From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 21:46:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16022 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16004 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:46:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA23598; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:45:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rob Dormer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X install In-Reply-To: <3517195B.DFDC764F@mail.dynanet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Rob Dormer wrote: > > > I've downloaded release 2.2.5, and I've tried several times now to > > > install the "x-developer" package from a DOS partition. I have all of > > > the necessary directories in the "freebsd" directory on the dos > > > partition - XF86331, compat21, etcetra, but when I use the > > > sys/standinstall utility under unix to configure X, it tells me that X > > > is not installed. Why is this? what do I need to do to install X from > > > the dos partition? Any help would be sincerely appreciated. > > > > Did you hit `commit' to install it first? > > > > You might wait until you get the system up and running to configure X -- > > then just run `xf86config' from the command line. It'll walk you through > > it. > > > > the system is up and running. But, despite choosing one of the X > distributions, and hitting commit, neither any of the X files are installed, > or the xf86config file are installed. This is the fifth or sixth time that I > have attempted this installation. I have verified that I have downloaded all > of the necessary directories for any X distributions, but still, X will not > install. What is wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Okay, then, is there anything underneath /usr/X11R6? If not, you may have to install XFree manually, which isn't hard if you already have the distribution archives. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message