From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 19:04:49 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 9C7FE16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:04:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C95943D3F for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:04:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=hercules.codepad.net) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1D8NX5-000E8v-Co for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:04:47 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:04:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <422C5FC1.9040608@wanadoo.es> <200503071440.j27Eexx10289@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1271.216.220.59.169.1110211318.squirrel@216.220.59.169> In-Reply-To: <1271.216.220.59.169.1110211318.squirrel@216.220.59.169> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503071904.22845.ian@codepad.net> 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 19:04:49 -0000 On Monday 07 March 2005 16:01, Ean Kingston wrote: > >> 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. I would second that advice. KDE works very well for me and looks more like Winbugs than a console so it will be easier to get your head round it. It works much much better than Winbugs too ;-) The pkg_add command will take a while so be patient with it. -- /Xian "A tree only hits a car in self defence" Unkonwn author