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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install
Date: 28 Aug 1996 08:21:15 GMT
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bluesky <bluesky@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 	I needed your help.  I just installed FreeBSD 2.1.5. But I was not able
> to re-enter to "sysinstall" and "xf86config".

/stand/sysinstall

> 	I login as root when I run "sysinstall" it says file not found
> when I use "ls -all sysinstall" -rwxrwxrwx sysinstall.

This is a huge security hole.  The file is writeable by everyone, but
you will certainly usually trust it even when you are `root'.

> 	For the "xf86config" I was able to run it under sysinstall by the time
> I install FreeBSD 2.1.5 form my Walnut Creek CDROM. but 
> after the installtion I was not able to run it. "startx" has the same 
> problem.

set path = ($path /usr/X11R6/bin)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)