Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread Enigma
I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I have read many install instructions to get the Gnome GUI up and running. My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By about what

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Enigma wrote: I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I have read many install instructions to get the Gnome GUI up and running. My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread Frank Steinborn
Enigma wrote: My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By about what seems 3/4 the way through, my hdd is full and theres no way this option is open to me. You have to know that the gnome2 package

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread MKR
So far I've had success running fluxbox on my old dell laptop with a 600mhz CPU and 128mb of RAM. pkg_add -r fluxbox It has a nice menu generator that will pick up most installed programs and make them available to you through its menus. I usualy have enough memory left to run konsole with a

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Enigma thusly... Please wrap your lines around 70 characters or so, instead of writing one-line paragraphs. My question is, how can I install this GUI, or will it be easier to install an alternative with less graphics and tag along programs? I'm

Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)

2006-04-19 Thread David Stanford
Although I personally feel the best way to begin learning FreeBSD (or really any *nix) is to avoid GUI's altogether (at least at first), you may want to give a look into PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org. This comes with KDE preinstalled and will give you a useable desktop system right off the bat, and