Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:39:27 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: "Ryan A. Carris" <racarris@earthlink.net>, Marty Poulin <mpoulin@rascal.honk.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990329103927.008fa890@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <36FF0B8E.D1B051B1@earthlink.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990328234606.20315B-100000@rascal.honk.org>
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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-newbies" in the body of the message
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