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Date:      Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:21:05 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Steven Soria <soria1801@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: I need help with Xfree86
Message-ID:  <40706021.3060008@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040404191243.31686.qmail@web61110.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040404191243.31686.qmail@web61110.mail.yahoo.com>

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Steven Soria wrote:
> Is that the only thing I need to install to be able to get into FreeBSD?

Well, no, actually.  :-)
You don't need to install XFree86 to get into FreeBSD.

> Please help me out by telling me how to get Xfree86 and where to install it
> to so I can get it when Im trying to install it. I have FreeBSD on another
> partition but now when I go into My Computer, it doesnt show the partition
> with FreeBSD on it. How will I do it then? I have the I386 platform. PLEASE
> HELP ME OUT!

As you've noticed, Windows doesn't understand the filesystem FreeBSD uses. 
Don't boot into Windows, boot into the FreeBSD partition.

It's probably easier to use /stand/sysinstall to install X11 via prebuilt 
packages (either via FTP or from the installation CD), but you can also do 
something like:

cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
make install

...and build and install X yourself (but this will take quite a bit of time).

-- 
-Chuck



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