Is there a particular order in which things should be done?

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Date: 02/01/05

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    Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:46:12 -0500
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Hello,

    I am a beginning FreeBSD/UNIX user and have recently installed
    FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE, Xorg, and KDE on a Pentium II Celeron 330
    MHz custom made PC. Everything seems to be working ok for now,
    but I feel completely overwhelmed because there is a tremendous
    amount of info to learn. Yesterday, when I logged out of KDE and
    back into command mode, I noticed a line in the output produced
    during KDE bootup (is that the right lingo?) that my machine thinks it
    is badly misconfigured. The exact message was "could not find local
    host, your system is badly misconfigured". Here are my questions for
    this forum. I preface my questions by saying that what I did was boot
    from floppies and install via FTP. All at once, I installed FreeBSD
    with Xorg and all of its fonts, Perl, Postfix, and every file in the KDE
    directory, and something else that I've already forgotten. Since I am
    a beginner, I expect I will go through the installation procedure a few
    more times, but maybe I can be more efficient about it in the future.
    So here is my question, in the future, what recommendations would
    the community make about correct order of operations for installation
    and configuration, and for confirmation that the install and
    configuration are "correct"?

    Thanks,

    Mark
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