Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

t2000kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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!

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.

As noted, PC-BSD is not OpenBSD. But yes, that complaint would be valid.

The OpenBSD installer will cheerfully allow you to overlap two
disklabel'ed slices and place a third smack in your Windows partition,
only to tell you that they're not large enough to unpack the tarballs.
But you'll have to work harder to do something like that than to do
something sane, and OpenBSD doesn't claim to be particularly
newbie-friendly [1].

Joachim

[1] To the extent that OpenBSD is easy, that's mostly a consequence of
good design. See the OpenBSD installer versus Ubuntu/Red Hat/...'s
(simple, textual/complex, graphical), or OpenBSD's IPsec vs Linux'
(simple and powerful configuration/configuring IPsec on Linux is about
as much fun as writing a novel using ed, which is to say it can be done
but it's not the right tool for the job).
.

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