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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Installing FreeBSd 8.1? Post 302622403 by figaro on Thursday 12th of April 2012 06:15:01 AM
Old 04-12-2012
If you have a CD at hand with the FreeBSD 8.x iso installed on it, and start up the computer with the CD inserted, then the boot loader program will at some point show screens like shown on this page:
Introducing Sysinstall
The section that will be of primary concern to you is:
Allocating Disk Space
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libgnome-desktop-2

libgnome-desktop-2(3)						C Library Functions					     libgnome-desktop-2(3)

NAME

       libgnome-desktop-2 - experimental GNOME interfaces

DESCRIPTION

       libgnome-desktop  is  a	collection  of volatile interfaces that are in the process of migrating to more stable GNOME libraries.  Use these
       interfaces at your own risk, according to the API documentation.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so

	   FreeDesktop vector graphics library

       /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnome-desktop

	   Location of developer documentation

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-panel		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-panel(1), libpanel-applet-2(3), libwnck-1(3), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Aug 2004 					     libgnome-desktop-2(3)
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