From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 25 22:35:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC18737B69F for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA72492; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:35:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:35:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: John Daniels Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! can't 'startx' - missing libc.so In-Reply-To: <20000626043614.89861.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, John Daniels wrote: >Hi: > > >>From: Adam >>Try installing the compat3x distribution portion of freebsd >> >You are the second person who has suggested this. How can I best do this? >I don't have a CD, but I did keep some system sources. (but I think it >might've only been 'kernel source'). Is it possible to 1) ftp the file, 2) >compile it from /usr/src/lib/libc, (if the souce is there)? Do you have a net connect? If so, ftp to ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD in your version dir, look for compat3x, grab the files in the dir, and run the .sh. If you have a direct connect, run /stand/sysinstall and goto configure, distributions. 2) no. it would compile libc.so.4 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message