Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:28:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: william gatlin <willietheturtle@linuxmail.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I quit Message-ID: <20050109132854.GD44181@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050109085346.D88A823EE65@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050109085346.D88A823EE65@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com>
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On 2005-01-09 16:53, william gatlin <willietheturtle@linuxmail.org> wrote: > I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and > trying to get it to work. After figuring out how to get an ISO image, > windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted on modifying the > file, I loaded it and got a lot of error code 1 messages that I never > did figure out. I changed the partitioning and allowed 1/2 a gig for > the root directory and loaded it again. Netscape is acting silly. Avoid downloading ISO images with it. The ISO images are available through FTP, so you can use any plain good old FTP client[1] to get a copy of the images. [1] Even the command line "ftp" program that comes with Windows can be used, if you feel like doing so. You got past that though, so I assume you found a way to circumvent the Netscape bugs. The minimum size of the disk area you assign to FreeBSD depends on a lot of factors: the distribution you choose (base system parts), the extra packages you wish to install, the space you want to keep free for your own work, etc. For an X11 workstation, on which KDE or Gnome and/or a GUI development environment will be used, I recommend at least 8 GB these days. Disk space isn't so expensive anymore and having at least 3-4 GB of free space will allow > All seemed to go well untill I tryed to configure the X.org windowing > system. Nothing in /stand/sysinstall would do any configuration of X. > Went to the net and got instructions. Finally got X to work and found > vidtune. You should really, and I mean REALLY, print yourself a couple of the Handbook chapters before embarking on an installation. The instructions for installing FreeBSD, configuring it at post-install time, setting up X11, installing KDE or Gnome from the package collection, starting KDM and letting it fire up KDE instead of the plain but relatively archaic twm desktop, are all there. The absolutely _minimum_ set of chapters you should read and keep around while installing FreeBSD are: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html > Kdm comes up with a log in screen which just leads to another log in > screen. ctrl-alt-backspace won't turn x off as it keeps comming back > on it's own. Nothing leads to a window manager other than the little > one that comes with X. This is *EXACTLY* what kdm is supposed to do. It fires up X11 once for every 'session' you log into. > I re-downloaded the window managers from the net and hoped that would > fix it. It didn't. I'm sure that the trouble is in some little config > file somewhere or another but I just don't have the time as I need a > running system going. Downloading more stuff won't fix what you are using. Reading the documentation (i.e. the Handbook) will. Please do read it. Cheers, Giorgos
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