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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
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Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:17:16 -0400, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:
> I've no experience with VirtualBSD. But I can say that VBox comes with
> host configs for FreeBSD 32 and 64 clients. Yesterday I fed the FreeBSD
> 8.2 RELEASE Disk 1 ISO into VBox and it installed very nicely. Network
> even came up with DHCP.

The only "problem" with the RELEASE discs is that they
do not provide something preinstalled & preconfigured.
However, it's quite simple to follow the steps in the
handbook to get KDE or Gnome running and "start" from
there.



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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...