FreeBSD

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Some ongoing notes on the FreeBSD Power Pack I'm roadtesting, courtesy of 
Richard.
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What an adventure ! FreeBSD is not an easy ride if you go into it with a 
Linux mindset. It took a while to discover, for instance, that unless you 
install a "legacy" partitioning scheme it just won't boot. A DOS-compliant 
partition scheme is essential.

After many hours of installing/re-installing/re-re-installing I now have a 
working system with X, KDE etc. Curiously, it refused to use the onboard 
DEC Tulip ethernet chip, but worked quite happily with one on a PCI card 
(Znyx PCI Etheraction).

However......the distribution format is very annoying. Instead of actually 
loading the sources for ported software, a "dummy" is installed. Only when 
actually trying to make does the system hunt for the actual source, first 
on the dist CD then via ftp. Great if youy have a permenant connection, not 
great otherwise.

I'm going to try to get the CDs copied - any volunteers :) so I can pass 
the master set back to Richard for someone else to tinker with.

Paul.



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