Re: Point me to resource or user info
On 21 June 2011 04:44, Allen chef11...@aol.com wrote: Been on Linux maybe 10-12 distributions for 10 years, am 80 and always been curious about BSD so finally getting around to it. Presently sadly my new Toshiba L675D seems to have some Linux incompatibilities so I have win 7 with Ubuntu 10.04.2 wubi. I do have a huge data partition that could be resized and wondering if some kind soul would offer options based on my present configuration. I do have wireless network. Thank you Best place for you to start is by reading the Freebsd Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ and the Freebsd installer guide http://www.a1poweruser.com/ Its easy to clobber the PCs primary operating system so before installing on your new Toshiba L675D be sure to create backups or better yet swap the hard drive with a empty one to play on until you have learned what your doing. Good luck and enjoy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Point me to resource or user info
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:50:42 -0400 Fbsd8 articulated: On 21 June 2011 04:44, Allen chef11...@aol.com wrote: Been on Linux maybe 10-12 distributions for 10 years, am 80 and always been curious about BSD so finally getting around to it. Presently sadly my new Toshiba L675D seems to have some Linux incompatibilities so I have win 7 with Ubuntu 10.04.2 wubi. I do have a huge data partition that could be resized and wondering if some kind soul would offer options based on my present configuration. I do have wireless network. Thank you Best place for you to start is by reading the Freebsd Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ and the Freebsd installer guide http://www.a1poweruser.com/ Its easy to clobber the PCs primary operating system so before installing on your new Toshiba L675D be sure to create backups or better yet swap the hard drive with a empty one to play on until you have learned what your doing. This PC supports Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n); however, FreeBSD has extremely poor support for N class devices. You might find that to be a show stopper. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Point me to resource or user info
Hi, Allen wrote: Been on Linux maybe 10-12 distributions for 10 years, am 80 and always been curious about BSD so finally getting around to it. Presently sadly my new Toshiba L675D seems to have some Linux incompatibilities so I have win 7 with Ubuntu 10.04.2 wubi. I do have a huge data partition that could be resized and wondering if some kind soul would offer options based on my present configuration. I do have wireless network. Thank you You mailed the wrong list, This list ctm-us...@freebsd.org is for very specialised usages, for list of lists, see http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo So in this reply I set: To: Allen chef11...@aol.com bcc:ctm-us...@freebsd.org cc: questi...@freebsd.org reply-to: questi...@freebsd.org, Allen chef11...@aol.com, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Welcome to BSD, There's quite a few BSDs http://www.berklix.com/bsd/ prob. something like FreeBSD or PC-BSD will suit you best. Yes, you can shrink your Win 7 partition. I answered a similar question recently http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Summary of methods/ other answers: Using programs runs on MS, some commercial, some free Running a free live Linux CD such as knoppix shrink from there. Boot an existing(*) FreeBSD run ntfsresize(*) http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html#ntfsresize http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/sysutils/ntfsprogs/files/README.JHS (*) We havent yet (as of 8.2-RELEASE) put ntfsresize on FreeBSD livefs boot media (I mean to submit a send-pr for that some time, unless someone else beets me to it (welcome) :-) For now remove disc, connect it to another machine running BSD, build install /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs run ntfresize Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with ; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Point me to resource or user info
and the Freebsd installer guide http://www.a1poweruser.com/ Hmmm... Wish I'd known about that a while back. It's more or less exactly what I've been looking for, a realy good how to guide for F'BSD. The only thing missing (had a quick look!) is details on Jails (they are mentioned, but you are pointed back at the Handbook..) However.. I've learnt something else already (Using mouse copy/paste function) so thanks very much for that site. Very good for us less (in F'BSD at least) experienced types. Cheers.. DaveB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
