Frenzy 1.0-RC2

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
7.06.2006 (09:42)

1. Frenzy (and FreeBSD too) can be installed only on primary partition.
2. Configuring GRUB for Dual and Multi Booting FreeBSD, Linux, and OpenBSD: http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/grub.htm

Guest
7.06.2006 (17:21)

Thank you for great help.
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frenzy:~ # setxkbmap us_intl
Error loading new keyboard description
'
No error if 'setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl'. And all seems OK except when entering accented letters (eg éàôñ) in rxvt and xterm. Any hint?

Thank you.

Guest
8.06.2006 (03:22)

I've downloaded and check out the full release (used VMPlayer + LiveCD VMX tool) and it would appear that the Perl module issue is resolved so many, many thanks. Probably the only thing missing for me would be GAIM & the GAIM encryption plugin. Looks pretty solid so far.

Guest
10.06.2006 (10:06)

Was able to install Frenzy 1.0 to hard disk. But had to use 'mkfs.ufs' from within Linux to prepare the partition!

Wish to say once more : "Thank you". Am very glad : will be able to test now.

One more question : How to install Firefox 1.5.0.4? Is this possible?

Regards

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
12.06.2006 (23:37)

Yes, you can install Firefox from package collection or build it from sources using FreeBSD ports collection.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

Guest
13.06.2006 (22:13)

Thank you for good advice.

Was able to compile some programs from source eg sqlite3, ruby, lua. But was unable to compile Firefox since some libraries seem to be missing.

Could not install from package collection neither since I could not locate the Firefox package.

Confess I am new to FreeBSD and have many things to learn ...

Thank you.

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
13.06.2006 (23:07)

Building software from source manually is not a good idea :)
Better to use ports colelction.
1. Download ports archive at ftp://ftp.frenzy.org.ua/pub/Frenzy/1.0/sdk/cd1/ports.tgz
2. Extract it to /usr:
tar xzvf ports.tgz -C /usr
3. To compile, for example, Firefox, execute these commands:
cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
make install clean
Everything will be done automatically. Port build scripts will download appropriate source package and all of missing dependencies, build and install them.
You may do that for installing any software listed in FreeBSD ports collection (more than 14.000 applications)

Guest
14.06.2006 (15:35)

Thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed. That 'ports' system is really a great idea. Hard to believe ...

If you allow me one more question. How to desinstall eg mplayer and have it recompiled with the "--disable-runtime-cpudetection" option.

Feel I'am exaggerating. Anyway : thank you for your kind asistance. Is there another forum where I might ask those kind of newbie questions?

Thank you very much.

techniX
(Mozhaisky Sergei)
14.06.2006 (16:23)

First you must remove installed mplayer:
pkg_delete -v mplayer-*
To compile mplayer with non-default options, you must use flags. For example, if you want to use option --disable-runtime-cpudetection, you may compile mplayer from port in such way:
make install clean WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION=YES
You may see other options for this port by viewing Makefile in port directory.

P.S. The best *BSD forum I know is http://bsdforums.org/.

Guest
14.06.2006 (17:09)

Thank you very much for prompt reply.

Feel the best FreeBSD forum is this, but I'll have a look at http://bsdforums.org/.

Once more : thank you! And have a nice day!