From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 23:00:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04008 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:00:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04003 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:00:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00985; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:00:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:00:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Steven Lascos cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation of of CD In-Reply-To: <9702102303.AA29251@headwaters.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Steven Lascos wrote: > I have been trying install FreeBSD but when I try to configure the X > windows after having the sysinstall program copy the files, it says it's > going to go into graphic mode to configure the X server, but it repeats the > same error message back about 7 or 8 times and then quits back to the > sysinstall screen. > > The error message says it's a failure to init something and reports back > error number 61 Can you get a bit more detailed output? The error report may be on the ALT-F2 debug screen. This is trying to run XF86Setup, which you can run after the system is up and running. Or you can try the text variant xf86config, which does essentially the same thing in a text question&answer format. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major