From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 17:35:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 239D616A478 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:35:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xxmkrxx@gmail.com) Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A702C43D49 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:35:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xxmkrxx@gmail.com) Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t32so1244302pyc for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:35:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RMxNSzqowEPR3vhfoOEprpSoAQ5tqRSUprAIOu4TMw7terzLiqf3SfFiMfGxd3HKRCU6lWiuQUL4iKMDwTyuvlj4aam9P8bZqfv2ba6FZ4EIJrpofWYt7RwDdjqfeOYKl7/8qCcS+FcwLR44irD8iI5l3yjNHz5bZxmDTIy0bCs= Received: by 10.35.60.15 with SMTP id n15mr3235070pyk; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.111.10 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8c2876850604190804p7dccd6e9hcf941e9b7b74c9d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:04:39 -0400 From: MKR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060419141319.GA8933@scott.blazing.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060419141319.GA8933@scott.blazing.de> Subject: Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:35:51 -0000 So far I've had success running fluxbox on my old dell laptop with a 600mhz CPU and 128mb of RAM. pkg_add -r fluxbox It has a nice menu generator that will pick up most installed programs and make them available to you through its menus. I usualy have enough memory left to run konsole with a few shells, gedit and opera with minimal swapping. On 4/19/06, Frank Steinborn wrote: > Enigma wrote: > > My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly > > 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By > > about what seems 3/4 the way through, my hdd is full and theres no way > > this option is open to me. > > You have to know that the gnome2 package is a "metapackage". It installs > many optional GNOME packages you probably never need. You can use the > gnome2-lite Package (pkg_add -r gnome2-lite), to install just the > necessary packages to run GNOME. > > HTH! > Frank > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >