From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 29 8:41:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop03.globecomm.net (pop03.globecomm.net [206.253.130.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061471527E; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r33.bfm.org [208.18.213.129]) by pop03.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id LAA25007; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:40:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990329103927.008fa890@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:39:27 -0600 To: "Ryan A. Carris" , Marty Poulin From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36FF0B8E.D1B051B1@earthlink.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 23:11 28-03-1999 -0600, Ryan A. Carris wrote: >I want to expand on this by reminding everyone that at anytime you can >type "/stand/sysinstall" and go to the configure menu then select >ports. If you are connected to the internet of have the CD you can then >just browse the lise of ports, select and in 95% of the time the port >gets installed perfectly. KDE is like this. If you go through this >procedure and select KDE meta port, which inculdes almost everything and >is HUGE, you will have KDE running withing the time it takes to download >it. All you have to do after this is create a file called ".xinitrc" >with one line that says "startkde". I personsally prefer Windowmaker. >It uses much less memory and looks a lot less windowish. One strange thing though: I did that (installing KDE via /stand/sysinstall), and it kept complaining that X was not installed even though it was, just not from the ports (Pressing enter each time kept it moving along, just that I had to press it some 100 times or so). I have since reinstalled X from the ports. But I wonder if there is a way to register software somehow, so ports knows it already is installed for future reference. Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message