Upgrading from FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2

Took the giant leap from 8.1 to 8.2 this evening.

Simple as 1,2,3,4.

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE
During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.

# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.

# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:

# freebsd-update install
At this point, users of systems being upgraded from FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE or earlier will be prompted by freebsd-update to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., ports installed from the ports tree) due to updates in system libraries.

After updating installed third-party applications (and again, only if freebsd-update printed a message indicating that this was necessary), run freebsd-update again so that it can delete the old (no longer used) system libraries:

# freebsd-update install
Finally, reboot into 8.2-RELEASE:

# shutdown -r now

Info taken directly from http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html

FreeBSD 8.X as wireless accesspoint with H55ITX-C-E

Got my Zotac H55ITX-C-E working as an AP using FreeBSD 8.

Follow http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html#NETWORK-WIRELESS-AP and you are done.

Only problem isthat the hostapd must encounter a false password if using WPA2 first and then a good password before it will work. So something is wrong in my config. But hey, it works.

Updating Ports in a good maner.

Have a look at Ports managment by Warren Block. Nicely done!

Wireless on Zotac H55ITX-C-E with FreeBSD

Got the wireless card to work at last.

Read on http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=55365&postcount=60.
Get the source with git
* git clone git://repo.or.cz/ralink_drivers/rt2860_fbsd8.git
* Then "make" and kldload rt3860.ko

Done.
Of course you have to search for the wireless AP and so on. But this recognizes the card.

How the h*ll do you get a 4096B sector disk to work with FreeBSD

To get a 4096B sector disk(WD 1TB 10EARS) to work with FreeBSD... follow
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=76148&postcount=38

Hint to ALL Western Digital Engineers. THINK before you code. Or at least provide info for us non windows people.

Yeaa! A new NAS in the house...

So the delivery man came on Friday with my bits and pieces.
Build the NAS on Friday evening. Started by installing Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. Everything worked except the wireless network card. But after a quick googlea and installation of Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit everything worked.

Next step is to install FreeBSD 8.1 and start the fun part.

Adding som pictures of the beast:

Silent NAS/router based on Lian Li PC-Q08

I´m going to build myself a NAS/router based on a Li Lian PC-Q08.
Going to use FreeBSD as OS. (ZFS?... don´t know yet)

This is my reference blueprint.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/Silent_Home_Server_Build_Guide

I have ordered:
* Lian Li PC-Q08B
* Cooler Master Silent Pro 600W
* Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) Value Select DDR3 1333MHz
* Intel Core i3 540, 3.06GHz
* Zotac H55-ITX Mini-ITX-C-E



And yes, I will disable the blue led in the fan.