From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 16 19:09:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA25738 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:09:21 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA25732 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:09:14 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA23474; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:09:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:09:08 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501170309.AA23474@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: kmiller@mdd.comm.mot.com (Kenneth Miller (Consultant)) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Adding the XFree 86 distribution In-Reply-To: <9501162354.AA03630@teckla> References: <9501162354.AA03630@teckla> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < XFree stuff. Now I want to go back and install that off of the CD-ROM > but I don't know the appropriate command sequence. On my older BSDI > system I would mount the cdrom drive and then invoke a package add script > , what is the procedure for this system? # mount -t cd9660 /dev/whatever /wherever # cd /wherever/XFree86-3.1 # sh extract.sh Be aware that this script will try to have a dialogue with you, but probably on the wrong virtual terminal; you'll have to ALT-F2 over to the other terminal to see what it's trying to say. # umount /wherever -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant