From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 18:59:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2691065670 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F0A8FC21 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.75] (93.97.24.219) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A2032960408DCC6; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 19:59:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4A7C799E.3000700@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:59:42 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20090805174038.GA19895@thought.org> <20090806025100.GA79700@thought.org> <20090807001415.e3c86b62.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090807002507.GB83349@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090807002507.GB83349@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: foot-shot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:59:59 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > > Super! just offhand, can i install PCSD *over* thius FBSd > --7.1--? Keep /usr/home and so on? Or is PCBSD a > do-it-from-scratch? (I'm pretty much OS agnostic [[so long > as it's somethng like UNIX]], but here I know where things > live... With ubuntu, diff't story.) Yes you can if your /usr/home is a separate partition (or on a separate slice). I'm back to FreeBSD now but when using PCBSD I create a / and a /usr/home. It works very well, I can do a whole fresh install on / without touching the /usr/home partition. The installer lets you do this (but back up first just in case). Then a bit of fiddling with fstab and users and it is all go. > hm, not sure how much flash is used, really. i just avoid as > much of it as I can. if i can watch a public broadcasting > stream i usually KVM over to my Ubntu box. ....mmmm. > Hope the just-works PCBSD just-works here. PCBSD has flash sorted out, you can watch youtube, news website embedded video etc. Actually FreeBSD has flash sorted out as well... I think they have done a very good job, I would say give it a try. Chris