https://www.startupcto.com/ 2026-04-27T20:55:05+00:00 https://www.startupcto.com/ https://www.startupcto.com/lib/tpl/scto/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-09-21T23:52:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/freebsd-disk-upgrade?rev=1758498769 FreeBSD Disk Upgrade / Swap Procedure This outlines how to move data from one disk to another, newer, bigger disk. There may be better/more advanced ways to do this, but this uses simple tools and works pretty well. * First plugin the new disk to a secondary SATA/IDE port text/html 2025-09-19T20:39:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/freebsd-ports-passing-optional-arguments-to-make?rev=1758314346 FreeBSD Ports: Passing Optional Arguments to make FreeBSD has a very neat 'ports' system, which lets you install software easily. If the ports tree is installed, all you have to do is: cd /usr/ports/ftp/proftpd make make install make clean That will download the software you've chosen ( text/html 2020-11-21T22:39:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/freebsd-server-move?rev=1605998343 FreeBSD Server Move Follow this procedure when moving a FreeBSD box from one IP to another. * Change DNS to new IP address. You'll want the TTL on the domain to be pretty short, so that the IP address updates quickly. * Change ifconfig settings in text/html 2025-10-01T11:46:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/freebsd-server-setup?rev=1759319162 Basic FreeBSD Setup & Install Notes This doc covers basic setup of a FreeBSD server. It gets all the core OS functionality on the box, but doesn't cover application software, etc. BIOS Setup * Update BIOS to latest version * Perform a 'reset to defaults' on BIOS text/html 2025-09-20T12:14:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/freebsd-stable-upgrade?rev=1758370494 FreeBSD Stable Upgrade Procedure This outlines how to upgrade your FreeBSD installation to FreeBSD-STABLE. It isn't designed to replace the manual, but is a quick set of crib-notes on how to get the OS upgraded. NOTE: If you just want to update to the latest FreeBSD release, the binary upgrade process is probably the way to go. The FreeBSD folks DO NOT recommend tracking the 'STABLE' branch. text/html 2024-05-19T00:19:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/home?rev=1716077981 FreeBSD freebsd index text/html 2025-09-24T17:43:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/running-fsck-on-large-paritions?rev=1758735822 Running fsck on Large Paritions in FreeBSD If you need to run fsck on a large FreeBSD partition, you might have a bit of trouble. fsck needs a fair bit of memory to do its work, and if you don't have enough, you'll run into difficulties getting to to complete. Here are some steps to help get fsck to run: text/html 2020-11-21T22:39:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/upgrading-all-freebsd-ports?rev=1605998343 Upgrading All FreeBSD Ports via portupgrade portupgrade is a tool that allows you to upgrade ports on your FreeBSD system. It has its faults, and it doesn't always work (see below), but its about as close as you can get on FreeBSD to a 'one-click' upgrade.