Re: Goals for the year
From: Synchrodude (me_at_here.com)
Date: 04/17/04
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:46:36 -0700
Ed Hurst wrote:
>
> I have a "clueless user guide" for FreeBSD as a desktop OS on my website
> -- 7 lessons:
>
> http://webs.tconline.net/softedges/index.html#bsd
>
> FreeBSD, on average, requires less resources to run, and less space on
> the drive. The kernel can compile in minutes (7 minutes on my Athlon
> 1.1/512MB RAM) but it does less in the first place. It's more finicky
> about hardware, and is less convenient to use than Linux. X is slightly
> more likely to crash than on Linux. You can tell it to install with a
> boot from floppy, which I highly recommend for a multi-OS machine.
>
> Knoppix has an installer built in. However, be advised, the last time I
> used it, the stupid thing installed everything, including tons of junk
> for which I had no need -- touchscreen drivers, braille drivers, etc.
>
Ed
Got a question for ya. K, if I resize my fat32 partition and create a blank
partition from the freed up space on my HD, which already has these
partitions on it:
dev/hda4 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs
ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat
users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0
Do you know how good the setup is and if it will see the blank partition for
my installation? the thing I don't want to do is mess up my suse partitions
or my windows partitions. I don't really care if the install does mess up
but only if it just messes up the FreeBSD stuff. My last experimentation
trying to put Mandrake as a tri boot just installed over my suse
installation. I was quite upset about that cause on top of that the
Mandrake installation wouldn't let me put Suse back on until I wiped my
entire HD and had to reinstall everything. But I guess that is what I get
cause I said to use existing Linux partitions :) Also I was reading that
max partitions for FreeBSD is 8 so I don't see why this would pose any
problems. Can you let me know how you set yours up and what kind of hard
ware are you running. I am guessing I will have the same issues with my
hard ware as I did with RH 8 it didn't recognize my sound (creative labs
audigy gamer) and my video card (nvidia Geforce FX 5700 Ultra). With Suse I
have no problems with any of my hard ware. including a USB Cannon N670U
scanner. Thanks for the help.
Dave
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