Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:46:12 -0500 From: <crzdgns1@starpower.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Is there a particular order in which things should be done? Message-ID: <5a0922b.c7dc1968.81eb700@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
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Hello, I am a beginning FreeBSD/UNIX user and have recently installed FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE, Xorg, and KDE on a Pentium II Celeron 330 MHz custom made PC. Everything seems to be working ok for now, but I feel completely overwhelmed because there is a tremendous amount of info to learn. Yesterday, when I logged out of KDE and back into command mode, I noticed a line in the output produced during KDE bootup (is that the right lingo?) that my machine thinks it is badly misconfigured. The exact message was "could not find local host, your system is badly misconfigured". Here are my questions for this forum. I preface my questions by saying that what I did was boot from floppies and install via FTP. All at once, I installed FreeBSD with Xorg and all of its fonts, Perl, Postfix, and every file in the KDE directory, and something else that I've already forgotten. Since I am a beginner, I expect I will go through the installation procedure a few more times, but maybe I can be more efficient about it in the future. So here is my question, in the future, what recommendations would the community make about correct order of operations for installation and configuration, and for confirmation that the install and configuration are "correct"? Thanks, Mark
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