From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 11:57: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0C914F58 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre (mpoulin@cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA16429 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:56:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:56:58 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No luck installing X-distribution with Sysinstall (3.3-Release) 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 Hi, I have been trying to install the X-distribution for 3.3-Release unsuccessfully for the past couple of weeks. The entire system instalok except for X - when I try to run XF86Setup I get the error "Command not found" and there is no directory under /usr for X. I have tried installing it the following ways: 1. from a CD I created from the latest ISO image: - ran a "Novice" installation - chose the "X-Developer" distribution - chose the appropriate X servers, fonts, etc, - the installation completed without setting up X. Upon reboot, I discoverd that X wasn't installed at all. 2. From /stand/sysinstall: - chose "Configure" - chose "Distributions" - selected "XFree86" - again, selected all of the appropriate servers, fonts, etc. - chose the installation media (cdrom this time) - the screen blinks, then I get bounced back to the main Configure menu. 3. From /stand/sysinstall (again - I figured at this point there was a problem with the CD) - same steps as Step 2, but chose FTP as the installation media. - the result was the same. 4. After messing about with many different things, I tried a fresh installation, this time via FTP. I made sure to choose the "X-Developer" distribution. The result was the same as in step 1. I am giving up on the sysinstall utility for installing X -it obviously isn't going to work for me, so it looks like I'm stuck installing it from the ports collection - but can anyone offer any ideas as to why this is happening? Am I the only one to have this problem? Thanks in advance, - M - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message