Preliminaries

Looking to try Hetzner decicated hosting server and given my recent forays with FreeBSD. After browsing a bit I picked a EX41S, it should be able to run FreeBSD, 64G memory, some about of drivesspace.

Since I don't have any kind of major plans for the server most other …

I had to restore a gitlab installation and after that I had to recover admin rights.

So I needed to go through gitlab-rails and the console, and it requires a bit of patience before the prompt shows up

root@testgitlab:~# gitlab-rails console production
Loading production environment (Rails 4.2.10 …

So, stuff happened that made it necessary for me to do a manual installation, also, I really wanted to. Most of what I need is listed in FreeBSD handbook 17.2 so it wasn't an imposible task. I've done a lot of partitioning over time, but GPT did look like …

I want to try out iSCSI[wiki-iscsi] more, I've always liked the idea but never really got it working the way I wanted to.

So my plan right now is to use FreeBSD as both target and initiator so I kind of have a sane grip on both ends of …

Right, so from time to time I end up installing a FreeBSD system while there's only one disk for the os, sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose.

Sometimes, it's just because the old mirror has a really bad drive it in and I want to freshen it up a …

So, there are things I want to do on a FreeBSD after the installation. A few things I want to make sure is exactly as I want it to make the place feel more like home.

First of all, I want a few packages that I want installed to make …

So, I've turned to FreeBSD lately, firstly because I really like The Z Filesytem. I started using it from Openindiana which has worked really well it's a nice platform, and it's always kind of fun to try out platforms that are a bit different from the regular platform.

I tried …

So I've had this pelican site for .. ehm.. $time ..

First .gitlab-ci.yml was easy, just use the basic stuff from examples, but then I needed some extra stuff.

Had to make a requirements.txt to add a few basic python packages (which pulls in an extra dusin).

requirements.txt:

pelican …

So after doing a bit of configuration and installation:

sudo apt install -y blockdiag nwdiag apt-utils git python-pip graphviz python-blockdiag
cp -R ../pelican-plugins/liquid_tags plugins/

Doing some config:

PLUGIN_PATHS = ['plugins']
PLUGINS = ['i18n_subsites','neighbors','tag_cloud','post_revision','post_stats','liquid_tags.graphviz','liquid_tags.diag']

It was time to try it out with something that …

So, I tried earlier to use bootstrap3 as a theme, more acurately, I tried messing around with themse from Pelican Themes, only very themes worked so in desperation I started reading some documentation, and it always seemed to simple..

Tweak the pelicanconf.py, and it just works.. also bootstrap3 needs …