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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newshub.gmr.com!news.delcoelect.com!c23peg From: c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com (Perry Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: More Newbie 2.1 Qs... Date: 10 Jan 1996 13:57:29 GMT Organization: Delco Electronics Corp. Lines: 87 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4d0gk9$2me@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: koptsy15.delcoelect.com Originator: c23peg@koptsy15 Subject: More Newbie (2.1) Questions... Subtitle: Well, at least FreeBSD is getting a larger user base! (1) I installed emacs (19.29?) from the 2.1 CD. However, I have limited drive space and must not have installed a library it needs. Emacs is looking for libXaw.so.6.0. What package is libXaw.so.6.0 in? I mounted the live file system CD and found the library in /cdrom/usr/X11R6/lib and put a copy in /usr/X11R6/lib (after creat- ing the directory). Note that I have not installed X. In any event, emacs could still not find the library. I assume it is some environment variable that is not set? I thought that emacs could run from either X or text only mode. FYI, I was thrilled to see that MicroEMACS was on the CD! It loads alot quicker, for those short script file edits on my pokey 386. (2) What type of filesystem does fdformat generate? It's not FAT. It does not seem to be a native FreeBSD filesystem. The man page doesn't give a clue. (3) Sometimes when I "shutdown -h now", it seems that the system halts before a "System is Halted" type message can get displayed. I see a couple of the following messages and then nothing. I have been assuming that everything is halted and the filesystem has been sync'ed up, but it does not look quite right. Jan 7 ... myname syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Jan 7 ... myname syslogd: exiting on signal 15 (4) I had been using OS/2 boot manager to boot OS/2, DOS, and linux. FreeBSD took over the OS/2 disk space. I am hoping that FreeBSD will eventually take over the linux spot, once I learn enough about it. I had lilo installed in the linux partition on the second IDE drive. I booted linux as follows OS/2 BM (on /dev/hda) -> lilo (on /dev/hdb) -> linux (on /dev/hdb). Booteasy does not seem to be able to find the linux partition, and linux should not be "headless" (see below). I am about ready to try and get lilo to boot FreeBSD. I guess the slice concept must be giving me trouble, I don't know enough about configuring booteasy. I still have a back door to linux, I just have to go through DOS... At one point, I saw a post (maybe from Jordan?) providing a pointer to booteasy documentation somewhere under /usr/src (I thought). My stupid /usr/src is still empty. A reason to start looking at the live filesystem on the second CD... > From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) > Subject: Re: Info needed > > In article <4cplfe$bpk@news.halcyon.com>, <javaman@halcyon.com> wrote: [snip] > I think this has a lot to do with how you've installed Linux & LILO (e.g. > "cooperatively" or "non-cooperatively"). If you install LILO in the > Linux partition itself (I believe that's one of LILO's options), booteasy > will chain to it just fine and you'll be able to go on into Linux. However, > if you install LILO as an MBR boot manager (which booteasy also is) then > naturally booteasy is going to spam it when you choose the "install booteasy" > option. I believe that Linux is left more or less "headless" in this > case since it doesn't have any boot blocks installed for booteasy to jump to. > I'm not absolutely sure of this, but that's what the empirical evidence seems > to point to. > > Since FreeBSD *always* has boot blocks installed in its partition (regardless > of the choice of boot manager) it works fine with LILO or pretty much any > other boot manager. > Jordan Thanks to all, and in particular J. Hubbard and J. Wunsch for all the support given to this news group. I have really had some good input from the experts in this group in getting some basic configuration done. Someday, when I know more about this OS, I hope to return the favor. I've been running (part time) for one week and counting... Perry c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com -- c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com Perry Grieb M/S: CT-40D, Ph: 1-0486