From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 5:14:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from CC602670-A.flrtn1.occa.home.com (cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com [24.0.114.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E0A153D1 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@CC602670-A.flrtn1.occa.home.com) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by CC602670-A.flrtn1.occa.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00638; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:11:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990727002529.B8016@hyperhost.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iratus@home.com From: jeff To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X windows problem Cc: Danny , iratus@home.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Jul-99 Patrick Seal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:00:51PM +1000i, Danny wrote: >> heya, >> >> I know how to resolve the pine problem from previously and thanks for >> everyone's feedback. >> >> Got sick of supporting clients on windows 95/nt/ etc and I experimented >> with linux redhat for 1 month and thought bad things about linux :) and now >> I want to install Freebsd X windows stuff . > > good. > >> Ok now I want to customerize X windows to look like the windows 95/nt >> interface with the xearth etc etc >> >> But when I tried following the documentation:- > > What documentation?? > >> which said "run the script" /cdrom/book/scripts/install-desktop it gives me >> error messages . > > and what error messages?? Did you mount the CDROM? put the cdrom in the drive > and type (as root) mount /cdrom > >> Is their some other way I can customerize my desktop that I can try to get >> it to look exactly like windows 95/NT > > Install win95 of course! > > -- > ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ > Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make > | really crappy operating systems." > Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: jeff Date: 26-Jul-99 Time: 23:07:38 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- Hello-I looked into the this matter also and notices that the scripts are not executable-I may be missing something here but I don't think they can be run from the cdrom, as in sh install-desktop or ./install-desktop. Just my two cents worth Jeff Phillips To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message