I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP
is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to
always get the same IP address but recently the address seems to be changing
very frequently whenever I reboot the machine.
My problem is that
I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got
a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery
partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever
I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel
FreeBSD 7.0. I am having a problem when ntpd starts at bootup. It
continues to have 2 processes running, the process which does the DNS lookup
fails to exit, and ntpd fails to adjust the clock even after days of
running. Immediately after bootup and several hours or days later this is
what I
FreeBSD 7.0. I am having a problem when ntpd starts at bootup. It
continues to have 2 processes running, the process which does the DNS lookup
fails to exit, and ntpd fails to adjust the clock even after days of
running. Immediately after bootup and several hours or days later this is
what
FreeBSD 7.0. I am having a problem when ntpd starts at bootup. It
continues to have 2 processes running, the process which does the DNS lookup
fails to exit, and ntpd fails to adjust the clock even after days of
running. Immediately after bootup and several hours or days later this is
what
I don't know why those processes are hung after boot, but in order to
troubleshoot the problem, I suggest that you modify the /etc/rc.d/ntpd
script to invoke ntpd from truss and log the output to a file, e.g.
/tmp/truss.log.$$. Once you've rebooted, kill the processes and post
the the log
When ntpd first starts up, it forks a child process to perform DNS
resolution of the timeservers listed in its config. If that fails, that
generally indicates that DNS was not working at the time, or something else
was going wrong with the network.
[ See ntpd/ntp_config.c, search for fork()
This shouldn't be needed as ntpd already requires ntpdate and in
turn ntpdate requires named. The issue is probably timing - that named
isn't ready.
Actually, the REQUIRE thing in the /etc/rc.d scripts means if the
required service is enabled, start it before this one. It does not
mean start
That's not correct. BEFORE and REQUIRE are used by rcorder to
determine the ordering of the scripts without checking if they are
enabled. Actually all scripts get run - if you don't enable ntpdate then
rc.d/ntpdate still runs, but doesn't do anything.
My mistake. But then I don't
I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several
network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a
bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well.
Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really
have no
Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me
over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router
approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone
wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that
I already have. Also I
There was recently a thread that I started relating to ntpd not
starting correctly becuase DNS and network were not available at the
time of start. Do a
ps -U root | grep ntpd
If you see 2 processes, then the thread I mention may apply to you.
If you see one or no processes, then that thread
rtorrent is very good, have been using it on my server for many months.
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This is a shell scripting question, it is not specific to FreeBSD.
I am writing a script that I want to terminate after 1 second (because
it has the potential to infinite loop). The script I have so far is:
#!/bin/sh
cd `dirname $0`
CLASSPATH=mapgen.jar
export CLASSPATH
/usr/local/bin/java
#!/bin/sh
java()
{
echo 'start'
sleep 5
echo 'stop'
}
sleep 1 kill $$
java
kill $!
{
echo 'start'
sleep 5
echo 'stop'
}
sleep 1 kill $$
java
kill $!
That is very genious. However, I had to add an exec to the parent
script. Here
Actually, because of the exec in the parent script, the line below
it, the killing terminator process line, never gets reached. So the
terminator process that waits to kill its parent always waits the full
5 seconds in the background. If I pipe the output of the parent
script through less, it
#!/bin/sh -T
kill_all()
{
echo 'killing everything'
kill $SPID $CPID 2 /dev/null
exit 0
}
trap kill_all SIGCHLD
./child
CPID=$!
sleep 5
SPID=$!
echo child is $CPID
echo sleeper is $SPID
wait
This is very nice. However I'm getting one problem still. My
I decided that I want the exec line at the end of the script because I
want the exit code of the script to be the exit code of the Java
process. I'm willing to live with the fact that the sleep thread will
wait its full 3 seconds. So my final script is this:
#!/bin/sh
cd `dirname $0`
I'm running 7.0-RELEASE and I want to defer upgrading to the current
update (currently p9) and/or upgrading to 7.1 for as long as possible.
