Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > If you have a system you want to try you can also check out > > http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html. > > > That is a great resource for laptops, too bad it isn't mentioned in the > Handbook compatibility chapter. Suggestion: send-pr Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Lin

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Robert Huff
Daniel Feenberg writes: > But why order parts? If you want to learn FreeBSD, just take any > old windows box and install FreeBSD over the existing windows > install. It will work fine and won't cost you anything. This was (close to) my gut reaction. If all you want it the learning exp

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts.

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread Brian W.
The pcbsd project which uses FreeBSD is another option. On Aug 20, 2012 11:31 PM, wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: > > I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if >> there >> is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware >> comp

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread doug
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. If don't want to mak

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread James D. Parra
I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. If don't want to make the full commitment to building a desktop, a g

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Kaufman
o start. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/hardware.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Building-a-FreeBSD-desktop-tp5735852.html > Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing

Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread Locksmith
I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Building-a-Fr