Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:38:51 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: "Keith Beattie[SFSU Student]" <beattie@george.lbl.gov> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Qs: XFree86, BootEasy & Virt Terms Message-ID: <199608032138.VAA05568@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199608022057.NAA29044@george.lbl.gov> from "Keith Beattie[SFSU Student]" at Aug 2, 96 01:55:14 pm
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> > How do I install XFree86 from the 2.1.0-RELEASE CDROM after I've > already installed without X? There doesn't appear to be a package > and running make in /cdrom/ports/x11/XFree86 fails because it can't > cd to /usr/ports/distfiles . If I reinstall with a different > installation option, (I learned this the hard way) important files > will be overwritten. The Handbook has an entry on how to use the ports; in this case, I would strongly advise against it as X is *huge* and compiling it will take several hours (and hundreds of MB of disk space). Instead, just swap CDROMs and do something like # cd /usr # tar xzvf /cdrom/dists/XF86312/X312bin.tgz ... for all the X components you wish to install (there's a README file on the CD that explains what they all are and which ones are mandatory). > How do I get BootEasy (or any bootmanager for that matter) to boot > DOS from my 2nd IDE disk? My 1st IDE drive is all FreeBSD, 2nd is > all DOS. Bootting from a DOS floppy works fine. From the booteasy > menu: F5 ... DOS gives a never ending list of 040404040404... Erm, not sure here - it sounds like some kind of geometry problem. > I only get 3 virtual terminals, Alt-f4 just beeps at me. When I > built the kernel, I set it to 4. Even with the GENERIC kernel, which > should have 12 only gives me 3. This is because ttyv3 is marked as off in /etc/ttys. See the FAQ for details on how to add more virtual terminals.
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