Good Evening,
I have been looking to break free from the increasing restrictions imposed by the Microsoft suite of operating systems. As a result I descided to give FreeBSD a quick !! try. Unfortunatly since this is my first attempt at loading a non-windows operating environment - I'm finding it rather confusing [I think that since the home page of BSD implies it should be rather stright forward I must be missing a number of tricks]. Having dumped the iso files onto 3 CD's [which Is a pain in itself - having to keep swapping CD's over] I then installed what I thought were all the correct packages, but alas this does not seem to be the case since when I exit the installer and re-boot I'm immediatly asked to log in via a terminal [i.e. text mode]. I try startx - that fails, also KDE does not work. Have I missed something ?
-or-
does a basic step by step for dummies guide exist to get a basic KGE -or- GNOME configuration up and running - I guess I can install/configure further packages/applications though tools from these environments.
Thank You
Regards
Paul
I have been looking to break free from the increasing restrictions imposed by the Microsoft suite of operating systems. As a result I descided to give FreeBSD a quick !! try. Unfortunatly since this is my first attempt at loading a non-windows operating environment - I'm finding it rather confusing [I think that since the home page of BSD implies it should be rather stright forward I must be missing a number of tricks]. Having dumped the iso files onto 3 CD's [which Is a pain in itself - having to keep swapping CD's over] I then installed what I thought were all the correct packages, but alas this does not seem to be the case since when I exit the installer and re-boot I'm immediatly asked to log in via a terminal [i.e. text mode]. I try startx - that fails, also KDE does not work. Have I missed something ?
-or-
does a basic step by step for dummies guide exist to get a basic KGE -or- GNOME configuration up and running - I guess I can install/configure further packages/applications though tools from these environments.
Thank You
Regards
Paul