A big sigh

It's getting very, very late here, and my mood is not particularly good...

All this week, I was toying with the idea of snagging a BSD distro and playing with it.  I am a Mac guy, and the idea of playing with another variation of BSD has a sort of appeal to me.

PC-BSD just seemed a bit of a pain to me, what with all the variable downloads I would have to sort through.  (Do I want the full DVD, or the compacted USB image, or the stripped CD, or...)

So, after a little searching, I figured I'd do a bit of lateral thinking, and grab a copy of GhostBSD, which looked intriguing.  And, so, I grabbed a copy and burned it to DVD.

I should've known, when the thing wouldn't liveboot on the desktop system.  I was getting wonky errors, most of which I couldn't interpret, but which suggested to me a major screwup somewhere in the installer setup.  However, I gave the thing the benefit of the doubt, thinking that the desktop has an older AMD processor...  I switched to the big Toshiba, which has a newer AMD processor and much more memory...

I'll give everyone 3 guesses what happened there...

I've considered trying the boot on the T400, as it has "Intel inside."  But I don't hold out any hopes.  I suspect that I just lost an hour of my time, and wasted a perfectly good DVD-R.  That does not make me happy. 

Needless to say, until someone demonstrates to me otherwise, the only version of BSD that will cross my digital doorstep will be OS X...