Author Archives: scoker3

VMWare and the Joys of Vitualization

Posted on 20 May 2006 by scoker3

Like many sys admins I have used VMWare Workstation to test and deploy new environments and OS. I am starting to use VMWare server in production environments. My current employer is a private university and we have a large amount … Continue reading →

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Updating FreeBSD 6.0 to FreeBSD 6.1

Posted on 19 May 2006 by scoker3

Preliminary Work 1) First make sure that you have cvsup installed pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui rehash 2) Setup your standard-supfile to update to the Release English 6.1 Sources cp /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile ~/ 3) Edit the standard-supfile file: vi standard-supfile Change *default release=cvs … Continue reading →

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Making a Custom Kernel

Posted on 7 May 2006 by scoker3

update source tree To update your system, you should check /usr/src/UPDATING for any pre-buildworld steps necessary for your version of the sources and then use the following procedure: make -j4 buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot Note: The -j4 switch … Continue reading →

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Install Gnome 2.14 for FreeBSD

Posted on 7 May 2006 by scoker3

This information comes from FreeBSD/Gnome FAQ There are two ways to install GNOME 2.14 on FreeBSD. One way is to use packages, and the other way is to use ports. Before doing either installation, you should first familiarize yourself with … Continue reading →

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X11 and Terminal.app

Posted on 16 April 2006 by scoker3

Add this to /etc/profile: # added to allow X11 applications to run if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] then export DISPLAY=:0.0 fi And this to /etc/csh.cshrc: # added to allow X11 applications to run if (! $?DISPLAY) then setenv DISPLAY :0.0 … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 6 as guest OS on VMWare

Posted on 16 April 2006 by scoker3

VMWare Install Notes: {Early notes} I was having clock problem and one of these solved it. Gordon Rayburn reported that: “I was getting “calcru: runtime went backwards” errors until sysctl.conf was updated with “kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC”. Timecounter was using two clocks, the … Continue reading →

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Notes on Keeping FreeBSD 6 up to date

Posted on 16 April 2006 by scoker3

Updating FreeBSD 6.x Before you start Setup environment for packages: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp2.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ Using freebsd-update to update standard kernels 1) Add freebsd update package: pkg_add -r freebsd-update 2) Setup and use freebsd-update: cp /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf mkdir /usr/local/freebsd-update freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update … Continue reading →

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