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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:39:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Possible sysinstall bugs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961204213726.7328L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961204103702.6047D-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>

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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote:

> #1 I installed 2.2-alpha and I know I selected XFree86 to be installed
>    yet it was not.  I installed from ftp3.

That's because ftp3's 2.2-ALPHA/XF8632 pointer is broken.  That directory
is empty :(  It's there on ftp.

> #2 I cannot get the XFree86 package with sysinstall from anywhere so
>    I try and use my handy 1014SNAP because I "think" it was on it, but
>    after the warning that 2.2SNAP does not match 2.2-ALPHA I cannot 
>    fetch the index from the CDROM.  Has the index format changed from
>    1014 in ALPHA?

No, Xfree upgraded.  You should install XFree by pulling down the
distfiles in 2.2-ALPHA/XF8632 and extracting them in /usr/X11R6.  Of
course, pull only the distributions you want.  Use sysinstall as a guide
since it gives the short names of the distributions.

Optionally, use sysinstall, MOUNT the filesystems (don't NEWFS them!), use
a custom install, and just install XFree.

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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