From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 17:29:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B9737B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFCE443E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 8417 invoked by uid 417); 4 Jul 2002 00:29:36 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 00:29:36 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.20.175]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 18:29:34 -0600 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 20:28:59 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "Victor Wang" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing XFree86 Message-Id: <20020703202859.4d27f636.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:11:20 -0700 "Victor Wang" wrote: > 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 It's a bad idea to go elsewhere, because then BSD might not be able to put in needed patches / install it to the right directories, etc. > 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?! Freetype2 is in the print directory. Why are you installing it this way? If bandwidth is the problem, they have a nice mini-iso if the regular isos are too big. (The mini ISO doesn't include X, but once you've got ports running putting X, XFree86, and a window manager on your drive isn't too difficult...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message