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<article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201404freebsd-challenge-day-17.html" class="u-url">FreeBSD Challenge, Day 17</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201404freebsd-challenge-day-17.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-04-17T04:04:52-05:00" title="2014-04-17">2014-04-17</time></a></p>
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<p>Today, I got my new laptop <strong><em>dragon</em></strong> up on wireless with a little <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MTTJOY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2N1S6D8VVCNZ3">Edimax EW-7811Un 150 Mbps Wireless 11n Nano Size USB Adapter</a>. Now, setup begins in ernest. I have disabled the on-board wireless NIC in the BIOS, and started to set up shop on it.</p>
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<p>Next major task. Configure X. :)</p>
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<p>d</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201404freebsd-challenge-update.html" class="u-url">FreeBSD Challenge, Update</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201404freebsd-challenge-update.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-04-15T16:04:26-05:00" title="2014-04-15">2014-04-15</time></a></p>
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<p>Hey,
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Sorry about the lack of updates over the last two weeks, but my job sent me out of country for two weeks, and I had no time to work on this project. Once I unbury myself, I will return to this with a vengence. I am planning on <em>upgrading</em> my two servers to FreeBSD10 from Linux. One will involve a major disk reworking as one of the disks is about dead.</p>
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<p>Stay tuned, and thanks for coming back!</p>
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<p>d</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-16.html" class="u-url">FreeBSD Challenge, Day 16</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-16.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-03-29T05:03:18-06:00" title="2014-03-29">2014-03-29</time></a></p>
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<p>Busy day with other things than play computers, but I found a little time. I have FreeBSD 10-STABLE loaded with the custom WiFi hack on my <a href="http://notebookplanet.blogspot.com/2013/04/hp-elitebook-revolve-810-g1-tablet.html">Elitebook Revolve 810</a>. I would have to let it try to boot off the USB stick. After multiple tries, it would finally run the installer. I tried ZFS a few times, but if I did not select MBR format for the partition table, then it would not boot (no OS error). With MBR and ZFS, it would fail to mount the ZFS filesystem with <strong>error 2</strong>. After trying the various fixes listed on-line, I gave up and went with MBR and UFS.</p>
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<p>Once installed, it was fairly easy to get going. I have not configured it to take on the role of daily driver yet. If I have time tomorrow, then I will do it then, otherwise, it will have to wait a bit as I am getting on a plane this weekend, and I will not have room for the second computer. I will try to get it as far as I can with ssh.</p>
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<p>The neat thing I found based on <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/083317.html">this email post from 2005</a> and <a href="http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/829/524/">this blog post</a> is that I can have a fancy screensaver at the console! Pretty rad. :) Next steps will be improving the screen resolution in text-mode.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-12-15.html" class="u-url">FreeBSD Challenge, Day 12-15</a></h1>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-12-15.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-03-27T05:03:20-06:00" title="2014-03-27">2014-03-27</time></a></p>
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<p>Half-way point.</p>
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<p>Much progress made in the world of a bootable USB stick to get my new-fangled WiFi chip working. I was able to make a new image, wrote it to a new USB stick, booted it, and was able to successfully scan for my Access Points! W00t!</p>
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<p>Tomorrow, I will take the second laptop (HP EliteBook Revolve 810), and load it with 10-Release (slightly patched). I do not expect everything to work (it has a touch screen), but enough should work that I can start using it for the daily driver. Having real wifi will help a lot.</p>
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<p>My updates have been a bit slow due to craziness at work. I am taking a trip, and the departure date has been reset many times. I am on my 5th set of airline tickets. With things settled, I need to decide if I am going to bring the second laptop (the R180) with me or not. Weight issues and all.</p>
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<p>How do I think this is going? Well, the two major issues I thought I would have going in, WiFi and Photo editing/management, are for the most part solved. Can I use this for my daily non-work driver? Yes. Can I use it for my work daily driver? Maybe. I have set up a few jails on the FreeNAS box (btsync, dns/dhcp, <a href="http://taskwarrior.org/docs/server_setup.html">taskwarrior's taskd</a>, and Plex), and they are mainly working well together (the Plex will not play nice with btsync, yet), but I need to figure out a bit more, and set it up as a target to backup my laptop's ZFS snapshots.</p>
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<p>Next steps are to find those performance monitoring tools/docs, and to look at something like puppet/chef/salt.</p>
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<p>Thanks for reading....</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-9-11.html" class="u-url">FreeBSD Challenge, Day 9-11</a></h1>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-9-11.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-03-22T17:03:03-06:00" title="2014-03-22">2014-03-22</time></a></p>
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<p>Ah, life with kids...not enough spare time with soccer and volleyball practices and games.</p>
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<p>Things are going well. Found a few more small utilities that I use under Linux and added them via pkgng, and all is good.</p>
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<p>Next up: system debugging. The system will slow down at random points, so I need to go find a good performance debug guide. The only thing changed was I imported my music library (~60G), but my drive is still plenty empty (~37% used), so I do not think it is ZFS, but I am not sure.</p>
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<p>The other is the custom boot stick I made does not work. The initial loader will start, but then it stops. So, I need to find the docs on the boot process there.</p>
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<p>Oh, and welcome to all the folks from <a href="http://bsdnow.tv">BSDNow</a>, which is an awesome video/audio podcast on all things BSD.</p>
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