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Can the BSDs support r/w access a Linux filesystem such as ext4 for data interchange (i.e not the kernel itself)? |
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He said that while it appears to be gobbling up RAM it is not, per se, using all that RAM. It loads everything it thinks it might need into memory and when a user starts an application it unloads what isn't needed and runs the application(s). A roundabout way of saying, it isn't using as much RAM as it appears. Quote:
My experience with BSD is limited to my recent installation of PC-BSD. What I did notice is PC-BSD is, really, for all practical purposes, FreeBSD. It boots to a FreeBSD prompt (command line) waits for a few seconds and launches the GUI splash screen from which you can pick the desktop of your choice. During the installation of PC-BSD you are asked what boot loader you want to use or none at all. I chose "None" and later edited /etc/lilo.conf in Slackware and had, at one time, Slackware, m$-windows and PC-BSD available from the lilo menu. Quote:
OTOH, it had no problem see and mounting ntfs and vfat (I was using fat32). |
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I am posting a follow-up to my earlier post in this thread to announce my first non-VM BSD install!
I decided to go with FreeBSD-10.0, despite concerns about Lilo incompatibility mentioned by hitest. I did quite a bit of reading without reaching a definitive conclusion so I decided to explore with the installer and try to avoid borking my disk while partitioning - which appears to have worked! Initially I created a primary partition with gparted, but it does not support ufs so used cfdisk in the Slackware64 install on that drive to change the type to 'freebsd'. That did not work as expected but I think it was due to my own incomplete understanding of the ufs filesystem, so I ended up deleting and recreating that partition using the FreeBSD partitioning tools. I repeated the partitioning several times and rebooted into Slackware to be sure that I understood what was happening (I did find the FreeBSD partitioning tools to be a little confusing). I finally created 120GB primary partition (slice) #3 on this drive (two drive system), and a / and swap inside that, and installed. I then booted back into Slackware64 which manages the MBR on that drive, and added to my lilo-mbr.conf: Code:
other = /dev/disk/by-id/....part3 I integrated to my local network and internet painlessly as well. I have not yet run X or created any user accounts, but will get to that as time permits. So far the only surprises were lack of vim and a nasty PAM error when I tried to ssh in as root... I guess it doesn't like that! But I am able to ssh out and sftp to my other Slackware machines on my LAN (all non-priv user accts). Anyway - thanks to all who encouraged me and offered helpful advice - my BSD experience now begins... |
Great :)
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Awesome! :)
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