[3648] in RedHat Linux List
Re: install questions (X and disk mount points)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Sat Nov 9 20:49:19 1996
To: taschda@dmapub.dma.org (Dan Tasch)
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Nov 1996 15:34:48 EST."
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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 19:47:50 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> 1. X would not start. It could not find the server. X in
> /usr/X11R6/bin was linked back to /etc/X11/X, which did not
> exist. In order to get it to run I had to link
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86-SVGA. Is this where
> the link is supposed to be, and why was this not made during
> installation?
If you upgraded an already existing redhat the links
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -> /etc/X11/X
/etc/X11/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
should have been in your old system. I think what happened was that
somehow this link was removed during upgrade (for example, if the
filesystem.rpm was forcably installed).
>
> 2. Why was no default configuration created during
> installation? I had to copy my previous XF86Config from my
> dos partition where I had saved it to /etc/X11/XF86Config to
> get X to work. I assume that this is still the right place
> for the config file?
I think it is painful to configure X, do not you think? So why should
you have to do it again during upgrade?
From the symptoms you describe, I have the feeling that you tried to
do a fresh installation onto an existing system, instead of doing an
upgrade (you had a choice in the beginning). That certainly might have
confused the installation procedure. But I could be wrong.
Mate
M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
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