Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:04:23 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Praveen <praveen@bitsmart.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with Free BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970130140158.14856D-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <32F06060.431F@bitsmart.com>
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Praveen wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > I recently bought a FreeBSD 2.1.5 from a local store selling Walnut > Creek CDs. I have a problem. The intial installation went on fine and my > system now runs FreeBSD. But I am unable to install X11R6/XFree86 even though > it is listed under the packages sub-menu. sysinstall says that it is unable > to add package XFree86 3.1.2. And also I am unable to run any games. I am sending you a guide to installing XFree86, separately, because it's long and I don't want to spam the list with it. I didn't write it, I just found it somewhere on cdrom.com. Anyway, it got me through the installation and I hope it will do the same for you. > sysinstall says that the games I selected have been installed succesfully, > but the games directories under /usr/games/hide are all empty (after setting > the proper perms). > Except for these I must say I am very pleased with the operation of > FreeBSD. It has proved to be very stable. Please reply at the earliest. I've noticed that too. This OS is a pleasure to work with. > Best regards, > > Praveen Y.S. > -- > emails: praveen@bitsmart.com > influx@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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