Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:14:14 +0200 From: Johannes Zwart <johannes@jak.nl> To: Richard Lessa <RichardLe@pcmall.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions! Message-ID: <39AE6836.299B0633@jak.nl> References: <DB890460AD91D311A23B0008C7A49FE3027A0995@CCNT_EXCH>
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Richard Lessa wrote: > Hi there, I just installed FreeBSD on my home computer last night (an > old Gateway G6-400). I partitioned my drive so that I'm booting 98' > on my primary DOS partition and FreeBSD on my extended or other > partition. Everything seemed to install pretty smooth, after I > figured out the tricks to naming the partitions properly, etc... > (general idiot stuff). The thing is, I'm confused on how much space I > need to run the part of FreeBSD that I'm most interested in, those > being: XFree86, X-Window Server (Gnome and/or KDE, w/ Enlightenment or > IceWM), simple networking protocol support to dial out to my ISP and > the cryptography files as well... that's what I'm most interested in > and I guess I selected too many "extra" doo-dads (kudos to you guys > for including an INSANE amount of third party software/utitilities on > Disk 1), and ran up to my 4GB limit... or maybe I partitioned > something screwy. I dunno... I've set up my swapfile to be about > 263MB and the extended BSD partition to be 4600MB, the 4600MB I named > "/" I know that's fine for root or at least I think it's supposed to > be, I didn't create a separate "/usr" and I named the 263MB "swapfile" > which seemed to work fine... initially when I booted up and the CD-ROM > started into it's deal about "Configure Kernel Now" or "Skip Kernel > Config and go straight to Visual Setup", I tried the "Configure > Kernel" and I had 8 conflicts listed on my networking thingamabob... > some mess about all these PCI NIC adapter cards being in conflict with > something else... I left all that stuff alone and went ahead with the > visual install, Win 98 (sigh) still works on it's partition and > doesn't seem to have any problems other than being Windows (I wonder > if Windows knows it sucks). Anyway, now when I get to the easy boot > boot manager I go through and select FreeBSD and it appears to come up > fine, my login which I setup for myself as a "user" seems to login > properly, whoami and all that seems to work, but xinit and xterm and > all just pull up error messages, something about xinit cannot be found > which led me to believe that it wasn't in fact installed, so when I > tried installing it, it appears I ran out of room. So to make a short > story insanely long, I just need to know if there's something I can do > to remove all those nifty programs I wanted to use or if I need to > scrub the partition and do it over again from scratch. Also, the only > other thing I noticed and this is cuz I'm new to UNIX not necessarily > cuz there's a problem is, when I'm at the $ prompt and type /usr or > any other file directory, I get the "access denied" even when I logout > and login as root I still get that. I know you're probably laughing > your ass off cuz I sound like a moron but I'm smart enough to know > windows sucks and smart enough to know how to at least get FreeBSD > semi-installed on my system. Please don't make me go back to win 98! > Please please please!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the help and/or insults, > either way I'll figure this damn thing out eventually! If I've sent > this to the wrong e-mail address, if you could kindly let me know > where I need to send it, I'd appreciate it! > > Thanks, > > Rich > I suppose you haven't read any of the docs? Or books on FreeBSD? Do consult them, FreeBSD isn't that easy to get into without any resources. Mailing lists like these aren't as good as a good introduction book. Configure Kernel : It is possible to run your system without any conflict. Just turn off all devices you don't have installed, and configure the ones you do have correctly. Starting X : You have to configure X first using XF86Setup. Executables are in /usr/X11R6/bin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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