From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 7:42:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m06.mx.aol.com (imo-m06.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F0C37B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 07:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from UDDANE@aol.com) Received: from UDDANE@aol.com by imo-m06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.10.) id n.94.13e4a310 (4427) for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:42:14 -0400 (EDT) From: UDDANE@aol.com Message-ID: <94.13e4a310.28280e46@aol.com> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:42:14 EDT Subject: installation question (FreeBSD 4.2) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 124 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, I recently aquired a copy of FreeBSD 4.2. I attempted to install it on my computer. (I made this computer and had all the books with the component specs handy) I selected the Gnome and Enlightenment packages along with the Xwindow ones. I got all the way to the part where it tells you that you have successfully installed FreeBSD and I could even see the partition marked as such using Partition Magic 6.0 in Windows on the other disk. (I installed this to a second hard drive running as "slave") To make a long story short, after login I typed "startx" and it replied "cannot find "x" Went to "xf86config" and set up the monitor and the card and when I rebooted and started X, it ran a large amount of data past me on the screen and then said "cannot start X"... it froze here. and I had to reboot. I was never able to get past this. The monitor is a Samsung SynchMaster 753DF 17inch screen running 1280x1024 video card is ATI Radeon AGP with 64MB memory motherboard is Asus CUV4X -E with a 1ghz Intel Processor and 512 RAM I have 2 physical hard drives 1 60GB (C:) and 1 40GB (D:) -- I attempted to install on the D: drive. Any ideas or help you could give would be great (boyfriend wants to run Windows Advanced Server :-P ) marianne mailto:uddane@aol.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message