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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree86-2.1 and FreeBSD-1.0.2? Date: 20 Mar 1994 00:44:12 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Mar20004412@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <RUSSO.94Mar18150607@bogon.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: russo@lanl.gov's message of 18 Mar 94 15:06:07 In article <RUSSO.94Mar18150607@bogon.lanl.gov> russo@lanl.gov (Thomas Russo) writes: I tried putting up XFree86-2.1 on my newly-installed FreeBSD-1.0.2 system, and all of the binaries are un-runnable (file shows them all as "data"). I suspect, but can't see written down anywhere, that these must be binaries for FreeBSD-1.1, and the size of the This is correct. If you want to get an XFree86 for 1.0.2, you'll need to get 2.0. In the end I gave up on 2.1 and just pulled over the 2.0 distribution. But sometime soon I ought to understand why 2.1 didn't work and what I have to do to get it working. A 6Mb distribution would be vastly preferable to the 40-odd MB that's now taking up my precious disk space... Yes, what you need to get 2.1 to work is FreeBSD 1.1 BETA (or release, when that comes out). Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous On the net, no one can hear you scream.