Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of
months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it.
On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have
done an excellent job
of course. windows vista runs well too
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Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly not
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:39:32AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:49:48 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
Virtual desktops. What are you referring to? Visit the power toys URL
for further information.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
Thanks for that. Did they use to be called
got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list
FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run
under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows
support list etc.
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list
FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be
run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on
windows support list etc.
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote:
If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell,
if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so
I am most definitely not using the machine.
So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other
than a local power
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere
within the organization.
Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the
organization, that person must be
Harold Hartley wrote:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an
operating system, just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different
operating systems.
If
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of
months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On
reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an
excellent
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple
of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I
love it. On reasonable
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple
of months ago after a few
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:09:52AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 +
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Tim Judd wrote:
I'm looking for an OS with a sane file hierarchy and a shell I can use
to manage the files therein. An editor better than Notepad would be a
bonus too.
I see the sense in C:\Users
I see the sense in C:\Documents and Settings
I see the sense in C:\WINDOWS
I see the sense
have any of you flamers stopped to try and help the OP?
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
PC-BSD===http://www.pcbsd.org/
DesktopBSD===http://www.desktopbsd.net/
And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes Windows
users feel at home: Download something from the web manually,
then click next, next, next, finish and have an
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months
ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable
spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent job
of course. windows vista runs well too on overmuscled hardware.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote:
For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under
Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first
impression on how it works. There are some settings that you must keep in
mind,
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30:31AM +0530, Mehul Ved typed:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote:
For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under
Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first
impression on how
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote:
What worked for me was enabling VT-x/AMD-V in Virtualbox. No more panics
since.
If I am correct, that requires hardware with virtualisation support.
That's not the case with my old P4.
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler
br...@yoafrica.com wrote:
As long as you have enough ram ( I'd say at least a gig) try VMware Server
1.1/2.0. I have production machines (including two freebsd 7.1 vm's) running
on a VMware Server 2.0 working very well with the host having
install on windows like ubuntu does.
FreeBSD is separate independent OS. it simply doesn't make sense.
I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a
nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I
what a problem to create
Or does freebsd offer a choice to install without messing
anything up.
It's a professional operating system, of course it does. :-)
(FreeBSD exactly does what you tell it to do, nothing more and
nothing less.)
maybe that's why it's told to be so difficult for most people ;)
PC-BSD === http://www.pcbsd.org/
DesktopBSD === http://www.desktopbsd.net/
And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes Windows
users feel at home: Download something from the web manually,
then click next, next, next, finish and have an application
installed. :-)
even
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400
Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd
to install on windows like ubuntu does.
I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I
live in a nursing home and I would like to
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine
that also runs MS-Win. The traditional way
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
I don't know what Ubuntu does.
What ubuntu does is
1) Install ubuntu as a windows program
2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer
3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition
4) Use windows bootloader
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:22:31PM +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
I don't know what Ubuntu does.
What ubuntu does is
1) Install ubuntu as a windows program
2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer
3) Ubuntu
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote:
No affence here but if you want to just click, click, next, finish, stick to
mtfk ubuntu we dnt need u
No offence. But please read before sending the email.
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine
that also
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live
in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to
choose what I want to boot into, such as
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400, Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
I'm not sure I do understand install FreeBSD on 'Windows' - what
does on refer to?
a) Start an
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:59:40 -0400, Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote:
Ubuntu uses wubi
installer like an application and can be uninstalled if anyone didn't
like it. And it sets it up at the boot up time a list to choose from.
That is about what I was talking about.
Okay, I do
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
In www.microsoft.com ,
search
Virtual PC in Search Microsoft.com .
There will be a result among many
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:30:58 -0400, Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote:
Some may be running windows and may want to try freebsd and doesn't want
to rid windows.
But if something could be done to make it easy enough for those that
doesn't know how to install freebsd or something of
Harold Hartley skrev:
I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to
install on windows like ubuntu does.
I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live
in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to
choose what I
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote:
Jerry,
You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around
the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the
nail on the head! I will try this soon.
Yup.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote:
Jerry,
You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get
around
the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote:
Jerry,
You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote:
Jerry,
You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get
around
the proprietary recovery section HP
Hi all,
Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has
Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both.
Thanks,
tsai
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I used gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ) to move the XP partition
to make room for fBSD. You make a bootable CD and I found it to be quite
simple. Make sure that your XP partition is defragmented before using
gparted. Otherwise, gparted will not let you manipulate the partition.
Once you
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:45AM -0800, tsai wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has
Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both.
The FreeBSD Handbook - free online at the FreeBSD web site - has a
whole section on that.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote:
Jerry,
You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around
the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the
nail on the head! I will try this soon.
Yup. Basically, you just ignore it,
Hi,
I was wondering, I am about to setup a computer I have to run Windows
XP, Ubuntu and FreeBSD.
I wanted to know if it was possible to run FreeBSD and Linux on the
same computer.
If I can, do I have to partition my disk in 3 parts? I have a 80Gb
IDE that came with the dell... would be
Intel69 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was wondering, I am about to setup a computer I have to run Windows
XP, Ubuntu and FreeBSD.
FreeBSD and all Linuxes I've ever encountered come with installers which
acknowledge the fact that other operating systems exist and makes some
effort at making
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