post-install

Say for example I didn't select things like ports or lib32 during the bsdinstall, could I install those later after installation or would I need to reinstall to get those? If I can then how would I do that?

After a fresh install of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE(on virtual box in windows), unable to update/install packages. The physical machine(desktop) is inside my office network. The same setup works on my office laptop(windows + virtualbox) when connected to office network via VPN without any addtional...

I have Thinkpad x250 with freeBSD 13.1 RC4 with most of tweaks I could find online and in man pages enabled but I cannot get my power consuption below 5.5W even with all those tweaks and I am using BSPWM for comparison MS windows 10 uses 7 watt with all bloat running and UBUNTU 22.04 GNOME 42...

I have a feeling that I miss the obvious here, but I failed to find an answer in this forum, the handbook or the man pages. Is there a way to (automagically) apply a patch after pkg install or pkg upgrade? The current situation is that I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that needs tweaking...

Whenever I run freebsd-update, It says src component not installed. I don't have the option to install it during installation because this my FreeBSD box is a Digital Ocean VPS. I tried using wget to download the src.txz, and then copying it to /usr/src/sys/ Then I ran freebsd-update again...