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Old 11-21-2012, 05:40 PM   #16
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I definitely prefer the new one (ZFS Madness) and that is what I use on my servers and laptop, mostly because of the ZFS Boot Environments which are now possible on FreeBSD with sysutils/beadm port.

ad0 (generally adX drives) were used in the past if AHCI was not enabled. As AHCI support has been implemented in FreeBSD the drives are ada0 (or adaX generally) to distinguish them from adX drives without AHCI enabled. Probably the best part of AHCI is the NCQ, which can be described here: http://expertester.files.wordpress.c...x-ncq_svg1.png
 
Old 01-22-2013, 06:48 PM   #17
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My GAWD! Once again I see why I have not EVER been successful in installing ANY flavor of BSD. (numerous attempts)
 
Old 01-23-2013, 12:38 AM   #18
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My GAWD! Once again I see why I have not EVER been successful in installing ANY flavor of BSD. (numerous attempts)
This HOWTO is on a 'Gentoo level'.

If You want easy fast install, then use bsdinstall:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5FGmnBGgUvU

... or You can use PC-BSD DVD/USB to install PLAIN FreeBSD with their QT graphical installer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8WBEVRTYQ
 
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Old 06-07-2014, 07:42 PM   #19
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My GAWD! Once again I see why I have not EVER been successful in installing ANY flavor of BSD. (numerous attempts)


LoL!!!
 
Old 06-07-2014, 09:20 PM   #20
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My GAWD! Once again I see why I have not EVER been successful in installing ANY flavor of BSD. (numerous attempts)
False!

install http://www.ghostbsd.org/

or

http://www.pcbsd.org/
 
Old 09-13-2014, 04:50 PM   #21
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...and...now...http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post5237375

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My GAWD! Once again I see why I have not EVER been successful in installing ANY flavor of BSD. (numerous attempts)
 
Old 09-14-2014, 11:36 PM   #22
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I've installed Free/PC-BSD plenty of times without incident.

ZFS is complex but the installation for it is fairly straight forward, even on FreeBSD and PCBSD distributions, and works well.
 
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Old 09-15-2014, 09:38 AM   #23
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I can't see much point in file systems like hammer, zfs or btrfs on a desktop system. Certainly if you're just installing an operating system in order to run one of these file systems and have to ask questions on a forum to do it - you're probably installing that OS for all the wrong reasons.
 
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Old 04-30-2017, 02:31 PM   #24
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HOWTO: Install FreeBSD (desktop version for newbies)

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/59432/

My contribution to this obsolete post ! [01-21-10, 04:05 PM]


Last edited by un1x; 04-30-2017 at 02:33 PM.
 
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Old 11-17-2023, 03:25 PM   #25
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Install

Just tried a basic FreeBSD install, dd'd a image to a USB that booted OK and even enabled/used my wifi. Ran through the installation and background messages annoyingly kept popping up to overwrite the install text, that could totally throw a neub. More so if the wifi details you enter are incorrect, repeated attempts/failures and the install dialog screens are pretty much wiped out.

Installed to a partition, all seemed to have worked until I tried to boot that and after pointing the boot loader at that partition ... nothing. Need to boot0cfg ... but no indication of need to do that (and if it did more likely the user would wipe out their Windows or other Linux boot loaders).

Last edited by rufwoof; 11-18-2023 at 11:54 AM.
 
Old 11-20-2023, 05:47 AM   #26
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If FreeBSD is to be installed to a slice on a drive where other OS are already installed - you would configure that OS' boot loader to load FreeBSD.
 
  


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