I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I
plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have
512MB RAM.
According to this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
I should use:
/ = 100MB
VMWare has a free VMWare Player, perhaps someone could make a slick
desktop-ish FreeBSD virtual machine - so that people considering FreeBSD
could download it and see what FreeBSD is like?
http://www.vmware.com/products/player
I would do it, except I have an older (4.5) version of VMWare,
I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily
reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data...
Thats a good idea. I will digest what eveveryone said, and post what I
did. Currently I'm installing Win2k, since this will be a dual-boot
machine. FreeBSD is
I have not been able to get any version of FreeBSD (5.x or 6.x), PC-BSD,
or DesktopBSD to run inside Virtual PC 7 on my Mac Mini. The installs
hang on the message:
Extracting base into / directory
2%
Supposedly FreeBSD did run in older versions of Virtual PC (I
