PC-BSD?

Edward78 · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:54

I have been wondering about installing PC-BSD,. Anyway I bought a 1.3 DVD in 2007 & I could never get it to boot up right & it never went into KDE, I know it has been like 2 years. Is there a GUI OS control panel yet (like YaST2 for OpenSuSE 11) I heard that was on the roadmap for 2.0. Since 1.3 there has been a lot of changes right?

Specs are EVGA. nForce 650i ultra Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale E8200 2.66GHz
6MB Cache Dual Core 1333MHz 2 Gig DIMM-DRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 512 DDR3 memory (PCIe 1.00 x16) will any of that be a prob.?

Will I beable to boot Windows & PC-BSD?
Does it have to go on the primary partition?
Should I get it now or wait for version 2.0?

Edward78 · 8 Jul 2009 at 16:58

Kona* said:
I've been dabbling with PC-BSD for a while and it's pretty good, works fine on my spec (in sig) I don't know what you mean by "waiting for version 2" as it's already on version 7.1! In fact, 7.1.1 was released yesterday

I thought that was the FreeBSD version under it? Doesn't it seem a little odd they where only at 1.3 in June 2007 & are up to 7.1 now? http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/42/11/

Edward78 · 8 Jul 2009 at 18:24

pingwing said:
Wow, forgot all about this from years ago! Couldnt tell you what state its in but i think ill be giving it a bash on my old laptop later on today as it looks like a pretty good/simple to do bsd!

Oh and according to the wiki page they did a jump from 1.5 to 7.0 mid last year but there is no explanation why there

Ok seems a little strange to me. Well I have my 1.3 DvD, should I install that & upgrade or just download/buy the new one, I had a bit of trouble with 1.3?

Edward78 · 18 Sep 2009 at 17:47

Well I will give it a go then, just worried about the winxp/pc-bsd dual boot.

Edward78 · 19 Sep 2009 at 12:05

Well, I will just have to buy it, all the downloads stop very near the beginning.