Originally, I tried to install PCBSD 9.0, but the installer kept 'aborting' for some reason, so, it was 'bite the bullet' and bear with installing and setting up FreeBSD 9.0.
It installed successfully, but because I used the make install command for Gnome2, starting at 9:30 EDT, last Thurs, it didn't finish downloading until 3pm Friday. After being advised to just use pkg_add -r, I used that for 'xorg', and, to make a long story short, had Gnome2 working, and booting into it a short while later. Yay!
Motherboard:
Biostar NF61S AM2
AMD64x2, 2GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce 6100 (256 MB), WD SATA2 160 GB HDD, LG DVDRW.
Firefox works and the video with sound is good.
Looks good.
Next tasks:
Commands for this, please?
One thing I note is that pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the terminal gives me a long nasty error message (and I don't remember the keys to (hopefully) get back to Gnome, so I end up rebooting, plus, the sound works, but, let's just say, it's good that I'm not dual-booting Windows, or I might be blown out of my chair, if I didn't remember to greatly lower the speaker volume!
I like FreeBSD so far, reminds me of Linux, plus, my old OS/2 Warp3, MSDOS days, and even those old BASIC computers we used to use (still have a few collecting dust, in fact! ), and, of course UNIX!
It installed successfully, but because I used the make install command for Gnome2, starting at 9:30 EDT, last Thurs, it didn't finish downloading until 3pm Friday. After being advised to just use pkg_add -r, I used that for 'xorg', and, to make a long story short, had Gnome2 working, and booting into it a short while later. Yay!
Motherboard:
Biostar NF61S AM2
AMD64x2, 2GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce 6100 (256 MB), WD SATA2 160 GB HDD, LG DVDRW.
Firefox works and the video with sound is good.
Looks good.
Next tasks:
- Install Linuxulator
- Adobe Flashplayer
- add 'Richard' to the 'wheel' group, so I can 'su' to 'root' from within Xterm on Gnome2.
Commands for this, please?
One thing I note is that pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the terminal gives me a long nasty error message (and I don't remember the keys to (hopefully) get back to Gnome, so I end up rebooting, plus, the sound works, but, let's just say, it's good that I'm not dual-booting Windows, or I might be blown out of my chair, if I didn't remember to greatly lower the speaker volume!
I like FreeBSD so far, reminds me of Linux, plus, my old OS/2 Warp3, MSDOS days, and even those old BASIC computers we used to use (still have a few collecting dust, in fact! ), and, of course UNIX!