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Date:      Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:36:06 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro
Message-ID:  <20110401183606.c4de62b2.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <C9BA668B.125B3%fsb@thefsb.org>
References:  <20110331191001.3e0877e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <C9BA668B.125B3%fsb@thefsb.org>

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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.



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



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