Comments on: Automating the Deployment of FreeBSD and PC-BSD Systems

By: dru

dru — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:40:44 +0000

If you are not sure about the interface, check the system BIOS to see if it has a PXE/network boot option. You may have to change the boot order to have PXE listed first, if that is your intent.

By: mozart

mozart — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:51:30 +0000

Thanks for the reply, i just finished reading it and just want to ask
- how do i test if the Computers Network Interface is supporting PXE or LAN-Booting ?

By: dru

dru — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:38:26 +0000

Yes.

By: mozart

mozart — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:28:11 +0000

im sorry, i need to ask
Does this article mean (on layman’s term)
somtehing similar to
“How to Do Unattended Installing on PC-BSD” ??

By: dru

dru — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:07:21 +0000

Compiz is disabled by default as some cards do not support it. But it is easy to enable if the card does support it: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Display#Desktop_Effects.2C_Compiz.2C_and_Compositing. If you decide to try it, I would suggest 9.1-RC3 as Intel support is much improved in 9.1.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:40:08 +0000

My card is a intel(R) Q965/Q963 And compiz I don’t know that much about. Just know when I install something, it should work, right? That’s alright. I’ll find some other way. I have had a lot of computers in my life. To low end to hight end. And over the space of 3 years I’ve not one time got compiz to work right. oh well!

By: dru

dru — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:10:39 +0000

Flash should work if you install the firefox PBI. What type of video card, which window manager, and how are you configuring compiz?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:59:29 +0000

I have tried just about every version of PC-BSD. I always in up going back to windows. The reason is, that I can’t get flash to work in FireFox. Can’t get compiz working on installing. I have a powerful PC as to what I thinks powerful. 3.4GHz 7GB RAM. But installing PC-BSD takes a very long time. If If I could get these things working upon install. PC-BSD would be my OS. Oh well I guess I’m stuck with windows. And I hate linux. I have installed and used just about everything on distrowatch. And the only thing that come close to working is GhostBSD 3.0. But my USB mouse gets stuck after the install gets done.

By: polygon

polygon — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:23:13 +0000

I’ve tried out PCBSD 9.0 and I was amazed…BUT, as a CG artist I use Blender for my everyday work and Blender uses Cycles render engine. In one word: CUDA. PCBSD will be my OS starting the moment NVIDIA CUDA is supported…

By: dru

dru — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:02:39 +0000

Yes. We now have a developer to do this and are just waiting on confirmation of when the work will be completed. It should be in 10.0 for sure, with fingers crossed for 9.2.