The Daily the Archives: 2008-12-27

Frog in VMWare today to continue to shift the FreeBSD, the words of the last virtual hard disk is too small to FreeBSD by csup a bit systems and ports put the partition to eat bare. Frog from scratch today installed the FreeBSD again, a number of problems encountered in the installation and upgrade process, unified to make a record here. First of all, the frog again the root password is not lost. This is N times just installed on the system will recover the password. But today the reason is this, the frog in the time of installation does not accidentally modify the system's keymap settings, the results in accordance with the order of the normal keyboard input characters into a do not know what the symbol. When the frog found the problem and change over the keymap, the root password has been wrong. No way, Internet google it. Process is as follows [1]: The first step, start to freebsd single user mode, is freebsd boot menu, press 4; waiting for the system start, the final will be prompted to specify the location of the shell, or press Enter to continue, here directly by the Enter on the ok. The second step, execute the following command in a shell: # fsck-p # mount-u / # mount-t ufs--a third step to modify the root password with passwd. Winded a frog in this Hello: Now think about the error operation is in the Settings dialog box, set the terminal step, the frog to open keymap looked, it is estimated that time to select a keyboard type, then it is wrong. Comparison of various Linux installation process, The keymap settings for a default option without any change, frogs FreeBSD which is not found, it appears that FreeBSD on such details need to continue working. FreeBSD's default shell is csh, Frog very smoothly, the Internet google to a few small intimate settings, csh more convenient to use [2]: alias ls ls-w # let csh can properly display Chinese characters the alias ls ls-G # by file type, highlight the set the autolist # Press the tab key to auto-complete, if there is more in line with the display list. set nobeep # close the terminal bell set prompt = "` / bin / hostname-s `:% #" ... Continue reading →