Over the past two days I’ve been messing around and trying to install FreeBSD on my extra computer. First I downloaded the 3 disc and began my install. I have to say the install itself was not that bad, but the probably is I want to run a KDE because I don’t know command lines very well. So that is where most of my time has been spent. Trying to load the KDE. See from the FreeBSD site they only offer the 3 disc iso’s and no DVD iso. Plus the way its setup it does not load everything from one CD first then ask for the second. No it wants you to switch like every other install. See this is where the problem comes in. My PC sits under my desk, so each disk swap I have to bend down and switch em. After about 20 switches I just closed it out and figured I’d wait until the next day to try again.
So here I am today, going through right now and trying again. Except today I decided to do the install through FTP, therefore no disk swapping although much slower. All this so I can have a pretty GUI to use instead of working in command lines. Wish me luck!
Maybe this wasn’t my best choice to learn and use UNIX based systems. I think next I may just try OpenBSD or DesktopBSD.
