From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 21:23:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05241 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05233 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA22292; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:23:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Tony D'Andrade" cc: Freebsd Mailing List Subject: Re: Installing X Windows In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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