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From: erbalch@aol.com (ERBalch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: HELP!  What the hell is goin on?
Date: 22 Sep 1995 22:18:35 -0400
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I just installed FreeBSD 2.0 from the CD from Wallnut Creek.  The install
went perty smoothly but now I am having a bear of a time trying to get
some simple things to work.  Can anyone please help?

Problem 1:
Where the hell is "adduser"...  I know it must be on the filesystem
somewhere!  There is an entry in the man pages for it but when I try to
use the command I get the typical "Command not found" or some such
message.  I kinda thought that this was a standard program that was
automatically installed in /usr/bin or somthing.  NOTE: There seem to be
some other commands/programs missing from the filesystem but where ever
"adduser" is I expect to fing the others right there with it...

Problem 2:
Now this is a definate newbe question but understand that all my UNIX
expirence has been through NEXTSTEP which basicaly totally configures the
shell for you, paths and all.  Anyway, I seem to be unable to execute
several programs for some strange reason or maybe not so strange.  What
happens is, I get into a directory, say /usr/games and try to run one of
the games there by typing its name at the prompt and pressing enter.  All
I get once again is "Command not found" or some such BS.  Wus up with
that???

Problem 3:
For some reason everytime I tryed to install XFree86 from the CD from the
component install menu the install program would go off and check the
install checksum and then say it was installing the package and just kinda
stop not hang, just stop.  I could abort the install by hitting ^C but
then I could not find a way to get back into the coomponent installer to
try again and would have to start the hole install over again.  That
sucked!  Is there any way to get back into that menu w/out starting over
or any other way to install XFree86 from the CD?

Please Help if you can!
I know I am probibaly clueless but please bear with my stupid questions.

Thankx very much!