--On June 3, 2005 9:41:00 PM +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a FreeBSD newbie and have some questions about installation. I
installed the 5.4 version from CD and selected the “User and X
Windows” (or something like it) installation. I also selected
“yes” for installing all of the packages.
The packages installation copied about 25MB of data to the disk instead
of the 300MB that it said it was going to. Is that what it’s supposed
to do? It looks like not all of the packages were copied, specifically
Netatalk (which is on the second CD). How do I get it to copy the rest
of the packages?
Log in as root. Run /stand/sysinstall from the commandline. Chose
Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD. Select Packages. Then
select the packages you want that didn't get installed and install them.
Also, it looked like it copied the X.org files but never went through the
X setup. Is this what it is supposed to do?
Yes. You need to configure X yourself.
Login as root. From the command line type "Xorg -configure". That
*should* create an xorg.conf.new file in the current directory that has the
correct settings for your setup. When it finishes, it will print out a
command you use to test to see if the setup worked. If it did, copy the
file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If it didn't, google is your friend, as well
as the Handbook.
I have a working text-based FreeBSD system, but I would like to get the
Netatalk package installed and also get the X windows system up and
running.
Once you have the xorg.conf file created, run xdm or gdm to start a window
manager. If everything works as expected, edit /etc/ttys to start the
window manager at bootup. If you're using xdm, just uncomment the line for
ttyv8. If you're using gdm, uncomment the same line, but change xdm to gdm.
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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