Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:43:59 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Jerry Breazeale <breazeal@hemc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setup question Message-ID: <4796C60F.9030304@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <4796C1EC.9050602@hemc.net> References: <4796C1EC.9050602@hemc.net>
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Hi, can you check with the downloadable handbook what the currently recommended procedure to setup X is. Books tend to be outdated. If I remember right then the current version of X starts just fine without any configuration file. We also would need the program versions to help you a bit more specific. Erich Jerry Breazeale wrote: > I'll try again to submit a question. Please see the attached. > Jerry > > > > Attachment is a copy of the message. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Xorg config > From: > Jerry Breazeale <breazeal@hemc.net> > Date: > Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:41:40 +0000 > To: > questions@FreeBSD.org > > To: > questions@FreeBSD.org > CC: > > > Newbie question here. > I've followed the installation instructions in the book FreeBSD 6 > Unleashed and (finally) gotten it installed. Now I proceed to the > setting up of X, where the book says to log in as root, and type Xorg > -configure . I do that and get a response something like Xorg command > not known. During the installation, I selected Install it all including > X. This is version 6.3 by the way. And this is about the 3rd or 4th > attempt at installation on this HDD. Some help would be appreciated. > > By the way, after each of the first couple attempts at > installation,during which I'd set up a separate /boot partition, I > couldn't get FreeBSD to boot from the HDD. The book had no caution > about not using a separate /boot partition, but that's what I found to > be causing the problem. I installed again but without a separate /boot > partition, and can now boot from the HDD. > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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