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Re: FreeBSD

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:05:40 +0000, "Paul Sims" <psims [at] lombard.co.uk>
wrote:

>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.
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>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).

There are not as many drivers with FreeBSD. 

>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.

A lot of people who use FreeBSD sware by the ports system. I still
havn't got round to trying it.

>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.
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>Paul.

I can copy them, I'd like to take a copy for myself as well. The 3.2
CD's I've got seem to have some things missing from them.
You'll have to stump up some blank CD's or a few quid for the blanks
though, I'm running a bit short at the moment. Is it still 4 cd's in
the powerpack?

-- 
Matthew Collins
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