Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:55:44 -0600 From: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> To: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <6526664E-70F0-4683-A37A-3839D51C7AF6@airwired.net> In-Reply-To: <48C0037E.1040503@pingle.org> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <DC1CA362-09F3-4D85-BE20-776A133FD3D6@airwired.net> <48BF23D3.2070509@brianwhalen.net> <B1F9E128-A66F-4A5A-BBA1-A016F4ECDF77@airwired.net> <20080904134305.GC1188@atarininja.org> <48BFEF26.2070405@pingle.org> <7BDBF15A-A8E2-424C-9988-043B6A70F541@airwired.net> <48C0037E.1040503@pingle.org>
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On 4 Sep 2008, at 9:49 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: > My memory may be failing me, but there used to be a port called > "instant > workstaion" that accomplished quite a bit, and the installer would > drop in X > but asked for KDE or Gnome, but I don't recall when those choices > went away. This is in fact what I remember too: one had a choice of Server or Workstation and a further choice of KDE or GNOME. I remember that when I saw the choice of KDE or GNOME I had no idea which I should choose because I knew nothing about them. I will re-explore these sysinstall options, and grabbing packages with FTP once I can figure out how to get some sort of networking going on my new laptop. Dan
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