From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 8:27:43 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 8E11137B763 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@jonelrienton.org) Received: (qmail 12986 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2000 15:36:12 -0000 Received: from debian (10.29.22.23) by garfield with SMTP; 12 Aug 2000 15:36:12 -0000 Message-ID: <00ae01c00472$9f7c7310$17161d0a@developers.local> From: "Jonel Rienton" To: "Jonel Rienton" , , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20000812120907.A3108@abstract.dhis.net> <00a001c00472$1efc06b0$17161d0a@developers.local> Subject: Re: moving from Debian Linux Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:33:11 -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 make that /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf sorry for the confusion Jonel Rienton http://qmail.freebsduser.org/qmail.html This email was sent by qmail-1.03, FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonel Rienton" To: ; "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 10:29 AM Subject: Re: moving from Debian Linux > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message