[nycbug-talk] I'm missing something here...

Joshua S. Freeman jf2412 at columbia.edu
Wed Sep 3 16:05:04 EDT 2008


Thanks for the responses Pete and Isaac.

I'm just going to restart the install process and upgrade to 7!

I will want a GUI though!

:-)

J.


On 9/3/08 2:50 PM, "Pete Wright" <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:38:23 -0400, "Joshua S. Freeman"
> <jf2412 at columbia.edu> wrote:
>> Hi FBSD folk-
>> 
>> I recently installed FreeBSD6 on an old optiplex here at work.
>> 
>> I want to run a X11 on the machine but...
>> 
>> Not only can I not find or run xf86config or XF86Setup ..
>> 
>> When I run sysinstall and try to add them as packages I don't even see
>> them
>> as available packages!  I have searched and searched within sysinstall
> and
>> I
>> cannot find them.
>> 
>> How can that be?
>> 
>> Any illumination appreciated!
> 
> X.org.
> 
> the handbook is a fun thing to check out too...
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
> 
> 
> -pete
> 

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