From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 6 17:19:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA10835 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 17:19:38 -0800 Received: from ic.sunysb.edu (libws2.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.12.86]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA10828 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 17:19:35 -0800 Message-Id: <199501070119.RAA10828@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu; Fri, 6 Jan 95 20:19:25 -0500 From: Not On Our Customer File Subject: extracting XFree86 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 20:19:22 EST Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi: It was suggested to me that I break out of the sysinstall program to install Xfree86 (my PC hangs during extraction ...) and do it manually via sh extract.sh This was to have been done in the XFree86 dir. How do I get to the CDROM which does not come up as a device file ? i.e. can we get a bit more explicit ... Thanx, Bill Paladino