Hello all,

I have used linux for some time and am very interested in wiping a windows partition and installing bsd. I think I would be interested in free bsd as I have tried it before. I wanted to ask about a problem I had before when I had dial up with me being able to dial but not browse? I looked through the docs at the free bsd site but could not find a solution that would rectify the situation. I am now on broadband and a software firewall would be of no use to me because I am behind a router. So this brings up my questions, am I gonna have a problem getting on line? And also I have debian right now and is ports anything like apt? And one las thing I have an ati radeon 7000 and linux xfree 4.3 runs it fine with no driver am I gonna have a prob with bsd? Well here are my specs.

intel celeron 450mhz
384 mb ram
creative ensoniq
ecs mobo 440bx chipset
and of course ati card

Thanks in advance!

As long as you have your nameservers and default route set -- everything should be fine.

Why not fire it up and let us know if you have any problems?

You shouldn't have any problems at all getting on-line, especially if it's a simple Ethernet connection to a switch or router. It's funny that you ask if Ports is like apt-get, because apt-get was actually modeled after the FreeBSD Ports system.

Hello again,
I did the install. All went well in it up to configuring my mouse which is a usb logitech optical mouse but did not feel that was a big deal was gonna post and find out howto get that to work. now when I try to startx I get a error:

no screens found
x connection to :0.0 broken
xauth: (argu) :1: bad display name "bsdathome":0
in remove command

I did run xf86config and set everything up as usual and thought all should be well.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

There is usually a line number to show the offending line. Look for that and check that all device 'name' is the same as in the Section "Screen"

One of those X conf utilities does that. There are a couple others you can use. If you can't find the problem try
# X -configure
or
# xf86cfg --textmode

Thanks -X- I did get it to work. Now I am at square one with the internet/network. ifconfig looks normal to me. I think this might be an issue with dns? I have my router set up to serve dhcp. I have been booting knoppix going to freebsd site rtm and go back to my install and try and still no luck. I can log into my router but no internet. Any ideas?

I'm guessing you have a dsl modem and router. If that is true, try this.
ping your modem, remember ip
piing your router, remember ip

Example setup, change as you need.

cpu -> router -> dsl modem -> internet

192.168.2.110 -> 192.168.2.1 -> 192.168.1.1 -> internet

Here's what I have.
/etc/resolve.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1

/etc/rc.conf
hostname="corvette.home.org"
ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.2.110 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.2.1"

Actually, if you setup the network during install, all this should be configured for you. You may try to configure your network again and supply the values for your cpu/router/modem. I have a static ip, but you can use dhcp and this will apply in rc.conf.

edit: correct spelling caused by four beers.
note to self. don't have beer and paint house.

By the way, rather than saying "it looks fine, what's wrong?" it would be much, much more helpful if you posted the output from:
ifconfig -a
cat /etc/resolv.conf
netstat -anr

Hello again,

I would like to thank everyone for there help but I gave up. I have been RTM since way early this morning (like 3 am). I have tried all the suggestions have done 3 installs, have about 15 pages of notes that have done me no good. I have booted from freebsd into knoppix (to get online) about 50 times today and I am just wore out. I do thank you all for the help, and bsd looks like a great os just has not worked out for me.


Again thank you all!

Thought this was an adventure. You're not there yet!

Looks like you're fighting it to hard. Take a little time off, clear your thoughts and take another look at it. It is really pretty easy to install unless you have some far-out hardware. No need to reinstall, just use the tools with help from this site. If you decide to stay with your adventure, it will all come together. But if not, have fun.

I'm sorry things didn't work out for you. It's pretty hard for anyone to help if you don't give any information.

Hello again all,

I have decided to give it a go again but I would like to ask a few questions first. I want to keep slack, I have 3 drives hda 10 gb, hdb 2 gb (use it for sharing), hdc 7 gb (hope for freebsd). I would like to know how to add slack to the loader so I can boot into it. I would also like to know if there is a way to put text files on the slack partition so when you ask me to give a printout of X command I can cut and paste it in slack and just get on slack and get online and post it?

Thanks in advance for the help!

And if I do get bsd where I want it is there a way to wipe slack and use the space in bsd without killing it and reinstalling? This is my only pc (I am poor .

1. There is a topic in this forum about booting Linux and FreeBSD.
2. There is a topic in this forum about mounting a Linux partition if your 2gb is not fat.
3. Mark your text with the mouse and use the middle button or scroll wheel to paste in an editor.