*BSD News Article 44405


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!news.xmission.com!xmission!rlenk
From: rlenk@xmission.xmission.com (Ron Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD CDROM 2.0 XFree86 install problem
Date: 20 May 1995 06:36:44 GMT
Organization: XMission Public Access Internet (801 539 0900)
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <3pk2ls$n63@news.xmission.com>
References: <3phjev$c30@euas20.eua.ericsson.se> <D8unJr.5Hx@tfs.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: xmission.xmission.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Julian Elischer (julian@mailhub.tfs.com) wrote:
: In article <3phjev$c30@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>,
: Johan Andersson <msujoan@eua.ericsson.se> wrote:
: >Hi!
: >
: >I've been trying to install FreeBSD on a Pentium-machine (Scandic)
: >I can install bindist, games and man_pages but when it comes to
: >XFree86 and the checksum has been verified (OK) nothing happens.
: >Both the disk and the cdrom are inactive. 
: >How do I proceed? by installing NetBSD?
: >
: I've never instaled from CDROM so I don't know, but I've seen this
: several times.. in the mailig lists.. I've neer taken notice of
: the answer however...
: rest assured however that there IS an answer :)
: someone who HAS done this please help?

As I recall, with 2.0R, you had to hit Alt-F2 after the checksums
were complete, because the XFree86 extract script showed up on the
second VT for some reason...

Ron

--
Ron Lenk
rlenk@xmission.com