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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uunet!easix!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!weber From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.0 & XFree 3.1 Message-ID: <1995Jan31.165346.21821@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany References: <3gh63b$ntq@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 16:53:46 GMT Lines: 37 Hello, bgparker@zork.tiac.net writes: >I'm currently installing FreeBSD in favour of Linux. There is a point >in the installation where I can install various bits and pieces including >XFree 3.1. Everything goes smoothly until I try to install XFree 3.1. >The message 'checking checksums', or something like that, appears followed >by an 'Extracting. Please wait'. And wait I do. Nothing happens even >after an hour passes. No disc activity no nothing. I can cancel the >installation with a Control C. >I am installing from the Walnut Creek CD ROM and have created a partition >/usr/X11R6 with 50 Mbs using the device labeling procedure. >Whats going on? Can I install XFree3.1 if I now log in as 'root' and >just run the 'extract.sh' shell or do I need to start again and change >some partition sizes. >Thanks in advance for any suggestions. *grin* I ran into the same. It is a quirk in the installation process, to be precise, it's a documentation quirk. Switch with alt-F2 to the second session, there the XFree Installation waits for you to select what components you want have installed. It should be documented somewhere I guess... Regards Christoph Weber-Fahr -- Christoph Weber-Fahr | E-Mail: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049 Tel. 0631/205-3391 | D-67653 Kaiserslautern -------------------------- My personal opinion only ---------------------