Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 03:10:16 -0800 From: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Funny business installing XFree86 from FreeBSD CD-ROM Message-ID: <95Feb14.031033pst.111116-2@aero.org>
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I just successfully installed FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. At least, it was successful up until I tried to install XFree86 3.1, and after checksumming the files, it (apparently) hung on me. I've had considerable experience with BSD UNIX up through 4.3, but all this install stuff is quite new to me, so I had to crash around considerably before figuring out how to run the XFree86 install script by hand from the XFree86 directory on the CD-ROM. After it was all over, of course, I had a dim memory of hearing that the install script dialog page comes up on the next console virtual terminal over. So, after all that, I have a question, for my own enlightenment: what is it that causes the script to come up on what is, after all, a completely different terminal? It sure doesn't do that when I run it by hand. I've seen a few other cases where I was interacting on VT0, and had messages come out on VT1. What mechanism is operating here? VT0 is the 'console' terminal, right? Mike O'Brien
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