So I installed FreeBSD on endymion last night, for the hell of it.

No, wait, back up.

First I spend twenty minutes troubleshooting two hard drives that had, after insepction, gone bad. One of them made that cool rattling noise they do sometimes, like a lightbulb that's blown. So then I spent the next hour and a half tearing the hdds apart, something I haven't done since.. Hell. I dunno, high school.

Then I installed fbsd via FTP, with no problems. I left gnome2 and galeon and a few other things compiling overnight, and went to bed. This afternoon, I recompiled the kernel (for sound and ext2fs support) so I could grab /home from the Linux install and feed that partition into /usr which was already getting dangerously full (the entire slice had five gigs, which isn't a whole lot when you're doing everything source -- methinks I need to switch to binary ports; Debian has spoiled me). For future reference, mv'ing /usr to (in this case) /mnt, while not in single user mode will create, ah, issues. Things like getty cease working, as it's located in /usr/libexec. Things like the libs ls are linked to.. those also stop working. cp is the way to go.

I've only ever migrated partitions in Linux, where things like that never seem to happen. shrug. I'll chalk it up to my ignorance of the system. I haven't run fbsd on anything since 2000, and never on a workstation.

I did manage to lose all of my damn dotfiles and dotdirs, moving /home to /usr/home... sigh. I should have caught that, but I was being impatient. Oh well. My mail didn't explode, which is the only thing I really care about.

My only current issue is that when I launch gaim now, gnone2 pops up (I really dislike DE.. I just wanted to play with it some; I guess it's okay, if you're into that sucking thing all desktop environments appear to do), which is uh, really stupid. I'm sure I'll figure that one out.

I had to recompile the kernel once, as I commented out the wrong architecture (duh); sound works fine, once I figured out that fbsd linked the onboard sound as /dev/dsp instead of pcm1 (the Soundblaster Live I have); that took two seconds to fix.

So... yeah. I guess I'm running fbsd on my workstation now. Go me.

In other news, kitten and I went to see Minority Report tonight. Good flick. I really dislike Tom Cruise, generally, but I thought he did a good job in this one. The only complaints I have were the initial chase scene was just really fucking overdone, and the end is kinda weaksauce.

I need to find the other PKD story that got made.. Imposter, I think? With (I think) Gary Sinease. I'd check IMDB, but I'm feeling full of roast beef and generally sleepy.

So. Yup.

Oh.. my only issue with the basic install.. I'm not sure if this is something I did (I did an aborted install of the *-workstation port), or if it's default. If it's default, that's really sick. :-)

export EDITOR=emacs

Crazy bastards.