Thinking about installing FreeBSD, I have a few questions.

[x2z]

Hi, I am thinking about installing FreeBSD tonight. I have ausccessfully installed RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, and Debian in the past. Do you think I could get FreeBSD installed? Well, I have some questions before I try :).

1.) Does FreeBSD perform well?
2.) Is FreeBSD hard to install?
3.) Where do I download FreeBSD.
4.) How do I install it.


Thanks,
Jason

[ricstr]

1) General performance of FreeBSD is on-par with most Linux distros if not better.

2) If you can install slackware then you will have no problems with FreeBSD.

3) The FreeBSD website: http://www.freebsd.org/

4) It installs similarly to most Linux Distros, stick in the CD , boot from it, follow instructions.

[x2z]

Thanks :) I will post my results later tonight. Would you happen to know how I could burn the ISOs? I am using Slackware right now. Thanks.

[ricstr]

You would use cdrecord application on slackware if you are using a IDE to SCSI emulation or a SCSI burner.

That link though it shows how to setup a burner, at the end it shows how to check if the burner is detected and how to burn a ISO file.
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Adding_an_IDE_CD-Writer_to_Linux.html

Good luck.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

...Moving this into Other UNIX Based OSes, and adding a suggestion:

Go ahead and install FreeBSD, but before asking any questions you might have here, check out The FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/). You will probably have any question you'll start off with answered there.

Have fun! :)