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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:17:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Li <li@rohan.sdsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 Installation
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Li wrote:

> I bought FreeBSD 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek CDROM. I made partition on my
> Pentium PC and were ready to install FreeBSD from DOS partition. I used
> setup.exe to do setup. But when I went to "Prepare DOS Partition Install"
> menu and chose all the options including XFree86, an error message
> appreared, "X32BIN.TGZ: Not found" and stopped doing copying files from
> CDROM to DOS partition. But if I didn't inlcude XFree86, there was no
> error message and installation was successful. The problem is obviously in
> the installation of XFree86. I need you help in solving this problem.

This must be a sysinstall bug.  A stale .inf file must have made it in
there for the XFree86 distribution.  If you move C:\FREEBSD\XF86331\X331*
to C:\FREEBSD\XF8632\X32* it should work okay.  I'll report this so it
doesn't come out in 2.2.6.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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