From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 12:21:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA3E816A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D54543D45 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040404192118.TESM18566.out011.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:21:18 -0500 Message-ID: <40706021.3060008@mac.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:21:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Soria References: <20040404191243.31686.qmail@web61110.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040404191243.31686.qmail@web61110.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:21:17 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I need help with Xfree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 19:21:18 -0000 Steven Soria wrote: > Is that the only thing I need to install to be able to get into FreeBSD? Well, no, actually. :-) You don't need to install XFree86 to get into FreeBSD. > Please help me out by telling me how to get Xfree86 and where to install it > to so I can get it when Im trying to install it. I have FreeBSD on another > partition but now when I go into My Computer, it doesnt show the partition > with FreeBSD on it. How will I do it then? I have the I386 platform. PLEASE > HELP ME OUT! As you've noticed, Windows doesn't understand the filesystem FreeBSD uses. Don't boot into Windows, boot into the FreeBSD partition. It's probably easier to use /stand/sysinstall to install X11 via prebuilt packages (either via FTP or from the installation CD), but you can also do something like: cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 make install ...and build and install X yourself (but this will take quite a bit of time). -- -Chuck