Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:20:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: nlauver@acsworld.net (Nathan A. Lauver) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <13757.42019.797703.97755@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <35BD23D6.4CC155DE@acsworld.net> References: <35BD23D6.4CC155DE@acsworld.net>
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Nathan A. Lauver writes: > I'm sure by now you are sick of hearing from newbies like myself > about questions. This is all new to me (the experience of writing for > help, and the Operating System!) Allow me to take this chance to thank > you in advance for your help. > > I have downloaded the entire contents of the 2.2.7 release of > FreeBSD, and have installed FreeBSD on my system from my DOS partition > on a seperate drive. Since I know NOTHING about UNIX or UNIX style OS's, > I thought it would be nice to have XWindows. > > I have found XFree86, but I do not know which files to download, or > where to put them, to run XWindows on my system. You have the following options: 1. goto www.xfree86.org check the instructions (thats the way i prefer) 2. cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 make install make clean cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-contrib make install make clean Malte. > > -Nathan Lauver > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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