From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 14:57: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9392737B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-hiper2042.javanet.com ([209.150.38.44] helo=[209.150.34.212]) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13i1xl-0004gv-00; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:57:01 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.20001007114038.00977cd0@mail.bigpond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: RE: 4.1.1-RELEASE XF86336 distribution Cc: Murray Baker Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:57:01 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:41 PM -0700 10/06/00, John Baldwin wrote: >On 07-Oct-00 Murray Baker wrote: >> >> Between 4.0-RELEASE and 4.1-RELEASE the XF86336 distribution >> seems to have lost three files 'preinst.sh postinst.sh extract'. No wonder I can't find them!! They are listed as being required in the RELNOTES on the same CD-ROM from which they seem to be missing. That has to be a mistake. >They aren't needed by sysinstall. I can't run the 4.1 sysinstall with 3.4 because of the bad block issue. >> XF86336 RELNOTES still states that these are required. > >If you install X manually, yes, and in that case you can just >grab the ones from XFree86's web site, however if you install >from sysinstall it will all work ok. > >> Are they required ? Will 4.1.1-RELEASE XF86336 install from the >> files provided (ftp.freebsd.org and mirrors) ? What I wonder is if extract and preinst.sh and postinst.sh are necessary. The RELNOTES on the CD-ROM says they are, yet the _FreeBSD Handbook_ and _The Complete FreeBSD_ don't seem to make any mention of them. Their unpacking instructions for the Bourne shell read: # mkdir -p /usr/X11R6 # cd /usr/X11R6 # for i in bin fnts lib cfg; do # tar xzf X$i.tgz # done However, the RELNOTES say "It is strongly recommended that you use the provided extract utility to unpack the XFree86 distribution. If you choose to ignore this and use something else, we don't want to hear from you if you run into problems." My question is, if this is true, how does sysinstall unpack them if extract isn't on the disk?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message