This is a small HowTo, I've first made for myself, but, I think, could be useful for others too. Specialy those willing to have a windowing envirnoment. Please note that this howto is minimalist.
Summary: This small howto will explain how to install Xfce4, firefox, ... with the help of Dports. Within less than 1 hour you will be able to surf internet and even watch youtube.com (via html5), play videos, ... with your prefered OS Hypothesis: You must have a DragonFlyBSD 3.4 (as on April 2013). We will use the Dports features to perform it (no pkgsrc here). We will not use hald 1. DragonFlyBsd Installation: Here, just perform a standard installation: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/Installation/ In short, what I like to do is: 1 Burn DragonFlyBSD-3.4.1 on a CD or DVD. 2 Prepare a primary slice for DragonFly on one of your disk 3 Boot from the CD or DVD and select the correct keyboard in "Live CD utilities" Select the correct disk and slice, format it and install DragonFly on it 4 Personnally, I skip the MBR installation since I have already one. 5 Configure your installation: set root passwd, set hostname, set keyboard, set network interface with dhcp, set timezone 6 Reboot 7 create your userid: *adduser* and put it in "wheel" and "operator" groups. 2. Start Dports - *mv /usr/pkg /usr/pkg_old* (despite not recommended by John Marino) - create or edit /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf with your preferred mirrors (cfr http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/) - *pkg update* 3. Software Installation: - *pkg install xorg* - *X -configure* - *cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf* - customize /etc/X11/xorg.conf: in section "InputDevice", add: Option "XkbLayout" "be" #depends on the keyboard layout in section "Files", add: FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/" in section "Modukles", add: Load "freetype" - *pkg install xfce* - *pkg install midori* #a very good browser - add snd_hda_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf #to activate the sound - *pkg install smplayer* #very good video player - *pkg install firefox-20.0,1* (name it fully because just putting "firefox" create conflict with firefox-17) #with firefox you'll be able to play HTML5 youtube videos 4. Customisations 4.1 To havethe Xfce4 shutdown and reboot buttons - *pkg install sudo* - *visudo* and append: "%wheel ALL = NOPASSWD:/usr/local/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper" - log out/login 4.2 For automatic lauch of xfce4 - *pkg install zsh* #since I'm using zsh as main shell for my user: - login with your userid - *chsh* and put /usr/local/bin/zsh as Shell - create or add in ~.zprofile: [[ -z $DISPLAY && $TTY = "/dev/ttyv0" ]] && exec startxfce4 - logout/login in the 1st terminal window, Xfce4 will start immediately Have fun William
