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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-01 21:48:46 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-01 21:48:46 +0000
commit2d9e72feb5f1d9dc151e618d142cf4df3bcbc6b1 (patch)
tree6f55fee61c2c0bd41bf76d3d61adcefc7d61ae9f /etc
parent3a89e9a020eb48a195a60f2b0131301197f762ac (diff)
mention X11 README file
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/root/root.mail b/etc/root/root.mail
index dccc595c96d..227eac9fc30 100644
--- a/etc/root/root.mail
+++ b/etc/root/root.mail
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ From: deraadt@do.not.reply (Theo de Raadt)
To: root
Subject: Welcome to OpenBSD 2.3
-This message will contain more information for system administrators who
-just installed OpenBSD.
+This message attempts to describe the most basic first questions that a
+system administrator of an OpenBSD box might have. You are urged to
+save this message.
For more information on how to setup your OpenBSD system, refer to the
"afterboot" man page. If you are not familiar with how to read man pages,
@@ -14,9 +15,13 @@ type "man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing. The GNU "info"
subsystem is also installed with further documentation resources; to read
info pages type "info".
+If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can
+find further information in the file /usr/X11R6/README.
+
Binary packages of emacs 20.2, bash 2.01.1, tcsh--6.07.02, and pine-3.96
are available on most architectures. The files are in the directory
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/
or CD2:/packages/ (ie. mount /dev/cd0a /mnt; cd /mnt/packages)
Select your architecture and download the tarballs of your choice. To
install issue the command `pkg_add <pkg-name>' as root.
+