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Apr 23, 2007

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I'd heard of PC-BSD, but, never DesktopBSD.
I may have to have a go at that.

I have a spare machine at home (needs a disc though), and I've been wanting to get into a nix for a long long time. I've tried BSD a few times, but once its installed, I've never really know what to do next.

I have a few ideas on things I'd like to do this time, so hopefully, this install will hang around/last longer.

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Apr 23, 2007

internet gnuru
For some reason I can't fathom, D-BSD wont install.
It hangs, at 12% or 13% (two separate attempts).

The discs continue to spin (both hdd & DVD), but the mouse is unresponsive, meaning I can't cancel to see if it would give me a message.

PC-BSD and FreeBSD will install. So i'm not sure what the issue is, I reburned the .iso. But, it did the same.
I really wanted the D-BSD since when I'm older and more grown up, I'd like to be able to used FreeBSD proper.

ATM, I'm putting on PC-BSD until I can figure out what the beef is.

The version I was trying was the current DesktopBSD-1.6-i386.iso

I have no idea what I'm doing, I just know I want to do it.

edit: i think its a flaky HDD

url fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Apr 7, 2008

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