Yes , i am in love with nix(somewhat of a masochistic tendency) . My doze install is going to see its very last boot very soon , maybe i will check out debian as i like the idea of it handling dependancies(gotta try suse too) One of the most fabulous things about FreeBSD is that you have alist of 89...

If you cannot get Redhat working you do not have a hope in hell of using FreeBSD ,sorry to rain on your parade but take my advice please.

Did you do a checksum on your iso image ? You may have got a bad download or burn ,it does happen occasionally. By you saying that 7.3 goes 9 should go for sure as it tends to support more hardware if anything.(and its not a ghetto box you are trying to install on by any means.) Many people really l...

I would say FreeBSD as far as *nix and slackware as far as linux (some people would be offended by FreeBSD and Darwin being called linux ,well cause they are not ) Linux is a kernel and Free BSD and Darwin are full os's they may have the same great grandfathers (Ken Thompson , and Dennis Ritchie) bu...