Heh. Yeah, it was a lot of text. Blame it on my background; that's where I got the habit.
So is installing in Legacy only okay? I'm just thinking in terms of FreeBSD and their aggressive move towards UEFI in 10.1- though even in that regard the Handbook says to use Legacy only. X220s are kinda screwy with UEFI anyway, it seems. Also, GPT or MBR? I only vaguely understand anything UEFI-related, and actually bought the X220 to try to avoid any UEFI funny business for a few years. I may have made it more difficult on myself than I intended. I'll try the other ports tomorrow. I have this funny feeling that it will give the same result, but it is certainly worth a try. And last three questions, for once I get this working: - Do I need to take any special steps for an intel series 530 SSD during installation? - Should I go with HAMMER or UFS? Or, in other words, is HAMMER too "big" for 256 MB? - For using this laptop as a developer's workstation to self-teach about a broad range of topics, some of which include shell scripting, programming languages (especially Common Lisp, Python, C and maybe Perl), setting up and maintaining databases, networking via qemu virtualized OS instances, and others, is it a good idea to stay with the defaults, or should I mess with partition sizes? I'm also thinking about separation of privilege in a physical sense as well as the time and space it will take to do a dump/restore. I don't have any storage set up yet. I'm just thinking about the future. Thanks for your help! Ward
