From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 13:39:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA03099 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:39:59 -0700 Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA03076 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:39:34 -0700 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7.Beta.14/8.7.Beta.14) with ESMTP id QAA00629; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 16:39:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.7.Beta.14/8.6.4) id QAA16947; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 16:39:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 16:39:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Emmanuel Cofie cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199509141039.GAA27287@pluto.ee.cua.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Emmanuel Cofie wrote: > > I installed FreeBSD on a PC , followed the installation instruction > I have been running into some problems > > 1. I can not get the mouse. My mouse is on com1. I tried to create a > tty00 device as suggested in "Configuring X for your hardware" section > but MAKEDEV will not create tty00, so I create a /dev/mouse instead > Whwne I tried to execute the "X or xinit" I get the error message > " Too many levels of symbolic links" I use the mouse on /dev/cuaa0. Take a look at the sio man page, it should help. > > > 2. How do I mouse the hard disk portion (Dos section) and my floppy > drives (1.2Mb & 1.44Mb) on unix system. I've never heard "mouse" used as a verb. What do you mean, "mouse the hard disk portion" ? I'm as confused here as you. > > Any help or suggestions will be very much appreciated. > Thanks Emmanuel cofie > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------