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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help with FreeBSD configuration !! Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:14:00 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <31105A28.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <4elhbd$rb@lard.ftp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Shishir Belbase <shishir+emaiL@ftp.com> Shishir Belbase wrote: > 1. "sysinstall" doesn't let me add any more network > interfaces. When I hit enter, it just returns me to the same > menu option. From the configuration menu? Really? In any case, you're probably better off just adding the interfaces to /etc/sysconfig anyway since that's all that sysinstall does. Edit /etc/sysconfig and take a look at the examples. > 2. "xinit" fails to read the XF86Config file. Can't get X > to run at all. Do you have /usr/X11R6/bin in your path? > 3. "init 0" says init is already running. Can't kill it That's SYSV. Just use `shutdown', `reboot' or `halt', depending on what you want to do. > Instead of bothering others, can I just buy a book or hit a > web site that might have these answers. Thank you. http://www.freebsd.org probably contains as much info as you're going to find anywhere, these days. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project