From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 19:38:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A68E16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:38:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD9443D49 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:38:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050201193829i9100k5ltre>; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:38:30 +0000 Message-ID: <41FFDAB1.8060607@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:38:25 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: crzdgns1@starpower.net References: <5a0922b.c7dc1968.81eb700@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> In-Reply-To: <5a0922b.c7dc1968.81eb700@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a particular order in which things should be done? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:38:31 -0000 crzdgns1@starpower.net wrote: >Hello, > >I am a beginning FreeBSD/UNIX user and have recently installed >FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE, Xorg, and KDE on a Pentium II Celeron 330 >MHz custom made PC. > KDE is going to eat you alive with a celeron 330 (and low amounts of RAM) I would recommend you try Xfce first. The version that shipped with 5.3 is 4.06? so to get 4.2 you will need to update your sources or figure out how to get newer packages. you can learn about that here in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Xfce: http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en#whatis To solve your startup problems with X you first need to configure it, you can do that with "Xorg -configure", you can learn about that in chapter 4 of the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html If nothing I said here makes since it's because I just woke up and my brain isn't working yet. so if you have more questions just ask. > Everything seems to be working ok for now, >but I feel completely overwhelmed because there is a tremendous >amount of info to learn. Yesterday, when I logged out of KDE and >back into command mode, I noticed a line in the output produced >during KDE bootup (is that the right lingo?) that my machine thinks it >is badly misconfigured. The exact message was "could not find local >host, your system is badly misconfigured". Here are my questions for >this forum. I preface my questions by saying that what I did was boot >from floppies and install via FTP. All at once, I installed FreeBSD >with Xorg and all of its fonts, Perl, Postfix, and every file in the KDE >directory, and something else that I've already forgotten. Since I am >a beginner, I expect I will go through the installation procedure a few >more times, but maybe I can be more efficient about it in the future. >So here is my question, in the future, what recommendations would >the community make about correct order of operations for installation >and configuration, and for confirmation that the install and >configuration are "correct"? > >Thanks, > >Mark >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >