Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:33:26 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No luck installing X-distribution with Sysinstall (3.3-Release) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991109121928.18209A-100000@spectre> In-Reply-To: <199911091716.MAA41251@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Like I said, I believe the problem is with the /stand/sysinstall utility, and not with the XFree86 tarfiles or distribution. The only reason I installed X from the XFree86 download site was because I had brought my pc to work so I could take advantage of the T-1, and I left the CD at home. - M - On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Marty Poulin wrote, > > > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > > > > > How much disk space in /usr is there for X? > > > > I have a 1GB disk mounted as /usr > > > > > > > > Anyway, take your CD, load it up, and go to the XF86333 > > > directory. Type, > > > > > > # sh preinst.sh > > > > > > You may or may not get asked some questions depending on how your > > > system is presently set up. Then, > > > > > > # cp extract /tmp/extract; chmod 700 /tmp/extract; /tmp/extract > > > > > > (Is there an easier way to do that?) Once you get through that, > > > > > > # sh postinst.sh > > > > > > At least this way, any errors in extraction get written to the > > > terminal. > > > -- > > > > Thanks for the info - unfortunately for this round I installed the > > tarfiles directly from the xfree86 site, so I won't be able to tell if > > there was a problem with the extraction from the cd. Maybe next time... > > But the binary tarfiles from the XFree86 site will be the _exact_ same > things you have on your CD (provided they are the same XFree86 > versions). > > I'm looking at ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/binaries/FreeBSD-3.0/ > and FreeBSD-3.2R CDROM1, /XF86333. They have the exact same > files. When you do an FTP install at ftp.freebsd.org, the XF8633x > directory is a symbolic link to the local XFree86 mirror. > > The XFree86 files you get from FreeBSD are the same thing you get from > XFree86. I'd be interested to hear if you get differenet results from > the XFree86 download than from the files distributed with FreeBSD. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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