Creating a swap file in FreeBSD

1. Make sure the virtual disk driver (md(4)) is present in the kernel configuration file. It is included in the GENERIC kernel.

device md # Memory "disks"

2. Create a swap file (/usr/swap0):

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64

3. Set appropriate permissions on (/usr/swap0):

# chmod 0600 /usr/swap0

4. Enable the swap file in /etc/rc.conf:

swapfile="/usr/swap0" # Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired.

5. Reboot the computer, or to enable swap right now enter:

# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/swap0 -u 0 && swapon /dev/md0

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How to hide a folder (file) in a shared folder

Download here

to boot FreeBSD via ntloader you need

c:\boot0=“FreeBSD”

Turned out that watching Flash on FreeBSD is a non-trivial task. There is nothing to download from the Adobe site, and after installing from ports, Flash is still not visible in either Opera or Firefox. Found another workaround — will give it a try.

Open the package manager as mentioned above and look for www/linux-flashplugin7, install it. It will install nspluginwrapper too and activate the browser plugin and any other browser plugins (like adobe acroread8) too. Restart the browser and use Flash. www/linuxpluginwrapper is obsolete.

When Konsole is running with multiple tabs (logins), users are not shown by w. Interesting questions: a) why? b) what happens to the session if X or Konsole crashes?

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Dia was developed in the image and likeness of the commercial Windows application “Visio”, so switching to it should come with no learning curve complications. You can build various diagrams and flowcharts with the same ease. Dia features special tools for simplified drawing of entity-relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and more.

official site

Windows installer

Building the subject from ports was not the most optimal decision… At this point the KDE-3.5.8 build on a Duron-750 with ADSL-512k has been running for 21 hours already. What would have been the right way to do it?

Question — do I need to install anything else to set up NAT, or can ppp handle it on its own? Found this:

http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/3173.html#1

/etc/ppp/ppp.conf:

default:
set device PPPoE:ed0:my_isp's_name
set speed sync
set mru 1492
set mtu 1492
set ctsrts off
enable lqr
add default HISADDR
set timeout 0
set redial 0 0
#NAT
nat enable yes
nat log yes
nat same_ports yes
nat unregistered_only yes
enable dns

my_isp's_name:
set authname username
set authkey password

In rc.conf:

First rake. ShellGuard, my beloved ShellGuard - won’t connect. sshd is running and configured, I can log in locally on 127.0.0.1. Even PuTTY connected. Though sluggishly. But ShellGuard says

no matching comp found. Client zlib Server: none,zlib@openssh.com

Thanks to opennet. Turns out the fix is

"Compression yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

and also

PasswordAuthentication yes

Though it connected sluggishly too. I’m blaming the huge number of interfaces and a running torrent. If it’s this slow on a real machine (up to 30 seconds to log in), the question will come up again.

Tasks#

1. install FreeBSD
2. configure sshd
3. configure NAT for ADSL
4. locale russification, but for some reason only for root, even though I set it in /etc/profile
5. configure X
6. install KDE
7. update ports
8. MS Office under Wine

Questions#

1. Do I need a firewall? What for?
2. how the heck do you russify it? I’ve worn the Handbook to shreds…
3. how do you disconnect a PPPoE connection? how to reconnect after a drop? How to detect a drop?