Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On 21 Jun 2007 20:13:15 GMT, "Joachim Schipper"
<jdNoOtSPAMschipper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Feel free to post back if you need more advice!

Joachim

Thanks!

It will take me a while to pick up on the different terms (and why
those terms were chosen) but I'm learning.

Just a comment--I tried installing PC-BSD this evening in a small
partition, just short of 4 GB. It said it needed 4 GB minimum, and I
will be giving it that, but wouldn't it be nice for two things to
happen before you get to that point?

1. Tell me as it loads the GUI and before I enter lots of information
that I don't have enough space. If it can check after all of that is
entered, it can surely check before!

2. Give me an opportunity to change the partition sizes by offering me
some control over partitioning, like Linux (usually) does. Maybe even
give me the opportunity to shrink my Windows partition like the Linux
partition manager Gparted does. I realize that BSD is not Linux, even
though they both emulate Unix to some extent, and neither of these are
Windows (fortunately!). But this seems to be a simple thing.

If I end up liking BSD, maybe I'll get involved in the development
testing of it like a friend of mine does for Ubuntu. Then your ideas
can make a difference before the next release comes out. (I did that
for Windows NT and then 95 through XP.)

I'm going to give it another go, and also perhaps try a few different
ones before I either settle on one branch (?) of BSD or give up and
expand my Windows partition on that laptop. At least if I don't like
any of them, I can get rid of the boot menu by booting a Windows
startup disk to dos and dong an fdisk /mbr on drive C to restore the
master boot record to the way it was before.
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