From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 10:58:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23229 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23179 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0v3Qq8-000QjfC; Wed, 18 Sep 96 19:55 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA11655; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:42:56 +0200 Message-Id: <199609181742.TAA11655@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: XFree86 Package? To: Leonard@pacbell.net (Leonard Chung) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:42:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960917055016.006642c0@pacbell.net> from "Leonard Chung" at Sep 16, 96 10:50:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Leonard Chung writes: > > Where can I get XFree86 in package form? I don't have enough HD space to > install it as a port, so I'm trying to get it in a precompiled form. I > tried to use sysinstall, but it reports that it can't find the XFree package > on ftp.freebsd.org, ending with an error of "The selected package is not on > this medium" or something to that effect. I tried looking on > ftp.freebsd.org myself, but couldn't find it in the packages area either. > Does anybody know where XFree's package may be, as I noticed that the > Makefile for it had a make package option which means that there must be > *some* package out there somewhere. XFree86 is a number of packages. By far the most convenient way to install it is from CD-ROM. Greg