Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:57:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> To: FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: support@cdrom.com Subject: /stand/sysinstall doesn't Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970318204352.26A-100000@warp4>
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Hello again!
I finally got 2.1.7 installed on my secondary disk. I chose the
X-developer can. I also, at the end, did *not* add any packages, because
the last time I had gzip errors that caused the installation to fail (and
I had to start over). I thought that the X-developer can would include an
actual installation of X on the machine, and the X directories are there,
but it doesn't boot X on default (I'm used to SCO OpenServer, which did).
I tried to use /stand/sysinstall to configure the X stuff, but the program
doesn't seem to work. It says to select the option, but pushing number
and letter keys does absolutely nothing. Pushing TAB moves the brackets
back to EXIT, but the RETURN key doesn't even seem to work. The only keys
besides TAB that do anything are the the various functions keys -- but all
they do is dump me to the command line. I tried man and apropos for the
sysinstall program, but that gave me nothing. Does it accept an argument?
All my attempts to pass arguments failed.
I tried, then, to run the post-installation configuration from DOS, but it
doesn't seem to know about the BSD disk (HD 1). Based upon the above, how
can I get X to start at boot, and how can I use sysinstall? What am I
missing?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Roberts jroberts@!ashland.edu strider@!acm.org
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