FreeDOS is a free and open source operating system variant of the classic MSDOS from the 90’s, just like DRDOS and PCDOS from the time. FreeDOS can be used to run legacy business software and classic games for MSDOS. In this example, FreeDOS 1.3 is installed as a guest in VirtualBox 6.1 on a FreeBSD 13.2 desktop computer.
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In this example, the VirtualBox kernel module 6.1.36_1 for VirtualBox 6.1.36_1 on FreeBSD 13.2 is installed from ports to a fix version mismatch.
Continue reading “How to fix version mismatch for FreeBSD VirtualBox kernel module.”This is the procedure, with examples in FreeBSD, for how to create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server, including, how to create a seperate system user account, create the document root directory, setting permissions and constructing the virtual host configuration in Apache.
Continue reading “Create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server.”This is the procedure for how to install WordPress from the command line on a FreeBSD or similar UNIX- or Linux based web server.
Continue reading “How to install WordPress from the command line on FreeBSD.”Open dconf-editor and go to org, gnome, control-center and last-panel. Set the value to default. This worked for me. Thanks to bpurgar for the solution in FreeBSD Bugs. See more at Bug 259007.
Configure FileZilla to access and use an SFTP server in order to upload and download files. Tested with FileZilla 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 13.1 on 2022-11-04.
Continue reading “How to use FileZilla to access an SFTP server.”This is the procedure for finding large files and sorting files by size on a FreeBSD, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X based file system by using the default find, du, sort and tail utilities. Written 2022-08-08. Updated 2022-08-11.
Continue reading “Finding large files and sorting by file size on FreeBSD, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X.”I am often asked, how I was introduced to FreeBSD. This is my story about my first encounter with the fascinating little daemon, that took me on a life long adventure with FreeBSD and its dedicated community.
Continue reading “My FreeBSD story.”This is how a number of PDF files can be concatenated, which is also known as merge, join or combine PDF files, with pdftk on the command line.
Continue reading “How to manipulate PDF files on the command line with pdftk.”This is the procedure for restoring (undeleting) accidentally deleted or modified files from a snapshot of a file system on ZFS.
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