From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 10:33:37 2003 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 B9E6F37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222A943F93 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 28396 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2003 17:33:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Aug 2003 17:33:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h77HelF01787; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:40:47 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:40:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: How can I modify net, X configurations in 4.8-Release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:33:38 -0000 Kenzo - On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Kenzo wrote: > You don't have to run /stand/sysinstall/. > you can edit the /etc/rc.conf file as follow. > you need to remove or comment out the dhcp part. > #ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" > > then, add your network config > defaultrouter="x.x.x.x" > ifconfig_xl0="inet x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.0.0" > reboot and you should be set. > As far as X, I never install it during the setup. > Why waste time to set it up, when it's most likely out of date. > always update your ports after the setup. > go to the /usr/ports/x11 and pick a window manager. > after installing it, go to the usr's dir and create a .xinitrc file. > add the running command to start x. If it's KDE use "exec startkde" or > "wmaker" for windowmaker. > then you need to run "XFree86 configure". It will probe your hardware and > setup some default settings. > if it works, then you can copy it to your /etc/X11 dir and tweak it as you > want. > Then type startx and it should load. > remember not to run X as root. Thanks - that's exactly what I needed. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu