I had freeBSD. I just didnt work out. I burned it correctly like I do with all my other linux stuff ( i know, BSD is unix) but It just stops on the second cd and makes strange sounds. I've given up hope and just moved on to Connectiva.
Notice from qwijibow:
moved to the BSD section, you will probably got more relevant help here.
Thats too bad... although I've never used FreeBSD, I must say OpenBSD has been quite nice to me. But, I installed from flopy disk/FTP, not CD.. I would say just try installing the base system and downloading the rest, but Linux is okay.
And what is Connectiva ? Is it another Linux distro ? I didn't hear about this distro yet. I would personnally say that, if you never tried installing a Unix distro, openBSD is not the easiest one. Maybe you should startup with Mandrake, which installation from first-CD-boot is somehow easier, and the default settings work for most of the cases. By the way, beeping on the second CD probably means "please insert CD 3" with problems on the graphic display drivers. Regards Yordan
The thing about getting isos online is you have to make sure you get all of it or it doesnt get corrupted. I just downloaded and installed freeBSD 7 on my computer and it ran great. I do with that they had a dvd iso to download instead of using 3 cds to do the same thing. Another thing you could so would be to get the liveCD version so you can play around with it. The cool thing about the liveCD you dont have to partition your hard drive or put a second hard drive in your computer. You can also setup the installer to download the files needed for install if you want to do a light install of freeBSD then use the ports to get the rest of the software that you need. Hope this helps you a little. Also check out Phlak; it is one of the best liveCDs of linux out there.
Remember, back in 2005 (which would be FreeBSD 4 or FreeBSD 5), the installer wasn't easy at all. That only changed in BSD 6. The opensource world just changes THAT fast.
OpenBSD is the operating system derived from NetBSD. OpenBSD derived from NetBSD seeking for strong
security features. Since OpenBSD was based on NetBSD, OpenBSD comes with variety of support toward
hardwares while this figure not seems pretty much obsolete since it's been quite a long time
after the split. OpenBSD comes with so security intensive features and as well as for major
applications for UNIX line such as Apache,SQL databases, and PHP. Really notable figures of
OpenBSD is that OpenBSD comes with really strong features for security issues and so that with....
After looking through this forum, I noticed nobody had commented about PC-BSD, which is in version
1.2 based on FreeBSD kernel 6.1. I have had some very good success with this system, admittedly
using vmware-workstation, and I didn't even have to install it, as they provide a downloadable
hard file that works with vmware-workstation as well as vmware-player. The GUI Desktop is KDE 3.5.3
and the site for further information is here One overrriding reason to use this system is that
they use PBI files to install applications so you don't have to worry about depe....
I need hosting. Well, how to get those golden points? Hope you wouldn’t mind if I tell my FreeBSD
story. A little foreword. I’m working in a pure MS shop, where Open Source is big NO-NO.
Nevertheless I have a small test-bed LAN where I can test whatever I think is appropriate. Lately
not the latest and greatest but quite decent server has been decommissioned. I had been using Debian
Linux workstation already for quite a while, so I’ve decided to setup a Debian Linux server into
W2k3 LAN. Honestly, I don’t like to give up, but this time I had to. The machine is HP Netser....
hello people, i got a littol problem with internet conection configuration in freebsd. there is a
router in dhcp with sharing all togehter 4 computers. i dont want freebsd to dhcp server but client
and just simply want to connect. thks /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:"
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Recently, i decided that FreeBSD was somthing i wasnted to be able to say i could use, and afdmin
comfortably. I was reading several comparasons between GNU/Linux (what i currently use) and
f'BSD. Apart from the differences in the Licences, and they way they were developed, and of
cource the history, they were very very similar. Ive used and become comfortable with several Linux
distro's inclusing Linux From Scratch, Slackware, Gentoo Mandrake, Fedora/Redhat, and maybe a
few others, LOL. After becomming comfortable with linux, i started university, where i use....
I'm at the beginning of learning about FreeBSD, and have installed the OS (version 5.4). I only
made it to the black screen with text/command line. So I need those quick and easy pointers to get
started with the graphical interface of things. So...how easy can I get a graphical user interface
like mousecursor, windows, programmenu's and such (like in windows, ubuntu, mandrake and so on)
working for my FreeBSD installation? I read some stuff about X11 and Xorg, but it seems quite
complicated to me, but I consider that as just being a mild obstacle because I'm....
Hi there, Has anyones out there met this problem before, I cannot download FreeBSD 5.3 iso images
off their download mirrors. The download always broken somewhere around 50-70% of the file and
cannot be resume in any way. I've tried with their FreeBS Centre mirror, Japan, Germany, Hong
Kong ... mirrors, with or without download manager programs (Filezilla, Flashget...) but the results
are the same - a broken download :-( Could anyones can help me to solve this, I acctually need
FreeBSD but cannot buy it herein Vietnam. Tks!....
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