Actually I think that all that happened is this:
At the end of xf86config it asks whether to make the symbolic link. If you
answer no to this question then you'll get this problem.
Same with XF86Setup it also asks whether to make the symbolic link if you
answer no to this same problem.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:30:27 EDT
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: slippery slackware
>
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Spencer wrote about, slippery slackware:
> > > Hello Gurus:
> > >
> > > I had some extra hdd space, and I thought I'd try installing
> Slackware
> > 7.0
> > > for fun (does this mean I'm a geek?) So although I'm running RedHat6
> > now,
> > > I put Slackware on another partition.
> >
> > No not a geek a real linux user.
> >
> > >
> > > I got through the install OK, and everything seems alright; I
> currently
> > boot
> > > Slackware from a floppy. So far so good, except I cannot seem to get
> X
> > started.
> > >
> > > I first tried the command $ startx as a user, then as root; to no
> avail.
> > > Only when using the whole path: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx would it try to
> > run X.
> >
> > First thing, what and how did you install slackware and have you run
> > "xf86config"?
> > If you are now going to run xf86config backup /etc/XF86Config first.
> >
> > >
> > > Then I tried using xinit (which I've never used before) but again,
> > Slackware
> > > wouldn't find the command until I used the whole path.
> >
> > Slackware has always had this PATH defined, its derived from the old
> BSD
> > idea of having to type the whole path for commands, or so i have been
> told.
> > You should have startx in 3 differnt places,
> > pa3gcu:~$ whereis startx
> > startx: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /usr/bin/X11/startx /usr/X11/bin/startx
> > and you should have xinit in the same manner.
> > pa3gcu:~$ whereis xinit
> > xinit: /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/bin/X11/xinit /usr/X11/bin/xinit
> > The files are the same size and same permissions in all dirs.
> >
> That is because they are all the same file, reachable by several paths
> through some symbolic links. :-)
> > >
> > > It seems I need to call KDE or something (according to what I read on
> > the last
> > > 3 lines of this message.
> >
> > No, you simply type startx, the answer to cant find;
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no program
> > named "xterm" in PATH
> > is because the file xinit is not there, hence me asking what and how
> you
> > installed.
> >
> > Slackware asks you a lot of questions after all the packages have been
> > installed, it asks about which window manager you want as default and
> it
> > then sets up all the links. As to configuring X i cant remember, i
> always
> > use xf86config after i have booted for the first time.
> >
> > Either you skipped that section of the install and you then did not get
> X
> > installed properly or you skipped the confguration altogether.
> >
> > [BIG SNIP]
> >
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no
> program
> > named "xterm" in PATH
> > >
> > > Specify a program on the command line or make sure that
> /usr/X11R6/bin
> > > is in your path.
> >
> > # Set the default system $PATH:
> >
>
>PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/etc/ax25/fbb:/etc/ax25/fbb/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$OPENWINHOME/bin:/usr/games"
> > Is a line just above what you sent this mail, it is default for
> > slackware-7.0.
> >
> > Use 'pkgtool' to install packages you missed, or 'setup' may even help.
>
> xinit, xterm, startx are all in the xbin.tgz, along with the symbolic
> links to connect them to the PATH. If you don't like pkgtool,
> installpkg will also work.
> >
> > --
> > Regards Richard
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> >
> >
> Lawson
> ---cut here
>
>
>
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