LinuxHam's Journal: FreeBSD 5.3 barfs VMWare ESX

The installer for FreeBSD 5.3 doesn't even boot in VMWare ESX 2.1.1. A couple times a year, I decide to try some of the fringy stuff bandied about around here. Last week, I setup Gentoo (from stage 1) on a P2-266 w/128MB. Took about 3 days to get a gnome desktop, but at least I got there. Emerge is great for installing new software, but HTF do you query the package system to see IF a particular package is installed? You know, like rpm -q or dpkg -l?

I wanted to help my sister make a few bucks on eBay so I set her up with a Gentoo Universal CD, debian 3.0r3 i386 CDs (3 CDs), FC3 Test 3 (4 CDs), and FreeBSD 5.3, and 100 blanks. Figured I'd check out fbsd 5.3 and it doesn't even boot to the installer. Too bad its not work-related. If I find time in the day, I'll report it to VMWare support. Its a REALLY BAD barf.

Maybe this xmas I'll get my wife a nice OSX box. I can see that one being the closest to actually "just working" as Gentoo and FreeBSD zealots always claim.