General Questions • I would like to have an understanding of Ghost's configuration files

My subject line was the best I could come up with. I want to learn BSD, and have installed both Ghost and Free BSDs on virtual machines in Virtualbox 7.0.20. I'm referencing Ghost to help me understand how I could configure FreeBSD, in order to learn the OS. I am also using the FreeBSD docs and lot's of googling. It's not going well -- it seems to me there are differences in the GBSD and FBSD configuration files, and I'm unable to understand. (I am a linux user-level in the low-intermediate range when it comes to terminal stuff.)

My first big issue is how do you get the mouse to work in the console? I read and google and read, and look through GhostBSD, but I don't see the answer.

I'm currently reading the docs for loader.conf, vt, vidcontrol, moused and ums. In FreeBSD my /etc/rc.conf file has moused_enable="YES". Both VMs are set to PS/2 mouse. (The mouse is a wireless USB, and "PS/2" is the recommended selection.) In Ghost the console mouse works. In FreeBSD it doesn't.

So my question is how do you make the console mouse work for copy/paste in GhostBSD, and is this configuration something I can copy into FreeBSD?

PS. I want to add that I really really appreciate GhostBSD. I was able to make a small donation and will donate more when I can. My reason for having both BSDs is to learn. FreeBSD forces me to learn. GhostBSD works so well that I won't learn as much!

Statistics: Posted by rnd2it — Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:20 pm

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