[huskerlug] Re: Fresbie 2.0.1
- From: Hexadecimal <hexcat@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:39:29 -0600
FreeBSD for AMD64 won't work on my AMD 64-bit laptop :'( It starts booting
but then it just shuts off.
However, it works fine on my 32-bit Core Duo.
On 2/16/07, Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This live CD of FreeBSD 6.2 works reasonably well. You have to hit
> a key to get
> out of the start up page, which will get you into command line prompt
> situation.
> You then type in startx and the xfce gui comes up. With a change you can
> start
> up fluxbox, I believe.
> It should run on older computers, however if memory serves, even
> FreeBSD has
> given up support 386's. The two things that really irritate me is that
> while it
> has mplayer it doesn't play realplayer files at least as a plug-in to
> FireFox,
> and the clock comes up on local time -- Italian local time that is. The
> screen-blanker also doesn't go into green mode. However, it did give me a
> chance to play around with FreeBSD again with very little
> hassle. Something for
> you guys to tinker with. ---Jim
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