PC-BSD 9.1 RC Ultrasuccessfull - PC-BSD Forums

kareraisu · #1 09-14-2012, 06:17 PM

Im right now using 9.1 and now all works well.

After installing HPLIP it seems my C4280 works well, it just finds it as C7550 or something like, but sane and test page works well.

All the pbis i have on some cds for 9.0 worked well and the system itself
feels a lot faster and easier to use.

Now i'm using KDE 4.8 as desktop and i have far less problems with it, now it ejects cds and dvds well once the file browser or the app using it be closed.

it's too early to generate a good report, but the only problem i know is that in LXDE it still has problems with pendrives where i have to refresh the folder for seeing the actual files once i drag to or from it.

But seriously, PCBSD 9.1 for me now is better than linux in hardware support and friendlyness, it looks like it has achieved the goals wich mr kris moore planned when pcbsd was started ever.

i want to thank everyone at pcbsd as we are a real alternative against commercial software and now it looks like gnu/linux is no longer the only alternative for basic users.

sg1efc · #2 09-15-2012, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by kareraisu

PCBSD 9.1 for me now is better than linux in hardware support and friendlyness, it looks like it has achieved the goals wich mr kris moore planned when pcbsd was started ever.

i want to thank everyone at pcbsd as we are a real alternative against commercial software and now it looks like gnu/linux is no longer the only alternative for basic users.

I totally agree.

jwele · #3 09-21-2012, 04:32 PM

I have been eagerly awaiting the FreeBSD/PC-BSD final release for 9.1 and I was wondering at this point should I continue to wait or will it be easy to upgrade from a RC -> STABLE?

sg1efc · #4 09-21-2012, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by jwele

I have been eagerly awaiting the FreeBSD/PC-BSD final release for 9.1 and I was wondering at this point should I continue to wait or will it be easy to upgrade from a RC -> STABLE?

I'm not on PC-BSD staff or anything, but based on my newbie previous experience & how easy it has been to upgrade from the BETA to the RC1, I believe it will be extremely easy to upgrade to the STABLE.

jwele · #5 09-21-2012, 04:51 PM

Good. I have seen a lot of promising changes in PC-BSD 9.1!

rvc · #6 09-25-2012, 10:04 AM

after juggling a lot with 9.0, i felt i ll go for pcbsd9.1 RC1 with zfs and i removed the previous install, booted of the rc-1 usb but alas...
i was not lead to the gui installer !
it halts at this line...
(after the series of usb identification, the last line that i am shown is
usb2.0 highspeed 480mb and thats it (till date i ve never had that prompt shown)
if i ll be guided to lead me to the gui installer, it will be a relief.
i created the usb from arch linux issuing the dd command.

thanks in advance.

sg1efc · #7 09-25-2012, 12:29 PM

Hello RVC:

One of the PC-BSD experts will probably be able to help you. The only information I can give you is that the instructions by Fatmice at the link below has worked well over a dozen times for me:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=12631

I downloaded the PC-BSD 9.0 USB 64Bit Full Install, followed Fatmice's instructions and each time it works perfectly for my Patriot 32Gig USB drive. I have not tried any other USB version of PC-BSD, except for 9.0. Once 9.0 is installed I just did the updating as described in Dru's PC-BSD Blog posts.

rvc · #8 09-26-2012, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by sg1efc

Hello RVC:
I downloaded the PC-BSD 9.0 USB 64Bit Full Install, followed Fatmice's instructions and each time it works perfectly for my Patriot 32Gig USB drive. I have not tried any other USB version of PC-BSD, except for 9.0. Once 9.0 is installed I just did the updating as described in Dru's PC-BSD Blog posts.

thank you so much.... i felt so too, coz with 9.0 everything was a breeze, 9.1 seems to be having a glitch. with every type of file, i get error unexpected EOF !

now i ve started to download 9.0 all over again !

Tiberius Duval · #9 09-26-2012, 08:58 AM

Did reinstall yesterday myself, first tried usb-image for 9.1RC1. Some curious things happened, things I really did not like. Maybe I clicked through installer too fast, but it installed new bootloader to mbr, overwriting my grub. Ok no problem, there seems to be some menu allowing me to boot other os'ses. But surprise, menu did not work for anything else than for PC-BSD. No booting Linux or Windows. After couple of hours curious adventures with bootloaders, I managed to get my grub back. And then when I got PC-BSD working again I could not add partition from my external USB-disk to z-pool, and could not create new one. Back to square one, installed 9.0, managed to add USB-disk partition to zpool, upgraded it to 9.1RC1, without problems. Then installed nearly every application I needed with native pkg system instead of PBI. I don't know if its true but to me it seems that applications installed with PKG system are faster than those installed with pbi system.

sg1efc · #10 09-26-2012, 03:00 PM

The instructions Dru posted in this Blog link worked perfectly for me:
http://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/08/pc-bsd...now-available/

Just follow the easy instructions, make certain you read and understand any questions it might have for you, like you would do for any other OS installation/upgrade and PC-BSD does all the work.

There is also this info Ken posted which I think is just spectacular: means that it should be pretty rare for anyone to ever have to do a complete new install or reinstall of PC-BSD:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/showpost.php...31&postcount=2