From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 15:55:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE4D1065675 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:55:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: from mail.utahbroadband.com (mail.utahbroadband.com [204.14.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2BB8FC25 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:55:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: (qmail 10589 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2008 15:22:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.16?) (danallen46@airwired.net@66.29.174.6) by 0 with ESMTPA; 4 Sep 2008 15:22:11 -0000 Message-Id: <6526664E-70F0-4683-A37A-3839D51C7AF6@airwired.net> From: Dan Allen To: Jim Pingle In-Reply-To: <48C0037E.1040503@pingle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:55:44 -0600 References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <48BF23D3.2070509@brianwhalen.net> <20080904134305.GC1188@atarininja.org> <48BFEF26.2070405@pingle.org> <7BDBF15A-A8E2-424C-9988-043B6A70F541@airwired.net> <48C0037E.1040503@pingle.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:55:46 -0000 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