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Thanks for the tip, shanenin. I did the same thing on my system. I'll remember make clean next time:-)

Thanks, Pierce:-)

Hi, I've updated portsnap with the following commands #portsnap fetch #portsnap extract Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to use ports to install programs? I'd like to install CUPS and Thunderbird. I remembered the above commands from my last BSD install (Carnevil helped a lot). Thank you. hitest

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Thanks, iccaros! I'm having fun with this, it is good to have a new toy!

Yes, thanks to you shanenin, the dual boot worked out. Gparted is a neat trick.

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I like bash as well:-)

Thank you iccaros, Carnevil, and shanenin! I've just finished setting up my dual boot Slackware/BSD system. I did it without trashing my system, heh-heh. Below is a screenshot of FreeBSD 6.1 running KDE 3.5.1, this is booting from my sda3 partition.

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Son of a gun, it worked:-) Thanks for the link. I booted my Slackware box from my Ubuntu 6.06 CD and used Gparted to re-size my existing ext3 root linux partition from 16. 5 GB down to 10 GB. And I used Gparted to create a new ext3 partition of 6.5 GB which should be big enough to house FreeBSD. After this I re-booted and now my root partition is showing as 9.8 GB. For some reason I can't see the new partition, but, I know it is there as I have less space on my primary root Slackware partition. I ran /sbin/lilo. Thanks, shanenin, you saved me several hours of work. I can keep my existin

I have a small question. I'm beginning the process of setting up my Slack/BSD dual boot. Can Qtparted re-size an ext3 root partition in Slackware? I was thinking of using my Knoppix CD for this. That way I could avoid doing a re-install of Slackware and just re-size my existing root partition, and create another partition for BSD. If this isn't possible I'll just go ahead and do a re-install.

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I understand, but, you are a seasoned, hardened Linux expert, shanenin! I started Linux before you, but, I've never seen anyone learn as fast as you. We are lucky to have you here, shanenin:-) You must take a break from the goodness of open source software to learn about your business, which is primarily windows. I nominated you for the position of Linux Expert because you are an expert; a creative problem solver! I learn from you. Linux will always be here. Take the time you need to learn windows, your family and you will profit:-)

Hey marty:-) I plan to start tomorrow. I might be successful, I learn by doing weird things to my system. I learn a lot when I fail. We will see what happens:-)

Hi martymas, Congrats at getting Ubuntu up and running. The default for Ubuntu's web page is a file on your hard drive I think. Just click on Edit-------->Preferences------->Main and put in the web page that you want for your home page. Ubuntu is a rock-steady version of Linux that is based on Debian. It has the apt-get package management system, possibly the best in the business. I agree with shanenin! Enjoy Linux:-) Take some time to look around and learn your new OS. You now have broadband so you can download what ever version of Linux you want.

Thanks, iccaros, Carnevil for your very helpful feedback:-) I really needed to hear from some other Unix users. I now feel ready to bork-up my system, heh-heh. I'm going to do some reading in the FreeBSD handbook and then have at it, it has been a month or two since I've run FreeBSD. This will be fun:-)

Okay, thanks, iccaros, so if I read your post correctly I can leave out loader=/boot/chain.b as I am going to run both Slack and BSD on the same scsi drive. Thanks, I didn't know that one. I also didn't know I had to run /sbin/lilo -v to commit changes to liloconf.......I thought /sbin/lilo would do it. Thanks:-) My partition scheme looks okay if my main drive is sda? Thanks, man! Yeah, I've never dual booted Linux and BSD either before, so I'm in uncharted territory here. I was going to run BSD on my second scsi drive, but, that gets even weirder with drive geometry.

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I was wondering if someone could please give me some advice? I've been tooling around with Slackware 11.0 for a bit and am ready to try setting up a dual boot with FreeBSD 6.1. How does this look for my liloconf file? I will do a clean install of Slack 11 and set up these partitions. I've got an 18 GB scsi drive where I'll be installing Slack and BSD. What do you think? # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sda2 label = Linux read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends # FreeBSD other=/dev/sda3 table=/dev/sda label=FreeBSD

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Effluent? Pretty apropos that I was looking for information on a waste treatment center and found out about the "birth of an effluent neighborhood." Yuck! lmao, funny stuff, JDoors!