From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 05:32:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27831 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 05:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gov.ns.ca (igate1.gov.ns.ca [198.166.215.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27823 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 05:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Whynotbj@GOV.NS.CA) Received: from gov.ns.ca ([198.166.84.8]) by igate1.gov.ns.ca with SMTP id <17040>; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:35:04 -0300 Received: from NSGT-Message_Server by gov.ns.ca with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 07 Aug 1998 09:31:44 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:34:29 -0300 From: "Brad J. Whynot" To: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: XFree86? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA27824 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed FreeBSD three times now via FTP and I include everything in the packages section and in the distribution section I believe that is what it is called. The question I have is that when I have tried this from 2 or 3 different sites and go to use the configuration tool to setup XWindows I get the message, " XFree86 is not installed on your computer please install this to use the configuration utility." Or something along those lines. The thing I don't understand is that when I am retrieving the files across the internet it is saying that the files are being downloaded and uncompressed to my pc. I have tried the express and the novice install just to be sure that I wasn't making any mistakes and still no go. Could this be caused by corrupted files on your end and when I am downloading them they are there but just don't work. If someone could get back to me and give me some insight as to what may be happening or what steps I may be able to take to resolve this that would be great. I really would like to get this as my main OS because everyone is looking for IX based administrators and I would really like to be able to have these skills. Thank you for your time, Brad Whynot, CNA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message