I occasionally csup /usr/src and have a gander at /usr/src/UPDATING,
but I don't understand to the fullest extent what security holes may
affect my system.
Ascertaining what security holes will affect your system is complicated.
If you have to ask this question, then I recommend that you apply all
security updates immediately and always assume that every vulnerability
is a potential problem for you.
Because 7.0 updates will no longer be made
.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote:
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Ascertaining what security holes will affect your system is complicated.
If you have to ask this question, then I recommend that you apply all
security updates immediately and always
We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of
FreeBSD in dedicated servers.
Any one could point some?
Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with
FreeBSD.
The one thar we use today, only install a fixed image. Just a
I had to solve this same problem some time ago, and I used this
mailing list to help me figure it out. See here:
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-1027.html
Go to the very bottom, my last post has the answer. Maybe this will
help you. It works very well for me.
guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is
nearly
full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio
files.
mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like
to have
the most reasoned approach to
Try compiling your kernel with bpf enabled. I had the same or at
least a similar problem to what you're having and enabling device bpf
in the kernel fixed the problem.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone make sense of this?
Straight DSL
sorry about the top post. wish i could go back and fix it.
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Yeah, I'm very interested in one as well.
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For the past week or so, portaudit has been warning me that the
installed version of php on my system (php5-5.2.11_1) has known
vulnerabilties. Fair enough. However, I've not seen a fix in the ports
tree since then. Is my only option to deinstall php until this gets
fixed?
Hi. I've been
I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing
system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an
ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of
one server to a temporary mount point on the other server, and then,
assuming my user has
I'm running some programs using the /etc/rc.d/ and
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ startup scripts. I am wondering if there is some
standard way to run these programs at a higher nice value.
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That means you can write this in your /etc/rc.conf file:
apache22_enable=YES
apache22_nice=10
Hope that helps,
Oh yes, that helps a lot. Thanks!
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I am wanting to execute a PHP file 5 times a day via crontab. Is it
possible? If so what is the proper crontab command for this?
Hi. I'm running several PHP programs via cron.
#1 Make sure you have CLI (command line interface) in your PHP port:
As root,
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
make
Been trying to install /usr/ports/java/jdk16 and get an error stating
need to place tzupdater-1_3_21-2009p.zip into
/usr/ports/distfiles... have gone to sun and file is no longer there,
and have searched internet for it but to no avail.
Does someone have link where I can download the file?
I'm in the process of purchasing a small Nehelem-based server (Xeon
L5506 CPU to be exact). I will be installing some flavor of FreeBSD
8.0 (either i386 32 bit or amd64 64 bit, to be exact). I have no
immediate need for a 64 bit server, as none of the processes that I
will be running in the
There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you
can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to
see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture.
OK thanks. Could you give me an example of a port that is disabled on
64 bit
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root,
after a reboot it goes back to permission 755.
1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I
would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is
well designed (honestly, no sarcasm here).
2. Would
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root,
after a reboot it goes back to permission 755.
1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I
would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is
well designed (honestly, no sarcasm here).
Tried to get any permutation of XYZ-jre or XYZ-jdk installed on 8-rc1
and gave up. I see still no diablo for 8. What is the best way
forward (and how am I so dense that no one else has even asked this
question, I must be on the wrong track, no?) I saw a few posts about
having to install
I was looking in /boot/loader.rc and found these lines:
\ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined
check-password
OK, great, so: How do I set this password? What does it protect? Didn't find
documentation in loader(8) and no man-page for loader.rc.
I'm trying to send large UDP packets between 2 programs written in the
Java programming language. These 2 programs will be running on 2
different hosts which are far apart. The test code for these
programs is only a few lines and is here:
You've encountered:
% sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram
net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216
However, increasing it will guarantee that you will exceed even normal jumbo
frame size and thus depend upon IP fragmentation / reassembly for the
traffic. I don't consider that to be a good idea, but it
#!/bin/sh
I have these lines in my script:
DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\`
cd $DIRNAME
SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`
What if I got rid of extra double quotes? Like this:
DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\`
cd $DIRNAME
SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`
Does this behave any differently in any kind of case? Are thes double
quotes just
From the man page:
Command Substitution
[...]
