Category: FreeBSD

Bundling FreeBSD 8.2 image for OpenStack

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The following method was tested with FreeBSD 8.2 image bundled into Diablo version of OpenStack. The OpenStack cloud was setup using the procedure given in the following link.

http://cssoss.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/openstackbookv2-0_csscorp.pdf

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Installing VLC on FreeBSD 8.1

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The GUI version of VLC needs any one of the Desktop Environments.

Gnome Can be installed on FreeBSD 8.1 using the following link:

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Open Source – Command line Audio Players for FreeBSD and Linux

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A FreeBSD or a Linux system in which GUI is not installed can play audio files with the help the following tools:

  1. mpg123
  2. mpg321
  3. ogg123

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Installing Qemu on FreeBSD 8.1

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Installation

To install Kqemu-kmod use the following command.

 # pkg_add -r kqemu-kmod

To Install Qemu use the following command.

 # pkg_add -r qemu

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FAMP – Installing Apache2.2, MySQL, PHP on FreeBSD-8.1

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Pre-Installation Tasks

Before installation of the components, Download the compressed snapshot of the ports collection, using the following command

# portsnap fetch

Now extract the snapshot into /usr/ports using the following command

# portsnap extract

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Installing Xfce4 on FreeBSD 8.1

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Installing X11

Xorg is the default X11 implementation for FreeBSD and can be installed using the following command as the root user

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