Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:22:22 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FWIW, a datapoint. Message-ID: <hsa0vj$nc9$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20100510214306.GA43621@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > > Hopefully no one will face this, but the only way around getting > past pcbsd seems to be via an over-the-wire upgrade. The > 8.0-bootonly.iso for the i386 failed to boot. About two hours > ago tho i was able to csup ports from its 07jan to 10may status. > Next I will pull over the stable-cvsup stuff and see if I can > fire off a build. hope this works. the kybd is hard to use. > [etc.] > I put a PCBSD install on an unused space on my drive. Back when I did it the FreeBSD 8.0 version was still in beta, and that is what I installed. The current state of affairs is now release status with FreeBSD 8.0 P2. I haven't seen it or used it in a while now. When I installed it I did not install any of the extra addon software packages, but rather installed the ports system and proceeded to csup it to current status. I then used the ports system to install any additional stuff I wanted. Generally speaking it was a fairly positive experience in that by and large mostly everything "Just Worked". Seeing the Flash support already installed and functioning in Firefox was surprising, to say the least. Since the install comes with KDE 4.3.5 and I want to upgrade it to 4.4.x I will be giving portupgrade another go around. I had used portupgrade to successfully update all ports once before and it worked as it normally would on a regular (non PCBSD) install of Freebsd. FWIW, by not installing anything (except the base install which includes KDE,etc) using the PCBSD software installer utilizing the normal methods of installing with the ports system and maintenance with portupgrade seems to work just as it would on a normal FreeBSD install. When I get adventurous I'll see how it does with the KDE 4.4.x upgrade one of these days. Have been waiting for the dust to settle there. As to why your bootonly or LiveCD CD's have problems booting, that is probably a separate issue. But I did notice the PCBSD install is using GPT labeling for it's partition labels. -Mike
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