From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Sep 4 19:51:24 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34313CDDCD for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:51:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [184.105.128.27]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "www.holgerdanske.com", Issuer "www.holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BjpG36s52z4XBZ for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:51:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 (99-100-19-101.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLSv1.3:Kx=any:Au=any:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 12:51:08 -0700 Subject: Re: installed FreeBSD from mfsbsd, but cannot update To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: David Christensen Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 12:51:07 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BjpG36s52z4XBZ X-Spamd-Bar: + Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dpchrist@holgerdanske.com has no SPF policy when checking 184.105.128.27) smtp.mailfrom=dpchrist@holgerdanske.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.99 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.66)[0.661]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.00)[0.005]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.43)[0.426]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[holgerdanske.com]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:184.104.0.0/15, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:51:24 -0000 On 2020-09-04 08:36, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear kind FreeBSD users, > > I have installed freebsd 12.1-RELEASE from mfsbsd I assume mfsbsd meets its author's needs. If it does not meet your needs, perhaps your should contact the author: https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ Or, perhaps you should use an official FreeBSD installer: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/announce.html For "Partitioning", choose "Auto (ZFS)" and you will be able to set the swap size. As there is no obvious way to set the boot or root sizes, consider installing onto a small SSD -- to facilitate backups, restores, and migrations. I find that 16 GB devices are sufficient for lightweight graphical workstations. > with ZFS and I > configured SWAP like I wanted to 4GB of SWAP or 2G is not enough. I > have experience many crashes. If your machine is swapping heavily, you need more memory. > I try to run # freebsd-update fetch and it fails Please consider this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Technical support requires facts. Always install SSH, so that you can use ssh(1) and/or sshfs(1). If SSH fails, use a USB flash drive and "sneaker net". As a last resort, use a camera and transcribe. Copy and paste exact and complete console sessions into support requests and replies -- prompt, command entered, and output obtained. David