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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2 quickies
Date: 7 May 1996 23:36:18 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <318F2476.12D1@nation-net.com>,
Paul Walsh  <paul@nation-net.com> wrote:
>1. Does XFree86 have to be installed with the system ? I can't get it to 
>install from the cd, "can't find X11R6" is the message !!. Someone point 
>me to some general X help please.

No, you don't *have* to install X. This is useful if you want to run
the machine as a terminal, or if you don't have much RAM.

I'm not sure why installing X doesn't work for you. (The directory is
actually called XF86312, BTW, which may or may not be the problem 8-)

You can always install it after the installation by doing something
like

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom
# cd /usr
# tar xzvf /cdrom/dists/XF86321/foobar.tgz

for the files you need.

(it's probably wise to do 'tar tvzf ...' first, just to make sure it
will do what you expect)

>2. How do I use a PC as a dumb terminal, not with telnet. Is this what 
>booting 'diskless' means? 

Actually it's not so much a "dumb terminal" as "a workstation that
doesn't happen to have a disk in it". For details, see section 12.3 of
the handbook:-

file://usr/doc/share/handbook/handbook.html (on an installed system)
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/            (for the lastest version)

>3. Is DNS and HTTPD on the same machine a bad idea ( i heard )?

It really depends on the load. Either of these on its own is capable
of keeping a machine fairly fully occupied, so I'd say it's a bad idea
in most cases.

Maybe you could run a caching-only name-server, which queries another
machine on the network for anything not in its cache.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
jraynard@dial.pipex.com
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk