From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 15:41:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 11E3616A423 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:41:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny.butroyd@globalmedia-webmarketing.com) Received: from valium.tcm.gmapps.net.uk (valium.tcm.gmapps.net.uk [194.207.235.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C775643D46 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:41:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny.butroyd@globalmedia-webmarketing.com) Received: from [192.168.0.16] (host-87-75-129-156.bulldogdsl.com [87.75.129.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by valium.tcm.gmapps.net.uk (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2LFkm75050804; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:46:48 GMT (envelope-from danny.butroyd@globalmedia-webmarketing.com) Message-ID: <44201E9B.6070503@globalmedia-webmarketing.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:41:15 +0000 From: Danny Butroyd Organization: Global Media Applications Limited User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060123) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Sher References: <44201195.6040307@zebra.net> <1142954306.17090.257155784@webmail.messagingengine.com> <44201CAA.4000508@zebra.net> In-Reply-To: <44201CAA.4000508@zebra.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on valium.tcm.gmapps.net.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:41:40 -0000 Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Jud and friends: > > OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all > bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB > /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It > will not boot FreeBSD from the FreeBSD partition but, after changing > the mode to swap, it booted at last directly into FreeBSD with the > command "startx". I first saw during bootup that it said that I named > "localhost" (for Mindspring) incorrectly. At any way, I was pretty > disheartened when I finally arrived in FreeBSD. What I saw were two > rectangular screens (with green edges): the one on the left said: > "login", the one on the right said: "xterm". Plus a tiny clock in the > upper corner. I feel completely lost. Where is KDE? What command > should I use to get into KDE or to access the Internet? You probably need to edit/create the .xinitrc file in your home directory. I dont use kde but a quick search on google reveals that this may work in your case:- exec startkde Google is definately your friend for this kind of setup question :) Danny