Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> To: Justinkib@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199806221623.JAA00505@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <1a48871f.358dfe90@aol.com> (Justinkib@aol.com)
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> From: Justinkib@aol.com > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 02:49:50 EDT > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 58 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > ... How do I access my 3.5" Disk Drive from FreeBSD? You mount the floppy and access it like any other directory. For example, # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt # do this as root # ls /mnt # if /mnt is 0755, do this as any user # cp .cshrc /mnt # if /mnt is 0755, do this as root # or mount /dev/fd0a on a user's directory # umount /mnt # do this as root Or, without mounting, cd /etc tar -cvzf /dev/fd0a . # do this as root tar -tvzf /dev/fd0a # do this as root >...What do I need to download to get X-Windows, As root, cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 make install You need to do some reading to get started. Look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/* and http://www.xfree86.org/. You may need to use /usr/X11R6/bin/SuperProbe and /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup to do the setup. Spend a couple of days reading and save yourself weeks of agony. >...how would I Start X-Windows from a prompt? After installing XFree86, you MUST read the documents provided. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you read and understand these documents. Look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/* You need to change /etc/ttys to start X, after you get the setup complete. For testing, you can start X from the console with '/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm', as root. Read the FreeBSD Handbook on http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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