From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 12:45:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA17611 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:45:31 -0700 Received: from temptation.interlog.com (temp@temptation.interlog.com [198.53.146.54]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17600 ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:45:27 -0700 Received: (from temp@localhost) by temptation.interlog.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA17809; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 15:44:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 15:44:44 -0400 From: Temptation Subject: Re: Xfree To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506031843.LAA11063@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Yes I tried that. No go. when I just mark Xfree in the custom install keeps telling that I never did. so I try the Xfree user. it then tells me that it can't mount /dos, that it is already, and when I umount it still gives me error. > Sysinstall was designed to be re-entrant, so you should be able to go to > custom install and pick the xfree dist all by itself and have it do the > rest. If this doesn't work, just do something like this from the machine > (I'm assuming its not the target machine) where the distribution files are > sitting: > > cat * | rsh freebsd_host "cd /; tar xvfz -" > > You'll have to setup the .rhost file correctly of course, but it should > work. whats a .rhost file? and am I suppose to type that on the machine that storing the files, or the FreeBSD machine? > > What programs or functionality do you miss in FreeBSD that you have in > Linux? > > I know you've already said a lot in this area, but how would you > improve the installation program? I'll answer these two questions later :) want to think about it. I know one thing, pressing the arrows keys in Linux shell gives me the old comands that I typed, FreeBSD gives me ^[ things, I had this problem with BSDI 1.1, had to keep setting stty erase etc...., but 2.0 fixed that problem. > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > ============================================== > TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 > Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus > ============================================== >