From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 00:14:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28141 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:02:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27925 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA12837; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:01:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rob Dormer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X install In-Reply-To: <3515B2D8.4263EE84@mail.dynanet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Rob Dormer wrote: > I've downloaded release 2.2.5, and I've tried several times now to > install the "x-developer" package from a DOS partition. I have all of > the necessary directories in the "freebsd" directory on the dos > partition - XF86331, compat21, etcetra, but when I use the > sys/standinstall utility under unix to configure X, it tells me that X > is not installed. Why is this? what do I need to do to install X from > the dos partition? Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Did you hit `commit' to install it first? You might wait until you get the system up and running to configure X -- then just run `xf86config' from the command line. It'll walk you through it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message