From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 17 17:11:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAD337B9EC for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.28 2000/05/06 00:07:11 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id AAA25710; Thu, 18 May 2000 00:12:04 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id RAA17112; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:10:57 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id UAA21614; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:10:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14627.13585.440530.238245@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:10:57 -0700 (MST) To: Gregory Sutter Cc: kkk kkk , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs In-Reply-To: <20000517162715.B55702@azazel.zer0.org> References: <20000517231707.93116.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000517162715.B55702@azazel.zer0.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ On Wednesday, May 17, Gregory Sutter wrote: ] > > Here's a just-after-installation doc: > http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/newbies.html > > I also suggest that you try sysinstall again, by executing > /stand/sysinstall > and selecting "Configure an existing system", then "configure > XFree86 desktop". From there, you can automagically install > X and one of several toolkits and window managers. Also, doing a "standard installation" (in 4.0--also known as "novice installation" in 3.4 and below) will prompt you about configuring a window manager during the course of the install. If you chose 'custom install' it won't do this unless you explicitly "know what you're doing" and Do The Right Thing(tm) at the right time. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message