From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 16:01:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE2816A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:01:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC6843D31 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:01:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from www.hedron.org (localhost.hedron.org [127.0.0.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021DDC12C for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:01:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from 216.220.59.169 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ean); by www.hedron.org with HTTP; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:01:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1271.216.220.59.169.1110211318.squirrel@216.220.59.169> In-Reply-To: <200503071440.j27Eexx10289@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <422C5FC1.9040608@wanadoo.es> from "Ramiro Aceves" at Mar 07, 2005 03:05:53 PM <200503071440.j27Eexx10289@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:01:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Ean Kingston" To: "freebsd-questions-en" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Just installed FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:01:51 -0000 >> >> Katsuki Hirata wrote: >> > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to >> > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, >> > and after loginging with both root and/or another >> > username, I don't know what to do from there on. How >> > do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a >> > graphical thing like Windows or Redhat linux? what's >> > the command to load the operating system Hi, Sorry to but into the middle of this conversation but people appear to be giving you a lot of advice that will take quite a while to understand and implement. Some of that advice is good but it doesn't really get you where you want to be. If you haven't done so yet, try this: Login as root run 'pkg_add -r kde' from the command line edit /etc/ttys (with ee or whatever editor you like. Look for the line that looks like this: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure and change the word 'off' to 'on'. Then save the file. Now, reboot your system. You should find that you now have a graphical user interface and when you log in, you are running kde. If you don't find kde running when you log in. Do this: Log in as the user you want to be able to run KDE and edit the file '.xsession'. Put 'exec /usr/local/bin/startkde' at the top of that that file and save it. Then, log out and log back in again. That got the job done. Now the fun part is figuring out what else you can do . That is where a lot of the other advice is going to come in handy. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/