Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 17:56:15 -0400 From: Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [4.3 Install Problem] Windowmaker missing and XServer screwed up Message-ID: <a05100300b71a2002c192@[129.98.91.150]>
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I'm installing FreeBSD 4.3 from a CD made from a downloaded iso image to a Netfinity 4500 box. No software is on this box and FreeBSD is being used to format and partition the disk. Aside from what I assume everybody knows is an awful installer program, I am running into two persistent issues. First, I am installing just the ordinary XServer given in the beginning of the installation with no specific add ons except Windowmaker. The installer complains that "package Windowmaker was not found in the INDEX", as if it had been left off the CD. Second, I tried again this time trying just fwvm and also with KDE and I get past that point above without error.The machine boots and I can login and launch X. The X environment appears with a generic desktop and a single borderless xterm window. Because the window is borderless, it can't be moved and the cursor other than following the mouse has nothing to click onto. It doesn't respond to clicks in the X desktop. If I launch another xterm, it appears over the one below it. Is Windowmaker really missing from the CD, and why when I do get X installed, is it not working right? I had previously done an installation with 4.2 from a premade CD image, and it didn't run into any of these problems. -- Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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