From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 9:55:50 2002 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 EEE5037B401 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F45B43E75 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 9920 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2002 18:54:27 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 23 Aug 2002 18:54:27 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Martin Lozada , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:55:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <3D64DE38.3080406@iac.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <3D64DE38.3080406@iac.unibe.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208231855.39440.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu August 22 2002 14:51, Martin Lozada wrote: > Dear Poeple, > > I installed FreeBSD 4.6 on my computer few days ago. I chose as desktop > Gnome+sawfish. No problems during the installation but after it began > the nightmare. I finally got running startx and what I got was a gnome > desktop without icons . Nautilus didn't start, due to an unexpected > error. The error has to do with OAF. I think it's just the beginning. = I > think I wait for a better version of FreeBSD before performing a new > installation. > > Regards, > > Martin L. > and your question was?...... but seriously, I have been running freebsd on my laptops / desktops and=20 servers for a number of years and any problems caused have almost invaria= by=20 been generated by the person sitting behind the keyboard ;-0. Fings wot I have learnt when installing FreeBSD for the first time. 1) do a clean ABSOLUTELY minimal install 2) cvsup (ports and system) 3) rebuild world 4) start adding ports This has resulted in troublefree installations for me=20 oh and never never ever install gnome......=20 /ducks and runs for cover To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message