Thursday, June 11, 2009

Installing FreeBSD on Parallels: Corrections

Use pcm0 for the mouse driver


That should say use psm0.

The 5GB installation size is probably due to fragmentation on the image. Not much I can do about it - Parallels Tools offers disk compression on Windows, but not on FreeBSD. I did save some space by taking a snapshot of the powered-off machine so that Parallels does not have to store the RAM contents.

I got rid of everything Gnome, including `gdm'. I've tried `slim', a shiny and minimalistic alternative. Barfed on me, gave up and decided to stick with startx. I found out though that xorg does not like the .xsession file. Linking .xinitrc to it did the trick though.

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