[Linux-Anyway] Re: FreeBSD version and installation disks
- From: Horror Vacui <horrorvacui@xxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:12:26 +0200
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:07:25 -0400
Scott wrote:
> I usually just put in the very basic stuff, ports and Linux emulation.
> I
> then put in everything else, including X, from ports.
>
> You would only need the first disc1.iso. The other stuff has
> additional packages, but as things are always being upgraded, and
> backwards compatibility isn't always perfect, you're usually best off
> putting in most things from ports. One of the first ports you'll want
> is/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade which does pretty much what it says.
> :)
Ok, got disc1 of 5.2.1. Since I'm a bit bored, I'll type a summary of my
first experiences. There are no questions below, so read only if you're
bored & interested.
The installation procedure could be more intuitive (the menu navigation
is often a bit confusing), but I guess as someone who tends to say that
gentoo installation procedure is easy (albeit with a lot of RTFM), this
is a somewhat unfair statement to make. I'll be doing some more
installs, since my partitioning sucks (300MB /, 900MB /usr, which should
rather be something like 150/1050) and my choice of sets isn't the best
either. /usr is full, and I had to remove a large number of /usr/ports
subdirs (which judging from my experiences with OpenBSD is bound to
create trouble), as well as the /usr/compat linux compatibility libs.
I'm glad to report about several other pitfalls as well. I predicted
that with 1.2 GB HD the space would probably be a bit of a problem, and
I intended to mitigate the problem by mounting parts of my large newer
HD as storage - but FreeBSD won't do reiser, at least at my current
level of expertise. Ok, that's not exactly a pitfall since I created
all-reiser partitions at the time I had no intention to run anything but
Linux on the box (correspondingly, there's also no UFS support in my
linux kernel at the moment). Another pitfall is that for some reason the
install process doesn't create an /etc/resolv.conf. I've got DHCP
running on the OpenBSD machine, and that also takes care of the DNS
stuff. My first thought at not finding resolv.conf was that this
information is stored somewhere else, so I started grepping on anything
that looked like resolver information, googling, browsing the
Handbook/FAQ. Well, after some time wasted, I found that I should have
listened to my intuition - touched /etc/resolv.conf, killed/restarted
dhclient, and it worked.
I've also got some other stuff to deal with. On the virtual consoles,
the keyboard map is ok (german qwertz/codepage 850), but in X it's the
bloody american qwerty. Having dealt with many OS's that default to
this, I can use this as well, but it's an annoyance.
Also, the UFS seems to be very lame. To be fair, it's running on an
old&lame disc, but I still have the impression that it's slower than the
Linux filesystems.
The only thing negative that I can say about it is that there seems to
be no easy way to remove packages. I installed too many, and currently I
don't see any possibilities to remove some except for removing manually
(which I won't be bothered to do) or reinstalling the whole thing.
On the whole, the impression is positive. Most problems I had with it
are my fault, and I'm in no way turned off it. Under better
circumstances (larger, faster HD) I'd probably like it very much.
Cheers
--
Horror Vacui
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