From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 14:33:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin9.bigpond.com (juicer34.bigpond.com [139.134.6.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E6337B43E; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.57]) by mailin9.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDRASX00.ETT; Wed, 23 May 2001 07:38:57 +1000 Received: from 144.137.128.187 ([144.137.128.187]) by mail2.bigpond.com (Claudes-Vivid-MailRouter V2.9c 3/5185936); 23 May 2001 07:33:36 Message-ID: <00d401c0e306$d9942ed0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "RDWest Sr." , "Libby Charles-CCL044" , , Cc: References: <000a01c0e300$3d65c9c0$23730618@ci83514a> Subject: Re: mad about questions? newbies list=what? Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:33:26 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > i spent 60 freaking bucks for this OS at best buy... it specifies in > the BOOK for support to join this list.... What would you have paid for a Microsoft equivalent ?? eg W2K Advanced Server > i'm a newbie to bsd and i know everyone who has never even seen a > unix-like os is going to ask some dumb questions... i've been useing > win32 servers and would like to learn the bsd os... now since i can't find > ports and packages for v4.0 retail, i d/led the iso of 4.3.... > "packages" can be accessed from /stand/sysinstall ports can be accessed from /usr/ports/xxxxxx & run "make install" (assuming you've installed the ports distribution from /stand/sysinstall first) > > i did a clean install... no errors.. installed and started up fine... > i startx and right clk my desktop (or in any dir) and select NEW>dir it > gives error saying( the template file > /usr/local/share/templates/.source/emptydir doesn't exist ) > huh .... sounds like something in X (which I don't use) so maybe an X guru can answer that To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message