Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 02:20:15 -0500 From: samurai@iosys.net (Rich Bornhofer) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ftp install crash.. recoverd? Message-ID: <320C382F.26A6@iosys.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello, I recently posted a question asking if i could recover from an ftp install crash. Well, i think i did, well.. kinda. I re-enterd the install menu, set the mount points on the pre-existing partitions, and selected the XFree86 dist. It installed. But i can't seem to get startx to be recognized. I go to the /usr/X116R(or whichever) directory and there are all the files. (actually, i think they are in /bin in that dir) But when i type 'startx' i get a message that the file isn't there. When i ls -l the directory, they are all there, and have value, so it should be there. My question is, where and what modifications do i have to make to files so the system accepts the command? And better yet, how can i configure the shell to show me what are directories, executables, and sym links? I know this can be done, I just don't know how to do it, and this would help me to 'see' what the startx file is.. incase it is not an executable. Anyway, after the XFree86 was installed, i finished the install routine, and i can now boot FreeBSD. I have a fully funtional (as far as i can tell) base dist., and many applications work. I have ppp access, though i have yet to make a script so i can include the DNS so i can ftp to freebsd.org (i am working on getting the ip to circomvent this for now) so i can get the kernel sources. I don't seem to have a /sys dir, which is sym linked to /usr/src/sys (which doesn't exist). I am guessing that some of this may be from the failed install, while some may be a result of what i didn't get as part of the packages. Oh, and the pkg_manage doesn't show _any_ packages.. should it if i haven't used it to install anything? Should it show the doc, man, info, and XFree86 stuff? If there is no fairly straight forward way to remadie this situation, i guess the install was a failiure, though like i said, i have access to quite a bit of the system. If anyone has ideas as to how to 'clean' up this mess i would appriciate the info. Seems to me like a powerfull system like FreeBSD (unixy) should be able to straighten it out somehow. Even if i have to help it out some ;) Thanks to all those who have been helpfull so far, and please be patient with me, as i am pretty much unix illiterate but trying to learn. Thanks again, Ray, the 'dammit, i'll get it to work yet' guy ;)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?320C382F.26A6>