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Extract ISO (9660) file on FreeBSD

Timur Asaliev — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:14:58 +0000

A small reminder for me that FreeBSD’s tar (BSDTAR) can extract ISO files out of the box, unlike GNU tar which can’t as far as I know. List files in the ISO file: $ tar -tf filename.iso Extract files to current …

FreeBSD 7: Having trouble installing mysql without linuxthreads?

Timur Asaliev — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:38:32 +0000

Believe it or not I was installing mysql on a FreeBSD 7 box for most of the day. After looking at the make options my attention was grabbed by the WITH_LINUXTHREADS parameter. After a bit of googling it seemed the …

FreeBSD: Upgrading mysql40-server to a higher version port

Timur Asaliev — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:03:04 +0000

I needed to upgrade MySQL 4.0.27 to MySQL 5.0 on one of the production servers that I manage . If anyone has any trouble doing that, I have written a small tutorial on how to accomplish this task without many …