From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 20:41:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA17707 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 20:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA17698 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 20:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.7.5/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id XAA17573; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:41:04 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id XAA21132; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:51:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199605120351.XAA21132@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: sysinstall man page ??? To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 23:51:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605111952.TAA29671@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from "James Raynard" at May 11, 96 07:52:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to James Raynard: > > It's an executable, or rather a gzip'd executable - you need to > compile a kernel with the 'gzip' pseudo-device before you can run it. > > It's actually the installation program, BTW. > > Nope, it's documented in the install docs - and it has online help 8-) Okay, I gathered that from the file(1) command... And my kernel does have that driver since I can use sysinstall. However, it doesn't seem to work (or I can't drive it!). I want to add X11R6 support and I only access to floppies as a transport medium (don't ask...). I have placed all the X312*.tgz files in /usr/distfiles (from floppy transfers off the 2.1R CD-ROM). I run sysinstall (as root) and pick the custom entry, then the XFree entry. I then select the "required" parts, the XDM part and the fonts stuff. Now here is where it gets odd. The only way to get back to finish (extract) sysinstall is to pick E)xit from this XFree menu. When I do that (and get back to the main sysinstall menu, the extract selection always fails with one "jump" or "blip" of my screen and an second selection on extract pops up a window which tells me I haven't selected anything!!! This is driving me crazy -- I've gone back over each choice several times and I can't determine what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas? Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185