Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:23:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Tony D'Andrade" <blue@visinet.ca> Cc: Freebsd Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing X Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128212247.22067Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971128174752.6880A-100000@ceylon.visinet.ca>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Tony D'Andrade wrote: > > Hi I have perfectly good FreeBSD server running here. I want to add > XWindows without screwing the existing system up. Can anyone point me in > the right direction? When i do a /stand/sysinstall i notice that there are > several distributions. If i were to install one of those distributions > with Xwindows will it screw up my current configuration? No. Just grab the archives you need and extract them into /usr/X11R6. I think you can do a custom install and specify just X in /stand/sysinstall too. I'd back up rc.conf first tho. 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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