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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:00:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Steven Lascos <slascos@headwaters.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Installation of of CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970210225933.923C-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9702102303.AA29251@headwaters.com>

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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Steven Lascos wrote:

>         I have been trying install FreeBSD but when I try to configure the X
> windows after having the sysinstall program copy the files, it says it's
> going to go into graphic mode to configure the X server, but it repeats the
> same error message back about 7 or 8 times and then quits back to the
> sysinstall screen.
> 
> The error message says it's a failure to init something and reports back
> error number 61

Can you get a bit more detailed output?  The error report may be on the
ALT-F2 debug screen.

This is trying to run XF86Setup, which you can run after the system is up
and running.  Or you can try the text variant xf86config, which does
essentially the same thing in a text question&answer format.

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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