Xorg config

[Pieter Baele]

On 22 Jan 2008, at 21:41, Jerry Breazeale wrote:

> 	Newbie question here.
> 	I've followed the installation instructions in the book FreeBSD 6  
> Unleashed and (finally) gotten it installed.  Now I proceed to the  
> setting up of X, where the book says to log in as root, and type  
> Xorg -configure .  I do that and get a response something like Xorg  
> command not known.  During the installation, I selected Install it  
> all including X.  This is version 6.3 by the way.  And this is about  
> the 3rd or 4th attempt at installation on this HDD.  Some help would  
> be appreciated.

Just follow the steps in the online freebsd handbook. First try  
startx, if that doesn't work, X is really not installed.
>
> 	By the way, after each of the first couple attempts at  
> installation,during which I'd set up a separate /boot partition, I  
> couldn't get FreeBSD to boot from the HDD.  The book had no caution  
> about not using a separate /boot partition, but that's what I found  
> to be causing the problem.  I installed again but without a  
> separate /boot partition, and can now boot from the HDD.
>
> 		Jerry

You decide which partition scheme to use. /boot is used on Linux.
The default layout the freebsd installer proposes (A auto) is a very  
good one, especially when new to FBSD.


Pieter Baele
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