Hi guys,
I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already
have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it
up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt
the swap partition.
The default partitioning at install
Roland Smith wrote:
My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a
seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password.
Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like this
tip a lot. Since the default FreeBSD installer puts /home as
Hi,
Silly question... when I use portupgrade on gnome installs, it interrupts
itself a lot to prompt for config options. I normally take all the defaults.
Is there a way to use portupgrade without all the stopping for config
questions? I'd like to leave my laptop alone over-night doing a
I can't find any info on the Web. Has CVE-2008-2939 been addressed in
FreeBSD7.1 Apache2.2? I can't find any reference to that CVE number.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2939
I've subscribed to the security notification list, and I've searched the
archives, but no go.
Hi,
We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system.
Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by
downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install.
Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have a similar
RW-15 wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:16:50 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
pdksh is statically linked and I don't know if bash is.
It's a build option.
Seems root should have a static shell always... otherwise, all bets are off
as some of the shared libs may be
You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd).
Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine,
formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over
ftp.
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Paul Schmehl-2 wrote:
I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit
STOP+A,
but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic
incantation
that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat?
Ctrl + Break
I'm sticking with OpenBSD... BTW.
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