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Friday, 10 August 2012

we got da FreeBSD manually setup in our virtualbox, now we want to perform post installation.

a) set root password

passwd

b) set our ethernet to use DHCP

ee /etc/rc.conf

// add the below text into rc.conf
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"

c) update freebsd

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

d) find a wm, in my case, i wanna try lxde, which is available in /usr/ports/

make
make install

echo 'exec startlxde' > ~/.xinitrc

Labels: bsd, freebsd, install, xorg

posted by Billionaire - 01:20 0 Comments

Monday, 6 August 2012

alpine linux post installation

we got alpine up, with SSH we can putty into our alpine and continue post installation from there.

1. we set up alpine repositories

localhost:~# vi /etc/apk/repositories

since vi is the only editor we got currently, so make sure you know how to escape from the vi editor, will cost your hours and probably machine reset if you don't know how to use this vi editor. wink!!

2. we use the following repositories

http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v2.4/main/

3. update the package

apk update

4. since i want x desktop, so i run

localhost:~# setup-xorg-base
it will starts downloading & install around 40 packages

// after packages installation finish
localhost:~# Xorg -configure

5. i want to use pekwm, i think it is kinda awesome

localhost:~# apk add pekwm
localhost:~# apk add xprop
localhost:~# apk add lxterminal
localhost:~# apk add gnome-icon-theme
localhost:~# apk add gnome-themes

// more to add, i will list out later


// create this file, if you got no nano, apk add nano
localhost:~# nano ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
xset b off
exec pekwm

6. startx will load a blank black window with movable mouse pointer.

Labels: alpine, install, linux, pekwm, xorg

posted by Billionaire - 14:03 0 Comments