Running X and KDE in DragonFly ???

Roland jks_373 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 10:53:23 PST 2004


I installed FreeBSD 4.9 then did a upgrade to DragonFly as per
www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/upgrade-freebsd.cgi (26/03/2004)

  1.. First, make sure you are running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE or later.
uname -a will tell you what version you are running. Note: FreeBSD 5
versions will not work for this upgrade.

  2.. Remove any FreeBSD source files from your machine. All commands after
this point should be run as root.
  rm -rf /usr/src
  rm -rf /usr/obj
  mkdir /usr/obj


  3.. If you do not have cvsup installed, these commands will download and
install it for you:
  pkg_add http://machdep.com/drhodus/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tgz
  rehash


  4.. Fetch a configuration file for cvsup and run cvsup using that file:
  fetch http://machdep.com/drhodus/DragonFly-src-supfile
  cvsup DragonFly-src-supfile

  You now will have the DragonFly source files in /usr/src.


  5.. You will now want to compile the userland and the kernel.
  cd /usr/src
  make buildworld
  make buildkernel

  Then, you can install them:

  make installworld
  make installkernel


  6.. You will want to make sure your /etc directory is cleaned up:
  cd /usr/src/etc
  make upgrade_etc


  7.. You now can sync your disk and reboot your machine.
  sync
  reboot


  8.. Congratulations! Your computer will boot into DragonFly! Make sure to
check the forums semi-regularly. If you have trouble booting, the bugs forum
is the first place to go.
I am now sitting a the root directory #bsd prompt. I am not sure how to get
the Gui up as things seem different than FreeBSD.

Roland


"Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20040331183058.GB86111 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:14:33PM -0600, Roland wrote:
> : Kind of new with this. I have been trying ( for some time now) to get X
and
> : KDE running but no luck. I've hunted for instruction on the net but
nothing
> : is really available for beginners.
>
> Could you be more specific on where you found a problem?  Was it building
X
> or running X?  Was it building KDE or running KDE?  Or was it finding X or
> finding KDE?
>
>
>
> jm
> --
> My other computer is your Windows box.







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