Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-30 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
Hi Charlie, I am presently trying to teach myself FreeBSD too and the best HOWTO/Tutorial/Book out there for guys like us are, in my opinion, the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) and Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-30 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Bryan Bonifacio wrote: Hi Charlie, I am presently trying to teach myself FreeBSD too and the best HOWTO/Tutorial/Book out there for guys like us are, in my opinion, the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) and Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD

newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Charlie OBrien
Hi, im Charlie in Tucson Arizona. Im trying to teach myself FreeBSD and this is what i have done so far. I have downloaded and installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto my spare computer. i can boot the computer and login into the # prompt. how do i invoke the KDE windows environment? what are some other

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
how do i invoke the KDE windows environment? If you configured everything properly-in terms of XWindows-and have installed KDE, bringing up the KDE environment can simply be done using the command startkde. You may prefer setting up more than that though, so I suggest modifying .xinitrc and

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:10:05PM -0700, Charlie OBrien wrote: Hi, im Charlie in Tucson Arizona. Im trying to teach myself FreeBSD and this is what i have done so far. I have downloaded and installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto my spare computer. i can boot the computer and login into the # prompt.