G'day all,
Long time reader first time poster. . . (ah, that's lame what a great way to start the day. )
So after reading this thread I was filled with dread as I had just downloaded the iso's for 6. 2-Release for AMD64. My first installation failed miserably . . . that is until I realised it was working and just booting me straight into a shell, problem being that the FreeBSD boot loader had stolen my grub from the MBR. So after some tweaking I got grub back to it's old self. As I wasn't getting a graphical X environment when I booted I assumed that I had missed a few check boxes during the installation, being a fresh install I wasn't too worried about doing a complete format on that partition and reinstalling FreeBSD with a X Window system.
This was all good and well until I rebooted after the second install (being last night now) and ending up at the tty0 shell prompt again (after adding FreeBSD to my grub menu that is). . . This time though I did some reading on the FreeBSD website and re-read the install instructions. Then I realised that X11 was installed all i had to do was 'startx'. Phew. Now I wanted KDE, just because I could all this power was going to my head. So after installing kdebase and dependencies from the second CD, I started KDE with 'kdm'. I was over the moon and now I have even set it up to start KDE straight away.
Long story short I am so smart, I am so smart, S-M-R-T.
I just needed somewhere to gloat and I thought here was the best spot, well maybe not for Cooper but hey. If I can do it I have faith in you. :)