From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 8:24: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garfield.freebsduser.org (dsl-64-34-25-237.telocity.com [64.34.25.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAC5E37BBFB for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@jonelrienton.org) Received: (qmail 12954 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2000 15:32:37 -0000 Received: from debian (10.29.22.23) by garfield with SMTP; 12 Aug 2000 15:32:37 -0000 Message-ID: <00a001c00472$1efc06b0$17161d0a@developers.local> From: "Jonel Rienton" To: , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20000812120907.A3108@abstract.dhis.net> Subject: Re: moving from Debian Linux Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:29:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Jonel Rienton" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG for your no. 1 question, put your options and flags in /etc/rc.local, check out /etc/defaults/rc.local, put all your changes in /etc/rc.local, as for 2 and 3, i would let others give their opinion on those. as for no. 4, the ports collection contains almost everything/applications that you would need to play with, note the word almost. btw, i've also used debian. Jonel Rienton http://qmail.freebsduser.org/qmail.html This email was sent by qmail-1.03, FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Pfeifer" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 10:09 AM Subject: moving from Debian Linux > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message