HI
Are the students issues with the identical same H/W
model laptop ?
If the students all have different laptops that they
purchased themselves to run Windoze on, it will be very diff
rent experience for each student.
As the Machines are different they will require individual
setup.
If you want to start from a known starting point I
suggest that you use the Freebsd 14.2 Release DVD which on
the DVD includes precomplied
binaries for Xorg, GNOME and KDE5 , I have used it
and I know those binaries work on compatible hardware.
Install the Freebsd 14.2 Release system. Then Mount the
DVD as described below.
1.
Create a |/dist| directory, then mount the DVD.
|# mkdir -p /dist # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist |
2.
Make sure |REPOS_DIR| is correctly pointing to your local
repository. For sh(1)
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sh&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD>:
|# export REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos |
– or, for csh(1)
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=csh&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD>:
|# setenv REPOS_DIR /dist/packages/repos |
3.
Use pkg(7)
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=7&manpath=FreeBSD>
to bootstrap pkg(8)
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD-Ports>,
then install packages.
|# pkg bootstrap --yes # pkg install xorg gnome kde|
|This will have installed a working stable set of binaries. |
| without requiering Network access,|
| If you now have 30 students with 30 different laptops |
| It will be almost impossible to figure out what each of
those laptops |
| require to be setup in /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf |
| what type of graphics card is installed, etc .
|
| If the students have identical laptops you can figure out
the required settings |
| in advance
|
| Regards.
|
On 4/16/25 20:07, Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan wrote:
Hello everyone
I use FreeBSD to teach university courses and encourage students to
use FreeBSD.
Almost all of my students want to have the FreeBSD operating system on
their laptops, either virtual or real, to start with, and I encounter
the problem of installing a desktop environment on all laptops every
day, and unfortunately, students still cannot install a simple
environment like xfce or mate on their laptops despite spending a lot
of time.
Now I had a suggestion:
Is it possible to provide a FreeBSD image with the X environment as
the default, along with various ISO or IMG files or even VMs? So that
students can automatically boot with the X environment by installing it?
Otherwise, is it possible to include a script in the operating system
so that users can automatically install a simple environment like XFCE
by running that script?
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