From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 03:22:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930B216A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 03:22:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2D643D1D for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 03:22:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4E869A71; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:22:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:22:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "A W" Message-Id: <20040913232250.6e63b7da.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 03:22:52 -0000 "A W" wrote: > i've scanned through the hand book and i found something thta i really don't > understand, what is a loader.conf? Issue the command "man loader.conf" for details. > and loader(8)? That syntax means see section 8 of the Unix manual for a description of "loader". This is most easily accomplished by using the man command like so: man 8 loader > im just all lost now and > when i type "xfree86........" or "kldload" it says command not found. There is no such command "xfree86", but if your system can't find kldload, something is wrong. > and > also when i typed "/boot/" it says permission denied. /boot is a directory. If you just typed "/boot/" it would obviously give you a permission error, since you're not allowed to access directories in that fashon. Try using "ls /boot" or "cd /boot" ... depending on what you're trying to accomplish. I would suggest finding a Unix beginners tutorial on the web somewhere to help get you familiarized with those commands. This one looks decent: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ There are lots of others, do a google search, then read through some of them and try out the commands they try to teach you. > did i do something > wrong? For the most part, no. You just have a bit to learn yet. Although I can't think of a good reason why the system wouldn't be able to find kldload. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com