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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 37 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <43vqpr$i8d@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: erbalch@aol.com (ERBalch) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com 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!