Well … I found out that OpenDarwin v7.2.1 did not include X11 with it … I found these instructions on Google:
GET X11:
ftp http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.2.1/X11-x86.tar.bz2cd /
tar -jxpf {path_to}/X11-x86.tar.bz2
(note: this will only have twm, which is pretty lame. Darwinports will fix that for you.)
This ought to get me back to exactly where I was with OpenDarwin v7.0.1 … so then next I’ll be trying Darwinports.
I got X going easily in OpenDarwin v7.0.1 … it’s nice to have
multiple xterms … but boy is it far from a desktop! I’m now
trying to get the same going with OpenDarwin v7.2.1 … but it seems
that X is not included!?!?!
For OpenDarwin v7.0.1:
1. To get a GUI up, I created a .xinitrc in my home directory that contained:
2 .Add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path:
3. Edit the /etc/profile if you want to add to the path permanently. Add /usr/X11R6/bin to the existing path statement.
4. Type ‘startx’ and you ought to be off and running.
If you click (and hold) you’ll get a menu so that you can open another XTerm, or exit the desktop.
A year or so ago I heard about the release of OpenDarwin v7.0.1 … the
Open Source project building on Apple’s Darwin project. Darwin
is the core operating system beneath the popular OS X operating system
distribution. At that same time I was starting to use Virtual PC
for all sorts of other operating systems and so I gave it a try.
Well … it almost worked. The OS installed, and after a little
configuration I even had X-Windows working, and a primitive window
manager. The network driver … did not work.
I’ve spent some time, learned some things, and got some things
working. With the recent Intel/Apple announcement, I figured that
I would get back into things …. just for the fun of it. I’m
going to blog the various lessons and experiments that I perform.
I created a new blog – OpenDarwin Experiences
… I’ll start to post some stuff tonight. As of today I got the
network driver working with OpenDarwin v7.0.1 … I want to know if I
can get it to work with v7.2.1. We’ll soon see!