FreeBSD experience so far after switching from Linux - THe installer needs work to not crash so often

[kent_dorfman766]

Dear respondents...Please don't feed the trolls. If I'm mistaken then I apologize but something in the back of the fridge smells funky here.

 

[Phishfry]

It would seem odd this problem replicates across multiple machines while none of us has ever had problems.

I will say I have seen cam errors with bad media on installation attempt.
That is my worst case scenario. On Arm64 my experience with bsdinstall has been rocky but I am happy to see it working now in most cases.

 

[elephant]

Please enlighten me how to set up rc.conf without needing to restart the machine when testing drivers, XORG config, sddm or other gui's that might start automatically, wifi drivers issues,etc

I'm really curious how to achieve that in freebsd without requiring a restart.

• Specific to x.org, I exit X and then restart it to verify X startup works as expected.
• Also, you can kldload a driver to test it out before adding it to rc.conf.
• After installing a new service, you run "service <service-name> onestart" to start the service once without touching rc.conf.

The ultimate test is, of course, to reboot to verify your rc.conf performs as expected.

 

[Alain De Vos]

The boot messages tell if everything is ok.