so a lot of tinkering and getting past quite a few learning curves i have successfully created a jail that i’m using as a “shell box” which is running freebsd 14.2-p3 RELEASE (latest RELEASE thus far although 14.3 is due out soon). as i said earlier i settled on using bastille which is really just […]
weechat znc playback
yeah. i still use irc. tested and true. typical config is to use znc for this and connect a client. weechat is a nice client to use in a shell. so i wanted the playback to work correctly. this assumes that you have weechat connected to znc already. there are a few things that make […]
freebsd jails rclone mounting
rclone is the only way to mount smb on freebsd. there used to be a helper called smbfs but that was abandoned long ago and was completely removed from the freebsd repository. so there are some things that i need to make a quick note of about this because i’ve been pulling my hair out […]
joining freebsd to ad using samba/winbind
yeah i get it. the cool kids are all using sssd. but i tend to have problems with sssd and freebsd. i just wasted an hour of my life trying to get it working and it kept failing inside of a jail. so i set it up with samba / winbind instead by using the […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 10): network
i have 3 nics in this thing. 2 onboard 1gbit nics and 1 10gbit nic. i’ve bumped into an issue before where the 10gbit died and didn’t have failover configured (overheated or whatever). in proxmox it’s called bonding, in freebsd it’s called lagg (i think for everything it is called lagg but whatever linux). get […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 09): bastille
so cbsd was the porridge that was too hot. it’s a neat script but it had a lot of things that i don’t really care about like xen and virtualbox. so this attempt is going to be using bastille which is another script for managing jails. the github seems active so there’s that. they have […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 08): disks
so i ironed out a few things. one, the default installer has some 4k option when creating a mirror for zroot. i guess the usb drives did not agree with that at all. i turned that option off so now they’re working a bit more normal. using 4k blocks was giving me all types of […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 07): attempt
i tossed a couple 8TB disks into it that i had laying around to use for testing. after getting beadm set up and creating a boot environment i started off with cbsd. it works, but the way it works is super sloppy. even though it has been around for years the configuration is definitely not […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 06): beadm
since i have to wait to put disks in i think i can work on some things in the meantime on the freebsd server. first things first. i want to set up boot environments on the freebsd server to make sure i can roll back in case things really come off the rails with updates […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 05): install
so i’m having issues installing freebsd on the 1u supermicro. i’m using two 128GB usb drives to use for booting / os stuff and trid installing onto them mirrored and it panics on first boot. i need to probably pull it out of the rack but it’s a mess right now so it will have […]