Good Afternoon All.
I have decided to re-visit BSD after a long absence, and I'm afraid I've lost my way. My apologies in advance.
A quick system synopsis: M2V-TVM Motherboard 1GiB RAM, Realtek 8139 NIC, AC97 Sound Chipset, Vesa onboard Video Driver, Samsung SyncMaster 731b Monitor. Running FreeBSD 7.2, sharing the HDD with eComStation (OS/2).
I believe I have a successful base installation. FreeBSD has picked up my NIC, and I can communicate out through Links, not only to FreeBSD, but elsewhere.
Coming from outside I have slashed around everywhere. It seems I managed to install the Xorg package, but I get a Fatal Error, by either running "startx" or going through the xorg configuration process (Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro). It seems I lack the expertise to take this further.
Am I tackling this in the correct sequence? Maybe I should re-install, retrieving first the packages for the base system, get that going, then install the packages that I need as I go along? If that's the case, I would like to go down the Base System > Xwindows configure > Gnome > Applications (FF, etc.).
If I could be pointed in the right direction, I would be most grateful. I thank you in advance.
Regards
NICK
I have decided to re-visit BSD after a long absence, and I'm afraid I've lost my way. My apologies in advance.
A quick system synopsis: M2V-TVM Motherboard 1GiB RAM, Realtek 8139 NIC, AC97 Sound Chipset, Vesa onboard Video Driver, Samsung SyncMaster 731b Monitor. Running FreeBSD 7.2, sharing the HDD with eComStation (OS/2).
I believe I have a successful base installation. FreeBSD has picked up my NIC, and I can communicate out through Links, not only to FreeBSD, but elsewhere.
Coming from outside I have slashed around everywhere. It seems I managed to install the Xorg package, but I get a Fatal Error, by either running "startx" or going through the xorg configuration process (Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro). It seems I lack the expertise to take this further.
Am I tackling this in the correct sequence? Maybe I should re-install, retrieving first the packages for the base system, get that going, then install the packages that I need as I go along? If that's the case, I would like to go down the Base System > Xwindows configure > Gnome > Applications (FF, etc.).
If I could be pointed in the right direction, I would be most grateful. I thank you in advance.
Regards
NICK