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To: nlauver@acsworld.net (Nathan A. Lauver)
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Subject: Re: XFree86
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Nathan A. Lauver writes:
 >     I'm sure by now you are sick of hearing from newbies like myself
 > about questions. This is all new to me (the experience of writing for
 > help, and the Operating System!) Allow me to take this chance to thank
 > you in advance for your help.
 > 
 >     I have downloaded the entire contents of the 2.2.7 release of
 > FreeBSD, and  have installed FreeBSD on my system from my DOS partition
 > on a seperate drive. Since I know NOTHING about UNIX or UNIX style OS's,
 > I thought it would be nice to have XWindows.
 > 
 >     I have found XFree86, but I do not know which files to download, or
 > where to put them, to run XWindows on my system.

You have the following options:

1. goto www.xfree86.org
   check the instructions
   (thats the way i prefer)

2. cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
   make install
   make clean
   cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-contrib
   make install
   make clean

Malte.

 > 
 >     -Nathan Lauver
 > 
 > 
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