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    fdisk display error

    OK. Thanks! I need to learn to what call slices/partitions when I am in BSD world!
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    Help Installing with only 1 CD

    I thought you have a CD drive. Couldn't you boot from it and install from it (if you still have some space on your hard drive) ?
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    start up freebsd?

    and then install firefox35 with flash ;) but before that make your wifi work !
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    Help Installing with only 1 CD

    why don't you do the easy way with grub? I know this is a freebsd forum and people don't like grub but you already have linux on your hard drive! What I have on the same hard drive now is : Linux, Win, FreeBSD. I am using BSD at the moment. I had Win installed first from DELL on my D420. Used...
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    fdisk display error

    No they did not invent the PC to run BSD. They call partition table first; they did not call slice table inside the MBR! :P
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    KDE4 under VMWARE: keyboard and mouse don't work

    http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5860 found it ! thanks again ! ( so I don't have to re-install freebsd ) But still I could not make keyboard and mouse work under vmware. Go gnome !
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    KDE4 under VMWARE: keyboard and mouse don't work

    #SirDice : Thanks! But how do I modify /etc/rc.conf in single user mode? It seem no editor and the file is read-only (I tried to use mv ...)
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    KDE4 under VMWARE: keyboard and mouse don't work

    On a XP machine, I have vmware player installed and have freebsb8.0/kde4 installed: On the /ect/rc.conf I have added: hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" local_startup="${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d" kdm4_enable="YES" and on ~/.xinitrc: PATH=/usr/local/kde4/bin:$PATH export PATH...
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    HOWTO: Creating Metaports

    Let's say that we have a system with many ports on it and we are happy with the set up. Now we want to create a meta-port to remember this instance of the system (to find all ports having been added so we can put them into the RUN_DEPENDS+= list). Is there a good way to do this? I am still...
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    I have had it long long time ago. I gave up and burn a DVD instead to re-install freebsd. My laptop, DELL D420, can triple boot: win/linux/bsd. I don't like VB or VMware. Linux/bsd can access to other OS partitions but not Win! :P Too much build time required on freebsd to make...
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    fdisk display error

    DOS has 4 partitions (in the MBR). FreeBSD only uses one of those. Inside FreeBSD (partition), it has 5 slices (they are / /var /tmp .....). The other 3 DOS partions were blank because there is none! So you don't lose anything.
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    Trouble installing

    It happened to me too. At the end, I went out and bought DVD+RW discs to burn on; and it worked perfectly, no more blank screen! Spend more money on the DVD and forget the USB stick.
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    nah! It won't even have ls! No mount command either!
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    @ fbsd1: I have tried your script, fbsdiso2usb, and it created a bootable USB stick (I replaced disc1 with dvd1 iso image). However, a couple things should be considered: 1. if the usb stick is one like mine; it would hang and it makes the system crash with a <ctrl>+C ! 2. the script...
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    You should read carefully! install freebsd from USB != install freebsd on USB
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    Install FreeBSD on a bare notebook without CD-ROM

    1. Borrow a freeBSD machine. 2. Download the ISO image to somewhere with enough space (need maybe 5G extra) 3. Take that ISO and make an USB stick bootable by running the script, something like : ./iso2flash.sh -t bsd 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso /dev/da0 (note: I haven't tried to use the USB...
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    Actually, the updated script is here. To run it, something like: ./iso2flash.sh -t bsd 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso /dev/da0
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    Thanks! But this is the chicken-and-egg situation. I didn't have freebsd running at that time. But I did have windows and Linux....
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    Thanks. That makes sense; but I have given up and burn a DVD instead.
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    FreeBSD installation from USB

    I used unetbootin on Windows to create a bootable 2G-USB with the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso. I can boot from it. But when it goes to "Choose Installation Media"; what should I choose? Based on this it is supposed to be option 7 (from an existing filesystem) and then /mnt. Is this correct...
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