From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 15:20:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prv-mail20.provo.novell.com (prv-mail20.provo.novell.com [137.65.81.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6884537B5AF for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from TGao@novell.com) Received: from INET-PRV-Message_Server by prv-mail20.provo.novell.com with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:20:43 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:20:28 -0600 From: "Tan Gao" To: Subject: root Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_530B7C2B.0B6AA215" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_530B7C2B.0B6AA215 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable dear Sir/Madam: hello! I'm a brand freshie trying to set up FreeBSD on my Windows NT 4.0 = machine. I have downloaded and installed most of the components needed = and still cannot get the fun rolling. Two major problems so far: when I log in as a normal user and type "startx" under my home directory, = the graphical interface does not have any recognizable fonts. everything = looks like bar codes in the superstore. secondly, here is an e-mail I received when logging in as the "root": "the user root was editing a file named /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 on the machine = ADG.sjf.novell.com, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, = if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi: vi -r /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 " I tried the above commands but nothing happened. I don't know what to = recover and how. or whether this is somehting that I should be concerned = with. thank you very much for your time and support! Tan --=_530B7C2B.0B6AA215 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

dear Sir/Madam:

hello! I'm a brand freshie trying to set up FreeBSD on my = Windows NT=20 4.0 machine. I have downloaded and installed most of the components = needed=20 and still cannot get the fun rolling.

Two major problems so far:

when I log in as a normal user and type "startx" under my home = directory,=20 the graphical interface does not have any recognizable fonts. = everything=20 looks like bar codes in the superstore.

secondly, here is an e-mail I received when logging in as the=20 "root":

"the user root was editing a file named /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 on the = machine=20 ADG.sjf.novell.com, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover = most,=20 if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:

vi -r /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 "

I tried the above commands but nothing happened. I don't know = what to=20 recover and how. or whether this is somehting that I should be = concerned=20 with.

thank you very much for your time and support!

Tan

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