Three Installs! - GhostBSD, NomadBSD & FreeBSD

[@pianokeyjoe]

It is funny Robo! As many times as I have seen your videos on installing FreeBSD and other BSD OSs I never get bored with seeing it in action again! I do like the immediacy of GhostBSD and Nomad BSD but I so love the start from scratch simplicity of FreeBSD! The first 2 get you up and going fast and then you can tweak them. The FreeBSD install helps you learn installing and setting things up the old fashion way so you never forget it, and allows you to be the one to install and setup only what you want from git go. Lovely lovely!

[@RoboNuggie]

Thank you my friend, I think it's important to put a refresh every now and then as the question does come around quite often - "Can you show how to install FreeBSD?" :-)

[@coop_0128]

Just installed free bsd yesterday on my thinkpad thanks to an old video of yours!

[@RoboNuggie]

Nice!!

[@wildmanjeff42]

Thanks for the video ! I seem to always prefer FreeBSD myself

[@RoboNuggie]

I view them as all FreeBSD, just with added extras :-) A bit like Digestive Biscuits - Plain, or with Chocolate or Caramel and Chocolate - each different, but a Digestive underneath....I'm hungry now.....nom nom If you don't know what they are, it's a British thing :-)

[@TFSned]

Thank you for this. I was a bit intimidated by the installer for FreeBSD but the handbook explains it pretty well. There's still a few things I'm not sure about, like if I should use UFS if I'm dual booting with Linux instead of ZFS, and whether they can share the same swap partition, but if I don't understand something I just leave it on the default. The handbook also has instructions for installing KDE, so after that it gets a lot easier.

[@RoboNuggie]

The Handbook is very good.... Sharing swap? I wouldn't, home partition, sure, maybe - but the swap, probably not worth the hassle to be honest. If you are familiar with FreeBSD and ZFS, then you can have a dual boot running ZFS on FreeBSD, but if it's a learning exercise, the UFS for now, then maybe if you want to install on it's own drive, then ZFS is the way to go.... My answer is not high on details, but I've not got a lot of experience with dual booting, and I tend not to cover it.... (too many mistakes in the past leading to HDD needing to be wiped)/

[@ngtube9]

Thanks for the video!! Nice to see GhostBSD and NomadBSD. I personally have written my own small installation script which I included in ths mfsBSD image on usb disk... Long live *BSD!! :) Cheers, Norbert

[@RoboNuggie]

Nice work! I'll have a look :-)

[@ngtube9]

@@RoboNuggie Hi - if you want to look on that "small installation script" from me... I did it only on my personal usb sticks. It is not on any official image... :)

[@techofe-anopensourcebasedd5822]

Loved the ncurses installer.

[@RoboNuggie]

I love a little ncurses :-)

[@Felix-ve9hs]

Thanks for the video, you did for me what I didn't have time for :)

[@RoboNuggie]

Any time!

[@boyindablue7343]

Thank you!

[@RoboNuggie]

You're welcome!

[@cerealkiller7734]

When i click on full disk install and click next nothing happens.

[@oscarmelvin8221]

I have been watching your tutorials for a while! II do really enjoy them, I am a Linux user I have been trying to install Free BSD for a while for some reason I haven't been succesful for some reason I believe has something to do with my T-420 laptop. Please let me know if you have any idea how can I be able to install it. Any suggestion will be aprreciate it.

[@RoboNuggie]

I don't have access to a T420, but I would download a copy of GhostBSD and see how that performs on your laptop - it is based on the latest FreeBSD but already configured.... so you can text your graphics, wifi etc....

[@oscarmelvin8221]

Thank you very much for responding!@@RoboNuggie

[@curls6778]

If you could do one showing the dualbooting setup. I’m currently running Windows / Linux in a dualbooting setup. The last time i tried to replace Linux with ghost bsd I ended up with a grub bootloader shell…

[@RoboNuggie]

I don't tend to touch dualbooting these days, but what wanting to dual boot FreeBSD with? FreeBSD based OS's always like to be on the primary partition...

[@curls6778]

@@RoboNuggie I would suspect that a lot of people who would like to try FreeBSD need to keep a windows partition or a linux partition around for programs they need to use but can't run under freebsd. So showing how to achieve this (windows + freebsd and linux + freebsd) would probably help a lot of people / get more people to try freebsd

[@linuxxxunil]

thanks. laptop prolly too old but both ghost and nomad do not load with any icons on the desktop. ghost mate it was. nomad whatever the latest as of today that i downloaded. i did manage to open a shell on ghost and was surprised how the commands i typed in were pre emptive. is that the correct term? at any rate, all the options popped up as i was typing commands. oh well back to freebsd and gnome!

