Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 17:55:28 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul J Klein <pklein@csd.uwm.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install problems Message-ID: <745.787974928@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Dec 94 15:23:21 CST." <199412202123.PAA13345@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu>
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> 1) There is no 'adduser' or 'useradd' functions. How do I create new > accounts? Maybe this has something to do with my mount points: Just use vipw and clone an existing entry.. There will be a real adduser utility in 2.1. > 2) My dos partition does not show up. I called it '/dostmp'. Does it have > to be called '/dos'? This dos partition, does NOT contain DOS, just a DOS > file system. DOS is located on a IDE drive which I disable when I want to > boot FreeBSD (since it is the C drive) Is it in your /etc/fstab? You may need to `mkdir /dostmp'; the install script neglects to do so.. > 3) When I try to install XFree86-3.1 from CD, it does the checksum > verification, but when it says 'unpacking XFree86-3.1 distribution' it > just hangs...hmmm Actually, it's waiting to talk to you on the other screen! :-) Hit ALT-F2. > 4) If I want to install X now without installing everything else, I use > the /sbin/sysinstall script, but when it comes up, none of the mount > points are known (disklabel)... Have I done something incorrectly? Just run the extract.sh script in the XFree86 distribution to install it in the post-install world.. Jordan
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