Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:47 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FWIW, a datapoint. Message-ID: <20100514050047.GA17489@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <hsa0vj$nc9$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20100510214306.GA43621@thought.org> <hsa0vj$nc9$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:22:22PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> > Hopefully no one will face this, but the only way around getting
> > past pcbsd seems to be via an over-the-wire upgrade. The
> > 8.0-bootonly.iso for the i386 failed to boot. About two hours
> > ago tho i was able to csup ports from its 07jan to 10may status.
> > Next I will pull over the stable-cvsup stuff and see if I can
> > fire off a build. hope this works. the kybd is hard to use.
> > [etc.]
> >
>
> I put a PCBSD install on an unused space on my drive. Back when I did it the
> FreeBSD 8.0 version was still in beta, and that is what I installed. The
> current state of affairs is now release status with FreeBSD 8.0 P2.
>
> I haven't seen it or used it in a while now. When I installed it I did not
> install any of the extra addon software packages, but rather installed the
> ports system and proceeded to csup it to current status. I then used the
> ports system to install any additional stuff I wanted. Generally speaking it
> was a fairly positive experience in that by and large mostly everything
> "Just Worked". Seeing the Flash support already installed and functioning in
> Firefox was surprising, to say the least.
>
> Since the install comes with KDE 4.3.5 and I want to upgrade it to 4.4.x I
> will be giving portupgrade another go around. I had used portupgrade to
> successfully update all ports once before and it worked as it normally would
> on a regular (non PCBSD) install of Freebsd. FWIW, by not installing
> anything (except the base install which includes KDE,etc) using the PCBSD
> software installer utilizing the normal methods of installing with the ports
> system and maintenance with portupgrade seems to work just as it would on a
> normal FreeBSD install.
>
> When I get adventurous I'll see how it does with the KDE 4.4.x upgrade one
> of these days. Have been waiting for the dust to settle there. As to why
> your bootonly or LiveCD CD's have problems booting, that is probably a
> separate issue. But I did notice the PCBSD install is using GPT labeling for
> it's partition labels.
>
> -Mike
>
>
well, still same on my laptop after days of trying to fix the
"thinkpad keyboard" that made the box all but unusable. xev
thinks the caps lock is a left control key. i have given
up for now. {yes, having flash is a feature and/or a
surprise, but not quite doing w/out the capslock!}
gary
>
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