Hello,
I have a friend who is a Debian Linux user and I have been having a
discussion with him about using FreeBSD. He wrote me a list of his
concerns with changing to FreeBSD. I don't want to give him any incorrect
answers or incorrect information. So could someone more knowledgable than
me plea
I was playing around with one of my machines (non mission-critical -
mainly used for experimenting) and I decided to try updating my sources.
I am running 5.0r. I didn't have any sources on my machine (other than
kernel) so I used /stand/sysinstall to add all sources. I then used cvsup
with the sta
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I have no floppy device in /dev
I think the following is the reason why, but I have no clue how to fix
it:
~$ dmesg |grep fd
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
I am running 5.1, although it has always been bro
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron
PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( ))
I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that
work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware,
no panic on installs, also good
