From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 05:32:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA18751 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 05:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA18746 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 05:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA15768; Sun, 12 May 1996 22:09:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605121239.WAA15768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: sysinstall man page ??? To: web@merit.edu (William Bulley) Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 22:09:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605120351.XAA21132@ohm.merit.edu> from "William Bulley" at May 11, 96 11:51:02 pm 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 William Bulley stands accused of saying: > > 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 Why on earth are you putting them there? > 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? Unpack them by hand. They're just gzipped tarfiles; you want to be in /usr when you do it. Start with X312doc.tgz and read the files it puts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc for details on which other ones you want. > William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[