From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 5:53:43 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 B142114FD9 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 05:53:39 -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 IAA17955; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:54:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:54:11 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No luck installing X-distribution with Sysinstall (3.3-Release) In-Reply-To: <199911090113.UAA39389@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> 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 On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > How much disk space in /usr is there for X? I have a 1GB disk mounted as /usr > > Anyway, take your CD, load it up, and go to the XF86333 > directory. Type, > > # sh preinst.sh > > You may or may not get asked some questions depending on how your > system is presently set up. Then, > > # cp extract /tmp/extract; chmod 700 /tmp/extract; /tmp/extract > > (Is there an easier way to do that?) Once you get through that, > > # sh postinst.sh > > At least this way, any errors in extraction get written to the > terminal. > -- Thanks for the info - unfortunately for this round I installed the tarfiles directly from the xfree86 site, so I won't be able to tell if there was a problem with the extraction from the cd. Maybe next time... - M - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message