Doug Carter Wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:19:04PM +0100, Simon @ Home wrote: > > I now have PCBSD, which is supposed to be simple to install and > leaves you > > with a gui (hooray!). > ---end quoted text--- > > PCBSD looks interesting. Let us know how this works out! > -- > Doug Carter Well, you asked. It was slow to install but went in with no trouble at all and left me with a root and user account and a lovely graphical K desktop. Even the touchpad on the laptop worked! The simplicity really impressed me after recent experiences with RedHat, Debian and FreeBSD.
Things got a bit worse from then on; it installs with a default of Num Lock on (why?) and it took me ages to work out why my password (appears as stars) was not being accepted. I have not got it to work on my network yet but have not had much time to try either. The big problem is that when I try to mount my Maxtor OneTouch 400gb USB drive (which I can do by clicking on the drive icon in the KDE control panel) the whole thing freezes and I have to reboot it. I have since come to understand that BSD (Linux too?) does not support NTFS too well (at all?) and that I should convert the disk to FAT32 or some Unix format. I have a feeling that if i convert it to FAT32 I will also have to partition the drive into smaller chunks but am not certain. Other than that it's a Unix file system, which, as this is a test only, is just not going to happen. So, stumped again. It's very fast on my 500Mhz, 512Mb Ram machine though. MC -- ModelCitizen _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
