jlc Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 (edited) SInce some folks are playing in the bsd land thought i would through some info that will be usefull, this applies to freebsd 6.0 but some stuff would work in other bsds. First, save these 5 bookmarks: (6 now) :) Best resource you'll find for how-to's and everything you really need http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Next best things :) FreeBSD Cheatsheet http://bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/ wiki is ok, a little less info than should be there but still good: http://freebsdwiki.net forum http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21 Of course google was going to slide in here www.google.com/bsd First thing is to keep your ports tree updated, this is were you get all your goodies. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...orts-using.html I like portsnap my self which is installed on 6.x by default First time you run it # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract After the inital time you only need to fetch and update # portsnap fetch update more info here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...k/portsnap.html After you used portsnap to update your tree these will explain how to use portupgrade at pkgdb portupgrade: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28...ics.html?page=2 This explains pkgdb in good detail http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28...ics.html?page=2 Edited August 4, 2006 by jlc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Guess I can think enough to tell you how to install software, bascially 2 ways, precompiled binarys or source to find what you want to install root@pillar# cd /usr/ports/ root@pillar# make search name=nvidia Port: nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver Info: NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering Maint: danfe@FreeBSD.org B-deps: compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8 localedata-5.4 R-deps: compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8 linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_5 linux-expat-1.95.7 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_2 linux_base-8-8.0_10 localedata-5.4 WWW: http://www.nvidia.com/ Port: nvidia-settings-1.0_6 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-settings Info: Display Control Panel for XFree86/X.org NVidia driver Maint: bland@FreeBSD.org B-deps: atk-1.10.3 bitstream-vera-1.10_2 cairo-1.0.2_1 expat-1.95.8_3 fontconfig-2.3.2,1 freetype2-2.1.10_1 gettext-0.14.5 glib-2.8.4 gmake-3.80_2 gtk-2.8.8 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 intltool-0.34.1 jpeg-6b_3 libXft-2.1.7 libiconv-1.9.2_1 libxml2-2.6.22 p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1 pango-1.10.2 perl-5.8.7 pkgconfig-0.20 png-1.2.8_2 shared-mime-info-0.16_2 tiff-3.7.4 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2 xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.2 xorg-libraries-6.8.2 R-deps: atk-1.10.3 bitstream-vera-1.10_2 cairo-1.0.2_1 expat-1.95.8_3 fontconfig-2.3.2,1 freetype2-2.1.10_1 gettext-0.14.5 glib-2.8.4 gtk-2.8.8 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 jpeg-6b_3 libXft-2.1.7 libiconv-1.9.2_1 libxml2-2.6.22 pango-1.10.2 perl-5.8.7 pkgconfig-0.20 png-1.2.8_2 shared-mime-info-0.16_2 tiff-3.7.4 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2 xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.2 xorg-libraries-6.8.2 WWW: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html To install from source (the way i do it) if your pc is slow, use the binarys :) # cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver # make install clean To install binary pkg_add -r nvidia-driver if you look for something that gives you more output than you ever wanted pipe the search to more # make search name=gnome | more back to work now..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 DesktopBSD and PC-BSD both are a little "unfinished" in appearence. I am assuming this is because they are off shoots from FreeBSD. So, I am now downloading FreeBSD. Is it a "finished" product when I run a desktop on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 I don't think I would have any clue on how to install. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 DesktopBSD and PC-BSD both are a little "unfinished" in appearence. I am assuming this is because they are off shoots from FreeBSD. So, I am now downloading FreeBSD. Is it a "finished" product when I run a desktop on it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Install might be a more difficult than the other 2 but over all its pretty easy, handbook has everything Close to 14,000 packages so it should have most everything you want.'' https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=Att...pe=post&id=2109 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 If I am understanding this right I'll have to use Partition Magic to erase my linux partions I have to make just one "slice" and then setup partitions from within the installer? What size partitions do you suggest? I have about 20 gigs to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 I have 2 other os's on this machine, so I'm just going to jump in and see. It looks like I may need to configure the kernel during installation. This should be interesting! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Downloading the cd's now. I'm just glad I have a backup image on the server. lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) If I am understanding this right I'll have to use Partition Magic to erase my linux partions I have to make just one "slice" and then setup partitions from within the installer? What size partitions do you suggest? I have about 20 gigs to play with. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can choose auto and it will give you decent sizes to work with like defaults Its called autodefault http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...tall-steps.html Edited December 8, 2005 by cybrjackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 I have 2 other os's on this machine, so I'm just going to jump in and see. It looks like I may need to configure the kernel during installation. This should be interesting! :lol: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've built several kernels now, not during install though :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...rnelconfig.html this is also good http://bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/kernel/custom_kernel.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Man how long does a portupgrade -arR take anyways???? Mine been running for well over a day now and when I try to install any packages like Firefox or Gaim I get errors that some of the needed packages are not up to date to install them. :( Was it alright that I just did a portsnap fetch, extract, update, portupgrade -arR without doing anything else first?? I would really like to do some game playing sometime soon on the M$ side, but this seems to be taking forever. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 How fast is your cpu? Also depnds on what needed to be updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Well it finally ended. :D I was hoping that when you "pkg_add" that the new packages would show up in the menus but I take it you have to edit by hand to have them show up. I also thought that I had it setup to boot to kdm too, but I guess I did something wrong. I do know when I kill X it get what appears to be an error. "can't find kdeinit" <shrug> All new gonna have to learn as I go. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Well got the system to boot to kdm now. Had the ttyvs edited wrong. lol I got my usb optical mouse working. I can boot into the other desktops but for some reason can't boot into gnome and gnome is only at 2.10 I thought it was 2.12. <shrug> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 I know in gnome that it adds items to menus automatically, but normally have to log out/in to see them. If you installed gnome before updating your ports then you will have 2.10.x :) If your going to update gnome, use the update script found here. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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