windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server

[Geffy]

You probably want to look at the handbook sections on GEOM or Vinum

 

[X-Istence]

just alot of the reviews and various other webpages/forums kept refering to that partitular bug, is there a way to get the bootonly iso onto a usb key so you can install it from there ?

The BIOS in most computers does not return the actual geometry of the hard drive (sectors, heads and that other one), so FreeBSD just guesses, the guess is fine to use, the only problem could result from moving the drive from one machine to another because it may report another geometry and it may be wrong.

However, you can set it yourself, or trust the guess it makes. I personally have installed many FreeBSD's and moved the hard drives around with no problems what so ever, but your milage may vary. There is nothing to worry about if you are just going to use it in one computer.

Also, just to clarify it is not a bug, rather FreeBSD is one of the few OS's that actually lets you know ahead of time it is getting bad information from the BIOS, whereas Linux and others don't and just go ahead with what they get from the BIOS, or if those figures are way out of wack, with what they guess it is.

 

[Dark Atheist]

yes its only going to be used on the one pc - thanks, currently reading the info on the docs cd, well documented easy to follow and understand, some things look scarey but im guessing they arent once you have done them a few times

 

[X-Istence]

yes its only going to be used on the one pc - thanks, currently reading the info on the docs cd, well documented easy to follow and understand, some things look scarey but im guessing they arent once you have done them a few times

http://freebsd.org/handbook/

Is a step by step guide to installing a well as maintaining your FreeBSD install.

 

[Dark Atheist]

6.2-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso - seeing as i downloaded all the isos i just mounted that one on laptop and am reading through bit by bit

 

[Geffy]

well documented easy to follow and understand

Thats the best thing about the BSD family of OS's the documentation is fantastic, in my experience the system manpages are about 100x better than the ones available in the Linux distributions.

 

[Dark Atheist]

yes they are well written, my eyes started to hurt with all the reading and trying to understand the differences between freebsd and linux - so i stoped to watch 300 and zodiac - should i require assitance im guessing i will have to start a thread in linux if i need some questions answered ?

 

[Geffy]

would be a good start