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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86 & XFree86 Beta Question Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:06:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <536f4p$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3252a363.3420845@news.clover.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dwchan@telerama.lm.com (Dominic W. Chan) wrote: > 1) do i have to d/l all of the bin file in 3.1.2.g directory or do > just need a few You only need one or a few of the X servers, those that fit for your video hardware. You don't need everything else, depending on your needs. Ain't there a README file somewhere? > 2) let say i download it the file, where do i put it before i > extracted it?? Wherever you've got the space. My favorite is /tmp, but my /tmp is large enough to hold everything i want. -- 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. ;-)