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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie 2.1 Impressions
Date: 2 Jan 1996 20:09:23 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4cc3dj$ncs@helena.MT.net>
References: <4cbupd$gpr@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net
In article <4cbupd$gpr@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>,
Perry Grieb <c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com> wrote:
>
>I just got the 2.1 CD (Walnut Creek) over the holidays and want
>to post a newbie's first impressions of FreeBSD.
>I did the novice install (cuz I am a FreeBSD novice!) and used a
>200M partition. Based on how the 200M was split (sliced?) up, I
>quickly ran out of disk space. I have about 200M worth of linux
>on a 400M drive which I've been adding to over time, so it was a
>shock how fast the FreeBSD filesystem filled up.
Hmm, I don't have the CD handy, but what exactly is installed with the
'novice' install? Does it try to install all the sources?
...
>The Failure:
>
>Under "novice" I could not get FreeBSD to use a partition created
>by the OS/2 fdisk. Therefore I could not use the OS/2 boot manager.
I'm not sure I follow you. Is the OS/2 created partition have the
correct (165) partition ID for FreeBSD?
>The "To Do" List:
>
>I am now trying to figure out how to configure the keyboard and
>swap the left cntl key and caps lock key. I did this in linux and
>I believe it can be done in FreeBSD. I guess I need to boot up
>linux and review exactly what I did... Any pointers in this area
>would be appreciated.
man kbdcontrol.
>I found the tcsh shell difficult to use, even though I use it at
>work (on a Sun SPARCstation LX). Somehow, at work, we have up/down
>arrows working for command history (like bash). Well, it's just one
>of those things to investigate later.
The default shell for FreeBSD is 'csh', not 'tcsh'. You'll have to add
the tcsh package from the CD and then change your shell to it to get arrow
keys working.
>Also, file protections seem to be different than under linux.
>I could not "su root". I think there was an installation or
>configuration screen that I may have blown past too fast here.
>I did not think it was important at the time. Probably just
>some misconfigured "group" somewhere (/etc/passwd or /usr/home?).
man su
In particular
Only users in group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to ``root''.
So, add your userid to the wheel group in /etc/group.
>Is there any way to prevent the login sequence from asking what
>your terminal type is? This seems almost un-necessary since this
>info is basically already in /etc/ttys?!?
Sure, delete the tset query from .login or .profile.
Nate
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