From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 13:39:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B83037B401 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5OKaNs16067; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:36:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B364FE2.898EECE8@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:38:58 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick9 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start X-Window system after basic install References: <3B364CFA.E4A9F7CE@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick9 wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 4.2 on a Pentium 133 system. (This is a project > for work.) > Maybe I'm beyond my skills here :), but I keep getting an error that > X-server files are not installed . What's the error? Which files? > I installed a ton of packages (another mistake) , including several > X-window managers. Not particularly a mistake. If you've got enough disk space, install all you want. > When I go to /stand to run sysinstall , I get the error message: command > not found. /stand is not in the default search path. The current directory is not in the default search path. Thus, changing to a directory to execute a binary that resides there doesn't work. This is a DOSism you're trying to use. If you're in the /stand directory, you can run sysinstall by entering "./sysinstall" The "./" tells the shell to look in the current working directory for the binary. Easier is to run sysinstall without changing the current working directory by specifying the whole path: "/stand/sysinstall" > When I boot from the floppy set, and use sysinstall, and go to > post-install config, I get an error stating that X-window server files > are not installed. Did you select one of the X enabled distributions while installing? If not, return to the distributions menu (seperate from packages) and install X. Hope this gets you started. -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message