“So I downloaded and began the installation of PC-BSD. The
installation process was fairly quick and very simple. I am not
complaining when I say this but I was a bit surprised to find the
generic FreeBSD (actually PC-BSD) text only boot screen asking for
the user to initiate the Default installer or any of the other
options (which includes starting the installer with the
experimental ZFS support). When I select the Default or when the
boot screen times out to the Default, all components are loaded
into memory and X loads into the graphical portion of the
installation process. It is the same thing for the boot loader
after the OS has been installed.“The graphical portion of this process went through the generic
menus of “agreeing to the terms of the BSD licensing agreement”,
along with obtaining preliminary root/user account
information/configuration (such as default shell to even enabling
auto-login). It also went through the process of selecting a disk
device for UFS (default: with soft updates) file system and OS
installation”
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