first time!

[Snitz]

I'm planning on installe PC-BSD tomorrow on my pc
im using winxp, so im gonna delete it and install the pc-bsd instead...
but I have few questions.
does the pc-bsd run .exe ?
if it doesn't, then how will I be able to install my pc drivers?
or does it install them automatically?

I have a P4 - 256MB RAM - GForce2 64MB
will it go slow on my pc or it's enough?

[Weixiong]

You won't have to worry about loading the Windows drivers, PC-BSD will hopefully recognize your hardware and apply the correct drivers for you during the build.

[Snitz]

that's very good
but my winxp doesn't recognize my sound driver
I always have to install it manually rom my drivers cd
what would I do if I faced the same problem with pc-bsd?

[Razael Kane]

What sound card?

I'm planning on installe PC-BSD tomorrow on my pc
im using winxp, so im gonna delete it and install the pc-bsd instead...
but I have few questions.
does the pc-bsd run .exe ?
if it doesn't, then how will I be able to install my pc drivers?
or does it install them automatically?

I have a P4 - 256MB RAM - GForce2 64MB
will it go slow on my pc or it's enough?

I wouldn't just "delete" windows XP and jump blindly into PC-BSD. If things don't work out with PC-BSD then what? I would try dual-booting first and give it a test run before replacing Windows.

[Snitz]

if things don't work with pc-bsd, im gonna reinstall windows XP back

I need a format anyway lol

but why wouldn't it work ?

[OSlover]

if things don't work with pc-bsd, im gonna reinstall windows XP back

I need a format anyway lol

but why wouldn't it work ?

Amazing how much rubbish XP has foisted onto us. Shows you OSs have a long a way to go before it becomes noob centric.

Firstly, PC-BSD may or may not have drivers for your sound card, if it does it does, if it doesnt it doesnt, until sound card makers use PC-BSD as a target machine and start writing .PBI drivers (which shows you that PC-BSD has to become commonplace for easy use by the mass public).

Need a format? How could MS cause such stress on a poor person. With a proper UNIX file system you dont need such things after installation. BTW why not use Reiserfs as the default file system for PC-BSD? (Directed towards *NIX heads).

Kris what about selling some machines on the web site with PC-BSD on it already running all the hardware? A developers machine you might say. Buy in bulk from Dell and sell at profit. Add these machines to your store.

[Snitz]

my sound card is: ALC650 (Avance AC'97 Audio)
this is exactly what it say on the cd-drivers

is pc-bsd compatible with it?

[Snitz]

I cannot believe thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis :x
I actually went and installed pcbsd rightaway instead of winxp without trying it on my virtual machine first.
I thought while installing it, it'll give me on which folder I want to install it, but it didn't, it told me that it needs to format the partition that it needs to be installed on, so I went with the flow, knowing that I can delete it and install winxp back if anything went wrong.

pcbsd was installed but it did not load for unknown reasons
it gave me

load can't find kernel

and stopped
I donoooooo whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
why did it do this?

so anyway, I wanted to install winxp back, but I couldn't coz pcbsd locked my partitions on something, so I had to delete all partitions and recreate them, so I lost all my songs/pictures/documents..... EVERYTHING.....

and still PCBSD DIDN'T WORK!!!!!!!!! :x

ha