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If your FreeBSD install is currently set up to obtain an IP address automatically via DHCP, and you want to change it to use a static IP, this article is for you. If you want to set up any sort of server on the machine, it is advisable to set up a static IP address. …
FreeBSD provides the ‘freebsd-update’ tool to allow for easy checking/downloading/installation of security patches. Updating FreeBSD is a two stage process. You need to first download (or ‘fetch’) the updated packages, and then you need to actually install the updated packages. This two stage process allows you to set up a cron job to routinely check …
On a default installation of FreeBSD you will find that you can’t SSH into the server using the root account, and any accounts that you have added, can’t run the ‘su’ command to elevate to root. To enable ‘su’ access, the user needs to be part of the ‘wheel’ group. Note: These commands must be …
If you have Firefox and AVG Antivirus installed on the same PC, you may find that at some stage you are unable to press the enter key in the location bar in Firefox, and have to resort to hitting the -> arrow to the right of the location bar manually. This is caused by the …
This guide will outline how to write the m0n0wall embedded image to a compact flash card in windows. In this ‘how to’, I will be using the embedded-1.33.img image. Download the image file that suits your requirements from http://m0n0.ch/wall/ Download the physdiskwrite application from http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php and extract it to the same folder that your m0n0wall …
If you have just installed OSX86, you may find that when you reboot, OSX will just not load. You can usually edit the start up parameters from the boot screen, and select to boot with -x for safe mode, and -v for verbose mode. If your PC has an ATI graphics card, you may get …
If you have just tried to install a copy of OSX86, upon rebooting, you may just get a black screen with the following error in the top left corner: boot0: error One of the more common reasons for this is because the OSX86 installation was done to a extended partition, instead of a primary partition. …