If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and
pathname expansion are not performed on the results.
In other words:
sh-4.0$ touch x y
sh-4.0$ for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done
x
y
sh-4.0$ for i in `ls`; do
#!/bin/sh
DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\`
cd $DIRNAME
SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`
What if I got rid of extra double quotes? Like this:
DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\`
cd $DIRNAME
SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`
That is perfectly fine. Word-splitting and filename expansion are
not performed for variable assignments. Also
I'm communicating with a server that uses UDP packets. The server
receives a UDP packet, and responds with a UDP packet by sending one
to the initial sender. The request packets are always very small in
size, but the response UDP packets can be up to 9216 bytes in size.
I am using netcat like
I have a 32 bit FreeBSD 8.0 running on a quad core Xeon machine with 6
gigs of RAM. I decided on a 32 bit vs 64 for various reasons. So now
I need to enable PAE in the kernel, easy enough.
I had a look through all the relevant man pages and I've successfully
modified my kernel configuration
cdcontrol eject ?
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Olivier Nicole
olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
Hi,
What in a standard installation of FreeBSD, on a server running only
MySQL and Postgress, could cause the CD tray to open by itself from
time to time?
Thanks in advance,
Olivier
I am trying to run a php script from the cron tab and these are the errors I
receive:
/usr/local/bin/php php -q /home//ripper.php result
Could not open input file: php
/usr/local/bin/php php -/home//ripper.php result
Could not open input file: php
/usr/local/bin/php
Running FreeBSD 8.0 32 bit PAE kernel, latest ports.
My current hobby is to experiment more with Objective-C. I'm
rewriting some of my old Java code in Objectve-C to get a better
feeling for how this language works.
I'm finally able to write, compile, and run Objective-C programs after
learning
I am compiling this program and running it, and without the release
calls there, it certainly is using up more and more memory every
second. Definitely no garbage collection happening. I then modified
the GNUmakefile to make sure that the option -fobjc-gc was being
passed to gcc, and
I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several
years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb
and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on). I've got an older PC that
would great as a routerhowever I also need it to be a
What is the content of the header file?
File GarbageObj.h:
#import Foundation/Foundation.h
@interface GarbageObj : NSObject {
}
-(void) foo;
@end
File GarbageObj.m:
#import GarbageObj.h
@implementation GarbageObj
-(void) foo {
}
-(void) dealloc
Sorry for the delay. Medical problem.
Here's what I know.
1) Under FreeBSD 8.x OBJC APPEARS NOT to use garbage collection. I
looked at the source and the GC routines aren't defined anywhere and I
stepped through the assembly language and the allocation routing call
malloc(). There is a
Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like
Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD):
http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm
Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a
headless system (such as one of these small devices) via
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system
before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date?
By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such
as this one:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0
in your standard-supfile file, and then
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system
before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date?
By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such
as this one:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0
in your standard-supfile file, and then
Some games run natively on FreeBSD with no emulation. For example
Urban Terror is a first person shooter that fits this category, and
it's very popular. /usr/ports/games/iourbanterror and it requires
hardware 3D acceleration (nVidia drivers would work well).
For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs.
I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 - 7.1. I use the
buildworld/buildkernel procedure.
I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or
is it safe to go directly from 7.1 to 7.3?
- Nerius
My upgrades were a success. I upgraded 3 machines:
1. 7.1 - 7.4
2. 8.0 - 8.1
3. 7.1 - 7.3 - 7.4
I don't use STABLE, but rather e.g. RELENG_7_4
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Two questions -
1.) If rebooting into single user mode isn't obviously a
requirement...I wonder why so many tutorials, books, etc. tell you to
do this?
