On 21 June 2012 04:24, Fred Morcos fred.mor...@gmail.com wrote:
Introduction and background
q) Is it possible to run a FreeBSD system without much building? In
other words, can I survive by depending on packages and only resorting
to ports when really needed?
To an
On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote:
q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It
occurred to me when I was trying to find the memory usage on my system
but `sysctl -a | grep mem' shows a whole bunch of stuff.
You can try sysctl -ad but most of the systls are either
On Jun 22, 2012 10:42 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
On 21 June 2012 04:24, Fred Morcos fred.mor...@gmail.com wrote:
Introduction and background
q) Is it possible to run a FreeBSD system without much building? In
other words, can I survive by depending on
On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote:
q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It
occurred to me when I was trying to find the memory usage on my system
but `sysctl -a | grep mem' shows a
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
On 22 June 2012 11:44, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk
wrote:
On 22/06/2012 18:40, Eitan Adler wrote:
q) Is there a place where all sysctl variables are documented? It
occurred to me when I was trying
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
I'm quite new to FreeBSD too (RHEL/Fedora background), and am most
impressed with it so far.
rather huge difference.
Secondly (and probably stating the obvious), the handbook
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Fred Morcos writes:
q) Is it possible to run a FreeBSD system without much building?
In other words, can I survive by depending on packages and only
resorting to ports when really needed?
Mostly, yes. There are down-sides, but if you're building a
client where specific
On 21/06/2012 12:24, Fred Morcos wrote:
q) I am currently considering 3 disks for a home micro-server, with
ZFS striping with the third disk being a parity disk. In case I decide
to buy a fourth disk in the future and add it to the pool, is ZFS
capable of re-structuring the data on-the-fly to
+---+
|Stripe |
+---+---+
|Mirror1|Mirror2|
+---+---+---+---+
| Disk1 | Disk2 | Disk3 | Disk4 |
+---+---+---+---+
true.
but there are mirror/stripe layout that is quite
Hi,
On Thursday 21 June 2012 18:24:26 Fred Morcos wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar
q) Is it possible to run a FreeBSD system without much building? In
other words, can I survive by depending on packages and only resorting
to ports when really needed?
you can run both
Maybe a hint. I leave always one big release out. With other words. If you
start now with 9, you do not have to move to 10 but you can stick with 9 until
11 comes out. You do not even have to upgrade at the spot.
my as i do - i for now run FreeBSD 8, and will run 9 when it will be
needed with
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:24:26 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
I'm quite new to FreeBSD too (RHEL/Fedora background), and am most
impressed with it so far.
rather huge difference.
If you use the right
the experimental development branch -HEAD, it _might_ happen that
the system doesn't even compile, but updated 30 minutes after
that accident, it runs fine again. :-)
And finally unless doing tests or using private not-really-important
computer, don't just install newest FreeBSD because it's
Hi,
On Thursday 21 June 2012 23:55:38 Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:24:26 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar
q) Is it possible to get native resolution on the console? I played
with vesa and vidcontrol but could never get what I wanted.
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:14:54 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote:
the experimental development branch -HEAD, it _might_ happen that
the system doesn't even compile, but updated 30 minutes after
that accident, it runs fine again. :-)
And finally unless doing tests or using private
Hi,
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 19:32:24 Fred Morcos wrote:
I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most
comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would
like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all
in a single email message or
I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most
comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would
like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all
in a single email message or should I split them by subject/topic into
different emails?
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:32:24 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most
comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would
like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all in
a single email
These are good guidelines to follow:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/article.html
Try to avoid X Y problems. Initiating it with the root question will give
the best results.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Fred Morcos fred.mor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I'm quite new to FreeBSD too (RHEL/Fedora background), and am most
impressed with it so far.
rather huge difference.
Secondly (and probably stating the obvious), the handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
is the place I always look first.
and third - manuals.
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