bhyve (linux, windows guests) and play with it. I would like to know, whether this NVMe based devices are supported. Thanks.

I'm feeling a bit foolish because I had sound working on this machine before, but I'm having issues on reinstall: updated my default unit from 4 to 5: sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=5 confirmed by issuing command cat /dev/sndstat which yields output: root@mordor:~ # cat /dev/sndstat Installed...

Hello, please excuse me if there is already an answer to my question. I could not find one. So far my question is hypothetical. I plan to install FreeBSD on an encrypted and mirrored zroot. But before I do this, I want to make sure that in case of a disk failure, I also know how to repair the...

Hello! Could you help me to get ahead in solving the problem installation of FreeBSD12.2 with GELI encrypt? My installation steps: SSD (ada0) - system will install here # gpart destroy -F ada0 # gpart create -s gpt ada0 HDD (ada1) - data disk # gpart destroy -F ada1 # gpart create -s gpt ada1...

I was attempting to install the latest FreeBSD display driver from nvidia's website, when I received an error from within FreeBSD's source directory: /usr/src/sys/stddef.h:36:10: fatal error: 'machine/_type.h' file not found #include <machine/_types.h> I used the...

Dear All, FreeBSD 12.x and 13.x are giving error of missing /boot/lua/loader.lua and is stuck there I mounted the ISO and checked that the folder and file exist. Still this issue FreeBSD 14.0 doesn't give error but is also stuck at the start with no errors at all I have never faced these...

I just installed FreeBSD 12.2. I'm trying to set up internet access with an Intel 8260 Dual Band AC wifi adapter. I'm using an Xfinity Technicolor XB6 router from Comcast which has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 and when using DHCP it assigns IP addresses in the form of 10.0.0.x. For some reason the...

Remarks: - should work for FreeBSD 12 serie too 1- Install FreeBSD 11.4 - download the memstick: FreeBSD-11.4-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img # write it onto you usb key: dd if=PATH_TO/FreeBSD-11.4-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/daX status=progress conv=sync - plug your usb key into your...

Hello all, I am a new user to FreeBSD and I decided that I wanted to move from MacOS to FreeBSD. I am currently using a Macbook pro from 2015 and I want to do the transition from MacOS to FreeBSD for both privacy reasons and familiarize with another operating system. I am currently studying...

Hi, I'm requesting some feedback for the install scripts here: https://github.com/walterjwhite/freebsd-installer https://github.com/walterjwhite/install https://github.com/walterjwhite/freebsd-example https://github.com/walterjwhite/install provides a helper to install scripts into the...

I am trying to install FreeBSD 12.1 amd64 on a physical machine from 2010 using a 26GB USB drive and this machine only has traditional BIOS. I created the bootable USB drive using dd bs=4M if=FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdd; sync on the Debian. The machine can boot into...

I dd the FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img to a usb stick and then tried to boot. It got stuck after I selected option 1 multi user from freebsd boot screen. it shows loading kernel ... and hangs. what's the problem? the laptop in question is a Dell core 2 Duo with Bios and no UFI...

I'm installing FreeBSD 12.1 in a laptop, and when the installation prompts to configure the network (IPv4/IPv6), no adapter appears. I entered another tty (Alt+F4) and run ifconfig, where only lo0 device shows up. Any idea on how to make it recognize the WiFi card?