From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 11:23:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24329 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24179 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA03237; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:22:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "John D. Macdonald" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD netscape...? In-Reply-To: <35586564.2B97@cybershop.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 May 1998, John D. Macdonald wrote: > Hello, I'd like to thank you guys for such a great online handbook. > Truly superb, I know very little about unix type systems, > and even I was able to install FreeBSD, and configure the kernel etc. Thanks! > However, (isn't there always one?) I still don't know very much about > the system to diagnose problems, the one thing left that I want to do > now is install netscape, after installing the system, I added lynx, > apache, pine and netscape 3.0, they all work except netscape, I must > have forgotten something, because it keeps saying "couldn't open > display" or something along those lines, I figure it's something to do > with x11, which I haven't been able to install succesfully yet. I would > appreciate it greatly if you could point me towards a step through for > installation of netscape or x windows or both even. Netscape requires X, so you need to get X running first. Assuming you have the correct bits installed, simply run `xf86config' to configure X then `startx' to kick it off. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message