Automatic USB device management for FreeBSD Script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/usb_manage.sh
(plain text) manages USB
flash memory (umass) devices. It is triggered by a devd.conf
action and sets up KDE desktop entries that allow the console user to
mount and unmount a USB device using file /etc/fstab entries
that are added as necessary. See the script for additional information
on use and installation. This script requires user mounting of file
systems at user owned mount points so vfs.usermount=1 (for safety, it
checks that main system filesystem mounts are owned by root before
assigning vfs.usermount=1).
Script sh.make_boot_FlashMemoryFS
automates the transfer of boot files onto a flash memory device that
boots a RAID-based FreeBSD system without PC BIOS boot support (plain text file). It assumes that
the boot slice has been manually set with a command like boot0cfg -s
1 -v -B -o noupdate da0 # specify slice 1 (example for da0) and is
also handy when building solid-state disk systems.
Netbeans 5.5 install on FreeBSD Script netbeans (plain text) can be used to run netbeans
5.5 in FreeBSD-6.2 and similar systems. See file README for installation instructions.
D-Link AirPlus Xtreme-G DWL-520 on FreeBSD The
D-Link AirPlus Xtreme-G requires a /boot/loader.conf entry of
wlan_xauth_load="YES" , and then an appropriate
wpa_supplicant.conf for use (see above).
Missing KDE 3.5 kcontrol menus after a FreeBSD KDE rebuild via the
ports system? These
instructions
reactivated menus so that non-root users could configure their KDE
environment here.
X-windows and Unix on OS-X:
From
Unix to Mac OS X, by Tom Loredo at Cornell, is an excellent
introduction to OS-X for FreeBSD users.
File xroot_emu.c (plain text) allows an existing application's window
to emulate a piece of X-windows root window. This is useful when running
X-windows in "rootless" mode and you still need some normal root window
for window management. It is based on xroot.c by Greg Parker. Example
of use: sample .xinitrc file for Mac
OS-X (plain text).
File .xinitrc launches a traditional
xterm and window manager for OS-X/leopard and Xorg (.tar.gz archive).
This Darwin
Ports work allows the latest FreeBSD ports system to work on
Mac OS-X.
intel Mac Book OS-X can't boot due to missing
disk? Check first for intermittent connection - remove and
re-insert disk as per ifixit
instructions.
FreeBSD USB booting using a flash memory disk: these FreeBSD USB Boot notes describe how to install
the boot files and loader onto a flash memory storage device, giving a
very fast boot system that leaves the system with a kernel ready to
execute. At present, the system then looks for a root file system that
is assumed to be on another disk (presumably, one that did not support
booting). However, you could also add other system files to the file
system on the USB flash memory disk for stand-alone operation (file
systems such as /tmp are typically a memory drive);
ISDN Data-over-Voice (DoV) and FreeBSD install notes (4.xR, x<=7);
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE laptop install
notes for FreeBSD-5 + Xorg and now FreeBSD-6 + Xorg (everything just
works), with additional information relating to hardware/BIOS and use
with older FreeBSD-4, plus an OpenBSD link and a tuxmobile site link;
Daniel O'Connor has
completed projects such as PF Firewalls, building OpenWRT firmware,
setup of bluetooth links, Atmel 1-wire interfacing, network tunnels,
etc.
MBONE Router, Multimedia Sound, Multimedia Video Capture, Video
Display cards for XFree86, and MBONE conferencing tools for FreeBSD are
described by Mark Tinguely at
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~tinguely/mbone-freebsd/.
Broken ATAPI code work-around for UltraDMA: force PIO4 mode by
pressing the space bar when the install CD boots, before the system detects
hardware, and enter
set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
boot
FreeBSD - An Open-Source Operating System For Your
Personal Computer by Annelise Anderson, The Bit Tree Press,
2001. Paperback, 419 pages, book and CD. ISBN: 0-9812045-0-0. This book
is available from http://mall.daemonnews.org and from
http://www.amazon.com.
"The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide", Ted
Mittelstaedt, Addison-Wesley, 2000. Paperback, 432 pages, book and CD.
ISBN: 0201704811. See the book's home page http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
for additional information (support material, reviews, etc.) and amazon
also have details;
"Absolute BSD" The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD by
Michael Lucas, No Starch Press, July 2002, 612 pp. ISBN 1-886411-74-3.
See the nostarch.com web site
and/or the author's web site;
"FreeBSD Unleashed" by Michael Urban and Brian
Tiemann, SAMS, October 2001. Paperback, 1024 pages, book and CD. ISBN:
0672322064. See the www.samspublishing.com
link and also sites such as amazon.
Script clone-system can be used to save a
snap shot of your system's configuration at regular intervals (onto an
independent store) in order to help with system rebuilds;
A most important administration survival hint: get into the habit of
using su to become root for admin work, and then get out of root
mode asap so you are more often protected from careless error!
