From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 19:08:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2FA7BAF for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (virtual1.potentialtech.com [69.25.178.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA5929CF for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from working.home (c-67-165-86-201.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [67.165.86.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7F38924BEB7; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:03:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:03:14 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: arnab bhowmick Subject: Re: I need some solution Message-Id: <20150408150314.8416bf67813281ef0a9cf6ad@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.25; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:08:38 -0000 On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 23:45:58 +0530 arnab bhowmick wrote: > Hello guys i am new to Free BSD. recently I have installed free BSD 10.1 > release on my system. I am facing some problems. When I am starting my > system and logging in it showing a black screen with some freebsd well come > note and a sigil($) sign at the left of the screen and nothing else. No > graphical interface. When I am using pkg install command to install > something like mate-desktop/ GNOME desktop or some other program it fails > to install the package. It is replying that ( pkg: failed to extract > pkg-static : can't create '/user/local/sbin/pkg-static' ). What to do next? > Please help me. I am very eager to use freebsd as I am like this system > very much. Please give me some solution. I recommend that you instead install PC-BSD. It's a version of FreeBSD specially packaged to be easy for people new to BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org/ You can get FreeBSD to behave the way you want, but it doesn't do so out of the box. PC-BSD does. -- Bill Moran