[General] installation problem

[bernd at helber-it-services.com]

Quoting nepal <nepal.roade at virgin.net>:

> On Saturday 18 August 2007 14:43, bernd at helber-it-services.com wrote:
>> Dear Neal,
>
> Hi Bernd.
>
>> 1st.
>>
>> Do you had a look on the official Desktop BSD Board?
>> http://desktopbsd.net/forums/
>
> Yes.
>
>> Second, could you describe the Problem a little bit precisely?
>> Where does this Mountpoint Problem come up... at the Installation?
>
> I'm rewriting this part now as I have got it working. The problem was that I
> had inserted the cd into the 2nd cd drive. So I loaded up the live version to
> take a look. Internet was up and working fine with firefox. I have adsl and
> netgear modem/router. I have issues with this and pclinuxos.
>
> One thing before I install is I'd like to keep lilo as my boot   
> loader. Can you
> help with a stanza to put into lilo for booting DesktopBSD?
>

At example you could look at this. But please check again for you're System.

You can boot FreeBSD with LILO. Do not install the FreeBSD boot  
selector (Booteasy) if you want to use LILO. Append the following  
lines to your /etc/lilo.conf file and run lilo (assuming the FreeBSD  
slice is /dev/hda4):

other=/dev/hdaX
         table=/dev/hda
         label=FreeBSD
If you have installed FreeBSD on the second  drive, use something like  
this (the FreeBSD slice being /dev/hdxX):

other=/dev/hdxX
         table=/dev/hdxX
         loader=/boot/chain.b
         label=FreeBSD


Alternatively you could also take a look on an alternative Bootloader,  
it's called GAG. It's the best Bootloader i ever worked with, and  
boots nearly every OS you will find. But if you're happy with lilo and  
it works for you stick with lilo.

>> Third:
>> If you´re going to install the System.. the Installation should work  
>> in a graphical User Interface, in a normal way there wouldn´t be a  
>> text based mount prompt.
>
> It does now.
>
>> If you´re not sure what a mountpoint is, please look at the Free BSD  
>> Handbonk at freebsd.org, that would be very useful.
>
> I do know what a mountpoint is (and I have downloaded the handbook already).
> My misunderstanding was why was I being asked for such a thing.
>
>> If you wan´t to install Desktop BSD beside another System like Windows  
>> take a look into the Desktop BSD Board, also in the FreeBSD Handbook  
>> and consult the Readme of Desktop BSD.
>
> Have done all of those.
>
Great :-)

> I have two ide drives partitioned with various versions of linux. The first
> drive contains the main working linux platform that I use daily, pclinuxos.
> The rest are just for play and testing. The second drive I intend to use at
> present to try out desktopbsd only (damn, I'm going to have to train my
> fingers to type desktopbsd...). Usually for testing I put everything under a
> single partition, my pclinuxos has a separate / and /home.
>
>> The other point is if you try the Live CD and the Live CD behaves in  
>> this kind of manner that you will see a text prompt which asks for a  
>> mount point, the CD seems to be broken, or something comparable. When  
>> i turned on the Live CD Feature, Desktop BSD bootet into the System  
>> without asking for mount points.
>
> same here, all ok now.
>
>> Thank you for your patience.
>
> Thanks for your response. It is always encouraging when you know   
> someone is at
> least listening. :)
>
Welcome to the list .-)

>> Bernd
>
> btw, what I am looking for is a relatively easy to maintain system. One that
> is stable. One that I do not have to do 6 monthly reinstalls to keep up to
> date. One that has an option to compile source packages of the software I
> want for my pc. From what I've read, desktopbsd seems to fit the bill so far.
>
> I don't want to become a slave to my machine and spend all my spare time
> either learning new things or maintaining operation (as I have so often done
> in the past) . I could also say I am a disillusioned/disappointed linux user,
> but then it is free...
>
I work the whole day with an Unix based Operating System which is  
placed in HA Computing and i could tell you none Operating System is  
perfect, cause they're made by humans, if they would be perfect, i  
would be out of Job. ;)



> My impresson from all that I've read so far is that desktopbsd is   
> very stable.
Stable is a question of definition. ;-)

 From my point of view Free BSD based Systems are stable and have a  
very high reliability. :-)

If you compare it to Linux based Systems, comparable are Slackware and  
the self called God's own Distro Debian. :-)

But it depends for what you are your System using for, some Stuff  
works better under BSD based System other Things will work better  
under Linux based Systems, next Stuff better with Windows.

> Has good gui tools for admin. And from searching around it seems to have the
> packages I am interested in (which is not very much).
>
> neal.

Cheers and sorry for my worse english. :-)

Bernd