Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:13:57 PDT From: "Barbara Scott" <barbls@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions Message-ID: <19990721201359.18527.qmail@hotmail.com>
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To whom it may concern: I just installed 3.2 on my Pentium 120 Mhz machine at home. I've been a UNIX user for many years and I was pleasantly surprised by how straightforward the initial installation was, even with the shared OS installation. I have a 1.2 Gig Hard Drive and have set up the PC for 500 MB and the UNIX for the rest. Two problems have developed: 1) I tried to configure a Belkin 3-button mouse that is supposed to function like a Logitech mouse. I tried all the UNIX configurations available using the sysinstall tool, both with the PC and MS modes available on the mouse itself. Nothing worked. Any suggestions? 2) I installed FreeBSD's 'User' package and then attempted to set up the 'sample desktop' as described on p. 315. When I found the script was non-executable on the CDROM, I copied it into the /bin directory and began the installation. It was able to install bash, emacs, less, xpm and fvwm, but not netscape or xearth, (verified through pkg_info). An error message appeared that stated that there were no aout libs and that the compat22 distribution needed to be installed. When I attempted that, I got a message that the write failed and that the file system was full! This seemed very strange as I had set up the partition map for the UNIX slices as 40 MB for /, 180 MB for swap and 500 for /usr. I had requested the GNOME desktop environment during the initial installation, along with the DES security package. The following is output for uname -a, df and du. uname -a FreeBSD myname.my.domain 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 18 04:05:08 GMT 1999 jkh@cathair:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 df Filesystem 1K-Blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted On /dev/wd0s2a 39647 20628 15848 57% / /dev/wd0s2e 498703 364581 94228 79% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc du 282 ./GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/non-configurable 283 ./GNUstep/Library/AfterStep 284 ./GNUstep/Library 285 ./GNUstep 1 ./.gnome/accels 3 ./.gnome 1 ./.gnome-private 298 . How is it that I cannot install the compat22 package? Why is the procfs slice full and what can I do about it? Is there another way I should have installed the 'sample desktop'? I look forward to hearing from you and moving onward to learn more about FreeBSD! Sincerely, Barbara Scott (barbls@hotmail.com) _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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