Re: Generating a random hostname

2010-03-17 Thread Peter van der Linden
On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Roland Smith wrote: openssl rand -base64 18| sed 's|[^[:alpha:]]||g' That works very well. My first run included an impressive anglo-saxon observation. To diminish agitating the night shift, I suppose you could filter out all the vowels. Peter, emailing from

how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-19 Thread Peter van der Linden
I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP laptop. I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give the installer a hint about the graphics card, typically something like: boot: linux vga=771 When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes