I've tried PCBSD. By default has KDE as GUI. when i installed it, it took the entire hard disk, now i don't remember whether i deliberately did that or by mistake it took the entire hard disk. you'll have to experiment.
I installed 5.4 this weekend. Pretty fast install. I put it on the first 6.5G of a 40G hard drive and it fit in with a lot of space to spare. It uses this rather different terminology on disk names ... viz. slices and partitions with labels like a (for /), b (for swap), d(for /var), e(for /tmp) and f (for /usr). You can change these defaults but best to stick to a convention.
Free BSD didn't have any GUI by default i think as i tried to install that before, you'll have to try it out to know.
You have to configure X on FreeBSD 5.4 manually ... using something like "Xorg -configure" or "xorgconfigure" or "XFree85 -configure" depending on whether you use Xorg package or XFree86 ports collection. I am using Xorg and I have run into a spot of bother with the X installation. This being an OT, I won't lengthen this discussion, nor demand any more help (but any generous FreeBSD-ian is more than welcome to lend a helping hand, I am desperate). The details of my woes can be found here: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=44050 Cheers, Arindam -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
