Hello folks, I'm going to install FreeBSD on my machine so I have some questions. I'm a experienced Linux user having used from Ubuntu to Gentoo, currently I'm using ArchLinux so I though of getting a source based distro again. But instead of going Gentoo I will go FreeBSD(I know BSD is not Linux ).
I have some doubts, first I could not find a printable "summarized" version of the installation docs, like the old gentoo hand book, but covering just the install, I will google a bit more but couldnt "just" find it. Secondly, can I install freebsd from a chrooted environment? Sort of old gentoo alt install method when you install the system from a existing Linux system? Also I have an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban processor can I go amd64? It wasn't listed on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/hardware.html#PROC-AMD64 and I'm not quite sure about how does bsd handles processor families.
Well I hope to be more around.
Regards,
vfbsilva
I have some doubts, first I could not find a printable "summarized" version of the installation docs, like the old gentoo hand book, but covering just the install, I will google a bit more but couldnt "just" find it. Secondly, can I install freebsd from a chrooted environment? Sort of old gentoo alt install method when you install the system from a existing Linux system? Also I have an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban processor can I go amd64? It wasn't listed on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/hardware.html#PROC-AMD64 and I'm not quite sure about how does bsd handles processor families.
Well I hope to be more around.
Regards,
vfbsilva