Hi, all. I've skimmed the links from the welcome message and also had a brief look around. Great resource here, thanks for all your great work.
I'll preface by saying I haven't used FreeBSD for nearly 15 years, and only recently returned to Linux after a long vacation (holidays are usually fun, though) with Windows and OS X. So consider me a clueless newb; I welcome the obligatory berating.
Sitrep
I failed installing FreeBSD alongside my existing OSs (OpenSuSE and Ubuntu) as I had no primary partitions left and FreeBSD wouldn't install to ext/logical partitions. I settled on the idea of starting anew, and installing BSD with KDE and X.Org packages first with intentions of reinstalling SuSE (and parting ways with Ubuntu) after a successful FreeBSD install. Solid plan, right; format, create USB 9.2 boot disk, run the FreeBSD install and setup a GPT partition scheme. Roger that; installation underway.
The full install completed most ricky-tick. Drop to shell, run
The first attempt was a mission failure, it appeared to have installed the packages and after dropping to a prompt to reboot the system it failed during boot. I'm currently back to installing packages via FTP (Ethernet) again. It's taken, thus far, ~75 minutes (only installing KDE, X.Org and dependencies); I keep dropping out of servers and having to select alternative FTP locations as it will no longer log in to the prior server. As of this moment, I was presented with an empty blue screen persisting for ~5 minutes (for the n-th time) before being diverted back to the [Select server] screen and trying multiple new servers before one successfully logged in. It appears we may have another failed op.
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I'll preface by saying I haven't used FreeBSD for nearly 15 years, and only recently returned to Linux after a long vacation (holidays are usually fun, though) with Windows and OS X. So consider me a clueless newb; I welcome the obligatory berating.
Sitrep
I failed installing FreeBSD alongside my existing OSs (OpenSuSE and Ubuntu) as I had no primary partitions left and FreeBSD wouldn't install to ext/logical partitions. I settled on the idea of starting anew, and installing BSD with KDE and X.Org packages first with intentions of reinstalling SuSE (and parting ways with Ubuntu) after a successful FreeBSD install. Solid plan, right; format, create USB 9.2 boot disk, run the FreeBSD install and setup a GPT partition scheme. Roger that; installation underway.
The full install completed most ricky-tick. Drop to shell, run
sysinstall
and post-install configuration. Install KDE and X.Org packages via FTP (over Ethernet -- WLAN failed during setup). Roger, sounds easy enough. Well, I'm having a horrible time with it -- twice over.The first attempt was a mission failure, it appeared to have installed the packages and after dropping to a prompt to reboot the system it failed during boot. I'm currently back to installing packages via FTP (Ethernet) again. It's taken, thus far, ~75 minutes (only installing KDE, X.Org and dependencies); I keep dropping out of servers and having to select alternative FTP locations as it will no longer log in to the prior server. As of this moment, I was presented with an empty blue screen persisting for ~5 minutes (for the n-th time) before being diverted back to the [Select server] screen and trying multiple new servers before one successfully logged in. It appears we may have another failed op.
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- Does it normally take this long (post-install configuration, installing two packages and their dependencies)?
- It appears, as with SuSE, that I'm going to have problems getting the BCM43225 WLAN controller to work and, unlike SuSE, my googlefu has not uncovered any solutions. Is it even possible to get (this) WiFi running? If so, can you please provide instructions (if we're able to even complete the install)?
- Alternatively, would you recommend a young soldier settle on PC-, or Ghost-BSD?