Which book should I start?

Hi, I am new to Bsd. I did a lot of research on the net which book should I start with. I got two of them. I can not deside which one should I start. Here are my books:: - The Complet FreeBSD. 4th Edition From O'Reilly, Greg Lehey. - Absolute BSD The ultimate guide to FreeBSD. From Michael Luca

How to start KDE?

Hi, I am newbie to freebsd. I just start it. I installed KDE when I installd the os. I do everything from the book I got.(The Complet FreeBSD 4th edition) Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE " .xinitrc " in my home directory. Well, How can I do that?? and why do I n

network card setup?

Hi, I forgot to setup my network card during installation on my laptop. How can I do that on a running system?? I am really happy after about two weeks of trouble finally I have a running system on my Toshiba Satelite laptop. Thank you sooo much for all the help I got from you guys. I even have a r

Wireless network card speed?

Hi, Thank you sooo much for helping me out with my network card setup. Now I know it was a dumm questione.(/stand/sysinstall.. OFCOURSE). Anyway, I did something unbelievable!! I setup my built in wireless card!!! Sorry for all this info about my laptop. My only little problem is freebsd operate my

Laptop overheating problem.

Hi, So my laptop was working just fine but after a whole day of usage everything slowed down, my physical memory was 89% full, and the openoffice did not want to start at all.As soon as it happend I knew the problem is I did not hear the cooling fan. After shutdown about a hour I turned back on and

Wireless Card stop worling after 15min.

Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed on my Toshiba Satellite laptop with built in Wireless card. Everything is working fine Thank you for all the advice about the overheating problem. So what happens is after I start my laptop I have internet connection through my wireless card only for 15 minutes or

Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. If I do the umont fr

Wireless card problem.

I have 4.10 FreeBSD installed on my laptop. Everything working fine exept the Wireless network card stop working after about 5-10min. I disable the APM in the kernel but it still stops. At boot up when the startup bring up my network cards the wireless card on the bottom is POWERSAVING OFF PO

Where can I read the old questions??

Hi, I am trying to install Apache and PHP and MySQL. I'm having some trouble but I don't want to bug anybody with my questions. I remember There was a lot of question about this topic So I would love to browse through them. Thank you Laszlo --lantal __

4.10 FBSD vs 5.x FBSD

Hi, I am using 4.10 FBSD. Just started few months ago. My question is what are the major differenc beetwen the 4.10 and the 5.x release?? I am reading this mailing list every day (better than any book I got) and I see that most of the questione is about 5.x release and just read today the 5.3 ca

Where to install DNS?

Hi, Where is the best place to install DNS?? Does it have to be on a separate computer, or can I install it on the same machine with the web and ftp server? Thank you all advice Laszlo --lantal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Hard drive min size for Dns install?

Hi, How big hard drive do I need for a Fbsd 5.3+Bind Installation?? I have a 1.2gb hdd would it be big enough? Thank you for all the advice Laszlo --lantal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

5.3 freez at install

Hi I am trying to install Fbsd 5.3 on a Toshiba laptop. I download the Iso images (disc 1; disc 2) When I boot from the disc1 every time Freeze at :: pci0: on pcib0 I tryed boot with the option to disable ACPI. But it still freeze. Any Idea what am I doing wrong? Laszlo (I did have Fbsd 4.10 on

FreeBSD 5.3 Does Not Install on Toshiba Satellite Laptop

Hi, I am tryin to install FreeBSD 5.3 on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop. Every time I boot up from the cd it stops loading at pci0 on pcib0 I tryed everything in my bios.I even disable the wirwles card and the mouse, unpluged evry extra and still stops. I tryed boot with ACPI, ACPI disable, Safe Mode

How can I start a programm after installation??

Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 with KDE. I installed Gimp from /usr/ports/graphics/. I typed make prefix=/usr/local/gimp It took a while and dowloaded a lot of other programms and installed them. After that I typed make prefix=/usr/local/gimp install Again everything looked good no warning or error. But