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Update- I've been trying to do the dual install and given up. I think I will simply install ubuntu and install freebsd and run it via virtual box. I should be able to get the exact same functionality as running it on the metal. Thanks for reading.

There are many threads here about dual booting though i cannot find the information that i need. I apologize in advance for another thread on this topic. In the past i have successfully set up a dual boot system - though each operating system shared the same hard disc. I would like to do...

Thank you I will try this.

Is it easier then to install freebsd on whole drive and then resize the partition to make space for Linux? I'm lost in what to do now

Thanks, I've tried this tutorial but it doesn't seem to work anymore. If I boot the freebsd USB stick the installer wants to use the whole drive for freebsd.

Grub is to boot after install. How do you install freebsd from a usb memory stick onto the hard drive with Linux?

I have tried to follow the tutorial but it seems that some of the commands do not work anymore. I have linux mint installed on half of my hard disk (roughly 50GB). The other half was empty space reserved for freebsd - another 50GB. The first problem was: I got an error which said unknown geom...

Hi all - I installed the refind boot manager recommended in the how to. It worked without any special configuration. I can now use either Ubuntu or FreeBSD! Now I’ve got to begin configuring the installations. Thanks for all your help.

Hello, sadly I have encountered a problem getting FreeBSD to dual boot with Ubuntu. To clarify - this is my current setup: I have a HP Laptop with a single 1 TB drive. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 20.04 using a 'custom' partitioning scheme. Linux sees the hard disk as '/dev/sda'. /dev/sda1 is...

It’s ok folks I mistyped ‘o’ and ‘O’ in the instructions- I’m moving ahead again now

Hi I am following the How To dual boot referred to above. In the end I had to reinstall Ubuntu and am now trying to install FreeBSD 12.1 following these steps. unfortunately I became stuck at this point: “# Create your ZFS file system hierarchy: zfs create -o mountpoint=none zroot/ROOT zfs...

Hi - yes thank you. I am making steady progress though my math learning is a long term project. There is so much to do but so little time to do it all!

Hello I attempted to install Linux Ubuntu and FreeBSD so I could dual boot. I first installed Ubuntu with no problems: at /dev/sda1 - EFI system 512mb /dev/sda2 - ext4 /boot 732mb /dev/sda3 - ext4 / 400gb There was free space of 450gb I then installed FreeBSD in what I thought was the free...

This question was asked not in relation to any programming problem. I am self studying basic pre algebra maths (to begin with) because I never had any formal education in mathematics at school. No offence is taken.

Hi I’m trying to understand a little bit about exponents and getting confused with the topic of negative base numbers and their exponents. For example, I read that : -5 (with no brackets) raised to the power of 2 = -25. Contrast this with: (-5) raised to the power of 2 = 25 :that is a...

There used to be OpenOffice but that seems to have been upgraded now and the FreeBSD port is still 'in development'. Can anyone recommend another WYSIWYG Word Processor that can open and save Word files?

D-bus and console kit seem ok as I get output to what SirDice gave. I tried with KDE but get the same problem. There is only one default resolution . I attempted to charge it with xrandr -s 1024 x 768 at command line but that had no effect either.

I didn’t know! I will try it again with gdm. All I want to do is set my screen to 1024*768 resolution.

Can’t anyone help?

Hello everyone I’m running freebsd 12. By default only the console starts. If I do startx the gnome desktop does start. Note I do not use gdm because I do not always want windows to start. The main problem at the moment is that the screen resolution in gnome is not what I want. It is too...