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Maybe I do understand your question the wrong way, but I think the FreeBSD project site offers this information in the desired way. You can e.g. browse ports by category: listed by locigal group. mousaka

geodns-1.portsnap.freebsd.org is used to choose a nearby mirror to speed up portsnap. mousaka

Some of the jobs defined in periodic (daily, weekls, monthly) are quite useful, e.g. updating the locate database, backing up users and groups, ... Cron runs the periodic scripts at 3 o'clock in the morning, I assume that your desktop box usually isn't powered on at this time during night...

I would recommend to use sysutils/anacron instead of cron and then, as you proposed, disable cron in /etc/rc.conf with cron_enable="NO" mousaka

The Handbook and the article about Linux comparision exist as well in a German translation: -http://www.freebsd.org/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -http://www.at.freebsd.org/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/ mousaka

Sounds great

You did upgrade your site packages after upgrading to Python 2.7? mousaka

Shouldn't it be the other way round (to replace Python 2.6 with Python 2.7)? portmaster -o lang/python27 lang/python26 Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? mousaka

See the Chapter Desktop Environments in the handbook. Is there a reason you don't use gdm? mousaka

What is not working? The memory device (md) can only be used within a running system, not as boot device. This give you only the possibility to edit the image (/usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.disk.full) before writing it to the flash disk (before dd command). mousaka

I assume you can successfully boot from other USB devices. E.g. try the memstick Image from FreeBSD with the same flash drive. The dd command should write the correct MBR as well. Did you set NANO_BOOTLOADER to boot/boot0 or have a serial connection established during boot? Else you won't...

NanoBSD uses the serial console as output per default. Try to set NANO_BOOTLOADER to boot/boot0 for VGA output. Edit: Which device node is assigned to your usb drive? Can you mount the usb drive on a running system? mousaka

At which step the boot process hangs? What sort of hardware do you use? mousaka

From your dmesg I guess, that you didn't load a kernel module for your sound card at all. Read the following chapter in the handbook: Setting Up the Sound Card. Very likely you need to load the snd_hda driver. mousaka EDIT:sixtydoses was faster ...

Some of the "GNOME-Tools" don't recognize FreeBSD 8.0 until now. Maybe this might be your problem. I didn't look into that so far, just noticed it. Maybe you should open a PR. mousaka

# kldload linux mousaka

That's good to know. Some weeks ago (8.0-Beta2) I was following the guide from Beat Gätzi (in German), and did have to start over as well. Deleting the GUID partition table did work for me, without deleting the last sectors. The above guide has some slight differences to the one in the...

To start completely over, you must delete the partition table. Run the following commands before step 3 in the mentioned guide: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1k count 1 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count 1 mousaka

It's as well available in the ports: misc/freebsd-doc-all mousaka

Have a look at BSDcertification. Their DVD contains the 4 major BSDs and quite a lot more useful stuff about their certification and additional documentation. mousaka