Monday 23 April 2012

Freebsd installation == gnome


 HELLO  friend                                             
after two days working on free bsd  i finally
installated gnome edition  i researched a lot
 hereit
  • Installing free bsd on vmware

Instead of showing in screenshot this link clear
installation of video freebsd installaton in vmware

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZapR_-UGZ8


  • After installion in vmware you can add these two below packet from ftp or dvd

For dvd installtion  of package
#mount  /cdrom
#cd /cdrom/packages/All Packages you need
Name               Command
Xorgpkg_add -r xorg
Gnome 2.x.x  
pkg_add -r gnome2

  • After adding  packages you should  add these line in fstab

# ee /etc/fstab

/ dev/acd0      /cdrom         cd9568       ro, noauto      0       0

 proc              /proc            /procfs        rw                 0        0

 here only add above line proc  below /dev/acd0

  just save and quit

Lines to add in /etc/rc.conf

# em /etc/rc.conf
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"

add and just save and quit 
  • Installation of vmware driver

If you don't have /usr/ports on your disk, do this then. (this procedure takes some time)

portsnap fetch 
portsnap extract

cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
make install clean
Thats all, vmware driver is now installed.
just reboot and login
type startx yu will see same
Below is the image of freebsd == gnome that i have installed in my vmware

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