Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 23:13:37 +0000 From: Paul Floyd -NETMANSYS- <Paul.Floyd@netmansys.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Configuration questions. Message-ID: <345D0921.A9F2C92E@netmansys.fr>
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Hello I've had FreeBSD installed on my PC for a fairly long time, but I never got round to using it much, and never finished the final tweaks to get things looking nice. However, I've recently started a job that involves using Solaris machines, so I've started to dust off my installation. I've got FreeBED 2.1.0 installed. When I installed it, my PC had an ethernet connection to the net, but now it is all on its own. I got as far as recompiling the kernel to get PS/2 mouse support, and to cut out some of the stuff I didn't need, and I got XFree86 up and running. I've had a look on the FreeBSD web site, and I think I've solved some of my questions (it is getting late at night, and sleep is now more important than surfing for more answers). Here are my questions: I have a UK keyboard (most of the time). I see I should use the kdbcontrol command to change the keyboard mapping. How do I make this automatic on boot up? Is there a keyboard mapping for Quebecois keyboards? (Cos I f*!&ing can't stand French AZERTY kbds). My /usr partition is almost full, yet my swap is usually almost empty. Is there any painless way to extend the /usr partition? I have Partition Magic, so I can shrink my adjacent DOS partition at will, but PM won't handle FreeBSD sub partitions. How can I get the window manager to use something other than 640x480, 16 colours, 60Hz, as the default config for XFree86? This is an S3 805 with 1M VRAM. The default window manager is not a pretty sight. I use CDE at work, and am most familiar with the OS/2 WPS UI. Any suggestions for a wm I might be more able to live with? What are the issues involved with upgrading to the latest FreeBED? Remember, I'm likely to have to take any downloads home by the caseload of floppies. (I'm more keen to upgrade gcc from 2.6.3 I have to 2.7.x). Does anyone know of any distributors for the Walnut Creek CDS and books in France? At work I use ksh. I've seen on the web page that there is a pdksh, I've also used bash. Anyone care to comment on the merits of pdksh and bash? I could learn to live with sh or csh. How do I go about changing the "network" name of the machine (even though it is isolated, the default myname@myhost, if I remember correctly wouldn't be my first choice. I think that's all. For now. Any replies and pointers appreciated, Paul -- Paul Floyd http://www.netmansys.com Software Engineer MailTo:Paul.Floyd@netmansys.fr Netmansys Tel: +33 (0)4 76 90 98 26 Fax: +33 (0)4 76 41 86 03 I may find something witty to put here sometime.
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