Hello,
I must say that Arch and Debian are always there to help me in Linux. Gentoo and all BSD or any other system including Windows, Chrome, etc have never stay long on my computers. The past is over and I decide to give an other PC try to FreeBSD now on a laptop Toshiba Satellite Pro T130. Not young, no PCIe 3.0 or USB 3 only 1.4 Mhz on amd64 with wifi and bluetooth integrated.
I just come to change the miniPCI from a Realtek wifi to Intel dual band. On Linux no problem in managed mode but no 5G AP mode as all the channels and frequencies over 13 are disabled. I have appreciate that FreeBSD support this Intel card because it do not support Intel and Realtek in PCIe, only Atheros and USB dongles. So I was on the good way to use FreeBSD on this Toshiba. I started with a disk image on a mini SD card. Well this image put the card in GPT with an EFI partition. The T130 only boot in bios mode so after learning I put FreeBSD on the PCI SD card for better speed keeping everything. I came back to MBR partition scheme.
I moved ArchLinux who was there at the end of the disk and dual boot using Linux Grub2. I created a mini Debian install using debbootstrap for VirtualBox in FreeBSD to be able to upgrade ArchLinux from FreeBSD. It work after stopping using a Mini SD card and create a disk image on the PCI SD one, always using rsync to make copies. I am just to lazy to reboot. I often upgrade my systems from an other one in chroot.
I'll try to keep FreeBSD my main laptop system for PC because on the Raspberry Pi a lot of packages are missing in Armv6. Hopefully in PC's FreeBSD have a lot of binary packages and the use of the Ports is less necessary. It's my next step, mastering the Ports is a Knight on a savage horse. Hi Hi !
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I must say that Arch and Debian are always there to help me in Linux. Gentoo and all BSD or any other system including Windows, Chrome, etc have never stay long on my computers. The past is over and I decide to give an other PC try to FreeBSD now on a laptop Toshiba Satellite Pro T130. Not young, no PCIe 3.0 or USB 3 only 1.4 Mhz on amd64 with wifi and bluetooth integrated.
I just come to change the miniPCI from a Realtek wifi to Intel dual band. On Linux no problem in managed mode but no 5G AP mode as all the channels and frequencies over 13 are disabled. I have appreciate that FreeBSD support this Intel card because it do not support Intel and Realtek in PCIe, only Atheros and USB dongles. So I was on the good way to use FreeBSD on this Toshiba. I started with a disk image on a mini SD card. Well this image put the card in GPT with an EFI partition. The T130 only boot in bios mode so after learning I put FreeBSD on the PCI SD card for better speed keeping everything. I came back to MBR partition scheme.
I moved ArchLinux who was there at the end of the disk and dual boot using Linux Grub2. I created a mini Debian install using debbootstrap for VirtualBox in FreeBSD to be able to upgrade ArchLinux from FreeBSD. It work after stopping using a Mini SD card and create a disk image on the PCI SD one, always using rsync to make copies. I am just to lazy to reboot. I often upgrade my systems from an other one in chroot.
I'll try to keep FreeBSD my main laptop system for PC because on the Raspberry Pi a lot of packages are missing in Armv6. Hopefully in PC's FreeBSD have a lot of binary packages and the use of the Ports is less necessary. It's my next step, mastering the Ports is a Knight on a savage horse. Hi Hi !
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