Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:31:42 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: robertst@speakeasy.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installation Message-ID: <FAE88F060CFEE5D2C9A29725@[172.16.1.35]> In-Reply-To: <W348161795234721117834860@webmail3> References: <W348161795234721117834860@webmail3>
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--On June 3, 2005 9:41:00 PM +0000 robertst@speakeasy.net wrote: > I am a FreeBSD newbie and have some questions about installation. I > installed the 5.4 version from CD and selected the =E2=80=9CUser and X > Windows=E2=80=9D (or something like it) installation. I also selected > =E2=80=9Cyes=E2=80=9D for installing all of the packages. > > The packages installation copied about 25MB of data to the disk instead > of the 300MB that it said it was going to. Is that what it=E2=80=99s = supposed > to do? It looks like not all of the packages were copied, specifically > Netatalk (which is on the second CD). How do I get it to copy the rest > of the packages? > Log in as root. Run /stand/sysinstall from the commandline. Chose=20 Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD. Select Packages. Then = select the packages you want that didn't get installed and install them. > Also, it looked like it copied the X.org files but never went through the > X setup. Is this what it is supposed to do? > Yes. You need to configure X yourself. Login as root. From the command line type "Xorg -configure". That=20 *should* create an xorg.conf.new file in the current directory that has the = correct settings for your setup. When it finishes, it will print out a=20 command you use to test to see if the setup worked. If it did, copy the=20 file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If it didn't, google is your friend, as well=20 as the Handbook. > I have a working text-based FreeBSD system, but I would like to get the > Netatalk package installed and also get the X windows system up and > running. > Once you have the xorg.conf file created, run xdm or gdm to start a window=20 manager. If everything works as expected, edit /etc/ttys to start the=20 window manager at bootup. If you're using xdm, just uncomment the line for = ttyv8. If you're using gdm, uncomment the same line, but change xdm to = gdm. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/
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