Thread: [XonX-Users] XFree86 on separate partition
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From: Rian Y. <ria...@ix...> - 2002-11-04 16:54:39
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Hi all, This a newbie question so bear with me please. I installed the XFree86 with the clickable installer, all went well. Then I installed Fink and Fink Commander, the Gimp, and Windowmaker. I was on my way to configuring them so they would work, when I noticed several applications, StuffIt Expander and Internet Explorer, had vaporized from my hard drive. So I ran fcsk -y about 30 times, and disk repair utility on CD. Something was beyond repair. So I backed everything up and reformatted the drive. Seems to have fixed whatever it was. Now I would like to reinstall XFree86, windowmaker, and Gimp on a separate 10G partition. My basic newbie question is will this protect my OS 10.2.1 installation? How do I use the clickable installer to install on another partition? Will I run into obscure(to me) configuration problems? Do I need Gnome? I really only want to run Gimp as it seems to be quite a complex application to learn in itself. Fink seems to be really cool for installing X11 applications but since I only want the Gimp and I am on dial-up, I don't really need Fink. I also don't care for reinstalling the OS. PowerMac G4 800Mhz , OS 10.2.1 TIA I appreciate any response, I have read most of the archives and found some similar posts but nothing pertaining to another partition. Rian |
From: Torrey L. <to...@mr...> - 2002-11-04 22:08:48
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At 9:53 AM -0800 11/4/02, Rian Yossa wrote: >Hi all, This a newbie question so bear with me please. > >I installed the XFree86 with the clickable installer, all went well. >Then I installed Fink and Fink Commander, the Gimp, and Windowmaker. >I was on my way to configuring them so they would work, when I >noticed several applications, StuffIt Expander and Internet >Explorer, had vaporized from my hard drive. So I ran fcsk -y about >30 times, and disk repair utility on CD. Something was beyond >repair. So I backed everything up and reformatted the drive. Seems >to have fixed whatever it was. > >Now I would like to reinstall XFree86, windowmaker, and Gimp on a >separate 10G partition. My basic newbie question is will this >protect my OS 10.2.1 installation? I don't have any ideas on what caused your disk corruption, but it is very unlikely to have been any of things you installed. (Except that perhaps they exercised an otherwise sick disk.) If you do have problems you might try one of the third party tools such as Norton Disk Doctor, Disk Warrior, etc. Different people have their favorites, but they all seem to work better than fcsk and Disk Utility, assuming you have a new version for Mac OS X. > How do I use the clickable installer to install on another partition? You can't. You can, however copy /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 to another partition once you have installed. Then if you make these softlinks to the new locations everything should work fine. > Will I run into obscure(to me) configuration problems? Probably not if you follow the above directions, but I've never tried this. If you do, let us know. :-) > Do I need Gnome? I don't know, but I would think you would need parts of it. The main point of fink (or any package manager) is that all you have to do is "fink install gimp" and it will install everything you need to run Gimp and hopefully nothing extra. >I really only want to run Gimp as it seems to be quite a complex >application to learn in itself. Fink seems to be really cool for >installing X11 applications but since I only want the Gimp and I am >on dial-up, I don't really need Fink. I also don't care for >reinstalling the OS. If you find another standalone installation of Gimp, it should come with all the dependent libraries. Fink is one way to go, but there are others. Note that Fink will put lots of stuff in /sw by default, so if you want to move Gimp and all its related stuff off you might have to twiddle the fink installation as well. Fink lets you choose where it puts stuff when you install it, however, so this should be easier than XFree86, which has to live in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11. Other package managers or Gimp installers will have other places they put things. YMMV. --Torrey |