Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:29:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Brady K. Adams" <BKADAMS@us.oracle.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to install xfree86 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117212635.6065R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801162057.MAA26867@mailsun2.us.oracle.com>
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On 16 Jan 1998, Brady K. Adams wrote: > After having sucessfully installed FreeBSD via floppy, I am now trying to > install the XFree86 X-Windows software (and other contributed software for > that matter). The files for the software does not seem to be arranged in > the > same format as the FreeBSD software such as "bin" (bin.inf, bin.aa, bin.ab, > etc.). Also, since I do not have a CD-ROM available, I cannot install > directly from the CD. That's true, the original files for the ports, etc. are not split. If you have net access you could just fetch them using an Ethernet card and a connection to some file server (not nec. ftp.freebsd.org.) > I have considered trying to copy the files onto a Zip disk (I have another > computer available with a CD-ROM) and then mount the Zip Drive & do the > installation via the Zip through the parallel port. I have not, however, > able > to mount the device. I do not know the directory to mount via the parallel > port device (eg. /dev/sd0a). > > Two questions: > -------------- > Do I need a (special) driver to do use the Zip Drive? Yes. You need to get the `ppbus' driver which can be found at: http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/PPBUS/ppbus.html This will mount your zip drive as device zpo. > What is the syntax for the "mount" command (mount /dev/device > /directory/to/mount)? For MSDOS disks: mount -t msdos /dev/vpo0c /mnt Or something like that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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