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  • Ultimately BAD Experience With FreeBSD

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 00:26:15 2025
    As I mentioned a week ago, I was installing FreeBSD on
    one of my MiniPCs. After a couple of false starts it
    all came into focus, everything working good, got SSH
    and Tiger-VNC and XFCE that worked first time. Was
    installing the other packages I wanted. ALMOST got there ...

    THEN ... an error or two in an install ... and the
    system FROZE. On reboot, hell, it asked where /bin/sh
    was. TOTALLY hosed.

    I'm not 13 with a closet full of Jolt Cola and
    chips ... NOT going to spend days/weeks/months
    trying to undo that level of mess. So, it's GONE,
    won't try it until well into the next full distro.

    Made an OpenBSD stick ... try THAT tomorrow .....

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 10:33:31 2025
    On 20/05/2025 05:26, c186282 wrote:
    As I mentioned a week ago, I was installing FreeBSD on
    one of my MiniPCs. After a couple of false starts it
    all came into focus, everything working good, got SSH
    and Tiger-VNC and XFCE that worked first time. Was
    installing the other packages I wanted. ALMOST got there ...

    THEN ... an error or two in an install ... and the
    system FROZE. On reboot, hell, it asked where /bin/sh
    was. TOTALLY hosed.

    I'm not 13 with a closet full of Jolt Cola and
    chips ... NOT going to spend days/weeks/months
    trying to undo that level of mess. So, it's GONE,
    won't try it until well into the next full distro.

    Made an OpenBSD stick ... try THAT tomorrow .....
    LOL!

    I upgraded a raspberry Pi and it wiped the config changes I had made to
    BIND. Bang goes the house DNS...

    Took most of yesterday to fumble towards a config that worked.
    Programmers keep changing stuff so the fix that worked last time doest
    work this time...
    ...sigh...

    --
    A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on
    its shoes.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Wed May 21 00:08:29 2025
    On Tue, 20 May 2025 10:33:31 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I upgraded a raspberry Pi and it wiped the config changes I had made to BIND.

    Where did you put those config files? You’re supposed to modify /etc/bind/named.conf.local, specifically because that will not be
    overwritten on an upgrade.

    Took most of yesterday to fumble towards a config that worked.

    Didn’t you keep a backup?

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 21 08:04:36 2025
    On 20.05.2025 00:26 c186282 c186282 wrote:

    As I mentioned a week ago, I was installing FreeBSD on
    one of my MiniPCs.

    [...]

    Made an OpenBSD stick ... try THAT tomorrow .....

    There are groups for *BSD:

    comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc 386BSD operating system. comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc BSD/OS operating system.
    comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Announcements pertaining to FreeBSD. (Moderated)
    comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc FreeBSD operating system.
    comp.unix.bsd.misc BSD operating systems.
    comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc NetBSD operating system. comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce OpenBSD announcements. (Moderated) comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc The OpenBSD operating system.

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