Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:29:55 +1000 From: Rowdy <david@fielden.com.au> To: Doug Lawrence <lawrencd@uci.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is Freebsd graphical? Message-ID: <40AD5B93.2090206@fielden.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040520145340.00b036f0@imap.uci.edu> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040520145340.00b036f0@imap.uci.edu>
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Doug Lawrence wrote: > I am very new to anything but Windows and some MAC. I bought a retail > box of 4.7 about 2 years ago.It had no printed material.I tried for > about a month to get it up and running but I gave up. I was to new. > I talked to people in my department about how to learn the program > and they suggested I get Redhat 9 off our UCI mirror site. I have > done that and have learned a lot over about one year.I got a copy > of 5.2.1 off your site and began again.I have done ok now but have > questions.I understand what I should be doing to install but areas I > believe I should select ALL I cann't figure out how to select the all > choice.One spot I select all and the next screen says no packages > selected and I cann't backup.This time I am not giving up. Can you > help me get back on track? Doug Lawrence > These couple of links, especially the second one, might assist you in setting up a graphical FreeBSD installation. http://www.newsforge.com/os/04/01/05/211225.shtml?tid=8&tid=82&tid=94 http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=272 Dave
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