Guess what? I'm typing this from my new FreeBSD 4.7 box. I must say that this is very nice. I installed it on my 4GB drive but am fast running out of space! I may have to move it to a different drive. :o\

I fixed my X problem by installing the latest X port. I'd got X running as root but it wouldn't run as a normal user. I remember Tully from irc.freenode.net's #slackware stating that I needed to install 'wrapper' for X so that normal users could use X. I googled 'wrappers' and 'X' and found some data on it. I then installed the wrapper port and X worked as a regular user.

I also had to hack my XFConfig file to get the mouse working.

I also had to install the BASH port, as FBSD uses everything BUT BASH as the default shell.

Right now I'm using KDE until I get things polished a bit, but it looks like I may have to move this install or at the very least, move /usr to a different hard drive (if that's even possible, as I'm trying NOT to reinstall FBSD if I don't have to). Take a look:

$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad1s1a 132M 48M 73M 40% /
/dev/ad1s1f 264M 1.2M 242M 1% /tmp
/dev/ad1s1g 3.1G 2.3G 549M 81% /usr
/dev/ad1s1e 264M 8.9M 234M 4% /var
procfs 4.1K 4.1K 0B 100% /proc

Yeah, not too good. :o(

Well, I'll dwell on it all later. Night!