The installation docs say to not install X until you have installed the base system. Could that be the problem?
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote: > Hi Teofil, > > As someone has already said it looks like you don't have the right packages > installed in order to get the X Windows System running. The xinitrc file > which is at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is used to read in default > settings for the X session so it's essential. According to my system, which > is the stable branch, this file is part of the "xbase-clients" so you need to > install that. My guess is that further back in the install process you have > made some choices that have stopped all the required packages for X being > installed - I think the install asks you about being a client server which is > a bit confusing for new users as it is backwards! > > You can try going back and installing the packages which will probably > require some messing. Alternatively skip this by not installing X now and > then go back to it later: this is what I did, I didn't do X for a couple of > weeks. In general X and PPP are the hardest things to install - when you > beat them you are well over the hill towards gurudon ;-) > > Hope this helps, > > Steve > > On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 05:48:13PM +0200, Teofil Dereta wrote: > > Dear Debian, > > > > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 onto my computer. Everything > > goes well until the installation program asks me if I would like to run > > xf86setup so I could finish my installation and configure the keyboard, > > monitor etc. When I answer "yes" an error message appears which says > > something like 'file missing - /usr/X11R6/X11/xinit/xinitrc' and I can't > > continue with the installation. Please help me. What should I do? > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > Teofil Dereta, CRO > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
