I had an idea, have a machine that has more memory than it needs for what it does (32GB
Ram), and I read about freebsds reboot(8) -r flag to
use a kenv variable to soft reload the kernel and keep a created memory
disk persistent across the reboot.. This …
So, I was quite fortunate, for a while I got my hands on two very similar servers.
# dmidecode -t baseboard
# dmidecode 3.2
Scanning /dev/mem for entry point.
SMBIOS 3.1.1 present.
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Supermicro …My very first harddrive, that is now long gone, was a 40MB 3.5" ATA drive, before it got known as PATA.
I've since had various types, PATA, SCSI, SATA and the occational SAS.
Right, disregarding that long history, I had a bunch of drives I need to …
more ...I've found myself staring at a
grub>
With ubuntu not going anywhere..
If I did
set root=(hd0,gpt2)
set prefix=(hd0,gpt2)/boot/grub
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/vda2
initrd /initrd.img
boot
vda being because it's got virtio-bd, if it's using ahci …
more ...So I've heard about vxlan, lots of talk about it, kind of knew what it actually was never really found it .. tempting ..
But I figured I'd better try it and see. So I wanted to do something silly as the first thing.
First configured it between two …
more ...--- poudriere.conf.sample 2018-02-15 00:54:08.000000000 +0100
+++ poudriere.conf 2018-02-21 19:40:40.959762000 +0100
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@
# You need at least 7GB of free space in this pool to have a working
# poudriere.
#
-#ZPOOL=tank
+ZPOOL=zroot
### NO ZFS
# To not …First of all, IPSec has always struck me as something that's advanced and simple getting together and making something really hard to comprehend.
There's the absolute basic of it, move package X from A to B, securely. The concept is deceptively simple …
more ...It wasn't too difficult to buy, picked a server that seemed reasonable for my tests and clicked buy, after witch I had to wait for a more thorough verification of who I was it was my first purchase, I can't see that as anything but a …
more ...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 …
more ...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 …
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