Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:40:58 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Jim Hatfield <jim.hatfield@isltd.insignia.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I fixed my problem Message-ID: <36B22AEA.65C06630@aei.ca> References: <36B1FE62.195CE0E3@insignia.com>
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Jim Hatfield wrote: > > Hi, > > Re my earlier mail about the Monitors database. > > It was due to my misunderstanding of how the Novice install works. After > selecting the X-Developer distribution, I got a popup asking if I wanted > Des. I selected Yes, then got to the screen where you select which bits > of XFree86 you want. At this point I realised I should have selected No > since the CD was exported from the US and presumably doesn't have DES on it. > > At this point the last selection in the menu says something like "Go > Back" which I interpreted as Undo, so selected it. However it didn't > really mean that, and I never saw that screen again, so presumably I had > unknowingly selected a subset which didn't include the Monitor database. > > I redid the whole install and now I have it. > > Apologies if anyone wasted time on this. > > Jim Hatfield > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message I also think that the installation program is not perfect. It took 2-3 install the first time I installed FreeBSD, and I also messed up with space/enter and didn't understand why I was not getting the previous screen. After, I discovered that you can do post-install config, at the end of the installation. Your not alone ;-) -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] [French piss me off - Cartman, South Park][http://9.nws.net/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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