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AMD	System upgrades
FreeBSD	Upgrades


AMD
	Make the keyboard work on a headless server (read also about t-shirts!) 17 Dec 2001 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 Freeze during reboot 28 May 2006


FreeBSD
	Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed 11 Feb 1998 How I found FreeBSD 11 May 1998 The installation 11 Jun 1998 upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 a new hard drive 14 Aug 1998 Screen savers - and how to load stuff after changing rc.conf` 14 Oct 1998 Upgrading FreeBSD - installing a new version 7 Jan 1999 Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Restarting cvsup 29 Jan 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 User Friendly - a cartoon strip 24 Mar 1999 System tools - toys I have found - the z-tools 20 Nov 1999 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000 Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000 FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000 Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule 22 Feb 2001 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 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


Upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine 2 Aug 2000 How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 mailwrapper exited on signal 11 30 Nov 2009 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010