Dropping into single user mode is highly recommended especially if
you're upgrading from, say, 8.1 to 8.2 (a minor version upgrade). If
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Another way to do this, but is quite rare, is to log in via serial
console. This requires you to configure serial logins to your server
(quite easy, but you should test it first) and it requires the data
center to somehow
This topic was recently discussed on the FreeBSD Forums, so I'll link it here:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21993
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I just got a new Supermicro Atom board a few days ago (X7SPA-HF-D525).
It has a Nuvoton BMC chip that is attached to LAN1 and provides IPMI
and KVM-over-IP functionality. The chip gets its own IP address
(separate from em0 in FreeBSD) and is powered whenever the power cord
is plugged-in.
As
Sadly, this is one of those times when portupgrade seems
to handle things better, but you'll probably have to wait another
day to see if things worked out better this time.
For me, using portupgrade on 3 different systems (7.4 and 8.1) to
upgrade Python 2.6 to 2.7 worked like a charm. Just my
Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum discussion.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. :-/
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Question #2: Is the JVM implementation for FreeBSD reliable and fast? Most
of my software components are made in Java (including HSQDB)
Since I have experience with Java on FreeBSD, I will try to answer
this question.
Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single
problem
This is not a technical question.
Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing
part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You
could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before
investing money with them. Does anyone know how Apple
Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I am looking to run a Freebsd server with a
hosting company. Preferably on the cheaper side as our needs in the beginning
will be somewhat limited. I would need enough ram/storage to do some trial
and
error with different databases. So the vmware virtual
I have a server machine that I use as DHCP server, sshd login etc, and since
I have multiple Ethernet interfaces on it, I would like to use two of those
for the internal network to avoid adding one more ethernet switch for just
one extra machine. DHCP should configure hosts on both those
I've read a lot on the internet regarding the use of the backspace key in
emacs, but the proposed solutions don't seem to be working for me.
I just installed FreeBSD 8.1 in Virtualbox and installed emacs 23.2.1 by
means of the package installer. Everything in emacs works great except the
Hmm...I can't figure out how to get xxd to report the keycodes, and google
isn't really turning anything up. Can you tell me how it's done?
It's been a while since I've tinkered with xxd. Let's see:
1. Run xxd from command prompt.
2. Type Delete.
3. Type Enter.
4. Type Ctrl+D.
You'll see some
First off, I'm on 9.0-CURRENT-i386, but I don't think that will make a
difference for purposes of my question. I think the freebsd-current
folks are expecting questions that are much harder than this one.
I'm trying to use /etc/rc.d/netif to bring down and bring back up all
network interfaces,
In my experience, I've found it best to restart 'routing,' as well.
/etc/rc.d/routing restart
Yes indeed thank you.
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But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for me. It would take
too long to configure FreeBSD to my liking. I couldn't figure out what to
enter in GRUB to multi-boot Linux and BSD. I tried PC-BSD, GhostBSD, and
DragonflyBSD in VirtualBox. I've found PC-BSD agonizingly slow to
alternatively try one of the torrents, it should survive disconnections far
better than ftp etc
Yes, try the torrents. I don't seed them for nothing. This is
probably one of the best ways to get FreeBSD.
Here they are: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start
his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when
the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's
not really what I'm looking for. I gave my friends access to my
FreeBSD server and I
What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal?
rtorrent is to bit torrent what is to IRC.
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Seems that @reboot in cron is what I need. It's too bad that there's
no straightforward shutdown hook.
