Please note that this upgrade failed.I retain it for historical purposes only. I recommend you try the Upgrading FreeBSD entry instead. My upgrade has turned into a very long process.This is not the fault of FreeBSD.Rather, it's the result of some m...

2009-05-13 13:18:53

2 August 1998 When I was trying to install Apache , I was told I needed DES first.So here I go. There are no instructions to be found for installing DES.I'll attend to this later. 26 December 1999 I've been notified that I already have DES installat...

2009-05-13 13:18:34

本来想将桌面环境完全搞到FreeBSD里面的.可FreeBSD作为桌面的软助--和windows文件兼容问题,和一些专有软件(网络银行),实在是搞得人心烦.安装linux-firefox和linux-flash9后,firefox应得很不稳定.看来在开源系统上使用还是比不上windows的.由于现在freebsd里面还没有编译...

2009-05-13 13:18:33

See also Apache topics .There are more recent apache articles there. See also Front Page Extensions - security considerations for details on securing FrontPage. 2 August 1998 I want to install a www server on my machine. So I looked at Apache , whic...

2009-05-13 13:18:14

This article shows you how to ensure the clock on your computer is kept synchronized. It originally dealt only with xntpd, but this is also applicable to ntpd. See also NTP in the FreeBSD Handbook . Details for 5.x were added on 15 July 2004. 2 Augu...

2009-05-13 13:18:14

This problem occurred because DHCP overwrites the contents of resolv.conf. and I didn't know that.But you have quite a bit of control over what DHCP puts into that file. Details are below. 29 July 1998 After my reboot as a result of my floppy disk m...

2009-05-13 13:18:14

I found my first GPF in FreeBSD tonight.I was trying to mount a floppy drive so I could copy files from one system to another, but I forgot to insert the floppy. Big mistake. First it timed out.Fair enough.There's no floppy there.So I insert the flo...

2009-05-13 13:17:55

NOTE: It's amazing how I can look back at articles such as this and realize just how much newbies don't know. This is a very good example. At some time, you didn't know the following information either. After some experience, we just take it for gra...

2009-05-13 13:17:55

see also dnswalk . As part of the continuing Getting local names to resolve problem, I decided to install nslint at the advice of a helper on on the FreeBSD Questions mailing list .Here's what I've done so far: 26 July 1998 I checked my 2.2.5 CDs fo...

2009-05-13 13:17:35

see also Getting local names to resolve (DNS) . About these examples Please note that all names and numbers in these examples have been changed for security reasons.These are examples and are not exact copies of the files used on our subnet. It is i...

2009-05-13 13:17:35