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Can't seem to install it. Booting off the disc, the last message it gets to is uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered Help? i386

PFsense most definately based on freebsd.

Eh booted from floppy in install, then I hit do a network install, ufnorutantely it doesn't see: Ethernet cable from this 3com pcmcia thing, all I see in the install is pilp0 (Parallel port IP (plip) peer connection (tried it doesn't work) sl0 SLIP interface on device /dev/cuad0 (com1) ppp0 PPP...

Dutch Daemon's idea seems like the best for a good start, will try that first.

That's a very creative way to do it :) I might do that if no other alternates are available.

So I got this t4900ct laptop, it's a beast. 75mhz, 40 megs of ram, 800 meg HD... I want to get FreeBSD on it, biggest problem, no cd drive... I wanted to do Damn Small Linux, except that's a matter of 38 floppy disks... (50 megs) I don't think I can get any pcmcia to cd drive thing...

Well Ubuntu or Debian are easier to use, I dun like the whole fdisk style thing going on in FreeBSD, but uh it's been nice to me.

Thanks, and yeah I realized I could edit the rc.conf, but I wanted the desktop to startup everytime.

So I have gnome installed on a freebsd vm. Unfortunately how do I stop it? I can't just go to another virtual desktop because if I press ctrl + alt + f1, it changes the server's desktop... I tried just writing gdm stop in the terminal, and well it doesn't do anything. I even tried killing X...

Ok I did, sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 I will continue to see what happens. EDIT: I did that, then I did: zpool create tank raidz1 label/disk1 label/disk2 label/disk3 And it spits out: cannot open 'label/disk3' : no such GEOM provider must be full path or shorthand device name. I then did...

Yes I am root, and ad14 is the hd I want to use.

I tried glabel label disk1 /dev/ad14 and it said : Operation not permitted.

On each bootup, I get two error windows saying, DISK cannot be mounted, however I can put files on all three of the hds... so I guess it works?

I think that worked, except I am not totally sure yet, now fdisk does not complain ant all, I added geom_bsd_load="YES" geom_label_load="YES" geom_mbr_load="YES" Though I am getting a bit funny behavior so I am not concluded... yet.

Wait could you explain more in depth exactly what you did? Though I gather 7.2 worked perfectly? But I am not a fan of legacy stuff D:

Anyway here is that video, I kind of fuddled around too much with it, but just view the beggining and near the end where I try ad8. Ignore me trying to label constantly... http://home.comcast.net/~oh071193/videos/fdisk.ogv Sorry for making you guys download, but if I put it on youtube, I bet...

Well right before I do that, I have gnome running and I do the same thing on disk ad8. I run fdisk I create the freebsd partition I write out the changes, then instantly gnome launches a folder pointing to the disk where I can write too. Nothing happens for ad10 or ad14

How can I create an empty directory on disk5 if I can't see it in FreeBSD :? I thought you have to label it first to go into it. I didn't have to do that on disk ad8, which works amazingly well... And is the exact same model HD as these. I'll use recordmydesktop(I got gnome on) to show you...

Yeah I just tried using sade, and I still get that Error mounting /dev/ad10s1d on /disk5: No such file or directory... I mean what the hell? I really don't want to back to Debian < I do like FreeBSD but this is being a pain for something what I'd call simple :P And what is weird in sysinstall...

Ok here is the output: (in this output I think it's only showing 2x1.5 tb hds, I really have 3... BIOS sees 3, so did ubuntu) # gpart show => 63 586072305 ad6 MBR (279G) 63 586072305 1 freebsd [active] (279G) => 0 586072305 ad6s1 BSD (279G) 0...