[@RoboNuggie]

Wait until there is a new release, I would imagine given it's been a long while since the least release, there will be a fix in there :-)

[@Shahinc0]

What about *BSD OS for 5GHZ wifi card driver? Still not supporting..

[@RoboNuggie]

Eeek, sorry, missed this comment - netter late than never :-) There is ongoing driver development to address this, but for the moment, no unfortunately...

[@markschneider1396]

Are NVIDIA graphic cards supported?

[@RoboNuggie]

Sorry for the late reply, yes Nvidia Cards are supported.... :-)

[@kidany317]

great video, can you game in BSD? most of my games are on steam. Also, can you get proprietary drivers? like wifi for example. Thank you

[@RoboNuggie]

You can, in a round about way... there is a way listed here of you are brave :-) euroquis.nl//freebsd/2021/04/06/steam-freebsd

[@kidany317]

@@RoboNuggie thanks, I might try to do this this weekend in a empty disk I have just to confirm how many games I can run, at lease my CPU and GPU are AMD not Nvidia. Will comeback and comment if this works, I own 71 games in steam (windows and linux games) so this will be a good test.

[@GiorgioBeltrammi]

Thanks a lot. If i want to install NomadBSD and Linux on the same hard drive, is correct to install FIRST NomadBSD and then Linux?

[@RoboNuggie]

It depends, do you want Linux to remain in charge of grub? If so, then it's Linux first... I don't have a lot of experience or confidence in dual booting, bitten too many times in the past. Is there are way you can install to a separate drive and select which to choose at boot, that may save some hassle? If you do want to dual boot, these links may be helpful... distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20181001#qa forums.freebsd.org/threads/dual-boot-with-grub-on-linux.68936/

[@pianokeyjoe]

@@RoboNuggie lol, try dual booting Linux and BeOS!! Now there is a dual boot experience!

[@rdevil5330]

@@RoboNuggie idk if it's possible to dual boot Ubuntu and NomadBSD rn, I found it on forums

[@Marszczak]

Does any of these allow automated mount of removable media out of the box? Honestly, FreeBSD 13.1 is like going back on time 20yrs. Some would mount others would not and manual mount is required. Come on.

[@RoboNuggie]

GhostBSD has it pretty much sorted......

[@davidcolmenares8788]

Can the *BSD bootloader, boot a GNU/Linux system as GRUB/SysLinux, and others do?

[@RoboNuggie]

I think so, yes... this may help... hauweele.net/~gawen/blog/?p=2252

[@MartinsFirewood]

No, I don't think the *BSD bootloader is capable, like Grub2 is able too boot. Look at rEFInd to boot *BSD, Linux, Windows www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REFInd I can boot into refind from grub with these 3 lines: set root='(hd1,gpt2)' chainloader (hd1,gpt1)/efi/boot/BOOTX64-REFIND.EFI boot Use the 'ls' command to list the files in the directories ls ls (hd1,gpt1)/ ls (hd1,gpt1)/efi/boot forums.freebsd.org/threads/dual-boot-with-grub-on-linux.68936/

[@bkovacs7]

I wish they would mention the desktop-installer program in the FreeBSD Handbook. It's way better than manually installing and configuring everything. It's a real shame that after all these years the installer cannot have a desktop installer built into it like Linux has.

[@potato2771]

after installing i see no operating system found

[@jarthur1369]

of note: freebsd and nomadbsd are both freebsd and both pull from the freebsd repositories. ghostbsd is a version and only pulls from the ghostbsd repositories. this is why i tell friends to not use it.

[@steambsdfreeos553]

Nice video

[@RoboNuggie]

Thank you!

[@grizzlythegarliceater]

This is very informative, Sir RoboNuggie please review hello r0.5.0 , many thanks before :-)

[@RoboNuggie]

Noted! I was going to do one, but then Tylers tech did one, and it really did well for him, which is great...(he's a great Linux KZbinr) so I felt that I would simply be offering the crumbs after the great feast :-) I may do one, but do it with an unusual topic.... I'm not sure yet...

[@grizzlythegarliceater]

@@RoboNuggie ahh ok thanks, will check it out