2012

Install xymon server on FreeBSD

       230 words, 2 minutes

Because it takes only a few minutes to do and because I didn’t find any tutorial on the Net, here’s my notes to get Xymon server running on FreeBSD.

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FreeBSD 9 booting from a 3 disks ZFS

       857 words, 5 minutes

I already managed to boot FreeBSD from ZFS ; a single disk ZFS pool. Now, let’s see how to boot FreeBSD-9-RELEASE from a ZFS pool made of 3 disks using RAIDZ configuration. I used the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso CD-ROM image.

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Install FreeBSD from remote SSH session

       198 words, 1 minutes

I’m actually playing with a FreeBSD virtual instance on ESXi. I’m accessing the console from VMware vSphere client, running in a remote Windows XP instance that I access using TSE from my MacBook… A nice feature I saw on Debian is SSH remote installation. Here’s how to install FreeBSD using a remote SSH connection.

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Buffalo LinkStation Mini as an iSCSI target for VMware ESXi

       1188 words, 6 minutes

I own a Buffalo LinkStation Mini that does nothing now that the Synology DS409slim owns my files. Because the LS Mini has two 500GB disks, I thought it might do a nice iSCSI target for my ESXi. The thing is: the stock firmware doesn’t offer iSCSI feature. This is how I turned my LinkStation Mini into a iSCSI target for VMware, using Debian 6.

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ZFS root using Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

       645 words, 4 minutes

For a while now FreeBSD had ZFS included. Since 8.x, revision 28 is available. The thing is, I don’t really like the FreeBSD package management ; but I love Debian’s one. Here’s the way to provide a stable Kernel with a decent system management on a powerful filesystem. The installation is done on a virtual machine. The multiple disk configuration has no really use here either than looking at how to do it.

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