FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, June 12, 2009 09:04:50 -0500 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Bill Moran<wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
>> In response to Nick at Pettefar.com:
>>
>>> In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html
>>> It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop
>>> chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but
>>> nowhere in the manual or the installation program is there any
>>> information or options on X server configuration or choosing a Default
>>> Desktop!  Help!
>>
>> You weren't able to find this page?:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
>> Or this one?:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
>>
>> Nowhere, indeed.
>>
>
> I missing the .xinitrc in the GNOME setup as well... Now I just feel
> like an idiot as usual.
>

FreeBSD is Unix, right?  That means you can do things any way you want. 
Presently I login as root on a tty and type "kdm" to start up the GUI.  I've 
done it about five other ways as well.

Is there a "right" way to do things in Unix?????

-- 
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
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