Subject: Re: First Install
To: Albert Carter <SilverMoonTiger@wizzard.tiac.net>
From: Mike Ekholm <ekholm@skypoint.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/30/1997 20:09:33
acctuly if a '.' (dot) is not in your path, anything in your current dir
would not be seen unless you type './command' instead of 'command' where
command is what you want to execute.


On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Albert Carter wrote:

> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 09:22:32 -0500 (EST)
> From: Albert Carter <SilverMoonTiger@wizzard.tiac.net>
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: First Install
> 
> I will give that a try but regardles to them being in the path if you go to
> that directory actually go to /usr/X11R6/bin and type in startx it should
> work.  I realize that anything you want to get by being in your home
> directory you have to define, but since I'm in the directory where the
> files are it should work, correct?
> 
> >you might want to look around on the FAQ on http://ww.macbsd.com/macbsd/
> >
> >try doing a 'echo $path' and see if games abd X11R6/bin are in there
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Albert Carter wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 07:40:33 -0500 (EST)
> >> From: Albert Carter <SilverMoonTiger@wizzard.tiac.net>
> >> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> >> Subject: First Install
> >>
> >> First of all I'd like to thank everyone for their great ideas and help
> >> here.  Second of all I'm still having problems with X.  I don't know what
> >> it is.  Whenever I type in startx or for that matter any binary in
> >> /usr/X11R6/bin it says command not found.  I don't understand what might be
> >> the problem I've installed all 3 of the files off from
> >> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD1.2/mac68k/X11.  There were no errors when
> >> installing them.  Hmmm also its not just X either just remembered this but
> >> I can't run any of the games from the games12 package.  They are located in
> >> /usr/games.  Any help on what could be causing this problem would be very
> >> helpful.  Not sure if you need my configurations but here they are.  I'm on
> >> a IIsi with a 68882 FPU coprocessor, 17 MB of RAM.  As for the OS's I'm
> >> running MacOS 7.1 Update 3.0 and NetBSD 1.2.  I used the installer 1.1d,
> >> and the booter 1.9.6.  I've got an external 2GB HD that houses both the
> >> Root diretory (250MB) and the Swap space (44MB).  I've as of yet go one
> >> user on the system (me of course).  If any other information is needed
> >> please let me know.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Albert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >--
> >            ekholm@skypoint.com | http://www.skypoint.com/~ekholm
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >      "All I ask for is a T1 to my house, is that too much to ask for?"
> 
> 
> 
> 

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