From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 18 09:55:05 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46789134ACB3 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0D9E8B185 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:55:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from leaf.local (unknown [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:6010:3dfe:4391:238e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 95354107A for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/95354107A; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: can all drivers work after freebsd full installation To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <134608761.9136166.1545124422525.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <134608761.9136166.1545124422525@mail.yahoo.com> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:55:02 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <134608761.9136166.1545124422525@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C0D9E8B185 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.95 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[FreeBSD.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.95)[-0.955,0]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20712, ipnet:81.2.64.0/18, country:GB]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.999,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:55:05 -0000 On 18/12/2018 09:13, Shyaka Rene via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hello, I have a omputer with windows 7. HP I5 all its drivers on hp > website are made for windows 7. if i install freebsd full > installation (not virtual machine) will all drivers work (network, > VGA, webcam, finger print, ...). thank you. We'd need to know exactly what all of the components were in that machine before we could tell you definitely if they'd all work or not. The best way to find out is to try it. Download one of the USB memstick images -- probably this one, but there are others on the site for different OS versions: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img Follow the instructions here for writing that to a USB stick: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html (Section 2.3.1.1 is what you want) Then boot from the USB stick. When prompted, choose the 'Live Image' option, which means FreeBSD will be running entirely off the USB stick and won't write over your hard drive. This should show you what is and isn't supported on your hardware. Note: if you're unfamiliar with the Unix command line, you might find TrueOS to be a better choice to start with: https://www.trueos.org/ This has FreeBSD underneath, but it comes bundled with a windowing system and various productivity apps and is more aimed at desktop users. Cheers, Matthew