From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 5:25:23 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 101A837B787 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 05:25:13 -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 JAA06069 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:25:08 -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 RAA15024 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:17:21 -0300 (EST) Received: from jan by abstract with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13O4L3-0000Ha-00 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:26:33 -0300 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:26:33 -0300 From: Jan Pfeifer To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: moving from Debian Linux Message-ID: <20000813172633.A429@abstract.dhis.net> Reply-To: jan@ic.unicamp.br Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions 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 firts of all, thanks for the answers. They helped a lot, specially the part of sacrificing the chicken to install X :) I'm almost running exactly the same environment in FreeBSD and Debian, but there are still some doubts/problems -- I'll ask them in another emai. Before I thought that answering my previous questions may help someone else in the same situation. So: > 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 ? Using /stand/sysinstall did the job, with menus and everything. It configured /etc/rc.conf (or rc.local, I don't remember) and created /etc/resolv.conf for me too. > 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 :) as my /home partition supported "sparse super blocks(?)" and file types in the directories, I had to reformat it (mk2efs) without this options. (Using tune2fs didn't work) -- and move lots of files around. Ahn, and I had to recompile the FreeBSD kernel to support EXT2FS -- it compiles really fast! > 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 ...) The sacrificed chicken really helped here. I decided to recompile the X11-SVGA. While downloading the files, following a "mysterious" instinct, I went to the ftp site and looked around. I found some fixes, one of them a "savage" fix ... So, I cancelled the "make", made it a "make extract", applied the patches, "make", "make install" ... tandan, it worked ... well almost, I still had to fix by hand a Imakefile and the configuration to support the "savage" chipset, because it's not included by default in other OSs but Linux. But there is still a problem, though working, I haven't got the faintest idea why, the flickers on the left border ... I should have made it (the sacrifice) a goat, I guess ? > 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) There seems not to be an "standard" answer for this. I finally chose to create the dir "/usr/my_machine_name/" and put some local unmanaged packages there ... cheers, jan (jan@ic.unicamp.br) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message