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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!news.xmission.com!xmission!rlenk From: rlenk@xmission.xmission.com (Ron Lenk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD CDROM 2.0 XFree86 install problem Date: 20 May 1995 06:36:44 GMT Organization: XMission Public Access Internet (801 539 0900) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3pk2ls$n63@news.xmission.com> References: <3phjev$c30@euas20.eua.ericsson.se> <D8unJr.5Hx@tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: xmission.xmission.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Julian Elischer (julian@mailhub.tfs.com) wrote: : In article <3phjev$c30@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>, : Johan Andersson <msujoan@eua.ericsson.se> wrote: : >Hi! : > : >I've been trying to install FreeBSD on a Pentium-machine (Scandic) : >I can install bindist, games and man_pages but when it comes to : >XFree86 and the checksum has been verified (OK) nothing happens. : >Both the disk and the cdrom are inactive. : >How do I proceed? by installing NetBSD? : > : I've never instaled from CDROM so I don't know, but I've seen this : several times.. in the mailig lists.. I've neer taken notice of : the answer however... : rest assured however that there IS an answer :) : someone who HAS done this please help? As I recall, with 2.0R, you had to hit Alt-F2 after the checksums were complete, because the XFree86 extract script showed up on the second VT for some reason... Ron -- Ron Lenk rlenk@xmission.com