From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 5:49:48 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 5353F14FD9 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 05:49:39 -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 IAA17921; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:50:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:50:07 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No luck installing X-distribution with Sysinstall (3.3-Release) In-Reply-To: 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 Thanks - I am certain that there was no /usr/X11R6 directory. I did manage to get X installed by extracting the tarfiles directly, but the point is that the install utility included in 3.3-Release seems to have a bug in it (at least for me). - M - On 8 Nov 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Marty Poulin writes: > > > 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? > > Are you sure it didn't get installed? Is there really no /usr/X11R6 > directory? > > Assuming that there isn't, you should be able to unpack the tar files > directly from the CDROM into /usr/X11R6. Xbin.tgz, Xlib.tgz, and > Xset.tgz are the minimum, but doc, man, cfg, prog, html, and maybe a > few others might be useful as well (in roughly decreasing order of my > own opinion of their usefulness). And you'll need the right server; > those are in a subdirectory of wherever you found the other files. > > Then, of course, you still need to configure the whole thing. But > you'd need to do that after installing from sysinstall, also. > > Be well. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message