On Friday 03 June 2005 04:41 pm, [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? > > 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? > > 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. > > Please help!! > > Thanks! > > Robert >
1. Take a look at the online handbook for package management and X setup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html 2. A quick "google" for freebsd, netatalk and tutorial resulted in: http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/imac-sharing-how-to.html I hope this helps, Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"