From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 22:51:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA02995 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02990 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:51:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00346; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:47:20 -0800 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:47:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Benjamin Tomhave cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More Qs In-Reply-To: <199602120224.SAA29171@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Benjamin Tomhave wrote: > Well, I have my networkability operational. I guess it pays to disable the > plug-n-play feature with the 3COM 3c509 cards. If you're not in Win95, turn that damn thing off! :-) I know nothing about PCVT so we'll skip down... > Second, I got X-Windows up and running (*big sigh of relief*). However, > I would like to a) save my settings when I end an Xsession and Define "Xsession settings". (window positions?) > b) would > like to be able to switch out of X-Windows to the command-line mode. Is > this possible? Hold down Ctrl and Alt and press F1 - F4. Your virtual consoles are still there; you have to hold Ctrl in X and not anywhere else. > I currently have my kernel compiled for Xserver and I > have the xdm -nodaemon line in my /etc/ttys file for ttyv4. Also, do I > have to customize the X environment manually, or is there a pop-up > program for doing that? You still have xterms :) > Also, what other features are handy? Again, > even if someone could point me to soe good documentation (and I apologize > for not reading the online docs, but I'm to that frustrated, burn-out > point right now). Individual program manpages would be a good place to start. > Finally, I would like to use the sysinstall package in order to read the > online help, etc. However, when I cd to the /stand directory and try to > execute the sysinstall program, I end up with an error saying that there > is a '(' missing somewhere. Any ideas on what this error is referring to? I don't think you need to run sysinstall after the system is installed; you can do them without it. The Online Help are just some documents laying around on the floppy. Just mount it and read away. :) They are also on the FTP site and possibly in /usr/share. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major