Scripted Install of FreeBSD 9
May 8, 2012 by brd · Leave a Comment
Continuing in the theme of automation, here is a distilled guide on how I do an install on FreeBSD 9.
http://freebsd.so14k.com/freebsd9_scripted_install.shtml
It is pretty basic, here are some of the highlights:
- GPT disk layout
- ZFS Only Install (which could be easily converted to UFS)
- The Script is nice and short!
PXE Booting FreeBSD 9
March 23, 2012 by brd · Leave a Comment
I have thrown together a quick guide to get FreeBSD 9 to PXE Boot:
http://freebsd.so14k.com/freebsd9_pxe.shtml
In FreeBSD 9, a few things have changed. If you have an old PXE environment from FreeBSD 8, you will want to make note of the following:
- No more mfsroot.
- Which means, no more changes to /boot/loader.conf, it should be empty infact.
- You need the new pxeboot binary from 9, do not try using an old one.
anoncvs1/cvsup14 Update
March 23, 2012 by brd · Leave a Comment
Just a quick note. I have cvsup14 running again, and has been for awhile.
Anoncvs I have not gotten around to setting up yet, hopefully soon.
New FreeBSD Forums box has been Shipped!
January 31, 2012 by brd · 2 Comments
I have just shipped the new FreeBSD Forums box. It will be much nicer to have a more powerful box and lots more RAM to play with. Maybe even let us implement things like Varnish finally!
Puppet patch pushed upstream!
January 23, 2012 by brd · Leave a Comment
Thanks to everyone that helped. Especially Andrew, Tim, and Daniel.
The commit is here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/338
Pushing the Puppet patch for FreeBSD password management upstream
I attended LISA in Boston last week and was able to talk to a few of the Puppet developers. This reminded me I needed to push this patch upstream.
I opened a ticket in the Puppet Bug tracker, 11318. Then I found out that someone by the nick of tdb had already incorporated our changes into another pull request that adds more functionality and some unit tests. So hopefully this will be committed soon and we can have this support upstream.
I just wanted to thank tdb for taking this work and running with it!
anoncvs1/cvsup14
November 30, 2011 by brd · Leave a Comment
My old anoncvs/cvsup server (anoncvs1.freebsd.org/cvsup14.freebsd.org) finally died and I am working on building up a new one.
I have setup the hardware and I am prepared to ship the server out. Just need to confirm the new IP info and ship it out. Hopefully I will get this done this week prior to heading out to LISA.
The FreeBSD Forums are now available via IPv6
July 20, 2011 by brd · Leave a Comment
Give it a try and let me know of any problems: http://forums.freebsd.org.
BSDCan: FreeBSD Developer Summit
I am attending the FreeBSD Developer Summit for the next two days proceeding BSDCan. It is good to see everyone again and wonderful to sit down and talk with them face to face. Simon and I will be getting together and working on some clusteradm@ topics. I am currently in the Documentation Working Group meeting and we have covered many different subjects, but one of interest to me is.. We are talking about converting from SGML to XML for the Handbook and Articles. There are many benefits, such as making digital publishing easier.
The Right Way(tm) to change password hashes on FreeBSD with Puppet
April 5, 2011 by brd · 3 Comments
Describing what I really wanted to happen a coworker of mine, Andrew Hust, was able to help me write up the ruby to get it done. So without further delay:
http://freebsd.so14k.com/puppet/pw_managespasswords.diff
I will be sending this to the FreeBSD puppet port maintainer and submitting it as a patch to the port soon. I wanted to get it out there so we could get some feedback.
Update: See the new patch I posted in the comments.