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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4mompi$fb@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <318F2476.12D1@nation-net.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk 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