Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:43:52 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-6.2 & Xorg-7.2 Message-ID: <20070612154352.50a24bad@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070612085543.02C8.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <20070612085543.02C8.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:55:54 -0400 Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote: > I have had nothing but grief since updating to the new Xorg-7.2 > version on my PC. Unexplained crashes, lockups, etc. No doubt, some of > the problems are my fault; however I cannot seem to get them > corrected. I had a few problems like that, but they went away after a week or so of picking-up upgrades. In particular doing a forced update of nvidia-driver and its dependencies fixed a few of the problems. > Now, I was wondering how this would work. > > 1) Download a fresh ISO of FreeBSD-6.2 on to another PC > 2) Erase my HDs on the PC presently running FBSD > 3) Reformat the HDs > 4) Install the fresh copy of FBSD > > Will that give me a system that I can directly install Xorg-7.2 on to > or do I still have to go through the procedure shown in the "UPDATING" > file? Suppose I install Xorg-7.2 doing the actual install of FBSD; > will that make any difference? Before you install xorg, create a /usr/X11R6 directory and run the mergebase script which will update any references to /usr/X11R6 that are in the base system.
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