Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall doesn't Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970320130443.4815A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970318204352.26A-100000@warp4>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote: > I finally got 2.1.7 installed on my secondary disk. I chose the > X-developer can. I also, at the end, did *not* add any packages, because > the last time I had gzip errors that caused the installation to fail (and > I had to start over). I thought that the X-developer can would include an > actual installation of X on the machine, and the X directories are there, > but it doesn't boot X on default (I'm used to SCO OpenServer, which did). This is true. You have to either login and use 'startx' or: . add xdm to your /etc/rc.local . add '/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon' to /etc/ttys Whichever works for you. I found, with the Mach64 server, it didn't like being run from ttys, thus the rc.local option. Both will give you a X login prompt and use your ~/.xsession file for session prefs. startx will use ~/.xinitrc. > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall to configure the X stuff, but the program > doesn't seem to work. It says to select the option, but pushing number > and letter keys does absolutely nothing. Pushing TAB moves the brackets > back to EXIT, but the RETURN key doesn't even seem to work. The only keys > besides TAB that do anything are the the various functions keys -- but all > they do is dump me to the command line. I tried man and apropos for the > sysinstall program, but that gave me nothing. Does it accept an argument? > All my attempts to pass arguments failed. Odd that sysinstall wouldn't work right. Were you running this from the console? You can run the X setup program yourself by running '/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup' or the old text-mode one by running '/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config'. Hope this helps. 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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