From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 4 10:45:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A547737B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:45:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC9443F85 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9S004E9S2GA2@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:44:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:38:18 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-188.acuson.com ([157.226.46.188]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0HWC6; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:39:36 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:45:03 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: i bought freebsd 4 and In-reply-to: <3E3F6A84.8050707@quik.com> To: jimwatts@quik.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <200302041045.03400.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3E3F6A84.8050707@quik.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 03 February 2003 11:23 pm, jim wrote: > i just bought freebsd 4 and i have gotten it to boot x the mouse works > but i can't get it to load window maker when i gave the cmd > "wmaker.inst" it said I have to edit (probably initrc) when i typed it > in exactly the way it told me it said file not found am i missing > something I have a 1.5 gig hd 32 megs of ram 133 proccessor. any idea > on how i can get the thing running something twm comes up but the > commands are all unfamiliar to me. This is a Windowmaker problem, and not strictly FreeBSD. I am using Windowmaker "out of the box" just fine under FreeBSD. The file you're supposed to list with wmaker.inst is ".xinitrc" (don't forget the period). This has always worked for me. It automatically creates or edits the file. I suspect you have a permission problem. Log into the account you will be using Windowmaker from, and make sure you are in that user's home directory, before running wmaker.inst. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message