Sorry guys. Total Darwin newbie here. Here's what I've done so far. Downloaded Darwin I believe
6.0.2 from Apple's? website...at least that's where the originating link was. Burned the ISO and installed on my P2-333 Intel machine. Everything seems to work as I can login to the root shell. That's all I have at the moment since I cannot seem to get a GUI to run. If I run ./XDarwin, X starts up but does not load a window manager. I end up stuck with just an X cursor and that goofy blank background. Do I need to specify -quartz to get a GUI? I'm at work right now and the machine is at home but I've been doing some reading today and it sounds like maybe -quartz might help. Any pointers and where to go from here. I've read a lot of material today but most sites seem rather dated is sourceforge the most active forum?
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You have to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path. How you do this depends on the shell you are using. There is a lot of help on setting this up on the web. See particularly <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php>.
Once you have your path set correctly, you should start XFree86 with the command "startx". You don't want to start XDarwin directly or you will end up without an usable X clients as you noticed.
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Sorry guys. Total Darwin newbie here. Here's what I've done so far. Downloaded Darwin I believe
6.0.2 from Apple's? website...at least that's where the originating link was. Burned the ISO and installed on my P2-333 Intel machine. Everything seems to work as I can login to the root shell. That's all I have at the moment since I cannot seem to get a GUI to run. If I run ./XDarwin, X starts up but does not load a window manager. I end up stuck with just an X cursor and that goofy blank background. Do I need to specify -quartz to get a GUI? I'm at work right now and the machine is at home but I've been doing some reading today and it sounds like maybe -quartz might help. Any pointers and where to go from here. I've read a lot of material today but most sites seem rather dated is sourceforge the most active forum?
You have to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path. How you do this depends on the shell you are using. There is a lot of help on setting this up on the web. See particularly <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php>.
Once you have your path set correctly, you should start XFree86 with the command "startx". You don't want to start XDarwin directly or you will end up without an usable X clients as you noticed.
Thx.