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FreeBSD netbooks

  • 03-09-2009 10:44AM
    #1
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭


    anyone running FreeBSD on any netbooks?


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  • #2
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    I am running 7.2 RELEASE on my acer aspire one.
    Works surprisingly well, I thought running a BSD system
    on it would be a nightmare.

    Wireless works out of the box as it has native support for
    the Atheros chip. Decent support for everything out of the box.
    Just waiting to upgrade to 8.0 later in the month:)


  • #3
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Did you use unetbootin or make your own ?


  • #4
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    ntlbell wrote: »
    Did you use unetbootin or make your own ?

    I used unetbootin. The distro list is out of date, and when installing
    FreeBSD, I had to set the release param from 7.0 to 7.2 in options to
    pull the current 7.2 release from the main heanet ftp server.

    Don't supply your own .iso image in unetbootin for FreeBSD, it works
    well for the Linux distros but is a disaster for FreeBSD.

    You could also just extract the auto image and replace everything.
    Couldn't be arsed at the time though :pac:


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