From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 00:03:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06436 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (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 AAA06431 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA13799; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:03:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Barry Monk cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: <000a01bd6318$8ec0b200$1b4d5fc1@default> 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 Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Barry Monk wrote: > I've just purchased ver2.2.5 of FreeBSD unix, and after 3 days of blood > sweat and tears, have managed ti install it and get it to run! sort of. > I purchased a second hard drive and partitioned it for an 800MB BSD > partition, then installed BSD. I have an Intel AL440LX mother board so I > installed the boot manager, which also worked, so I am very nearly > there, unfortunatly I cant get xview to run. I,ve looked at the > installation and I've installed all the components. Is it as simple as > not knowing the run command. At work we use xwin on sunsparc, but those > commands don't work. So you're looking for the command to start X? `startx' > PS As I consulted you cd documents using the view program, there were > many instances where a printout would have helped. Is there a manual I > can purchase to help, as the next step is to configure my internet to > work through my BSD partition. Certainly! The book `The Complete FreeBSD' makes for an excellent reference. You can purchase it from Walnut Creek CDROM (http://www.cdrom.com). > Kind regards,and an excellent product to keep you in for a few evenings! :-) Let us know if you have any more problems. 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