On 11/2/06, Evans Durandisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I
wanted to install
freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and
mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed freebsd without much
configuration. I answered 'no' when asked to configure things what could be
configured later. But I do not know if I installed it right, eventhough I
tried to follow the instructions from the handbook. When I open my computer,
after installation, there's the screen that asked if I want to start freebsd
or dos. So I choose freebsd. Then, I logged in and typed 'startx' to start
the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I
am just seeing four comand shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No
background picture (greying grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition
image). There're just four squared box (shell). My mouse worked! But there's
nothing it can be used for. I tried to work myself over that by typing some
commands. But I don't know that much of the Unix language; so it's been to
no avail! So my question is should I get this kind of graphic environment?
or something missing in the installation.
I have an intel D845GLVA motherboard with a Pent IV, integrated video
card, Samsung SyncMaster 753DF (maybe it's the hardware). But I didn't get
any error message for that.
Thank you for considering helping! Have a good day!
Evans
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Evans
it seems that every thing works fine!
if you want a desktop enviroment, simply link to the internet, and type
pkg_add -r gnome2
or something else. then without much configuration, you can use the gnome
desktop environment.
please follow the handbook (see /usr/share/doc) and you will be able to
explore more.
Sherry Zhang
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