Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:39:23 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Victor Wang" <mextor8@hotmail.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems installing XFree86 Message-ID: <027b01c21c99$2812f420$30ec910c@fbccarthage.com> References: <OE15ABZTW5k1Ed28kIN0000018c@hotmail.com>
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Well, BTW, that last comment is obvious, and that's OK with me, but don't be surprised when you get treated like one, and that means rather roughly by some folks. Please hit your 'return' key after every 70-80 characters so that the lines are not so long. There is a pretty good explanation of why at Greg Lehey's site www.lemis.com. Look for a file called email.html (perhaps, haven't been there in a while.) Second, you sent HTML enabled email. This also causes grief to a lot of UNIXers. Mark questions@freebsd.org as "plain text only" in your Windows Address Book and people will treat you much nicer, generally speaking... (hopefully?) Third, and finally a real answer ;-) read the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook/) and you'll find that the number in ( ) after "every command" is to indicate whether they are referring to a shell command, system call, environment variable, name of a program, or whatever. There are 8 categories, but I've never gone to the trouble to memorize them. As I said, check the handbook. Finally, the X Window System. This is quite complicated --- if you're really a newbie I'd just get the system going with a good shell first. After that, I'd try to 'make' in the proper subdirectory in /usr/ports (you did install the "Ports Collection" when you were using /stand/sysinstall, didn't you?) You definitely need to read the handbook on this one. You can even fetch a copy to read from within windows --- it's in a lot of formats---the .rtf one is pretty in Word or Wordpad or whatever. FTP to ftp.freebsd.org and look in the 'pub/Freebsd/ doc' directory. The X Window System has a chapter around #9-10 or so. To sum up, here's your newbie lessons (and I've tried to be NICE ;-) 1. Wrap your lines! 2. Email in plain text to the lists! 3. Read the Handbook!, and 4. Read the Handbook some more. Best of luck with FBSD, and don't let us turn you off.... KDK ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Wang To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:11 PM Subject: Problems installing XFree86 When I try to install XFree86 with sysinstall, using DOS, it can find the INDEX and everything, but it can't find freetype2-2.0.9 and thus can't load XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_1 and XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0 either. I checked, and freetype2-2.0.9 wasn't even on the FreeBSD ftp site, so I went elsewhere and found it and copied it into the x11-servers, x11, and x11-fonts folders just to make sure. Still, sysinstall couldn't find it. Could somebody please tell me how to get X installed?! I am installing everything on my laptop by downloading the required files to the DOS partition under C:/FreeBSD/.../... and then booting up FreeBSD on teh second partition and running sysinstall. What files do you actually need to run XFree86? I just downloaded everything in the x11 directory and everything starting with "XFree86" in x11-servers and x11-fonts. Also, why do people always put a number in brackets after every command? For example, ls(1). BTW, yes, I am a newbie. Thanks in advance. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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