Hi,
New to FreeBSD ( but not to Linux since 1993 and UnixMan on Engineer School in 1984 ) then ok for script & all if necessary.
I decided to install FreeBSD for fun as I stopped Unix end of 1999 ( iRMX ) and I want to play again Unix to learn it again and to have fun ...
xOrg fails to start...
Not a problem due to Hardware as this PC was running RedHat this Ootpa 8.6 Gnome on xOrg and I installed NomadBSD successfully except little PB with efi ( I need to choose manually the efi boot file )
But as said I want to have fun with FreeBSD and I need for help...
INSTALLATION OF FreeBSD
It is so simple to install ( Slackware-like),
I only don't known how to encrypt Luks the partitions ( created manually ), If you can also me to encrypt the 2 partitions It would be nice...
INSTALLATION OF xFce4 DE ON FreeBSD
What did I made wrong, please ?
WHAT FAILED WITH xFce4 DE
Slim does not start automatically...
I TRYIED THIS
Then
VERSION OF FreeBSD
gives
( I could not ask for grep with bash ? " cat /etc/os-relase | grep NAME " failed ,
New to FreeBSD ( but not to Linux since 1993 and UnixMan on Engineer School in 1984 ) then ok for script & all if necessary.
I decided to install FreeBSD for fun as I stopped Unix end of 1999 ( iRMX ) and I want to play again Unix to learn it again and to have fun ...
xOrg fails to start...
Not a problem due to Hardware as this PC was running RedHat this Ootpa 8.6 Gnome on xOrg and I installed NomadBSD successfully except little PB with efi ( I need to choose manually the efi boot file )
But as said I want to have fun with FreeBSD and I need for help...
INSTALLATION OF FreeBSD
It is so simple to install ( Slackware-like),
I only don't known how to encrypt Luks the partitions ( created manually ), If you can also me to encrypt the 2 partitions It would be nice...
Partitions | Type | Size | Mountpoint | Encryptions |
ada0p1 | efi | 500MB | /boot/efi | |
ada0p2 | freebsd-ufs | 220GB | / | to be encrypted help welcomed |
ada0p3 | freebsd-swap | 18GB | swap | to be encrypted help welcomed |
INSTALLATION OF xFce4 DE ON FreeBSD
What did I made wrong, please ?
pkg update; reboot;
pkg install -y nano;
pkg install -y xorg;
pkg install -y xfce;
pkg install -y slim;
pkg install -y slim-themes;
nano /etc/rc.conf
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
slim_enable="YES"
nano /home/user1/.xinitrc
startxfce4
nano /home/user2/.xinitrc
exec startxfce4
pkg update; reboot;
WHAT FAILED WITH xFce4 DE
Slim does not start automatically...
startx
gives :Fatal server error
(EE)
(EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please secify busIDs for all framebuffer devices
....
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect X server . Connection refused
xinit: server error
I TRYIED THIS
Xorg -configure
X -configure /root/xorg.conf.new
Then
xrandr
givesCan't open display
VERSION OF FreeBSD
cat /etc/os-relase
gives
NAME=FreeBSD
VERSION=13.0-RELEASE
VERSION_ID=13.0
ID=freebsd
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
PRETTY_NAME="FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE"
CPE_NAME=cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:13.0
HOME_URL=...
( I could not ask for grep with bash ? " cat /etc/os-relase | grep NAME " failed ,
pkg info bash
gives Name : bash
and Version : 5.1.16
)