FreeBSD

FreeBSD in the Math Faculty of the University of Waterloo

• The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org/

• UsingFreebsdInCS

I also will stash some things in here that aren't ready yet for prime-time, like:

• WhyHowXhier - Why we want xhier on FreeBSD, How I'd like to see it done (basically a project scope / outline)
• JailedFreebsd - I first implemented freebsd5 as a jail on torres, here's how I did it
• ReinstallBootEasy - booteasy is the default FreeBSD bootloader
• XhierOnFreeBSD - implementation notes
• XhierOnFreeBSD2 - first machine calved. Time to break out a different set for the new box.
• XhierOnFreeBSD3 - following stuff learned as a result of XhierOneZeroOne28Feb2005
• XhierOnFreeBSD4 - starting again. whee!
• XhierNewArch - related to XhierOnFreeBSD

See also http://freebsd.uwaterloo.ca. Everybody interested in FreeBSD is encouraged to get an account there for documenting "real" things - this web is intended for transient use and will eventually go away when its need has been fulfilled.

With that said, what are the needs for this particular web area?

1. xhier does not exist for FreeBSD yet. I would like to change that.
2. documentation for porting xhier to new platforms is either lacking (and hard to find) or nonexistent.

Once xhier has been ported and the process has been documented such that it can be applied more generally to other architectures, the needs for this web will be fulfilled.

Note: ftp://netbsd.stevens-tech.edu/pub/NetBSD is a nice fast mirror for NetBSD stuff. I place it here because for xhier we may have to use the pkgsrc view capability and I didn't want to have to look up the URL at netbsd.org every time.

Here's a paper describing pkgsrc and views. (PDF link)

Documenting setting up a server, MikePatterson style: SettingUpWatcher202.

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