On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:25:07 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > Super! just offhand, can i install PCSD *over* thius FBSd > --7.1--? Keep /usr/home and so on?
basically yes. Check if the installer allows you NOT to format the partition where you have your home directories. If it is /usr/home instead of /home (its own partition), problems may occur. Maybe you delete everything from /usr EXCEPT the home/ subtree and then tell the PC-BSD installer NOT to format the /usr partition. So your home directories should be intact. Keep copies of /etc/group,passwd et al. so you won't have to add all the users (if you have more than one) manually. > Or is PCBSD a > do-it-from-scratch? As FreeBSD, PC-BSD's "underlying OS", you are not forced to wipe anything. > (I'm pretty much OS agnostic [[so long > as it's somethng like UNIX]], but here I know where things > live... With ubuntu, diff't story.) Some people say that PC-BSD is the Ubuntu of the BSD's, or worse, the "Windows" in the UNIX world. :-) > hm, not sure how much flash is used, really. i just avoid as > much of it as I can. if i can watch a public broadcasting > stream i usually KVM over to my Ubntu box. ....mmmm. > Hope the just-works PCBSD just-works here. Should be no problem to forward X from the Ubuntu box to PC-BSD. There's even a "Flash" plugin available as PBI. > i am not that into the-tube... Therefore, thetube-dl -a exists. :-) > but for science broadcasts, > yep. especially things i've missed and are somewhere online. Too sad such stuff mostly isn't provided in a standardized video format (even streaming format)... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
