On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote:
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What recent operating system needs to be installed still in a primary
partition? Can you tell what OS are you going to install?
I want to try PC-BSD 9 (see http://pcbsd.org/ ), which, unfortunately,
apparently needs to be installed in a primary partition.
Mmm, which seems to be true:
http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/PC-BSD_FAQS#Is_it_possible_to_install_PC-BSD_on_an_extended_partition.3F
I didn't know about that requirement for *BSD systems. With today hard disk
capacity standards (~2 TiB) it seems to me a bit unrealistic requirement :-/
(...)
so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the prospect
of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer.
I already pointed out some alternatives and Keith told you about
virtualization which can be also another possibility, at least to test
the PC-BSD 9 inners :-)
I appear to have successfully more or less installed PC-BSD 9 on a
laptop computer; an HP/Compaq NX5000 with 2GB RAM, which has Debian
Linux 6.03 as the only other operating system (and only other primary
partition, apart from the Extended partition), but, to run it, I have to
figure out how to get GRUB to find it. I have not been able to find how
to get GRUB to find the PC-BSD 9 installation, as yet. But, that is
another issue, and, a bit of a different topic.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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