From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 09:41:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B232193 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 09:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f177.google.com (mail-ob0-f177.google.com [209.85.214.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 527A823CE for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 09:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f177.google.com with SMTP id gq1so6626688obb.22 for ; Sun, 11 May 2014 02:41:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=NlYaD57gXcG/YZKGBxcKUnKYggUr8A6Zc0PwInMzLa4=; b=dn7D08Jy0W6Q+FMstnNEUEvgSu3+cf4xtAXu/KrjmZIjjGeAs6iKStWHuTDtGjGwYB myOKaaFlfR3JJo2lqsZ0jQZv1uNZsYFHF8ERsX/MUW2KRCm+Hbx7mvXhGlGV+VxiB9Po /Whys6Gu+dspAzuL+79Pf7UZEdlLhyrFStHAFxV8iDFFF7l+Nt2lJ6HBz8Trwnbsg87t t14HHm36kvVrd6IwxAgtEyz9V/wyvPy7BB7wHQqqdmI0RgGpPak3vUJRaYY2V++hPMTR M7tdG5TjPnssiuDbNe3jODCMuT/aWRvlNzTJ43wB5m1HUagmNA1xZVupDY4JfFEYDvrN JzyQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQldGMNvKaN4gJN/ng+dli8uRqOAMi/LFAFIugW08hxhkBAP0q/ZhK07TgYpa4uc/oH2IJRP MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.161.101 with SMTP id xr5mr982597oeb.71.1399801305290; Sun, 11 May 2014 02:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.131.230 with HTTP; Sun, 11 May 2014 02:41:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [2001:44b8:31b0:aa00:c685:8ff:fe35:3e2d] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 19:41:45 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD on disc From: Jason Birch To: Jack Richard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 09:41:52 -0000 > > I have attempted to install FreeBSD in Toshiba amd64 8GB/640GB-hdd. All > I get is BS. If you mean BS as in "bullshit", this doesn't really give us much information to help you with. Could you elaborate on what you expected to get, and what you actually got? > ... but the requirements to get FreeBSD to work after downloading, burning > the iso to disc and hours of installation without being able to use it... I suspect we'll need to know about your use-case to really understand how we might help. For example, for one of my use-cases of FreeBSD, installation takes minutes and I personally don't need a graphical user interface, or even networking. ... if FreeBSD cannot work in every fashion OUT-OF-THE-BOX ... I wouldn't really say FreeBSD is designed to work in every fashion out-of-the-box. I don't think there are many (any?) things in life that will work for every use-case. As an analogy, a particular car might not seat 7 people, and that might make it a no-go for you and your family. But that might not affect my choice to purchase that car, and in fact might be a good thing! While a great deal of things will work out-of-the-box, they may not be enabled out of the box. Something like PC-BSD is FreeBSD with a great many more things enabled out-of-the-box, and may meet your expectations more. As Odhiambo hinted at rather crudely, perhaps there's a mismatch between your expectation of what an operating system should do and FreeBSD's philosophy. PC-BSD will go a long way to bridging that expectation gap.