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Old 30th April 2010
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I'm not trying to discourage you but of the 3 major BSDs, NetBSD seems to take the most work. Particulary to set up a one of the major desktops. You will learn
alot in the process but success is not likely to come on your first attempt. A
lot depends on the source of packages you use (pkgsrc vs precompiled binaries).


Most removable media (thumb driver, flash cards) does not come ext2 formatted but msdos (msdosfs) formated. Usually a mid level user can be reformat the media to ext2. NetBSD should support the ext2 filesystem as well as msdosfs.

I am not sure what your goal is but if you want to get your feet wet with a BSD
I would recommend OpenBSD as being the easiest. The FAQ is accurate, succinct and up to date.
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