From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 15 15:00:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D750616A400 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from services.tcbug.org (softlink-dsl-host82.dsl.visi.com [208.42.148.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C17913C45E for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: by services.tcbug.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E7909B41E; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:42:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:42:18 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: John Murphy Message-ID: <20070415144218.GA10621@tcbug.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ubuntu stole my FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Josh Paetzel List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:00:46 -0000 John Murphy wrote: > But thanks to the FAQ entry on booting FreeBSD and Linux using GRUB > at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#GRUB-LOADER > I was able to get it back again (except the file which I edited was > /boot/grub/menu.lst). > > I had resisted the temptation to install any Linux flavour for many > years, but all the talk about Ubuntu had me intrigued. So I decided > to install Xubuntu on my old Packard Bell Easynote. It can only do > 800x600 so the first surprise was that the buttons to proceed from > Ubiquity's location chooser dialogue were hidden behind the lower > task bar. The window could not be re-sized or scrolled and it took > me a while to work out how to move the task bar to the side. The > problem would be much worse for anyone restricted to 640x480 and I > was surprised to find the bug was first reported over a year ago! > > The laptop previously triple booted Windows 2000, FreeBSD and NetBSD > and the fourth primary partition was reserved for data. The NetBSD > slice was to be overwritten with the new installation. Had to create > an 'extended' partition in place of the NetBSD one and then make a > swap and ext2 file system within it. It was going to create mount > points for my FAT slices, which I didn't particularly want, so I > deleted those and found I had to return to the gpart screen and do > it all again because it insisted on mounting those slices. > > I would have been quite happy to leave the boot manager as it was > and add an entry for the new OS, but there was no option to do so > and, even though the Windows installation was recognised and an > entry in the boot manager was created, the FreeBSD one was not. > > The installation was successful, but it seems odd to not have a root > user. To make the changes to grub required a command like: > > 'sudo editor /boot/grub/menu.lst' and then the unprivileged user pw. > > I must admit it looks nice, but the only thing it'll get used for is > creating ext2 file systems on Compact Flash cards destined for my > Psion 5mx. Couldn't find a way to do that from Free. > > -- > Thanks, John. I don't suppose you ever tried sysutils/e2fsprogs? I've been able to create ext2 filesystems with it in the past on FBSD. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel