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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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>XFree86 Installation in DOSLinux</H3>
<p><strong>From STEVEN SCHILLY on 20 Aug 1998 </strong></p>
<p><strong>Hey sorry about 'council' sometimes my mind is wondering about in
many green fields at once! Anyway I figured that out before I got
your mail it was in the init and inittab (although I have no idea
what was wrong!) I copied an init file from a working version of
micro linux to mine and a new kernel of DOSLinux x.xx? (will have
to look). I'd like to run X86Free; where is the best place or way
to download this entire package. What will make installing it as
easy as possible? I like to hack at the system level but don't have
the time right now .. so I'd like the easy way out....Any sug.?
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>XFree86 Installation in DOSLinux</H3>
<p><strong>From Rick, Aug 1998 </strong></p>
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<p><strong>I have doslinux on my PC b/c i wanted to keep Win95. I want to load
Xwindows but i cannot figure out how to do it on DOSlinux... Could
you please point me in the right direction like what files i need
and how to install and run. thanks ...
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>Jim answers both...</H3>
<em>[His two messages weren't precise copies, but you, our web readers,
only need to read the cut-and-pasted portions once. -- Heather]</em>
<blockquote>I think the easiest way would be to install the
RPM utilities using the unRPM-Install package that's
Available on the DOSLinux "Home Page."
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<blockquote>Then I'd fetch the XFree86 packages from a
<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat</A>
mirror and just use the '<tt>rpm -i</tt>' command.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>You could also consider one of the other "tiny"
Linux distibutions like "Xdenu" or "Dragon"
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<blockquote>Here's a copy of another message
that covers almost the same question:
</blockquote>
<em>[copy omitted]</em>
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<blockquote>The easy way out of manually installing XFree86 is to
pick a distribution that includes it. I gather that you're
running DOSLinux --- which is similar to "MiniLinux" in
that you can install a functional Linux subsystem into
an MS-DOS subdirectory in about 20Mb of disk space (maybe
30 or 40 these days).
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<blockquote>Oddly enough I just got another question on the same
topic. I'll paste copies of my suggestions:
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<blockquote>There were a couple of predecessors to DOSLinux, including
Mini-Linux and Xdenu. Xdenu is still available at sunsite:
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<code><blockquote><blockquote
><A HREF="http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/linux/distributions/xdenu/umsdos"
>http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/linux/distributions/xdenu/umsdos</A>
</blockquote></blockquote></code>
<blockquote>... and it included the X windows subsystem. That apparently hasn't
been updated in about 3 years.
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<blockquote>Just a couple of directories over from that you'll find tinyX at:
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<blockquote><blockquote><code
><A HREF="http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/linux/distributions/tinyX"
>http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/linux/distributions/tinyX</A>
</code></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote>... which is a set of implementations that each fit on a single
floppy. (You pick the file that matches your video card type.
Most of these are from '93 or '95).
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<blockquote>MiniLinux itself is still there: it fits on about four diskettes
and includes X. It also dates back to '95. However, it's programs
should probably still run on any more recent system (you might need
a kernel with support for the old COFF/a.out format --- since I
don't think MiniLinux was updated to ELF).
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<blockquote>Also on sunsite we find a page that links us to "Monkey-Linux" which
does include X and was updated at least as recently as May of '97.
The author notes: "English documentations is still not fine..."
So you might feel more comfortable with this if Czechloslovakian is
your native language. The web page is at:
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<blockquote><blockquote><code
><A HREF="http://www.spsselib.hiedu.cz/monkey"
>http://www.spsselib.hiedu.cz/monkey</A>
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<blockquote>He does note that Monkey is compiled for ELF format.
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<p><strong>From Rick on 20 Aug 1998 </strong></p>
<p><strong>thanks for the help... i think i have learned from doslinux
so i can go ahead and install redhat... i will still use this information
to try to get dos linux working on my laptop. thank you.
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 32 September 1998</H5>
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