From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 20:22:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA13160 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA13155 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA11744; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:04:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Ramlagan, Rajendra G." cc: "'freebsd'" Subject: Re: please help with elementary questions In-Reply-To: <316C4275@msmail.atsc.allied.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Ramlagan, Rajendra G. wrote: > > I have installed free bsd 2.1 and I did select a developer installation. > Questions: > > a. How do I unbundle emacs? I have unbundled gcc and gdb. The only emacs > I see is a file of lisp like commands under the src tree. Use the emacs package and pkg_add. It'll install all the dependencies for you. (I think it's in /packages/editors or somesuch) > b. I have a Diamond Stealth 24 VESA card. How do I start the X server? I > told the installation setup I had a Diamond 24, 1MB memory, with no probe. > It completes and I do xinit and I get server init errors. I can't remember > all the errors. Which X Server did you install? The proper command to start the X server is "startx". > c. I have an ide cdrom (Creative 4x) connected to my sound card. I do mount > /cdrom and I get errors. I looked at /dev/MAKEDEV and gathered that the > device is probably /dev/wcd0. Trying to mount this device did not work. > What do I do? You need to look in LINT and copy in the ATAPI options, then recompile, copy, and reboot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major