*nix VirtualBox installation

Posted on February 2, 2015. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

NOTE The debian stuff is wrong. Select “debian graphical environment”, “Xfce” and “standard utilities” in dselect. Installing the OS Copy & paste has to be enabled in VirtualBox Manager (General > Advanced > Shared Clipboard = Bidirectional) Install (Ubuntu Server) as cleanly as possible. In particular, do not select any packages to install. Remove CD/DVD […]

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FreeBSD tips

Posted on November 15, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

When FreeBSD tells you to Run fsck manually the command you’re looking for is fsck -y /dev/whatever

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Working with FreeBSD’s ports

Posted on October 22, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

Fetch and update your ports collection: portsnap fetch portsnap extract # first time only portsnap update # subsequently (this takes some time) Find the packages you want to install/upgrade: Find out-of-date packages: pkg_version -v Find a new package: whereis port-i-want Change to the directory for the port you want to install: cd /usr/ports/path-to/port-i-want Install it: […]

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