Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:10:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Larsen <criticar@execpc.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 Installation Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970318000913.1602d-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <332CB671.4AB5@execpc.com>
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Mike Larsen wrote: > I am trying to install X11 using the XFree86 skeleton from the ports > collection. Since it's called "core distribution" I expect that this is > the correct choice? > > A long way into the compile process, it errors out due to my disk being > full. It's filling at least 127M, is this appropriate? I did it twice > with the same result. The second time, I selected only the SVGA server > and let all non-server querys default. The port is going to build virtually everything, which you probably don't want. Grab the docs and archives from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/x.x-RELEASE/XF8632/ (x.x == your version number), that should get you started. > To recover, I delete everything in the ports directory below XFree86. > Does this clean up everything or is there a bunch of stuff written > elsewhere during the installation / compile process? Is there any easy > way to identify and remove this other stuff? That will flush everything, until you do 'make install'. 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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