Fetching and installing FreeBSD was relatively painless. I downloaded the ISO image for FreeBSD 6.1 (AMD64 build), and wrote it to a blank CD.
When I reinstalled Solaris some weeks back I made sure to leave some space on the disk for FreeBSD. So then it was a case of booting from the CD.
This was my first time booting FreeBSD AMD64, but the process was reassuringly familiar to that on x86. FreeBSD is considerably more verbose at boot time than Solaris 10 is, being much more like earlier Solaris releases. Personally I find this to be no bad thing, at least as the default option.
It was then that I ran in to a problem -- the keyboard on the machine is USB. It works fine during the boot process, but once the kernel's started it was nonresponsive.
Showing posts with label synergy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synergy. Show all posts
Day 2 of 60: Synergy
This is a plug for one of the handiest network programs I've used in a long time. Synergy.
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