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Re: Install ??



Followed the install through the return out of Alt-F3 back to Freebsd sysinstall. Instructions didn't mention any additional steps once back to sysinstall. Exited out. At boot the system comes up to a command line login. Entered root and the root prompt comes up without asking for passwd. That may be by design as I don't recall user setup ever running. Xserver-xorg isn't in the system and none of the debian package stuff is available either. I think I have missed some setup steps. Are there additional setup steps to take once back to sysinstall? Is xorg version from freebsd or debian? Should I start over( on vitualbox so not a big deal ) or can I continue with sysinstall from the command line or CD image?

It looks like you used the old modified FreeBSD sysinstall.
Now, the debian-installer images should be mature enough: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/ and http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-i386/

Anyway, you should have the basic system now.
Please add into /etc/apt/sources.list line like

deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

and run "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade".
After that, you can install individual packages like
xorg, xserver-xorg etc using "apt-get install xorg".
The problem might be uninstalability
of some packages due to ongoing transition.

I recomend also to install 8.0 based kernel,
either kfreebsd-image-8-amd64 or choose one from
kfreebsd-image-8-486/kfreebsd-image-8-686/kfreebsd-image-8-686-smp.

Petr


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