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Disk Cloning	File Systems	System upgrades
Disks	Installation


Disk Cloning
	Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999


Disks
	Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010


File Systems
	Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft 18 Oct 1998 swap files - how to get more swap space 1 Nov 1998 Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998 Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998 NTFS Driver for FreeBSD 8 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999 Filesystem is not clean - run fsck 20 Jun 1999 out of inodes 5 Jul 1999 vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 Jan 2000 NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000 Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000 drive to drive backup 8 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000 Quotas - installation and configuration (by James) 23 Jul 2000 file system full 1 Sep 2000 mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in 2 Nov 2000 Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 mknod - create the device, then mount 5 Jan 2004 What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005 Card reader for FreeBSD 10 Apr 2006 Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007 c partition goes away in FreeBSD 8 22 Nov 2009 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011


Installation
	Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine 14 Mar 1999 Installing PPP 15 Mar 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Installing PPP - alias 24 Mar 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 How to build a gateway 5 Jul 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 FreeBSD on a laptop (by Chris Silva) 12 Jan 2000 Installing FreeBSD via PLIP - (the parallel port - good for laptops) 23 Feb 2000 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 Installing cvsup 6 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001 Checklist for a new box 12 Jan 2002 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007


System upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999 /etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005