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Just a thought, you can use the screen utility depending on what you
are trying to do. For example if you want to start a job, long out of
the machine completely, and then return to your job to see how it's
running, you may choose to run screen.
screen bash
(Press Control-A then d)
(Logout from
I'm getting a new desktop through my university which will come
installed with Windows Vista. Obviously, my first action item will be
removing Vista and installing a reasonable OS. Due to the need to be
up-and-running immediately with an OS that I'm comfortable with, I'll
be installing
One of my not-for-profit websites is increasing in popularity and
users are requesting forums. I am going to add forums now, but I'm
not sure which route to take:
1. Install the forums software so it runs on my webserver.
2. Use some third-party forums website [with their advertising probably].
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and touch the physical
workstation. Things I'm trying to avoid, to list a couple of
examples:
1. Go to BIOS settings
If you do choose 32 bit, you can compile the PAE kernel which will
allow access to all of your memory, but you'll still be limited to
under 4 GB per process memory.
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This is really more of a networking question.
I'm wondering, in a typical scenario, for example my server is in a data
center with a typical colocation company.
I am editing someone else's code, and this code handles incoming UDP
packets. The code handles UDP packets that have a source address
Maybe, is there a simple 10 line C program that I can run and compile to
check if this scenario is possible on _my_ server?
'netcat' has the capability built in.
root# echo hi | nc -u -w 1 -p 30002 -s 64.156.193.115 daffy 30001
nc: bind failed: Can't assign requested address
I don't
You mean replace each newline character with two newline characters?
perl -p -i -e 's/\n/\n\n/g' yourfile.txt
Something like that?
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by \n.
How do I put a blank line
Hi, I'm a 3 year customer of M5 Hosting.
They are in San Diego.
I am a very very pleased customer. :-)
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.comwrote:
Use M5 Hosting. They are FBSD friendly and offer outstanding and human
support.
What do feel are the advantages of the cloud?
It costs more money. So the advantage is that it stimulates the economy.
:-P
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I'd like to:-
Have a ssh login via LAN available, I believe that's a standard feature,
but I expressedly disabled that (well, told it not to implement it) when
I orignaly installed the OS. Or have a VNC server running.
Add the following line:
sshd_enable=YES
to file /etc/rc.conf .
I've had success running [at least some] 32 bit software on 64 bit
FreeBSD without even using a jail.
Do you have /usr/lib32 on your system? This would get installed for
example if you rebuild world/kernel following this:
I've had success running [at least some] 32 bit software on 64 bit
FreeBSD without even using a jail.
Do you have /usr/lib32 on your system? This would get installed for
example if you rebuild world/kernel following this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I create a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit machine then?
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3744 did not tell me much.
Thanks!
Use this as a start:
I read this in /usr/ports/UPDATING today:
=
20101227:
AFFECTS: users of databases/mysql55-server
AUTHOR: a...@freebsd.org
MySQL 5.5 has been updated to 5.5.8 GA release. Since layout is
changed you should remove
Hi everyone,
I've installed Production Release 8.1 on a production server and I
want to just track the errata branch, so should I use the
standard-supfile or stable-supfile?
Also, I want my supfile to read: tag=RELENG_8_1
right?
You want standard-supfile for the security fixes for your
I'm wondering if it's possible to adjust the sensitivity of the mouse - that
is, the amount of physical distance I have to move my mouse before 'moused'
moves the cursor by one unit. I'm not talking about acceleration here.
Purely a linear scaling is what I mean. I think we can leave Xorg out of
I'm aware of the 'xset' utility, but this does not seem to do anything
for
linear scaling, only acceleration. Also, it [of course] has no effect
on
the console pointer.
Linear? Do you mean threshold 0, like `xset m 3/2 0'?
'xset' is indeed what I want. Err, `xset', not 'xset'. I'm
I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here, because I
believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same limitation) and came
across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I wanted to keep. It was Lilo
and all it did was boot a selected slice, it was configured to function
I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here,
because I believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same
limitation) and came across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I
wanted to keep. It was Lilo and all it did was boot a selected
slice, it was configured to
Yes, I figured using `bsdlabel' would install /boot/boot to the
beginning of the slice. However, I cannot [easily] run `bsdlabel'
without being booted into the FreeBSD OS. I can't run the OS
without /boot/boot being installed to the beginning of the FreeBSD
slice. Chicken and egg
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