Just went thru this myself. Have you sent up the Xserver. KDE won't run with out it. Chapter 5 of teh handbook cover this, and you can do it thru stand/sysinstall
Leon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Installing problems. No Desktop. > I installed FreeBSD on an older Gateway laptop. 128 MB/ 233 MHz/ 800x600 > screen/ 6 GB Hard driver with 4 GB on the hard drive set aside for > FreeBSD. Windows 98 SE is installed in the other 2 GB. FreeBSD appears > to be installed correctly, but I cannot get the KDE desktop to come up. > In fact, all I can get is the command line. I can pull up the > installation files. But that is pretty much it. I am very familiar with > DOS commands, but UNIX commands appears to be nothing like them, and I > don't know any UNIX commands. It seems that I can not pull up even the > directory. I have managed to get my mail saying that I have incomplete > modifications from trying to change things. I get to a point where I > can't even figure our how to close the program, so I hit the power power > which closes things down. > > But this is frustrating, and makes a good case for why people are > staying with Windows. In going from the old C-64/C-128 to Apple, to IBM, > to a CP/M operating system, the system commands reminded very much the > same. Even in going from the old GEOS (On both the C-64/C-128 or the PC) > to them MAC, to Windows, things stayed very close to the same between > them. Here everything is completely different. It's like going from > English to being told to fill out a form in Chinese without ever having > seen or heard the language. > > I've installed the FreeBSD software 4 times coming to the same end. How > do I get from this Chinese line item stuff to an environment that I can > deal with? KDE seems to be installed, but is not coming up by default, > nor by any other way or reason. > > I've tried several things, but I tried something to manually bring up > KDE the other day by switching to it's directory. Whatever I was doing > was something out of the FreeBSD Handbook. I was logged in as 'root'. I > got errors saying that I did not have permission. This puzzled me. I > didn't think this was supposed to happen while logged in as "root". > > I have version 5.2.1 which I had downloaded a couple of weeks ago. > > -- > > Lloyd Hayes > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com > E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 > Web Journal: http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
