Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:59:26 -0800 (PST) From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <1325195966.54158.YahooMailClassic@web113510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83_2Xr8shOu41c81uSxn%2B-cABf4aWyf3-ac3j4fQUzMUig@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello; --- Gio 29/12/11, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> ha scritto: > > > > I use the nvidia driver, no idea what people with ATI > > cards do. > > I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with that, if you > ever want to try again and you can't work it out get me > off list ;) > Getting X11 to run on virtualbox from a FreeBSD 9.0 CD installation is pretty much a nightmare. Is there something about it in the users handbook? A wiki page about setting up X11 on FreeBSD would do it too. Perhaps we should write one. ... > > I hope I don't have to start downloading manually all > > the prepackaged dependencies (I still do that with > > Java and it's not nice). > > Nah, pkg_add -r works and grabs anything you need. Try it > with something monstrous (like gcc...) > Aha! I guess I just keep doing things the old way then, the package browser was still very nice but I guess what is really missing is documentation. How is someone new to FreeBSD supposed to know what packages are available and how to install them? cheers, Pedro. > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >help
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