Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:06:34 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: Li-heng Lee <lee@sunrise.e-technik.uni-ulm.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.7-version install problems Message-ID: <19980117000634.12759.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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---Li-heng Lee <lee@sunrise.e-technik.uni-ulm.de> wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > I purchased a Walnut Creek Version 2.1.7 FreeBSD-CDROM last April, but till > recently I got chance to install it on my PC which is equipped with a Cyrix > P166+ CPU, two EIDE HDs(270MB and 2100MB),an NEC IDE ATAPI 6X CDROM drive, > 32MB main memory, and 512KB cache. After I installed from DOS partition, I > have the following problems. > > 1. CDROM can not be configured. It is said ATAPI CDROM drive support is > still alpha version for ver. 2.1.7. Are there still some ways to remedy. > 2. I configured XF86Config, but the system can not find the commands like > startx, xinit... etc. They are really in /usr/X11R6/bin. My keyboard is a > Windows 95 keyboard. Is the keyboard an issue? You have to go to your .profile or .cshrc file and add /usr/X11R6/bin to your PATH > 3. I can not extract the packages from the DOS partition. Using the DOS partition does not allow you to specify directories :-( So what I do is mount_msdos /... /... and then use existing file system option That way you can try to enter the directories around the location of your package :-) and see if that works. > There is no > catpages files on the CDROM. I downloaded them from the website, but it > still does not work. > > With best reguard! > > sincerely yours > > > Li-heng Lee > > > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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