Is there a particular order in which things should be done?

[Nikolas Britton]

crzdgns1 at starpower.net wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am a beginning FreeBSD/UNIX user and have recently installed 
>FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE, Xorg, and KDE on a Pentium II Celeron 330 
>MHz custom made PC. 
>
KDE is going to eat you alive with a celeron 330 (and low amounts of 
RAM) I would recommend you try Xfce first. The version that shipped with 
5.3 is 4.06? so to get 4.2 you will need to update your sources or 
figure out how to get newer packages. you can learn about that here in 
the FreeBSD handbook: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

Xfce: http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en#whatis

To solve your startup problems with X you first need to configure it, 
you can do that with "Xorg -configure", you can learn about that in 
chapter 4 of the FreeBSD handbook: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

If nothing I said here makes since it's because I just woke up and my 
brain isn't working yet. so if you have more questions just ask.

> Everything seems to be working ok for now, 
>but I feel completely overwhelmed because there is a tremendous 
>amount of info to learn.  Yesterday, when I logged out of KDE and 
>back into command mode, I noticed a line in the output produced 
>during KDE bootup (is that the right lingo?) that my machine thinks it 
>is badly misconfigured.  The exact message was "could not find local 
>host, your system is badly misconfigured".  Here are my questions for 
>this forum.  I preface my questions by saying that what I did was boot 
>from floppies and install via FTP.  All at once, I installed FreeBSD 
>with Xorg and all of its fonts, Perl, Postfix, and every file in the KDE 
>directory, and something else that I've already forgotten.  Since I am 
>a beginner, I expect I will go through the installation procedure a few 
>more times, but maybe I can be more efficient about it in the future.  
>So here is my question, in the future, what recommendations would 
>the community make about correct order of operations for installation 
>and configuration, and for confirmation that the install and 
>configuration are "correct"?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark
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