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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Brad J. Whynot" <Whynotbj@GOV.NS.CA>
Cc:        Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808071358180.15104-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <s5cac980.012@gov.ns.ca>

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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Brad J. Whynot wrote:

> I have installed FreeBSD three times now via FTP and I include
> everything in the packages section and in the distribution section I
> believe that is what it is called.  The question I have is that when I
> have tried this from 2 or 3 different sites and go to use the
> configuration tool to setup XWindows I get the message, " XFree86 is
> not installed on your computer please install this to use the
> configuration utility."  Or something along those lines.  The thing I
> don't understand is that when I am retrieving the files across the
> internet it is saying that the files are being downloaded and
> uncompressed to my pc. 

X may not be in your PATH.  If you're trying to run XF86Setup, try the
command

/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup

You must install the 'set' distribution and the 'VGA16' X server for
XF86Setup to work though.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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