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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:23:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Tony D'Andrade" <blue@visinet.ca>
Cc:        Freebsd Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing X Windows
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128212247.22067Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971128174752.6880A-100000@ceylon.visinet.ca>

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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Tony D'Andrade wrote:

> 
> Hi I have perfectly good FreeBSD server running here.  I want to add 
> XWindows without screwing the existing system up. Can anyone point me in
> the right direction? When i do a /stand/sysinstall i notice that there are
> several distributions.   If i were to install one of those distributions
> with Xwindows will it screw up my current configuration?  

No.  Just grab the archives you need and extract them into /usr/X11R6.

I think you can do a custom install and specify just X in
/stand/sysinstall too.  I'd back up rc.conf first tho.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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