Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:01:50 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue2@welearn.com.au> To: Bill Bixby <jzero@netcom.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come startx won't install Message-ID: <19980313190150.57778@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980312205855.23231A-100000@netcom8>; from Bill Bixby on Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:09:05PM -0800 References: <19980313111721.61043@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.980312205855.23231A-100000@netcom8>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:09:05PM -0800, Bill Bixby wrote:
> No, I don't have a directory name /usr/X11R6/bin on my system.
> And I don't even have a directory named /usr/X11R6 or anything
> like that (there's a reference to a /usr/X11/bin in the path
> variable when I do an 'env' and there is no directory named
> /usr/X11 either. :( Last night I reinstalled just X-user from
> /stand/sysinstall via ftp to ftp.freebsd.org/.25/FreeBSD and
> when I tried to configure X-windows from the install program it
> said X-windows hadn't been installed. :( :(
OK Bill, I haven't got a clue what's going on or how to help you, but nobody
else is going to want to help you unless we sort a few things out.
1. You did something to try to get X to install on your system. Some install
program? What's that? What was it that you did, exactly? How? What did you
type? Where did you type it? What did you expect to be the result?
2. When you did whatever it was, what response did you get from your
computer? Did it say "Installing X, Sir" or "Error" or spit out
screens and screens of computer-speak, or not respond at all... what??
If there was a bit of to and fro, summarise them and give full details of
where it seemed to go wrong.
3. Whatever you did, and whatever the computer did, it didn't end up putting
X on your system (or at least we'll assume that for now). But you might have
thought that it did? Hoped? So what was the very next thing you did after
"installing" by the method outlined under 1 above. What did you type and
what did the computer type back at you? And then what did you try? And what
happened? At what point did you begin to suspect that something wasn't going
right?
Maybe what I'm asking you to tell isn't exactly the same as what the others
need to see, but if you cough up this much info we'll stop going round in
circles long enough to get a little bit closer to an answer.
If you don't do this we might all get bored and tell you to RTFM, which
would be rather tricky because I don't know which FM could answer a question
like this one :-) So tell us all you can remember. Take it in stages if
that's any easier.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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