From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 21:20:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (luna.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E14537B66E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1456D31D5; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:20:40 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: jan@ic.unicamp.br Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: moving from Debian Linux Message-ID: <20000812212040.C19788@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@jmock.com References: <20000812120907.A3108@abstract.dhis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000812120907.A3108@abstract.dhis.net>; from janpf@iname.com on Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:09:07PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 at 12:09:07 -0300, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > hi, 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 In /etc/rc.conf. See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syntax. > 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 ? Yes, create it if it doesn't exist. > 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 :) Dunno. I have no experience at all with ext2 since I don't use Linux, and no idea about Linux's UFS support. > 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 ...) Make sure you have the proper X server installed. Personally, I'd move my old config file aside, run XF86Setup (either manually or through /stand/sysinstall), reconfigure X, then merge the two together. > 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) You can still stick stuff in /usr/local in a directory of it's own (i.e., /usr/local/applix, /usr/local/Acrobat4, etc.), or create some other directory to use. - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message