installation

Hi, Couple of questions about portmaster. Given that the documentation and some tools related to the "ports" system regard programs installed from binary package repository as "ports", does that mean: 1. We can use tools like portmaster to manage everything, regardless of the way it was...

Hi everyone! This will be my first post on the FreeBSD forum (and, in fact, any forum anywhere). I've used Linux (mostly Debian and later Arch Linux) for most of my life on the computer, but for the last two years or so I've been using a Mac. I've become increasingly unhappy with the attitude of...

Sorry if I double the thread, but I didn't find answer. If I write a usb stick img in the Windows (tried XP and 7) then after direct write finished I have BSOD and rebooting. The same if I just insert FreeBSD installation usb to the Windows machine. So if Windows try to mount FreeBSD...

When the installer boots, it has already loaded loader.conf. Is it possible to specify the radeon kms during the install? If so, how? On my dell 755, I have a Radeon 2400, I add these to loader.conf and I'm pleased with the result: radeonkmsfw_RV610_pfp_load="YES"...

I get the following error during install, when I pull up the loader prompt and try to use the gop command: gop: Graphics Output Protocol not present (error = 14) I did some work on googling the problem to no avail. How can I find out more about what went wrong, or is this an expected error?

I am trying to repurpose my old iMac as a FreeBSD 11.1 workstation and I'm getting a whacked out screen when I boot into the installer from EFI USB after selecting, 1. Boot into Multiuser, in bsdinstall. It looks like the horizontal scan is off on each row and as a result the screen is...

Hello, I am thinking to buy a apu2c4 board to build a gateway at home. It has an amd 64 puma architecture. But from the page of freebsd, this amd architecture does not seem to be supported. So, which image should I use ? If anyone care, please feel free to propose another board as long as...

I've been using Freebsd to serve my git repo and rsync needs as well as desktop for a few years without any problems using the default partitioning scheme from Freebsd 9, then 10. I recently upgraded to 11, and everything seems to be working fine. Never one to let things be, I am considering...

I have a server that I am trying to install FreeBSD on using the FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick image (the server does not have a CD drive). All the hard drives (only a couple of SSDs for now) are on a backplane attached to two Adaptec 5405z adapters. The drives are initialized and set up...

Is there an alternate boot loader? BTX gets going enough to print it's version (1.02) and maintain a blinking cursor but beyond that it doesn't actually do anything. I was searching for a solution and it seems that this was not an issue with the earlier version of BTX. It seems that I would need...

Hi! I've been using FreeBSD 9 on a fairly old computer based on Intel® DG45FC motherboard, with a Celeron 64bit CPU. After 3 years lying there gathering dust, I've decided to repurpose it and run the latest release. So far, I've been unsuccessful at booting FreeBSD 10.3/11.0-RELEASE (AMD64)...

I am in the process of setting up/learning FreeBSD as a desktop OS, so please forgive me if I am not using correct terminology. I have my Lexmark E260dn (networked) printer setup and working. It prints both plain text, and PostScript files with no problem. Using lpr I can send jobs with no...

A long time ago I created a virtual machine in VirtualBox that allows me to install a new operating system inside it, and then be able to boot the host into that same OS. It's using a rawdisk vmdk. I've installed and used Fedora, Arch, and Debian in that fashion. I'd like to do the same with...

Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 11 on my Macbook 12" retina, but I encountered the following problem: once the system loads and appears the Welcome Menu, where I can chose between install, shell or LiveCD, I cannot move on because the keyboard is not working. The only key working, luckily, is...

Dear FreeBSD Support Team: Last year I upgraded the hardware in this Samsung NP300V4A by adding a 500 GB SSD and 12 GB RAM. So I decided to install FreeBSD 10.3, in that try I had problems installing it from the USB due to display errors at the moment of enter option 1 in the splash screen of...

Hello! I've tried to run Windows10Pro on bhyve. I've used https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows as good guide but after running installation as below sudo bhyve \ -c 1 \ -s 0,hostbridge \ -s 3,ahci-hd,/data/windows.img \ -s 4,ahci-cd,/data2/Windows10Pro/win10x64pl.iso...

Hi, I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 using usb stick, but got stuck at welcome screen. I can't select any option, only can restart using Ctrl+Alt+Del. I had written...

Hi I am totally new to FreeBSD. I am normally using MacOS and Windows, and have also some experience with Linux on Embedded devices. I had expected the img to be similar to an installed Ubuntu, but it did not even have X installed. During the installation of the xorg and laer firefox I came...

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10.3 (amd64) from a CD on Thunder h2000M (S3992) (it is an old motherboard) but it hangs at this line. kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: (110508 RSDT1625) on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed) cpu0: (ACPI CPU) on acpi0 cpul: (ACPI CPU) on...

I'm trying to install FreeBSD-10.3 (FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) It's done on vmware virtual machine (with windows 10 host), but when I'm trying to install it on my notebook (ACER 5738z, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 250GB HDD, INTEL PENTIUM DUAL-CORE 14200) from burned DVD, I see this messages: -> SATA...