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by mechanic
Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:09 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: M1/M2 Mac port ?
Replies: 7
Views: 15454

Re: M1/M2 Mac port ?

That's good to know. In 2023 machines usually have plenty of RAM and people like to run various options as virtual machines on a laptop (or desktop come to that). Running hypervisor software should be a useful pointer in any system review in magazines and websites. Maybe not Kubernetes but at least ...
by mechanic
Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: virtualbox not available in repos
Replies: 4
Views: 13075

Re: virtualbox not available in repos

A year without update/repost on results? Seems a pretty important issue!
by mechanic
Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:52 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: home directory
Replies: 3
Views: 9476

Re: home directory

OK, thanks all, I didn't see the link when I had a quick look round earlier.
by mechanic
Sun Feb 26, 2023 12:47 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: home directory
Replies: 3
Views: 9476

home directory

New installation of GhostBSD; looks round at the folders/directories; the home folder seems to be setup both as /home/<myname> and as /usr/home/<myname> ! both of these locations look real, no links I can see.

What's the idea?
by mechanic
Sun Nov 28, 2021 12:24 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: File system - UFS or ZFS?
Replies: 2
Views: 3279

Re: File system - UFS or ZFS?

Yes, snapshots are a great feature!
by mechanic
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:39 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: File system - UFS or ZFS?
Replies: 2
Views: 3279

File system - UFS or ZFS?

This choice comes up part way through the installation process. The UFS option does not provide an editable selection of setup options, I was unable to set a guided UFS option and the editable pathway confused me a lot as the only working options were to delete partitions and make new ones with appr...
by mechanic
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:01 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: meeting
Replies: 1
Views: 5909

meeting

So what is expected from this much-heralded meeting on 11th Dec this year (2021) ?
by mechanic
Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:42 am
Forum: Installation and Maintenance of software
Topic: Display
Replies: 8
Views: 7404

Re: Display

This resolution issue seems simply down to settings for the VirtualBox machine; bumping video memory up to 128MB and the Graphic Controller to VboxVGA got the available resolution choice up to much higher and useful values. I don't know where these VB defaults for the machine come from but they are ...
by mechanic
Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:43 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: Can't boot ghostbsd installer into a virtual machine
Replies: 7
Views: 6135

Re: Can't boot ghostbsd installer into a virtual machine

Ghostbsd doesn't seem to like running in virtual machines, they even took guest additions out of the default gBSD install (21.01.15) iso! You'd have better luck with stock FreeBSD +XFCE, guest additions install ok and runs well in VirtualBox.
by mechanic
Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:36 am
Forum: Installation and Maintenance of software
Topic: package names
Replies: 1
Views: 2297

package names

Someone kindly remind me why many packages begin with p5- in their name? Was it something to do with Perl?