From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 27 11:43:54 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA03767 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:43:54 -0800 Received: from broremann.hsr.no (broremann.hsr.no [152.94.1.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03747 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:43:30 -0800 Received: from gorina9.hsr.no (tore@gorina9.hsr.no [152.94.1.49]) by broremann.hsr.no (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA15649 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:40:05 +0100 Message-Id: <199502271940.UAA15649@broremann.hsr.no> X-Authentication-Warning: broremann.hsr.no: Host gorina9.hsr.no didn't use HELO protocol To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreBSD & XFree86 install problems. Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 20:42:24 +0100 From: Tore Oerpetveit Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sir. I have downloaded FreeBSD 2.0 with XFree86-3.1. Now I experience some problems installing this software. I have downloaded to a PC, and the files are stored under an MS-DOS-partition on my hard disk. Installing the FreeBSD-binarys from this works just fine. The problem starts when I want to install XFree86. The first obstacle I encountered was the filenames. As You know, MS-DOS won't allow filenames longer than 8 characters. Some of the XFree files have names that are quite a bit longer than this. Renaming the files and changing the install-files won't work, as the install-utility looks for a directory called XFree86-3.1, a name longer than our beloved MS-DOS will allow... Next attemt: installing from an UFS (FreeBSD) partition. After installing the bindist, I extracted the XFree86 distribution to an UFS-partition, together with the rest of the FreeBSD dist. I then started a new installation, where I mounted this partition on /mnt. The distribution was just as I found it om the FTP-site. Now the installation utility wouldn't even install the bindist... On first try, nothing happened. Second try: "Not a valid distribution" I didn't give up. In the install-instructions it said that, next to a FTP-installation, a tape installation was the second best. Well, let us try the tape. I put the contents of my FreeBSD distribution partition on a QIC-80 tape (by using "tar | ft" as shown in the manpage for ft.) When I tried to install from this tape, nothing happened. I was just told to insert the tape, and then that no dist. was found. The installation utility did never even try to read the tape. Yes, I tried both the QIC-80 and floppy-tape choise, as my QIC-80 tape is connected to the floppy controller. Now I really don't know what to do! If You could tell me what I'm doing wrong, and maybe what to do to get it right, I would really appretiate it. Yours Tore PS: please ignore any spelling errors; English is not the language I feel I master the better...