From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 02:26:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C1416A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net (starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F8043D31 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:26:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lwellis@mindspring.com) Received: from h-66-167-166-203.dnvtco56.dynamic.covad.net ([66.167.166.203] helo=LLAPTOP) by starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1Ba3et-0008VB-00; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:26:43 -0700 Message-ID: <003901c45280$326703c0$0200a8c0@LLAPTOP> From: "LW Ellis" To: "Lloyd Hayes" , References: <40CE5B1F.3060709@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:26:41 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-ELNK-Trace: aa15571473bf62249649176a89d694c0f43c108795ac4507600de6dd7b83c310358a777d84cc819c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Re: Installing problems. No Desktop. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:26:46 -0000 Just went thru this myself. Have you sent up the Xserver. KDE won't run with out it. Chapter 5 of teh handbook cover this, and you can do it thru stand/sysinstall Leon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Hayes" To: Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Installing problems. No Desktop. > I installed FreeBSD on an older Gateway laptop. 128 MB/ 233 MHz/ 800x600 > screen/ 6 GB Hard driver with 4 GB on the hard drive set aside for > FreeBSD. Windows 98 SE is installed in the other 2 GB. FreeBSD appears > to be installed correctly, but I cannot get the KDE desktop to come up. > In fact, all I can get is the command line. I can pull up the > installation files. But that is pretty much it. I am very familiar with > DOS commands, but UNIX commands appears to be nothing like them, and I > don't know any UNIX commands. It seems that I can not pull up even the > directory. I have managed to get my mail saying that I have incomplete > modifications from trying to change things. I get to a point where I > can't even figure our how to close the program, so I hit the power power > which closes things down. > > But this is frustrating, and makes a good case for why people are > staying with Windows. In going from the old C-64/C-128 to Apple, to IBM, > to a CP/M operating system, the system commands reminded very much the > same. Even in going from the old GEOS (On both the C-64/C-128 or the PC) > to them MAC, to Windows, things stayed very close to the same between > them. Here everything is completely different. It's like going from > English to being told to fill out a form in Chinese without ever having > seen or heard the language. > > I've installed the FreeBSD software 4 times coming to the same end. How > do I get from this Chinese line item stuff to an environment that I can > deal with? KDE seems to be installed, but is not coming up by default, > nor by any other way or reason. > > I've tried several things, but I tried something to manually bring up > KDE the other day by switching to it's directory. Whatever I was doing > was something out of the FreeBSD Handbook. I was logged in as 'root'. I > got errors saying that I did not have permission. This puzzled me. I > didn't think this was supposed to happen while logged in as "root". > > I have version 5.2.1 which I had downloaded a couple of weeks ago. > > -- > > Lloyd Hayes > > Email: wyoming_antelope@yahoo.com > URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com > E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 > Web Journal: http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >