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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!adelaide.DIALix.oz.au!not-for-mail From: brev@adelaide.DIALix.oz.au (Neil Davies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installing X Date: 16 Jun 1995 18:46:01 +0930 Organization: DIALix Services, Adelaide, Australia. Lines: 38 Sender: brev@adelaide.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <3rri4h$o33$1@adelaide.DIALix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: adelaide.dialix.oz.au NNTP-Posting-User: brev I'm pretty new at FreeBSD since I recently changed over when a competing low cost commercial unix's developer went bust, so please don't flame me if this is a dumb question :) I have the walnut creek CD of version 2.0 and on the disk is XFree86_ however the installation program needs to find the directory and file names in their long form. Since my CD-ROM drive is not SCSI I have copied all the files from the CD to my dos/os2 partition and installed it from there. This works fine except since the X install wants the long file names it spit whenever I try to install it:( Yonks ago I found a utility that ex[panded the file names after I had copied them to the bsd partition. But I've forgotten what the program was called and I've just about warn the disk out trying to find out what it was. Can some kind soul refresh my memory please? Preferably I can edit a script that just makes it use the short file names but I can't find out what script it is. Also.. A limitation I confirmed with a fellow who very kindly helped me some months ago, is that my bsd partition is on drive 1 (second drive) so when I boot I've gotta type wd(1,a)/kernel each time. Has there been a fix for this or can someone advise me how to hard code it? Thanx for you advise. Neil =========================================================================== brev@adelaide.dialix.oz.au or brev@cleese.apana.org.au or brev@adam.com.au Compu$erve: 100035,2443 ===========================================================================