From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 7:59:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grande.dcc.unicamp.br (grande.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371C937B5A4 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 07:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@ic.unicamp.br) Received: from amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.11]) by grande.dcc.unicamp.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08623 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:59:28 -0300 (EST) Received: from abstract (mail@chupim.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.16.99]) by amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13664 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:59:26 -0300 (EST) Received: from jan by abstract with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13NcuJ-0000sH-00 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:09:07 -0300 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:09:07 -0300 From: Jan Pfeifer To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: moving from Debian Linux Message-ID: <20000812120907.A3108@abstract.dhis.net> Reply-To: jan@ic.unicamp.br Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, I'm just trying out FreeBSD (4.1), coming from Debian/Linux, and after the initial installations I got a couple of problems/doubts I couldn't find out myself. Any help would be really appreciated: 1. I tried configuring my ethernet card by hand, using ifconfig, and it worked out. But where (or using which program) should I configure it permanently ? -- I didn't find this info in the Handbook, is there some other docs I'm missing ? BTW, where should I configure the default DNS address -- it didn't install any /etc/resolv.conf, should I create it ? 2. it would be nice if both systems (FreeBSD and Linux) would share the same /home/ partition. Which (and why?) partition format should I use: ufs or ext2 ? I mean, Linux docs states that ufs support is experimental, and I read somewhere that ext2 is also unstable in FreeBSD. Both seems to support msdos partitions quite well, but I wouldn't be happy if I need to use it :) 3. to configure XFree86 for FreeBSD I just copied my linux configuration file, changed the fonts and pointer sections. Very strangely, when X started, my monitor (a ViewSonic 17", 1280x1024x60Hz) would complain about invalid frequency ... The card is a S3 Savage4,and XFree86 is 6.3.3.6 in both systems. Any idea about what could be causing this ? (I tried lower frequencies, like 1024x768x60Hz, and then it worked ...) 4. I noticed the ports and packaging system uses /usr/local/... directories to store the installed programs/packages. Where does local programs that I wish to install goes ? I mean, debian/linux uses /usr/bin/ for the package programs and I use the /usr/local for "unofficial" programs. Is there something like /usr/local/local/... in FreeBSD ? (where "unofficial" means not managed by the packaging/port system) sorry for the basic questions, I just don't have anyone around that uses FreeBSD to help me here :) thanks in advance, jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message