Wait, is that only just the installer?
Does it take 2 weeks to even start installing BSD? No wonder it hasn’t taken over yet…
Just going to let the system decide on the partitioning. 16 Giggly-bytes of swap tho does seem like a lot. But oh well.
Once you type installer an ncurses(?) menue comes up. And then it’s just a matter of following the prompts.
If it’s just on a HDD, I wouldn’t worry about the swap being there, I don’t see how you could fill the other 450GB if available space, unless BSD can now run actual games, and/ or media?
Yeah, it’s a… something HDD. I swore I stuck my old 320GB 5400rpm hitachi in here tho. But maybe I put in a 500GB drive.
Media should work just fine. As for games, I do not know. I think someone got just the steam application running a while back, but couldn’t play games on it.
Supertuxkart works on BSD tho.
It’s been at 55% for the past 3 minutes. I’m starting to get concerned. Lol. The CD drive is making noise tho. So maybe the installer is just constipated.
It’s now been 6 minutes
Yess! Jumped from 55% to 63%. Only took like 7 minutes.
Install finished, did the configuring and now rebooting.
Maybe I was supposed to select one of the partitions to be bootable???
Booting off of a CD is horrible!!!
Well, I guess quality over quantity?
I’ll check back in 2020 when you have a desktop running
Pretty cool feature.
If I was supposed to mark a partition as bootable, then I can get that done via “configure an installed system” option… at least that should happen. That’s what I imagine it’s there for.
Life lesson I learnt early:
Always be aware of where you stick your hard “drive”
Thank you. Please do.
“Configure an installed system” doesn’t allow for the modification of partitions and such. So instead I used the “live cd utilities menue” and selected the hd to have bootblocks installed.
If this doesn’t work, I’ll redo the install while reading the install guide.
Now I’m reinstalling. The install guide by Dragonflybsd was shit. Following this video tutorial instead.