{"id":686,"date":"2017-01-26T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.apeconsulting.co.uk\/wordpress\/adrian\/?p=686"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:18:27","slug":"pc-bsd-is-dead-long-live-trueos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.apeconsulting.co.uk\/adrian\/pc-bsd-is-dead-long-live-trueos\/","title":{"rendered":"PC-BSD is dead, long live TrueOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-924 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/home.apeconsulting.co.uk\/adrian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/TrueOS_Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"98\">Well, that was probably an even a bigger schoolboy error than not reading the PC-BSD manual! &nbsp;In my search to find a solution to my &#8216;Start X&#8217; error, it turns out the PC-BSD is no longer supported but is pretty much continuing under the TrueOS banner.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Whilst you might think I&#8217;ve actually wasted quite a lot of time (and you&#8217;d probably be right), it&#8217;s not all bad as TrueOS is being developed and supported by iXsystems, who also provide FreeNAS!<\/p>\n<p>So, armed with my knowledge of how not to install PC-BSD onto my MBA, this should be pretty straightforward, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well actually, yes! &nbsp;And I even managed to do it through the GUI installer. &nbsp;I thought the best option was to simply replace the PC-BSD install, so installed TrueOS into the same partition, effectively overwriting it.<\/p>\n<p>It took a while, although seemed a little faster than PC-BSD, but I&#8217;ve now got macOS, elementaryOS and TrueOS (can you see a naming theme there?) installed on my MacBook Air.<\/p>\n<p>And does it all work? &nbsp;Well, I think that&#8217;s probably worthy of another blog&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was probably an even a bigger schoolboy error than not reading the PC-BSD manual! &nbsp;In my search to find a solution to my &#8216;Start X&#8217; error, it turns out the PC-BSD is no longer supported but is pretty much continuing under the TrueOS banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,4,6,11],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eos","category-it","category-macos","category-pc-bsd","category-trueos","tag-spellchecked"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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